The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1882-09-09
life threatened, and he had to call meet.
ing of citizens to prevent being mobbed.
Our Neighbors.

rMning order.
The S,reator window glass works started
up on Sept lst
L. r. Sample, of Marscllles, has just in.
vented new hay-loader.
The Grand Ridge band have picnic
at Starved Rock on the 10th.
A shirt factory has been opened IN Au-
rera which employs forty glrls.
The new Mendoza organ factory turned
ont It's first work last week
The cabbage worm is running the cab
bage in the neighborhood of Mendoza,
\ stock company has been organized in
Aurora to build water works for the city,
John Ash, of Slreator, who was BLANK
eted" at the Aurora encampment, has died
OF his injuries.
The Streator paper mill has shut down
for two weeks in obedience TO the orders
of the western ASSOCIATION.
\ school census has been completed at
La Sale, from which the population of the
city Is made to ne about 5000,
VIM, Carberry, of Morris, died Of yellow
fever IN Brownsville Texas, on Wednes-
day last. He WAS telegraph operator
there.
Joliet has just finished new high
school building. The cost is about $4,000
Ii has all the modern improvements, and
is really fine public building
Members of the |. 0. o. f. fraternity, of
S,reator, are canvassing the project Of Il
joint stock company TO erect a building
tor the use of the fraternity in that city.
The new German Catholic church, OF
Streator, was dedicated on Wednesday last
by Bishop Spaulllng, with the usual cere
monies. The church is not quite finished,
but was dedicated thus early because Of
the anticipated absence of Bishop Spauld-
ing in Rome,
The window glass department of tine LIE
| Sale glass works has been closed for some
/ time and will not be opened soon. The
| company intends to continue the maui.
factare of bottles there being greater profit
in this line than IN any other Most or
/ the men engaged in the wind Nv glass
manufacture have left, or are leaving, for
other nolnts, Rock Island, Pittsburgh and
| S.. L0 Is.
4 stranger created q sensation last week
| in the Mendoza Presbyterian church dur
ing the sermon. Daring the perfect silence,
when every one was listening TO the elo-
quent words OF the minister, there came
the sound Of s most unearthly yell from
the back part of the church that startled
every one II was case OF epilepsy, and
the man was al once cared for.
Hguitgr: Two Streator bellies were
challenged the other day by their father
to 20 down Main street IN their old clothes
ard carry pitcher of milk. Before he
could recall his offer of $40 they were
clothed in their old garments and on their
way down street. They manfully ran tn e
! irars ruu IutuTr anu I'm unrequlted love,
they ~obbled along in their old shoes and
ragged robes and won the money"
Fopier Nees A lunar rainbow is a
rare phenomenon, as the moon is In posi-
tion to form one but small portion of the
time, and 1t still less frequently happens
that it and q rain cloud are both in the
relative positions required. Last Wcdnes-
day evening q faint bow spanned the west
ern clouds as the moon was darting her
mild beams throagh rift IN the clouds
that rested on the eastern horizon. 1t
lasted some 20 minutes and disappeared at
5 o'clock.
At Aurora during this week q company
has been organized for the establishment
of cotton mill, and the land purchased
upon which to build IL. The Chicago
Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company
have agreed to build side.track to 1t. The
originators Of the enterprise are S. +. and
Z. 5. Hobbs, Of Selma, Ala; r. NJ Hobbs
manager OF cotton mills at Valley Field,
Can, and n. r. Hobbs of Aurora The
capital stock already taken is $4,000,
and capitalists are ready to put in 100000
more when needed The foundation of
the mills will be put in this fall, and the
supcTsructure next spring. 1t is anticl-
pated that the mills will be in full opera
ton within year.
The Mendoza Union Far was held this
week, opening on Tuesday The entries
were much larger than expected for the
first meeting, but the buildings are COM
modlous and there is ample room. There
were several herds OF very fine cattle and
of much better grade than most people
expected to find in that section of the
country. Floral hall was filled with an
unusually fine display of goods rarely ex-
hlbited at county fairs. The agricultural
department was said to be as fine as ever
seen at state fair The sheep and hogs
were fine, while the horses of all grades.
especially the imported heavy draught,
we're as fine as one could desire To see, q
correspondent says.
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