The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1888-11-17

Wolves are raiding the hen coops of farm
ers near Morris. Their haunts in the Al
Sable timber are almost inaccessible.
Citizens of Streator mourn the loss of one
Schaub, who has disappeared with the stakes
| OF several election bets, besides leaving many
mourning credltors.
Kate Meehan, n resident OF In Sale, who
| is dependent upon the county for support,
iell through IA defective sidewalk at that
place Oh Monday aud broke her leg.
! On Saturday night burglars again visited
! Slrea,or They entered the store of Hill
Bros. through back window and obtained
about six dollars out OF the cash drawer.
An ex>relorm school boy, in the employ OF
John Campbell near Pontiac,is alleged to have
set fire to huge hay stack belonging 10 the
latter, on Thursday last. The loss was 500.
Princeton parties who are sinking IN
Rrt esau well, have gone down 1875 feet and
! have as yet struck no ock. AT In Sale the
rock comes to the surface, but NJ Blooming
ton The drift is still deeper.
The authorizes al Peru are sinking shaft
to test the water supply available, in case the
city should decide 20 build water works. The
work is progressing rapidly
Four young bloOds OF Aurora were hne'
from three TO four dollars and costs the other
day for making disturbance on Hoilo
en- Lifting gates, etc, Is quite uppop-
ular in Aurora.
Night sessions are held AT the Rockford
female seminary for the convenience Of the
young ladies whose time is taken up with
other employment during the day.
Miss Belle Bridewell, one of the teachers
M the Dickerman school near Streator, was
taken with hemorrage Of the lungs on Tues
day, aud died in fifteen minutes She was n
very popular lady and her death ~ much
lamented.
A party of half dozen Germans assaulted
woman in An uniruquented spot AT Streator
on Monday night, and she resisting them
was beaten aud abused terribly. Her erie.
attracted attention and the brutes hei.
| Mrs. Ptrynski, Polish lady living Mt Ls
Sale WAS struck by Il Rock Island train AZ
that place on sunday, receiving serious in
| jures. She was walking along the trsck
and was caught 10y the step of the forward
coach.
IL IL surmised that since the election has
gone the other way, the JoAd Daay Democrat
wil! start 3 fai bank account show. with 3
| ten cent admission fee as the prospects ARE
| that it's advertising contracts made condi-
tioual upon Cleyclan1s election, will be moi
! very prota able.
| An election for alderman was held in The
| fifth ward of La Sole, on Monday, Nov. D
The candidates were Thomas Montgomery
| formerly of this city, and a MIR Coulter
Coulter was elected, but Montgomery nov
comes forward and claims the election Il
have been illegal, rs the ordinance, proyij-
| ing for it, read Nov. which was afterward'
changed by the city clerk to Nov ., Their
will doubtless be "A contest.
Miss Della Barker, the pretty little four
teen year old daughter of the postmaster a
Fairbury has disappeared and all traces o
her been lost She left her home on sun
day, Nov Sd, saying that her head acheC
and she wanted fresh air. She walked t,
Weston and thence to Chenoa, where she 60
a ii ket TO Peoria. She then went to Deoa
ur and then utterly disappeared. II is be
lieved that she is either IN st. Louis or Kan
sas City, and has either been lured away b,
some one or has given herself up too freel.
| 20 French novels.