The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1873-07-04
NEWS ITEMS.

We pay yearly SlO00OO,O0O for breadstuffs,
$25O,OOO,COO for tobacco, and 5000, 100000 fol
cigars.
Ohesney & Carson's crockery store and Nc
Mutt & Armstrong; trunk factory in Toledo
w5re burned.
A fire in Ashtabula an the 9th inst, de-
str wed property to the Aalue of $4,000; only
$1,000 insured.
Two New Workers recently fit duel in
Canada, but neitnor were wounded. They
are advised to try again.
Miss Anthony enjoys the proud distinction
OF being one of the few transgressors who
were ever punished for Illegal voting.
Mrs, Thompson, daughter of the poet Burns,
died on the 18th inst, at Crossmyloof, near
Glasgow. She was eighty-four years old.
Henry Morgan, who shot a man in Cleve-
land few weeks ago, was tried on the lst
inst, and bound over in the sum of $500.
The latest news from Massachusetts is that
Ben Butler has the inside {, Ack for the govern
orship, and will in all likelihood win the nom-
ination.
a student of the Mennonite Institute, al
Wadsworth, o., was drowned in a mill-dam
on the 2Oth inst He was 25 years old, and re-
sided in Mahoning Co.
One OF the grandest and most important
improvements in this country is that now
making on the canal at Sault Ste Marie IT
will cost, when done, upwards of $3,OOO,OOO
The first raft of logs towed across Lake
Michigan has arrived in Chicago. 1t is 70 feet
wide 100 feet long, and the cost of bringing
it across the Lake was $500, saving of ST.
500 upon the old method.
Mrs. John Patterson sued Bsllefountaine
hqnor dealer tor damages under the Adair law
and obtained q verdict of $3.50 The dealer
took second trial, when the plaintiff obtain
ed 81, 100. Mrs Jane Wilder sued the same
dealer for like damages, and on first trial got
$500, and on the second $500.
The Attorney General will in the course OF
Jew days forward to the Secretary of War
his opinion relative to the unsettled balances
Of the Freedmen's Bureau, and there is reason
to believe that he will recommend suits against
Generals Howard and Balloch, for the recov-
cry of the money alleged to be due the gov
ernment.
On the evening of the lst inst, the Cleve-
land City Council, after lively discussion of
the Sunday Liquor Ordinance, adopted an
amendment requiring all saloons to be closed
after ll:5O P. m, on Saturday, and permitting
wine and beer saloons to open at o'clock on
Sunday afternoon. Temperance men were
disappointed.
Ten persons were killed in Virginia City,
on the 29th by the explosion of nitro-glycerine
and giant powder, and many others were
wounded. Major General Van Bokelen was
among the killed. He was the agent for the
giant powder, and it appears had SIX cans of
nitro -glycerine, $50 pounds of giant powder
and 200 pounds of rock powder stored beneath
his room whore the explosion occurred.
Daniel Webb, passenger agent of the Balti-
more & Ohio Railroad at Columbus, and Mr..
Houseman, purchased large quantity of fire
works for the 4th of July, on Saturday. While
taking them into the country in hack, q
lighted cigar fell into the package, exploding
the whole lot, blowing the carriage top of and
throwing Webb into neighboring ditch.
He diedon Sunday. Houseman was also bvd-
ly hurt.
a Danbury young man, who was once q
clerk, lately went ON to a farm to work. The
first night in his new position he was detailed
to remove a calf from the apartment of its
parents to another shed; and whilo engaged,
as thousands have been before him. in showing
the contrary beast along, the mother reached
under the tail of his coat with her hofns and
suddenly lifted him up against the roof of the
building with a force that threatened 10 shat
tor every bone in his body. The first thing he
did on returning to earth was to rub himself
the next thing was to throw up his place. He
said he didn't doubt that agriculture was a no
bic pursuit, and that the farmer needed az
assistant in the discharge of his multifarious
duties, but he didn't believe he was designed
for making skylights in cow-sheds.
Irish papers contain particulars OF a terri
BILE riot at fire in Dublin, on the night of the
9TH of June. About IL o'clock that night a
fire broke out in Kelley's timber yard and the
stores in Thomas street, one of the most
densely populated parts of the city Within
an hour after the fire commenced from 10000
to 10000 persons had assembled in the neigh
borhood, whose sole object seemed to be the
plunder OF tho houses They tore open the
roof of the house of Mahoney. a wine mer-
chant, pillaged his store, and carried cases of
champagne to the roof, where thoy drank SO
much that some OF them fell Off The police
men were stoned and some of them completely
disabled, and several priests who tried to check
the disorder were beaten by the mob and the
windows of their chapels smashed. Four
companies OF infantry and troop of dragons
we're called out and at length restored order.
A fireman and several soldiers were seriously
1t is E long time since more brutal and un-
ustifiabie utrage upon law and order has been
than the lynching of DeIos Heff-
ZEN. at Saline, Ind, by party of masked men
IN Sunday m"~ning Heffrsn had killed a
-. ''@-'ASA A4NAosSesN III q qudIISlI anu bne
friends of the murdered man concluded TO
axe justice into their own hands. So on Sun
lay night, gang OF volunteer vigilants as
embed near Saline, masked their faces, rode
mo town, captured and forcibly detained the
'atrOlling police, overpowered the sheriff, and
With sledge hammers proceeded to batter
lown the doors of the Jail. Finally, after
much pounding and working they stood in
resence of the prisoner whose life they sought.
ie, knowing that his time had come, wrench |
d a leg from small table in his cell and pre-
AIRED for as desperate defense as circum-
Eances would permit Then the brutality of |
he mob began. They thrust flaming balls of |
0tton and turpentine into the cell, and when
s interior was thus illuminated, began firing
n tho Gagged prisoner with pistols. One bullet
ntered his breast, another broke his right
rm and disabled him. Then boulder was
rought 10 tho front, and being skillfulIy
lrown, knocked down the wounded man,
ho was Immediately pinioned, dragged out
nd hanged.
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