The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1875-05-28

mitted suicide by hanging himself in his
barn on the night of the 22d.
A young man of this place who is in
the habit of using Lilly White for
his complexion made a visit to some rel
atives in a neighboring village, and after
a while he was asked "Why how pale
you look, have you been sick2"
The steam yacht Nellie Booth will
carry pleasure parties from Port Clinton
to the Islands on Sunday or weeks days
as is desired. This is a good arrange
ment, and our citizens could visit the
Islands easier this way than any other.
A few days ago, Peter Young, an EN-
.ploye of the Cincinnati, Sandusky and
Cleveland railroad shops in Sandusky,
had the index finger of his left hand cut
off by q buzz saw. The second and
third fingers of the same hand were also
badly injured.
Geo. H. Price, the plucky messenger
who shot the robber short time since
has been presented with one thousand
dollars in gold as recognition of the
value of his services in protecting the
property entrusted to his care. 1t is
stated that he had $3.50, 900 in the safe
at the time.
Country papers will do their readers
a favor by saying that any who want q
copy of the twenty-first annual report of
the Ohio School Commissioners Report
can get copy of the same from their
county auditor, or by sending sixteen
cents, the price of postage, to the School
Commissioner at Columbus.
John Weilage and John Oldenwald,
the two men arrested at the Delphos
distillery, short time since, for fraudu-
lent handling of highwines, had their ex-
animation before Commissioner Osborn,
at Toledo, last week, and were bound
over in 81, 900 each for their appearance
at the June term of the U. S. District
Court .-.. .--
Several of our young bloods enjoyed
fifty-cent cigars and twenty-fye-cent
oranges at the circus. One of them, on
entering, was asked if be had bought his
ticket and answered that he had, when
one of the lemonade-slingers told him
he was entitled to drink of lemonade,
but when he had drank it he was re-
quired to pay ten cents for the treat.
On Thursday night of last week, burg
lars, entered the house of DIR. j. w.
Binekley, of Kenton and after stealing
some victuals and pocket book CON
tanning a small amount of change, the
following note was found on the table
''There will be murder committed in
this house before two weeks if not
sooner" The Doctor thinks this is
true if the writer returns.
4 On Friday two three-card monte men
from Cleveland goton Lake Shore and
Michigan Southern Railway train at
Port Clinton and before they reached
this city they succeeded in beating a Jew
pawnbroker, from Buffalo, out of two
hundred and fifty dollars in currency, a
gold watch and chain, diamond pin
and two finger rings. The victim made
such fuss about his loss that the gam
blers gave back the rings and pin but
kept the remainder of their ill-gotten
gains. They left the train at Sandusky
and went to a hotel on Market street,
where they remained during Saturday,
and that evening left for Cleveland. A
gentleman at Sandusky who saw the
fellows says that they are the Porter
brothers of Cleveland.
William Cragg, of Lyme township,
Huron county, left his home on the 23d
of last March, and has not been heard of
since. He is an Englishman, forty-three
years old, about five feet nine inches in
height; has light hair, smooth face and
light blue eyes. When he left home he
had on black broadcloth coat, dark
pants, vest and hat. No reasons are
known for his leaving by his wife and
family, no trouble whatever having oc-
CURED. 1t is, therefore, supposed he is
partially insane. Any one knowing any
thing of the whereabouts, or trace of
missing man, will confer an inestimable
favor on a wife and three children left
in quite poor circumstances by address
I ing Mrs. Mary Cragg, Bellevue, Ohio.
Exchanges please copy.l
Captain ]. b Luckey, auditor of OF
tawa county, accompanied by some of
the commissioners of that county, left
Port Clinton on Thursday to go to Put
in Bay in small sail boat, to transact
some official business. They reached
Putin Bay all right and remained on
that Island during the day. At IL
o'clock that night they left Putin Bay
in the sail boat, intending to return to
Port Clinton. The route which thew
desired to go is well known to the gen
tlemen, but for some unaccountable
reason they lost their way and d1ifted
about on the water until 8 o'clock Fri