The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1884-09-20
MINOR NEWS ITEMS.
For week Ended September IS.

A violent hail and rain storm visited the
Cedar Rapids Qa.) section Monday night
A strike Of the pork butchers at Limerick
throws 5000 men idle and virtually sus-
ponds the bacon trade.
Two concerts for the benefit Of families OF
cholera victims in France and Italy are
being arranged at New York.
Charles S. Osborn has been appointed
permanent receiver of the Wall Street
Bank. His bond was fixed at 500, 900.
B.F. Mills, General Passenger and Tick
ct Agent of the b., G. X. Il z. Road for
many years, died Sunday night at Cedar
Rapids, la.
The Wilmington Union Base Ball Club
disbanded Monday without playing game
with the Kansas City Club who were in the
city.
The Eastern Synod OF the German Re
formed Church, in session at Pittsburgh the
past week, adjourned Monday to meet next
year in ST. Johns Reformed Church, Balti-
more September B.
4. j. Gay, n sugarplanter with an estate
Of 1000, 900, has accepted nomination
for Congress by the Democrats of the Third
Louisiana District in the hope OF defeating
William Pitt Kellogg.
Clearing house exchanges the past week
-S633, S3l, 4O6-are $50 724,75s less than
for the preceding week, and when COM
pared with the corresponding period in 1888
show decline of 37.7 per cent.
Christopher Mann celebrated his one hun
bred and tenth birthday Monday near In
dependence, Mo. He is the father of twen-
ty eight children, and has always used to-
baccO and whisky, but never wore Specta-
cles.
A gale during Monday afternoons per-
Torrance leveled Barrett's circus and men
agerie tents at Winona, Mimi, few per
sons receiving severe injuries. The ami
mails were not excited and there was no
panic.
A masked man on Monday entered the
residence of William JennisOn, School
Treasurer OF Washington Township, Ia,
demanded the funds and killed Mrs Jenni-
son when she informed him the money was
in the bank. He is liable to be lynched by
a party of citizens
The wife of General G. w. Cullom, nee
widow of General Haleck, died at New
York Tuesday morning.
President Seelye, of Amherst College.
Tuesday declined the Prohibitionist nomi-
nation for Governor OF Massachusetts,.
The United States vs.. Canada cricket
match was finished Tuesday at Philade-
phia, the Canadians winning, $50 to $50.
The school census of Dubuque is the basis
for claim of 80, 900 population.
Fire in New York late Tuesday night de-
stroyed the building occupied bS Nichols IL
Co., marble and slate mantle manufacture
ers. Loss, 100000.
The earth over the mines at Ashland,
Pa, is caving and several houses are threat
ened. Work has been suspended in the
North Ashland mine.
Fire at East Saginaw Tuesday dc.
stroyed six dwellings, boarding house,
Office and 20, 900 cords OF slabs, upon which
the total loss is Sll, 900.
An excursion train of eight coaches, filed
with American citizens, crossed the border
to Monterey and Saltilo to participate in
the celebration of the Mexican independence
day.
The steamship Jeranos, with 90, 600
bushels of wheat from New Orleans for
Dunkirk, is ashore near the Mississippi
River jettieS and lies in dangerous posi-
ton.
Fleming r. Moore, an attorney Of Mil
ford, H., was brought to Chicago and held
for trial on charge OF retaining $685.
from pension obtained for an inmate Of
the insane asylum at Kankakee.
After being out eleven weeks thirty of
the men employed in IIartman's steel
works at Beaver Falls, Pa., returned to
work Tuesday under pledge TO desert the
AmalgamAted Association.
The Captain of revenue cutter cruising
off the coast Of Alaska suggests that the
Collector at San Francisco limit tie guam
tity of liquors and fire. arms to be carried
by whalers, on account of their trading.
The anthracite coal combination will sus-
pend mining for week, beginning next
Wednesday,
Earl Dutiern's appointment as Viceroy OF
Russian official organs.
An industrial school for Indians, with ac-
eOmmOdatOns for four hundred pupils, was
on Wednesday opened at Lawrence Kan.
Acknowledgement King OF Governor
Clevelands staff, is to represent Nevada as
proxy in the National Democratic Commit
tee
John Nelson, a printer, attempted to OIL
ter Mrs f. G. Stewards residence at St
Lonis Wednesday and the woman shot him
d cad
The Knights of Malta closed their ''cOnvo-
cation at Philadelphia Wednesday, and in
stalled Charles McClintock as Most Emf
nent Grand Commander.
Hon. Walter Evans, Commissioner OF
Internal Revenue, is mentioned as possible
successor to the late; Secretary Folger.
General Sharpe is said to have refused the
portfolio.
A dry-goods firm in New York recently
saleswoman named Agnes f.
Francois of stealing from the store. She
was soon caught in the act, and surrendered
valued at Sl,S75, when she was
sent TO Jail.
Henry A. Frellsen, New Orleans mer-
chant who, when = subject OF Denmark,
took an active part in Greece's struggle for
freedom and there became intimate with
Lord Byron, died Wednesday at the age OF
eighty four years
Forged Endorsements to the amount OF
So, 900 have been confessed by Samuel
Wannamaker, once q wealthy citizen of
Youngstown, o., who fed last June. He
recently returned in penniless state and
nearly dead from consumption, and thought
best to divulge the truth.