The Ottawa free trader., 1889-10-26
CITY lind COUNTY,.
SATURDAY.
From Saturdays Daily.

counters In IL. d. Glllen uTy eoous VIC
partment.
George f. Roe, late 20" agent here,
arrived yesterday from Denver on
business trip
Miss Julia Atwood Of Aurora, sister
of the popular c., b. & q. Atwood, is
visiting in the city Il few days.
F.F. Lisle and G, II, Holland have
rented the Buel farm, west OF OTTAWA,
containing two hundred forty acres,
for year,
The trouble with the mule drivers
in the La Sale mines has been avert
eG, the men accepting $l.S5 as a COM
promise rate.
Among the recent marriages was
that of Robert Arnold to Miss Emma
Henkelman, both of this city. Esquire
Lockwood Otficiated.
Mr.. N. w. Rathbun of Chicago, for
merly of this city, has been shaking
hands with his friends here. He re-
turns to Chicago to-day.
Tom Miles has eighteen horses IN
his stables at the Ottawa DrlV-
ing Park, one of which, a two year
old, shows fifty gait with but two
weeks training.
Miss Jennie Zimmerman. who mas
been visiting in Springfield, ONO, lor
the past six weeks, returned nome yes
terday, after most pleasant Vlslt
with relatives there.
"Mitch" and Nate Eells returned
from Senachwine yesterday noon with
TWENTY-FIVE pounds of fish and a choice
assortment of fairy tales. Some OF the
fish are large-dittO the tales.
The U. S. Fish Commission recently
depOsited a quantity of black bass In
Kankakee river at Kankakee. Ihe
fish were very large, some of them
weighing pound, we are told.
A splendid free hand crayon portrait
of the late John Manley was seen in
r. G. Jordan's Office last evening. III
is the property of Mrs. Manley and
was ordered from a Chicago house.
Everett Rockwell is home during
the illness of his mother. He has
been initiated into the banking busi-
ness and will, it is said, shortly be-
come ''yOung Napoleon of Finance" F"
An old land patent conveying the
northeast eighty acres of section
twenty-nine, Mission township was
filed in the Recorders Office yesterday.
1t is dated March 10, lS43, and bears
the signature of President Tyler.
NOTICE.-The Illinois and Michigan
Canal will be closed for navigation
from Bridgeport to La Sale on Friday
Nov. ID, midnight. If the weather
permits, boats will be allowed to run
after that date between Marseilles
and Bridgeport, at the owners risk OF
being frozen in.
The Streator Free Press says: There
is a prospect that new window glass
works will be established among the
wOrkmen on a cooperative basis, an
other cathedral and rolled plate glass
factory is being seriously considered by
one of the leading spirits, and flint
glass factory is sure thing at no dis
tant day. A corn planter and agricul
tural implement factory Is on the
tapis: the French machine shops viii
soon be completed, and another l5(
families will soon be employed in this
city. The outlook for Streator is very
bright.
Mrs. Flynn, wife of Patrick Flynn
prominent moulder living at AIS
Washington street. died at her late
home at three o'clock yesterday after
noon after prolonged illness of TWEEN
ty years, the malady being the fata
desease, consumption. She was born
in County Clare, Ireland. in 1879, ant
was therefore 90 years old. She came
to this country 3S years ago and has re
in
grown up sons survive her. James
Daniel and Patrick. The funeral viii
occur from the late residence at tW'
o'clock Sunday afternoon.
The HOsford estate is again in liti
CATION, the Supreme Court of Mime
sofa having reversed the decision o.
the lower court at Minneapolis ant
remanded the case for IA second trial
on account of technical errors.
HOsfOrd, once prominent reS!den
of this city died suddenly and unde
circumstances which his relatives de
clared suspicious, at Minneapolis
Mimi, about a year or mOr'
ago. He had married lovely
young bride--an old mans darling
and his body had scarce cooled in the
earth at the village of Harding before
it was eXhumed and the stomach ant
intestines examined for evidences o
poisoning. The body had been EN-
balmed. however, and no evidence o
the presence of pOisOns was traceable
HOsfOrd's estate amounted to 5000,
600. Before his marriage his wife thai
was to be signed an anti-nuptial con
tract in which she agreed to share
equally with the children of HOsford
After his death she produced a pape
purpOrting to be an anullment of tina
contract. The heirs pronounced it ;
forgery. Mrs. HOsford was appointed
administrator of the estate by th'
probate court at Minneapolis, and he
claim was allowed. The case wa
carried up, with the result obtained
as above mentioned.
Now the case is to begin over again
and will have its second trial at Min
neapolis on Monday, the 2Sth. Test
mony of Ottawa and La Sale county
people has been taken this week ant
depOsitiOnS prepared, although no
thing new has been developed
SUNDAY.