The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1885-03-07
Vicinity Items.

III lIdCOn OTgdNlLcu DuSc DdIl CluD IDS
week, for the coming season.
Nearly fifty convcts were released from
t the Joliet penitentiary recently.
Two nieces of President CLEVELAND
teach in the public schools of Peoria.
Three miles north Of Wenona, along thu
Central, the snow drifts were rs high a
the top of the smoke stacks,
There were $4,000 worth of building
erected in Streator during the year 1881
Let's hear from the "lmperal" city. Can
she produce one tenth this showing?
Thursday of last week, "Old Joe, the
butcher" rs he was Familiarity known
stabbed himself to the heart, at the Key
stone House, Earlville Bad whiskey wa!
the cause.
How is this for slow time: A passenger
train which left Bloomington on the Cen
trail on the 10Th inst arrived at Kankakee
last Monday, regulating 1853 hours time t.
go SO miles
Those who listened to his sectarar
speech here at the soldiers reunion, were
not particularly impressed by his genius as
a statesman. Who is there to mourn him
Not one.
A teacher of Marseilles is engaged il
writing a series of articles on Mistakes of
the Schoolroom." 1t would be as appro
pirate for some talented pupil to write OF
Mistakes of the Teacher"
Two Bloomington Cinnamon got on a
drunk last week and cut off their queues
during the debauch. When they sobered
off and saw they had perpetually disgraced
themselves in the eyes of their country.
men, they committed suicide.
An imperative order has been issued on
the c. Il A, forbidding freight trains to
run over eighteen miles an hour or passen-
ger trains over thirty miles an hour. The
penalty of any violation of this rule is
peremptory dismissal.
An organization called the Rockford
Driving Park Association has been per
fected in that city among owners of rapid
horses, who have leased the fair gounds for
a year and propose 80 inaugurate series
of good races the coming summer,
This is the season of the year when
farmers should be looking over their farm
ing tools, harness, etc, and make all need.
ed repairs A few hours or days thus
spent now will save much trouble Later in
the season, when time is more precious.
A spectator who was as the burning of
the Passenger House. says: at is wonder
how they succeeded in saving the water
tank. If it had been burned several hun
drcd barrels of valuable water would
have been lost" This is a good hit on the
81 600 water works of Mendoza.
A man named Buckley, well known in
Streator, died on the train from Joliet TO
Dwight, last Saturday. He must have AN
ticipated his death, as he had in his peck
ct u receipt for coffin which he hGd
bought in Joliet. "Never put off till TO-
morrow what you can't do when you're
dead" must have been his motto.
Monday last the directors of the La
Sale Driving Park elected the following
officers for the ensuing season: NJ. +.
Corley, president; NJ Corcoran, vice-presi-
dent: j. +. Sicily, secretary; II. j.
Barker, treasurer, and r. d. Gray, superin-
tendent of track. 1t is thought that a
Fourth of July meeting will be given.
| The Morris Herald of last week says
"Fitzgerald's Band, of Ottawa, was present
at the Opera Rink on Thursday night of
last week. The house was crowded with
spectators and skaters. At 10: 30 the floor
was cleared, and for an hour dancing was
INDUCED in Manager Hull is arranging
for weekly visits by this most excellent
| band"
farmers. who are worth from $4,000 AT
100000. There are others yet actively to
work who are worth from 100000 to S200,.
600. Such thing as poor farmer is not
known. The dairy farmers of that section
of the country are in bester circumstances
as a class, than those Of any other section
of the country.
AT the meeting of the State Veterinary
| Nc hal OF thc
Sherman house, Chicago, the president, DR.
Sheppard, In the chair, committee was
appointed to visit Springfield in the inter
est of bill to provide for legislation gov
erning the practice Of veterinary surgery
and medicine in the state. The association
meets in Joliet May 9Th.
One of the first performances in john M
Hamilton's career as governor was to de
nounce newspaper reporters as dogs, ane
one of his last official acts was to request
Chicago newspaper reporter to "goto h'-.'
1t is easy to prove that MIR. Hamilton ma
succeeded in making himself Thoroughly
odious to the newspaper profession OF th'
state, and consoling to know that he Is a
dead politically as if he was planted IN
pine box six feet under the turf.
Dixon San: "a farmer near Harmon
recently lOSt SeNeTu Cdtue III u suopS
way. One of the cows caught her heat
under the fence during the night, ant
while held in this position the hogs com
menced sucking her, and by so doin
drew blood, and it so increased their raN
ing for flesh that they ate the uddsr iron
the cow, and she died. They subsequent
, w attacked and caused the death OF tw
other COWS.
Tramps are not all bad men, as will b
| seen by reading further. "A passenge
/ train on the Cincinnati, Hamilton u Day
5 ton railroad was saved by tramp, VIII
I watched by broken rail until the trai
I came in sight, and signalled it. He wa
3 nearly frozen, but the passengers took bin
aboard, made up purse and gave him
( new suit of clothes, while the vice-pses
dent of the road, who was on the trail
, presented him with gold watch and "
In money, and promised him good situ'
, ton II he would go to work" =.
| Streator Monitor: "The stigma OF Ill
, grace Is indelibly stamped on the classi
r brow OF the Streator High School boy; tn
| film Of defeat, in the shape Of snow ball
has dimmed the brightness OF his eye, an
! no halo of glory circles ahOy0 his hea(