The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1882-12-23
Suburban Gatherings.
Joliet has the scarlet fever.

joliet ms tllC sCdlltt ic'tI'
Rockford has n new churn factory.
A shoe factory is Elgin's latest scheme
The Aurora Tile Works are being en-
lsrged.
4 new tile factory IS being erected near
Streator.
The town of Beleyille has adopted the
electric light.
The Peru Turnverein masquerade takes
place Dec. 30lh.
The Vcrmillion Coal Co.'S pay roll al
Streator this month IS $40 600
Rockford is to have q new sash and blind
factory with a capital stock of $4,000.
A checkrower factory has been estab-
lished in Joliet, and will soon be in opera
hon.
The quantity OF barbed wire sold IN 1878
was 10000 pounds; IN 1882, 16OWOOOO
pounds.
Geo. Il. Sutphen is trying to organize a
company IN Aurora to manufacture she'll
hardware.
The new M. f. church at Ransom was
dedicated on Sunday last, when the debt
1926, was raised.
David Thomas, at Kangby's shaft, Strea
tor, was struck by stone the other day
receiving a broken leg
The Enterprise Company of Sandwich
are putting in another machine for the
manufacturing of barbed wire
The last school month had the hight s.
enrolment list ever known in Strcator
There were 400 pupils enrolled.
Road Master Meckcrs pay roll on the
Chicago Division of the G., Il. " q. toi
November amounted to $2l 02724 lie
had 727 men employed.
The city of Canton has passed an ordln
ance exemptlng from city taxes for II term
of ten years all new manufacturing estab
lishments giving employment to twenty
persons.
On pay night at Streator, 18th, q Hunga
rian, In a saloon row, was struck over the
head with pick.handle and cut with
i'm pail The case is serious, The particl
pants were fined $40 each.
Will county IS going through the agony
of the preliminaries Of building a new
court house. The supervisors have pro
gressed so far that they have decided tina
II they do build 1t will he on the present
site.
Benz. Thomas, a Chicago negro inmate
Of the penitentiary, while working outside
lit out" on Saturday, and while the coun
ly was being secured to find him he enter
ell Reverend's house IN Joliet, exchanged
tor O suit of clothes and S25 his prison
garb, and escaped
Rachel Walker, Of Peru, aged 70 years
died in that CITY last week. She was borr
IN Ohio, and came to Illinois In 1884. Sh'
bore her. part in the hardships incident t
frontier life with bravery, and brough
up family, five Of whom are living, foul
sons and one daughter.
A dispatch to the Chicago Times from
indianapolis says the directors OF the G.
H. St L. d G. are again seriously contem
plating the building Of a cutoff from tn
main line to Chicago in the spring b,
which the distance from Indianapolis 4
Chicago will be shortened fourteen miles
Another route than the one at firsrconteni
plated, viz: from Kankakee to Bremen, OF
the Rock Island, must be in view-proba
bly, from ST. Anne uorthward.
jtreatOr Free Press: 1T reflects no dl:
credit on our people To state that the Paid
Ryon variety show Monday night had
very slim house. The performance Wa
wba, might have been expected from
crowd Of the kind, but the indecency, i'm
piled and expressed. was more than usual
ly vile and degraded. We would like L
know how citizens who make profession
OF morality and of respect for the proprie
ties of life can consistently attend such
performance"
Sheridan Independent: Thomas LaI
aoa. the victim of Canute Williamson
knife. IL still living, but with little If an,
bopes of his recovery. His physicians sa
h,s chances are very poor. and tor the pas
= .h.ao xyaata thu fatlow has hoo
slowly dying of blood poisoning. William