The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1885-07-25
Timely Topics,


Bracevlle paid. its miners $4,000 last
month.
Co. !, La Sale, had mammoth excursion
to Lacon Thursday.
La Sale county has now 30 papers publish
ed inside its boundaries.
The Bureau county board OF supervisors
were in session three days this week.
There are two Spring Valleys in this state.
The larger of the two is four miles west of
Peru.
The Joliet Battery has disbandcd on account
of the reduction of the l. n. G. by the legls-
lature.
On Monday John f. Smith was appointed
postmaster at Freeport, vice Smith ID. Atkins,
suspended.
There will be huge excursion and picnic
from Earl to Spring Valley when the new
road is finished.
The Republican P. NJ. of Quincy has re-
ceiyed orders to step down and get him hence,
but he refuses to yacate.
Mendoza is considering the proposition of
the electric light company of that place to
heat the business houses by steam.
An alarm of fire brought the fire depart.
ment out to Joe Albrccht's, Monday night.
The fire was put out with few pals of
water.
The man who says advertising doesn't pay
Is the man who comes around to get his name
in the paper when he gives ten cents to an
orphan.
Streator wants band concerts. The mayor
offers to start the music by donation OF $50.
What's the matter with Ottawa trumping, or
at least following suit?
A. Morrison, an extensive farmer at Farm
Ridge, had horse valued at 500 killed by
lightning during the thunder shower OF Tues
day afternoon, this week.
II is Jacks turn now to be on top, and 10
sephus Corbus had better retire gracefully.
He has run his race. Farewell. long fare
well to his political cunning.
Jack Reddck has the bulge on all the other
county newspaper men. He can now say any
thing he desires of them and there Will be no
Censor Corbus to suppress him.
John Baker, Peru diver, while trying to
aflix hook to the hammer Of pile driver
which had sunk in 81 feet of water, went
down the other day and remained under water
63 seconds.
Saturdays Journal supported Buffalo Rock
AS the encampment site in an article a column
and half in length. In the next issue Of
that paper was foLnd the Reddick farm as the
proper site. The question now is whether it
was McCabe or Kendig who made the altera-
ton. Oh, changc-stupendous change, Mr..
Journal!
The Sheridan Independent has come to life
again, Whitmore & Adds being responsible
for its resurrection. Gentlemen, hope you
may fill the long felt want and fill it accepta.
bly,. Your paper is certainly a credit to the
village and deserves the support of every
man, woman and child within ten miles of its
location.
The alligator story and the alligator that
made up the hoax have been consigned to
eternal oblivion. The alligator reported by
the Times TO have been seen in the Illinois
river here, recently, has been discovered at
last and is nothing more than a stuffed pan
Their which had been for a long time in the
show window of A. Alschulers store, and
which he had dumped into the river Nattin-
ger and Wilson owe a deep apology to their
readers for the manner in which they attempt.
ed to bamboozlc them.
There are SO many new publications arriv.
ing on the exchange editors desk that il
seems almost impossible to give any of them
more than brief mention. First came the
streator Independent, then the StreatOr Daily
Times, followed by the Sheridan Ird,Iendent
and lastly the Utica Blade, which came under
the wire Saturday on rather slow but sure
gait, G. NJ. Hale, the publisher, handling the
ribbons. The Blade is "independent, fearles:
aud free" and only dollar year. Mr.. Hale
is the fourth newspaper genius who has at
tempted to run a long primer newspaper in that
small plea town. However, from the appear
snce of the first issue it is to be hoped thai
his endeavors will be appreciated by tn,
Uticaites and given liberal support.
Have used Tongaline in facial neuralgi:
with happy effect, obtained relief in a shor