The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1881-12-24

new paper mill at Marseilles fell over into the
water Wednesday week. The loss was about $500
besides retarding work on the mill
Joliet is still unhappy. Having refused to &C.
cept the new water works, the council are now
wrestling with the new High School building.
The objections seem to be; the roof is poorly
propped; the basement stinks for want Of drain.
age, and the roof Is shoddy!
The Rockford Grape Sugar Company will stop
their machinery for couple Of weeks TO enable
them to put in new filters and furnaces. When
these improvements are made the company will
at once start up with II capacity Of some 5000
bushels Of corn per day. Heretofore they have
only run about /, 200 bushels"
Beacon: "A swindler from Chicago dda thriv
ing business Wednesday IN peddllng about Au
rora what he claimed to be honey, but which was
simply glucose with "A thin covering Of honey.
The fraud was discovered about tea time, when
several enraged husbands took the trouble to
hunt 'he fellow up and have him arrested"
Mendoza Reporter: Phillip Arnold, son Of Re.
corder Arnold, returned to Mendoza last Satur-
day, after u two years residence in Spring Val
ley, IA Phillip reports good business in the
West. He is engaged in stock raising, and has
just turned oil 200 head of fatted caale-scling
800 in Kansas City and 400 in Chicago"
Press: "The G., b. " Q, elevator Office and
cribs belonging thereto, were sold this afternoon
at mortgage sale to Samuel Kerr, attorney for
Rogers Il Co., Chicago, for $605. This may be
considered low, but as it Is understood that the
purchaser IS buying big lawsuit, it is the best
they could do. Rogers held the mortgage under
which il was sold. "
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will be completed today. On Thursday week
the carpenters commenced the erection Of Il
round house 3OXSO, having stalls for six engines.
Seven miles Of switches are to be built at Sene.
ca about two of which are now complete. The
large force Of men there will continue the work
until complete. A freight and passenger depot
will be constructed rs soon rs men and material
can be obtained.
Joliet Sun: zone of the results of the late
fire at Ottawa, to which the firemen were called .
WAS the arrest u few days ago Of one Qurk who
was charged with theft of $40 by one McQuade
The trial of the case on Saturday before Judge
lincke elected the fact that the alleged robbery
had taken place in a crowded boX.car, on pitch
dark night, and that both the complainant and
defendant and about everybody else in the gang
from Ottawa were very drunk. The Y
accused WAS discharged. e
On Friday last there went through Ottawa MA q
the Rock Island road three carloads Of silk. 4
worm eggs, which represented a value Of 81 600, I
300. This valuable cargo left Council Bluffs by c
the regular Rock Island passenger train Thurs.
day evening, and arrived in Chicago Friday Il
afternoon ~ $50 The Star Union Line took |
them east by the Pennsylvania route, and they Il
started on their journey again at o clock Friday il
evening. These silk-worm eggs came from Ja 5
pan, and destined for France IL
The Morris Hcrud gives the following particu. +
ars Of the death of Dan'l Canty, OF this city: ION
Tuesday Coroner Rdgway held an inquest on the
remains of Dan'l CAVITY, whose body was found II
IN the railroad half mile east of the depot that a
morning. Mr.. Canty was a boiler maker in the q
employ of Mr.. Mitchell, Of Ottawa, and had been F
lere repairing boiler for Alex Teller. The last a
een of him alive was on Monday evening, when d
le was down town, and had been drinking pref. o.
y freely, and then started for Mr. Telfer's place,
aking the II O'Clock freight The next seen Of
i'm was the finding of his mangled remains, on =
Tuesday morning, by Tho6. McDermott and two
.aeherty boys. IL would seem from the cOndi.
ion he was IN that he must have thought he had
rot home and was going to bed, as his shoes
we're off and uninjured, while both his feet were
ut by the cars, his legs and body badly torn and u
he back of his head mashed. 1t is unknown ,,
what train run over him, as none OF the train ~
men who went through here that night knew of =
INNING anything. The deceased was "a
esident of Ottawa where he leaves wife and Il
hree children" !,
la SALE AND PERU. W
j. II. Fcnton opened roller skating rink at ~
lrmory Hall, La Sale, on last Monday night, ,
80 pairs Of skates being in use. u
The Turner's will open their new hall in La D.
allie Oh Sunday evening, Jan. l. with a concert "
y the Chicago orchestra. On Monday after n
Don, Jan. I'd, another concert will be given and
n the evening grand ball. @
Peru Netrs: "a wheel of fortune has been
INNING in La Sale for about four weeks and u
Is prOprietors said to be thousand dol m
irs better of than when they struck the town.
he strange part Of the affair is that everybody u
'ho bucked against the circular machine says he ~
ahead. Wonder where the fellows live that %
ave paid the winnings and seven thousand dol
ars surplus? 1t is also matter of astonshment -
hat the city authorities haven't dropped on the
title game"
Peru .Nelcs: "On Friday last Hon Alexander q
,ampbell, accompanied by Mayor Welch, drove
o Spring Creek, three miles west Of Peru, TO in.
pect the boring for coal in progress there Al
er looking about, Mr.. Campbell took the horse -
y the bride 10 lead him a few steps preparatory =
o getting into the buggy for the drive home
Yard. The h, rse jumped and though Mr. Camp .
ell held onto hun bravely the vicious brute sue .
eeded in breaking away, throwing the old gen .
leman backward. In going over him the hind
Ehcel of the vehicle struck MIR. Campbell on the \
oint of the chin, fracturing the jaw bore and .
and bruising the neck and cheek. He "
vas taken home at once, and physicians called
Considerable difficulty Is found In retaining the .
ractured parts in proper position, but it is hoped
hat his recovery will be speedy and complete" e
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