The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1883-07-07
Vicinity Items.
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raised $50 for the cause
Tho Streator Baptist church has abolish.
ed the custom oi Sunday collections.
gA bow named Jos. Dodd was drowned at
Streator on the 3rd, while 10 swimming.
David A. Strong, of Haverly's, is paint
inythe scenery for the Joliet opera house.
Emory Cobb Is to build IN opera house
and library building OF Kankakec, to cost
100000
Gust lsascsons has been placed in jail
70 serve out of 500 fine for illegal liquor
selling at Streator.
The Streator Free Press Office was robeed
OF $40 on Wednesday nigat by tramp
printer named S. w. Bowie.
A young woman named Malcolm, a ser,
want, committed suicide by drinking en-
balming fluid on Sunday last, at John Hol'
derman's, south of Morris.
Bruce has made an offer Of $4,000 in
settlement OF the ksnkakee II. r. bonds.
The bondholders ask $4,000. Eagle Of
ters $1,000 for $4,000 asked.
The Grand Ridge Lodge Of l. o. o. F.
will publicly install officers on Tuesday
evening. at which time Rev. G. l.. Taylor,
Of Odell, will deliver a lecture.
A case of lock>jaw, resulting IN death,
through stepping on rusty nail, is re-
ported from Earlvllle. The victim was
John, son of e. c. Kelley, OF that place.
Mr.. 4. 3, Blackstone, Of Chicago, has
donated lot IN Mendoza where the water
works are TO be located. Mendoza hopes,
now that they have the lot. they shall have
water.works also.
The Aurora Light Guards went to Gales
burg on the-4th, where they took the sec
ond prize 900 in the competitive drill, the
Galesburg company receiving the first
Five companies competed.
We hear of victims to a sharper who is
visiting farm houses IN the northern part
Of the county. He collects silverware,
promising to make it as good AS new, and
10 return with i. in few days. Several
would be gratitied by his return.
The following are the graduates of the
Lutheran theological Seminary In Men
dota= Earnest Bucher, Henry Folsch,
Jacob -Dilges, Paul Valentiner, G. II. Has.
karl They will be Immediately assigned
70 pastorates in Iowa, Michigan, Kansas
and Kentucky.
The Wermillion Coal company has jus,
made contracts for furnishing the North
western and Chicago, Milwaukee and st
sothatit is sure of good market for an
otherVear. These are the most important
, contracts the company has.
The Kankakee Gaxctte says: "Kankakee
is getting the same freight rate from east
ern cities rs Chicago. This is due to the
opening of the Three road to North Jud
son, where connection is male with the
Chicago & Atlantic aud the Chicago
P.ttshurg & St. Louis.
Pierce l.. Moody, of Streator, fell asleep
N Il chair at a second story window or
Wednesday night About 2 A. NJ. lie woke
UP and WAS about to 90 to bed, but being
hut halt awake he seemed to mistake the
window for a bed, and fell headIong to the
ground. He died a short time afterwards
Tom Mcnamara and VIM. Beebe oil
Streator cot into row there on the Fourth
in which Mcnamara was horribly cut by
Beebe with a pocket knife. There are
eight or nine cuts, the most serious being
one IN the lungs, the left arm being also
disabled. Beehe gave himself up to the
officers on Thursday.
On the night of the 4th during the
storm, at, Aurora ayoung man named VIM
Mitchell was struck by the lightning and
killed lie and his father, Robert Mitchell
were ina barn attending to horses, one Of
which and the father were stunned at the
same time. 1t is thought the boy cid not
breathe after the bolt struck him. A small
house was burned in the same vicinity,
presumably set by lightning.
The Streator water commissioners, who
have been engaged In boring for drift
water west Of the city, have put down four
holes. In the last hole they found IA feet
Of sand containing an abundance of water
Previous bOrings at Munster indicate IL
feet of sand at that place. They now in.
tend to go two or three miles further west
in the neigh bOrhood of Garfield and ascer.
tain the amount of sand in that locality
and the extent of the drift. The sand drift
dips toward strestor and the indications
are very favorable so far.
At Peru, between eight and nine O'Clock
on Thursday morning, say the Peru Herald,
Jas. Donnelly, ST., fired a revolver at ex
alderman Quinn, the ball taking effect in
his left shoulder. Mr.. Quinn was at the
blacksmith shop of Kellenbach & Broe-
mer, when Donnelly came up with his re.
volver in hand. There had been no words
between them, and Donnellv appeared 10
be sober. Donnelly is the father of the
late notorious Patsy Donnelly, who was
shot by Officer Scott some time ago and IL