The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1875-08-14
NEWS ITEMS.


The crime of burglary is fearfully on the
increase, but It would not be if all people
were as ready to deal with the scoundrels as
ESQ. Adams, of Aurora, was week ago
Hearing during the night some one at his
blinds, he carefully watched the proceeding
pistol in hand, until the fellow struck a
match, revealing the outline OF his head,
when Mr.. Adams fired Shortly aiterward
! Cooney Moon, noted Batavia rough, appear.
ed at the railroad depot, saying he had re.
ceiyed shot in fight and the bullet vas in
the back of his neck. Squire Adams soon
after appearing, Cooney was arrested and Ia
ken TO the lookup.
At Jacksonville, on the 9Th inst, Mr.. Isaac
Allen was shot in the breast with revolver
IN the hands of his son. Ben. Allen, who is
about fifteen years of age. and though living
yet, his recovery is doubtful, 1t seems that
Allen had been drinking, and was making an
assault upon his wife with a carving knife,
when the son interfered, with the above re.
suit Young Allen gave himself up to the
him.
Captain Boyton is having a rival, one
Captain Matthew Webb, who, according to a
Dover dispatch in the London Daily Z'ele.
graph on the Goth ult, accomplished the feat
of swimming from Dover to Ramsgate IN eight
hours and forty-fve minutes, the distance be.
ing computed at twenty miles He wore no
dress and was altogether unassisted by artl.
fetal appliances.
The Sangamon river, last week, was high.
er than 1t had been in thirty years before. AT
Petersburg, (MenarG county, on the 9Th, the
river had overleaped It's banks and spread
over the country at many places from bluff
to bluff, TO the depth of several feet, and was
from one to five miles wide at many points
along its course. The growing corn crop and
the unstacked small grain on the Sangamon
bottoms, have suffered to an extent never be-
fore equalled. Many fine fields of corn,
which one week ago bid fair to yield enor-
mously, have been wholly submerged for sew
eral days or completely washed out. Fields
of oats and wheat, where the farmers had not
stacking have been swept as bare
as they were at creations dawn.
Says the Joliet Sun: The quarrymen un.
earthed or rather unrOcked a living frog in
Davidson quarry the other day. When the
rock was split open he hoped out of his
bed, which he had occupied ever since Old
Bill Allen was small boy.
Uncle Sam feels better over his income
since the July footing up. The receipts are
larger than any estimate made and more
than realize the expectation of the treasury
officers. Taxation goes on and hourishes the
same whether business is boyant or stagnant.
The train-robbers of Southern Illinois on
Wednesday night cut open switch on the
Toledo, Wabash & Western Railway, near
Danville, H., and succeeded in killing the
engineer of pilot engine which was preced.
ing the regular passenger-train, fearing dan
ger from washouts Thus the caution of the
Company by good chance curtailed the des-
truction of life which the total.depraved
creatures reckoned upon as incidental to their
success
A gang of counterfelers was arrested at
ST. Paul, Minnesota last week, with millions
of greenbacks IN process of completion, so
we'll executed as even to deceive the treasury
officials Won't the intlationists rise up and
help these friends who are in duraHce vile :?
The only accusation against them Is, that
they attempted to initiate the volume of cur.
rency without proper authorization from
Congress.