The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1874-08-14
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ca county.
Tae sherman brigade viii reunion Sep
ID at At. Gniead.
A new comet is coming and prognosticatOr
say it viii not strike.
The Defiance county grangers are to hold
pic mic at Defiance next Saturday.
a stable belonging to W. A. Gipson, in Up
per sanduaky, was destroyed by fire on tn
"a Loss 500.
s sara stons quarry has been discovers
nssr Findlay which is saidtO be superior t
tie Beisa stone.
Charley Roberts has returned from Califor
MA, and is looking as though the climat
a,resd with him
The residence Of R. R. Smith. at Mansfield
was burglaEizsd on the night Of the 2Oth ult,
aad thirty dollars stolen.
On Saturday and Sunday next the Spiritu-
alisls are to have grove meetings In a grove
near Antwerp, Paulding county.
The lake Eris and Louisville Railway pu.
on an extra freight train last week, a sure in.
dicahon Of Improved business.
Kelley Of tie Wapakoneia Deuoerat has
sold out bis interest in that paper. Robt. Nc
Aurray, Esq, is the new proprietor.
Jein Magrath. OF Oak Harbor, committed
an assault on Geo. o. Mommony, on the Sd,
and paid i've dollars for the privilege.
We are under obligations to our WOOdville
correspondent for his excellent letter We
desire 70 hear from him often.
The annual convention of fat men sp-
proacheth, and Put-in-Bay will be the scene
Of much weight on the 10 Of September.
The Lake Erie Shooting Association has
besn organized at Elmore. Their club house
Willba built near the mouth Of Crane creek.
Is was on the Sd, brother Commercial, on
which al those strange dOings took place,
which by courtesy, were attributed to August
2L
Some Tifin boys drove horse from that
place 70 this on the %, and when returning
home it dropped dead about three miles from
hers.
Seth Wheeler, of Benton township, Ottawa
county, stole ham from Ayers & Eisenhem,
last week. He plead guilty and got five days
in the county jail Cheap meat.
Boys who 60 a blackberrying in Tfnin are
shot, at least Geo. WaIlenstein was last week.
BY young fellow named Mcclellan, who is
uHder 500 bond to answer therefor
Every one should take an interest in the
coming fair. It viii prove the best that has
Jet been held, or the indications are not reli-
able. Bring out the best you have.
Camp Meeting at Mansfield commenced on
Wednesday last and win continue until Fri
dayof next week The B. & ORR. sells
round trip tickets at four cents per mile.
At HoIgate, Defiance county, man named
Feliers was instantly killed on the 4th, while
at work changing belt; stick which he held
IN his hand was struck by a spoke and driven
into his stomach.
On Sunday morning last burglar was dis
covered in the residence Of John Mcguire. at
Mansfield. Mcguire siezed him and in the
.eeu1le that followed was fatally shot, the
burglar making his escape.
Mr- George West, workman in the engine
shop Of D. June & Co., got a piece of iron in
his eye, on Wednesday, while at work at the
planer. Il was thought the sight was injured,
bat il proved otherwise.
Samuel Post, aged 70 years, resident Of
Richmond township, Huron county, attempt
ed to commit suicide on the 81, by cutting
his throat. He missed the juguIar, however.
and still fingers in this vale of tears.
Hhils walking In his sleep, George SheHiin,
Of Elraors, aged Is years, jumped from sec
ond story window to the pavement, on the
night Of the fourth. He fell upon his face
and shoulders aud was badly injured.
Two young blOOds from Clay township, hav-
ing steamed up" in Elmore, recently induIp-
cd in furious driving in the streets. They
were Marshalled before the Mayor and con-
trihased six dOllarB TO the town treasury.
at olmstead Station, on Friday last, man
named Jack Shepherd who had gone down in
9 well to clean it, was overcome by the damps,
and died before he could be rescued. A com
rade who went down TO recover his body.
came very near sharing the same fate.
Two Elmore butchers, Voegle & Hoedt.
ware arrested on the 9th aud taken before
Justice Hammond, on a charge of stealing
nd killing steer in the woods north of Ell |
liston. They were hound over to court, but
tie matter was subsequently arranged"
They have stock grower over in Wyandot
county who carries on business extensively. |
His name is David Harpster. His clip of
wool this year was s0,49S pounds, which he
sod recently for 81 cents per pound, or SI5,-
S5s96. His receipts last year from all sou1c-
es were S5O,O0O.
All the agents in the R. R. Fenner & Co.
plow sEindls have not yet been caught, but
the ring-leader, named John Dean, was ar
rested at Springfield, recently, and taken 70
Bowling Green, where he lies in jail. He has
been recognized by persons In Wood county |
as the one who personated R. R. Fenner, |
when he procured notes from them.
John s. Kooken, from Nebraska, visited
friends in Wyandot county. but bis natural
restlsssness and evil spirit led him to sell
horse he had hired from livery stable and /
the receipts. lie tried the same
game with another livery horse, but didn't
sueessd 80 well, and now repOses within the
precincts Of the Upper sandusky jail.
On the Slst, at the German settlement near
y p miles southeast Of Bellevue, Mrs. Bar
bsra Keller, during her sons absence, set fire
to some stumps and the fire spreading attack
ed fence. Il is supposed that while endeav-
oring to fight the FIRE she was suffocated by
the smoke and fell in the flames. When
found her body was burned to a crisp.
Geo. Maursr, of Sidney. left pistol lying
on the bureau, on the ID, and he and his wife
went visiting. his son aged years snd a
noa Of Chaistian Shei, were in the house, and
young Maurer took up the pistol and thought
iessly aimed It at the other. The pistol went
OF. and young Shei was shot through the
right arm and in the breast, but not fatally |
injured
And now its two boys, ID and Z l-2
and lively as criekets. OF course
the editor is happy, and don't feel bit sur
prised when people raise their hats to him,
and ask ahow are the boys7" Already he has
had several proifers of hats, and red ribbons,
and such things, but he don't care a CONT
mental tor such jokes.not he. All those fellows
are Jealous.
s brutal prize fight occurred near Green
vile. Stark county, on the Sd, between two
rouehs named Breeze and Daugherty. After
twenty nine rounds, the fight was declared to
be Il Breaze's favor. The decision stirred up
q breeze, the ropes were cut and a general
melee or free hgst followed, in which knives
and pistols were used, but unfortunately none
n The roughs were killed.