The Ottawa free trader., 1884-04-05
MINOR NEWS ITEMS,
For Week Ended April 3.


Lorenzo ID. Bean, who became insane
from brooding over the Crouch trageuieS
died Friday, at Spring Arbor, Mich.
During the month of February of this
year the exports from the United States eX-
ceeded the imports in value S6,3Ol, ooh
The hardware store of George L. Hub
bard at Grand Haven. Mich, valued at
500, 900, 900, was burned at daybreak Sun
day.
On crcumstantial evidence Andrew j.
Korner was convicted at indianapolis Satur-
day of numbering his wife and sentenced to
DEATH
General Luard, commander of the Cana
dian volunteer forces, has forwarded his
resignation from England, where he is now
located.
Jesse Williams, a negro from Texas, was
on S iturday executed at Calgary, North.
west Territory. for killing merchant named
James II. Adams
A line of through Pullman coaches be.
tween Chicago and Ogden will be established
at once by the Rock Island, st. Paul q
Northwestern Road, running alternately.
Charles l.. Kusg, editor of weekly paper
at Manzano, y. NJ, was asSassinated by un-
known men. While a resident of Lead
Vile he made over 500, 900, which he soon
lost.
Three Of the Wagner Festival artists,
Materna, Winkleman and Scaria, have taken
shippng for America, and will arrive there
about April Z. They will appear In Boston
April IA.
At Trumbul, o., Friday evening, after
James Clifford had returned from his wife's
funeral, Newton Gilmore, his brother in
law, called and accused Clifford of causing
the death OF his wife. This was denied,
and an alteration ensued, when Gilmore
shot Clifford ntlicting fatal wound The
murderer was imprisoned
A colony of twenty-five families left Pitts
burgh Yesterday for Seattle, w. T. Several
hundred more will leave shortly II reports
from the colony are favorable.
The Governor of Michigan has named
April "A as Arbor Day, and suggests that
special effort be made to beautify rural ceni'
etericS.
Hon. Charles d. Hodges, who has resided
in Carrolton, ILL.,. since 1888, and served
the people as Judge and Congressman, died
Tuesday.
The cases against Dick Liddell have
been dismissed at Kansas City, and he has
gone to Alabama, where he is under bond
on Federal charges.
The Chicago, st. Louis & Pacific and Chi
cago & Indiana Central Railroads filed arti'
cles of consolidation Tuesday, the joint
capital being $50, 900, 900. The combina.
ton will be known as the Chicago, St
Louis IL Pacific.
The Illinois Il Michigan Canal is now
open to navigation from Chicago to Lock
port, and on next Monday will be oper
! through its entire length to La Sale.
In the unatic asylum at Toronto, Ont,
Monday night, Valerie Mckinney murdered
| Rachel Stephens, who had been placed in
her ward to prevent her from committing
suicide.
The New Hampshire State Greenback
| Convention will be held at Manchester Sep
tember |.
Snow storms in Ohio and Indiana
Wednesday caused alarm in regard tt
small fruits.
The British steamer SalermO, which ar
rived Wednesday at Boston, reports passing
an iceberg a mile in length.
The announcement comes from New
Haven that Prof Cyrus NOrthrop has ac
cepted the Presidency of the University O
Minnesota.
A Deputy Marshal and his posse on We'd
nesday took to Louisville twelve moonshn
ers captured in raid through Green anC
Casey Countless Kentucky.
The postmaster at Chicago has received
from Washington package of water
stained letters found in mal-Sack picket
up by English fishermen in the North Sea
having been lost in the steamer Cimbria.
The Chicago Glucose Works use 5000, 00'
gallons of water per day now. They pro
pose to enlarge their works so that 1000,
900 gallons will be required. This quantity
will be about One-fourth of the entire waite
supply of the city. The Water Commis
soner has informed the company that 81
large an amount of water can not be fur
| uicbpl IN one akpr