The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1885-02-21
Mrs Helen Borchsenius, of Norway, has

Mrs Helen Borchsenius, of Norway, has
the largest collection of buttons yet report
ed. The number is $3.50, and no two
alike.
De Kalb Chronicle: There is talk OF Or
ganizing portion of the counties OF La
Sale and Bureau into new county, with
Washington rs a county seat"
James Doyle is now with d. Heenan "
Co., Streator, and his friends will be GLAD
to know that he has turned over new leaf
and means to be himself again.
A Morris paper says $4,000 will not be-
gin to cover the loss which the farmers OF
that vicinity have sustained during the ias'
month by the ravages of hog cholera.
The De Kalb Chronicle threatens It's de.
Iinouent subscribers with publishing their
names and the amounts owed that paper,
and to keep the matter set up as stand
ing ad.
In Bureau county the highway commits
sioners are rigidly enforcing the law COM
polling all real estate owners along high
ways to trim their hedges to height OF
four feet from the ground.
Joliet, which is embraced in the Illinois
Valley Racing Circuit, held an election for
officers on the 9th inst, the following be-
ing selected; j. G. Henry, pres; Z. Por-
ter, vice pres; r. L. Allen. Sec; I. w.
Folke, treas, and supt.
One evening recently young couple
we're married near Elgin, and rs their
friends surrounded them to extend con.
pratulations the floor broke down and the
bride and groom fell into the cellar, fol
lowed by the minister and 20 or 30 guests.
Marseilles Register: "When we collar a
man for an item and he coolly and in cold
blood denies knowing anything new, it
makes our clothes fit bad to hear him re-
late to crowd of admiring listeners some
good thing that he has kept in reserve un-
til our paper 10 out"
EA young fellow named Billy Green, OF
Joliet, converted himself into modern
Claude Duval the other day and took to the
road. The first man he met on the high
way was ordered to throw up his hands,
and the robber went through him, only to
make q fve-cent haul. He was arrested,
and the jury gave him three.and ahalf'
years sentence.
Streator Free Press: after about one
years delay the G. B. 81 @. road has settled
the claims against 1t for the death or L. G..
Pearre. Suit was brought against the CON-
pany to recover five thousand dollars the
full amount allowed by law, and one day
last week the matter was settled by the
payment of four thousand five hundred
dollars and costs"
p. H. Evans, the Somonauk agricultural
dealer, suddenly skipped the town one day
last week leaving sundry creditors to mourn
his departure. 1t is said that even his ia
mily know nothing Of his whereabouts. His
liabilities are placed at $4,000 and his pa
per is endorsed by several substantial far
mers who placed implicit confidence In his
reliability. He had been addicted to strong
drink lately.
A Streator young man thought 1t would
be a pleasant thing for his girl and himself
to 60 out into the country, about 8 miles, in
sleigh to attend church From latest
advices he was compelled to shovel about
a miles of snow on his way out, and was
then compelled to get back as best he
could, encamping at farm houses, digging
his way from one to the other, and then
going back for his companion. He finally
reached the city, having on his return trav-
eled over the road three times
Princeton Tribune: Jim Scott, sent to
the penltentiary for participation in the
Kewanee bank robbery, was pardoned out
week ago last Friday or Saturday. We
cannot say whether the honor of the job
belongs to John Hamilton or Dick Ogles-
by, but 1t is In the line of conduct which
has driven the law abiding people of Iowa
TO take the law into their own hands;
which has brought the judiciary and the
state government into contempt, and which
has 80 demoralized the people that the sim.
pie act of Judge in giving three criminals
a change of venue at Audubon last week
caused mob to take them from the sheriff
and string them up by the neck, and to
make determined and protracted search
for the judge in order to give him the same
treatment. There was nothing in Scots
connection with the bank robbery, or in
the attempt upon 1t Of himself or Pratt, Or
In his character and career, to entitle him
to executive clemency."
We are advised that an understanding
has been come to in the town of Wallace to
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