The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1888-05-19
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A gymnasium is the latest addition to
the armory Of the Mendoza military com
paDy.
Joliet has $50 less convicts now than one
wear ago, the number now doing time, Is
1924.
The county clerk of Grundy county paid
bounty on - fox scalps during the month
If April.
Out of $1,000 received by the city
treasurer Of Kankakee from saloon license,
25c was in cash, the remainder in city OIL
Iers.
Last Friday was the fifteenth anniversa.
ry of the terrible Dixon bridge disaster
wrirh resulted in the death Of 43 persons
mostly of Dixon,
Saloon license in Ransom Is $500 and
there are twn saloons. In Leland the Ii
cense Is $3.50 SOmonauk $500, Dekalb
$50, and tiinckley 800.
The name of the new railroad running
from GARNER TO Plainiield, Is the Gardner,
Coal City Il Northern, the same being a
branch of the Elgin, Joliet " Eastern
Another visitation of burglars occurred
In Aurora on Wednesday evening last, and
two business houses were favored with
calls by the gentlemen of the fraternity.
The Peru bridge over the Illinois river,
damaged by the baby cyclone, is being re.
paired 10y Milwaukee firm, who did not
consider it necessary 10 build new one.
The Star brothers of Decatur. have eX
pended $1,000 Boring for natural gus and
tor
prise, but will resume operations If the
citizens will aid them
Under new rules of the Rock Island
railroad company, hack drivers must not
leave their hack doors now, and hotel run
ners must keep within four feet of the
outer edge of the platform.
The Aurora water works, owned by the
city, Is a paying Institution. For the past
year the receipts were 2,17l SO more than
the expenses, including interest on the
water works bonds,
BY recent decision OF the Supreme
court of Illinois, the city of East ST Louis
will be- ompelled to levy tax sufficient TO
pay off its entire Indebtedness, amounting
to near million dollars, 1t will nearly
bankrupt the city.
Mike Moran, the Santa Fe construction
man who was run over by the cars some
two weeks ago, losing one arm and one
leg, died last Saturday at Streator, at st.
Mary's hospital, where he was taken fer
treatment the day after the accident.
Joseph Lynch, a former resident of
Ransom but now living In Kansas, was in
the track of a passing Kansas Zephyr a
few DAYS ago, his house being moved from
its foundation and his other buildings des-
troyed.
The next eclipse of the moon will occur
on July 22nd, and will be more interesting
than the one that occurred on January 2Sth.
The diameter of the earth's shadow will
he much larger at the time in proportion
to the diameter of the moon.
A hayward Peoria girl, Mary Fisher has
married A maCCarOni accented Italian with
ruddy complexion who cannot speak
word of English. The groom is said to
be duke In his native land across the sea,
hut Is at the present time operating ban
ana stand In Pskin
Knox College at Galesburg is to have an
observatory soon, Prof. Larkin, OF New
Windsor, having donated his astronomical
instruments TO the college on condition
that they erect a suitable observatory. The
contract has been let TO an Iowa specialist,
and 1t is expected that 1t will be finished
and equipped by the first of July
The citizens Association of Chicago
PROPOSES to construct at Its own expense a
canal six miles long, between the Des
PLANES river, and the south fork of the
Chicago river, on condition that the gov
eminent will continue the Improvement
down the Desplaines to the Illinois river
and thence to the Mississippi. Another
Chicago river-cleaniBg scheme.
George Morton, who worked In the
mines ia La Sale for number of years,
shot and killed deputy marshal at War
rior, Ala, Thursday last Officers fearing
mob violence, secreted Morton In the ca
boose of freight train, with the intention
of taking him to Birmingham, but the Ca
boose was detached and the prisoner taken
out and hanged and riddled with bullets