The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1875-03-27
NEWS ITEMS.

solid to the bottom, so that all the mills ar
stopped and people go % miles to mill to hav
their grists ground.
Tee Joliet Republicans startIes US with thi
ITEM
Mayor Wiedmer Col. IIopeman, edl
ltorinchlef of the Ottawa FREE TRADER
Capt i. A. Posing J. +. Nosh, OF the Frs
National bank, and number of other knigh
|Templars, of the Ottawa commaudery, wer'
!. lin Joliet. Wednesday. They spent then
Time at the Masonic hall with their Jolie
brothers.
/ As Ottawa has no Knights or citizens o
apv class bearing the above barbarous name:
the question Is, who were these fellows tina
passcd themselves off on the verdant Joliet
tiers as residents OF respectable city?
Another undertaking" medium has beer
exposed. This one is Mrs. Parry, who ha'
been puzzling Chlcagoans for some months
past by her wonderful materalizations. The
spiris that were called up by her from the
Vastly deep proved: to be nothing more harm
full than few rubber masks, hands, and arms
which were easily concealed from curious
investigators.
Mrs. Secretary Fish, says sentimental
| Washington correspondent, has large
serious eyes, where smiles mean something
when they climb from her lips to sun them
selves there you don't believe it, inquire
of Nine. de Catacazy.
| The Thames River, at Norwich, Conn, is
said to be frozen in places to the bottom. A
short time since a horse died suddenly while
trotting ON the ice, and it was thought that
the easiest meth ID of disposing Of the body
would be to dig hole and drop 1t into the
river. Tue diggers excavated hole eight
feet deep in the ice, and there being no indi.
cation Of water, the trotier was entombed in
the ice and covered. Such is the story as re,
lated in the papers.
AS near as can be asccrtained, about 20
women are making all the fuss throughout
the United States about wOman's rights,
dress reform and kindred social topics. This
is remarkable illustration of woman's
power
Jacob Branard, German IS years of age,
committed suicide a, Aurora last week by
throwing himself under a moving locomo-
tive. He was without means and unable to
obtain work, by reason of wounds received
in the late rebellion, at Chickasaw bayou,
where he fought bravely with his regiment,
the 18th Illinois infantry. He had q clam
for pension pending ia the United States
pension office, but could obtain no lnforma.
ton from the commissioners as to its pro.
grcss, and in desperation put an end to his
mlseries in the manner described
\ Boston woman who suspends from the
shoulders says she stands in the street and
wceps when she sees how much pain and an
guish fashionable women suffer from over
loaded hips.
VIM A. Turncy, for number of years clerk
Of the supreme court for the central division,
died at Springfield on Monday. He was 43
gears old, and leaves widow and children.
Says floating item: Every species OF
snake may be permanently driven away from
an infested pace by planting gcraniums."
In this connection would it be deemed i'm.
pertinent in us to suggest TO the editor of the
COar'erJouradl that he plant u few gcrani-
ums in his boots ST Louis RcpuJiicdH.
The veterans of all the armies that took
part in the war of the rebellion will meet IN
mass convention in Chicago on the 18th, 18th,
and 18th days Of May The occasion is ex
pec'ed to bring together the largest gathering
of OK soldiers that has ever assembled since
the close Of the war.
Romualdo Pacheco who succeeds Mr..
Booth as Governor of California, is the first
native Of that state who has reached the Cub
irrational chair, He was born at Santa.
Barbara, of Spanish parents, and was fifteen
years Of age when the cmigrants from the
United states took possession of the soil lie
received his education in Europe, has travel
led considerably, and since his entrance upon
public life has held scvcrel offices of respon
siblity.
The same paper says that Mike O'Donncl
was the other day fined five dollars and costs
for knocking down Henry Pickett, extract.
ing his teeth caving in his chest, breaking
both his legs, dislocatmg his cars, twisting
his arms, gouging out his eyes, and then try
! ing TO sell the remainder to Bill Harrison tor
sausage
The following, now that spring thaws ami
mud are at hand, is seasonable:
y piece of paraflinc candle about the size
OF a nut dissolved in lard oil ut 40 degrees
Fab, the mixture applied once a month will
keep boots waterproof
Ii is no longer true that you can't steal
hole. In Crawford county, Iowa, last week.
a man named Jones was hired to dig grave.
but on repairing to the grave yard found one
already dug Tor a funeral TO take place six
hours later. Jones set down and awaited the
arrival OF his funeral and had the body dc
posted in this hole and slopcd The other