The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1883-04-28
Vicinity items.
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Snow fell at Pontiac on Monday morn
ing last.
La Sale has female physican-Dr
Emma Oliver.
The La Sale Trotung Association arc
arranging for meeting July 4'h.
The Marselles Manufacturing Company
have shipped two OF their shelters to
Mexico.
A. II. Mckinney, a former resident OF
Earlvillc, has BEEN elected city treasurer
Of Alton.
Joseph Gardner, formerly OF the MENDOZA
Reporter, has purchased an interest IN the
Freeport JoUWa0k
Daniel Melsenhach, olp OF the oldcs' Sc!
tlors Of Mendoza, died on Saturday last at
the age OF 81 years.
About fifty dollars worth Of stamps were
stolen from the Granville putnam county
post Office one night last wees.
Miss carrie Cronise, n young lady OF
Peru, is now engaged ~ the wholesale
house of J. V. Farewell, Chicago.
The small poX epidemic At Streatcr Is
abatinC. Eight or nine cases are all that
are now reported, Three deaths have or-
Cured.
The tall chimney of the Matthiesscn q
Hegeler acid works at La Sale is said 10
he disin,cgratlng, the result of the sui.
phHrlc fumes.
Rev. b. F. Colwell. pastor of the Earl.
vile Baptist church, has resigned The
pastorate there 20 accept "a call from Dover,
New Hampshire.
Alonzo Tice, an employe IN Pitts Works,
Marseilles, had his right hand caught in a
Ircular saw one day last week and lost all
the fingers and thumb of that hand
Temperance meetings are being held in
Mendoza, and an effort to have the saloon
license raised from 5000 to $500 will prob
ably be made before the next city council
Sreator has had two or three small fires
within the past week. One on "Wednesday
afternoon destroyed "A large dwelling house
on North Park street, valued at $1,000
The tenants saved the principal part OF
their effects.
The Fox River Association met with the
CONGREGATIONAL church o! Morris Tuesday
evening last week, and continued ITS SEES
sion through Wednesday and "Wednesday
evening Congregational churChts of the
following places were represented Lock
port, Seward, Waupousee, Verona, Lisbon,
Marsellcs, Ottawa, Peru, Tonlca, Gran
vile and Hennepin.
Morris Herald There is a prospect of
trouble among the miners in and about
Braidwood. The Wilmington Coal Com
pany have announced that on the first of
May next they will make reduction OF
five cents per ton on the price now paid for
mining coal, making the price seventy.five
cents during the summer and eighty-fvo
during the winter The miners, of course,
do'not like this, and declare that they will
strike III case the company makes the pro
posed reduction.
The Mendoza correspondent of the Chi
Cago Journal gives the particulars OF an
unpleasant experience Of two gentlemen OF
that city while IN Ottawa as jurors. Ac-
cordlng 20 the report, these gentlemen,
Augustus Melsenbach and LOUIS EckeIt,
wenl:to Ottawa asjurors, and finding them
selves at liberty, concluded to visit Mr.
Theodore Giore, an old and esteemed
friend, formerly OF Mendoza, but at present
the proprietor of brewery here. On the
way to the brewery they were informed by
an acquaintance that Giere was in town,
and were shown his buggy, which was
hltched close by. Relying on their TREND.
ship with the owner, they thought they
might take the liberty of using it, and
drive over to see the brewery. They got
In, and Off they drove. In the meantime
Gcre returned, and finding his buggy
gone, flew into rage, that did not abate
when informed that two OF his Mendoza
friends were using 1t for visit TO his
brewery. He procured Warrant, and on
the return OF the PAIR, after ashort absence,
had them arrested. For while the inno-
cent offenders treated the affair as a joke,
worthy of the wit and humor of their
friend, but soon found to their utter amaze.
ment that he was IN perfect earnest. Ex'
plantations and apologies being of no avail,
the gentlemen were taken to the 'Squlre's
office, but the investigation, IN the opinion
OF the Justice, showed no cause for action,
and the case was dismissed, Giere as a con-
sequence had TO pay the costs Of the pro-
ceedings. Mr.. Glere subsequently eS-
planned in letter to a Mendoza paper, that
the absence of the horse at that particular
time was great inconvenience and loss,
and hence his passion; also that he only
intended to prosecute the men for disor-
derly conduct
A sample of the carelessneSs that some
times characterlzes legislative bodies has
just occurred IN Michigan, which Is al