The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1882-06-03
Our Neighbors.

RI Rev. Bishop Spaulding will be at 1t
Sale on the 18th.
The Joliet Commandery, No. A. X. T., arr
drilling for the Triennial Conclavc at Sal
Francisco in 1883.
Aurora has just opened new public librar!
free to all. for which our former townsman
Prof Thos H. Clark, Is largely responsible
The town of Rutland will vote on Monday
ON the question of borrowing money to repair
the Marseilles bridge over the Illinois river
It is SAID a prominent Chicago geologis
claims there is fourth vein of coal underly
ing Pontiac, which Is thicker and OF much
better quality than either the second or third
To complete the staff of the Fourth Reg
ment l. n. G., Col. Fithian has made the fol
loving appointments: DR.. W. l.. Smith, OF
Streator, surgeon; Fred Bennit, Of Joliet adj
iutan,; Ed. S. Munroe, of Joliet, quartermas
ter.
b,rIh 10 mt the farm of Mr. Berry In Eagle on
Sunday. 1t was calf with a well formed
body but double head, mouth and tongue, with
two pairs of ears and eyes, all perfectly made.
1t Is dead.
News. 1.-THE La Sale NJ. E. church by a
noble effort has succeeded in raising funds SUI.
tlcient TO nav off the church debt, and IN a few
DAYS the church will owe no man dollar.
When Rev. IIaseltne came there 20 months
ago, the debt amounted to $4,000.
Brian Wallace, the popular and well known
boatman, who for over thirty years has run
boat propelled by the slow process Of mule
mower has ordered a new boat from the firm
of RYAN Bros, Lockport, with steam as the
motive power 1t Will cost over $4,000 cxclu.
slve of engines worth $1,000.
La Sale Press. Mrs John Clayton, while
gong through the woods east OF Deer Park,
was met by two wolves engaged in chasing
two dogs She had revolver, and though the
quartet passed within few yards of her, she
failed to capture q scalp and a ten dollar boun-
ty, owing 10 her gloves preventing the prompt
discharge of her weapon"
Utica Gazette: Last Tuesday freight car
Jumped the track at this place, which delayed
the trains forty minutes. At the time of Its
leaving the track there were three little boys
riding on the top, two were knocked off, while
the third chung to it until the bumplng nearly
killed him. when he made desperate leap for
safety As luck would have 1t none OF the
boys were Jured.
The Joliet ItepuJlic says the C. P. & S.W
r. r. bondholders intend building road from
Joliet into Chicago, to enter Chicago over the
track of the Chicago IL Western Indiana 1t
will be necessary to build thirty three miles of
road to complete the line into the metropolis. |
The Southwestern now is a non.paying invest
nent, though 1t was recently bought In tor
$750,000.
The Plumb Coal Co., Streator, will sink
well down into the sandstone under the second
vein coal to ascertain ii there be water at that
point, and if water Is not found they may some.
timelcontinue the hole down TO the third vein |
of coal. AS the Coal Run mine is about
worked out they will take advantage of the
shaft already sunk and begin their well from
the shaitbottom.
Streator Free Press: "a small sink-hole
was discovered this morning in the lot of John
Rollo, Just behind his residence on the eastern
extremity OF Kent street. It is about SAX foot
WIDE and two or three feet Deep Its location
must be about the 10th south entry and very
near the east gangway of No. l shaft. We
would again remind the property owners in
that quarter that they might make their houses
perfectly secure by defraying the cost of labor
required to underpin their property"
Fred Hurst, a carpenter, % years Of age, who
was helping erect building upon the farm of
John Lardln, eight miles southeast OF Mendo-
ia, Tell from sCaffold which broke, sustaining
severe and it Is feared fatal injuries, last Thurs
day evening. The scatfold was fully twenty
struck on his back and then bounded IN the
cellar of the building.
Press. "The prospect for an opera house ct |
Streator ID growing brighter, and the plans are
beginning to assume definite shape. There
not being sufficient space IN the rear of the
new bank building to erect hall Of the d. |
menslons desired Col. Plumb has pettioncd |
the town board to grant him permission to
carry the building eight feet back on the alley.
If granted, the work will be commenced soon"
A new grain firm has been formed In Sene.
ca by Philo Graves, of Seneca, Dwight Nc
Even, of Morris, and Ole o. johnson, of Net |
tie Creek, under the firm name of Graves,
McEwen Il johnson. A new elevator, 36xl0O
feet, of $4,000 bushels capacity is being erect
ed between the Rock Island and Kankakee ~
Seneca railroads, which will be completed
some time this month, and the new firm be
ready for business
On Wednesday morning while the workmen
in the Wenona coal shaft were at work IN the
blue clay, about Sc feet down, water broke IN
from Il sand vein about Is inches from the bot
tom, in a way that threatened to food them
Supt Atherton at once made things fly around
lively and timbered the unprotected part of
the mine at the bottom. BY the time that was
done the water was waist deep to the men, but
they commenced pumping with barrel, and
by night the water was down to the bottom
again.
Mark Mcdonald 10 years old, son of X. =
Mcdonald, leading lawyer Of this county,
died on "Wednesday evening. One year ago
last New Years day, the young man was coast.
ing on Cooling street, La Sale, and near the
inter section of Second street and an alley his
sled struck a COW, the animal falling on him
and breaking his back. He was one of the
most promising young men in this city, and
his loss Is most distressing to his parents and
friends.
La Sale Democrat: "On last Monday eve.
ming Johnnie Carr, a lad about II years of
age, was walking on the Illinois Central |
bridge and when near the middle of the struc-
ture he was net by an over-grown dlsreputa.
bic loater, who was full of bad whisky When