The Ottawa free trader., 1884-07-19
MINOR NEWS ITEMS.
For Week Ended July II.


Wel-borers at Wabash, Ind, developed
gas vein which bids fair to illuminate the
city.
Charles +. Brown was imprisoned at Bos-
ton Tuesday for selling gilded English shill-
ing pieces as gold.
The cotton mills at Atlanta, Ga, have de-
cded to reduce production twenty-five per
cent by closing down part of each week.
Four families of assisted" immigrants
from Ireland, and four from Germany,
which arrived Tuesday at New York, will
be sent back.
The North Carolina Democratic Commit
tee proposes joint canvass of the State by
the Democratic and Republican candidates
for Governor.
New Jersey and New York brick manu-.
facturers will shut down September 20,
which will result in reducing the production
of 20,000000 bricks.
General Diaz was formally notified by the
Electoral College Tuesday of his unanimous
election as President of Mexico. Great en-
thusiasm prevails at the Capital.
The estimated loss by June rains on the
wheat crop in California is placed at 1885,
900 TONS and of barley $4,000 tons. The
hay crop was injured forty per cent
Harry S. Eleguer, son of prominent cit
izen of Mt Vernon, o., whose reason had
been dethroned by over-study, hanged him
self Monday in the Michigan State Retreat
at Detroit
-Four men escaped from Jail at Marion,
Ia, By cutting the bars of their cells and
knocking down the jailer. All were re-
captured. the Sheriff sending bullet
through Mitchell, the Cedar Rapids mur-
derer.
The cornerstone of the new capitol build
ing at Lincoln, Neb., was laid Tuesday
with imposing Masonic ceremonies, ton
thousand people being present. ExGoy-
ernor Furnace delivered an historical ora.
ton.
Two parties of poor children in New
York. numbering nearly one thousand, were
on Tuesday sent to the country for two
weeks by means of the fresh-ar fund con.
tributed by the public under the auspices of
newspaper.
Claims for $4,000 bounty was presented
at Freeport, H., Tuesday by citizens who
enlisted in September. 1864, two weeks
prior to the Offering by Stephenson County
of $500 for recruits The States Attorney
holds that the claimants are not entitled to
the bounty.
In the last year the taxable property Of
Texas has increased $50, 100000.
The New York State Greenback Conven-
ton has been called to meet at New York
City August q.
The first carload of beer ever sent East
from California was shipped Wednesday
from San Francisco to Chicago.
Reports have reached Ottawa, Ont, that
fOot-and mouth disease prevails among cat.
tie at Helena, NJ. T., and an Investigation
will be made.
Forty-two delegates have been chosen by
the Independents of Boston to attend the
National Independent conferences at New
York the 22d inst.
The sugar warehouses of Delpino & Del
grado, Cuba, containing 1000 hogsheads Of
sugar were burned yesterday. The loss Is
put down at $500, 900.
Bismarck has ordered plans for canal
from the Baltic to the North Sea, and will
ask the Reichstag to make an appropria-
ton for its construction.
Charles Putty, fare-collector on the
bridge at St Louis, was yesterday hurled
from the structure by the protruding step of
a mail-car. He fell eighty feet to the water,
and was drowned before aid could reach
him.
There died Wednesday in the penitentia-
ry of New Jersey convict who was for
merly janitor in bank at Elizabeth, where
he was caught fishing up bills from teller's
desk with cord, sinker and shoemaker's
wax through a hole in the second floor.
The wife of Rev. T., S. Strong, Metho
dist preacher at Dublin, Ga, has caused a
sensation by occupying the pulpit on alter
nate Sundays with her husband. Bishop
Pierce says that she should not be allowed
to preach, and Mrs. Strong prays for the
Bishops conversion.