The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1884-03-29
MINOR NEWS ITEMS.
For Week Ended March 81.

Three men were seriously burned Satur-
day BY an explosion In the fireworks estab-
lishment of Dedhl N Co., at CINCINNATI, anu
the roof fell upon them and held them until
help arrived.
Fire is still raging in the P0cahontas
mine in Virginia, in which l53 miners lost
their lives. 1t is proposed to drill holes
through the top of the mountain and thus
flood the mine.
,Joseph G. Foster, the wealthiest gambler
In San Antonio, and the man who killed
Ben Thompson and King Fisher March H.,
diet Saturday He leaves large estate
valued between $780, 600 and $780, 900.
Helen HanknSou a patient IN the Insane
Asylum at Columbus, o., crawlel through
the bar of window in the fifth story and
fell or Jumped to the ground, receiving IN
iuries from which she died IN five minutes
The victim was thirty.twO years Old.
Gus Seede, hack driver of Detroit
Mich, left Saturday night for Germany to
claim a legacy of 500, 900 left him by his
grandmother, who died recently, and OF
whose death he received news a few days
ago.
Epizoot Of the most desperate type has
made it, appearance at Dayton, o.
bill providing that wholesalers be publicly
whipped.
Hebrew settlers in Northern Dakota are
reported TO be suffering for clothing and the
neccssarcS OF life.
FraLcoi, Auplste Marie Mignet, the
French historian, born at AK, May :, 1896,
died in Paris Monday.
Yellow fever is reported to have broken
out on the United States steamer lroquoiS,
now on its way to Alaska.
The Holmes block at Jacksonville, Fla,
occupied by business houses, burned Mon
day, causing "a loss Of $4,000.
James Hamilton, the great short-horn
cattle dealer, who since 1873 had sold $780,
900 worth of stock, died at Mt. Sterling,
KY, Monday morning.
A subscription has been started at indie
pendence, Mo-, to enable Mrs. Frank James
to attend tn trial of her husband in Alabama
for the Mussel Shoals robbery.
The Ontario * Quebec Railroad Company
has decided to build from Woodstock to the
Detroit River and make running arrange
ments with the Wabash Road to Chicago.
Charles Mcclure, of Lafayette, Ind,
when sentenced TO the penitentiAry for lar
ceny, claimed that he was compelled by
hunger to steal, and cried like schoOl-bOy.
The Newfoundland Legislature has de-
clared one hundred per cent duty on mer-
chandise packages as a retaliatOry measure
against the Canadian law demanding the in
spection of Newfoundland behring's.
A resolution was on Monday introduced
in the Kansas House declaring that the
foOt-and mouth disease does not exist
among cattle in that State, and that the
present aifiictiOn is neither contagious nor
infectious.
Mrs. Sarah Smith died at Mattoon, ILL.,,
Sunday evening at the age Of one hundred.
Fond of tobacco throughout her lie, shs
used it to the last.
Painter Il Co., of Pittsburgh, have closed
down the forge department of their iron
mills III consequence OF dizziness In trade,
and 260 men are laid Off
Michigan capitalists have perfected ar
engagements to erect at Calera Ala, an iron
furnace and agricultural implement manu-
factory, the Investment to cost 81, 800, 000
Alexander Graham Bell has issued call
for convention of articulation teachers, to
meet in New York, June %, to devise
means for the promotion of the cause of
articulation teaching in America.
An assignment has been made by James
D. Ferry, Son x Co., cutlery manufacturers
If Bridgeport, Conn, whose liabilities are
500, 900
Father WATERS of Lafayette, Ind, re-
fused to accept for the church a purse of
fifty dollars derived from dance ST. Pat
rick s night.
During Sunday, at Dayton, o., Mrs.
Langtry walked thirty.two miles through
the city and its suburbs and claimed to have
enjoyed the exercise.
a loss of $780, 900 was incurred at Chey-
enne by the burning of the store of +. L.
Warren * Co. The nachine-shop of GeOl sc
A. Rollins, at Nashua, \. Ii, valued at
S25, 900, was also destroyed.
\ the annual meeting OF the Bell Tele-
phone Company at Boston Tuesday, the
earnings for the year were Shown to be 81
295, 59i, against l,516,O 3l the previous
year. Dividends amounting to 81, l54, 40
had been pA,d, AMI 1854, All was carried to
the surplus account
The Catholic literary societies of the
archdiocese OF Baltimore Tuesday evening
'rlebr ted the 3j0th anniversary of the
landing Of the Maryland Pilgrims in St
Mary County. Letters were read from
oliver Wendell Holmes, John q. Whittier
and Charles A. Dana
The ice has gone out of the Hudson Riv-
n, and there is no obstruction to navigs-
ion.
Farmers in some portions of Iowa, Min
lesota and Dakota have begun their spring
blowing.
The Chicago & Northwestern Railway will
open a new route to Dakota, via Iowa, next
Monday.
Samuel S. Beach, connected with the
printing trade of Chicago for over forty
gears, is dead
James Mutt, recently acquitted Of killing
Dukes, is EN- route to Kansas to take charge
Of his mothers farm.
Jay Gould and party, on the Atalanta,
JAILED from Fortress Monroe Wednesday
morning for New York.
DR.. A. A. HolcOmb, U. S. A., has been
appointed State Veterinary Surgeon of
Kansas by Governor Click.
James Egan, the baseball pitcher, was
tent to jail for year Wednesday, at
waterbury, Conn, for stealing watch.
William Lankenow, once a merchant in
Brooklyn, who was the son of ship-Owner
If Bremen, died in Chicago of exposure
and starvation.
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