The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1888-06-09
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Sueator's bob tailed, one mile street rail
way IL q go. 1t Is TO be completed In eigh
months, when S,restor will have the privi
lege Of one car every half hour. StreatO
insists 10 being lone hoss" In everything.
Nine horses suddenly died In Sprin,
Valley and ont In La Sale the other day
and no one seems to be able 10 tell whs
was the cause OF the fearful fatality.
The officers Of the l. V. & N. have con.
cluded to build depot at Deer Park, i'm.
prove the ground, ana thus attract summe
visitors Deer Park, always o favorit,
resort, will be more popular than ever.
The Mendoza Electric Light Co. will In
crease Its stock from $4,000 TO $4,000
and will extend the incandescent system
all over the town.
The rains Of last week around our vicin-
lily sent the Illinois river q booming al
over the bottoms at Spring Valley to {
depth OF from 2 10 8 feet. The ferry boa
was rendered inactive during this tempora
y freshet.
A young man named John Schaulen was
drowned at Pontiac last week. He, John
Holman and Hugh Cooley, performed the
very foolish feet Of going over the dam IN
the Vermillian, In boat. The boat cap
sized, but the other two succeeded In
reaching the shore.
A stock company has been formed a,
Sandwich, for the conducting of fair In
that city this fall
The DeKalb high school graduating
exercises will he held In the M. Z church
In that city, June a. The class of ~
Numbers seven-six girls and one boy.
A heavy thunderstorm passed over La
Sale on Friday afternoon, and although OF
short duration, 1t left the lifeless body OF
Paul kreiger, thirteen years old, behind
He was standing near Mayor Matthiessen's
fence, when II was struck by lightning and
was killed instantly.
Miss Larson, seventeen years old, was
killed near Princeton on Thursday evening
An umbrella frightening her horse, and
his plunging threw her road cart, with her
In II, ever Its head.
Johnnie Mcneil, a son Of Joe Mcneil of
Streator, was drowned In the VermilliOn
river last Wednesday, but his body was not
discovered until Saturday.
The experience of the past week has
demonstrated the necessity of larger tiles
than have been generally used In this eec.
ton. The object of thing is to prepare
land to not only enable farmers TO work
II at all times, but to preserve his crops al
time of heavy rains. Hardly farmer
reports his tile as large enough for the big
rains of the past week.-Pontiac Free
Trader.
NIB. Long, Of Coalville, challenges any
man In Coalville under 40 pounds, TO spar
him to finish with three ounce gloves for
from one to ten dollars; match to be made
within two weeks Of signing of articles.
Charles Harris, colored man from
Pontiac, was arrested at Minonk for bur
glariziHg the money drawer OF the Santa
Fe railroad depot. He was taken to Mata-
mora and lodged In jail.
The body of Miss Julia Bomacher, q
resident of Peru until recently for many
years, was found dead In park pond 10 St
Louis, the cause of the death being en-
tirely unknown. The remains were
brought to Peru for burial.
The bottom lands at Peru and La Sale
were again flooded last week, and corn
prospects down there are suffering from
too much prohibition. There will be very
slim returns this season.
The l. V. 81 N. construction company
surrendered possession of the road on the
LIST inst, and the line Is now the absolute
property of the G. B & @. Co.
Geo. M. Murphy, of the La Sale Nat
Bank, has so far recovered from his late
serious illness that he expects to be able to
attend TO business again in few days.
1t appears from current reports that coal
shafts are liable TO be ss thick as telegraph
poles along the line of the l. w. & N. road
from Streator to point few miles beyond
Spring Valley.
The saloon men, of Joliet, who were
indicted by the late grand jury, for selling
liquor to minors, will turn the tables on the
young men, by having them arrested for
frequenting saloons The law is as strin.
gent In this respect as 1t is against furnish
ing the minors with liquor.