The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1884-07-12
MINOR NEWS ITEMS,
For Week Ended July 10.

sargent, eNMtniSter 10 Gerulhuy, hrrlNcu
at New York Sunday from Europe.
A mysterious disease has within two weeks
swept OF fifteen hundred hogs IN the vicinity
OF Nanddla, Ill.
The steamship Onoko, with cargo of l00,-
l;5 bushels OF wheat, made the trip from ChI
eago To Bur alo in three days and seventeen
hours,
Rufus Barr. farmer, residing nine miles
from indianapolis. shot his wife because q
jealousy last night ana then killed himselI
The woman is dying.
Guthrie, lately City Marshal of Omaha has
been convicted of perjury and receiving brioes
from gamblers, and will probably serve
term in the penientary.
At +, nj du Lac On saturday night Law
renee Cunnaughty struck william Plus over
the head with biliard-cue, causing injuries
from which the victim died the next morn
ing.
At Alliance, o., Sunday the body of =
woman was found in wood with a bullet III
the head. Her companion on the day on
which she was last seen has been arrested tor
the crime.
Dr. Augustus Hohne, who died from, sun,
stroke al Hot Springs yesterday, was the first
TO suggest to Senator Logan the wisdom oi
establishing u Government hospital Tor SOL
diers and sailors.
H. Ruggles Treasurer of Carroll County,
Iowa, WHO recently removed 10 Nebraska, Is
now known TO be u defaulter 10 the amount
Chcaso Board of Trade. His deLcit win be
made good by wealthy brothers in New
Hampshire.
T. Elliott, husband of Nine. Janauschek,
the actress, died in Boston Monday morning
of heart-disease.
During the year ended June 80 the Northern
Pacific Railroad sold 4T3,7l2 acres and LISA
town lots for S2,249, 528.
The breweries of Dubuque have all resumed
business, and 10 licensed saloons are running
as coolly as last month.
In the fve-mile boat race at Scbago Lake
Me- Monday. Teemer defeated Conley in
34;l0, the latter being "a seconds behind
The Illinois Secretary of state has author.
lied Charles B. and John V. Farwell to form
a cattle company with capital OF s., O0a,ooo.
Richard A. Proctor, the astronomer> ar.
rived in New York Monday, and will reside -
st. Joseph, Mo. He intends to become natus-
allied.
The Pennsylvania Railroad has secured an
! independent outlet TO Lake Ontario by TING
| purchase of the SOdus Bay and Southern haif
pad.
Hon. William Williams, Minister TO Uruguay
Paraguay, has sent cablegram declining the
Republican nomination for congress from
the Thirteenth Indiana District
While Mrs. Harris. of kingman County,
Kan, was at a neighbor's Monday, her house
caught fire and the three children whom she
| had locked up were burned TO death
The Sheriff at Chicago has attached about
S25 900 worth of assets of the Coburn New.
man Publishing Company, the amount OF
whose liabilities can not yet be ascertalned.
In response to an invitation General b, y.
Butler states that he will probably attend q
session of the National Educational Associa-
| ton which assemblies at Madison, Wis. on the
| 18th of July.
Thomas J. Navin. the absconding Mayor of
| Adrian. Mich, has mailed from CUBAN
| town letter opening negotiations for com.
| promise with the estate of E. s Clark which
! he robbed OF $4,000.
The University of Pennsylvania crew won
! the intercollegiate boat race at Saratoga Mon
| day forenoon, Cornell second, Princeton third.
| lecause of "A dispute Brown, OF Bowdoln,
I pulled over the course alone, taxing the single
| Scul prize.
As a result of a suit for 100000 by the
! Broadway National BanE an attachment was
! made Monday on the interest of Wallace q.
! Andrews III the mills and furnaces OF An
| drews Bros Co, OF Halcton, o., anu prop
| critics at Youngstown.
| The German A mcricdn Teachers began their
fifteenth convention Tuesday night at Cieve-
| land. o.
The Emerald Beneficial Association began
its tenth annual session Tuesday ut rus
| burgh, Pa,
! william Coty, veteran of the war OF lbl3,
! died Monday night at GAINESVILLE, Wis, aged
| eighty-seNen.
The eleventh annual National soldiers and
| paliurs' reunion will be held at CALDWELL o.,
| September II and IL next.
! Ben IaIsbie, widely known Throughout the
| country as the "lghtnng tcketseller, died
at Columbus. o., yesterday.
There have been thirteen cases of smallpox
at Leroy, Mich. DR.. Belts, ayoung physician
| died o. the maady Tuesday.
William w. Reed, u wealthy citizen of Can
! ton, o., was found guilty Tuesday OF forgery
for which he was indicted two years ago.
w. p. Rcnnie IA well known criminal Law
| yer, of Bloomington, ILL.,, died suddenly yes
| terday of heart-disease, aged thirty-Seven.
The residence OF ii. II. Shufeldt, at 90. no
mowoc, Wis, was during Monday nish
robbed of silverware and clothing va ucd al
$1,000.
August Sunding, victim of unrequ ted
| love, fred two shots at policeman at MIME
apohs yesterday and then blew out his OWE
! brains.
1t has been decided by the Ohio Coal EN-
change to import Swedes and EungartanS "
take the places of the three thousand niner'
now on strike IN the Hooking Valley.
The Freeport Ill.l district experienced {
rain and thunder storm of three hours dura
| ton Tuesday morning. Creeks were over
! flowed, gardens washed out and ripeninf
| grain lodged.
In an ARRAY in keokuk Ia.) hotel Tuesda,
| evening Is. d. Courts, of Dean shot Il. spence
dead The murdered man accused Courts o.
stealing money from him, and followed up BY
| On assault, when Courts used his rcvoiver
! firing four shots.
SAL Somnerich,, millinery dealers at New
| York, have failed for $4,000.
The Baltimore Ohio Company has pur
chased the Pittsburg, Cleveland Tolcdt
| Road.
A number of hogs at Rockford, III, vhiti
had been bitten by "a mad dog, are dying viii
hydrophoba
Philip Hamilton. youngest son of Alexande
| Hamilton, who was killed by Aaron Burr, die
at Poughkecpsie, n. Y, Wednesday aget
| eigbty-two.
At Severance, Kan, Augusted Smth
elevator, containing 5000 bushels of grain
and several other buildings, burned, cptaiIinj
n loss of $4,000.
Fire damaged the Hamilton Rubber Factory
| ut Trenton n. j., $4,000 Wednesday night
| Five firemen were caught by the falling roo'
and two seriously hurt.
| Sixty-three children started from New Yort
yesterday for the country, where they VIII TO
| main for two weeks AT the expense Of The
| Tribune fresh air fund.
The window glass workers at the coming
convention at Pittsburgh will cndeaSor u
unite the European and American giass WORK
ers under one associal ion.
Tho Masonic Grand Lodge resolved al
Stockville, Ont, Wednesday, that the pres
ence OF intoXirants on rcfrcshmeni abies Oh
subordinate lodges was not desirable
SaUgatuck, Mich, offers a tract of land foI
ten years to parties who will cree, ind main
tain on it hotel for summer visitors The
town will also build a suitable landing FOR
steamers.
The race at Cleveland b tween Llingstone
and Jay-Eyc-Sec has Aecn declared OF. cling
stone owner having received telegram
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