The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1885-10-31
Vicinity Items.

Tuesday night Michael O'Conner, aged
SO, father of the editor of the La Sale
Times, died at La Sale and was buried
Thursday.
| Charley Monroe, of Morris, was sand
bagged" by some thugs in that city Mon
day night, and it is feared that intlamma-
ton of the brain will set in.
A Streator high school teacher desires
the young ladies in her department to learn
the printers art.
Purify your blood, tone up the system,
and regulate the digestive organs by taking
Hoods Sarsaparilla. Sold by all druggists.
Tuesday of last week Lewis Ward, of
Morris, was killed in a coal shaft in that
city He was engaged in repairing the
cage, when it fell on his head.
One day last week three Aurora women
went to brewery in that city and became
SO drunk that when they started home they
could scarcely walk. One of them was
wheelinga baby in carriage and falling
the baby was thrown out. This occurred
several times, when at last a policeman
came TO the Gladys" assistance.
Mrs. VIM. Mcfarland is the god-mother
of the Morris Uerdld-so that paper says.
John O'Brien and Mary McGunnigle
were the first couple married in the
new town of Spring Valley.
Have used Tongaline for neuralgia in the
head with satisfactory results. The pain
gradually disappears under its admlnistra-
ton il r. BUsICK, M. d., Judson, Sulli-
van CO., Mo.
After long illness of consumption, Mrs
Mary Hanley, of La Sale, died on Monday
morning.
Marselles has organized a band club.
Robert Howard is president, Terry Sim
mons secretary and Geo Poole treasurer
Down at Urbana war has broken out
among the bakers and fifty loaves of bread
can be bought for dollar
The bullet was cut the other day out of
the leg of Parks, the man who was shot at
the Plumb House in Streator by PeteWeast,
Parks is still confined at the hotel.
Hiram Waite, of Paw Paw, dug hill of
potatoes in his garden in which were one
hundred and twenty four of the tubers
The mother of Dorrence Dibell, candi-
date for crcnit judge, died at Joliet early
last Saturday evening.
Gus Meisenbach of MENDOZA and gen
tleman from Princeton have bought about
braska.
Exalderman j. w. Seaman, of La Sale,
who had been ILL., Central vardmaster at
Amboy for the last months, has resigned.
Sheridan has an amateur dramatic club.
They will perform shortly ard TIE railroads
will give reduced rates to people who want
to-get out of town.
The Streator WOnitOr man picked up a
locket on the street and POLITICALLY says lit
has masculine and feminine hair in II that
NAV he dear to some heart that thumpS
wildly as thoughts of yore bubble up like
slush between sidewalk cracks"
Belva Lockwood will lecture at the Mar
settles rink Nov. Sd. Belva is not by any
means Il graceful skater but she is good
talker, which is nearly as profitable.
They were horribly lard up for diver
sions at one of the Aurora Kinks the other
night and 50 it was advertised that two
teams of ladies would play game of polo
The game was played, but it was discover
ed that the ddics were the regular rink
team in feminine attire, and the audience
confessed themselves sold and went home
with disappointed hearts.
The big chimneys Of the zinc companies
at La Sale ana Peru are being rapidly eat
en- away by the action of sulphuric acid.
The chimney at the sulphur works of Mat
thiesson & Hegeler, La Sale, has been con
siderably damaged at the top and ladder
$50 feet long is being erected on the out
side for the purpose of reaching the top to
make the needed repairs.
The Morris independent, mentioning the
burial at that city last Friday of William
Custer, thus relates the singular manner
of his death " He was pulling on post
his hands slipped and he fell backward,
his neck striking across a post lying behind
him DR.. Hand was at once called, but he
found the fall had dislocated his neck, and
six hours after the accident he was dead"
Joliet and Streator are clamoring for
cattle ordinance. Morris, the papers say,
has such an ordinance, and all are we'll
pleased with it. The cattle are in better
condition than when they roamed the
streets for fodder, the gardens are not mo-
lested and many beautiful private residen-
ces are not enclosed with unsightly fences.
Ottawa has cattle ordinance and il is ri
gidly enfOrced-in a cows horn.
A Mothers Fears.