The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1884-09-06
MINOR EWS ITEMS.


Because of the re-establshment Of the
pool, whisky advanced at Cincinnati Mon
day from Sl.07 to Sll0
The Governor of illinois has appointed
William l.. Gross, of Springfield, Judge Of
the Fifth Circuit, TO succeed Judge Zane.
The coal miners of Des Moines and vcn-
ity decided Monday upon hal-cent AL
vance, and the indications are thar a strike
| will result
| Hotel Newport, near Asbury Park, y. j.,
burned Monday night, several OF the guests
! having narrow escapes The loss is $50,
! 600; insured.
Laura f.. Dainty, well known as an eio-
cutionst has been made defendant in suit
! for divorce, in Chicago, the ground being
| desertiOn in 1850.
John Schuman, aged nineteen, living at
Eureka, ILL.,, stepped up to his mother Mon
day, kissed her, walked outside the door
and shot himself dead.
Father Higgins, of st. Joseph College,
, Somerset, o., has received fiom the Pope
the degree of master. He is the first per-
son in this country so honored.
The third annual exhibition of the Ma
tional Mining industrial Exposition was
opened Monday at Denver. There was an
extensive parade in the afternoon,
The clearing house exchanges for last
week $3.50, 1859, 1867 are S50,0S2 less than
the preceding week, and when compared
with the corresponding period in 1888 show
a decrease of 24.7 per cent
The electrical exhibition was formally
opened Tuesday at Philadelphia.
Secretary Folger is rapidly regainng his
health.
The wheat harvest in the Red River Val
ley is practically over, the average yield
being better than last year.
Congressman Casey Young was severely
injured at Washington Tuesday, his buggy
breaking down and the horse running away,
dragging him some distance.
The Pittsburgh Council has instructed the
Chief-ol-Police to make ample apology to
the Austrian Consul for tearing down his
flag, and the order will be meekly obeyed.
Mrs. Nellie Ilolbrook, who stumped Cali
forna for Hayes in 1876, and Connecticut
for Garfield, left San Francisco Tuesday fol
Indiana, where she will speak during the
campaign for Blaine.
The miners in the Black Diamond and
Barclay Galleries, in the Bellevlle Qu.)
district have struck for an advance, and
trouble is impending in the other mines, A
serious strike is threatened
Mr.. Nash called upon his fancee Alice
McCiban, Saturday evening at CadL, o.,
and when parting iOcularly informed her
that he had decided to sever their relations.
The girl Immediately swOoned, and re-
manned unconscious until her death Mon
day. At times she was seized with Spasms,
when it required the efforts of three men
to control her. Nash is likely to lose his
reason.
The earnings of the Mexican Central
Ro I'd for August are said to have been
nearly $3.50, 900,
At Mitchell, "Wednesday, the corner stone
Of the new Dakota University, a Methodist
institution, was laid,
Reber ~ Finkenbinder agricultural i'm
plementS, at Lena, Ill.,, made an assign
ment wednesday, with liabilities of so, 900.
Minneapolis reports her shipments of
flour for the past twelve months at 4,Sl4,-
424 barrels, an increase Of twenty per cent.
The George Woods Organ Company, Mid
dleseX, Mass, is insoivent. Its liabilities
are $50, 600 with nominal assets OF $685.
900.
The players refusing to accept guarantees
for their pay for the rem Under of the sea-
SON. the Minneapolis baseball club dis
banded Wednesday,
A Boston firm will sell on September %
$3.50 900 of Mexican Central Railway Sc
curities, prominent promoter of the road
having failed to liqudate the loan foI which
they were hypothecated.
Lord Wolseley teleyraphed to Winnipeg
for birch bark canoe for his own u-e on
the Nile, and it was promptly ,ecured !
Fifty three voyageurs and raftsWn will
leave Manitoba for Egypt next Saturday.
Frank Frisbic, exchange clerk in the First |
National Bank Of Portland, Ore, WAS ar
rested on Pacific Mail steamer at New
York on Wednesday for stealing from the !
bank $1,000, deposited by the Northern
Pacific Railway.
The receipts from saloon licenses in Chi |
cago under the Harper law have already |
exceeded 5000 600 and it is evident that |
the city treasury will have a surplus of
$500, 600 at the end OF the year from this |
source of revenue.
The hosiery factory of ADsheI Lehman, |
in South Union street, Chicago, was yester- |
day closed by the Sheriff. The liabilities |
are Sl5, 900. Knowing that he could not |
escape failure, Nj. Lehman recently re-
turned two invoices Of yarns to their owners
in New York unopened.