The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1873-08-22

I Desperate Assault-An Old Man
Badly Beaten-E5is Wife Dead from
Fright.-In Hsrtland township, Huron
county, nt place known as Hartland Ridge
lived two men, farmers, whose farms joined,
and who had always previous to Tuesday,
lived in friendship and amity. Frank McCor-
mack was the name of one, and Mr.. Hickox
was the name Of the other. Mr.. Mccormack
Is justice of the peace, and a man about for
ty or forty-five years of age. Hickox is aged
about sixtY-five years Both were men of
respectability, and Mccormack, as it proved,
also man of firrascibility McCormick's horses
had got into Hickox's fields and been turned
out several times. On Tuesday they got in
again, and were put in the barn by Mr.. Hick-
OK. Some time after, a son of Mr.. Mccormack
went over to Hickox's, and had same words
with him about the horses, and several blows
were struck. The young man went home,snd
soon after returned with his father, when
dispute arose, both parties became. excited, and
Mccormack, forgetting that he was an officer
of the peace, struck Hickox, knocking him
down, and beating and tramping upon his
head and body, breaking his nose and leaving
him in horrible condition. About 5his time
Mrs. Hickox came out and demonstrated with
Mr.. Mccormack, who, it is said, threatened
to strike her, but did not She was so fright
ened and alarmed that she was seized with
paroxysms, in which she continued until
Thursday afternoon, when she died. Mr.
,bor H. sufr N n
duce fears for his recovery, managed TO 60 to
Norwalk on Thursday morning, and lodge in
formation before Esquire Kellogg, who issued
a warrant for McCormack's arrest. He was
brought before the Justice on Wednesday and
bound over until Saturday, Aug. 23d, when
the preliminary examination will take place
Prize Stationary prize
packages, candy prize packages, and all that
the public, especially the travelling public, are
well versed in, for that persistent and indie
fatigsble individual known as the news
agent, on railway trains, will keep showing
them under your nose at every opportuni-
ty, and assuring you they contain fabulous
sums of money, so of course everybody knows
something of those packages. But firm in
Fremont, last week, introduced a new and
novel prize package-they only got up one lot |
as an experiment, but as an experiment it was
success. 1t was gotten up without |
orders, and it is not yet known whether 1t |
will be accepted as legal tender or not The |
firm turn out very excellent article of Boz
iogna, and thereby hangs the tale. They had
got all things ready for turning out batch,
and - took hold of the crank which was to
set the knives in motion. He had twenty
dollar bill in his vest pocket, but he had for
gotten about that. He commenced to turn and
the knives commenced to chop, chop. The
crank rubbed against his vest pocket, as he
turned, but he suspected no evil By and by
he saw some specks in the bologna that didn't
look like sausage meat, and being of an en-
quiring mind he picked them out and was
surprised to find they resembled greenbacks.
How did they get in the meat, and whence
did they come from, were inquiries which in
stantIy suggested themselves to his mind. he
that he had a $40 greenback and
he searched his pockets but the greenback
wasn't there. And now quandary has arisen.
II he sends the mixture to Washington to
have the bill redeemed he loses his meat and
if he sells his sausage, he loses his greenback.
The only alternative left is to sell tbs sausage
in prize packages, and the late lottery law
threatens to spoil that chance Of getting their
money back. The quandary is embarrassing