The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1867-05-18
Current News.
the South.

is making bricks at Niddletown, Connecticut.
Sam Davis and jim Elliott fought prize fight
on Point Au Pelee Island in Lake Erie, on May
10th, in the presence of six hundred roughs and
sporting men. Elliott was declared winner in
nine rounds, occupying eleven minutes, by foul
blow 1t was very light affair and caused great
dissatisfaction among the spectators. i"
Col Conger, who took the famous diary from
the pocket of Booth, the assassin testified before
the Judiciary committee on Tuesday that the di.
airy Is now in the same condition Us when he took
it from Booths body, before the latter died The
eighteen pages which appear to be cut out were
missing when he first saw the diary, and must
have been cut out by Booth. So Butler, in charg.
ing the Government officers with mutilatng the
diary, told another lie
The falling off of incomes in New York is re.
markable Many who last year returned incomes
ranging from $4,000 to 100000 this year re-
turned almost nothing. Mr.. Clatiin, whose in
come last year was something over half a million,
this year returned twenty-five dollars Mr. Stew
art who generally passes for a wealthy man, is
still worse off, having no income at all Where
is the revenue to come from where the money TO
pay other taxes?
They are suffering from another food In Louis.
lana. Reports by telegraph ON Tuesday OATH
state that whole families are on the point of
starvation. AT Brashear City steamboats, we're
seized by order OF the bureau, so that women and
children floating on RATS and house-tops might be
rescued Gen. Brewer ordered the MAYOR of that
place to seize every steamer, owing to the refu-
sal of captains to allow them to be used for so hu
name purpose .tt|
The laborers employed in boring the artesian
well at the Union Stock Yards, Chicago. at
depth of 1850 feet, struck vein OF pure water.
which is flowing at the rate of G0.0OO gallons
every twenty-four hours The amount required
for the use of the yards is ll4,000 gallons per
day. a.T' A uvt.p .D-vIe .
The track on the Union Pacific Railroad has
been completed from Fort Riley to Salina forty
six miles, and regular trains will commence run
ming through on Monday next. The track will
be laid down to Ellsworth or Fort Harker, TWEEN.
ty miles further on, in about two months
Tile CROPS. THE Woodford Sentinel saws on
Saturday last, while driving out in the country,
we noticed here and there corn springing up, and
looking well, the rain of Saturday having had
good effect The wheat, rye, oats and barley
crop will be very large in Woodford county.
1t has always been supposed that Stewart, the
Merchant Prince of New York, has splendid
income In fact, it would be difficult to under
stand how he could be a merchant prince with.
out an income. But it appears that he has solved
that question as he returns no income at ALL
DR.. j. 8. Fuller of Perry, Allen county, Indi-
ana, has examined the skeleton of an elephant
found on the farm of Mr.. William Trush, in
Noble county, near the Allen county line. The
skeleton was found about four feet under ground,
below the surface OF the marsh, in which the
ponderous fellow evidently became mired as the
skeleton was standing up. DR.. Fuller says he
stuck in the mud fully one hundred years ago.
The Indians had tradition that elephants once
inhabited northern Indiana
The following is verbatim report of the speech
of the King Of Tonga Islands at late fashion,
able reception in New York: "Plcn tee uvrum-
anlotz tod rink, bodice foryu buh lee for you-
Pipezen toob axe ran suthentoeate, bodice foryu
buh lee foryu.' fi
nCYRus II. Mccormick, of reaping machine
notoriety, returns the largest income in Chicago,
the amount being $l69,76o The next largest
income lie Sill ,Go5, returned by PETER SCHUT-
TIER. These are the only incomes in Chicago
that exceed one hundred thousand dollars.
Wendell Phillips says he was welded to truth
and philanthropy when boy. The Boston Post
thinks Wendell must have become q widower
when quite young.
The Russian Legation at Washington has
despatch frem ST. Petersburg to the effect that
the Russo-American treaty had boon ratified, and
that Count Bodisco will return with it to the
United States.
1t is stated that although more than three
months have elasped since the explosion of Oaks