The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1885-01-03
Vicinity Items.


On last Sunday evening an outrageous
at,emp, 10 outrage Miss Rosa Neu wac
made On the streets Of La Sale. Her cries
saved hey The Democrat says; " Miss
Ichoked her; her clothes were torn and
sOiled, and when she was taken home she
was almost in commissions and overcome
from freight. The young lady had been in
Peru that evening visiting her parents, and
on returning first noticed that she was fol.
lowed by the man al the bridge at the
Union coal shaft
On last Tuesday evening, Mrs w o,
Hill, OF Peru, says the Noes, asked her
husband for the key Of bureau drawer,
in which, with many other things, was
kept loaded pistol Having no reason 70
believe she wanted the pistol, he gave her
the key, and moment after she stepped
out Of the room. A few seconds later a
sho, was heard, and Mr. Hill spoke 10 his
son, asking who was shooting so near the
house. They looked out the window and
saw no one Mrs. Hill was missed from
the house III little while, and her son, in
looking for her, stumbled over her dead
body lying in the snow When she was
carried into the house il was found she had
pressed the pistol 10 her temple and fred,
producing almost instant death. The Coro-
ner was notified, u jury empanelled, and a
verdict given in accordance with the above
facts, as ELECTED by the testimony. Mrs.
Hill was about 20 years or age, and had
been in bad health for a long time. She
! had buried three children and her grief in
conjunction with her failing health, had
partially unsettled her mind,
Streator MOlsitor The police were
called to the window glass works about ten
O'Clock last night To quell what threatened
b be a big disturbance. The teasers and
helpers had been notified that reduction
of 10 per cent. would be made 10 their
wages after the Isl of January, owing 70
depression in business The men held a
meeting and resolved not to accept the re
duction, they further resolved 70 try and
induce the blowers and labOrers 10 join
Them In order 70 accomplish this il was
necessary, apparently, TO indulge in fire
water, that they might make all the noise
possible, They bowled up at the Blue
Goose" last night, and went 70 the works
with the avOwed purpose OF forcing the
men to join them They thought 10 strike
while the iron was hot" and tackled the
workmen when they had the furnace all
heated and ready ia commence blowing,
The police were called and Marshal
Smith and Assistant Ryen soon restored
quietness President f. NJ Ryon has Sc
cured an entirely new force of men TO take
the place Of the strikers and work will not
be delayed a minute"
The cotton and wooden factory OF the
Cornwall Manufacturing Co. of Marseilles,
says the P0Smdedier, are 50 far completed
tina, il may interest our readers 10 have a
clearer insight into the business OF the
firm, embraced in more complete descrip-
ton of their works, than we have given,
would afford Although the mills, when
running full force, will require the services,
in all seasons, of some fifty or more opera
tvs, there Is a ready market with the con
{, rn's customers in Chicago alone for the
entire product, some 10000 lbs. day of
cotton batting, plain and fancy cotton
wipinc waste, Quilted carpet lining and
nool shoddy," The advantage of making
staple goods for which there is steady de-
mand, should be highly appreciated
The buildings are worth 100000; and con
sists of carpenter shop, 15x2i frame, for
making cases; stock building 2Ox25; pick.
er or wool room, of brick, 3Sx43; boiler
room, l0x30; and main cotton mill, 53XSS,
two stories high The capital is $4,000
The works were removed to Marseilles
from Chicago.
Arlington is considerably excited over
the opening Of a natural gas well, such as
are revolutionizing the fuel question in
Western Pennsylvania; and now itappears
La Noble is TO be favored also, a writer in
the Princeton Tribune saying:
There is one place, about one-half mile
east of La Noble, where II bubbles from
the surface all the time, and has done so
for more than twenty years, and some PEG
pie say there is oil, or the appearance of IL,
at the surface. will admit / have seen
II when II had a shiny or greasy appear
snce, and the gas have seen burn; IL Is On
Pike creek, three miles east and one south |
of La Noble
Last year, on L. Walton's old farm, they |
found gas about 30 feet down. When the
auger was pulled out il hOissed gravel and
sand fifty feet high IL was opened again
last spring, and Il first threw up . stream
of water thirty feet high. About three