The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1883-01-27
Vicinity Items.

Vicinity Items.
The Peru fircmen will give dance on
Feb 81.
VIM. Powell, of Tontca, sold 130 pound
hog last week.
Acacia Lodge, A. +. & A. M, Peru, will
give ball on Feb. 22d
The Elgln fire department cost that city
$1l, 100 for the year 1882.
Swizer's factory, in s.. Charles, receives
10000 pounds of milk daily.
The P, ru 2 nc Rolling Mill recon-
menced operations on Friday last.
j. A. HAZE, of Sirea,or, fell from hand
car on Friday last aud broke rib.
ltis estimated tina. the police depart
ment Of Elgiu will cost $1,000 this year
The ST. Charles cooperative creamery is
working mp over 5000 pounds Of milk
daily.
The net receipts of the Catholic Fair
held n. S,reator last week are between 5000
and 81 900.
The Streator paper mill will resume
Operations IN February if the ASSOCIATION
Will allow il.
The heating apparatus In the Joliethlgh
school has proved u failure, and this week
the house had to be closed
The Wabash railroad has bought land
lfnr depot at S,rea,or and will pot up the
necessary buildings at once.
The railroad pool at Sueatcr Is TO be re-
!, organized to include the Three |" road
which has been cutting OF late
John Woods, at the Streator glass works,
, had al elbow dislocated by being caught
ia the power betting on Tuesday.
4 Slreator having tried the concert dive
racket now branches out with d nightly
variety show-"The Park Theatre"
Delos RobiDson's house was burned at
, sheriden on Thursday; cause, bad chin
9 ney; lose, $4,000; insurance, 81 ,0OO
q The cold snap has so stimulated the coal
I trade at Streator that a scarcity OF cars Is
, the only drawback to very lively trade.
} The Batavia cheese factory received and
manufactured into butter and chese during
the las. year about 2,5s5,Ooo pounds of
: milk
I A broken rail was encountered by Tues
day evenings C., b. s. O. passenger, near
Suswn's. Two springs and brake we're
Z broken.
: The Utica Gazette says c. L. Randlant
t at Starved Rock, has built an addition to
his house, three stories high, with q rooms
and dancing hall
:, The morning freight ON the Rock Island
> road, on Monday, took fire in rdns'tu
ceiling was burned.
BY the bursting OF n Doilcr at No. wa
r ter shaft, Streator, Saturday night, MIR
r Carmony was badly scaldcd and Mr.. Sum
c ner sustained a severe scalp wound.
The total tax levied upou property in
Kane county this year is $3.50, 95050; Of
!, this the school tax Is s11l,172S0. The
= railroad companies pay 1888 10 Of tax
I IN Kane county.
t Batavia shipped 1900 carloads of stone
8 in 1882 The paper mill employs 20 hand.
s and made 100000 pounds of paper in
1882. The agricultural implement factory
employs 10 to 1870 men.
: Aurora and Elgin, which have had long
=. experience with city courts, are anxious Il
! have them abolished, and joint meetings
have been held by delegates of the cities
to take proper steps to that end.
The new German Catholic church, u
S'rea,or, was burned on Sunday night
The origin Of the fire is unknown. The
church was built last spring and summer
at COS. of about 5000 The insurance
is $1,000.
r With the recent irlgh,iul Newhall House
disaster in mind, the Aurora people again
notice the dangerous condition OF Coulter
Opera House, and are demanding its reno
walton. 1t Is In the third story with only
one exit, we believe.
The Peoria C0N sGy- Bi1hsp Srauliinr
noa III Rome, has been offered The coad-
{ jutorship Of. with right of accession TO, the
= arch diocese Of San Francisco, which has 8
+ Catholic population of $4,000. The see
J Is now bcld by Archbishop Aemany, who
S is very old and infirm. But it is thought
the Bishop will decline the honor, in order
= To devotc himself to the more important
!, work he has in hand, the establishment III
/, America of 9 Catholic University"
La Sale Press: al the Cahiil shaft 10
. Peru the first leoge of rock was met with ri
distance Of 20 feet from the surface. A
= short distance eastward, probably 1905
e feet, the big chimney Of the zinc factory
e stands on q solid rock foundation ~ tee,
: below the surface Still further eastward
400 or 800 feet The foundations OF the rell