The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1884-08-30
MINOR NEWS ITEMS.
For Week Ended Aurust ca.


The Chautauqua assembly Nosed Monday
with the usual exercises.
Hog cholera has made its appearance in
Hamburg, Pa. and large numbers of swine
have died.
William Corbett living near Vinton, la. +,
and one Of the leSsiing stock dealers Of the
State, committed suicide BY taking poison
Monday.
Passenger rates were cut two dollars 10
five dollars to Western points at outside Of
fees Monday In New York and good bust.
ness was done.
An inmate Of the poor-house at Lambert
vile, \. j., reyenged himself Oh town.
ship officer by firing his barns, and to escape
punishment killed himself with razor.
The Sinking Fund Commissioners Of Is
sex County, n. j., are shown to be short
5000, 900 in their accounts, and proceedings
to recover the amount will be at once COM
menced.
William Norris head teacher of the Mark
dale, Ont, school, Monday fired five times
at the second teacher, Miss Ford, three
shots taking effect. He then shot himself,
dying instantly.
The Dominion Government is annoyed at
the presence OF Riel in the Northwest hay
ing received intelligence that Big Bear and
Lucky Man have left their reservation and
gone to confer with the renegade.
Hon. w. NJ. Springer's committee has VII
yelled deficit of STA, 1000 in the accounts
of Rev. MIR. Terrell, formerly an Indian
agent, who was connected with Major
Powelrs surveys.
Memorial services i'm respect to the mem
DRY of the MQxnon elders assassinated in
Tennessee, We're held Sunday in all the
large and many Of the smaller towns in
Utah. The remarks of the speakers were
generally conciliatory, and charge the muir
ders to the bigotsl prejudice of individuals.
Nine hundred cigar-makers have been on
strike in Cincinnati for twenty four
weeks, during which time the union has
paid out $3.50, 600 in benefits.
The Virginia Legislature has agreed to
take recess to- day until October %.
Jonas Wolf was elected Governor Of the
Indian Nation Tuesday by a small majority.
A coachman at Minneapolis named Peter
Johnson, after taking lady to visit a
friend, walked out on the lawn and shot
himself through the heart
Four members of the Lytle Grays, a Gin
cinnati military company, were dishonor-
ably discharged yesterday for cowardice
during the great riot in that city.
Harry Lee, fast young book keeper in
Cincinnati, who swindled his employers out
of Sl3, 600 and expended it upon an actress
named Kate CastletOn, will next Saturday
be sentenced to the penitentiary.
A masked hghwayman, displaying a rifle
and three siX-shooters, robbed the driver
and four passengers of the stage between
WeatherfOrd and Graham, Tex, and is now
being pursued by a bloodthirsty posse.
A conference Tuesday at Gyndon, Mimi,
between the managers of the Northern and
Canadian Pacific Roads, has led to a rumor
that Joint line will be built from Winni-
peg to st. Paul for winter outlet from
Manitoba.
Scarlet fever Is becoming quite prevalent
in Moline, I'LL.
The Highway Commissioners of Illinois
will meet in State Convention at Springfield,
September "a.
The courts in Paris have imposed long
terms of Imprisonment and heavy fines upon
the officers of the wrecked Bank of Lyons
and Loire.
The watch factory at Lancaster, Pa, on
which $500, 900 has been expended, has
made an assignment, with debts aggregat-
ing So 600.
r. llarte, the well-known musician and
scenic artist, died from an overdose OF NOR
phine taken for painters collie, at Princeton
n. D., Wednesday.
Seven merchants of Chihuahua and the
City OF Mexico were in Chicago Wednes-
day. They are making an investigation OF
the markets OF the United States.
The Changers picnic and exhibition at
Harrisburg, Pa, Wednesday, was attended
by $4,000 people. Ben Butler telegraphs
that he will be with them on Friday.
The University of Notre Dame at South
Bend, Ind, has received from the King of
Spain copy of the ancient portrait Of Co
lumbus, recently found at Madrid, and from
a resident Of Shanghai library Of Chinese
works with Latin TRANSACTIONS