The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-01-10
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Pontiac hos several cases of scarlet fever.


It's estimated that $50, 100000 paper collars
are used annuslly in 'hc : :.
| 4 Morris lsborcr fell 90 feet in coal shaft
and escaped with bruised shoulders and
spralned wrist. He tell INTO water, however.
In 1870, 81 persons were reported to the po-
lice OF New York city who have never been
since heard Oh.
From yield of 800, 900 III bullion in 1865,
the Gnnrria --l1 ""!dr ho"o od"o~o"A =" "
/ 100000 per annum, with promise of large
returns next year.
/ The Michigan Central has put fast tram
on its Joliet cut off from Joliet, ILL.,, to
/ Lake, Ind
! Wnncbag0 county pays 500, ,JJo5 III tANes
for 1873 OF this Rockford pays lll,G1l25,
OF which 81 ,J4@i~ Is Gag ,aA.
Dec. 29th Colorado "zephyr' lifted train
| from the track of the Denver and Rio Grandc
railroad and hurled itdowu Il tea 100. eulOan.>.
nent Three persons were severely injured.
The Springfield Gls.) Register states 'hat
the Springfield watch company have orders
ahead for $4,000 watches, which ii viii take
them six months to get out.
A Princeton barber, Lallenier, became, last
week, the father Of two girls and boy. He
is anxious TO know if any got away in the eX-
Icitcment Of the birth
! The st. Louis Car Wheel Company have es-
tablshcd "a new shop for the CONSTRUCTION Of
cars at Jacksonville, H. called the Jackson
vile Car Works. The wheels and axles are
made in st. Louis and shipped 10 the shops at
Jacksonville.
Passenger tares on German railways average
about as follows: -. ...,., 49,. ..-, . ~~...o,
second 215 cents, third - cents. fourth Il of
a cent The fourth class passengers are what
would be called in America "standees," that
is, their only seats are such as nature provides
them with.-Age.
President Riddle of the C., r. J. e. p Issued
his official notice on Monday to station agents
that sleeping cars will be run under the dlrec
ton of the Pullman Palace Car Co on and sf
ter the lst inst, excepting those or the Keokuk
and Des MONIES division. 1t may he well to
state that all the old porters of the c. r. l. &
p. slcepcrs on the Chicago, Davenport and
Council Bluffs runs will remain, excepting TWO. .
The South Carolina and Georgia Almanac /
for 1894 Il copy Of which has fallen into the
hands of the Charleston Is. c. Ne,cs contains
table in which the population of the chief
cities of the United States ,s set down as fol.
lows: Philadelphia, 1880: Boston, $4,000
Charleston, 10000; New York, 10000; Balti- |
more, 23,5O3: Newport, 5000. At that time
the entire population of the country was less
than 100000
Memphis has suffered terribly, and it Is
gratifying to know that her returning prosperi-
Ity appears to be equally remarkable. General
Manager Fink Of the Memphis IL Little Rock |
road, IN answer to the question by a Louisville |
reporter as to how Memphis was doing, repll- !
ed "Wonderfully well, business OF all kinds |
is tlourishing, and more cotton is being han
died than ever before. The railroads are utter.
ly unable to move 1t, and all of them are
blockaded -RatI,cdy age.
New York and Boston papers state that some
of the largest Eastern railroad capitalists have
been securing the country to get enough stock
of the Chicago IL Rock Island road that they
may have something to say in the coming
election. Thus far they have been enabled to
pick up only few thousand shares 1t is not
strange that holders cling to stock which ut
10G pays six per cent annual interest (1Oc on
the 1907, and on which over eight per cent has
been earned IN the last six months.
Gautier Steel Company Limited Johnstown,
Pa, manufacture now more steel, wire and
springs than any other concern in America
Their works have a frontage equal TO more
than four city blocks and cover over five acres
of ground, while not less than four railroads
are devoted to their exclusive use. A train of
fifteen to twenty carloads of their manufacture
is not an unusual daily shipment for them to
make. They can roll without interfering with
their other classes of steel, enough to tire tif
teen hundred carriages or toe steel sufficient to
calk fifty thousand horses daily. Ingots of q
steel eighteen inches square are drawn down '
into wire finer than lady's hair. One foot t
of the ingot weighs half a ton, and this drawn p
ptn fhp fin ira |
to Chicago. Manufacturer.
France has agricultural schools for girls
One Of the chief Is near ROuen, which Is said
to have been begun with capital of one franc
by q slster..of charity and two little discharged
prisoner girls, and to be now worth 100000 p
This establishment has 800 girls from to Is u
The farm, entirely cultivated by them, is over
400 acres in extent. Twenty-Five sisters form
he staff of teachers. More than one medal OF
he French Agricultural Society has been
awarded to this establishment at Darnetel and
he pupils are IN great demand all over Nor
mandy on account of their skill. They go out
Isl stewards, gardeners, farm managers dairy
women, and laundresSes. Each girl has on
eavlng an outfit and n small sum of money,
armed in spare hours. If they want a home
hey can always return to Darnetel, which they
ire taught to regard AS home. -
The New York Herald: The hanglnans rec
,rd for the past year shows that 101 men ex
plated their crimes on the gallows, an increase
If five over that for the preceding year Not
woman was hanged, the only one sentenced
o death having been commuted. Two men
uttered the death penalty by shooting, one in
tab and the other in Texas the laws giving
hem the choice of death either on the scatfold
n by the bullet Eight were hanged for wife
murder, for outrage, for burglary, for fra
ricide, for inanticide, 1 for killing his step
laughter and another for numbering his son
there were eight double and one triple hang
ngs -Four persons cheated the galows by
committing suicide before the day set for their
xacutiop In the list IF states IN which the