The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-08-31
pressed their determination not tn stand the

| milwaukee meetlDg must pToVo q Hat inii
ure. However, some OF the railroads
finally gave In, and as to Others the NIL
waukee people agreed TO pay the difference
so that the high rate trouble seemed 10 be
out OF the way. Ye! the settlement
seemed to come too late. At any rate, the
highest estimate of the gathering OF the
veterans at Milwaukee places the number
at less than 10000, of whom $4,000 walked
10 the grand procession on Tuesday, agains,
80 600 year ago However, In addition 10
the soldiers At least 100000 strangers were
present, so that Milwaukee was not without
abundant occupation 10 entertain her guests,
and no doubt Let enough rooms at S3 a. day
each, and sold enough Of her staple bever-
age, lager, abundantly TO repay all the
extra expense she had been put to. The
city Is said 10 have been a marvel OF decor
ation-not a house on any street falling To
exhibit at least some bunting, while on the
principal streets the display was indescrib-
ably gorgeous. OF course the prominent
guest and the Conserved of all observers
was Gen. W. r. Sherman-by whose side
such other bright-but lesser lights-as
Gen. Warren, Gen. Alger, Gov. Hoard,
" Farmer" Rusk, Gen. John G. Black, etc,
etc, faded almost into lnsigniiicance.
Next 70 Gen. Sherman no doubt the most
honored guest was Mrs. John A. Logan.
Corporal Tanner also was there, and though
he rode conspiCuously in the procession,
occupying splendid brougham In which
he sat Wis avis with Blocks Of-Fiye Gen.
Dudley, II was noticed that whenever
that brougham came In sight, the vocifer-
GUS cheering which along the line was
almost continuous, suddenly ceased until
the vehicle had passed by. Indeed II Is
said Tanner has almost lost his grip on the
old soldiers on account of his late decision
that dishonOrable discharge shall be no
bar 10 a pension, thus putting the veteran
of clean record on level with the riff
raft drummed out OF. camp, to the tune of
the Rogue's March. Indeed, at the meet
Ing of the National Encampment on We'd
nesday a resolution was offered by General
Mcmahon, of New York, pointedly con
demning the ruling In favor of dishonored
soldiers, but the resolution was sm0thered
In committee. AS to pensions in general,
the Encampment heartily endorsed the
address Of Its retiring commander, Gen.
Warren, Insisting not only on the passage
by Congress OF the rejected dependent
pension BILL but On the grant OF !" service
pensi0n,"-a pension TO all soldiers who
ever were enrolled for a day In the army
of the rebellion" Gen. Alger, of Michigan,
was unanimously elected commander'in
chief of the G. A. X. for the coming year,
In place of Gen. Warren, who voluntarily
falls back into the ranks.
Notwithstanding the fuss kicked up by
the Canadians over the seizure OF the
Black Diamond for seal poachiDg In Beh-
ring sea, the U. s. cutter Rush continues
her police work In those waters, reporting
the seizure of five other vessels within the
last two weeks. Meantime the Black
Diamond has started on another sealing
cruizs, and If again caught by the Rush
will certainly not be put In charge, as for
merly, of one man TO bring her into an
American port.
A convention of miners unions, attend
ed by 40 delegates, representing striking
miners In Northern Illinois, met at Streator
on Thursday and has been in secret ses-
sion since 1t Is believed that the result of
the meeting will be the end of the strike
by the acceptance of the compromise price
of 72i cts. settled by the Chicago confer
ence.
The trial Of the murderers of DR.. p. II.
Cronin was set TO begin In Chicago last
Monday, but on the case being called the
five defendants, each by his separate attor-
ney, put In demand to be tried separate
ly. OF course acceding to such request
would have strung out the trial to year or
more, yet the court set the next day to hear
arguments on the question. The discussion
was continued until Wednesday evening,
and on Thursday morning Judge McCOn.
nell decided that Woodruff should be tried
separately, but that the other five-Cough'
lin, Beggs, Kunze, O'Sullivan and Burke
should be tried together. Having render
ed this decision, the court adjourned TO 8
O'Clock yesterday morning, when the trial
of the five collectively was formally begun
The steamship City of Paris, which ar
rived at New York on Wednesday from
Queenstown, broke the best record by 81
hours and 40 minutes, making the trip
from Queenstown TO Sandy Hook In days,
10 hours IL minutes.
BY fire at Port Costa, the great wheat
entrepot of California, on the Goth inst,
over 100000 bushels of wheat were con-
sumed. The loss materially cuts down the
heavy California surplus for the worlds
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