The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1883-11-10
Vicinity Items.


ta's saloons from 1910 H.
Strea,ors tax this year ioots up ''.o3 per
cent. on the equalization Valuation
The Peru Sharpshooters' game supper
las, Saturday night netted the society Sloo'
On Friday night the residence oil Mayor
Merrill, of Wenona, was robbed OF some
$50 or $40. .,
The construction committee OF WIZ
County favor the old site at joliet Tor a
new court house.
Fish Commissioner S. Z. McDoIe put
. 500 fish, mostly bass, into the river al
Geneva last week.
The Rockford Neck Yoke Company has
inst been organized IN that city, Win
capital stock OF Sl5eOo,
Streator has had AN Art Loan exhibition
TINS week, anu l, proved as much the i"gc
as did that held here last winter
It is reported that Fish Commissioned
McDole of Aurora, is superseded by a
new appointee from tbs southern part Oh
the state.
Three hundred men are now employed
at The Piano shops, and 1t Is eXpectcu inc
number will be increased to five hundred
before the holidays.
The butter and cheese factory at Milling
ton seems to be iated The last hfm IN
the business here closed their affairs le"
weeks ago, and the factory 10 now lu!e'
The building Of the supersructure OF
the new Aurora bridges is 80 lar pro-
crossed that the Commissioners ms week
najd the contractors the sum OF S2O,OOO On
account.
The pay of all the coal companies in
S,rca,or on the coming l2th' VIII agsrc
gate fully $4,000. Over 1000 tons OF
coal per day were shipped fromsthere dur
ing the month OF October, or about $780,
900 tons.
The firm of Hamilton, Hodge u Monser
WAS succeeded bya stock company, 10 DC
known As the Wenona Coal Company, on
Tuesday last, the members OF which VIII
hereafter operate the coal mining interests
of the Wenona coal shalt.
Burglars entered the store OF II. AckeT-
man, Peru, last Friday night. They Sc
cured about $50 worth o! cutlery and
rozors The lumber Office Ct Mr. Maze
was also entered, and an attempt made TO
enter the residence of Chas. Braun.
The Van Derpoel Electric Light Com.
many otter to place IN Slreator eight or
more lights for street lighting purposes,
uutting in TIE plant, furnish power and
attend 10 the lamps tor $l45 per light per
wear 1t is furnished private residences al
Sl2O find themselves"
I, is SAID that when the father OF young
Rus.ell went in to see him after he had
been sentenced but before be had been
taken to the penitentlary, the young mend
attacked him with piece OF iron he had
got hold Of and would have killed him
had not help come quickly
The Wenone miners have again gone TO
work. On Tuesday the contracts were
snned, aud yesterday morning mining
operat,ons were resumed The works
have been idle less than week. The con
tracts made with the minCrs are from date
to April !, 1884, SO no iuriheI trouble Is
anticipated
The NJ. T.. Church, that was built y
wears ago, about one mile south OF where
Sheridan now Is, and which was moved
into the village the first year after the rail.
road was built through, and the town start.
ed, has been sold, and the society which
has had an existence for 40 wears or more,
ceases to exist
Wenoua Iader: Farmers ale feeling
quite uneasy on account of their soft corn
prospects. For several weeks the weather
was very uniavorabie tor the ripenlng oil
corn, but nearly all Of last week clear dry
weather made Il decided improvement,
and vet the corn is Tar from being in con
diuon to crib. The facts are, the corn
prospects IN this vicinity are not at all en-.
COuraglng."
Peru Herdld: a stabbing aflray oc-
CURED on Water street yesterday afternoon,
the result OF family dispute on some
trivial affair. John Striker, to show his
brother.inl law, Jack Davis, in the most
conclusive manner that he had the best in
the argument, drew his knife and slashed
an ugly wound on the back OF said Davis
hand. which required physician to sew
up. No arrest All In the family.
The general passenger agents OF the
Chicago, Milwaukee d 81. Paul, Chicago
Rock Island & Pacific, Chicago " North
western and Wisconsin Central railroads
have issued a joint circular announcing
that all reduced rates for hunters are here
by withdrawn, and connecting roads arr
requested to discontinue the issue OF any
tickets at reduced round trip rates for tina
class of travel, to points on or reached by
those lines, as regular rates Will hereaite
no ,oouirai