The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1875-06-04

There hns been an average Of one
steamer lost each week since the LIST Of
January, and the loss Of life has beer
equal to forty for each steamer.
A tan box containing bonds, banh
stocks, ETC., amounting to $4,000, was
stolen from the residence of J. H. Cor,
oman, in Baltimore, on the night of the
9th.
Attorney General Pierrepont has is
sued a circular stating that he finds the
appropriations for the Office exhausted,
and commanding general economy and
retrenchment.
The Northern Ohio Wooden Mills, al
Cleveland we're destroyed by fire on
Friday evening last. Loss 100000, on
which there was insurance of from S15,-
600 to $4,000.
The Governor of West Virginia has
issued proclamation declaring that the
seat of government Of that State has
been removed from Charleston and is
now located at Wheeling.
Albert N. Clark, of Baltimore, drew
$40, 900 on forged check, from the
Farmers and Merchants Bank, of that
city. Most of the money wasrecovered,
and Clark will be held to answer
A battle between the Carlists and Al
phonsists is reported at Alsaza, on Sat
urday. The Carlists lost seventy killed
and two hundred wounded. General
Dorregarray is reported wounded.
After long silence, in which it
seemed that both Alfonsists and Carlists
had met the fate of the two Kilkenny
cats, we hear Of another battle in which
there were the usual Carlist losses.
Cleveland proposes to celebrate the
coming 4th of July in an appropriate
manner. The City Council has taken
the initiative step, and one of the draw
strings will be Prof. Wise and his bal
loon.
The Ristori troupe, on a recent trip
from Indianapolis to st. Louis, was rob-
bed of valuables amounting to $4,000.
The colored porter of the sleeping car
was arrested and the valuables were
found.
A terrific explosion occurred in the
Soda Water factory of J. d. DAVIS, at
Boston, on the 25th. The building was
four stories high and was completely
wrecked. Thirty bodies were recovered
from the ruins.
In Portland, a suburb of st. Johns,
N. b., fire broke out and spread rap.
idly, on the 2Sth, until it consumed
nearly one hundred buildings and left
one hundred and forty families home
less. Loss stated at $25O,OOO.
Mr.. Schiemann, whose excavations
on what is supposed to be the site of
ancient Troy have been SO graphically
described by Mr.. Bayard Taylor, has
been granted authority to continue his
and will proceed with his
work almost Immediately. ,.
Two years ago Pennsylvania SER
want girl was sent to prison for stealing
two hundred dollars from her employer.
The money was found the other day
where the man had hidden it, and now
he offers the girl six dollars as recon-
pense, while she wants ten thousand.
Near st. Louis, on the evening of the
25th, a negro who had been refused
work by German named Pfarr, return
ed to his house, murdered Mr.. Pfarr,
robbed his house, ravished the wife of
Mr.. P, and then fed. Mounted po-
lice were our scouting the country to
capture the desperate.
1t really seems as if there was some
truth in the rumors of fresh plots for the
assassination of Bismarck and Falck.
The alleged chief eonspirator has been
arrested and is said to be related to dig
nitaries in the Catholic Church. It is
even asserted that the plot included the
of Emperor William.
The Missouri river is getting ready
for another one of those royal sprees, in
which she sweeps over the surrounding
country, tearing away fences and farm
houses and sometimes bearing along
whole villages in her swift course. Our
dispatches this morning state that the
rise is expected to be the greatest that
has taken place for many years.
By tho falling of scaffold at the Cen
tral Ohio Insane Hospital, on the 26th,
four men were killed and two fatally in
iured. One man escaped by jumping
thirty feet and alighting upon wall
Some timers atwork upon the tower,
during the excitement that followed, left
soldering pot behind which set fire to
the tower and occasioned Sc, 900 damage
4 L Il.