The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1881-11-19
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Morris.
The receipts Of the La Sale Catholic Fair wer'
about $6, 900. =,
Twenty saloon Keepers furnished bonds Tor IL
cense at Mendoza last week
The Independe.t man thinks Morris ough' "
have a telephone exchange.
One.half the track laying on the kankaRee
Seneca road has been completed.
E. r. BRYANT also resident OF Bureau count!
since 1885. died on the 10th at Princeton
Streator ships on an average 275 car ioads
coal per day-a very low estimate OF 2'oo TONS
A Mr.. Mitchell, of North streator, while goihs
under a bank near the Coal Run switch, was bur
led under falling earth, having several OF Ill
ribs crushed.
Rockford is one OF the liveliest cities In tht
state. Local companies have been formed 70 op
crate new brick yard, q piano factory and ane"
glove factory.
The states have been put on the roof OF the
boiler room OF the Illinois Zinc Co.'S rolling
mill, and the carpenter work on the mill ouiid
ing is nearly completed. The engine recently re-
ceived, which is to operate the machinery Is saio
to be GOO hundred horse power.
Mr.. Nathaniel Mcdowell died in Mendoza on
Thursday week after short illness OF TYPHOID
fever terminating in paralysis OF the heart. Mr.
Mcdowell was an old citizen OF this county,
formerly well known farmer OF Troy Grove
who removed to Mendoza. His age was Ga years
Peru Ners 18th: "a Mr.. Scherzer, OF Ottawa,
was in La Sale with horse and buggy Wednes,
day evening, and the horse proving vicious ana
unmanageable, Mr.. Scherzer was thrown from
the buggy in such manner as to cause him 10
bite about half an inch of his tongue of. DIR.
Arlington attended to the injury.
Streator Free Press: 1.-THE big break In No l
this morning probably spells the plan for water
works as 1t has been discussed recently. Inc
break is near where It had been proposed to To-
cate the well and pumping works, and as 1t goes
clear down through that sand bed the prooapiii-
ties are that the vein will be drained there.
Quite serious accident happened at the
Dwight paper mill Monday. A man named Thos.
Bedford fell into one OF the bleachss, badly
scalding both legs. He was at once assisted out
but the boiling water and lime had already taken
effect The skin came of from both legs, ex.
tending above the knees, as his clothes were TAX
en- Off.
Chas. 6. Boyd, OF Princeton died on Saturday
last He was born In New York in 1874; was
married In 1874; came TO Illineis In 1920, build
ing the third log cabin and the first brick chin
ney in Springfield; settled In Bureau county, at
Boyd's Grove, in 1880. In 1874 he removed to
Princeton. Three sons and two daughters sur
vve him.
On Wednesday afternoon John Luscomb and a
young man named Lindsay found the body of q
swede named A. J. Austin Green, In astripping
hole on the old Crumb place, north Of the rail.
the city Saturday, and 1t is supposed that on GO
ing home after dark he got into the hole and was
unable to extricate himself and drowned.
The pay OF miners at Streator was one OF the
largest Streator has ever had. The c., W. & V.
Co. paid over $4,000. The Press says: 1.-THE
other companies and dealers have all had big
pay and the probability Is that, owing to the in
creased number OF men at work, the November
pay has been the largest ever made in the Strea-
tor coal field. While 1t lie perhaps impossible to
know Just what the total pay has bsen, yet 1t is
within bounds to estimate 1t at 100000 Some
of the best miners have made from $40 to $40
each, but OF course these were exceptional men,"
La Sale items from the Democrat: The Catho-
lie fair running last week and this In Armory
Hall has been great seccess. BY the accident
al discharge Of 4 revolver by Thos. Andrews,
Frank Mason was shot In the shoulder In Dux-
bury'o saloon THE switch engine Of the Illinois
Central road at this point struck young man
by the name Of Nels Monson on the Central
bridge, near the north end Of the structure, LASS
Monday evening. Monsoon fell to the roadway
below, a distance Of about 30 ieet breaking a
leg, besides receiving some dangerous bruises
about the head and body. DR.. Fraser thinks the
man will recover.
The Aurora towers and other necessary pre-.
liminaries having at last been completed, the
electric light was turned on a few nights ago.
The general verdict is that as street light 1t is
undoubtedly successful. Friday night was one
OF the darkest OF the season, and In almost any
part OF the city the pedestrian could pick his
way along the worst sidewalk without difficulty.
The residents OF the back wards, into which the
gas mains never penetrated, are highly pleased
with the new light Down town people are a lit
tie more critical, and several more lights will
have 10 be added before the new light secures
their hearty approval.
Peru Mems: "At nine o'clock Saturday night
DIR. Arlington received a call. asking his aid for
a man who had been accidentally shot at J. Dux.
bury's, south OF the river. The doctor respond.
ed at once and wendell his way with the messen-
ger, a boy, to the skif which was TO convey
them across the torrent sweeping over the road
east OF the brick yard. When in the strongest
current an oar snapped and the boat was carried
with the speed OF an arrow over the road and In.
TO the wide river below. The skif drfted near
clump Of willows, and the branches were
grasped by the voyagers and the boat held for
four hours. One held onto the willows and the
other WAS kept constantly busy bailing. About
three o'clock they became 80 benumbed from the
cold aud wet that they could no longer retain
their hold on the willows and aoated of in the