The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1888-04-28
Our Neighbors,

OK that did not obey orders, concluded that
the animal WAS deaf and bought an ear
trumpet, which worked with great success.
The animal had lost its appetite, but with
its return of hearing ate heartily
Experimental boring Is being carried on
north of Peru, under the auspices of the
Board of Trade, in search Of sufficient
supply of pure water 70 furnish all needed
by tie city.
The city attorney Of La Sale has insti-
tuted condemnation proceedings for the
acquisition of site for the water works
pumping station.
Joliet sells saloon licenses at $1,000 per
year and has just elected an administration
that Is said 10 be- favorable TO a raise.
The wife of Geo. G. Min, the tragic &C
tor who has frequently appeared In this
city, has made application TO the Chicago
courts for a divource, charging the ex-
preacher with being unfaithful to the mar.
rage vows with one OF the lady members
of his troupe.
A special census of Spring Valley has
just been completed, showing population
of 1925 She is the largest city in Bureau
county, Princeton being next with $500 in
habitants.
At the recent session OF the state conven-
tion of highway commissioners in Spring
field, Hon. f. G.. Lewis of Deer Park was
re elected president.
The Pontiac fair grounds will be fitted
up and used for picnics and for ball
grounds this year, being rented by a COM
pany for that purpose.
A building and loan association has been
incorporated in La Sale with 100000
capital stock.
The Spring Valley Catholic fair closed
on Saturday night on very good two
week run.
Lockers butcher shop at La Sale was
burglari2ed to the tune of $50 on Saturday
morning.
Joliet PresS-"The Episcopalians are
getting plans drawn for new rectory
which it is intended will be one OF the
hapdsomest in the city.
The result of Tuesdays election IN Pom.
tiac will not change the policy of the city
as TO license this year.
Wen0na Inder.-" Tuesdays election for
city officers passed off very quietly with
the issue for and against license, the form
er carrying the day. Both sides were
strongly against waterwOrks, as the vote
shows, and 1t was defeated by an over
WhelmiDg MAJORITY
Speaking of ArbOr day, the Dakota Bea.
con says: " Cover the prairie with trees.
Let there be frequent shady copses dotting
the great stretch from the Red River to
the Black Hills, and Billiards and cyclones
-drouths, hailstorms, grasshoppers and
chntZ bugs, and usurers and sheriff's sales
will become much less frequent in the
land of the Dakotas.'"
aurora Beacon The election proved a
disastrous one TO the high license advO-
Gates. In every ward where there was a
low license candidate. except one, that
candidate was elected.
f. l.. Perry, one of the new engineers of
the Burlington, was attacked by strikers az
Aurora last week, and shot Chris Hestert
an old engineer in the ankle.
The senatorial convention of the g. O. p.
split at Wheaton last week, and nominated
two sets of candidates.
The I. V. IL N. railroad on the Vermil
ion, just above the Deer PARK has gone
down, sloped, and left vacancy in the
right of way II will take weeks and mon
ely to restore the work.
Tuesday mornings passenger train north
ran over and killed young man near Pom
tiac. The young man was about is years
of age and was stealing ride from st.
Louis to Chicago.
1t appears that the legality of the late
township election Eald in the city of Spring
Valley was not according to law, and an
other election has been ordered,
The mushroom industry at the tunnels
in Utica is progressing nicely of late, and
weekly shipments of the fungi are sent TO
Chicago.
The Illinois State Sunday School Con
vention will be held at Rockford the first
week in May
Oregon, Ogle county, is still trying to
form stock company 10 build hotel and
boom the town as a summer resort
The Rockford pOstothce, in The amount
of its business, is claimed to be the third
in the state.
A convention in the interests of munici.
pal suffrage for the women of Illinois was
opened in KanKakee on Sunday, A strong
organization was effected, and many took
annual memberships.
The striking engineers of the Burlington
received $50 pay from the Brotherhood
this month aud the firemen received $40.
Billy Niger commenced training on
Monday for fear McAulffe might suddenly
accept MS CnalieHSe anu Ndut III uSul HlHl
on short notice, before Billy would have
time TO prepare himself.
An ivory tusk some five feet in length
was unearthed in the Santa Fee gravel
pit at Chillicothe last week.
Thomas Potter, a young man who has
made repeated efforts to take his own life
once by the aid of poison and again via the
knife, shot himself in the breast at Coal
Vile, near Streator, on Monday.
The Jewish people of Bloomington will
soon commence the erection of syna-
gogue to cost about $4,000
The surviving members of the old Goth
ILL., infantry regiment will hold a reunion
at Joliet sometime In the month of June.
IStreatOr N0nitor.-"The fact that there
have been two murders In Hungarian
saloons In the past six months, together
with almost innumersble minor ARRAYS
has caused an almost universal demand
that the council refuse to issue another
saloon license to Hungarian"
Another big coal company Is beinf
organized just west of and adjoining Spring
Valley. The company is controlled mainly
by J. c. Osgood, one of the chief incor
porators and projectors of the l. V. q n.
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