The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1884-09-13
MINOR NEWS ITEMS.
For Week Faded September II,

The will Of the late Senator Anthony
gives $780, 900 to his sisters and S25, 900 to
public purposes.
John Mccullough, the tragedian, reached
New York Monday from Europe, In vigor
Gus health.
William McAdoo was renominated for
Congress by the Democrats of the Seventh
New Jersey District Monday.
The principal business block at Arkan.
sas City, Ark, was destroyed by fire Nom
day, involving a loss of 100000.
Saugatuck, Mich, is shipping about twelve
thousand baskets of peaches daily to Chi
cage. The fruit is ripening very rapidly in
the burning sun.
A wager of $50, 900 to $4,000 on the
Republican National ticket offered by An.
gus Smith, OF Milwaukee,, has been ac-
cepted by Chcagoan.
The National Prison Association began
It's sessions at Troy, n. Y, Monday,
Rutherford b. Hayes, ex-President of the
United States, in the chair
Ben Butler was waited upon at Des
Mones by delegation OF woman Sltfrag-
lists, to whom he said he had no do bit o.
woman's right to citizenship under the
constitution.
PATHS and the Marquis de CauX's law
gers have arranged that the latter shall
join with her in her application to the
divorce tribunal which, it is now expected,
will give its assent to their legal separation.
Clearinghouse exchanges last week
S6S4, 500, l64-are greater than the returns
of the previous week by S34, 3S1, 059; but
when compared with the corresponding
week year ago show decline Of 90. per
cent.
Chapman, who was arrested in Missouri
for the murder of Nicholas Hubbard near
Charleston, H., made to the Sheriff vol
untary confession of his guilt, but impli.
Gated another person in the crime.
The commission dealers at the Chicago
stock-yarda have rendered to the National
Committee ten head of cattle, to be placed
among herds said to be afflicted with pleuro-
pneumonia, as an experiment to decide the
question of cOntagion.
The wel-known commission firm of
Payne, Wiley IL Co., of Louisville, failed
yesterday. Its liabilities are 100000 1t
is charged with using bogus warehouse re-
ceipts. A loss of $4,000 falls upon the
United States National Bank of New
York.
The annual convention of the National
Association of Fire Engineers is in session
in Chicago.
An ineXhaustible supply of natural gas
has been reached at Findlay o., at a depth
of lao feet,
Matt Orion, accused of setting the fire at
Arkansas City Monday, was hanged by
mob Tuesday morning.
An English artillery team Of twenty-five
men has arrived at Quebec TO have con-
test with Canadian squad.
The cornerstone of a hall for the pio-
neers of California, which is to cost $780,
600, was laid Tuesday in San Francisco.
The Illinois State Convention of the In
dependent Order of Good Templars began
Tuesday at Bloomington. This is the thirty
first annual session.
{. S. Smith (cOl0red), of Bloomington,
has been appointed Commissioner of illi-
nOis for the New Orleans Exposition, to Sc
cure exhibits by the cOlored people.
r. b. Power, wealthy farmer, who has
resided near Petersburg, ILL.,, since 1920,
celebrated his eighty fifth birthday by giving
dinner to five hundred descendants and
friends
The bOndsmen at Wabash, Ind, Of ex-
Indian Agent John Il. Miles were sued
Tuesday by the Government to recover the
amount of Miles defalcation, which is said
to be well up in the thousands.
Reports from the cOn-growing regions or
the West are to the effect that the recent
warm weather has rapidly matured the
grain, and that it is now virtually beyond dan
ger of harm by frost The crop is immense
in the aggregate.
The warehouses at Pittsburgh occupied
by Martin Bratt & Co., wholesale teas, and
Joseph Benedict Il Co., wholesale rags, was
entirely destroyed by fire Tuesday night,
causing loss of $4,000. A fireman was
seriously hurt by falling beam.