The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1884-11-01
MINOR NEWS ITEMS.
For Week Ended October 80.

For Week Ended October 80.
Prof. c. w. Bennett leaves Syracuse Uni
versity to accept the chair of Church History
IN the Garrett Institute at Evanston Ill.
Cholera is now regarded as practically ex-
tinct in Italy.
The Reading Railroad will, on November
|, rearrange its fares to basis Of three
cents a mile.
General G.. y. A. Black, retired, of the
United States Army, died at Washington
City Monday.
-Four indictments were found Monday at
Louisville against George c. Buchanan, the
abSconding whisky man, for issuing false
warehouse receipts.
The steam-barge David Bows took out
cargo of $4,000 bushels of wheat from Du-
luth, MINI, Monday. This is the largest
cargo ever taken from that port.
The United States Supreme Court has de
ciAed that the time service of cadet at
West Point must be counted as spent in the
army in computing his lonSevity pay.
clearinghouse exchanges last week
1887, 297, OlS-are $50, 296, 1921 greater than
the corresponding period in 1883, however,
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A number of English capitalists are max
ing arrangements to import butchers meat
from Poland. Railway refrigerator cars are
to be used and the meat will be delivered
in London three or four days after ship
ment
At Philadelphia Monday stockholders Of
the International Navigation Company con-
frmed the contract for the purpose of the
steamships Ohio, Indiana, Pennsylvania and
Illinois, from the American Steamship Com
pany.
Rev. DR.. Rulison was cOnsecrated Bishep
Tuesday in st. Paurs, at Cleveland, Bishop
Potter of New York, preaching the sermon.
In coal train collision Tuesday morning
at Port Clinton thirty ears and a locomotive
were completely wrecked, and fireman
wounded. The financial loss Is reported at
$l00, 900.
Two stores burned at Saratoga Tuesday
morning, with loss of $4,000.
The business men of Louisville decided
Tuesday night to have another exposition
next year.
Democrats at Madison, Wis, Tuesday
nominated Colonel w. f. Villas for the
State Assembly.
Mr.. A. Jeffry, of Hallvlle, Ill, has q
hog which he claims weighs l 400 pounds
the largest ever raised.
The teller and bOok-keeper of the Mer-
chants Bank at Beleville, Ont, are miss
ing, but their accounts are said to be correct
Exports from New York for the week
ended Tuesday Exclusive of spece) were
ST, 77S, 900, against Sc, 403, 900 the previous
week.
President Arthur accepted an invitation
Tuesday to attend the opening of the
Plenary Council at Baltimore on Novem-
Der 8.
The Woman Christian Temperance
Union in session at St Louis has postponed
the matter of changing its headquarters
from New York to Chicago until next year.
The Woman's Home Missionary Society
of the NJ. L. Church met at Cleveland, o.,
Tuesday, one hundred delegates being pres
ent with Mrs. Rutherford b. Hayes in the
chair.
Burglars smashed the safe in ALB. Smiths
store at Hunters Point l.. L., Monday night,
and carried off $1,000 in cash and $4,000
in bonds of the Rockaway Beach Improve
ment Company.
A number of small BUSINESS places were
burned at DeckeTlOWn, ". l., lueSudy
night, the loss being S35, 900.
The President has designated Assistant
Secretary Coon to act as Secretary OF the
Treasury in the absence OF Secretary Nc
Culloch.
The Pittsburgh wlndow.glass manu-
facturers deny the report that they will
shut down on January / on account of lack
of orders.
The Chicago Il Atlantic Road is evidently
to withdraw from the pool, as 1t
refuses to longer report its grain and proyi-
sion shipments.
The Armstrong oil well, near Butler, Pa,
pushes at the rate of 100 barrels an hour,
and in twenty-four hours put 5000 barrels
In tank--beatng all previous records.
Eddie Lardon, fifteen years old, was
found dead in the suburbs at KeOkuk,
Wednesday, with bullet-hole in his neck.
How he came by his death is mystery.
Mrs. Georgiana Heustis, held for requisi-
ton at Boston for the larceny of $4,000
from a New York woman, was ordered To
be released Wednesday by Governor Rob
lnSOn.
The Presbyterian Synod Of South Caro-
lima has disapprOved DIR. Woodrow's teach
ing in the Columbia Theological Seminary,
declaring his belief in Darwin's theory or
the descent of man, and considering it not
with the Scriptures.