The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1884-08-23
MINOR NEWS ITEMS.
ro, Week Ended August Ell.

For Week Ended August Ell.
On Saturday $500, 900 worth OF gold bars
aTfi $l25, 900 OF American gold coin reached
New York from Europe.
The first bale of new cotton has been re-
ceived at Selma, Ala, and brought twelve
cents per pound at auction.
The American Board of Foreign Missions
makes an appeal for slOOOOo during
August, to keep up its work.
The International Medical Congress COM
pleted its session at Copenhagen, Denmark,
Saturday. The next convention will be
held at Washington.
The Southern Exposition was opened at
Louisville, KY, Saturday by Governor
Knott
The cotton counties of Arkansas surprised
the statisticians by reporting an aggregate
yield of one million bales.
A spark from a locomotive fired the straw
bedding in stock car near Rankin, ILL.,,
and load of hogs were burned to death.
Ex-senator John Pool, of North Carolina,
died suddenly at Washington Saturday Of
apopleXy. lie was Senator from 1865 to
1878.
The semi-annua meeting of the Colorado
Cattle-Grower's Association was held at
Denver Saturday, the members represent
ing 272, 600 head of cattle.
Weston =. Cary, residing at Pleasant
View, Ind, received bite from some in-
sect in the woods, causing swelling aud de-
lirium, which ended in his death.
A good natural vein of gas was struck
Yesterday by the Miller Company of Crest
line, o. Ii is thought this is but branch,
ALL li,ar ftrt h.,r IA n
may be found
Sixteen de,ths from yellow fever have
occurred at Hermozillo, Mex, and cases are
reported at five adjacent cities. The disease
apparently originated in germs remaining
dormant since last year.
Warren p. Sutton, Consul General to
Mexico, is sojourning in Chicago. lie re-
ports a large emigration across the ki0
Grande and states that 500, OOh<OOO OF
American capital has been invested i'll rail-
road ranches and mining in Northern Mex
leo within q few years.
A money lender named Halsmann, living
at Carlsruhe, Germany, has been found
guilty of illegal eXtortions, and has been
sentenced to pay fine OF eight thousand
marks, to be imprisoned for six years. and
to be deprived of civil rights for five years
thereafter.
A conhagration in Pomeroy, o., de-
stroyed forty-two small buildings. Loss,
$500
The Chicago Union Base Ball Club will
be transferred TO Pittsburgh next week
and the name changed to Pittsburgh Unions
At Winnetka, ILL.,, late on Monday night
the body of Miss Henrietta King was found
in Lake Michigan near the pier. She was
well advanced in years, and 1t is Thought
she was drowned in tainting spell.
The body of William Whistler, of the
Greedy party, was eXhumed at Delphi, Ind,
Tuesday morsing, in the presence of two
physicians and his father and other rela-
tives and evidences of cannibAlsm were
unmstakable
1t having been rumorcd that compro-
mise was being arranged in New York 10y
which Ferdinand Ward would be released,
another order of arrest was yesterday Oh
tanned by William II Bingham, broker,
who brings suit for S4S, 900 obtained by the
firm of Grant IL Ward under false repre-
sensations.
The large brewery of {. Magnus at Ced If
Rapids, Ia, was seized by the authorities
Tuesday ON the charge of violating the Pro
hibitOry Liquor law. On the premises
being searched there We're found in the
building seven hundred barrels of beer,
which the proprietor claims to have made
previous to the Attn of July.
Tine consumption of water in Chicago
"Wednesday reached the high figure OF o.
600, 900 gallons.
\ London dispatch states that the Amer
lean Missionary Society is making steady
progress in Asia Minor.
The Cleveland Driving Park Company
will give an international horse fair for
speed September %, "a, % and 26.
Lightning struck the house of Ems King
baum, near WauSau, Wis, Wednesday,
killing his son and fatally iniuring his
daughter.
DIR. John Fitzpatrick, proprietor of the
United States Hotel at Quincy, ILL.,, was
found dead in bed Wednesday morning.
He had reached the age of ninety seven
years.
Agent Dyer has informed the Indian
Bureau that the Cheyennes and Arapahoes
abuse boys who have returned from the
school at Carlisle, Pa, not wishing their
people to be educated
The sixteenth annual reunion Of the Soci-
ETY. of the Army of the Cumberland, of
which Lieutenant General Sheridan IS
President will be held at Rochester, y. Y,
September II aud IS (ChckamauSl week..
The Commissioner of Agriculture an
nounces the existence of what is supposed
to be contagious pleur0- pneumonia among
several heards OF Jersey cattle in Illinois,
and requests owners of Jersey stock to stop
shipments until after October |. The in
lection has been traced back to the cattle
sale of Mr. Epler in Virginia, ILL.,, last Feb
ruary.