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The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1881-11-12
WASHINGTON ITEMS.

! The star route cases which were vigorously
argued before Judge Cox, of the District Cour
at Washington, during the past ten days, on &
motion to quash the information on which the
accused were arraigned, came to an end on
Thursday, the Judge deciding that the crimes
charged being infamous, the accused could moi
be tried on information but must be indicted
by grand jury. 1t Is admitted that the pro
ceeding by information was mere makeshift
on the part Of the prosecution to save the case
from dying by Limitation; and now it is said
the next stage in the proceeding will be to have
the parties regularly indicted. If the statute
of limitations is ever held to be fatal TO the ca.
SEES on which the information was lodged,
there are said to be plenty Of other cases on
which the accused can he arraigned that come
within three years.
A very curious publication appeared in the
Star newspaper at Washington on Saturday
morning, purporting to give the incidents at q
cabinet meeting few days previous, at which
President Arthur got on his high heeled
boots" over the Guiteau case and went rough
shod for Attorney General McVeagh, pound.
ing the table with his clenched fist and de-
mandlng that McVeagh take charge of the
Guiteau trial. McVeagh is represented as de-
nyIng that it was any part of his duty to at
tend to criminal trials, upon which Arthur
dramatically pointed him to the Revised Stat
utes, defining his duties and demanded that
ha chpuIl hrNosph III
tanning that 1t was beneath the dignity OF the
Attorney General to appear in criminal trial,
the President desired to know whether add.
tional counsel had been secured to assist Cork
hill, to which McVeagh replied that Corkhlll
had not asked for any, wherenpon the Presl-
dent directed that Judge John X Porter of
New York and Walter Davidge of Washing.
ton should be employed to assist Corkhill in
the Guiteau dase. The whole story, however, is
denied by the lntlmates both of McVeagh and
Arthur, and is lmproboble on Its face: for had
such scene actually occurred, no doubt Nc
Veagh would Immediately have left not only
the cabinet but Washington In disgust and In
dlgnation.
Gulteau's trial has been set for next Mon
day, and COrkhill says the government is rea
dy and there will be no delay. Scoville, on
the other hand will do his best to have 1t put
over to another term, imagining that. the long
er it is put off the more indifferent will the
public grow to the result and the greater will
be the chance Of getting his client off on the
insanity plea.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1881-11-12

Secretary Blaine, though about to retire from
the Cabinet and having no seat in either the
senate or house as excuse to remain in Wash.
ington, is hHrrying his new $4,000 mansion
to completion and has evidently no thought OF
leaving there, at least during the winter He
is no lawyer, that he can fall back on his pro-
fession for occupation, his only pursuit pre-
vious to becoming an Office holder having been
that Of county editor. So--as no man of his
temperament can possibly remain ldle-he
will be obliged, for want of something Letter TO
do, to occupy himself with the petty intrlgues
of the capitol, meantime perfecting his train.
ing as q candidate for the presidency in 1884
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1881-11-12

The Fourth Annual Fat Stock Show, under
the auspices of the State Agricultural Board,
opened at Chicago on Tuesday, with magni.
ficent display, embracing 100 entries of fat cat
tie, 70 entries of sheep, IS hogs, ID of horses
and long list OF poultry. At the formal
opening on Tuesday afternoon an address was
delivered by Mayor Harrison, who as much
astonished his granger auditors by his lntelli.
gent boss and cattle talk, as he did the Steuben
guests shor. time ago by addressing them IN
faultless German. Carter said he had been
raised among thoroughbreds In the blue grass
region of Kentucky and knew all about them
and his remarks soon satisfied his audience
that he told the truth.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1881-11-12

Judge LyRch did little business near Ad
rien Hancock county, ILL.,, the other day. A
negro had committed an outrage on Mrs
Kunkei. q respectable white woman, and hav.
Ing confessed his guilt, some of the neighbour
of the lady were about to 'string him up'
when the officers interfered and proposed 10
carry him of to jail, placing him IN box car
for that purpose. Several shots were fires into
the car, one ball at least hitting the negro and
lntilctlng fatal wound.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1881-11-12

The Pension Bureaus report shows that the
governments pensioners now number 26S, $50,
of whom 153Os5 are army lnvalids, 766S3
army widows, minor children and dependent
relatives, 2,1S7 navy invalids, zoos navy wild.
ows, s.s9S survivors of the war of 1919, and
96O20 widows OF the war of 1912. During last
year 2S,740 names were added and l07l2 were
dropped from the rolls, leaving net increase
of 1S,O2S. The annual pensions averaged
$lO7, and aggregated $2s,769967. The dis.
bursements of the office, however, were $40.
1913, lat, the difference being due chiefly to ar.
rearages and accrued pensions
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1881-11-12

William Kuhl, the young man from Meta.
consin, on account of his resemblance to the
notorious desperate and outlaw Lon Williams,
has been released from the Jail at Menomonee,
Wis., where he was confined, and allowed TO
go home the authorities becoming satisfied
that they had 1.-THE wrong pig by the ear"-so
to speak
Meantime dispatch from Omaha, Neb.,
states that on Monday sheriff Killian, of Hall
county, Neb., got on the trail Of Ed. and Lon
Williams, and after hard fight captured Ed,
near Grand Island. Lon escaped but large
posse was after him.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1881-11-12

Gov Culloih must have felt the other day
day like the Dutchman who, on seeing mon
key exclaimed, "Mein Colt, vat will de French
man invent nextl" when the ingenious device
was made known to him through which q
scoundrel by the name Of Chuxton, by the Gov
ernor's unconscious aid, was robbIng the state
treasury II seems, when a criminal is sen,
for by requisItIon of the Governor upon anoth
er state, the officers serving the papers and
making the arrest receive from 500 to 81 ,0OC
from the state tressury-the amount to CORES
pond somewhat with the distance Travelled, ex
penses incurred, ETC. The practice OF this man
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1881-11-12

| The JEANETTE.-lt Is now verging on tC
three years since the stout steamer jeanette
was fitted out by James Gordon Bennett and
sent from San Francisco on a mission Of Ex.
ploratlon to the arctic seas. The last seen OF
her was in 1879, when she was sailing in the
direction of Wrangell Land, and was supposed
to have spent the winter OF 1870 80 on that IRE.
Gently demonstrated to be am island. But as
no tldings were heard OF her during the bal.
ance OF 1879 nor the whole of 1880, the govern.
ment was prevailed upon to fit out certain yes.
sells and send them IN search of her Five YES
sells sent on five different expeditions, were
thus fitted, and made the voyage assigned to
each to the arctic seas and all of them have re-
turned, the Golden Fleece, which returned last
Saturday, being the last, but none of them
bringing a word, syllable or hint as to the
whereabouts or fate of the jeanette. The first
OF these searching vessels to return was the
revenue steamer Corwin, which left San Fran
cisco May 4, on her annual patrol of the north
western coast, and returned Oct 81, having
looked after the enforcement of the revenue
laws, inquired about the missing whalcrs and
landed at very high point on Wrsngell Land,
but bringing back no trace of the jeanette.
The second and third expeditions started the
same day, June 49, the Rodgers from San Fran
cisco, to search through Behring Straits, and
the Alliance from st. john, to search around
Spitzbergen. The latter has returned without
any news of the missing vessel and the former
has been heard from as late as Oct Z, when
she was about going into winter quarters, prob.
ably on the Siberian coast, having performed
an important Arctic feat of exploration IN cir
COMMUNICATING Wrangell Land, and so deter
mining its contour, but hearing not even a ru-
NOR OF the Jeanette. The fourth and fifth ex-
petitions were the two Signal Service parties
sent north to establish permanent stations, one
in the Proteus, at Lady Franklin Bay, and the
other in the Golden Fleece, at Point Barrow
The former started near the beginning of July,
and the latter at the end of that month, and
now the vessels have both returned, leaving
the permanent parties to get ready for winter,
and bringing no news from the jeanette.
Perhaps, however. as the New York San,
from which we mainly extract the above, sug-
gests, the jeanette may duly appear yet and re-
port progress for herself.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1881-11-12

The working OF the insanity dodge IN muir
der cases had an examplification in the case
of Mrs. Roberts, who murdered her husband
IN Chicago some three years ago under circum.
stances exceptionally atrocious. She was tried
and acquitted on the insanity plea and sent to
the Insane Asylum at Elgin. A few weeks
che asked to be released on the ground that
che was no longer insane and being brought
before Judge Rogers in Chicago that function
airy, after full examination, decided that she
was not only not insane now but that she never
had been
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1881-11-12
FOREIGN.

The Land-Loague in Ireland seems to be
completely subdued, at least very little has
been heard in regard to it during the week,
the more prominent topic being the proceed.
ings IN the land courts and the adjustment of
rents under the new law. The applications
before the commission on Wednesday number
ed 1891, and four new commissions have
been established to relieve the pressure. At
the first sitting at Glare on Wednesday four
cases were presented, in which reduction of
20 per cent. in rents was ordered. The tenants
of Fetherston and the Earl of Buckingham
shire declare that they will not pay their rents
IN consequence of their landlords refusing Is
per cent. reduction. The land commission
has ratified the agreement between Miss
Knox's agent and tenant at Ballina, by which
the poor law valuation. Other cases on the
same estate were settled on similar basis On
the Brown estate, in Mayo, the tenants agreed
to take leases for Is years at reduction of
from three to ten shillngs per year. At Linn.
erick, IN the case of a tenant holding over
three acres of land, the rent was reduced from
e19 to GO. Sir Maurice O'Connor met his
tenants at Tralee and agreed upon material
decrease.
Landowners view the great reduction in
rents that has been made with alarm, and ap.
prehend, If the same principle is carried out,
that their property will be confiscated to large
extent, and numbers of them ruined
Gladstone, in his speech at Guidhall on
Tuesday night, declared that the law had been
enforced with firmness and decision in ireland.
Its enforcement had been entrusted to those
agents who had already earned title to the
gratitude of their countryman by the courage
and exemplary patience with which they per.
formed their duties. Upon which the London
may serve as warning to those tenants who
have been tempted to yield, even temporarily,
to the mo rent policy"
The Inauguration of new Lord Mayor IN
London on Tuesday was as usual made the oc-
casion for a grand holiday display, the new
mayor marching in solemn procession to
Guildhall, followed by grand military dis.
play and thousands Of citizens; only on the
present occasion there was notable innova-
tod in the programme, with the object TO hon
or the American people, of whom many were
present. The stars and stripes were carried in
the procession, preceded by the drum andifife
Of the Fourth battalion of the London militia,
playing the "Star Spangled Banner After
short interval came the band from the training
ship Warpite playing yankee Doodle" The
American flag was received with a generous
clapping OF hands and cheers. At the office
of the United States Cable Company four
young ladies waved American flags from the
windows, and at the American exchange an
assemblage of three hundred ladies made a
similar demonstration. The United States
flag was conspicuous in the decorations OF
the city.
LEROY, the murderer OF Gold in a railroad
coach between London and Brighton last sum-
mer had bis trial on Monday, was found gull
ty and sentenced to be hanged
-
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1881-11-12

The new minister to this country form Eng.
land, the Honorable Lionel Sackville West,
arrived unexpectedly few days ago in steam
or at Philadelphia, and the good people Of the
Quaker City were so delighted with the honor
that they spent day or two and several thou
sand dollars in feasting him. He is gentle
man In whose veins courses the very bluest of
blue blood and who comes with some reputa-
ton as a ripe diplomatist
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1881-11-12
OUR CLUBBING

We are prepared to club the FREE TRADEf
with the followingpubl LEGATIONS furnishing bo'l
at the prices named, postage prepaid The
offer-open to old subscribers or new at any
post office IN the county-is the CHEAPEST
EVER MADE IN this county:
FREE TRADER and Chicago Weekly Times. " q.
FREE TRADER and Chicago Weekly Tribune. 26s
FREE TRADER and Chicago Weekly Inter
0ceon 2.6t
FREE TRADER and Chicago Weekly Journal. 6s
FREE TRADER and St. Louis Republican. 20.
FREE TRADER and st. Louis Globe. Democrat ~,
FREE TRADER and N Y. Weekly HeraM.... 20
FREE TRADER and American Agricuiturtst. 80
FRRs TRADER and Prairie Farmer. ......... 3,0
FREE TRADER and either OF Harper's publ
FREE TRADER and Scrib~er. ........... 20
FREE TRADER and Godey's Ladies Book. 900. 3,u
FREE TRADER and chronological Journdl... 3.U
FREE TRADER and 81. Nicholas. ......... 3.g
FREE TRADER and Democrats Monthly. $50. 3 q
FRBR TRADER and Litters Living Age...... SIN
FRsE TRADER and Western Rural. $3.50. 800
FRBE TRADER and Noo-e's Rural Neto YORKER 80
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1881-11-12

Not only are cabbages being imported from
Europe, a cargo from Germany having arrived
at Baltimore two weeks ago, and another from
Belgium at New York last week, but it is
now stated that heavy shipments of potatoes
are to be made to this country from Ireland.
The firm of William Mckenzie & Co. of Dub.
lin have contracted to chip 100 tons to New
York, claiming that the cost Of the potatoes In
Dublin being but Is cts. per bushel they can
lay them down in New York at so cts.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1881-11-12

The railway track to the Touring mills was I'm
ished this week, and very good crossing made
on La Sale street. both for teams and pedestrians
At the new mill a track scale will be put In for
weighing wheat, when the grain will be unload
ed from the car into bin below the track, ana
then raised by conveyors TO the bias above to be
distributed in the same way to the rollers. Work
is progressing on the interior OF the mill, bus
the making of -four will hardly begin before JAM
uary. In due time, when the machinery is In
we shall give full article on the mill and the
process. 1t may be timely to say, however, that
II will be the only complete roller mill in this
section of the country, as good mill as there 10
in the state Several mills in the state are using
part Of this system Of milling, but few in the
state use the system entire as this one will. The
capacity will be from 200 to $50 bbs. per n hours
according to the condition Of the wheat A scale
has been put in on the north side OF the mill for
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1881-11-12

passing the draw of the railroad bridge a
Keokuk, became uncomfortable in the fierce
current of the swollen river, and was hurled
broadside upon one of the bridge piers The
shock carried down span of the structure as
well as crushing IN the side Of the vessel,
which soon sank. Fortunately there were
boats near at hand and the rescue of the many
passengers was readily effected. twas at first
reported that eight persons were drowned, but
the latest reports reduce the number to two.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1881-11-12

The postoflce department has arranged
with the New York Central to put postal cars
on It's new fast tram leaving New York at
A. NJ, and reaching Chicago at GA. NJ. next
day This will connect with the trains for
Omaha leaving Chicago at l2 N. making con.
nection with the Union Pacific trains for San
Francisco, SO that the new trains will make a
difference Of one days time between New York
and San Froncisco and in fact, to many places
west Of Chicago.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1881-11-12

The Channel tunnel between France and
England is no longer question of prehmin
ary experiments. The boring has already
been effected to the extent of 800 metres from
the French and 1000 metres from the Engllsh
SIDE This makes altogether rather more than
one.tenth Of the entire distance to be pierced
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1881-11-12

The popularity Of the Malone plank of the
republican platform is extending. Republican
Minnesota, the home OF Window, has just
passed law scaling down its debt about &c
per cent. Wouldn't Window and Malone
make an admirable republican presidential
ticket for 1882
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1881-11-12
There was-strange to say,-an outbreak b,

There was-strange to say!-an outbreak be
tween the negroes and whites at one of the poll
ing places during the election in Mississippi
on Tuesday 1t occurred at place called
Marion station, five miles north OF Meriden
on the o. & NJ. railroad. The dispatches fail
to state how the fight originated, but the ne
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1881-11-12

The question which seems to be most PROM
lnent about Washington just now is whether
the star route thieves are being prosecuted or
Attorney General McVeaghs Mr.. District At
torney Corkhill. who was supposed to have
charge of the case against the star reuters, APP
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1881-11-12

Our esteemed contemporary, the junior of The
Ottawa Republican, denies that he ever said IN
an editorial in that paper that "nine-tenths OF
the pensioners are frauds" and complains OF
it as ian ill-mannered fling" on our part, be
cause we referred to the "hornets nest" his i'm
puted remark had stirred up about his ears
and cited the suggestion of a neighboring
little patent inside that, being pensioner
himself, he had better include himself among
the frauds. We confess-with due contrition
that we had seen no such remark as that re.
ferred to in the Republican and had no other
reason to believe it had been made than the
sufficiently unreliable assertion-it must be
admittcd--of half dozen little patent lnsldes
and we are quite ready therefore to accept his
denial as conclusive that no such remark was
made.
As to the suggestion to count himself among
the frauds, while our otfense goes only to the
extent of mentioning that some one else hal
made it, we are free to own that under the cir
cumstances, it was more than unklnd. AS
pensoner MIR. Sapp is certainly the reverse of
a fraud" The wound he received IN the
army was 80 severe that he hung for many
weeks between life and death on account of it,
and though he ultimately recovered, he did so
only with a permanently enfcebled arm and
side, on account of which he very properly
and righteously receives pension
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1881-11-12

Elgin and Aurora are hurting "epitaphs' a
each other. The Aurora papers speak of TIT
former as "Psupervllle," and the Frank re
spends by calling Aurora "Murderburg"
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1881-11-12

Principles are worth nothing unless they
can be carried to their logical conclusion
The greenback orators declaim against paying
interest on money, and on the same principle
certain greenback patriot declaming at a
Land-League meeting in Chicago the other
evening, while maintaining that it was right
that no rent should be paid in Ireland insisted
that neither should any be paid in the United
States -. ~.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1881-11-12
HOME MATTERS.


AMoN.-Miss Belle Stamford, Baltimore, is
the guest of Mr.. and Mrs. Anon E. Lovejoy.
CAroN-The Book Club is under obligations to
Judge Cation for copies of all his literary works.
HAMILToN-Mr Geo. Hamilton, New York
city, is the guest Of Mr.. and Mrs. A. Hamilton.
GILLEN.-Mrs. Chas. Gillen and James have
returned from their quite lengthy visit to Ire.
land.
ATrrs.-Messrs. Blake and Boyle cleared their
man, Huttinger, at the trial in Peoria last Friday
and Saturday.
HIcKs.-Miss Belle Hicks, Mrs. John Wallace
and Master Willie Wallace, Pontiac, are the
guests OF Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. FourTaugh.
RUssELL.-The friends OF Mrs. Chas. G. Ras-
sell are panied to know that she is desperately Ill
with consumption, and that her life is dispaired
of.
SwIrr.-Mr. NJ. II and Mrs. E. q. Swift have
returned home from New England, where they
had spent several weeks among friends and rea
tives.
Lor.-Utica Gazette: "Mr A. T. Griffin, our
wide.awake brick and sewer pipe man, has bought
a new lot, for the purpose of charging his al.
ready extensive works."
HILLs-W X Yentzer has returned from the
Black Hills. While going into the Hills he was
shot in his working arm by cowboy, who had
aimed at another man on the stage.
CHAs.-Charley Campbell, formerly with Child
s. Phipps lately with Jos. Megaffin, goes to o
Chicago boot and shoe house soon. He Is now
at his Streator home.
FRANK.-The genial Frank Cowles has re.
signed his position at j. Porter's, to become
o. uo1d xroy xyho al
sale hardware man, at Peoria Our Peoria friends
have secured prize.
BARToN.-Free Press, Streator: "John Barton,
of Munster, who had been out in Missouri pros.
pecting returned about week ago, and is now
be ginning to be around again. He was well
pleased with the prospect out there, ana was al.
so buying a farm when he was taken sick"
PoRrER-J. E. Porter's force have been having
their jaws creased to aid in pronouncing "Vale
rien Tscheriaew,"a Russian Of st. Petersburg,
who "most urgently and respectfully solicits"
Information touching Mr.. Porter's hay tools.
Nothing like advertising a good thing, you see.
BRAp.-Mr Levi Bradford, some years ago q
well known and esteemed citizen Of Ottawa, was
on Tuesday last elected county treasurer OF Fay
cite county, Penn, by majority OF about 300
votes, running about 700 ahead OF his ncket-the
democratic. Ottawa people who remember him
will agree that old Fayette couldn't have done
better in her choice OF treasurer.
SIxrEEN.-Mr. Christ. Haeberle, young man
very favorably known in Ottawa, recently with c.
NJ. Shaw, has taken position at H. J. Gillen's,
whose active force now numbers sixteen men.
Mr.. Haeberle will assist Mr.. N Mates, for many
years one Of Mr.. Gillen's right-hand men. Both
Mr.. Haebere and Mr.. Mates are genial. pleasant
gentlemen: and as to both the German language
is native, the German public will be waited on
promptly by gentlemen speaking their native
language-a treat to those by whom English 10
spoken with difficulty.
Tho railway track To the houring mills WAS I'm
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1881-11-12

The Chicago Tribune of Saturday states that
Clara Louisa Kellogg will, at the conclusion
of her present concert engagement be united
in marriage to Mr.. Whitney, wealthy New
York gentleman, after which she will leave the
stage The ceremony will, it is stated, occur
in Chicago, at the home of one of MISS Kel
logg's friend