The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1875-01-29

waves freeze the marrow OF our livea,
coat was a luxury that, under the cir
cumstunces, il was not wrong to covet.
lit due to say that when q demand was
made, prompt restitution Of the coat
followed.
This reminds me that Jay Cooke Il
Co., who "got away" with about 81. .00O,- e
900 Of their neighbors' goods, propose
TO restitute, in cash, five per cent. OF the
amont Of their liabilities; 35 per cent.
in Northern Pacific bonds at at 20 cents
on the dollar; Ia per cent OK Oregon
Steam Navigation stock, at $40 per
share, and per cent of Lake Superior
and Mississippi Railroad bonds mt 40
per cent. of their face value. This
shows an apparent restitution of 60 per
cent. on the dollar of their liabilities,
but as Northern Pacifics are worth only
20 cents ON the dollar, and Lake Superb
ors have even a less value, it would be
putting it at liberal figure to say that
Jay Cooke & Co. porpose to pay 20 per
cent of their liabilities.
However, since this proposition has
been made, temporary injunction has
been granted by the Court, and by the
time this injunction has been disposed
of, some of the creditors will have died,
and all win get about per cent. less
than an immediate distribution would
have given.
AS the Northern Pacific Railroad
Company are asking a Government
guarantee of $40, 100000, here let me
remark that Congressional investiga-
ton of the affairs of this Company will
reveal more fraud and corruption than
the Pacific Mail subsidy has shown, or
even can present.
MISCELLANEOUS.
During the year 1874 there were in
course of erection in this city, 25 public
school houses, the aggregate cost of
which will be S747,725. The total value
of the school houses owned by the city
of Philadelphia is So, 567, 800.
There were 5,040 dwelling houses,
stores, banks and other buildings
erected here during the year 1874, the
value of which is estimated at
$15, $4,000.
As the only line of steamers sailing
under the American flag, traffic from
the port of Philadelphia, it is gratifying
to our National pride to know, that in
1874 there were imported in American
vessels $15, 120, ,548 worth of goods, asI
against $11, 1886, 695 in American vessels
for the year 1873. The total number of
passengers arriving here during 1873
was 4,257, and in 1874 the number
reached ,633.
1t is also gratifying to know that for
1874 there was an increase Of our ex-
ports of $245, 725 over the previous
year, and decrease of imports at Phil
adelphia of $4,299,667, as compared
with those of 1873.
The deaths in this city during last
week amounted to BAT, Of whom %
were between 70 and 80 years of age,
and 13 between so and 100 years of age,
and 76 were under one year old.
HEIDENRLUT.
About midnight, December 23d, 1873,
a baker named Godfrey Kuhnle, and his
hired man, Frederick Heidenblut, went
down stairs into the bakery to work,
leaving Mrs. Kuhnle and her infant six
months old, in bed; about two hours
after, Mrs. X. was awakened by an at
tempt to outrage her, desperate strug-
gle took place i'll which Mrs. Kuhnle
was severely injured, having had her
right ear bitten off in the contest. Un-
able to accomplish his purpose Heiden-
blut went up to his bedroom In the
third story of the house, Mrs. Kuhnle
locked the door behind him, and
crawled under the bed where she
lay in comatose state until four o'clock,
at which time she awoke and aroused
her next door neighbor.
When the neighbors came into the
house, the body of Kuhnle lay on the
floor of the bake house, the head in a
pool of blood. He had been murdered
by blow. on the back of the head,
which was entirely smashed in.
The dough in various stages lay
around the table and trough, and
showed that Kuhnle was struck while
his hands were yet in the dough.
1t was found that the murderer was
also thief, as he had gone into the
bureau of Kuhnle and taken sos in
money, all of which was found on him.
At 8 o'clock the following day Held
enblut was captured, trial and G. lvic-
ton promptly followed, and on January
31st, 1874, the murderer was sentenced
70 be hung, and on the morning of Jan
uary Goth, 1875, Frederick Heidenblut
expiated his crime on the same gallows
on which Probst was hung for the muir
der of the Deering family.
Heidenblut assembled the scaffold as
firmly as if walking to the dinner-table,
and coolly allowed his cheek to Craze
the moose as he walked up to it. Arriv-
ing under the rope, and while it was
being adjusted, with crucifx in his
hands, the murder said "Jesus in life,
Jesus in death, into thy hands 1 entrust
my SOUL" and thus dropped into
At the time of sentence, Heidenblut
weighed 1873 pounds; ON the day of ex-
ecution he weighed but 1I6 pounds,
and the fall having failed to break his
neck, 18 minutes elapsed before life was
extinct; but from the time the drop fell
until the last spark of life had fled, the
murderer remained as stolid as a statue;
not muscle was seen to move; and
thus brutal murderer passed from life.
1t is presumed that the murdered man
Kuhnle and his iourneyman had quar-
rel soon after reaching the bake house,
and that Heidenblut waited his oppor-
tunity, and then struck him powerful
blow with piece Of wood on the back
of the head, killing him almost instant
lY: that he afterwards went up into the