The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1883-03-17
Vicinity items.

A humane society hus been formed IN
Aurora.
The Harrison House, la Sale, ls 10 bt
enlarged and improved.
An Egg Sociabc is the thing IN Slreator
Eggs are served in oil shapes,
The Aurora Boat Club has thirty mem
her-all that will be admitted,
The Jolie, .NeDs figures up 1916 hands
employed IN the factories Of that city.
The Peru Plow Works arc running
rlght and day to keep up with orders
The Aurora coal men have had large
radc---one firm selling about 1000 tons.
An Aurora road cart firm have an order
.or their cart from Amsterdam, Holland.
Diphtheria Is quite prevalent IN Strea
TOR, and severa, deaths have occurred dur
ing the week.
The Wenona coal miners on Monday
quit work because they did not think the
cage hosting rope safe,
Engines 1872 and TO are IN the paint
shop The first named will DC out Monday
and the other on Tuesday.
The body of man, about 80 years old,
with blue eyes, D Il. : IN. tall, was found
IN the river at Peru on Sunday.
d. w. Mattocks, of Peru, has purchased
a home at Storm Lake, Iowa, aud Will re
move there with his family som.
The Secretary CT State has just issued II
license to incorporate the Rockford Wool
IN Mills Company, with capital of $780,.
900.
The st. Charles cooperative creamery
company received sol l15 pounds of milk
during January and paid dividend Of
sl62
Sales on the Elgin Board Of Trade Mon.
Joy amounted To $T4,5S177 Cheese sold
u. 8 and 10 cents, and butter dropped to IS
cents.
4 Ia Sale policeman was fired upon by
rough on Tuesday morning. The officer
tried to take hts man alive, but falling
failed to do 80.
A young woman gave birth to II boy
saby 90 the Rock Island II % train be.
tween la Sale and Utica GA Monday last,
says the Democrat.
The Kankakec d Seneca t. X. carried
10000 passengers and $4,000 tons of
trcieht last year The earnings OF the
road were Sl6235iI
The Chicago, burlington and Quincy
gross earnings Tor 1882 wero SGT ,550,SO0,
Al increase OF S3,i350 over 1881. The
operating expenses were Si0,GGS.3t0, an
increase Of 500 $50, net earnings Sl0,Ss2,.
46J, an iucreaSe Of $2s03G9
The Kane county board OF supervisors
has ordered the erection OF M addition to
The county poor house, to cost not to cx.
coed $4,000, TO accommodate pnupers in
surabty insane. Tho county's quota at
the Northern Hospital for the Insane Is
more than full
saturday afternoon the large driyC,wheel
at the Strcator paper mill bu!s. in'v irae-
Ments The wheel cost $685. in Chicago.
Tue mill had but recently started up again
aud was employing about 25 persons The
aociden, will stop operations there for
pryoably three weeks
Streator wanted to add large part of
her suburbs to the corporation to help pay
taxes, and got all ready TO do II, when ii
Wac found all the proceedings were wrong,
rs the desire should come from the outside
aud not the inside, and res, will be taken
ull the lawyers post up.
Chss. ID. Parker, of WenoDa, an em
piOye Of the Government Printing Office,
was killed near Evansville o., on tho B
4 o. railroad, on Friday last. He was
standing on the car platform and was sud.
denly thrown of. The funeral took place
IN Wenona on Sunday last.
La Sale Democrat: ION last Sunday AZ.
ernoon Roman Rimmele, Jr., went into
Me stable OF Messrs. Matthiessen & Ilege.
her to feed the horse. when he WAS attacked
BY a VICIOUS animal, which knocked him
down and uampled upon hun. The left
beg was broken IN three places below the
knee and thigh, and tho lower part of the
body is terribly bruised"
The American Life Insurance Go. owns
$4,000 worth of bonds issued by the town
Of Brace IN aid Of the ksnkakec and ILL.
pols River X. r., which was never built.
The last decision in the case was against
the town. The company offers TO settle at
q reduction OF 4 per cent. interest. The
proposition has not been accepted, the su.
pervisor proposing to pay the face only.
The Indiana, Illinois and Iowa railroad
has completed its line TO Shelby, d., a
distance OF 70 miles from Streator, and on
Saturday began running trains through to
that point THIS ADDS three new stations,
viz: Castleton, Llneville and Shelby. The
mall tram leaves Streator at $50 A. NJ, re-
iuruing at 900 L. NJ; local freigh: leaves
NJ 80 p. NJ, arrives at II 90 AN. {. II,
Smith Is the agent In S.reator.
La Salle Democrat: "Robbie Lschmann,
ayears-old son of ID. Lachmann. In al