The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1884-02-02
MINOR NEWS ITEMS.


| improved Oy MS sulOurn III the southwest
William ii. Craft walked S02 miles at
| Syracuse, \. Y, in 100 hours, withou, sleep
The salary OF Robert Harris as President
! of the Northern Pacific Road i $50, COO per
annun.
An epidemic Of peculiar character il
killing OIL cattle in large numbers in Dewitt
County, Ill.
The jewclry store of r. &, Hayden,
Brooklyn, was rosbed Of $4,000 wOrJh. OF
/ jewelry Saturday night
Paul n. Klose, % Milwaukee, found a
! pOcket-bo0k containing over 500, and was
arrested for larceny Tor keeping il. His
= counsel took contrary view, ana Judge
/ Hamilton ordered the jury TO bring in YER
dict OF acquittal.
Michael kagle, of Canton, O., aged fifty
four, and having Il wife and seven children,
while in a denented condition wandered
! from home Friday night, addressed and
went 10 sleep IN the open all, and WAS found
frozen to death Saturday morning.
Arrangements are being made fOr the
establishment in Chicago Of a Presbyterian
church in which the services will be- held in
the Gaelic tongue.
! About twenty leading ladies and gentle
men OF Boston met Monday and made ar
! rangemtntS for the establishment OF ere
matOry in that city.
A party of tilty.tive Apache children have
started from Arizona for the training school
at Carlisle, Pa, accompanied by Agent Will
cox and four chiefs
| According to the Iron Il Steel Association
reports the total production OF plg-lron in
| this country during the year ended Decem-
! Der 81. lSSB. W. ,l.lt III. NJ tons.
The Brigham Young Academy Nor
mon school at Provo, Utah. in which were
four hundred students, burned Sunday
night, There Were many narrow escapes.
! The official list, o; the awards of the
! London Fishery commissioners show that
| United States exhibitors head the list with
forty-nine gold, forty seven silver and
! twenty-Seven bronze medals.
! Judge Barrett, of the Brooklyn IN "
| Supreme Court has decided that under the
/ penal code of New York State there is nc
such an otfense as assault and battery. II
! Is claimed that this viii release AL persons
confined for that crime.
The commercial agency OF Il. G. Dun
| " Co., at ST. Louis, was damaged by fire
| Sunday TO the amount of $40, 900. The
records OF Wisconsin were destroyed, and
those of Nebraska, Kansas and Texas
slightly damaged
John Ray, u wealthy farmer living neal
Lafayette, Ind, who disappeared in Chi.
cagO seventeen years ago and was supposed
to have been murdered, turned up at his old
home a few days ago. From the facts that
the courts declared him dead and scttl ed his
| estate, the lawyers are somewhat betogged
regarding his legal status,
The Cincinnati Tanners Association has
increased the price of harness leather one
cent
Samuel Evans, "A col0red man, who was
buried at Jerseyvtlle, Ill.,, Tuesday, was
born n slave in New Jersey in 1905.
Orlando +. Bump an eminent lawyer OF
Baltimore, and author of Tho Law and
Practice OF Bankruptcy" died Tuesday
1t is said Ohio coal operators intend to
reduce wages from eighty to sixty cents a
ton March !, aud that a strike will be the
result,
An explosion of dynamite cartridges In the
office of contractors for the Canada Pacific
Railroad, near MichipicotOn a week ago,
killed five wOrltmen
Tho House Military Committee favors a
bill to remove the charge Of dcsertiDn from
soldiers who went home at the close Of the
wal without a discharge.
Mrs Catherine Mosier, residing near
Erie, Pa, was scratched by a cat which she
attempted TO drive from her house few
days ago, and is now suffering from lock-
jaw.
A milling firm in Logansport, Ind, sued
the city for damages caused by taking its
water supply from Eel River, es,ening tho
power in the dam below, and was awarded
800 per year,
One Conner, aged nineteen, a bag. opener
in the po,t-otlice at Detroit, confessed
Tuesday that he riiied three thousand let /
tiers in the past sin months, his object being !
10 secure enough money 10 marry his
sweetheart
Lieutenant Warhlm, of the State militia, |
a locomotive engineer, residing at Oil City, !
Pa, was killed in "a railroad accident Tues /
day morning, and in the evening there ar ,
rived by express the medal for best marks /
manship which he won at the State en-
campment last summer
The winter wheat crop in Dewitt
County, ILL.,, is in excellent condition.
The Western League of ball players was
organized at Rock ISLAND, ILL.,. Wednesday,
The steamer Rhywabons was wrecked on
the Welsh Coast Tuesday night and eleven
persons persisted
The exports from the United States for
the past year were $l0s, 1884 greater in
value than the exports.
Adyiccs from South Australia are to the
effect that the surplus OF wheat FOR export
VIII be $4,000, 600 bushels.
The mare Midnight dam of jay Eye See
and NoUutide died last Saturday at Palo
Alto, Cal. aged nineteen years.
Wesley Dawson. residing near Wabash.
Ind, has become raying maniac from loss
es in grain specuations at Milwaukee.
General Hancock has returned to Gov
errors Island, after a Western tour cover
ing two months, and was warmly well
coined.
The Canadian minister of public works
reports the cost of operating the Govern
ment telegraph lines last year at $50 900,
while the receipts were only S}7, 900.
Suspended about the neck of Mrs. Louisa
Helms, who was killed by train at Pater-
son, n. j., were found "a quarter dollar, the
Of a chicken, and a card giving
her name and address.
The Canadian Pacific Road threatens TO
carry immigrants from Toronto and Mon