The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-10-05

Grant, Sherman and Sheridan, placed II
Grant Hall of the Academy by Hon. q
w. Childs of Philadelphia. The tour vii
cover the entire West and South, aftel
which the regular work of the Congress
will be taken up.
The annual disaster to a Mississippi
river boat took place en- Thursday last, OPP
being the Corona OF the Ouachita Consoli-
dated Line, on her passage 20 the Qua
chita river, Louisiana. She left New Or
leans at 730Wednesday night, and her boil
ers exploded while In midstream at ii IA
Thursday morning, the boat sinking like
lead. The City of st. Louis being near
saved many lives, but the lost Will reach
40 at least, with many wounded. NO one
is able TO assign a cause tor the accident
The boat was on her first trip OF the sea-
son, and had just come of the dry dock,
where $4,000 had been placed on her In
the way of repairs,
The deep. hsrbor convention at Topeka,
Kss., on Thursday, after reciting In the
"whereases" the fact the fact that congress
has given TO railways 100000, 600 and 2OO
millions of acres of lsnd and that the coun-
try west of the Mississippi produces fully
one halt the meat and grain OF the whole
Union, and that no just discrimination
should De made In favor Of private high
ways, resolved
"That In reaflirmance of the action OF
the Denver convention and OF the commit
tees organized hereunder, II Is the sense
OF this convention that 1t Is the duty of
congress to appropriate permanently and
for immediate use whatever amount is
necessary to secure a deep water port on
the northwest coast of the Gulf Of Mexico,
west of the 93d degree, west longitude, ca
pable of admitting the largest vessels, and
at which the best and most accessible har-
Dor can be secured and maintained In the
shortest possible time and at the least cost,
the time, place and cost TO be sscertained
from the board of engineers appointed un-
der an act of congress passed at Its last
session."
A minority report was presented by
Watt of Louisiana favoring the establishN
ment of three gulf harbors, one of them to
be ON the coast of Louisiana.
The coroner's jury examining Into the
responsibility for the South Englewood
accident on the Rock Island last week, In
which Mrs Ward OF La sale and others
were killed, have held Engineer Tombly
and hiss fireman La Cloche for the grand
jury's action In bonds Of $150,OOO.
The miners at La Sale have gone 10
work at S2}c a ton. A number of miners
who went west have returned TO La Sale.
Enrique de Villas, the COlum bian con.
sui, who arrived In New Orleans from
Guatemala, died In New Orleans Oct. LIST
Of yellow fever.
The Grand Lodge of Masons met In
Chicago this week, and on Wednesday laid
the cope-stone of the great auditorium
building with elaborate ceremonies.
Aurora gets the Rathbone-S ard Stove
Works, giving $4,000 and 10 acres of
land. The money was raised by purchas-
Ing 200 acres of land, setting aside the IL
acres, and dividing the balance into lots
which sold at the uniform price OF $500
each. 1t took about two days to raise the
fund.
The State Fair held at Peoria was on
astonishing success, In spite of some bad
weather during the week. The exhibits
were larger than ever In every line, and
the attendance simply enormous At the
biggest fair held at Chicago QSS3), the
receipts for six days were only $4345S,
while at Peoria for four days they reached
$42,500. On single day at Peoria $4,000
we're taken In at the gate. For next year
the grounds will be enlarged by adding
some twenty acres Prizes In the educa-
tional department were given TO Ottawa's
school examination papers; and to Troy
Grove school-we believe, but the news
paper report is not clear as to the district.