The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1884-11-22
MINOR NEWS ITEMS.



TIE New York canals will close Decem.
her I.
Ore shipments for the season closed Mon
day at Marquette Mich, and the last clear
ances were made.
Mr.. Wait, of Connecticut, will be tho old
est member in the next National House Of
Representatives. He Is seyenty-siN.
A land syndicate in Utah is having papers
made ready 10 purchase sixty thousand acres
of land from the Central Pacific Road.
Mrs. W. w. Aston recently paid 80, 900
for = set Of ebony and gold furniture once in
the bOudor OF the ex-Empress Eugene.
In an affray nea Macon, Ca, arising
FROM settlement for some cotton, Ben Beck
and his son were shot dead by John and
Stephen Stubs.
The Baltimore l. Ohio Road reports Q
capital stock Of Sl4, 7S3, 900, aud an acc,lmu-
latel wealth OF S%i,,50,000 for which no
share was ever issued.
The British Chancellor of the EXchequer
proposes that the financial deficit, amount
ing to 81, 600, 900 this year, shall be met by
an additional penny in the pound on the in
come tax.
The Mehdi is a radical tOtal-abstnence
man, even to coffee and tobacco, which he
won't even allow in his camp. He lately
gave a refugee one hundred and fifty lashes
for smoking cigarette.
1t is said the nail and iron manufacturers
of New Jersey and Eastern Pennsylvania
are selling their products In New England
for less money than it costs the New En-
gland manufacturers to produce them.
The clearinghouse exchanges last week
-$157, So. 304-are SIS, SO4, 53s greater
than for the previous week. AS compared
with the corresponding period in 1888,
however, there y falling of of S32l ,2s0,-
043.
Robert Medium, director Of the Calcutta
india Tea Company, was arrested ut
Louisville, KY, Monday, for forgeries on
the company, amounting to 100000. An
officer will take him back to the scene Of
his crimes in few days.
The conference Of the Latin Monetary
Union. to be held in Paris has bean post
poned until January 10.
A French transport will sail for New
York In May next with Barthold's statue of
Liberty Enlightenng the World"
A drunkard now enjoying the benefits Of
the work-house at Le0minster, Mass, Is
Buffum, OF Lincoln. Ill.
The pOst-oifice and seven other structures
At Patterson, Pa. were destroyed by fire
early Tuesday morning, the loss being $780,
600. with $40, 900 insurance.
Louis Marie Quicherat, the well-known
photographer and philOlogist, died in Paris
Tuesday, aged eighty-three. His classical
dictionaries were the standard works in
French lyceums and colleges.
Two stores, with apartments in the up
per stories, at I.orkport, \. Y. were de-
stroyed by fire early Tuesday morning tt.
loss being $4,000 A. r. Odds an aged
man. attempted TO save a trunk containing
valuable papers. hut was hIlrnp4I to death.
The third annual International Bottegs
ENpo,itut under the auspices of the
United States Boitlers' Protective Ass0ca-
ton, opened in Cincinnati Tuesday. The
exhibition is novel, and is composed of
products of the bottlng trade, machinery.
etc.
June Il last Frank Il. Crooks. business
man of ShelbyyIle, H.. was found dead in
a pasture with his neck broken. Tuesday
Mrs. Marlborough and Miss Sophronea Nuts
were arrested at fancher ILL.,. for the muir
der and boy, Edward Rodgers, AS 4 wit
ness.
BY the wreck of freight train near Ray
vile, Ia, Wednesday morning -four tramp,
were killed.
The cornerstone OF crematory temple was
Wednesday laid ~ prof Felix Adler in CEN.
etery AT Grcenpoint. l.. !.
The UnIversaliSt Church ut Norwood, Mass,
was burned Wednesday morning. The loss il
$D,tvl, and the insurance *E,U0
By agreement OF the Western Association,
Iksap n nnttx nf ln,tn ryil lao ru.iI
from thirky six Ia tiiirty-two per cent
Patterson X Tomlinson. agricultural nipple
mentS, al LOgttnsport, Ind failed ednesiuy,
with liabilities between $4,000 and $4,000
4 London journal states that james Russell
Lowell, when relieved from duty us American
Minister, will take up his residence ut oxford.
Caleb HUT Il married man of Toronto, has
eloped to the United States with Captain"
Fisher an Irish girl connected with the Saliva
ton army
Forty coalminers, when arraigncd AT wash.
ineton. Pa, for interfering with non-union
workmrn tEade no defense. and were each
hned one cent ami costs.
The low state of the wells in the Contoc0ck
IN. H. district Is causing serious sickness; In
some places the schools have been closed.
Dphtheria and scarlet fever are claiming
many victims
Dakotas new capitol, at Bismarck having
been completed, Governor Pierce has issued a
proclamation under the removal act re,llir-
ing ali Territorial officers 10 be at Bismarck
within thirty days.
The Supreme Court of the United states de-
cideS that ii has no Jurisdiction in eases
brought by citizens Of Virginia against an in
suranCe company to recover losses sustained
by hre on the evacuation of Richmond by the
Confederate armies.
Contractors of the new Georgia Capitol hav-
ing decided Ia use Indiana stone in its con
structon, an effort WAS made to have the
product y, Georgia qusrrieS used instead, but
the Legislature "Wednesday almost unnni- !
mousy Endorsed the selection of the con ,
tractors
improvements in the Fast Mall.
WASHINGTON. Nov. 49, Superintendent
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