The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1883-05-12
Vicinity Items,

Three new cases of smallpox ana on
Geath are reported IN Strcator TINS week.
Preliminary meeting has been held
Perm 10 organize Business Mems Assoc
iatiOn.
Aurora has contracted for ten more ele'
tr,c lamps Of 2 600 candle power at 500
per year.
Wenonss LIQUOR license has been tixe
at $500 payable quarterly in advance
There ore Tour saloons.
One OF the trustees of the Anna insan
asylum has Just been received as pa'len
at the KankaEc0 asylum.
The late First National Bank OF PER-
has paid depositors and others 20 per CEN
of their claims and in short time Will pa.
the remaining % per cent
Sireator's city expenses last year wer
SlS,9094J, exclusive OF amount pald 10
bonds and interest, $5,23j. Outstanding
debts, 5000 delinquent taxes due
S734O,2@
On May goth Tie Wenona coal shalt vii
stop operations for TWO months, during
which Time some $4,000 Will be spent III
improvements, alter which the hosting ca
pacity of the shaft will be 800 tons daily
Railroad tracks will also beslaId.
On Sunday night burglars entered the
store of A. Betting, Peru, by front
window and carried off cigars, tobacco,
canned fruit, jewclry, bologna, crackers,
&c, to the amount Of SO. The general
suppostion is that it was home talent
On Tuesday, Carl Solder, Of Peru, a Ia
borer on the II. /. rOad,was run over by "a
hand car, ut Seneca, and killed the wheels
passing over his abdomen. He leaves a
family Of four children and an aged
mother, who are without support. The
youngest child is SIX years old.
On Tuesday last a, Utica the following
low license board OF trustees was elected:
Dennis Lynch, 10i votes; T. +. Culver,
1914; w. Z. Dixon, 9S Il. O'Sullivan, 1903 4;
III. s. Highly, 105. Their opponents, high
Incense men, were: h. +. HOllond, 7G; A.
L. Griffin, Sc, b. w. HadIey, rs; y. L.
Smith, 70; II. s. Gilbert, "a.
Utica Nctcs. The lightning accom-
panied by the rain on Friday last played
The mischief with the telephone in Gil
bert's Office in Utica Mr. Halliday was
lust on the point OF answering the call
when a LOAD report issued from the tee
phone followed 10y Il blaze which burned
of The connecting wire, and the window
easing 10 two or three places.
Atthe La Sale races on July H. the man
agement nave decided to give 500 10 the
military Companies who may come here to
compele in drilling. Judges TO be selected as
and the hes, companies to be awarded
the prizes The first purse is ol25, and the
second $75. The Turner'S will also turn
out on that day and parade the streets,
There Will be fire works at night
Wa. Eckert, grain dealer of MerIden,
loser to u considerable amour, III grain
epecuatlons, has "skipped;' Liabilities,
$4,000 to $4,000, with only u few hun
dreds of assets, the blllding being sold on
a bill Of sale lo secure Il loan, The prlnci-
pal losers b. lac failure are numbeiSoi
farmers in Meridcn who had gram IN store
IN the Eckert elevator, these men losing |
some 1000 bushels OF corn.
On Tuesday last. about one o'clock T.. NJ,
the boiler At the Utica cement works eX-
podcd. The front part anu roof OF the
engine house was blown to atoms, and MIR.
James Clark estimates the damage at be
tween 300 and $500 There were two
engines III the building aud the delay in
the business was only tor II few hours
The boiler was comparatively new, and
the cause Of the explosion is not known
The C.. W. & V. Coal company has
agreed to take 80 cents per front foo, for
the coal under the lots along Main street,
Streator, provided ii is taken III block be |
tween Bridge street on the south and Hick-
DRY on the north, and Park street on the
west and Sterling on the east AS the only |
way oc preserving foundations Is to buy
this coal, properly owners will probably
accept this liberal offer
StrCator has had "A successful Jug socia.
BILE. The plan seems to he to give dlmlnu.
tive jugs accompanied with tickets, topper.
sons belongingto the Sunday school, who
went about the city, INTO the highways
and the byways, and the result WAS that
when the little carthcrn vessels were
broken last night their contents amounted
10 over 800, with several jugs to hear
from The evenings programme consisted
OF tableaux, essays, recitations, readings,
songs, music, etc.
la Sale Press The longest railroad
bridge in the state Is picturesque struc-
ture and decidedly ornamental to the land.
scape around La Sale, but 1t Is an expen-
siye luxury 10 the |. g. II. Il. Co. The
engineers have figured things down me
and found that the degree of safety they
desire to maintain requires that all the
principal wood supports OF the bridge be
renewed once III two years. The timbers
taken out are useful for other purposes,
but the expense Of changing Is no incon-
siderable sum-
The Streaior NoENOr says: "The other
day parties IN this city noticed piece OF
paper dangling out Of "A hole in the side OF
c., y. IL q. box-car. When the train
stopped the paper vas examined and found
to contain an appeal from some person in.
side The car to open the door and release
him This was done and ont stepped a
tramp, who claimed To- have necn locked
IN fog several days without food or water.
He was pretty much exhausted, buthc In
medIa,ely struck oct through thc city TO
bum Il meal"
The silver wedding l24th anniversary
Of Mr. and Mrs George NJ. Hollenbeck, OF
Millington, was celebrated on Saturday
last, in the form OF IA surprise" Mr.. Hol
ienbecll was born in what is now the town
of Fox, December /, 1881, and is the first
white male born in Kendall county. lie
was married in May, 1859 George VI. is
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