The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1885-06-06
Vicinity Items.

DiX's dry goods store, at Mendoza, was
burglarized last Monday night and abou
$500 worth of goods stolen.
James Thompson, a Mendoza barber anC
| Justice of the peace, skipped for Canada
last week, leaving behind him mementoe'
| in the shape of bills amounting TO $500
Dixon Sun: "The Express says that al
Aurora man, Il friend of Evans, has of
fered to bet new hat that the senator viii
get the bill appropriating 100000 for the
founding of IA soldier home through the
legislature, and that said soldiers home
will be located in Aurora, on the fail
grounds"
Lew Hamel, of Dimmick, was out walk.
ing with his girl Sunday night, when he
stepped with one foot into hole. His re-
volver went off and put a bullet through
his foot near the toes and he came near hav-
ing the lock jaw as result. The lady es-
capped injury. Young men should leave
their pistols at home when they go out es.
corting their girls Sunday nights. 1t does
not look we'll to be armed to the teeth on
such occasions.
On May %, man 40 years old, with
black mustache, dark clothing, height
about feet inches, and weighing fully
145 pounds, called at Thos Cassidy's livery
stable, La Sale, hired horse and drove
away, saying he was horse.buyer and
would return that evening. Since that time
the thief and horse have not been heard
of. The animal is 10 hands high, will
weigh 900 pounds and in color is roam.
The vehicle Is an open slde-bar buggy.
Nothing definite can be learned as to what
direction he took, but a man of his des-
cription was seen driving rapidly south
near TOnica the same day of the theft.
Mr. Cassidy has offered reward of $50
for the arrest and conviction of the scamp.
Lightning rod swindlers have been ope-
rating in Win county. Their modus ope-
randi is to offer 200 feet of lightning rod
wire with seven points and two ornaments
thrown in in consideration of the purchaser
agreeing to pay 50 cents per foot for all rod
required over two hundred feet. Another
stipulation of the contract is the waving
Of all claims Of verbal agreements of any
nature not embodied in the contract The
result is that farmers are ileeced to the
tune of bills amounting to from $50 to $50
more than they had expected D. pay, and
Of course payment is demanded according to
contract. When people learn to buy their
goods of whatever nature from reliable and
established dealers, then they will cease to
be gulled, and not before.
Marseilles Register. "There is a barber
in Ottawa who will think he met with
railroad accident if he ever visits Mar
settles, and he will deserve any kind of
that may befall, The extent
Of his SHINING is monstrous, and the flaxen-
haired youth who will call him to account
Is now training on the sand bags The
trouble originated in this way One of our
boys OF tender years, who has been aSsidu-
)usly cultivating nOnpareil mOustache for
some time, while down to Ottawa last week |
attending the show, took a notion that he
would have said moustaChe cut off, and |
aking last fond look at the 'sparsely set |
led neighborhood of his upper lip threw
himself carelessly into the chair of the
Onsorial artist, who approached him with |
| white spread and long shears, and with
bland suavity inquired, after closely scan
hing his face, if he wished hair cut"
The Times, "the only English paper in
~ Sale" says: "The miners in the La
Sale shaft have been uneasy during the
'ast few days and many persons fear that
here is danger of a strike. We hope not,
S strikes seldom rebound to the advantage
f either the employer or employe. Work
as been little slack of late, and this has
the antipathy already existing
etween the miners of different nationali-
les The coal cars which should have
cen filed at the La Sale shaft last We'd
esday had to be sent for filing across the
Iyer. Let common sense and common
lstlce prevail, and no strike will occur
IA Sales business is poor enough now,
OF TO make it worse by a strike"