The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1884-05-03
MINOR NEWS ITEMS.
For Week Ended May L,

The number of bills introduced in the
House of Representatives during the present
session is 6,S5S.
Cold weather and heavy rains have com
PEELED the replanting of cotton in the district
about Columbus, Tex.
Edward ID. Huntington, n well known
capitalist of Cincinnati, died suddenly Mt
that city Monday night.
On charge of the Otterville train robbery
Frank James, the bandit, was Monday, ut
Bonneville, Mo-, admitted to bail in $4,000.
Advices from Cape Town mention strike
and serious disorders in the diamond fields
The men are searched daily at the conciu-
sion of work.
Alexander Mitchell says the ST. Paul Road
will soon complete its branch from Cedar
Rapids to Ottumwa, but will make no new
extensions this year. n
All the German Princes have agreed if
the Reischstag rejects the keasure prolong..
ing the anti-Socialist law Ne dissolution of
that body shall ensue.
Mrs. Helen Cowles Pomeroy, wife of the
American Minister at Cairo and daughter
OF Edwin Cowles, of Cleveland. died Mon
day at Florence, Italy.
The Sheriff ate Garysburg, n. c., arrested
two prominent cOlored politicians who were
about to fight a duel. On the person of one
he found two overcoats and plate of sheet
iron fifteen inches square.
1t is estimated that some $4,000 animals,
including thoroughbred bulls, stations and
young cattle will be shipped over the North
ern Pacific Road to the Montana ranges this
season.
A bill was introduced into the House
Monday making it unlawful to collect
fare on any conveyance throughout the
United States when passengers could not
secure seats.
A fierce rainstOrm submerged the country
around Dallas, Tex, Sunday night, result
ing in serious washouts on railways. The
volume of water emptying into Trinity
River was so great that it changed the cur
rent, the river flowing up stream
The vacant Presidency OF Bowdoin COL
lege has been offered to Professor q. 4.
German, of Amherst
Over half the cattle in Southern Utah
have died from starvation and exposure
during the past winter
The druggists of Racine have decided not
to sell liquor for any purpose, as they de-
cline to pay license OF $50.
Aduterated tea to the amount of 450
chests was seized Tuesday at New York on
a steamer which arrived from London.
A construction train on the Mexican Cen
trial Road was wrecked Tuesday at Ottera,
killing two American employees and wound
ing ten.
George c. Cargill, Dun's Commercial
Agency representative at Des Mones for
several years, has absconded. Dabbing in
grain ontiouS led tO his downfall
The Eagle Stave Works, at Van Vert,
the State were burned Tuesday, with 500,-
900 slaves. The loss is heavy, but is well
covered by insurance,
The House sub Committee on PoSt-oiices,
considering the contract system OF teleg-
raphy, has decided to make twenty five
cents the maximum for twenty words
throughout the United States.
The ive-story structure Nos 81 and "a
Duane street, extending to Thongs street,
New York, occupied by dry-gooM dealers,
was entirely destroyed by fire tuesday
night, resulting in loss of $3.50, 600.
The stewards of the Grand OWeuit fixed
the trottmg dates Tuesday at Rochester, the
circuit opening at Pittsburgh, July 1913,
thence to Cleveland Buffalo, Rochester,
HARTFORD, 1ToVlueICe, anu CuSIhS III IA
bany. September 9-l2
A canvass of train between Milwaukee
and Madison, carrying principally delegates
to the Wisconsin Republican Convention,
was made Tuesday as to Presidential pref
erences giving Arthur II; Blaine, 8; Ed
munds, 4; Fairchild, 2, and Tilden, |.
The British House of Commons has re-
jected by a vote Of i49 to 10 the bill licens-
ing crematorieS.
The maple sugar crop in Calhoun and
Barry Counties, Mich, this season will
largely exceed last years yield.
It Is officially denied that O'Kelly, the
newspaper correspondent, has been arrest
ed by order of the Egyptian Government
According to the official report of the re-
cent railroad accident near Ciudad- heal,
Sp in, fifty-nine persons were killed and
ffty-six injured.
Small pox is epidemic at Charleston, Ill
The schools were closed Wednesday, and
the Circuit Court, Just convened for the
spring term, adjourned until fall
The Siamese embassy Is expected to ar
rive at New York next Sunday, and Gen
eral Hancock has ordered salute of TWEEN
ty-one guns to be fired at Governors Island.
Albert Withelmes fourteen-year- old
daughter died at Canton, o., Wednesday
from tho effects OF jumping skipping rope
three hundred and iifty-scven consecutive
times
Trichnoss caused the death of Mr.. Friess
at Baltimore Wednesday, and three OF his
daughters are in precarlOus condition.
The infected pork was eaten last Friday at