The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1875-04-23
NEWS ITEMS.

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Dan Bryant, the well known minstrel
performer, died Saturday Of pneumonia,
Algernon SaTtoris, President Grant's
soD-in-law, sailed recently for England.
4 Hon. George J. johnson, Represents
tive from Sciota County, died on the 7tt
inst.
VIM. K. Nimick. a well known iror
manufacturer, died in Pittsburgh OF
Monday.
Emperor William has signed the bill
withdrawing state grants from the Gath
olic Church.
The President of the Northern Pacific
Railroad Company has been appointed
Receiver Of the road.
Seventeen Black Hills adventurers were
captured by U. s. troops last week and
taken to Fort Laramie.
The world had respite from the great
scandal for a few days because Fuller
ton became dizzy headed.
A fire in b. Wildecks furniture ware
house, New York, resulted in loss Of
$145,O00. Insurance $4,000.
Cheyenne is rapidly filling mp with
gold hunters, who will be pretty well
plucked before they leave there.
General Blount, who was arrested in
1872 charged with conspiracy to defraud
the government, has been discharged.
Travel on the Union Pacific Railway
has been suspended by the floods of wa
ter under which the track is submerged.
Twenty-Five lives were lost on the
Canada Pacific Railway survey, and
Steps have been taken to raise memo
rial.
The President and Cabinet went to
Concord and Lexington last week to at
tend the anniversary celebrations at
those place.
Jacob Sinbrod, aged 60, hung himself
from an apple tree in his orchard near
Springfield, on Monday of last week.
Dependency.
The employees of the Detroit and
Milwaukee Railroad, are on strike, on
account of the irregularity in the pay
ment of wages.
On Monday, the 10Th, the centennial
of the Battle of, Lexington,
Mass y was celebrated at that place in
a Magnificent manner.
The miners had demonstration at
Wilkesbarre, Pennsylvania, on Saturday
last, with flags and banners. There was
no riotous demonstrations.
At Cincinnati, few night ago, a por-
ton of the John street car stables were
burned, together with sixteen mules, one
horse and twenty-three cars.
Phillip Murson, who has been ON trial
at Pittsburg, Pa, for the murder of
James White, was convicted, Saturday,
of murder in the first degree.
All the clerks in the Postofice De-
partment at Washington, implicated in
the recent mail contract frauds, have
been dismissed by the Postmaster Gen
eral.
The New York Graphic, an independ-
ent newspaper, makes the following ex
PLANTATION of how General Hawley was
defeated in his recent campaign for
Congress:
Col. John E Cummings, formerly of
the 99th Ohio regiment, committed sui
eide at Denver City, recently by shoot
ing himself in the head. Dissipation
was the cause.
The depot of the Pittsburgh, Ft.
Wayne, and Chicago R. R. at Massillon
was destroyed by fire on Saturday last.
The fire is said to have resulted from
incendiarism,
A man named Loi Brown was killed
by the Western Express, on Saturday
night the 11th inst, between Gallon and
Calidonea. He was drunk and walking
on the track.
Charlie johnson, son of the proprietor
of the American House, at Delaware,
o., accidentally shot himself through
the head on Monday of last week. He
died in an hour.
A vanguard of fifty men, of the Black
Hills expedition, reached point about
three miles South Of Yankton, on Mon
day, and two companies of troops have
gone to head them off.
At Moline, Illinois, on the 18th A. w.
Hastie shot Miss Ellen Davisin the back
of the head, inAicting a dangerous
wound. He afterwards shot himself
and died half hour after,
Mr.. Sheridan Shook of New York, re-
Gently bet his Union Square Theater
against Fishers Fifth Avenue Theater
on game of billiards and lost. That is
gambling on large scale.
The widow of Maxwell P. Gaddis has
taken the stage, and made her debut re-
Gently in Cincinnati. A reporter rap
turously describes her as a ''glorious
blonde Of marvellous beauty"
Over ten thousand men are now out
of employment in the Lehigh and
Wilkesbarre districts of Pennsylvania,