The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1888-12-22
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hours serenade, the gentlemen, fairly eX-
hsusted with laughter, calmly informed
them thai the wedding would take place on
the following evening. rhe youths have
h"en the butt of the village jokers for a
week
The people of Mendoza and vicinity
have been treated T. an endemic Of horse
stealing, burglary aud petty stealing, fer
several weeks The 10 ses have thus Ter
not been great, and AZ nesrly every house
is now baricaded At night, the thieves will
nave little chance Of securing more.
The farmers near Shelbyville have not
heen satisfied with the price paid for grain
AID produce by local dealers, ard have
formed corporation league ard will
henceforth do their own shipping. They
have also opened a cooperative store.
While standing al the front end OF a ca
boose on the G. Il A. track at Pontiac, Gus
Raymond, a laborer, was knocked down 10y
the sudden Starting Of the train, and fall,
ing ACROSS the track, was run over by the
cahoCse. He will be permanently Grip
Piled.
Samuel Wilson, a resident OF Flanagan,
Livingston county, committed suicide last
W6th ny tuipuSI NV
head. His min! was der.nged At the time
on account of his inability 10 pay claims
against him.
The photographers Of Joliet are going
TO petition the council to force travelling
agents who come there soliciting picture
work, To procure license. Ii Is said thar
more than s. 900 has been paid TO Chicago
establishments within three years, by resi-
dents of Joliet, to have pictures retouched,
enlarged, made In brOmides, etc. The
photographers think II right that they
should be protected from such outside
workers
The pastor of the Methodist church at
the village of Rossvills, in Vermilliun
county, refused 10 preach any longer To his
congregation until the memb ers, who are
mostly republicans return To the demo
Gratis the money which they won from
them on election, and repent of their sins.
The Widow Burkart and her children,
family of the murderer of Banker Howe
and wife, OF Wenona, We're assisted to
Kansas by the mayor Of Wenoua, the other
day. 1t 10 said that Burksrt's body was
sold TO Champaign physician, after the
Chicago medical college had dissected 1t.
The equal suffrage association will hold
conventions next month In Lockport, Mar
seiles, Wilmington, Morris, Gardner and
Ottawa, which will be attended py Helen
NJ Gouger, N. L. Sisson, Hon, N. B, Cas-
tie. State senator, Sandwich, Ill. and Miss
Julia N, Duane While thsy are In the
neigh borhood II Is proposed to have pub
lie meeting In Joliet, as a great number
are DESTROYS Of hearing Mrs. Gouger again.
William Thomas, the convict in the
JOliht prison who Is serving term for the
murder Of Farmer Allen, at Sandwich,
about nine years ago, was pardoned last
Wednesday, He received II years. After
he had served five, a convict named Young
confessed in dying condition, that he
was the man who did the deed. He was
taken out and given life sentence for the
deed, but Thomas has been kept ever since.
Younge was sentenced till last Wednesday,
when he was pard0ned, having served ten
years for the crime of another. The Hon
&. T. Seaman, OF Chicago, procured his
pardon.
William GOnigal, Victor VOudenwalder,
James Whitfield and John Deary, La Sale,
we're arrested and fned ten dollars and
costs for stealing parts Of machinery from
the railroad companies and coal operators,
and selling it to y man named Hill. Hill
WAS fined twenty-five dollars for receiving
stolen property. The thievings have been
going on for some time, and the losers
determined to call halt.
Lon Smith, a tough character of LacOn,
while our coon hunting the other night
lay down to close to log fire, and while
asleep 81 well-hurned log rolled off tina
fire upon his thigh burning II to the bone.
lie will lose the use Of the limb.
The La Sale ghost, or rather the idiotlc
joker, who is attempting to brighten little
children in the town of coal dust and red
hesded policemen, narrowly escaped shoot
ing the other night. He or she met a
couple OF gentlemen who ran to look for
revolver, but il got away before they re-
turned 80 says the Ne'cs-H6rdld. Isn't
this Just a little silly. How can one be In
danger Of shooting unless the assailant
has a weapon handy? Pooh!
Conductor Mitchell, of the Santa Fee
we'll known in Streatur, was killed at the
Mississippi river bridge last week. He
tell from the car he was standing on and
fractured his skull
The much desired coal shaft at Ladd lie
still in embryo The attempt to use the
freezing process through the quickssnd
has been abandoned, as the New \ ok firm
demanded $4,000 for making the attempt,
and even then would not guarantee a sue.
cess. A fourth attempt Will not be made
on variation Of the pudding timbering
and the big shoe are now being made and
work will commence about January LIST,
and the engineers sre confident Of success.
Elgiu having decided to do away with
the tower electric light system, and pro
cure cheaper and better light refused to
renew the contract with the company, and
advertised for bids To furnish complete
system. The accepted bid, which gives %
arc lamps for $l1, 800, is very low This
contemplates suspending the lamps from
wires, at street intersections, doing away
entirely with the tower system. 1t is a
thoroughly reliable company.
On Friday evening the Dwight mail
pouch was stolen from the Alton depot at
Streator. | contained all letters dorpped
In the boxes during the afternoon, and was
very important. The POstottice Inspector
worked on the case and the package was
found on Saturday. The thief had taken
it into IN empty railroad car sidetracKed
near No. | shaft. Here he had cut the
on al, ,pat, u, fuD pr thraa DOpps torn a