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

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At Lafayette, Ind, Alexander Reyes,
and at Greensburg, Ind, Jacob Block, on
trial for murder, both were found guilty
aud the penalty fixed at life Imprisonment.
A New York syndicate has taken $780,
900 of the bonds of the Henderson Bridge
Company, and the Ohio River at llender-
son, KY, will be bridged and railroad con-
necton be made continuous from ST. Louis
and Chicago to Nashville and points South.
The Grand jury at Norwalk, o., has in
dicted Nj. q. Vantleet, the dcfaulting County
Treasurer, and suit has been brought against
his bOndsmen for SAT sos. "A true bill was
found against George b. Vantieet for re-
ceivng embezzled public funds, and he was
held in bonds of 81, 900.
The Longfelow Memorial Association
holds $4,000 in cash and land for monu-
ment site worth SIS, 600.
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 it could not gradu-
ate men it had not educated.
Twenty-seven clearing houses report
81, 1919. 62S, 053 clearances the past week,
showing an increase over the corresponding
period of last year exceeding 11.6 per cent.
Attorney General Mccartney, of Illinois,
has given an official opinion that the Ward
en- of State Pententary is not authorized
by law to surrender prisoner upon {.
capias 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 was
in the building when LOvejOy was killed,
died at Alton Monday afternoon, aged sew
enty-nine.
Peter Schmitz, a wealthy builder OF Chi
cago, who recently killed his second wife at
No. ia Mohawk street, ended his life in
Jail Monday by choking himself with a
three-auarter inch cord which he held in
his hand.
Active preparations are being made at
Dodge City, Kan, for the convention of the
Western Kansas Stock-grOwers' assOcia-
ton, beginning April 2. The Association
owns SIS, 900, 900 worth Of cattle, and lead
ing cattle men throughout the Union will
attend the gathering.
The house of Herr HOtthausen, Comp
trOller of the Duchy of Brunswick, at Haiti
minded, Germany, was robbed on the night
of February Is of $4,000. Young Holt
hansen, the ComptrOller's son, one of the
burglars was arrested at New York Monday
on the steamer Amsterdam.
The Massachusetts, House has passed a
bill providing for the tlogging OF wife
beaters.
Cowan & Co., merchants of Glasgow,
have suspended payment with liabilities of
E1O0 600
Ellie Elsler, the actress, sues Brooks &
Dickson for SOL, 800 damages for forfeiture
of contract
Captain Hunter, of the Salvation Army,
Bridgeport, Conn.,. sues the Chief-of-Police
for S12, 900 for false arrest.
Serious damage to winter wheat by alter
nate freezing and thawing Is reported from
the Hillsboro Qll.) district.
1t is stated that the lumber cut in Wis
consin 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, over
fifty years old, and a 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.
Il. Il. Spangler, and author of 'The Physi-
clans Wife, and other novels, was found
dead in her bathroom at CoshoctOn, o.,
Tuesday. hpoplexy was the cause.
Henry Richardson, a leading member of
the vigilance committee Of Brown County,
Neb., was hung by unknown persons near
his home at Morris Bridge. He has partlc-
ipated in the lynching of fourteen horse
thieves.
William Brown, the negro accused of
numbering the peddler at Cahokia, ILL.,,
made another confession Tuesday, saying
that he first knocked his victim down with
q club, when his wife finished him with an
ak, and then burnt the head, hands and feet,
he simply assisting her in buryng the mu-
tlated corpse.
Near Lafayette, Ind, Tuesday, Michael
Rorick, wealthy farmer, was killed by
lightning.
Sitting Bull is being taken to Minneapolis
by Major Mclaughlin to see something Of
life among the whites.
Five laborers were injured and one killed
ny d IdIi VI todi III llt hNolludit Siidll
near Wilkesbarre, Pa, Wednesday.
The yield OF lard in Cincinnati this sea-
son Is reported at 12,475, 600 pounds, a de-
crease of 800 600 pounds from last season
Nearly $4,000 was sunk at Portland,
Oregon, by st. Louis journalist in endeav-
oring to establish the Northwest, which has
ceased to exist.
n. w. Patten, of Marshfeld Wis, has
sold to George q. Wilcox, of Chicago, six
thousand acres of pine lands in Lincoln
County, Wis, for 500 900.
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.
ii. 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 1000.
Two women were killed by the cyclone
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