The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1884-05-10
MINOR NEWS ITEMS.
Eor Week Ended NIny y.


the first brick house IN Cleveland.
Tie City of Mexico duly celebrated Mon
day the twenty-iifth anniversary of the
French defeat at Pueblo, with professions
and fireworks.
The late William IL. Fogg, of New York,
bequealhed his widow Sl,OJO,OO0, the re-
mainder of his estate going to his sister,
nepnews and nieceS.
The Mark Lane Express says the sales
of English wheat last week amounted To
5S,l2l quarters at 35s III, against 90, $50
quarters Tor the corresponding period last
year
George Osborn, toll collector on the Port
age Lake (Mich.) bridge, was shot dead by
unknown persons Sunday night while at
tempting to collect tolls. lie leaves seven
children.
An illicit distillery and its contents were
wrecked by revenue officials Saturday IN
Newton County, Ark, and in the melee one
of the moonshiners was killed and another
wounded.
The Mineral Belt Ra ilroad Company, OF
Arizona, asks the privilege OF purchasing
from the Government at Sl.25 per acre, u
square mile of land for every mile OF track
it may lay.
An unknown equestrian rode up to John
Goodies house, near MorgantOwn, o., sun
day night, and fired through window,
mortally woundng Goode, who lay sleeping
with his wife,
j. ID. Porter. of Monmouth, ILL.,, has
within week lost several shorthOrn calves
from spotted fever, the animals trothing at
the mouth and dying in great agony.
Sol and George Haynes and Dan Mitchell,
three members of gang who have terror
lied Armstrong, Ind, Jefferson and Clarion
Counties, Pa, for months past, were capt
ured Monday and jailed at Freeport
With over $4,000, 900 bushels Of grain in
store in Chicago, there still lie in the river
vessels with capacity of 700, 900 bushels
fact almost without precedent in the his
tory of lake navigation in May.
Oliver Brothers & Phillips three iron
mills at Pittsburgh suspended Monday UNI
til the wage question with the Amagamated
Association is settled The indications for
a general strike June are increasing.
The clearing exchanges throughout the
country last week-Sl, l46, 992, 32l-are
Sl95, 655, 2l6 greater than for the previous
week, and as compared with the corresponds
ing period in 1888 show an Increase OF Az
per cent.
The United Stove Manufacturers Associ-
alton of Troy, n. Y, adopted rules Mon
day, the Substance being that the right OF
hiring help must not be interfered with,
each workman to make his own agreement
for wages.
Woolgrowers in the Colorado district
sent a protest to Washington Monday
against that section OF Converse's bill adj
hitting carpet wool free, claiming that 1t
would result in the impoyerishment of
thousands and the determination Of il0cks.
Henry Ward, of Elgin, Ill.,, has mother
over one hundred and three years of age,
who runs away from home whenever she is
left alone As Henry punished her for mis-
behavior, an agent of the Humane Society
caused his arrest.
The eighth annual dog show at New
York opened Tuesday with an excellent ex-
hibit.
At noon Tuesday navigation on the Wei.
land Canal recently damaged, was re.
sumed.
Prof. S. ID. Gross, an eminent surgeon,
one of the founders of the Kentucky State
Medical Society, died Tuesday in Philadel.
phia
General N. NJ. Halsted, who founded the
astronomical observatory at Princeton Col
lege, was accidentally killed ut Il railway
station in Newark.
The condition of wheat in Ohio at present
averages eighty-iive per cent, and the prob
able yield, with good weather till harvest
Is placed at "a, 53l 1882 bushels.
Samuel Handy, young man, resident OF
Mount Hope, Wis, arose from the dinner
table Monday, procured Il rifle and blew out
his brains.
A severe storm of rain and hail swept the
Shebyvile (Iil) district Tuesday. The
country is flooded, and farming operations
are suspended.
A Court of Inquiry into the conduct Of the
Fourth Ohio regiment during the late riot
at Cincinnati was begun at Dayton Tuesday,
and will continue over week.
The heirs OF Thomas A. Scott sued the
city of Shreveport for $780, 900 with accrued
interest since 1875, but Judge BoaldmaD
rendered decision against him.
Michael Davitt denies the rumor that he
has qlarreed with Parnell, and says he is
going to Australia to fill course of lecture
engagements. in the hope of restoring his
health.
Owing to the promised extension of the
Wis, new National Bank, with Sl50,000
pital, was organized at Ashland Monday,
of which General Fuller, of Belvidere ILL.,,
is President
Monday night Mayor Wozencraft, Of
Paris, ILL.,, nominated his son as Chief OF
Police, but the Council refused TO affirm,
and also rejected the men named on the
force The city Is without law guardians
for the present
General Grant was elected Commander
of the military order Of the Loyal Legion
Wednesday.
The Monte de Piedad bank Of Mexico
shows assets of nearly 81, 500, 900 in excess
OF liabilities
The tea inspector at Chicago recently
condemned 10Q, 900 pounds of tea siftings
which arrived from Japan.
Wesley Rees, of Muncie, Ind, climbed
al apple tree, tied a strap about his neck.
and shot himself in the temple.
John L. Slater, who gave $1,000, 900 ia
the cause OF education in the Southern
States, died yesterday at Norwich, Conn.
William Missy, paying teller Of the
bank of Commerce. Baltimore, was arrest
ed Wednesday, charged with embezzIing
S51, 900.