The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1884-03-22
MINOR NEWS ITEMS.
For Week Ended March 20.

Inc engagement IS announced OF Mrs
Frank Leslie, of New York, and the Marqui:
de Leuville, of Paris.
A surplus OF 81, 900 from the Texas peni
tentares was handed over to the State
Treasurer last Saturday.
The Delaware, Lackawanna u Western
Road has decided to extend its tracks from
Buffalo to TOle 10 tins Summer.
Senonine II Co., tOb eco warehouse mer
of Louisville, made an assignment Saturday
with liabilities exceeding So, 900.
Hoffman " Billings machine and brass
works at Milwaukee burned Sunday morn
ing Loss, $4,000; insurance, 81, 900.
In the Ontario Legislature Saturday the
bill giving widows and spinsters who have
the necessary property qualification the right
to vote at municipal elections was passed.
Benjamin Rupert one of the oldest citi
Zens Of Dubuque, Ia, and a prominent odd
fellow, died Sunday, aged seventy-nine
years.
Cuban troops had fight Saturday with
the bandit band of Santa Claro, killing
three and capturing eleven. Twenty-Five
Others subsequently surrendered.
The French Government has learned that
Germany is about to double her force OF
submarine batteries on q most extensive
scale.
George Harris and Dan Harding, while
drunk, attempted to clean out the saloon of
John Chesman at Walnut Station, Ind.
when both were fatally shot by the pro-
prietOr.
John Allen, Jr., Of Buffalo, for many
years President of the Western Transporta-
ls,I 10, IL
aged fifty-six years. He was noted for his
charities.
The annual meeting of the American
Tract Society was held at Washington Sun
day evening. The receipts for the year were
shown to be S369.066; expenditures, 1884,
$50; donations and legaces, 81 Is, 957; AVAIL
able for benevolent work, SS4, 55l.
The Grand ComInandery of Knights Tenn
plar will on Decoration Day adorn the
statue of Lafayette in Union Square, New
York, in honor of that patriots visit here,
sixty years ago, and his being made Knight
Templar.
Six fine lake steamers are being construct
ed at the Detroit ship-yards, at an estimated
cost of Sl,0O0,000.
Homer Deaves, who failed TO pass the
dental examination at the University Of
Maryland killed himself with poison Sun
day night near Camden Station, Nd.
Thirty-one cars loaded with corn, shelled
and cleaned, the offering of Sedgwick
County farmers and the business men of
Wichita Kan, to the Ohio food sufferers,
left Wichita Monday forenoon for Cincin-
natl.
The number of men killed in the Poca-
hOntas (Va.) mine is officially reported to
be liz.
Miss Annie Key Turner, daughter of the
author of the "Star-Spangled Banner" died
Monday at Mare Island, Cal.
Sarah Bernhardt refused the offers of Alb
hey and AIlston Brown for an American
tour. She wants higher terms.
Mrs. Cunio, an Italian woman of Boston,
has babe which at birth weighed twenty
four and half pounds.
After an all-night debate the bill to in
corporate the Orange societies was defeated
by the Canadian Legislature to 6S.
The largest shipments of cotton goods in
the history of the trade were made last
week, being 9,793 packages, valued at
1851, TAI.
The inventor of system of electric light
ing announces that he is about to use the
water-power at Niagara to furnish light TO
sixty five cities.
ROughs attacked "knobstick" boarding.
house at Fall River, Mass, Monday night,
breaking all the doors and windows. Sew
eral shots were fired on both sides, but the
police finally dispersed the mob.
The Gulf, Colorado 4 Santa Fe Road
is at war with the Western Union Tele-
graph Company in Texas and sends ten
word messages throughout the State for
fifteen cents
In the German Parliament Tuesday all
parties gave their support to the proposition
Of the Government to appropriate II, 100000
marks for the construction of torpedo boats
and batteries.
A valse containing $1,000 obtained at
The Treasury Department by Philadel-
phian was thrown by a thief from
Ear window at Wilmington, Delaware, and
seized by confederate. The owner quickly
pursued with revolver, and recovered his
property.
A dispatch from Miles City, VI. t., states
hat nearly six thousand Indians are slowly
cut surely starving to death at
he Fort Peck Agency. The game has sud
ienly disappeared, and the red men real
Zed almost nothing from one thousand acres
If land which they zealOusly cultivated.
Navigation on the Des Moines Rapids
Canal will be resumed April /.
l.. l.. Warner, the merchant philanthro
pist of Louisville, KY, died Wednesday,
lged seventysiX.
Mrs. DR.. Thomas, of Kingston, ILL.,, OBJ
aimed verdict of $500 and costs against
who had furnished her hus-
,and liquor and ruined him.
A call has been issued by the Connecticut
Republican State Committee for a cOnven-
ion to be held at Hartford April 90 to select
delegates to the Chicago Convention.
Charles c. Brown, recently of the United
States Lake Survey, has been appointed
Professor of Civil Engineering in the Rose
Polytechnic Institute at Ierrc Haute, Ind
BY vote of SO to 32 the New York AS
embly on Wednesday passed the bill max
ng it obligatory on cities Of 10000 inhab-
tants and upward to adopt Civil Service
uleS.
NJ w. Ford beat the hOpskip and-j jump
ecord Wednesday night at the New York
Athletic Club exhibition. He scored 30 feet
~ inches; the previous score being % feet
~ inches.
The Canadian House of Commons has
passed bill to enable the Grand Trunk
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