The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1874-07-10
NEWS ITEMS.

AL POOO3OOO uAO OONuAAS0 az
Woonsocket, R, l., on the 1st, by
the destruction of the Social Mills.
Secretary Bristow has called for
bids on the remainder of the 5 per
cent funding bonds. AS they are
already at a premium it is thought
there will be no difficulty in placing
them.
By railroad accident at Stoney
Creek, Conn, on the morning of the
9Th, the train was thrown off the
bridge. One man was killed and
one hundred and seven persons were
injured.
Hon. William Williams has been
appointed general manager of the
L. S. & N. S. R. R. vice Amassa
Stone, resigned.
Peter Cahill was run over by an
ice wagon, at Cleveland, on Mon
day evening last and instantly killed.
Walt Whitman, the wild poem
writer Of the Treasury Department,
has been dismissed. And now he
will have ample time to tune his wild
harp and pipe his erratic strains.
They only work five hours day
now, in the P. Ft. W. d c. R. R.
shops, at Ft. Wayne, and common
laborers earn but Sc cents day.
J. C. Koch, ex-treasurer of Wayne
county, who defaulted, has been tried
and sentenced to one years impris-
Onment in the penitentiary.
At Rockport, near Cleveland, on
the Both, a tragedy occurred. One
John Beneds, Bohemian, murdered
his former mistress, Mrs. Roxliae,
because he could not induce her
again to live with him. After the
murder he drew a pistol and shot
himself in the left breast, dying in
stantly. Beneda was aged about 35
years, and the couple had been in
this country about ten years, the wo-
man having deserted her husband in
in tbe old country to follow the for
tunes of Beneda.
Seven hundred clerks from the
Treasury Department and the Bu-
reaus of Printing and Engraving
were turned loose last week, to find
situations elsewhere.
The cholera has made its appear
ance at New Orleaus.
The Straitsville coal miners strike
has ended by the miners returning
to work at their old wages.
Hon. James Monroe received a
warm welcome upon his return to
Oberlin from Washington.
Secretary Bristow, who has no pri-
Vate fortune, has refused to accept a
pair of horses and a carriage for his
wife, rendered by personal friend.
That sc per cent of the thirteen
months pay due the Washington
iremen should be paid by the Gov
ernment upon forged certificates, is
only cheerful incident in District
affairs.
Notwithstanding the strikes in
England the wages of all except farm
laborers are going down. The col
liers of South Durham have been
reduced ten per cent, and seventy
Thousand are in idleness in oPposi-
ton to the measure.
Hon. Hugh ]. Jewett has accepted
the Presidency of the Erie Railway
and will enter upon the duties thus
assumed on the 14th inst. This will
create vacancy in Congress from
the Columbus District.
Gen. John A. Ketcham, whose ac-
ceptance completes the District Of
Columbia Governing Commission,
represented the 18th District of New
York in the 99th, 4Oth, 41st and AID
Congresses.
DIR. Hammond's opinion that the
seat of hydrophobia is in the nery-
ous system receives but little sup
port from the New York medical
fraternity, a majority of them as
serting that it is clearly a blood dis
ease, the virus being transmitted
through the veine.
It is proposed to plant the San
Joaquin valley, California, with the
eucalyptus or blue gum trees. For
a length of two hundred miles, and |
with width varying from forty to
fifty miles, the bottom is level and |
almost treeless. The blue gum trees
would make excellent fences, |