The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1883-03-31
Vicinity Items.

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W. II. Watson, late OF Aurora, has leased
tn Src4'or Opera House
Fifty new colrhn- are being Oullt Ia the
{. &. d q shops at Aurora.
The Jolirl s,rrl works have started up
again, to the great delight of that town
Andrew Hanna, since 1850 a resident OF
Pcrn, died on Wednesday at the age Of y
years.
The deepest coat shaft at La Sale is 535
tc T. The deepest shaft In the state Is 9Ol
leat. amt IS located at Nation.
The Board OF Health f Aurora estimate
he dcnrh rate in that city the past year Il,
II .23 per / 900, the population being cstl-
mated at 1900.
The c, b d q. railroad company will
pay the widow and children OF Engineer
Rogers. Killed IN Aurora about six weeks
ago, $1,000 without any legal proceedings.
III. A. Pilt's Sons are remodelng ana ht.
ting up their office preparatory to moving
heir headquarters from Chicago to Mar
settles. They are working large numbe'
of hands.
A number Of the Mendoza young men
have organized stock company with the
intention of starting permanent skating
rink in that city. They have secured
Pohl's hall for that purpose.
The Utica HI dtauIlC Cement Company,
of LA Sale county" has been granted Ii
conse to organize. Capital stock IS placed
at 100000; lncOrpcrators; James Clark,
Dexter BcIknap, and James D. Speed.
John NJ. Welcn, of La Sale, has sold
the wellknown trottng stallion, Austen
Ilitz, to VIM. Bilcom, Of OHIO Station,
Bureau county, for $4,000, Austerlitz is
one OF the fines. and best bred horses
that has ever trsd the soil of La Sale coun.
ty, and Bureau county is to be congratulate
ed.
SUPERVISOR Lane, of Ransom, vas in
Strealor on Monday looking for nurse
for a smallpox patient out IN his town. a
son Of William Redmsn, who has been
SICK with the dread disease tor some time,
|dud Sunday night, and Monday morning
the father was SICK and for him the nurse IS
REQUIRED. The boy that died. was 20 years
old and The disease was of tho worst con
| fluent form. Or. Clark, of Ransom, had
hccn attending but doctor from Seneca
was called Saturday. Every prccaution Is
beng taken to prevent the spread Of the
disease.
LaSalle Press: Tho trestlc work on tac
southern end of the Utica bridge got
knocked down by the ice and the Jucans
hauled IT upon the bridge Tor safe keeping
Now the ice has gone and the wafer fallen
but Utica people don't seem to think they
have any right to go outside OF their terri
tory to tx roauways for other people, AND
Deer Park don't seem to have Interest
enough In the matter To replace tht
wrecked carpester work, and consequently
those who want to cross the Illinois rIvei
at that point walk plank or climb pole
| in order TO get upon the bridge and eros:
It. These things being SO, the structure
that has been such bono of legal conten
tlon during the past half dozen years is NJ
particular use to any ono in these days o
Its possible usefulness" Maybe the ma
uves at both ends are waiting for reports
from the seat of war-the Z. <. ClrCui
Court at Chicago
Mendoza Reporter: Last week couple
of spruce looking fellows called at the res
Ildcnce of Henry Wixom and asked iOI
supper and lodging, Mr.. WlXom granted
their request and provided for them and
their horse. They said they were agents
for small seedcr which they had In their
possession They stayed over night, ate 9
hearty breakfast in the morning, and were
treated very Hospitality by the host, After
breakfast they hitchcd up their horse, got
In the buggy preparatory to leaving, when
Mr.. WiXom Temisded them that they had
not paid their bill The driver gave the
horse crack with the whip aud away be
went As they we're leaving they laughed
heartily and cried out, I'VE never settle
our bills" Dir. Wixom's blood boiled
slightly-possibly little more so. lie
ordered fast span of colts hitched to his
buggy and In short time he was spinning
after the desdbests. They passed through
Mendoza. MIR. Wixom stopped long
enough TO get out writ Of attachment
He and the city marshal followed IN ho'