The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1875-06-18

bridges at Defiance, was fatally injured
q few days ago, jumping from a trair
while it was in motion.
On Thursday evening last passenger
train on the B. & o. road was thrown
from the track by broken wheel two
miles west of Tiffin. One woman had
her collar bone broken.
The sentence edo right and fear NO
awe" contains more wisdom than all
books upon our intercourse with men
can teach. Do right and fear no awe is
the only secure compass upon the sea Of
life.
Lawrence Brady, a section boss on
the l.. s. & M. S. r. r. at Norwalk was
thrown in front of hand-car, on Mon
day night of last week, and was consid-
erably injured by the car passing over
him.
Geo. White fell under the cars at Chi
cago Junction, Huron Co., on the 10th,
and had his leg so badly jammed be-
tween the knee and ankle, that it was
feared amputation would have to be re-
sorted to.
DIR. Goodson, of Bellevue, gave us a
call on Tuesday. We are always glad
to have the doctor call, which he does
about once year. 1t always means
two dollars in advance-and may the
race of Goodsons grow and prosper.
At Warensburg, Mo-, it is said there
was a grasshopper feast lately, at which
grasshoppers we're served up in every
style and in every style enjoyed. This
may prove a solution of the grasshopper
plague, and very enjoyable way of
getting rid of them.
A man named Noble, of Lodi, was
robbed short time since, in Cleveland,
of 81, 100, and the thieves were arrested.
Their friends raised the money to be re-
turned to Mr.. Noble. They placed it in
the hands of their Attorney, and he has
left for parts unknown, leaving all par
ties in the lureh. s.trla
Some three weeks since, a couple of
tramps named Crafty and Met Guire, went
to Shiloh, Richland Co., got tight, and
were put in the cooler. From this they
broke out, Mcclure making his way to
Shelby, where he died about ten days
since, and Crafty to Chicago junction,
where he died on Monday of last week.
The Fremont Harvester Company
made their first shipment of the Hub
bard reapers and mowers, on Monday
last, and on Tuesday shipped off car
load. The demand for the machines is
very great and beyond the capacity of
the works to fill the present year. Next
year, however, the company will be fully
prepared to fill all orders.
Mr.. s. W. Reed, who owns saw mill
near Elmore, entrusted man by the
name of Hopkins, who had been in his
employ, to sell ash lumber for him.
Hopkins started East with the lumber,
sold it for S537, appropriated the pro
eeeds to his own use, and took his de-
parture for parts unknown. When last
heard from he was In West Virginia. =
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Toledo has had two disappearances
within few weeks-one is accounted
for the other is not, James J. Voorhes,
in good financial condition, pleasant
family relations, &C., went to Bowling
Green and Weston on business, several
weeks ago, and from W. took a train
South, but has not since been heard
from. H. s. Williams, stone mason,
wandered away about the same time, and
finally was heard from at Hillsdale,
Michigan, near which place he had been
killed by the cars. He left wife and
five children.
A short time since, Mr.. Phanuel War
riner, of Genoa, received an order from
a responsible firm in New York, to send
them 100 barrels Of flour, and to draw
on them for payment in thirty days. The
-four was shipped and in thirty days Mr..
Warmer forwarded his draft, which was
not honored. On further investigation
it appears that some swindling parties
had used the name of the responsible
firm and had received the flour, sold it
and Pocketed the money, leaving Mr..
Warmer a little short to the tune of
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Miss Boise, living near Sandunky
City is the latest heroine, and would do
honor as a frontiersman's wife. Thurs
day afternoon last her father, Mr.. s.
Boise, a milkman residing on the pike
outside the first toll gate, started with
his wife for Bellevue, leaving Miss Boise
% take charge of the house, her two
brothers being at work in a field half a
mile away. About two o'clock, when
TO the house from the barn
where she had been to gather hens eggs,
Ihe noticed a rough looking customer
approaching the house. Suspecting his
she succeeded in getting into
he house without his seeing her, and
getting double-barrelled gun held itin
with one hand behind the door,
)penino the door with the other Tho