The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1884-04-12
MINOR NEWS ITEMS.
For Week Ended April 10.

poet. is de at, aged siyty-eight.
Ex-Governor }. c. Burrows of Michigan,
has been confirmed by the Senat1 as SOlic-
fitor OF the Treasury.
The population OF the city of Brooklyn
now is go, 900, the increase being at the
rate OF about 1900 year.
The saw-mil and furniture factory OF S.
b. Anderson, at Berlamont, Mich, valued
at $40, 00o, Was burned Saturday night.
The Gem City Polo Club, Of Dayton, o.,
are now the champions, having defeated
the indianapolis club twice. A movement
is ON foot Tor the organization Of National
league.
Senator Miller of California, has tele-
grapled the Republican Central Committee
OF his State from Washington absolutely de-
clining to be a candidate for the Presden-
tial nomination.
A Texas Pacific train was wrecked near
Cisco, Tex. Saturday morning, the bag
gage Car and three coaches tumbling down
al many injured
Mrs +. w. Metz, residing in Seventh
street. Louisville, who had been suffering
from dementia, flung herself from third
floor window early Sunday morning, and
wac iutuils ttuohCu VIZ thS SiuVNuih
The leading candidates for delegates from
the District of Columbia to the National
Republican Convention at Chicago are Co..
onel ngersoll, A. NJ Ciapp, Colonel Cork
kill, Prof. Gregory and Fred Douglass.
The right leg (below the knee of Hon.
E. w. Barber, Third Assistant Postmaster
General under Grant, was amputated Fri
day at his home at Jackson, Mich ulcer of
a, -, ,t.I lt
His speedy recovery is expected
The Young Mems Democratic Club of
Brooklyn gave dinner Saturday evening,
at which "A number of leading Local Demo-
Gratis were present and several Senators and
congressman. Senator Bayard was the
principal speaker.
Howard C. Trip, poet and magazine
writer of Lemars, Ia, who had lampoOned
certain parties in poems and sketches, was
shot dead in the streets of l.emars Wednes-
day evening by an unknown person. He
was tweniy-three years old, and had been
warned to leave that section of the country.
Prospects for the wheat crop in England
are good but trade is slow. Flour rules
lower, and corn is easier.
Colonel Breckenridge. bank president
of San Antonio has purchased $500, 900
acres Of land in the Mexican state OF Tanau-
lipas.
At the annual meeting of the London
Athletic Club, w. G. George ran ten miles
in 81 minutes and 20 seconds, eclipsing all
records.
A. c. Knopf, grain commission mer.
chant in Chicago has been forced to sus
pend by the failure of country customers to
keep up their margins. His liabilities are
$50, 600.
The Northwestern Road is to swallow the
Sioux City IL Pacific and the Elkhorn 4
Missouri Valley leased lines, 905 miles OF
track, assuming their bonded Indebtedness
of SIS, 900, 900.
Monroe l.. Willard and other Chcagoans
have incorporated at Springfield, ILL.,, the
American Desiccating Company, with
capital of $500, to dry eggs and other
perishableS.
Clearing house returns last week-S9S2,-
O4S OS4--are $134, 667, $50 greater than the
preceding week, and when compared with
the corresponding period of 1883 show a de.
crease of O.. per cent.
While ascending mountain near Charles.
ton, w. Va, with party of friends, c. p.
Willard reached one end of rifle cane to
young lady. AS she caught hold 1t OK.
plOded sending bullet through Wizards
heart
Subscription books for cable railway
were opened In New York, Tuesday, and In
one hour 100000 Of stock was taken
The Government Inspector of Live Stock
at Montreal reports four-fifths of the sheep
in La Prairie County infected with disease.
The infected districts have been quaran-
tined.
The strike of the brakemen on the New
York. Pennsylvania & Ohio Railway, which
closed the freight traffic for week, ended
Monday night in compromise.
Andrew Cunningham, of Chicago, has laid
claim to the estate of the notorious Kate
Townsend, of New Orleans, who was muir
dered by Troisvile Sykes. Cunningham al.
leges that the deceased was his sister
At the banquet of the Iroquois Club in
Chicago, next Tuesday evening, responses
to the toasts will be made by Senator
PendletOn, Governor HOady, j. Sterling
Morton and Ex-Governor Hubbard, OF
Texas.
The Democrats of Cincinnati elected their
entire ticket with the exception of Clerk of
the Police Court, by majOrities of from 400
to 500. In Cleveland the Republican can
~
of 5000.
While the remains of Mr. Milton were be-
ing inferred at Wabash, Ind, Tuesday, the
coffin burst twice, the corpse on both oc-
casions breaking through and falling into
the grave. AT the third attempt proper in
terment was effected.
Senator Mahone's condition is such that
he has left Washington for Petersburg
Judge d. T. Cowen, who was Lieutenant-
Colonel of the Fifty-Second Ohio NOlun-
teers, died Wednesday at Clairsvlle, o.
The Calumet and lIecla Mining Company
has for the first time in seventeen years
passed its dividend, causing the stock to
drop in the Boston market from 225 to 200.
The heaviest snOw-stom Of the winter
prevailed "Wednesday in the Pennsylvania
coal region. Railroad travel is retarded
and some collieries have suspended Heavy
snow also fell in Maryland.
+. +. Bates has been held to bail in Chi
cagO in the amount of 81. 800 for swindling
sixteen Italian labOrers, whom he brought