The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1884-01-19
MINOR NEWS ITEMS.
ar Week Ended January II.

in Montreal, where the quota was only one
hundred.
Orange groves in the region OF Mobile
Ala. Suffered damage to the amount OF
s. ,Goo, 900 by the late cold spell. Many trees
| IN Florida were saved by building fires in
| the orchards.
A machine 10 make bob nails, with a
capacity of one ton per day, has been in
vented at Pittsburgh, where II factory will
shortly be established. Three men can
thus do the work formerly requiring one
hundred
! At the request of leading capitalists, 4
Chicago engineer has presented an estimate
Of Sl,000,000 for the construction of an
island in Lake Michigan containing fifteen
acres, the material to be dredged from the
Band-bar off Fifty-irst street, and surround
cd by crib brcakwater
! In a sermon at Salt Lake, Apostle Teas
! dale asked the Saints to bear testimony that
| plural marriage is a necessity to the church.
The failure is announced of Nisbit ,S Co.,
cotton merchants of Savannah, with debts
in excess of Sl,0O0,OO0, mostly due in
Europe.
| Nearly one THOUSAND worknen in the
! three largest tobacco factories at Peters
burg, Va, have struck against reduction
| of wages.
John NJ Swearingen Chief of Police at
indianapolis, dropped revolver from his
pocket, which discharged u ball into his
bowels, mnicting 4 fatal wound.
Duncan A. Grant a lace-dealcr in New
York, has made an assignment to cover liza
biltieS of $1,000 and can pay only ten
per cent
A steamship from Vera Cruz landed al
New Orleans party of $50 Italian emf
grants, wholly without money or goods, and
charitable people sent them food ut the po-
lice station.
| According to the January reports 10 the
Michigan Agricultural Bureau the wheat
crop of the State was 90, 1871 bushels, OF
which z, l97, 00C bushels still remain in the
hands of the farmers.
William II. Powell, employed by firm
of groccrs in Philadelphia, embczzled S.,
800 and lost it at faro He pleaded guilty,
and was sentenced to imprisonment for five
years and three months.
In the irOn-0re mines near Lebanon,
Penn, JOHN Pausey went into small
building to take ont some dynamite, and
almost instantly an explosion took place
which blew him to pieces.
| Vanderbilt has made John Newell Pre5i
dent OF the Pittsburgh Il Lake Erie Road,
and has secured 4 through line from the
coke country to Cleveland by a lease of the
McKcesport Road for nincty-ninc years.
Robert Wilson is the name given by q
stranger who has arrived in Amhcrstburg,
Ont, to contest the will Of George Wilson,
who left $50, 600 to distant relatives. Rob
ert claims TO be brother whose identity
was lost in 1919.
Track laying has proceeded so rapidly
that there now remains 4 gap OF but 1876
miles to be laid on the Mexican Central
Railroad, and it is predicted that trains will
be running from FL PaSo, Tex, to the city
Of Mexico by April Is.
The trustees of Cornell University have
appointed Prof. Edward Hitchcock, Dr., Of
Amherst, to the Chair OF Physical Culture
The engagement of Prof. Mcclellan, CT New
York, was Cancelled because he accepted IL
challenge to prize-fght for the lightweight
championship.
A small comet was visible at Key West,
Fla, Tuesday night.
CASTELAR,, the Spanish statesman and re-
DNbican, declares himself in favor Of free
trade.
John Elters was hanged in Washington
Territory Tuesday. He killed q man who
would not pay debt of fifty cents,
John Martin, u native Of Ireland died
Tuesday at Alton, ILL.,, at the age of l02
years. His wife is % and his eldest son 70.
The Standard Multiplex telegraph Com
pany, with n capital of $4,000 900, fled 4
certificate Of incorporation at New York,
Tuesday.
| Hon. ID. ". Bushyhcad and other leading
Cherokees are cndeayoring to lease from
the Nation large strip OF laGd for The pur-
| pose of mining.
| Ralph Sc lew, Il weli-knOWn business man
and philanthr0pist of St. Louis, died snd.
denly Tuesday afternoon in the Southern
Hotel, aged seycnty-eight.
Agents OF New York firm are securing
| the woods Of Arkansas for black walnut
trees, for which one dollar is paid, the logs
being shipped to New Orleans.
| A receiver for the New York, Ontario q
| Western Railway has been asked by n firm
with coal bill for $40, 900. The stock
| closed Tuesday evening at ten.
A reduction OF twelve per cent. III wages
| has been ordered by three cOtton-m mills at
| WoOnsocket, Il. L.. and fifteen hundred men
| in the rubbCI-wOrks have been placed or
| half-iimc.
Thomas Jarvis, a niser, was shot IN his
| cabin near Wayeland, Ind, Christmas eve,
| by two men, and robbed.of $500. Though
| dangerously wounded, the man was found
alive Tuesday.
The Blultton IL LOganspoIt Bead, which
| has Obtained charter in Indiana to lay
| track for cghty.iiye miles, is said to be a
| link in the Baltimore & Ohio project from
| Wheeling 10 Lafayette, for which right OF
| way has been granted.
A bill has gone through the Texas Senate
10 punish fence cutting BY imprisonment
for two to five years. Ten miles of the IN
closure of the Strickland pasture, in Ban
| dera County, was destroyed yesterday, and
| bloodshcd is likely TO result.
Colonel Robert Murray has been con
| fvmed by the Senate rs Surgeon-General Of
the army.
| 1t has been decided to proceed at once
with the erection OF 5000 900 courthouse
at Muncic, Ind.
The coal output in the Wyoming pa
District has increased thirty three per cent
in three years
Hereafter colored children will enjoy the
same school privileges at Halifax, \. y, "a
are accorded to white children.