The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1885-08-29
Vicinity Items.

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Morris is DESTROYS OF joining the Illinois
Valley Racing Circuit
The Mendoza fair begins Sep. Sth, and
the Princeton fair Sept. 10Th.
A StreatOr woman named Mrs. Reddie
died Sunday who was the mother OF II
children.
The Dimmick Old Settlers picnic was
held at Dimmick' Ford, near Dimmick, on
Thursday.
Coroner Clendenen, of La Sale, was
called to Fulton last week by the death of
a nephew.
Joseph johnson, of La Sale, has recent
ly been appointed as member of the Board
of Mine Inspectors
A fire at the New Lenox camp meeting
destroyed six cottages Wednesday night,
with "a loss of $1,000.
Peter Friedrich, "A Peruvian, was killed
Tuesday, by being buried under wall OF
earth which fell on him.
The Joliet Press will soon be transferred
to the hands of a stock company, but the
management will continue as heretofore.
John Day, n workman at Spring Valley,
drew fellow laborer's check for $7l.95
and skipped out Officers are on his track.
Streators new Jail in the city building
was finished Friday. If crime keeps on
the increase in that city, it will soon have
to be enlarged. :.
A man named Ford Reddick, who it
is stated would like slice of the VIM.
Reddick estate, is denounced by the La
Sale Reddick rs fraud.
The Mendoza military company left for
the encampment at Springfield, last Mon
day, companied by Col, Foster and the
regimental band of Princeton.
The Burlington depot at Streator was al
most atoat Monday night A local paper
down there says it was almost necessary to
swim to reach the cars
Mrs John Becker, of Marseilles, pre-
scented her husband with sweet little girl
baby, on the occasion of his birthday, re-
Gently. 1t was welltlmed present. surely
GrUndy county Is agitat!ng q monument
to It's dead soldiers. 1t had better profit 10y
the experience of La Sale county ere ii
undertakes to bite of more than 1t Can
chew
A new move is being made in the con.
duct OF the La Sale =. o. The postmaster
declares that in the future nauseating
cancan posters can not be stuck over or
near the boxes"
There are $50 males in the Joliet peni-
Tertiary and ~ females, total OF l,592.
The largest number ever received In one
day was batch on Thursday of last week,
numbering 40. They were all from Chlca.
go.
Geo Iensing, book keeper fDr the agri-
cultural firm of John II. Miller, of La Sale,
absconded recently. The defalcation will
not amount to over $500 The firms books
are now being examined to ascertain the
exact amount.
Geo Mulvey, of Bracevllle, who fought
the recent prize fight with Adam Patterson,
a miner of BraidwoOd, Is reported rs having
whipped every one whom he has encoun-
tered in his travels around the world. There
were 1919 rounds fought and Patterson was
battered beyond recognition.
Joseph Jacob, OF La Sale, was found
dead one morning last week. His wife,
who occupied the bed with him for seven
or eight hours after his death, knew moth
ing OF his demise until awakening In the
morning. A man named eagle killed
himself In the same house two weeks be-
fore by driving nail into his brin.
Tuesday last the Bungart Bros, proprie-
tors of the Exchange" saloon, La Sale,
were arraigned before U. s. Commissioner
Hoyne, Of Chicago. Revenue Agent
Phelps, who happened to pass their saloon,
noticed that stamp on one of the kegs
had not been Cancelled, therefore the suit,
Commissioner Hoyne held the defendants
to the grand jury on their own recogniz-
ance, no criminal intent being shown
An act of the purest philanthropy comes
from La Sale this week. William Demp-
sey, resident of that city for nearly half a
century, presented that noble band of wom-
en--the Sisters of Charity--of that city,
with $4,000, 5000 of which Is certiti-
cate of deposit In the First National bank,
of Chicago, $1,000 a note on the Oglesby
Coal Company, and $4,000 note secured
by mortgage on La Sale real estate. The
gift Is indeed magnificent one, being just
one half Of Dempsey's fortune.
The world Is chuck full Of disappoint.
ment There was on the programme 1T
the Freeport races lately, balloon ascen-
sion. Davis Nicholson and young lady
named Emma Broadwell took Il into their
heads TO go up In the air.ship and get mar.
ried in nubibus. They had made elaborate
preparations TO celebrate the honeymoon
with becoming eciat, as 1t were, many
thousand feet above the sea level, but the
whole scheme collapsed owing to hole In
the balloon which let out $1,000 cubic feet
of gas and the trip was declared OF for the
present, pending repairs en- the balloon
hole, when the wedding trip among the
clouds will take place