The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1873-04-25
Mrs. Annie Rowland. claims to be

Mrs. Annie Rowland, claims to be
the oldest lady in Mahoning County.
She was ninety-nine years of age
last November, and is described as q
very active, sprightly lady.
The Superintendents of nearly all
Western Railroads met at Louisville,
Wednesday, to arrange Summer
timetables. About forty roads were
represented. No important changes
were made.
Mrs. Rebecca Chapmen, wife of a
prominent attorney at GAINESVILLE,
Ohio, has sued thirteen saloon
keepers of that city for selling liquor
to her husband, fixing the damages
at $13O,OOO.
Baron Justus Liebig, the celebrat-
ed chemist, died at Munich on Fri
day last, aged seventy years. He
was born in Darmstadt on the 18th
of May, 1903, and was taught in the
gymnasium of that city.
On hearing that Gen. Butler had
purchased the Stone Farm at Wash
ington for 100000 the Capital says !:
1--WE are only to-day recovering from
smallpox, and now comes B. B. to
be permanent resident"
The contract for building the new
union depot at Columbus has been
awarded at $1s7, 900, and the build
ing is to be completed by the first
of next September. 100000 brick
will be used in its construction.
Cleveland reports the burning of
the second section of the oil train on
the Franklin branch Of the Lake
Shore Railway, which ran into the
rear of the first section, near Hadley
Station, Friday night. One locomo-
tive was wrecked and thirteen loaded
oil cars and a caboose burned.
Mrs. Myra Bradwell, who appealed
to the United States Supreme Court
to establish her right to be lawyer,
which had been refused by the State
Courts of Illinois, has had the case
decided against her. Different rules
prevail in different States. Myra
had better come to Ohio.
The father of Hon. S. S.Cox, Zekiel
t. Cox, aged 7s, is the only surviv-
ing Senator of the Legislature oil
1912. S. S. Cox's grandfather
was Judge Samuel Sullivan, who
was in 1918 Senator from Muskin-
gum County, and was, while Senator,
elected Treasurer of State on motion
of General Harrison, who sat beside
him.
Lieut.. Erasmus Dennison of the
U. S. Navy, and son of Ex-Governor
Denison, died on the 18th inst, at
San Francisco. He was born De-
cember 10th, 1876, graduated from
the Naval Academy at Annapolis in
1867, and at the time of his death
was attached to the North Pacific
Squadron. His remains, embalmed,
will be brought to Columbus for
interment.
Some idea of the vast interests
dependent on lake navigation may
be formed from the fact that there
was last week in Chicago nearly
eleven millions of bushels of corn
and grain stored expressly for lake
transportation, and that behind this
stock there are millions of bushels
of corn and wheat in the cribs and
station warehouses all over the west.
1t is announced that the strikers in
the coal mines near Youngstown, de-
stroyed two houses belonging to the
Mahoning Coal Company ON Friday
night. Men who resort to that kind
of means to vent their spite upon en-
ployers who insist upon having
something to say about how much
they will pay for work, should be
given permanent situations under
the protection of the State.
They had a special election for
Mayor and other officers in the
Democratic city of Milwaukee on
Tuesday to fill the vacancies occa-
stoned by the ineligibility of certain
candidates receiving majority at
the regular spring polling. Luding-
ton, the Republican candidate for
Mayor received 1900 majority over
Kellogg, the Democratic candidate,
the former having received a major
ity of $50 two weeks ago.
The discovery is announced of an
other great lead mine in Wisconsin.
Operations have not been carried
further than to test the crevices,
which already reveal a half million
pounds Of ore. About 100000
pounds have been raised. The lead
lies in chunks of such sizes that it
has to be blasted to be handled.
Miners say the prospects indicate
this to be the largest body of that
mineral ever struck in the State.
A rail mill is being constructed in
Louisville, Kentucky, at a cost of
half a million dollars, for the manu-
facture of rails by a new system,
which is said to do away with man.
ual labor. Before the iron comes
out perfect rail it is passed through
thirteen different sets of rolls with
out halt, and is turned over five
times for side rollin. The iron for
rails taken from heating furnace
and transformed into the proper
shape in thirty seconds.
Commissioner Douglas has issued
orders to all assessors of internal
revenue to turn over all the papers
in their respective districts to the