The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1884-03-15
MINOR NEWS ITEMS.


be followed by party OF one hundred.
At Lafayette, Ind, Alexander Reyes,
and at Greensburg, Ind, Jacob Block, on
trial for murder, both were found guilty
and the penalty fixed at life Imprisonment.
A New York syndicate has taken $780,
600 of the bonds of the Henderson Bridge
Company, and the OHIO River at llender-
son, KY, will be bridged and railroad con-
nection he made continuous from ST. LOUIS
and Chicago to Nashville and points South.
The Grand jury at Norwalk, o., has in
dicted Nj. o. Vantleet, the dcfaulting County
Treasurer and suit has been brought against
his bondsmen for S47,60S. A true bull was
found against George b. Naniieet for re-
ceivng embezzled public funds, and he was
held in bonds of $1,000.
The LOngfellow Memorial Association
holds $4,000 in cash and land for monu'
ment site worth $4,000.
A Utica dispatch says that George Cragin,
who. with John Humphrey NOyeS, founded
the Oneida Community in 1S4S, was found
dead in bed there Sunday. Heart disease.
The dramatic festival at Cincinnati will
begin April 81. A contract was made Mon
day for the use of Music Hall for the occa-
sion.
The seceders from Hamilton College have
been refused admission to Union College,
the latter claiming that 1t could not gradu'
ate men it had not educated.
Twenty-seven clearing houses report
81, 129. 62S,053 clearances the past week
showing an increase over the corresponding
period of last year exceeding ll.6 per cent
Acknowledgement Mccartney, of Illinois,
has given an official opinion that the Ward
en- of a State Penitentiary is not authorized
by law to surrender prisoner upon
capas for trial for crime.
Abram Breath, one of the defenders OF
Elijah p. Lovejoy at Alton, ILL.,, in 1887
against the pro- slavery mob, and who wa!
in the building when LOyejOy was killed
died at Alton Monday afternoon, aged sew
enty-nine.
Peter Schmitz, wealthy builder of Chi
cago who recently killed his second wife a
No. St4 Mohawk street, ended his life II
Jail Monday by choking himself with ;
| three.ouarter inch cord which he held IL
his hand.
Active preparations are being made a
Dodge City, Kan, for the convention OF tn
Western Kansas StOck-grOwers assOcia
ton, beginning April 2. The Association
owns So, OOO, 900 worth Of cattle, and lead
ing cattle men throughout the Union vii
attend the gathering.
The house of Herr Hotthausen, Comp
troller of the Duchy of Brunswick at Haiti
minded, Germany, was robbed on the nigh
of February Is of $4,000. Young Holt
hansen, the Comptrollcr's son, one of TIT
burglars, was arrested at New York MOnda.
on the steamer Amsterdam.
The Massachusetts, House has passed g
bill providing for the tlOgging OF wife
beaters.
Cowan & Co., merchants Of Glasgow
have suspended payment with liabilities o.
100000
Ellie Ellsler, the actress, sues Brooks 4
Dickson for SOL, 800 damages for forfeiture
of contract
Captain Hunter, of the Salvation Army
Bridgeport. Conn.,, sues the Chief-of- Police
for $12, 900 for false arrest.
Serious damage to winter wheat by alter
nate freezing and thawing Is reported from
the Hillsboro en- district.
1t is stated that the lumber cut in Wis
consn the present season doubles the guam
tity felled last winter, and, as result
that prices will be materially reduced.
Mrs Fit and Mrs. Jones, sisters, owe
fifty years old, and daughter of the latter
were found starving at Montreal Tuesday
being so weak that they could not speak.
Helen King Spangler, wife of the Hon
T.. 7. Spangler, and author of "The Physi
clans Wife" and other novels, was founC
dead in her bathroom at CoshOctOn, o.
Tuesday. hpoplexy was the cause.
Henry Richardson. a leading member o
the vigilance committee of Brown County
Neb., was hung by unknown persons nea
his home at Morris Bridge. He has partic
ipated in the lynching of fourteen horse
thieves.
William Brown, the negro accused o
numbering the peddler at CahOkla, Ill.
made another confession Tuesday, saying
| that he first knocked his victim down will
a club when his wife finished him with al
ak, and then burnt the head, hands and feet
he simply assisting her in burying the mu
tilated corpse.
Near Lafayette Ind, Tuesday, Michae
Rorick wealthy farmer, was killed b.
| lightning.
Sitting Bull is being taken to MinneapOli:
by Major Mclaughlin to see something o
life among the whites.
Five labOrers were injured and one killed
by fall of coal in the AvOndale shaft
near Wilkesbarre Pa, Wednesday.
The yield OF lard in Cincinnati this sea
son is reported at 12,475,000 pounds, a de
crease of 3, 206, 600 pounds from last season
Nearly $4,000 was sunk at Portland
Oregon, by st. Louis journalist in endeay'
oring to establish the Northwest, which has
ceased to exist
n. w. Patten, of Marshfield, Wis, has
sold to George q. Wilcox, of Chicago, sly
thousand acres of pine lands in Lincoln
County, Wis, for 500 000
A terrible cyclone swept over Saline COun
ty, Mo, Wednesday, doing great damage to
farm houses and stock. No one was killed,
but several sustained serious injury.
Ex-Congressman j. +. Mckinney and II.
H. smiley, of Piqua, o., have been indicted
for receiving unlawful pension fees. They
have been admitted to bail in 81 900 each
City Treasurer John Boyle, of Erie, Pa.
recently defeated for a third term, has dis
appeared, and a cursory investigation de
velopes shortage in his accounts of 81, 900.
Two women were killed by the cyclone