The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1883-08-25
Vicinity Items.

illNo VIZ AbNuiuaJ
= The average of oats near Tonlca Is abou
c 40 bushels to the acre.
|. The Joliet steel company paid out 81
To- 600 last Tuesday to It's employees,
/ Robert Graham at Long Point this yea
y cut 270 tons of hay from $50 acres
Chas, NJ. Braden, of La Sale, brick mar
: ufacturer, has failed tor about 5000
5 The Joliet city tax levy for tins yea
will be S143, 1872 nearly double that of las
year
On Monday two anglers caught q
, Starved Rock in three hours fishing =
pike all OF good size.
The Clark & Wiswall Tile Works, i
miles northwest of Lowell, have turned
out their first kilns of tile
The annual reunion of the thirty.sixth
regiment, formed In Aurora, takes plac,
this year in Morris, on the eth
The katydid has put in an appearance
which is generally supposed to indicate {
frost within six weeks, or about Sept. 27th
The Fox River region Of this state Of
which Elgin is the center, Is estimated tc
produce 10000, 900 gallons of milk annual
ly.
Mark Thornton was engaged driving a
tunnel for the Streator coke works Tues
day, when the face fell IN on him and
broke his leg.
A Chatsworth farmer refused to remove
his hedge trimmings from the road when
ordered to and was fined $40 for his otlense
against the law.
Steve Matthews is again IN Jail on a
charge of horse stealing from Rev. Mr..
Gum, of La Sale, taking the horse to
Peru and selling 1t for $50.
Two years ago glucose works were put
up at Pekin at an expense of $4,000
They have just been sold for $4,000 to be
converted into dlstlllery.
Jefferson Norris, an |. G. brakeman,
while waiting for wild train at La Sale,
fell asleep on the track and was run over
Wy thC hCiBht huih hhiSu'
The Rock Island road is about to build
new pumping house at Peru, IN which
will be placed the large pumps used at
Chicago, making this house the largest on
the road.
Joliet is to have q new daily, with our
old friend and former townsman, f. 5.
Barney as manager Barney made the
Ne,oS q valuable property, why not also the
Dotly Press?
Jake Felster, a Joliet painter, having be
come the victim of loose woman who
bed him numerically, recently deserted
his family and headed for Dakota, leav-
ing them destitute.
j. G.. Fishers and NJ. ID. Keeney's mills
and John Atklnson's carriage shop, at
Wilmington, were destroyed by fire Satur-
day night, Loss, 1886 900; insured for $l5,-
900. The Holly water works were out of
repair.
A representative Of the Van Depoele sys.
tenn Of electric lighting, has been in Kan
kakee talking with the business men rcla-
tive to introducing the system into their
stores and substituting electric lamps Tor
gas for street lighting.
Las. week party of Knox College stu
dents from Galesburg, Kewanee, Sheffield,
Ottawa, Farm Ridge, Tonlca, Peru and
encamped at Starved Rock, and
spent the week visiting the interesting
points IN that neighborhood.
Work on the Wenona coal shaft was
finished this week, and the machinery
when tested worked nicely. The side
tracks are not yet completed, but will be In
a few days, and by that time the coal COM
pany will have the shaft IN shape for
shipments of coal.
The road commissioners OF Bruce are
making arrangements to macsdamize the
Main street road from the Streator line
east to the town line. They want to COM
pete the work this fall. The commission.
ers Of Otter Creek will then extend the
on east to where the road
strikes the hill region.
sOn last Saturday afternoon, Tommy, the
14-mon,h old child of Mr.. and Mrs. Thos.
Cassidy, OF Peru, while its mother was En-
gagged Ia discharging her household du.
ties, in some manner got hold OF cup Of
potash from which il drank. The poor
child suffered the most excruciatIng pain,
until Monday afternoon when death re
lieved the little sufferer.
Our readers viii remember the whole
sale poisoning case that occurred . few
weeks ago q, Joliet where whole soeis-