The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1886-11-27
Vicinity Items.

ill. .nd this lot was followed by another lot
averaging SIS lbs. brought in by T. judd
Wenona expects soon to have nauohal
bank with $4,000 capital.
Three cases of scarlet fever are reported
at wenona.
Burgess Bros. Of Wenona captured SIX
nremiums ON Shire Horses at the Fat STOCK
show.
Frank s. Burkenbuel and Miss Hannah
Enele were married at Peru on Tuesday
J. J. Bowling, for 81 years a resident OF
Peru, died on Sunday last, aged 70 years
Daniel Holly, another old settler, died on
Thursday week, aged 70 years.
il. LAUDER has been appointed assistant
supervisor of Peru, vice Henry Helmig re-
signed to become Probate Clerk.
The paper car wheel works at Morris
bought no paper this fall. Does 1t mean a
shut down?
A PORK packing house is being erected at
Lincoln, Ill.
Braceyllle had a $4,000 fire on Tuesday
Mr.. Chas. b. Anderson and Miss Mamie
Bursk Of Streator were married on Tuesday
morning last.
Thomas Reeiy had hand mashed by the
zinc rollers at the Ill. Zinc Co.'S works at
Peru while trying to wipe a spot Of water
off one Of the rollers.
The Peru teachers meeting on Saturday
last was attended by Is teachers. The eX-
ercises were very interesting
The Strea,or bottle works company are
about to erect another furnace. The blowers
are "ferninst' the union.
The Joliet court house (Will Coz cost
1892 .Sl7O3 of which 500, $3.50 still re-
mains unpaid
A savage dog at Mendoza bit Miss McNett,
4 handsome and stylish young lady craytn
artist, very badly, and tore every particle of
,lothing from her body. Because city mar
,hal shot the ugly brute, its owner, woman
who runs laundry, will commence suit for
damages.
The Dundee Knights Of Labor have mem
bership Of ninety.fve, with applications for
en- more.
Hon. Augustus Adams, Of Sandwich, was
Frustrated last week by partial stroke of
paralysis,
Oregon is to have toboggan slide, and
Rochelle wants one.
Many wells and springs in the vicinity Of
Sandwich have been dried up this fall.
The Streator Catholic Fair closed on Mon
lay evening last. 1t is said the amount
cleared will crowd 81, 500!
An exchange says: "John F. Moncrief, an
insane veteran Of the rebellion, formerly a
member Of the old lth Illinois volunteers,
has been granted pension, the first pay
nent of which amounts to SD Al
The Tonica artesian well is down $40 feet,
out has not yet found water.
The Millington sand company has placed
several large yats in their building into
which the refuse sand is placed with suff.
,ient water to thoroughly dissolve it and
cleanse it from impurities. By the use of
he machinery and other improvements
placed upon the grounds, they hope to use q
,ast amount of sand heretofore cast away ON
account of foreign substances found in it
f the plan works well it will greatly en-
nance the profits arising from the business.
over 20 men are now employed by the
company.
NJ, D. Larned & Co. and the Utica Post
dice are to remove from their old stand
lear the canal bridge, Utica, to II location fur
her north on Mill street
l.. NJ. Chamberlain of Ottawa is organizing
singing class at Utica for the winter.
Rev. Penhallegan Of Streator has rece red a
,all from Congregational church at Kansas
Jity.
Chas Cotton, miner, was killed on Fri
lay by fall of rock at Streator.
Mrs. Laura Stuchel, the first white girl
,orn in Bureau county, died at Princeton last
week. Mrs. Stuohel, says the Tribune, was
fifty seven or ifty-eight years old. Her
mai len name was Thomas, she being a
laughter Of Henry Thomas, who settled on
the West Bureau near the old road from
Peoria to Galena, ia 1897 OF '2S, and who
y As one of the five white men who first came
in and settled in the county. The old In.
dian fort on West Bureau was near the resi-
dence of Mr.. Thomas. 1t was to the cabin
Of Henry Thomas that preacher Sample and
his wife directed their course from Rock Is.
land in May, 1882. Thomas and his family
had fed, and Mr. and Mrs. Sample were cap
tured by Girtys band next day, as near as
could be subsequently, ascertained, where
Princeton now stands, and were tied to a
tree just west Of town, near what is now
known as Knox's graveyard, and burned to
death. 1t was claimed that Mrs. Stuchel
was the first white child born in the county.
This claim was disputed in some quarters in
favor of son born in the Hoskins family.
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