The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1877-02-24
CURRENT NEWS ITEMS.

Tokens appear OF suostan'iai ie'i'"i VI
business A New Bedford dispatch says; In
compliance with assurances given ny 'he
MANAGERS of the Wamsutta mills, last month,
that when the earnings OF the mills would
warrant. the prices of labor should be advant-
ed, and as the prices of the standard yard'wIde
goods have been recently moderately advanc-
ed notice was given in the mills that on the
1st day of March next wages would be ad.
vanced to the same rates as they were in
January
NIB. Worsley, an old and highly esteemed
citizen of Lisbon, Kendall county, died sud
denly last week from the effects of taking the
wrong medicine. He had mixture for out
ward application for rheumatism, ana LOOK
large dose of 1t by mistake at about 5
o'clock, and was corpse at H.
The Rockford papers caution the press and
public against swindler calling himself W.
f. Crosby, and who represents himself as
the travelling agent of w. Z. Pagan ~ Co.,
Philadelphia sole manufacturers OF damon
Oil, "a medical article which if appll.
ed externally, or taken in'erhai'y'
would remove everything from the worst
corn or bunion 10 the most greedy tape,
worm" There is no such Philadelphia
firm, the oil is vile compound OF no value,
and the "agent' "a dirty fraud.
Aurora is placed by a recent decision OF
the supreme court, in very much the same po'
si,ion as Ottawa IN regard to her city charter
The supreme court nulllfes large portion
of her city charter as being special law, so
that the Herald is led to inquire, "Who, then,
knows how much of our city charter is now
in force, or whether any OF it is in force?
This is a question of some Importance, and
we hope some OF our legal gentleman will
look it up Perhaps they may conclude that
we have no charter and it is useless to have
city election this year"
Peru, according to dispatches sent from
that city, seems to be afflicted with irightiul
epidemic, which is pronounced by physicians
a torn of cholera, or black vomit. Upwards
of ten died In week, and several more are
IN critical condition. The first symptom
that can be detected CT the disease is that The
patient is taken with a severe headache, then,
in few hours, the entire body becomes
black, and death ensues in similar manner
as from a paralytic stroke The disease IS
confined mostly to children.
Judge McRoberts, OF the viii county Cir
cult Court, decided question OF considera'
BILE interest to laboring men and their en-
ployers, last week Under the exemption
laws every Iaborer is entitled to $25 wages
free from execution or attachment, and an
other clause in the same law also eXcmpts
after the other articles specified, 500 worth
of property suited to his condition in life.
The Court decided that employees or labor
ing men could claim 800 as wages That
IS, according to this decision, 1925 of his
wages are exempt from attachment or exc
cution, instead of $oJ, as heretofore decided
Lee, the Mormon, and ringeader of the
Mountain Meadow Massacre eighteen years
ago, il at last to receive his deserts by hang
ing The supreme court OF Utah has refused
to interfere in his behalf, and the day of his
execution is fixed. A salt Lake dispatch
says: lice appears to have no friends il
the community. To visitors he puts on thu
air of martyr, pretending that he could re
veal much in regard to the Mormon Leaders
were il honorable to do So He will neve
betray anybody, he says. He regards Nor
monism as mixture OF fanatcism, decep
ton and trickery, and says he is writing
history OF his life"