The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1874-05-08
NEWS ITEMS.

Andy johnson has reappeared.
The Tennessee Senatorship looms
up IN the distance.
The River and Harbor bill gives
Toledo $4,000 Sandusky $4,000
and Cleveland $4,000.
The seceders IRON the Toledo
Board of Educatron have been beaten
in court and Dodd is no longer mas
ter Of the situation.
Hood, the murderer of his step
son, was hung at Cleveland on Wen
nesday oflast week. He appeared
lndiferentto his fate.
Between Selma and Mobile, Ala,
the cotton crop IS ruined by the
lnundation, and cotton seed is SO
scarce the district cannot be replant-
ed.
In Indiana the temperance work
is being pushed forward. At New.
Albany and in that vicinity saloons
are obliged TO close at nine O'Clock
at night.
At Monroe, Mich, on the 29th
Mrs Angel the wife of the propria.
tor OF grist mill, had her left arm
torn off from her in the machinery
of the mill.
Joe Waltz, who was hung at Cats.
kill, n. Y, on Friday last, killed his
keeper, Charles Ernst, the day pre-
vious, by crushing his skull with q
piece of iron.
A train on the P. Ft. W. & c. R. R
was thrown off the track at Plym,
outh. Indiana, last Saturday by s
misplaced switch. Several persons
were injured and five cars were de.
stroyed by fire.
a convention of the friends OF
more currency has been called to
meet at Springfield illinois, on the
18Th OF June. If the object is to
form a new party, it will find no
lack Of membership.
The San Francisco Bulletin be-
lieves that the great Mariposa swim
die, the Emma mine affair and the
famous demonstrating speculation
are now likely to be eclipsed by the
Central Pacific Railroad Ring.
Millerstown, Pa, which was nearly
destroyed by fire recently is being
rapidly rebuilt, and among the insti-
tutions of the place will be an iron
church, built for the Methodist. l.
is thought it will stand fire.
louisiana is having a little secess-
ion in her own territory, and will
"know how it is herself" if the
Parishes of Caddo and DeSoto sue
ceed in wrenching themselver from
the Union" and then "go to Texas"
0leo-margarin is q spurious but
ter manufactured from fresh beef
suet. There are number of factories
in the manufacture. There
are said to be as many grades of
Oleomargarin, as there are of "pure
butter"
Boston paid its tribute to the
memory of Summers on the 29th ult.
Music Hall was handsomely decora-
ted, and the hall was filed to over
flowing. Wendall Phillips lntrodu-
ced Carl Schurz, the orator, who
delivered eulogy of considerable
length.
At Warren, on Saturday last,
committee of fifteen influential men
was appointed to notify saloon keep
ers that the verdict of the community
was that no more liquor should be
sold there and the order was to be
peaceably or torcibly as oc-
,asion warranted. This is an ap-
olication of local option.
The boiler in Condit's paper mill
1t Shawangunk, N. Y, exploded on
Saturday evening last and nearly
destroyed the building, burying in
he ruins many of the employees,
Ten deaths were the result. The
mill had been recently built at an
of 100000, but the boiler
vas said to be old ana rotten.
On the 23d the Con. Con. amend
ID the Judicial article so as to allow
,he first election for Supreme Judges
lnder the newcOnstitution, to be held
IN the proportional plan, no voter,
however, being allowed to vote for
more than three. Also TO vacate the
Judgeship, for drunkenness on the
bench or during term of court.
The bill recently reported in Con-
yress by the Committee on Public
Lands contains one very important
esture, 1t provides that all who
lave been permitted to actually set
lie on lands granted to railroads
nay remain there and that the com
3anies may have an equal quantity
If unexempted land in some other
'egion.
A number of editors of Western
Pennsylvania, Eastern Ohio, aud
West Virginia met in Pittsburg on
he 10th uIt, and formed an associ-
ltion for the better protection of
heir interests. They now have
employed agent in Pitts
1urg, to canvass for advertisements
or the papers comprising the AS
ISOLATION.
On the Both, near Pittsburg, the
of John Hamnet was des-
royed by fire, Mr. Hamnet, his, wife,
wo children, hired man and a boy,
we're dertroyed in the famed. Too
If the bodies we're recognizable, and
he throat of one being cut, led to
he conclusion that both murder and
lrson had been committed. Ernest
Love, who worked on the place was
and suspected of doing the
Iced.
TIE HOMESTEAD TRAGEDY.
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