The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1884-06-28
MINOR NEWS ITEMS.
for week Ended June go.

FOR Week Ended June CO.
Minister Wallace and wife, FROM Turkey,
arrived at New York Monday.
The missionary brig Morning Star was
wrecked of Kusail, China, but tie crew and
passengers were saved.
A hre at Shenandoah, Pa, Monday
burned seventeen tenement houses in which
200 Hungari dwelled.
Joseph Palmer tho accomplice Of Berner,
| the verdict In whose case OccasiOned the
Cincinnati riots, was found guilty Monday
Of murder in the first degree.
months ago left San Francisco on his wheel
for trip around the world, reached Dies
Moines, Ia, Monday in good health.
The Agricultural Department OF Illinois.
in its report for June, vill show that In the
central corn belt the prospects are favora.
BILE for an immense crop Wheat will DO
ready for the harvest early In July.
A tornado Monday evening unroofe6
twelve buildings at Fort Madison, Ia. A
| field of one hundred acres Of corn, near
Cerro GOrdo, ILL.,, was flooded to the depth
Of six feet by cloud burst on Sunday after
| noon.
Clearing exchanges tho past weok--$76S,-
cOS,UUV-dC 9fO,OVSsHSo Ah OASSoo va ssAS
returns for the preceding week, but when
compared with the figures fer the CORE
spending week In 1883 show reduction of
90. per cent
While nurse named Rachel Smith was
| filling spirit lamp at Montreal Monday the
fluid caught fire, igniting her clothing, and
she was burned to death. Mrs bowling, in
attempting to extngulsh the flames, was
also severely burned.
Floods IN the Elkhorn Valley, IN Cali
fornia, have broken the levee and destroyed
| 1000 acres of wheat
Forest fires are burning fiercely in the
vicinity of Round Pond, N. H.
Dr. George F. Magoun, President Of
Iowa College, at Grinnell, has rendered his
resignation.
The Republican Convention for the Wa
bash District at KokOmo, Ind, Tuesday,
renominated George w. Steele for Congress.
General Ward b. Burnet. who graduated
at West Point in 1882, and was known as q
veteran of five wars, died Tuesday in Wash
ington.
Mrs. Doud died Tuesday on farm near
Peru, Ind, at the age of one hundred and
five years Her grandchildren numbered
forty-fve.
Henry Muller, brother Of Congressman
Muller, of New York. railway mail agent
at Jersey City, was arrested Tuesday night
for robbing the mails
The legacy of the late Charles A. Reed,
of Newton, Mass. of $780, 200 toward pay.
ing the public debt with $4,000 interest
was paid into the Boston SuD-Treasury
Tuesday.
William FitzsimmOns, an engineer on the
Fort Wayne ROasl who was injured in a
collision near Alliance. o., Tuesday, re-
ceived 800, 900 damages III the District
Court at Youngstown.
Adrian Ritcher, the German artist, died
Wednesday at Dresden, in his eighty first
year.
The Lindell Hotel Association at St
Louis made an assignment Wednesday for
the benefit of its creditors
The banking house of K T. & c. B. Har-
grove at Rome, Ga, closed its doors
Wednesday, with liabilities of $4,000.
Reports from California are that heavy
rains have lodged grain, and that the loss
will approximate twenty-five per cent
The Episcopal Conference at Omaha
Wednesday elected DR.. Potter, of Geneva,
4. Y, Bishop of the Nebraska Diocese
William Cox, at Danville, KY, shot at
two men Tuesday night who were trying to
break into his house, and killed his mother.
At the commencement dinner at Harvard
College, President Eliot announced that
only S125, 600 had been donated during the
Sear.
A large painting of Mrs President Polk,
presented by the ladies of Tennessee, has
been hung in the green-room Of the White
House.
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher celebrated his
seventy-fir birthday at Peekskill, N. Y,
Wednesday, surrounded by his grandchil-
eren and many of his friends.
The druggists OF Marshall County, Ia,
have agreed TO sell no liquors, even on pre-
scription, when the pr0hibitOry law takes
effect because the Attorney General do
cided that they m st take out permits
The supreme officers of the Knights az
Honor have secured a charter in Missouri
and will locate the offices in the building at
St LOUIS formerly occupied by the United
States customs authorities
The Appellate Cour. at Chicago has AZ
firmed the judgment Of the Circuit Court
giving a cOlored citizen named Timothy
COOPER the sum of 81, 60O for being elected
from an omnibus, owned by Ferd w. Peck,
solely because of his color.
Near Albany, Wis, Farmer Alexander
Murray is dying from the bite Of horse.
A mad dog recently bit one of span OF
horses, the injured animal later biting its
mate and the latter biting Murray. The
dog and horses have been killed.