The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1884-10-18
MINOR EWS ITEMS.
For Week Ended October 10.


A boiler explosion in HARRISON County
Ca, Monday killed three men and wounded
several others.
Hutchms 4 Shoemaker's terra Gotta
works at Wyoming, Pa, were burned Mon
day evening, the loss being $50, 900.
DR.. Albert Kendrick, one of the oldest
physicians IN the State, died at Waukesha,
Wis, Monday morning, aged seventy-hye.
The Bennett Mackay Cable Company
will lay branch line between Waterville,
Ireland, and Ilayre, France, at an early
date.
The Eastern synod of the Reformed
Church of the United States, at PottStown,
Pa, Monday, resolved in favor of constitu-
tional prohibition.
Clearinghouse exchanges last week
$40, T51 Scare S64, 243S03 less than the
preceding week; and when compared with
the same time in 1858 the loss equals 1872
per cent
In political quarrel at Paris, H., Satur-
day. Marshall Smith shot and wounded
George Collier and Bud Elliott, the latter
mortally. Smiths brother, Tom, held Ell
lott ON his back while Marshall shot him.
Having been rebuked by officials of the
church for attending circus performance,
Rev. DR.. A. w. Lightbourne pastor of the
NJ. f. Church at Easton Md, has resigned,
and goes TO New York to become jour
naliSt
Lady Catherine Gaskell, in an English
magazine, says the wives and daughters OF
farmers should not be educated. If kept
in ignorance they would submit to many
privatOnS and would not grumble ut hum
bic fare coarse clothing, hard work and
long hours.
first Of the season.
Buck a. Fishel, of New York, notion
dealers, made an assignment Tuesday, their
preferences amounting to $4,000.
For the week ended Tuesday produce ex-
ports from New York reached S5,G5l 900,
against S1,lt0,000 the previous week.
The coal combination in Pennsylvania
has ordered suspension of mining one
week in November and two weeks in De-
cCmber.
The cornerstone of the Chicago Hospital
for Women and Children was laid Tuesday.
The building will cost about 100000 Dr.
Mary Ii. Thompson founded the charity
nineteen years ago. th N''
The handsome and spacious hall presented
10 the Chicago Theological Seminary'b BY the
late Cyrus Ii. Mccormick WAS formally
handed over Tuesday evening by son OF
the giver. Its cost was $4,000, exclusive
Of furniture. ., I'D .H...'r. H'4r ' 1919.
Rev. Melville Smith, of Newburyport,
Mass. has been taken to an insane asylum
as the result Of wound received from a
shell during the war. Before the rebellion
he had q law practice In st. Louis worth
$40, 600 per annpm. l,,,rsnf q ui f"u b.
The packing-house Of Davies, Atkinson
h Co., at the Chicago Stock Yards, was, at
tached on Judgment Tor s95, l79 IN favor
of the Continental National Bank. Mr..
Davies Is resident Of Liverpool to which
port nearly all the product Of the house has
heretofore been shipped. $780,
There was heavy frost in Virginia
Tuesday night which damaged vegetation.
AT Boston Wednesday bronze statue of
John Harvard, founder Of Harvard Uni
versity, was unveiled
The lighthouse at Hell Gate, near New
York, was last evening Illuminated by nina
electric lamps, which are visible for fifty
miles. r.r...r.
Lolita was unable to begin her engage
memt at Philadelphia Tuesday night because
of a severe cold, but serious results are not
anticipated, ell. .... ..t -.
1t is reported that nearly four hundred
sugar estates In Cuba have been either de
stroyed or abandoned by owners during the
last decade. .f...... s.
The procession formed at Worcester,
Mass. to commemorate the city'S bicenten-
NAL, was nearly three miles In length. The
Mayors of thirteen cities were present
The head Of the pateitmedicine firm Of
Smith Brothers & Co., OF Montreal, has sud-
denly gone Oh tour OF the States, forget
ting that $40, 900 is due to business friends.
A foreclosure suit on a 100000 mort
gage was begun Wednesday at New York
against the Long Branch Improvement Com
pany, whose property consists OF IN hotel,
cottages and bathing hOnses. ,,.
The dispute between the Masonic CT -Gad
Lodges Of Quebec and England IL aSsulnN-
a serious phase, and the Quebec body con
template fOrbidding It's subordinate lodges
from recognizing English MaSons, ...
The Grand jury Mt Winona, MINI, has
indicted three Judges OF election and an
aldermanic canli date for placing three huna
bred fraudulent votes in the ballot-box last
spring. One of the judges pleaded guilty.
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