The Ottawa free trader., 1884-03-01
MINOR NEWS ITEMS.
For Week Ended February 2s.

drunken quarre. ith his WIFE,
}. A. Wurnrck, Who died at Dixon ILL.,,
at the age of ninety four years, Is SAID u
have fought at Waterloo under Napoleon.
A German syndicate OF Chicago is to col
oni2e thirty thousand acres OF lands in Da-
kota, purchased from the North Pacific
Road.
II is said that j. b. Butler, a clerk in the
Treasury Department, is to be promoted to
the Assistant Secretary ship vacated by John
{. New.
A. A. Tahnadge, recently made manager
of TRANSPORTATION of the Gould system OF
roads, was in 1859 a brakeman on the Alton
4 Terre Haute.
George II. Fryer, one Of the best-known
miners of Colorado VINO lost 500, 900 with
in the past two years, killed himself at Den
yer with morphine
The hospital building, the tailor shop and
the bakery of the State Reformatory Prison
at lonia, Mich, burned. Loss on build
ings, 1000; on contents, $1,000.
Jacob Lehman, an old citizen Of Fort
Wayne, rose in his pew at the German
Evangelical Church, Sunday, called TO the
clergyman to save him. staggered to the
aisle and fell dead
ID. w. Blackburn, eX-Treasurer OF Lee
County, Ia, was held in $4,000 bail at ke0-
kuk, Saturday, for shortage IN MS ac'
counts amounting to 1000. Not securing
bondsnIen he WAS sent 10 jail.
A dispatch from Birmingham states that
the wealthiest syndicate ever known Is
being formed in England to transplant her
leading industries in the Western States M
GLIDING whole colonies of workpeople.
The police of Chicago have nabbed Ii. Z.
Leonard, ii iian with one leg, who robbed q
collntryman of Il considerable amount
by staggering against him several times
i'm a saloon and helping him 10 regain ms
feet
I'm the matter of the explosion of the
West I.esening coal-mine, at uniontown,
Pa, the corOncr's jury rendered verdict
cen5uring the company and the inspector
for not having an examination made daily
for tire-damp. The heirs of the nineteen
victims will now bring suits for damages.
On May 10 Frank Ashton, OF Rockford,
H., leaves that place to ride 10 San Fran
cisco on his bicycle.
A marble bust of Longfellow, pronounced
by his daughters striking likeness, Will
on Saturday be unveiled in Westminster
Abbey.
Lieutenant Harber, who brought BACK
from Siberia the bodies of De Long and his
comrades, was given public reception al
Youngstown, o., Monday night, which was
attended by five thousand persons.
I'm obedience to the demand OF the railroad
commissioners of Missouri, the Rock Island
Road has promised to reduce its passenger
rates in that State to three cents per mile.
The lumber used in the scatfOld OH which
John Brown was hanged was used to erect
a porch for brick dwelling at CharleStown.
Last week the material was carefully
slowed away by Colonel John NJ. Gayle.
Heavy SHOWS in the Rocky Mountains
have prevented through traffic on the North
ern Pacific Road for five days. and like
DELAY will probably be caused by washouts
from melted snow between AinswOrth and
Sprague. There are two hundred through
passengers at the latter place.
The Prosser Twin Cylinder Car Company
of Chicago. with an authorized capital OF
81, 900, 600, failed Tuesday for lack OF "a,
597 cash.
Judge Hilton has purchased from Mrs. A
| II. Stewart the stewart Building a.
Broadway and Chambers streets, New York,
for 81, lOO,O
Three charred bodies and number OF
bones were taken from the ruins OF tht
Jackson (Mich.) fire Tuesday. 1t is nov
believed that six or seven persons perlshed.
John Wentworth, of Chicago, says the
only remedy for the annual overflow OF the
Des PLANES River is the enlargement O
the Illinois IL Michigan Canal. He fav0rs
the expenditure Of $50 ,0O0,0 900 for this
purpose.
The council Of Fort Wayne, Ind, ha:
contracted for nine electric light towers IN
the outskirts and sixty additional lamp:
suspended over street crossings In the cen
tral part of the city.
Officials of the Northwestern Road held
a conference in St Paul in regard to fast
train from Chicago which shall connect witt
the Northern Pacific and land passengers II
Portland in five days.
Fifteen of st. Francis Little Sisters of thu
Poor, from the mother home in Westphalia
have entered st. Anthony's Hospital a
Terre Haute, Ind, which institution vii
henceforth be under their control.
A stone found near Eagle, Wis, and solt
TO a Milwaukee jeweler for one dollar, l:
now declared to be siNtcen-carat pure
water diamond. The people of Eagle ART
excited over the find, and it is alleged tina
land there is being sold at fabulous prices
The Grand Lodge, a. o. U. W., of lllf
nois, met at Springfield Tuesday. Their
are PAS lodges in the State, with member
ship of -, 166, and the collections last yea
reached S204, ,6l3.2l. Since the establish
ment of the order in the State, IN 1874
S732, 3S7 has been paid to beneiiclaries.
In final decision at keokuk, Ia, Tues
day, in the barb-wire case of Wash0irl d
Moen against Walker AMI i. h. Rhodes
Judge McCrary, finding iol defendants
declared the Glidden u y Ielssue'
patents invalid. The cOnte>t will be con
tinued in the United States Supreme Court
Queen Tahiti arrived at Paris Wednes
day.
Two Chicago lads, Elmer Lyons and A
fred Stendr, Wednesday died in the agonie
of hydrophObia.
The Government has put a stop to tn
gliding of the recent issue Of the five-ceI
nickel by cheap jewelry manufacturers.
C.. A. Selmer, the Norwegian Minister
State, has been impeached, and sentence
to forfeit his place and pay costs of S5,OO'
The Senate Committee investigating tn
Copiah County Miss election outrages
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