The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1884-01-26
NINOR NEWS ITEMS


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| Nearly one fourth Of the business portion
OF ,4eipsic, o., was burned Friday night.
| Flames swept away las bales OF cotton At
! Murrell's Point, La, AMI twenty. one build
| IN IS at Lowell, Mich.
| Judge Shepard, in the Superior Court at
| Chicago, Saturday dismissed three bills foi
divorce, holding that when u wife separates
from her husband her residence rs well rs
her douiicile follows his and that the Hi
nois statute excludes from its courts all suits
for divorce in behalf of persons not legal
residents.
Mrs. j. NJ. Hood, of Frederick, Md, has
| given $4,000 to Franklin and Marshall Col
lege for an astronomical observatory.
Commodore Timothy A. Hunt kUnited
States Navy, died at New Haven, Conn,
| Monday, of congestion OF the lungs, aged
| seventy-nlne.
The Kentucky Legislature las chartered
pier bridge across the Ohio River from
Covington, between the present suspension
and railroad bridges.
Jay Gould Is said 70 contemplate another
exhibition of the contents of his huge tin
box, to allay public distrust as to his stand
| Ing. 1t is believed to hold SS0,00000 in
NeSleTu tilibll, olO,NuU,UVU III tiSsOuli
Pacific, S20,000,O0o in Texas Pacific. and a
| large amount of Wabash and Union Pacific
A grain firm in Chicago has adyces that
| a very high average is maintained by winter
wheat, which Is generally well covered
with SNOW. There appears to be large
percentage of soft and low-grade corn
throughout the West and In Illinois the
| hogs are evidently being held back to con-
sumo it,
The Queen OF Tahiti and suite arrived
| Tuesday evening Ut San Francisco by the
steamer Papeete.
The Iowa Congressman are urging the
appointment OF Representative McCoid OF
that State as successor TO Judge McClary.
The Bay County Savings Bank was organ
lied Tuesday at Bay City, Mich. The
capital Is $50, 900.
Miss Sarah Alton, OF Putaan, Conn,
claims to have been nearly cured of Spua!
disease by simultaneous prayers Offered At
her home ana in Bt,ton.
The nomination Of Emory Speor to be
United States Attorney for the Northern
District of Georgia has been confirmed by
the Senate, after along debate.
The harh1g Gf Grand Haven, Mich, is
blOckadAd by twenty or more feet Of ice,
and the propeller Michigan lies three miles
outside, awaiting an edsterlS wind
The Democratic District Conventions held
u. Philadelphia Indicate that Randall will
have q solid Pennsylvania delegation in the
National Convention.
An address to the political parties ha:
been issued by the National Temperance
Society asking the nomination OF prcsi'
dent and Vice President who favor prohibit
ton.
The trial of Mrs. Ellen Long, charged
with killing the boy Harvey WhittemOre,
was postponed at hartford, Wis, Tuesday,
until tho June term. Mrs Long pleaded
not guilty.
The united opposition to the Republicans
in the Second Kansas Congressional District
have nominated X w. Helaker to fill the
vacancy occasoned by the death OF ID, G..
Haskell.
Charles V. IIalpert, the forger who was
arrested in San Francisco last fall, restored
$4,000 of his ill-gottcn money, and was
sentenced by Boston Judge TO eight years
in the pentcntary.
There are three cases Of iiichiniasis in
the family of +. Vettcr, near Niles, Mich,
and four Germans named Heilman are con
Illttt u kilcIl Nt'lS az w ublSll, ilitNs, ttthl
the same cause. In the latter place the suf-
ferers havo daily partaken Of raw pork.
The people of Cincinnati have raised ST.,
900 to ply the expenses Of the Democratic
National Convention, and have sent Colonel
l.. A. Harris and Benjamin Robinson to
Washington to urge their claims Chicago
has raised Sl5, 900 for the same purpose.
The suit at San Francisco, which has
brought ont the Huntington letters, has
been postponed 4 week at the request of the
defense. 1t is now believed an attempt will
be made 30 settle with the Widow Cotton
rather than make public any more of the
inside workings OF Pacific Coast monopoly.
At a LGdies' mass meeting in Baltimore
Tuesday, having in view II fitting obscry-
ance Of the centennial Of Mcthodism i'll
America, Bishop Simpson and Rev. DR..
Gouchcr advocated the establishment of an
institution for the higher education of wom-
en-. A resolution passed nStructing the
committee arranging for the centennial ScrV-
ices TO give prt-eInineuce to the formation
and endowment of such female seminary.
Chicago now has nearly 2l,O0DG0O bush
els OF grain in store.
The storm signal has been .s-estAhl~hei
At East TawaS, Mich
Harry Moss, the humoust, died at New
Orleans Wednesday Of pneumonia,
The Grand Army reunion at Decatur, Ill.,,
next week, promise, to be Il notable event
One thousand African slaves have been
landed on the west coast of Madagascar 10y
Arabs.
General s. l. Alexander has been reap
pointed Adiutant General Of iowa by the
Governor.
The Coadjutor Bishop CT St Eouis, the
Right Rev. Patrick J, Ryan, has been
created an Archbishop.
Wednesday nine caIa ut u wrecked train
were pushed into the canal at New i.amber-
ton, y. j., Ia clear the track.
A movement Is on foot among the Penn
sylyania coke men for the purpose of OBJ
tanning increased and uniform prices.
Burglars blew open Il safe In store at
lronton. Wis, securing 81 800 Of the Town
Treasurer fluids, hUtOyerlOckri package
OF 81, 100
President Arthur and the Governors of
tho several States have been invited to at
tend the winter CarEi.a, at Montreal, begin.
ming February I.
Fourteen new case, OF ,lnail-poS were de-