The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1883-09-01
Vicinity Items.

Morris on Wednesday.
The Pekin road Is being rapidly extend.
ed to Chicago from Joliet,
Repairs at the La Sale bottle works arc
completed and the intention rs to begin
blowing to-day.
S. b. Wilkins & Co. have incorporated
their Rockford Spinning Mills, with cap
ital stock of 100000
1t is rumored that Bird Bickford, OF Mar.
seilles, has compromised with his creditors
at % cents on the dollar.
Rev j. II. Shay has been retained as
pastor Of the Sireator Congregational
church for another year.
Mr.. j. S. Nichols has been appointed
agent of the Rock Island road at Marseil-
les. He was formerly at Allerton, la.
A fine rain fell over that part of the
county lying north of Illinois river on
Monday night, of great beueti. to corn and
pastures.
The water for the new Plumb House,
Streator, has been hauled to the house
since its opening, at heavy cost. A we'll
will now be sunk, boring to continue until
water is found
On Thursday evening last Hon. p. A.
Armstrong and wife celebrated the Goth
anniversary of their marriage a large
number of friends were present.
The Kankakee paper null company has
contracted with the Van Depoel company
to put three electric lights into the mill
These Will be the first electric lights in.
troduceG there
The stock for the electric light company
OF Mendoza has all been taken, and Edison
Is to send on the trial plant tor exhibition
as soon as the estimates are completed,
which Will probably be In few days.
While at work at Seneca on the pile
driver last Tuesday, Ed. BARRIERS son, q
boy about sixteen years old, got his right
hand caught in a rope and drawn INTO a
pulley, three fingers being taken of, slick
and clean.
During the thnnder storm on Monday
evening Ole Thorson, of Freedom town
ship, lost two valuable horses by lightning.
The fluid entered the stable over a wire
stretched IN front of the stalls and five of
the ANIMALS were Frustrated, three recover
ing from the shock.
Monday nights storm was so severe at
ST. Ann, lroquois Co.. that the people went
70 thn n -,
small way to outbuildlngs and chimneys
There was some hail and ram. Mr.. j. H.
Calklns was caught in 1t while waiting for
train and compelled to wait one more
day.
Work on the pond of the Chicago, Bur
llngton & Quincy Railroad at Mendoza
was commenced few days since, and is
beng rapidly carried on. 1t Will cover
about fitty.three acres. A channel to change
the course of the stream passing through
the city Is also being constructed by the
company.
The MillIngton independent states that
John S. Armstrong got 4 quart Of oats
from Mr. Aiken, of South Carolina, last
spring. He sowed the oats and now reports
having harvested a grain sack full, or from
s. to IS quarts. The oats were about a
week earlier than our native oats and of a
fine quality"
Sam Barton, highly connected young
man, clerking IN his uncle's drug store
Mr.. S. Hastings-ot Mendoza, decamped
recently with $500 OF his uncle's money
The City Marshal has followed on his
track. Much regret Is felt over his esca
pade, especially tor his mother. The
foolish young fellow was to have received
several thousand dollars IN month or so
from the estate of his late father
The La Sale Union Coal Co. are about to
try the Harrison coal mining machine, as
solution of the strike question, and will
have the machines IN position by the 10th.
BY these machines the work of 400 men in
the ordinary way IN 100 rooms can be done
by 200 men in 80 rooms Then the coal will
come out large and coarse and much OF the
former wastage will be saved. The result
of the experiment is watched with deep
interest by the miners.
Fawcett Plumb, OF Streator, has built a
"Sllo"-said to be the first constructed IN
the county. 1t is "a feet long, eight feet
wide and eighteen feet deep. 1t is con-
structed of brick covered with a roof and
Is supposed to be water tight. 1t will hold
forty tons of chopped corn stalks The
stalks with which it is being filled are
green and full of juice. After it has been
filled it will be covered with layer of
straw which Will be covered with layer
of boards and then weighted down to keep
the air from the stalks. The object is TO
have green feed through the winter.
On last Tuesday evening, Edward Stack,
OF Ottawa, aged about 20 years, was killed
on the Rock Island Road, about one mile
west Of Morris. Mr.. Stack was a member
of the general repair gang, and was CON-