The Ottawa free trader., 1882-05-06
Our N Neighbors.

Wenona is shipping straw to Marsellles pa
per makers.
The EXPENSES of the village of Strealor last
year were $24s59.95.
Marsejlles has a new board OF trustees, a
majority of whom are IN favor OF granting
liquor licenses.
Ed. l.. Harvey, OF Streator, was thrown
from lis buggy by runaway on Sunday last,
and Lad u leg broken.
Marseilles brick and stone layers at work
on the new paper mill this week struck ior al
increase of wages. They are now out OF WORK.
A large gray eagle was shot few miles out
OF S.reator on Wednesday by Arthur Gray IL
measured seven feet four inches from UP 10
tip, and looks to be an old fellow
There are now in actual use in the Twin
City exchange one hundred and seventeen
telephones. During the month OF April H.
o75 calls were answered at the La Sale cen.
tral office.
Stephen Skinner, living one mile east OF
Lisbon, on N II. Moore's tarm, Tell dead about
O'Clock Monday morning while engaged III
cleaning up oats for seeding. 1t is supposed
from heart disease.
The underground fire at shaft No. 2, Strea
tor. still continues to give trouble. The side
of the pit on which it is situated has been laid
off on the three last days and half days that
the shaft has run.
A new organ factory will be in operation IN
avery short time in Mendoza. The planning
mil properly on Sixth street has been pur-
chased and will soon be filled with the most
approved machinery.
Oakley Griggs, of Streator, has gone INTO
the pateHt medicine business having the con-
ira of three remedies, among them Dr. Shep'
perd's Collie Remedy for Horses" which Is
highly recommended.
Peru Herald: "A mixed up lot of broken
ca and trucks lies just west of the city limits
on the Rock Island road. A freight train
going east ditched five cars there on Monday,
ocoasioned by the breaking of an axle on a.
too heavily loaded coal car"
Adolph Hoss, aged Ga, died IN Peru on We'd
n, sday. He was one of the first German set
tiers in Peru lie was born in Bonn, Ger
many, in 1918; came to America IN 1S45, set
q ny in Peru IN 1876; crossed the plains in]
] 552, and served through the war OF the rebel,
lion IN the 44th Ill. vol.
John Lomasney's barn, IN Streator, came
near going up in smoke Saturday afternoon.
Some children were playing in the straw near
the building and set fire to it. The fire had
crept up to the boards and was making Its
way slowly along the timbers when it was
discovered and extlrguished.
Streator Free Press: "The people Of the
state of Eagle are an anomaly. AT the spring
election there we're no candidates for the OIL
-"d i-..I.,- nod ~.Iact their and
elect them anyhow Some of them refused to
serve so the town board had meeting Friday
ana appointed Pat Barton collector and Tom
Crawford commissioner of highways in place
of the elect who refused to take the offices.
One day last week daughter of T. B. Wes-
ton, ot Streator, while crossing a railroad
track, going from school, an engine with a lot
of cars came rushing upon her. She did not
see it and as 1t rushed by the wind from it
knocked her down, but fortunately she fell out
from the wheels and was not hurt. Her moth
or came out to look for her as the train came
up and was ;ast IN time to sec her narrow
escape
0n>Waa0esday evening at the Streator pa
per mill they were hosting their huge smoke
stacks into position with the aid of derrick,
when something gave way and the stack came
down ON them, throwing Mark S. Crosson to
the ground, distance of fifteen or twenty
feet He is considerably bruised down the left
side and legs a,d there are probably some
slight Internal injuries, but nothing that need
cause apprehension,
Plano Ne,oS Evolves are bold around
Piano. John Page came upon one the other
day when he was after his cows. He took a
stick but could not scare the wolf Frank
Cook shot at one and knocked some of the
halr from him. George Fisher says that one
comes around his sheep yard in broad day
light and he thinks it is genuine grey wolf.
'vhis wolf, he believes, will not eat old sheep,
his flock. .
As ;he propeller Welcome" was passing upl
the canal last Sunday morning, a few rods
vest Of the aqueduct, the body OF woman
vas washed into shallow water, and upon in.
Litigation the body was found to be that Of 6
Mrs Elizabeth Demmi, wife Of Joseph Dem
nj, a resident Of the west side. The coroner's
Jury said it was a case of suicide for though
10 one saw her go TO the canal she had been
iemented She had had considerable trouble,
having lost all her children.
Streator Free Press "a car load of heavy :
walnut timber stands loaded at the G. b. & Q.
switch ready for shipment to Jersey city and .
thence to Europe. The agent has been here \
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