The Ottawa free trader., 1882-10-07
Our Neighbors.


lied with Joliet rubble stone at $40 per
car.
The Sisters OF Mercy of La Sale hold Il
fair next week, beginning on Monday
evening.
The Streator Times will appear next
week. 1t will be q democratic weekly, and
success to It,
A young mems Democratic Club has
been organized in La sale and has oyer
300 members.
On Tuesday Lostant man named
Daufin was robbed of $3.50, taken from his
boarding house
Last week l07 passengers went west rId
the X. 4 S. r. r., transferring to the Rock
Island at Seneca.
Chas. Nolan, at the Streator glass works
fell from a platform on Tuesday and was
considerably hurt
The Wenona coal shaft will probably
reach cool next week. On Wednesday 1t
was down 80 feet.
The Turner Society at Streator is per
manenty organized and has let the con
tract for a temporary hall 40x50 feet,
Improved machinery has beer pu' into
No shaft at Streator by which the coal
oC that mine will be better screened. II Is
a sample con,rlvauce by which the coal is
made to pass down the shoot IN the cars
slower than formerly.
Wenona Inter: There seems to be Ro
complaint of damage to the corn crop, by
the light frosts, and every day places It in
this portion Of Illinois in a better condi
tion, and now, much larger and better
crop than last year, is the way the farmers
put IT."
Streator .Woait0r: I'VE were shown a
piece of branch taken out OF No. SHAFT,
by Henry Beard, 100 feet below the sur
face 1t was found in the clay just above
the coal measure and when taken out was
spongy, but became hard on being exposed
to the air. The clay In which it was found
contained pieces of bark and shells in a
coed state of preservation
\ locomotive smoke-burner has been
given a trial, in Chicago, on the Rock
Island road. The test was pronounced
satisfactory, the emsssion OF smoke from
the stack being scarcely perceptible. The
device causes an inrush OF air to the com
busuon chamber through the agency OF a
steam let. The practical economies OF the
Invention with reference to steamlng, eX-
cessive consumption of coal, etc, are yet to
be determined and the road IN question
has decided to give II thorough trial.
The Morris artesian well has been nm
.lshed. 1t Is very deep hole, from which
a two inch stream of water rises above the
ground distance of four feet and the flow
Is six gallons per minute, or 500 every
ltwenty.fOur hours. The water is strongly
maenetlzed, much more so than any ever
known by Mr.. Walen. 1t has a decidedly
better taste, containing little sulphur. BY
holding knife blade in the water shor,
time the steel becomes so strongly impreg.
= mated with magnetism that nails or any
small piece Of iron will adhere to it.
The c., W. & V. Coal Co 5 men at Strca-
tor earned III September about $4,000, oi
which about $1,000 has been issued in store
checks. No / shaft worked 81 days dur
ing September and hoistei 23,oO0 tons Of
~ Of =
cents per ton yields total pay to the mi
ners of SIS, 400 which divided among tht
375 miners of No. will give an average
, pay per man OF nearly $50. The yarC
work and other extras will probably bring
the average pay fully up to $50 per miner
Aurora Is enjoying a genuine boom,
: which the people Of the town are pushing
along. A smelling works, cotton mill
and one or two other factories have beer
; located, and now comes railroad building
: The NV road is going in; and it i
I claimed that surveyors are at work run
: ming a branch of the famous "Nlcke
Plate" from the main line just built int
Chicago.
Streator Free Press. "a wonderful ply
sical phenomenon is manifestlng itself OF
the farm of Charles Decker, one mile mort
of Cornell and two miles south of Newton
MI Decker sunk well four feet squar
for the purpose of watering stock and ha
reached the depth of q feet when a six
inch vein of sand was struck. Immediatel
there issued from the sand heavy fl Nv {
water which soon filed the well. Th
water continued to rise until it reached tn
top of the curbiEg, fully three feet abov
the surface of the ground. 1t is still rul
nIng strong and Mr.. Decker purpose
building up the curblng to see how hlg
the water will raise. The water is said |
be very pure and soft, requiring no breal
, ing for washing purposes. -Four wells ha
been sunk on the place before, but no sue
flow was found Twenty feet from the su
face valuable vein of coal is said TO hay
been found. David Gates, the well.dIgge
|. will not give any particulars, but says II
y vein is equal to any in the state. This lt
ID ter statement should be taken with son
reservation as the vein at Cornell Is l.
p feet deep and no such q seam has been d
royored hprpahouts before