The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1883-11-17
Vicinity items.

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schools ..,,
Ia sale has 33 saloons At the 500 IL
cense fee
Corn Is SAID to average 20 bushels around
Rutland village
Sireator will have G0elcctrIc lights burn
ing 10y Dec. lOlh.
The Liquor Dealers Association has DIS
banded at la Sale.
Strcator will indulge in the roller skate
agony again this winter.
The Sreator coal companies paid out
about $4,000 on the 18th.
The Union and Cahill coal shafts are
runni ng to fun capacity at La Sale now.
t. :. Barney Il Co, will erect large
building at Joliet to be used as roller
skating rink 1t will be a big affair.
Philip Leonard, an employee in the C.
b. Il @ shops as sweeper, etc, was caught
in the cogs OF u sheet iron cutting ma
chine on Monday and killed.
The Streator glass company were COM
PEELED to purchase one hundred and TWEEN
ty boxes OF small glass in Chicago the
other day to fill IL large order for glass
The Peru Hcrald will he for sale or rent
on Jan lst Mr. Tapley's lease expiring at
that time The fraternity would be glad
to see him continue as editor for he sends
us n very readabepaper
At the last meeting of the S,rCator Gas
and Coke co. 1t vas resolved to enlarge
the capacity of the works, increase the cap
ital stock $4,000 or IS 600, and reduce the
price of gas to SO per 1000 feet
Atpresent 600 cans OF milk are daily
shipped to Chicago from the Dundee and
Carpentersvlllc depots, The largest indl
vidual shipper furnishes sixty cans daily
In the vicinity OF the two places named
the daily product of milk is 800 cans, or
$1,000 gallons.
Superintendent Modes at the Streator
bottle works, is constructing gas furnace.
The fuel now used Is coke AMI coal, but
with an arrangement by which the com
pany can get gas on favorable terms, 1t is
thought the melts can be made cheaper,
quicker, and more uniform temperature
maintained.
Hon. l.. i. Croker has made arrange
mcnts to secure supply Of German Carp
to stock the railroad pond near Mendoza
The fish are furnished tree by the Govern
ment, and one of the commissioners will
have supply Of young carp at Aurora
this month where Mr.. Crookcr VIII secure
a supply for Lake Truman.
The court house at Pontiac caught fire
yesterday afternoon from the furnace by
which 1t is heated, and one floor was dam.
aged to the extent OF $50, giving rise to a
rumor IN Ottawa that the whole town as
well as the court house had been burned
up The engine got ont IN good time but
the fire was put out without lis aid
Freddie Thompson, the tour year old
son of Mr.. Archie Thompson, of Strcator
WIS uiVhItI III d bdlitl VI ram Wiltl On
Wednesday He had left the house less
than ten minutes before, and his mother
stepped outside the door to call him. when
she was struck aghast by the sight of ms
feet sticking up out OF a water barrel stand
ing Just at the cage Of the porch.
The Streator NOHit0r says that at the
public school in that place last Friday a
child seven years Of age, son of Charles
Bence had his hands tied behind his back
and an apron tied over his mouth to smoth.
or his cries, was then stripped OF u portion
OF his clothing and logged until black and
blue three teachers participating In the
unmcrcliul proceedings. All of which is,
however, denied by the teachers, except
that he was decently and justly logged
The kankakee Gazette says: The Three
| company has decided upon locating Its
repair shops at Streator and Will this week
let the contract for their construction. The
dimensions Will be G0x90 The building
will be OF wood for temporary use, but the
foundation will be heavy enough to support
building of brick or stone when the
change becomes necessary" The contract
for the buildings has been let They are
to be located down at the junction near the
tank, and will include, IN addition to the
machine shop, round house and som,
smaller buildings. 1t would seem thai
they are getting them good ways from
town.
The La Sale Democrat says of the Nor
thern Illinois Coal and Iron Co.'S property
al La Sale: This vast estate has 1890
acres of surface liz addition 10 1000 acres
OF mining right, and now Will be run with
large forces OF men. James +. Joy, who
has been elected president is worth fully
100000, and has great influence with
The leading railroads of the west. Jasper
johnson, one Of the finest mining eng,-