The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1884-10-11
MINOR NEWS ITEMS.
For Week Ended October o.

Farmers Ia the vicinity of Petersburg
Va, report great damage to the growing
crops by drought The streams and wells
are drying up.
At a meeting of the National Billiard As
ISOLATION in New York Monday report
showing prosperity was submitted, and II.
w. Collender was elected President for the
ensuing year.
Mrs. Robert Wallace took an opiate at
Erie, Pa, Saturday to relieve pain, and i'm
mediately fell into a trance, from which she
can not be aroused. She has all she appear
ance of being dead.
A tax of Sl,750 upon each boX-holdcr of
the Metropolitan Opera House at New York
has been levied by the directors as a sub
sdy for thirteen weeks of German opera, To
begin November II.
Samuel Roberts, of Wilkesbarre, Pa,
who embezzled 100000, and devoted it
about equally to religious purposes and
home expenses, was Monday deposed from
eldership by the Lackawanna Presbytery.
The American Board of Commissioners
for Foreign Missions began its seventy-fifth
annual meeting at Columbus, o. The re-
ports showed that more than four hundred
missionaries are in active service, and that
the years receipts reach nearly $500, 600.
For the week ended Tuesday the produce
exports from New York reached 81, 900,
against IS, 999, 900 the previous week.
The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engi-
neers Tuesday at San Francisco reelected
E. S. Ingraham First Grand Engineer
The first days registration in New York
City shows total of "A, 773 voters In 1880
thn l,x.
72,5SS.
Mrs. A. F. Links, alias Rose Stadt, of
Chicago, was sentenced Tuesday at Nash
vile, Tenn, to three years in the peniten-
tialy for diamond stealing.
Great distress prevails at the Magdalen
Islands, in the gulf of st. Lawrence and
many families are said to be starving. The
Government has been asked for assistance.
Captain Waddel, of the Confederate
cruiser Shenandoah, has been given COM
mand of a new steamer in the oyster navy
of Maryland, patterned after the Federal
revenue cutters.
Gas has for three years been supplied to
the people of Baltimore at one dollar pei
thousand feet, but the rival companies have
formed pool and advanced the price to
one dollar and seventy-five cents.
The Illinois Central Road has ordered the
survey of line from Yazoo City to Mem
phs, to tap the territory tributary to the
Mississippi u Tennessee Road, which re-
Gently passed into the hands of rival COM
pany.
The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
hold the next annual convention at New Or
leans.
The Fish Commissioner of Pennsylvania
will establish at Erie a hatchery capable of
turning into the lake half million white
fish annually.
Teemer and Conley have signed to row in
smooth water at Hutton, Pa, for $500 a
side, October 25. The race will be four
miles and a turn.
A barrel of whisky exploded Wednesday
at Canton, Miss, the liquid Immediately
taking fire, though there was neither light
nor fire in the room.
The Supreme Court of New York has de
clared unconstitutional the law forbidding
the manufacture of cigars in the tenement
houses of the larger cities.
A hurricane swept over Harrisburg, Pa,
Wednesday evening, unroofing houses and
leveling trees. A section of the carriage
bridge over the Susquehanna was carried
away.
Fire destroyed a number of buildings
Wednesday night at Richmond, KY, includ
ing planing-mill, a tlour-mll and the city
gas-works, Loss, Sl25,000; insurance
$4,000.
Thomson's game and toy book manufac-
tory at Cincinnati was destroyed by fire
Wednesday. Several adjoining houses were
damaged. Loss, 100000; insurance un-
known.
The late Augusta NJ. Huntington, of Gin
cinnati, bequeathed 100000 to Bishop
Whipple, of Minnesota, to expend at FaTi-
bault on memorial buildings and their e1l-
dOwment
The strike Of stoye-inolders at Pittsburgh,
which has continued for nine months, has
been declared off, and union men will re-
turn to work as individuals at reduction
of fifteen per cent
At a meeting held in st. Louis Wednesday
initial steps were taken looking to the hold
ing of worlds fair in that city in 1892,
the 400th anniversary of the discovery OF
America by Columbus.
The marriage of General Med. McCook
and Miss Annie Colt took place Wednesday
at Nashotah, Wis. A special train from
took out General Sherman and
daughter and over one hundred other guests.