The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1881-05-07
OTTAWA FREE TRADER; SATURDAY. MAY I. 1881.

ports that country is greatly overestImated,
however.
Miss Lizzie Moore has gone to take charge
| of q school at Minonk, Ill. Before leaving
her father presented her fine gold watch on
the occasion OF her nineteenth birthday
Christian Helmer found in the Galloway
bottoms this week quite collection of Indian
pottery, relics of the mound builders.
jeff TrumbO and Galloway RasOre are home
from school visiting their numerous friends.
An effort will be made to thoroughly revive
the Hickory Point Sunday school next Sun.
day. Bros. Farrell, Richards and Odell will
speak. I am specially asked to request q
large attendance. Miss Richards will preside
at the organ.
| Ut. Rowland writes me from New York,
where he Is visiting, that the spring is very
backward there, and the farming prospect
blue. The maple sugar season, however, has
been immense
| The many friends OF Mr.. Benjamin Plester
will be delighted 10 learn that he and his In
teresting family will return here soon. Mr.
Pester won for himself q warm place In the
hearts Of our best citizens, and has been sadly
missed. lie thinks of going into the pork
| business. JOSEPH.
SANDWICH, ILL.,, May 4-Well, the decislOn
In the Allen murder case, regarding the mo-
ton for new trial of William Thomas. was
reached last Saturday. Judge Charles KEEL
lum overruled the motion and sentenced
Thomas TO seventeen years in the Joliet peni
Tertiary. The sheriff took the prisoner there
on Monday OF this week. This will in all
probability end one chapter of one Of the most
important murder cases ever known IN ILL.
n0is There IS another chapter or two that
some day may be opened to public gaze 1t
will surprise many when il fully develops
There Is u determination to bring the guilty
parties TO Justice it may take six months or
sixty years, but come IL mNst and SoiU. The
darkness of the black crime has been shroud-
ed IN mystery. The other participants in that
wonderfully covered murder may elude pur.
suit for awhile; but human bloodhounds will
follow, even to Van Diemens land, those who
have undertaken to shield themselves and Gov
er their tracks to elude detection. The muir.
dercrs in all their deformity will yet BIZ held
up to public scrutiny and personal execratioR.
During the long months that have passed
since the murder some of the more evildispos.
ed persons have endeavored by persistent at
tempts at disgraccful letters and CalumniOu
assaults to bring the widow and daughter of
Mr. Allen into disgrace The cowardly tongue
of vile slandercr knows no bounds and his
heart no shame A man who without cause
tries to connect the name of an injured per
son with a crime does an irreparable injury.
person who deliberately seeks TO make the
public believe that the innocent daughter or
widow of a murdered man caused his death,
deserves to be hung. A map who murders a
good character ought to be as sumnarily dealt
with as he who murders the body one is as
wrong as the other, the only difference being
that the law would imprison or hang for the
latter but not for the former
A I MontpOmpry received n uiSnatCh and
letter yesterday, announcing the severe illness
of his father, John N. Montgomery, at Iowa
Falls, Iowa, and that probably he would not
long survive He is troubled with liberation
of the liver
A. p. Kennedy of Chicago, formerly of
Sandwich, was found dead IN well at his
residence day before yesterday. His brother
Henry, of this place, aud Edward A., Of State
Center, Iowa, went to Chicago on yesterday.
The Scott Concert Company will concert
at the opera house here to night.
The Sandwich city authorities will do con-
siderable tile draining this spring. They will
commence on La Fayette street, and after put
ting IN an immense tile in "Betterman's Ca
nal" filling the ditch up, ETC., etc, will then
'drain the norhwest''-if they do their duty.
More rods OF sidewalk will be built and
more repairs made here in 1881 than has been
done any year tor ten years. For many years
the city has contributed part or all of the cost
of building; now each lot owner must pay the
cost of constructing IN front of his lot. Some
''squeal."
A. H. Hill, the old, tried and efficient city
marshal of Sandwich, was not re.appOinted at
the meeting Of the new city council last night
Mr. Hill made an able officer Saturday and
Sunday, every day ana ecery night for the past
year he has worked honestly, honorably and
~ IN and pF oaaannv ha IL
was on duty, and law breakers found no sym.
patty at his hands 1t is generally understood
that the reason Mr. Hill was not re.appolnted
IS that he is not strong enough temperance
man. That he was always sober. quiet, active
and thorough cannot be successfully denied.
That he did his duty ,oeN all through the Allen
murder case IS well known. Weare not much
acquainted with his successor, Mr. Skater,
but hope he will prove us dutiful as Mr.. Hill,
for he seems to have the elements to make q
faithful officer.
John Potter had a runaway last Saturday.
He didn't run away with any ones girl, Meth
n did anybody run away with his, hut his
matched team OF dapple grays run with him
,boat three miles before easing" down.
1t is quite likely there will be several law
uits in this vicinity this season, owing to the
high water failing to find natural outlet"
The club rooms here are not booming" as
much as they did a few months ago. They
nay have not concluded to run this year. II
viii soon appear what they will do. If they
un they will be prepared for big fight. The
ity council may get mad and prosecute. If ,
o, there will be fun.
There is some talk Of contesting the corpor
tiOn election at Somonauk. The reasons
lleged are various. | think there will be no
ontest. The board as at present constituted,
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