The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1884-01-12
MINOR NEWS ITEMS.
FOR WEEK. Ended january 10.

| namely: Massachusetts,, Connecticut, New
York, New Jersey, Maryland, Ohio, Iowa,
Kentucky and Mississippi.
Teams are carrying passengers, mails and
freight between Mackinaw City and st. h.
mace.
The Board o! Health at Rochester, Mimi.
has Quarantined hotel where there arc six
cases of diphtheria.
Charles Delmonlco, the famous restau.
ratelr of New York, who has been regard
ed as OF unsound mind, has nysteriOusly
disappeared.
Mail from the country districts, five days
overdue, was brought to Quebec Saturday
on snOw-sl,Oes. Such . blockade has not
been known for twenty years.
statement, OH the authority Of one largely
interested in the iron trade. that there IL a
scheme Oh foot to pool the N,tirs pig iron
industry If .GS country,
The administrator OF the estate OF Arthur
". Fox of Buffalo. has sued e. 5. fIamlin
and his three sons to recover 81 900, 900
worth OF the stock of the Grape SUGAR Com
pany, which was Illegally withheld.
The Chief Justice Of New Mexico dis
charged n receiver appointed FOR the Palo
Cattle Company at the instance OF eN-Scna-
tor Dorsey, and enj0ined the latter from
further interference. Property TO the
amount of $500, 900 was involved.
Judge Biddle decided in the Common
Pleas Court at Philadelphia Saturday that
eX-Judge Briggs was not libeled by a de-
famatory letter written by Philip {. Gar
rett, because Briggs, by his candidacy for
Office, invited scrutiny OF his character.
In the tabernacle at Salt Lake, Sunday,
Apostles Cannon and Woodruff both de-
clarcd that Mormonism in all its features
and doctrines wGuid be continued, whatever
Congress or the country might threaten, and
that the progress of the church could only
be stad by killing all the Saints
Snow fell Monday to tho depth of four
inches at Little Rock and Shreveport, and
eight inches at Memphis.
The intense cold has formed 50 much lee
in Chesapeake Bay that navigation has been
suspended
The deaths in Chicago for the year Just
ended were $50, cholera in!ant,nn lead
ing with 75l.
Young orange and pineapple groves on
the Gulf Coast OF Florida have been serious
~ injured by frostS.
Taglion the ballet master at the Royal
Theater, Berlin, brother of the celebrated
danscuse, died Monday, aged seventy-siy.
AT Gloucester Mass, Monday, viii T..
Lve5ey defeated Arthur Ball for the skat-
Ing championship of England and America.
Nennor promises snow-stOrm on Friday
or Saturday next, which will extend from
Lake Erie into Virginia, giving Washing
ton good sleighing.
The citizens of Bloomington, I'LL. propose
70 raise fund for Miss Emma Bond. Gle
menti is about TO go to Milwaukee and re-
side with his mother.
at Portland, Ore, Monday, }. w. Muir
ray shot and instantly killed Alfred Yenke,
his brother in-law, and fired again at his
wife, but missed her.
Nearly forty thousand miles of railroads
were constructed in Massachusetts lastyea
and the net earnings of all the lines
amounted to $4,000, 900.
Ii Lung, laundryman, was found dead
at New York Monday with fourteen stab
wounds in his back, and his trunk rifled. 1t
Is believed he was the victim of q Chinese
secret society.
The Worse da Fowler Company, agricult-
Il
signed. Sunday night Fowler was arrested
On charge Of enlightenment preferred by
Worse.
Papers have been taken out at Springfield
H., by c. Il. Cummings, George A. Ives
and others, to construct n railway from
Bloomington TO some point on tho MiSsissip-
pi River.
Newton J. Shinkle, who was Captain of
the Cornell crew when it went to Europe
and was charged with selling out his asso.
ciates, has been arrested for participating
in the robbery Of the grave of Mrs. iloyt,
at Sycamore, Ill.
Samuel Brown, a farmer at Freehold n.
d., hanged himself in the log house in which
he was born.
Joe Adams, prisoner in the Lafayette
tlnd.) Jail, committed suicide by eating
quicksilver tsCraped from the back Of
mirror and pounded glass.
Nhilists have informed Count Tolsoi,
Russian Minister of the Interior, that he has
been sentenced to death
Keshub Chunder Sen, the East India
and promoter of the Brahmo
Somaj sect, died Tuesday.
The millinery store of u. b. Fisk q Co.,
on Wabash avenue, Chicago, was on Tues
lay evening damaged $50, 900 by fire.
General llazen has ordered the display at
signal stations of a white flag with black
center on the approach OF cold waves.
The Chicago Board of Trade, after two
days contest, elected f. Nelson Blake Pres
lnent and George r. Smith Second Vice
President,
John l.. kainc, OF Milwaukee, who was
by President Arthur as Consul to
Cognac, France, states that he will not &C
rept the position.
Ten immigrants who arrived at Boston |
Tuesday and shipped as seamen at Liver
pool will not bo permitted to land. One is
another is partially paralyzed,
and all of them have a very wretched APP
Dearance.
Ann Stamp, an aged widow of Columbia, |
D., killed herself with strychnine because !
If The loss of a pet dog.
The message Of the Governor of MiSSis- |
ippi advocates the abolition OF fees AMI
requisites To State officials.
At an agctiol sale al Des Moines Wcdnes-
lay twrnty-seyon head of Galloway aud !
Angus cattle brought from $685. to 500 |
ZACH.
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