The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1888-06-02
Our NeighbOrs.

will erect II 100000 church.
The new building for the Young Mems
Christian Association, at Freeport, will cost
over $4,000.
There are 32 arc lights and 45O incandes.
cent lights In use In the business houses OF
Kankakee. besides 30 street lights.
Bridges, sewers and other badly built
public works at streator, we're damaged 10
the extent OF $4,000 by the rains of Sunday
and Monday.
Jim Waldron, living near Arcadia, H., Is
having cage 3Ox4O f. biilt on his farm,
and Intends 70 engage in the business Of
raising wild cats
George NJ. Murphy, cashier of the La
Sale National Bank, was seized With
spasms of the windpipe on Sunday, aud Is
still In dangerous condition.
A young blacksmith In Aurora was so
absent minded the other day that he laid
his finger on the anvil and deliberately
smashed ii With blow from his hammer
The Santa Fe is preparing new train
schedule to be issued within the next few
weeks, shortening the time Of through
trains, especially between here and Chica.
go.
Sterling and Dixon, with their 100000
water works, seem to have considerable
trouble with them, because of their inef-
fectiveness, besides being very expensive
luxury.
Judge Craig, Of the state supreme court,
Is endeavorlng to build a town and estab-
fish a fishing resort on his land near
Dahinda, where the Santa Fe crosses
Spoon river.
Contrary to expectation, the |. V. & N.
road was not opened on Monday, as about
two rods of the enbankment under the
Peru tracks we're washed out by the rain
Sunday night
The license committee of the Joliet city
council reported at the last meeting In
favor of raising the liquor license to $4,000
Action on the report was deferred until
next meeting.
Sunday morning William Burkhalter, a
young, Intelligent and highly respected
citizen of Galesburs, was run over by the
cars and had both legs crushed. He died
the same evening.
A young man, an employee OF NJ. N.
WilcoXon, who was working on the addition
at Bensel's restaurant, in La Sale, had his
cheek cut through by a sharp chisel falling
from the top of a step ladder.
A liberal reward is offered for informa.
ton as to the whereabouts of one Moody,
who had hallucination that he owned the
earth and a part of Streator. 1t is feared
he is lost-Streat0r N0nttOr.
Galesburg is &c have 10000 Santa Fe
depot built of red sandstone and fitted out
with cathedral and punch slate glass win
dows, maple floor and black slate roof.
Streator gets a wooden barn.
A farmer living near Rockford was fined
the other day for cruelty to animals He
brought some calves to town with their
feet tied together in decidedly uncom-
Portable position and was arrested.
William Rockenfeller, while working at
buzz saw in the Santa Fe shops in Streat-
or on Friday last, was struck in the chest
by piece Of timber hurled from the saw,
inticting very serious injuries.
Miss Edith Matthiessen, daughter of
Mayor Matthiessen, of La Sale, and Mr..
Henry Matthiessen, OF Chicago were mar
ried last week at Cornwall on. the Hudson,
a suburb of New York city, the ceremony
being performed by DR.. Lyman Abbott
La Sale has musical prodigy in the
shape of little girl, five years old, named
Marcella Werges. She has played on sew
eral instruments since she was two years
old. She has composed several pieces on
the piano, which critics pronounce very
fine.
A traction engine, passing along First st,
La Sale, on Tuesday, ran over a year old
son of Richard Beale, who had climbed
upoe the machine for the purpose of having
a ride. Both wheels passed over his cnest,
causing internal injuries from which he
will die.
The Fox River Game and Fish Associa:
ton have standing offer Of fifty dollars
reward for any person caught spearing or
seining in the waters of the rivers or lakes
of Illinois. The law is very strict In this
and the members of the Association
will be as strict In enforcing It.
A farmer of Washington county, Illinois,
just before taking drove OF hogs to mar
ket, gave them lot of salt and then all the
water they could drink. This was to in
crease their weight. Fourteen OF them
died on theie way TO town, and the smart
farmers little trick cost him just $3.50.
John VI. Shields, prominent citizen of
Lacon in the flush of times just before the
war died few days ago in the kankakee
ASYLUM. He was an old soldier and we'll
known by many residents of Streator. His
mental derangment was caused by being
struck on the head by falling timber.
Fifty young, unmarried men of Peru
have formed a trust. Whenever one OF
them gets married each of them chips in
ten dollars, making comfortable sum OF
$500 for the benedict to start housekeeping
with. AS means of promoting matrimony
this scheme shoald succeed, but they will
all be married at once.
Kankakee county has erected a monu-
ment to the memory of its dead soldiers.
1t is a fine bronze statue of private sol.
der In his blouse, with gun and bayonet,
about six feet high, set on block of stone
about the same height. The cost Of the
entire monument, which Is a credit to the
city and county, cost about $4,000.
While workmen were engaged In digging
for sand at Van Meters Bend, near kanka
kee, Saturday, they unearthsd the bodies
of six men that are supposed to be those OF
80 ut Tho hDnaS