The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1882-10-14
Our Neighbors'

AID Harris, of Mendoza, fell out of a
haymow last Thursday evening aud frac-
tured his collar bone,
The Leland creamery has been closed.
An attempt was made 10 rob scott,
Koebly & Co.'S store, in Stroa,or last
Thursday night, but the would he thief
was discovered by the night watch,
On last Thursday night Ernest Kobnnan
was killed in No. shaft, Streator, by q
fall of coal
Shafts Nos, and >, srca,or, have holcd
into each other.
The rains OF the week have taken the
bottom out of the roads Of The sousholn
end of the county.
The coal trade is very brisk in la Sale
jus, now, with prospects of an increased
briskness before many weeks pass away,
The La Sale shaft adyertises for 80 more
men, while the other shafts are ready TO
take In all that want work.
The stock company of the new La Sale
City National Bank was organized on
Monday last with a paid up capital OF
100000. The board of directors are IL.
d., w. &. and c. r, Brown, A. |. Harris
horn, B. Murtaugh, J. NJ. Welch, Chas.
Diesterweg and Isaac Rogers.
A new harness factory, on a large scale,
employing l25 hands, has been located at
Aurora. A table factory, employing 10
men, also may locate there coming out of
Chicago. The walls of the new smelling
works were completed this week.
Streator Free Press; sup. Lowman, of
South Ottawa, was IN town Friday on the
trail of some fellows that had stolen set of
heavy buggy harness from him a night or
two before, They had been traced down
this way to within two or three miles Of
town, where the trail was lost. The har.
ness were taken from his barn and were
nearly new"
At meeting Of the stockholders OF the
Illinois, Iowa & Minnesota railroad, held
in Streator on Tuesday, Col. Ralph Plumb,
of that city, was elected president; Joel d.
Harvey, of Chicago, vice-president; and
w H. Miller, of that city, secretary and
treasurer. The executive committee con
sist OF Judge Z. II. Thayer, of Clinton, Ia.
Col Ralph Plumb of that city; and Joel
D. Harvey, of Chicago. The capital stock
of the company is 100000,
The c., l. ST. l.. Il C. r. h. CO., has filed
a suit in the United States circuit court at
Chicago against the town of Kankakee, Ill.
The town for long time held 600 bonds
of the Cincinnati, Latayett & Chicago rall.
road company for $50 each. 1t passed a
vote to sell these for 800 to the first rail
road which should complete and operate a
line from kankakee 10 the coal fields be.
tween Gardner and Wilmington during the
year 1881. The kankakee u ecarallroa1
filled the requirements of the vote and as,
signed It's claim to the bonds TO the petl
toner. The town now, however, refuses to
make the sale, and the court Is asked to
compel it to keep It's word.
| La Sale Press: ION Sunday picnic
party of % young people from this city
went to the Deer Park to spend the day.
! While there the driver, James Dervlne,
appeared to have imbibed some alcoholic
refreshments and got set up He was
neither in q condition to drive back TO
town himself, nor would he allow any one
else to drive. He managed on the way
home, consequently, to drive into ditch,
turn the wagon over and pile the OCcu-
pants into q promlscuous heap. Ten out
of the twenty-five were more or less IN.
jured. One lady suffered from conclusion
of the brain, another was severely injured
IN the side, while several were injured
about the head and face. No bones were
broken
On Saturday an employee at the Illinois
Zinc Works, named Daniel Elliott, In at
tempting to oil some part of the machin-
cry near the crusher, reached over two
large cog wheels, bringing his arm so
close to the cogs that his shirt sleeve near
the shoulder was caught and the arm
drawn through between the merciless
crushing wheels. The arm was severed,
all but small strip OF skin, and the VEINS,
tendons, nerves and muscles were drawn
and projecting from the mutlated stump.
A physicianlwas summond and the wound
dressed but the man died in few hours
Thos. Moran, of Pittsburg, Pa, was run
over by freight train late on Tuesday
night at Earlvllle, and mangled. Though
alive at last reports, his death is expected
at any moment. 1t appears that he and a
partner, bound for Galesburg, tried to
board the freight, but being told by the
conductor that he did not take passengers
Moran ran forward to about the center Of
the train, which then began to move off
and tried to get on; he slipped and fell and
the tram passed over him. His partner
who remained for the passenger train, die
not know of the accident I'LL he got &c
Mendoza. He says Moran was badly I'M
der the influence Of liquor, and 1t was en-
tlrely his own fault.
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