The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1882-07-29
Our Neighbors.
A2AIEA.
Utica, July 90, 1852

Srcator is getting the quotpitchng mama
Cant. Sam Brown Is to be the new postmaster
Of Wenona, Cadet Taylor having resigned
Newell ID. Gilbert, late of Clinton, Ia, Will
have charge of the Utica schools next year
On last Saturday afternoon Eugene &. AIT
u years, was drowned in the lock at La Sale
On Wednesday last apc.nic party oil ooo wen
from Streator to Wedron, where they spent the
day.
A rife team has been selected from the
Streator guards, who expect to begin practice
at once.
The Mendoza Turner's have ordered twenty
uniform suits of blue cloth for the use OF thelr
members
A Streator boy dslocated his ankle and
broke one of the bones OF his leg by jumping
out of wagon on Monday.
The Illinois Press Association this week
passed through Ottawa, over the Rock Island
route to Utah, on their annual blowout"
Messrs Matock and Taylor have organized
a prohibition club IN Peru, with II. s. Hack.
man as president and Frank Winston, seCre.
tary
The Streator Free Press says the Plumbs are
beginning to prospect on large scale around
Vermilllon township. It's rumored that they
have the control OF 5000 acres of land In that
locality
Messrs. Horsford, Smith and CulvcrtsOn, OF
Chicago the committee of the Stale Insurance
Association, were in La Sale on Monday for
The purpose OF organizing a local board of un-
derwriters.
Princeton, which had to lengthen itself Out
amilc or more in order to reach the c., Is. &
@. railroad when 1t was built, Is now happy IN
anticipation of a round.house, turn table and
machine shop big enough to accommodate 200
workmen.
Strcator Ronitor: Last Friday night there
was general smashup in the No. water
shaft, one drum and a core wheel being broken
Some of the flying pieces went through the
roof, but nobody was injured. The loss Is
about $50, besides delay of three or four
weeks in working on that side Of the mine
The Illinois Zinc Company, Peru, are build
ing their big chimney and It Is now about 10
feet above ground. "Reckoned from It's base, "
says the Press, "it will overtop Matthiessen ~
Hegeler's, but 1t won't extend so far out into
space from the center of the earth as theirs
Cor it stands on lower ground"
A smelling establishment lately of Ptisburg
are talking OF settling down at Aurora, east OF
the G., B. Il q. shops The works will occupy
tl2 acres Of ground, will eXpend $4,000 in
buildings and employ capital of 100000
The fictitious value placed on lands by owners
Iecessitates the raising Of $4,000 by the citi
1ens, at which "A committee Is now at work.
Strcator Free Press. "Alonzo Corder was
set upon by four or five men Saturday night
on Sterling street near Main, and badly pound
ed. His Crlcs attracted the attention of thu
marshal, who FASTENED thither and captured
TWO of the crowd. Corder was attacked from
he rear and was SO pummelcd about the eyes
that he was unable to identify his assailants"
Free Press: The report is current in well
informed circles that negotiations have been
NOhI4 AAiN NutICDl liiC w audou oilIihio bh't
obtained the use of the threcI I'd road from
Sreator to Reddick At Reddck the l., |. Il
connects with the main line of the Wabash
and this cutoff, If made, would give the Wa
bash road a much more direct communication
between Sreator and Chicago"
SAYS the Peru Mems: THE miners of this
distric, held a meeting In Oriental Hall Thurs
aay morning to discuss the difference between
them and their employers, and at subsequent
meeting at four p. NJ. met the operators ant
agreed TO accept last years terms. The trou
Bile was not one of wages but of the amour
Of work TO be done, as removing dirt and rocl
that has caved in, etc, etc, and the work re
suired for this purpose was 80 slight that tn,
miners withdrew their demand to be paid OK
ira for such work, and have gone to work
Streator Free Press: Eight dentists from
his and surrounding towns met here Tuesda,
afternoon and organized the Central Illinoi
Dental Union for mutual benefit Dr. Mar
ner, Ottawa, was elected president; Newkirk
Nenona, vice president; c. II. Taylor, Stres
sor, secretary and treasurer; and Moody, Mer
dota, Gilmore, La Sale, and Townsend, Por
siac, executive committee Seml-annual NEE
fngs will be held and the next will be held a
Wenona, the third Tuesday of January. Thos
present, not mentioned above, were Fisher, /
Paso; Gray, Rutland; Hobert, Ottawa"
The Teachers Institute TO be held IN Per
in August, promises to be of more than ord
nary interest to the cause OF education and II
teachers in particular 1t will last three week