The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1886-11-13
Vicinity Items.

Chas. Parker. Wenona man, reports let.
tuce and spring" onions growing in his
garden Nov. 10th.
Wenona is having hitching post wal
similar to that in Ottawa a number of years
ago.
lAndrew Il. Hancock, democratic candidate
for treasurer Of Marshall county, beaten by
- votes, demands reco mt Of the ballots.
DR.. Rich, Of Wenona, on Tuesday received
a treasury draft for $3.50 in settlement of a
claim 20 years old for travelling expenses on
his way home from Georgia to Springfield.
His claim was filed for payment two years
ago.
A training school for attendants has been
organized by the authorities of the Kanka-
kee Insane Asylum. The course is designed
for two years study, and the diploma Of the
Asylum will be given to graduates
A new and beautiful hotel is being erected
at Cobb's Park, near Kankakee, for the &C.
commodation Of summer resoiters. The
owners are Emory Cobb the C. and c., L &
st. l.. & Co. railroads 1t will De called the
Riverside Hotel"
The Plano Manufacturing Company car;
ries an insurance OF $500, 900 on its plant
and stock.
The viii county poor farm comprises
eighty acres Of fine land, and there are
ffty-three inmates in the institution.
Forty or fifty houses are being erected in
Spring Valley by the coal company for its
employees.
Henry Dimmick, Of Deer Park township,
has built 30-foOt steamer and launched it
on the Illinois river. 1t will carry twelve
persons.
Spring Valley polled 500 votes a, the late
election
The new electric fire alarm at Sycamore
will be ready for use this week.
The extension of the Egin street railway
has been commenced Nearly all the prop.
erty owners along the line have contributed
toward the enterprise.
A party Of school ma ans visited the Joliet
penitentary the other day, aud now they
can teach the young idea how to steer clear
Of the fate Of convicts.
DR.. T.. Evans decides tina, it won pay to
hun, for natural gas at Streator. Now, that 3
curious; We had always supposed here was
nothing gassy Strea,or did not have.
The high school building at Henry has
been condemned as unsafe for school pur-
poses a resolution TO that effect having been
passed at public meeting Of citizens called
10 consider its condition.
Peoria work house subjects are required
to make brick There are at present sixty
five men and seven women al the work
house, which is nothing more than brick
yard.
Spring Lake, near Pekin, is alive now with
hunters from this state. Indiana and Ohio,
II is not stated just what is the proportion
If hunters TO ducks.
The Joliet branch Of the Aurora corset
factory began work Nov. LIST with 100 ma
Chimes in operation Girls earn 50 week
the first eight weeks, after which time by
hard work they can make IS.
James Mgby, for forty eight years resi-
dent Of Peru, was found dead in his bed on
Sunday last.
The latest town in this vicinity at which
diphtheria has made its appearance is Odell
and considerable uneasness has been occa
stoned thereby.
The village Of Srawn has been prospect
ing for coal for some time and at last ha:
succeeded in finding a vein Of black dia
monds Of good quality.
The story that the rekiu road had opened
a 81. Louis line is not true, as part Of tn,
line has yet TO he built.