The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1873-06-20
NEWS ITEMS.

Some of the Apache Indians are on the war
patti.
The new President of Franco favors free
trade.
Jos. c. Howard, horse thief in Missouri,
was hung by mob on the 18th.
Pittsburg is making arrangements for
grand Exposition of Mechanical Arts.
A silver mine has been discovered in West
Virginia within twenty miles of GallipOlis.
A notorious forger and counterfeiter named
Merrill, alias Moore, alias Morris, was arrested
in Chicago on the 10th inst.
A long lost child has been recovered in
Montreal, after thirty years absence, by
means of strawberry mark on the arm.
The San Francisco Bulletin publishes short
reports from 67 counties, giving an encourag-
prospect of the grain crop in California. Near
ly an average yield is expected.
An Ironton woman has been awarded $4,000
damages against the owner of the premises
where liquor was sold to her husband, under
the influence of which he was killed on a rail-
road
A Mrs. York, in Kansas, after having taken
fatal dose by mistake, which she had pre-
pared for her son, confessed to her physician
that she had poisoned no less than six other
persons.
Two hundred and fifty bonds of $1,000 each,
issued in aid of the Mississippi and Mexican
Gulf canal, and advertised to be sold on the
18th, have been declared invalid, and will be
contested.
In Cleveland on Friday night last, Ger
man woman was assaulted by a fellow named
Beck. He endeavored to choke her insensibIe
but her screams brought assistance and the
rascal was captured.
lively fight between three policemen and
the same number of burglars, took place in
Chicagoson the 10th inst, in which two of the
latter were captured, and several thousand
dollars worth Of goods recovered.
Peter Caine, for the rast four years an en-
pIoyee in the wood shop of the Buckeye Reap
er and Mower Works at Akron, has become
insane. He is about "a years of age and has
not single relative in that part of the world.
Francis Gillen had been married five
months, but had not lived with his WIFE, On
last Sunday he met her on the street in New
York, and stabbed her five times, the knife
twice penetrating the lungs, and causing iu-
slant death.
VIM A Stumpe, Cashier of the Market st.
Savings Bank, of st. Louis, has disappeared
mysteriously A deficit of 81 600 on an over
drawn account, and 50, 500 which he borrowed
of the Broadway Savings Bank, indicate in
tended fraud.
At GAINESVILLE, on the l4th, DR.. Lewis learn
ed that Thos. Smith and another man had
taken his daughter and left town, followed
and overlook them, shot Smith through the
lungs and beat him terribly, so that he died.
Lewis was arrested.
Mrs. Celia NJ. Lewis of Medina county, late
ly accused of an attempt to poison her hus-
band previous to his death, had a preliminary
examination on the 10th inst, and was bound
over TO court in the sum of $1,000, WIN. a.
Carlton, her father, and Rev. Chas Thomas,
her uncle, bondsmen.
Edward Mcpherson, late Clerk, and other
associates of Mr.. Colfax, while speaker of the |
House, have purchased the chair occupied for |
six years by that gentleman in that capacity, |
and forwarded it to him at South Bend, as |
ga slight token of appreciation of the kindness
and courtesy which ever marked his official |
intercourse with them, and to assure him of
their very high and personal regard"
A large number of the citizens of Kentou.
o., went on an excursion to the Soldiers
Home, near Dayton, on the 10th inst. They
found admirable arrangements for the COM
fort of the soldiers, many of whom are pining
away with consumption, fever, rheumatism,
and other diseases contracted in the service;