The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1875-04-16
NEWS ITEMS.

al notoriety, died in New York, on SAT
urday last, Of pneumonia.
Sam Bard, Postmaster at Atlanta, Ga.
has been removed for completely in tn,
postofice contract business.
Johc Robinson's Great Worlds Expo
sition, is to open in Cleveland on tn,
26th, 9th, and 28th of this month.
Beecher denies everything, even tC
having any knowledge of Mrs. Tilton'r
love for him. Blissful ignorance.
The miners, near Hazleton, Pa, are
to be interviewed by regiment of in.
fantry ordered there few days ago.
Forty buildings were destroyed by
fire at Millerstown, Pa, on Sunday
morning, and involved loss of 800, 900.
Live hogs brought SO, 80 per hundred
weight in the Chicago market on Mon
day, the highest price reached this sea-
son.
The New York Tribune celebrated the
thirty-ffth anniversary of its existence
by moving into its new building, ON Sat
urday last.
The Republican gain in Cleveland
wasn't anything to speak Of The Dem
Ocrats elected their Mayor by 1000
majority.
Studebakers, the wagon makers at
South Bend, Indiana, suffered consider
ably by the burning of wooden block,
at that place, on Saturday last
Harry Roth, a traveller for a whole
sale drug house in Toledo, committed
suicide by taking poison, on Tuesday
night of last week at the Dwight House.
Valuable discoveries of guano are re-
ported from Peru Rich as that country
has been in such deposits, the recent
discovery is said to be richest yet un-
earthed.
Tweed is again in trouble. A suit has
been brought against him to recover
Sc, 1877, ,957, paid out under the Board of
Audit in 1870. But has been fixed at
three millions.
They are getting down to business in
Utah, A man convicted of polygamy
was on Saturday fined three hundred
dollars and sentenced to the penitentia-
ry for one year.
AT Greenville, Miss, on the 9Th, q
destructive fire occurred, which de-
stroyed planning mill, warehouse, two
stores, hotel and other buildings. Loss
stated at $4,000.
The Sandusky Register proposes Hon.
Guido Marx as candidate for Cover
nor. Mr.. Marx is a good man, and
would make an acceptable candidate to
a large class of citizens.
Three hundred miuers, with ffty-fve
wagons, well equipped with arms and
supplied with all the requisites for pio-
neer life, left Sioux City for the Black
Hills on Monday of lsat week.
The investigation into the mail CON
tract frauds in the Postofice Depart
ment, at Washington, is being pushed
vigorously. Several of the offending
clerks have already been arrested.
Pullman, the sleeping car man, has
"fred the Southern heart" by permit
ting Pinchback to ride in one of his
coaches. Pullman will have to remove
his sleeping coaches from the South.
The Daily Pioneer and the Daily Press
of st. Paul's, Minnesota, have been con
solidated. They were both prosperous
papers, and the consolidation had not
been expected up till the time of its oc-
currence.
Richmond, o., suffered by fire on the
night of the 9th to the extent of $50, 900.
Among the sufferers were N. P. West
heimer, drugs and dry goods, Jordan,
Thornhill & Co., hardware, Morris Hill,
furniture. and the M. z. Church.
A building which was raised ON props
preparatory to putting new founda-
ton under it, to conform to the new
grade of Cherry street, Toledo, on
Monday last toppled over on three men,
who, strange to say, escaped with few
bruises. The building was a perfect
wreck.
At San Francisco, on the 7th a pow
der explosion occurred which demol-
ished number of frame buildings oc-
cupied as dwellings, and saloons. Men,
woman and children were burned in the
ruins, and fire broke out adding to the
horrors of the occasion. Loss estimated
at $500, 600 or 5000, 900.
tits now stated that Mrs. Tilton will
Probably go upon the witness stand
after all. Judge Nelson having ex-
pressed his willingness to receive her
evidence if both parties desire it. The
TiltOn party have expressed such wish,
and she will, it is expected, be called by
the defense
A Washington dispatch mentions
briefly the exposure of a Southern Ex-
Confederate military ring, throughout
the South, with headquarters, however,
at Washington, whose covert object,