The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1873-03-29
Vicinity News.

counties buying up the few shares of stool
u u of the St Charles & Mississippi Railroad tina
/ still remain in the hands of the original own
ers They repay the amount originally paiC
on them, with eighteen years intcreSt.-Syca
mare Republican.
We learn from several gentlemen who
have lately come from Pekin that the cere
ro-spinal-meningitis, better known as spotted
fever, is alarmingly prevalent in that city
Young persons especially seem more liable
to be attacked by it, and there were no less
than five funerals on Monday. A juvenile
school has between twenty and thirty of It's
members affected, and most of them are seri.
Ously sick. The first symptoms of the dis.
ease are violent pains at the base of the brain
and extending clear down the spine. After a
comparatively short time the patient is drawn
up into cramped position with pain, the
head pulled back, and the eyes distorted
Peoria Transcript.
The Mendoza Artesan Well Company have
decided on the location of their well-on
Main street, opposite Sixth. The company
now invite proposals from responsible parties
to take the contract for boring
Go from home to learn the news. The Men
dota Bulletin announces that Col. McCaleb,
Sheriff McIntyrcs deputy, is a candidate for
County Clerk at the election next fall, and
adds; "Col. NJ. has good many friends in
this section Of the county who would be glad
to hear af his promotion in the civil service"
| Plano has had "a smallpox excitement The
public schools were closed, and a protractcd
meeting was adjourned indefinitely. There
were but two cases, however, one of whom is
well and the other nearly so.
| The Farmers Club of Kendall county at
Yorkvillc, last Saturday, resolved that we
will support no man for Office who is not
known to be heartily in favor of the objects
and aims of the associations" and forthwith
Il caucus was ordered in each town to nom
mate candidates for town officers. Now let
the club clearly define what its objects and
aims are.
The Ottawa FREE TRADER has enlarged its
form, put on Il new dress, and is showing its
prosperity by running by steam 1t is an
ably edited journal, and "Beemus" is brick
1t is one of the most readable of our ex-
changes Republican.
Sound as brick. The Republican is always
sensible, and some of our sharpest items are
cribbcd from its columns
The farmers of Bureau county had rous. |
ing anti.monopoly meeting at Princeton on
Friday of last week. Resolutions were adopt |
cd denouncing the congressional salary steal,
denouncing the doctrine of "vested rights" as
a relic of the past, denouncing the extortion
of the railroads and affirming purpose to |
maintain the fight "until we obtain redress"
and that, off the railroad corporations in ex-
torting money from the public IN defiance of
law and with force Of arms mean war, we
accept the issue and will fight it out on this
line"
Todd's mill, at La Sale was DESTROYED by
fire on Friday night of last week The mill
was owned by Morris Neustadt but was
leased year ago by Todd & Son, who lost
1900 bushels of wheat and considerable -four
by the fire. Neustadt loses about $4,000
Gusavus A Pfrangle has been appointed
postmaster at Aurora, He has been chief
clerk thsre for several years.
DR.. Corbus reports to the Amboy Joalrnay
the following accidents John Richards,
skull fractured, fall from hay press in Har.
mon. James Dow Lee Centre, leg broken,
upset from load of hay.
For the benefit of the future historian. who
cannot avail himself of better information, we
record the fact that the river froZe over at
this point on the night of the l4th of Novem-
Der and continued so until the evening of
March 10Th that the thermometer was below
zero in November and March all the months
and once AS low as 30 degrees below;
that ice in the river was "a inches thick, and /
in the bayous 30 inches; and that the river I
rose without rains So rs To fill the banks, aud
rotted the ice so that it went out without
Herald, 18th "
The La Sale Turner's will give another |
masquerade ball, at Butcher hall, on Tuesday
evening, April lst ID
The highway commissioners of the town of |
Dimmick are determined to put n stop {
to The practice of blowing along the highways =,
OF That town. which has heretofore been in. '
uulged IN by many persons during the spring
OF the year, for the purpose of securing their c
Piows. In order to do this the said commits
sloners give public notice that they will
prosecute any person guilty of the above act
La Sale Press. "
The body of Henry Schmidt, who was
drowned above La Sale, on the 2d of Janua.
ry last, has been found at Chilicothe, about |
40 miles. The corpse must have been car
ried thither by the ice
At La Sale -. Pairick's day was celebra-
ted in manner worthy of the patron saint Of
Erin go-bragh.
Minonk has over four miles of corn.cribs.
Farmers in Livingston county arc agita. {