The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1874-01-16
NEWS ITEMS.

Henry Clews d Co. resumed bus
mess on the 9th.
The Grangers of Ohio are to have
meeting at Xenia, on the 17th of
February.
The strike Of the anthracite coal
miners of Pennsylvania is extending
and is likely to occasion serious
trouble.
The citizens of Wood county are
at work raising subscriptions to have
a branch Railroad built from the B.,
P. & G. to Toledo.
Judge Dill, of Newark, o., Clerk
in the Internal Revenue Bureau at
Washington, dropped dead Saturday
night, of apoplexy.
Mr.. John Andrews, a soldier of
the late war of 1872, and a citizen Of
Lexington, Ohio, died on Monday of
last week. He was seventy eight
years of age when be died.
Robert A. Sherrand recently died
at SteubenVille in the eighty-fifth
year of his age, and Joel Marsh at
Concord in his seventy sixth year.
Both were very old citizens Of Ohio.
The body of William Osborne,
aged so, late Superintendent Of the
Washington Board of Public Works,
and missing since December 18th,
was found hanging from tree near
that city on the 7th.
On the 8th, at UrbsnR, little girl
daughter of William Richter, aged z
years, was fatally shot in the head
by the accidental discharge of q pis-
tol in the hands of her little brother.
The child lived but short time.
A collision OF freight train on
the Erie Railroad, Saturday morning,
near MiddletoWn, n. Y, resulted in
the burning of 10 cars and their con-
tents, the serious injury of the en-
gineer and fireman, and the stotpage
of travel for five hours.
Senator Conkling is mainly entitl-
ed to the credit Of having shut down
the nauseous and unpalatable salary
debate in the Senate. AS Mr.. Conk-
ling said, the whole thing ought to
have been settled in q day, but on
the contrary had been drawn out to
month.
A cheering sight Of the times
is the negotiation Of loan in Ger
many for the Iowa & Pacific Rail
road, to the amount of $2,610,000,
indicating that good share of con-
fidence in American securities is still
felt there, in spite of all adverse in
fluences.
It is said that before Congress
adjourned an appropriation will be
asked for fitting out another expedi-
tion to the North Pole. Captain
Green, who commanded the Juniata
on the search for the survivors of the
POlaris, is spoken of as commander
of this expedition.
The Grangers have already at
tanned to enough power in Ohio to
warrant the prediction that the Leg
lature will pass an effective game law
for the protection of the birds. It is
to be hoped that they will also give
Us an effective trespass law for the
protection of the farmers fields and
forests.
Csrtagcna has fallen, but the In
transigentes are still lively at BARGE
Iona. The new Government at Mad
rid Is dissrming the Republicans in
that city, which viii serve to con-
vince Republicans and Intransigentes
elsewhere that they must be prerar-
ed for speedy submission or active
opposition.
The County Commissioners of
Wayne county have passed resolu-
tions censnring Sheriff Jacob R. Bow
man, for the escape of two convicted
burglars from the jail. They say the
escape was "the result of a want Of
ordinary care and prudence in the
discharge of his official duty" They
demanded an increase of his official
bond to the amount Of $4,000.
The Ohio Agricultural and Ne
chanical College began its Winter
term last week. Thirty students
were in attendance during the Fall
term, and classes were formed IN phy-
sizes, English language, chemistry,
agriculture, algebra, geometry,
trigonometry and surveying, history,
and the German, Latin, and Greek
languages. The number attending
the class in agriculture is not stated.
A circular has been issued to the
miners of Ohio by VIM. Thompson,
President of the miners Convention,
calling for prompt and energetic
action for the protection of work
men. They are requested TO state
the number Of hours they think they
ought to work per day and if ma
jority are in favor of a restriction Of
hours a new policy will be put into
effect upon the 1st of April next"
The House Committee on Post
Offices and Post Roads have perfect
ed q bill providinR for a partial re