The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1884-02-16
MINOR NEWS ITEMS.
For Week Ended February IA.


was found murdered in the bush.
The center of the mining town Of Hack
ton, Pa, il caving in, and the people have
been warned to move away. Should SUD.
den coll lpSe occur, u number OF lives would
inevitably be lost.
six conyicts were whipped at New Castle,
Del, Saturday morning.
The Pope has granted the title of Count
to Edward Dunno, late Chief-.ustice OF Arr
iona.
The costumes for the Mardi traS carni-
val at New Orleans have arrived, and the
floats are nearly ready.
Secretary Folgcr denies that he is making
any effort 10 induce Mr.. New to return to
the Treasury Department.
BY collision of sleighS at ithaca, n. Y,
H. V. Bostwick, wife and son, and Charles
Dresser were seriously injured.
An open winter in the Arctic circle is III
Dictated ty the vast fields of ice encountered
by steamers crossing the Atlantic.
Mrs. Mary Lynch, residing in Warren
Township, Brewer County, Ia, died Sunday
al the advanced age OF one hundred and five
years.
Elizabeth Betz, Revolutionary pension
er, residing at Harrisburg Pa, the widow
OF drummer, is eishty-three years OF age
and in excellent health.
James Geary, a railway employee at La
fayette, Ind, killed himself with a revolver
in the presence of several friends who were
helping him to hang pictures in his room.
The Bankers and Merchants Telegraph
Company has purchased the lines of the
Pacific Mutual, and proposes to complete d
circuit from Chicago to Bismarck and Den
yer.
The directors of the Mexican Contra
Railroad have decided to increase the cap
ital stock from So, 900, 600 to SIG 500, 900.
The call for Sl,00O,000 was answered by
subscriptions of Sl,016,OO9.
Within two months Boston capitalists will
have in operation a connecting line of rail
way between the City of Mexico and Chi
cago There are clear indications that 8
combination is being formed by which the
commerce of the new field will be secured
to the Burlington and Santa fe Roads
The Chicago, st. Louis IL Southwestern
Telegraph Company, of Chicago, was au
thorized by the Secretary of State Saturday
to open subscriptions for its capital stock,
which is placed at 81, 900, 900. The cOrpo
ration proposes to operate oyerground anc
underground telegraph and telephone wires
Mr. John G. Wilson, one of the principal
cattle raiserS of Central Illinois, died at his
home near Monmouth, of heart disease, yes
terday.
Henry ID. Lyman, of Ohio, has been con-
firmed as Second Assistant PostmaSter-Gen-
eral of the United States.
Work has been resumed by the POttStOwll
iron works, at Reading, Pa, and the New
jersey steel works at Trenton.
John Hutton Bafour, the distinguished
British botaniSt and physician, died in Lon,
don Monday, aged seventy-siX.
Henry Werner, of Canton, o., was at
tackled by three men at midnight sho
through the hand and robbed of Si75
Judd Crouch. of Jackson Mich, has
been arrested for an attempt to murder
Detective Brown, and furnished bail ii
$4,000.
A fire at West Newbury Mass, destroyed
the shOe-factory of Thomas H. Ruddock
which employed 1900 men. The loss il
| $4,000
General j. l.. Gilbert, prominent citi
zen of Bloomington, ILL.,, who commanded
the Twenty seventh Iowa Infantry, died a
Topeka, Kan, of heart-disease.
Hundreds of white men engaged IN buSr
ness in Indian Territory have been declarei
intruderS and given notice to leave at once
| Many who are engaged III farming o.
StOckrasng refuse to obey the order
Those within the Creek limits will enter the
plea that there is no Executive to the Gov
eminent before whom they can appear.
The supply of one dollar notes is entirely
exhausted and of two dollar notes nearly so
Unger * Gates safe at West Alexandria
Ind, was blown open Monday, the robber
securing $4,000, and getting away.
David Leonard, of Burlington, la, {
leader in the Prohibition cause, was Tues
day thrown from his buggy and killed.
The Mayor of Sandwich, Eng, followed
his clipping daughter to Austin, Tex, ant
persuaded her to return to Europe with him
1t is said that one of the pool lines at st
Louis has made number of contracts fO
freight to New York at a cut of iifteer
cents.
Tony Peace, an aged negro living neal
Rocky Comfort Ark, was called to his doc
Saturday night by five masked men, ant
murdered.
The Massachusetts, Senate has passed /
resolution providing for biennial elections
% to +; also "A resolution providing for free
! textbooks in public schools
The Treasurer of the United States re-
ceived from bank in Ohio two packages
representing 81 900 each. one contained
$40 the other two pieces of tlannel.
The House Committee on Commerce de
cded that there should be a commission fOl
the regulation Of Interstate commence, and
that its control should extend to the water
ways
The Queen of Tahiti sailed from New
York for France Wednesday on the steamer
st. Laurent.
The National Wrapper and Packing Com
pany of St Louis has assigned Assets
estimated at $4,000.
Frank James has been taken to Hunts
vile, Ala, to be tried for completely in the
Mussel Shoals robbery
4 break in the petroleum market WedneS
day sent prices down to Sl05i, the sale'
in the entire oil region being $4,000, 600 bar
! rels.
George NJ. Sargent, a dry-goods merchant
of Rochester, Ind, has been sent to tht
penitentiary for two years for receiving
to.en property.
Elisha V. Ashton, who was the Ieadinl
dry-goods merchant of Boston half a century
AGO died recently i'm Eurnpp leaving Larry,