The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1884-07-05
MINOR NEWS !, ITEMS.


the United States
The New York anti Monopolists Monday
decided TO form . National League, having
branch in every city Of the Union.
In dispute at Windsor, H., Sunday
evening, Harry Tice, aged sixteen, fatally
stabbed Newton Ensey, fifteen years Old.
Meilis Bros, wholesale dealers in MILL.
merry and fancy goods, of Portland, Ore,
failed Monday for 500, 900; assets, SO, 900.
During June there was coined at the Phil.
adelphia Mint, in different denominations,
81, III, ass.
Captain Andrews ninety three years Of
age. has completed his walk from South
Carolina to Massachusetts, arriving IN Bos-
ton in good condition r.o
Senator COnger has been officially notified
that the degree of Doctor Of Laws has been
conferred upon him by the Gettysburg Col
lege
Hog cholera Is prevailing to an alarming
extent in the Eastern and Southeastern por-
tions of Fayette County. III. In many In
stances whole herds have died.
The South Platte country in Nebraska,
formerly regarded Is almost desert, now
has abundant crops of grain, and is diver
sified by large tracts of timber planted by
the settlers.
Walter Terrell aged twenty-One, CON-
mitted suicide at his home in Baltimore
early Monday morning, because Miss Ada
D0wd, his fiance, refused to keep her en-
gagement and marry him
The Clearing House exchanges the past
week-$S27. PTS, s94--are SOL, 321, 1914 great
or than reported for the preceding week;
but when compared with the corresponding
period of 1888 indicate q decrease Of one
per cent
Frank Bouchat and John Smelzinger, the
latter an old man with a pretty daughter,
fired several shots at each other in the
street at Baltimore Monday, but no wounds
were received. Smelzinger opposed BOu-
chats attentions to his daughter, and the
duel was the result, the old man first open
ing hostilties.
The late Samuel Shoemaker, of Blti
more, directed that S25, 600 be given his
sons when they each arrive at the ages of
twenty-one, enty-eight and thirty-five
years. The remainder of $1,000, 900 is left
to trust company to divide the income
among his children and grandchildren dur
ing their lives.
The St. CrOix L. Wisconsin Railroad Com
pany. capital stock $l.0sO, 600, has been in
corporated. This is consolidation Of the
St Croix & Chippewa Fails and of the St
Paul g. ST. Croix Railroad Companies, with
Hon. Charles L. Colby as President and
Howard Morris as Secretary. Trains will
be moving from Chippewa Falls to St Paul
by the LIST of January.
A charter has been secured at Spring
field, Ill, by Z. r. VandercOOk and others
to build a railway from Chicago to Batavia,
ct a cost of 100000.
A carload of new Delaware wheat sold
In Philadelphia at $L1O per bushel
Philadelphia plasterers demand So. SO
per day from Monday next or they will
strike.
The receiver Of the Newark Savings In
stitution has commenced to pay sixty per
cent dividend, which will require So, 700, :
600.
The shore end of the Mackey- Bennett
cable has been l,id in Wateryille Bay, on
the irish coast, and the midiocean splice
will probably, be made about July 30.
H. K Thompson, paralytic OF Mon
mouth, H., WHO lost $4,000 through the
embezzlelnent of K T. o. Hubbard, was
Yesterday lodged In jail for threatening to
shoot the ex-cashier.
n The Secretary of the Interior, in COM
pliance with the request Of cattle-inen at
dodge, Kan, has sent an inspector to tear
down the wire fences in Indian Territory
closing the established trails between Texas
and Kansas
The Citizens League has decided 70 be
gin struggle at Milwaukee for the closing
OF all saloons on Sunday, according to law.
A number OF brewing companies and one
thousand saloon keepers will make de-
termined resistance.
William Edinger. German merchant Of
twenty years residence In East Saginaw,
Mich, disappeared mysteriOusly on Sunday
night, and is supposed b have ST. 200 or
81, 500 in Ills possession. His family ap
pretended foul play, claiming that there
was no motive for his Intentional absence.
Judge William ID. Kelley, of Pennsyi-
vania, sailed for Europe Tuesday.
Williams College, of WilIiamstown, Mass,
at0r ingalls,, OF Kansas.
In an Albany bank thief took from a
teller's window book containing 81, 900,
and mysteriOusly disappeared.
While laborers were digging well near
Silox, Lincoln County, NO., they struck
oil, the gushing fluid compelling them to
quit work. -
The boiler of the Spanish Inan-o war
Ligero exploded at Las Nuevtas, Cuba,
Wednesday, killing three persons and "
verely injuring three others
At the summer Eotting meeting Of tho
Chicago Driving Park, which opens on the
National holiday, Winship and Frank, with
running mates, will make an effort to beat
207 for purse Of $4,000.
Survivors of the Twenty-seventh Penn
sylvana One Hundred and Fifty-third
Pennsylvania, and One Hundred and Twen-
ty-fourth New York Regiments unveiled
two monuments and tablet on the Gettys
burg battle ground Wednesday.
Steamers leaving New York for Europe
Wednesday carried Christine Nilsson, Theo-
d0re Thomas, Scaria, Winkelniann and
Frau Materna. The latter told her friends
on the wharf that she never heard such
good choral singing as at the Chicago festi-
val