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The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-12-21

Whatever faith Others may have in
the uprightness, piety and stupidity
stubborn conscientiouSneSs of Juror
Culver, States Attorney Longenecker
shares more of it. Culver called on
him the other day to "eXplain. y
Don't bother me-" said the irate
attorney 81 used to have confidence
in you, but | wouldn't trust you now
across the street with a flve-cent piece
He told him he had followed exactly
the instructions of the letter the jury
bribers had slipped into the pocket OF
the Juror Dix. "That letter told him
to stick out for acquital; to cast doubt
on the value of circumstantial evi.
dence; to vote for fourteen years fol
Sullivan, Coughlin and Burke and
avert the death penalty, and that is
just what you have done" Culver had
no more to say.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-12-21

The Cronin trial, maugre the noise
made over 1T and rejoicing in verdict
of guilty, is after all a bad failure.
That CrOnin's murder was deliberate.
ly planned and brought about by men
whose own safety demanded his re-
mOval, was clear from the start, but
that not single one of the men found
guilty of his murder is one of these is
equally clear. The investigation of
the Cronin crime is still in it's begin
ning-On the threshold, so to speak,
and it would be a great wrong to dis
charge one detective or let up in the
least in an unremitting, vigorous hunt
for the really guilty.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-12-21

Some Michigan country editors, by
way of experiment, made it rule to
offer to send their papers free to per.
sons who said they were too poor to
pay for them. 1t turned out, however,
that there was hardly a case where a
paper was accepted on such terms that
it was not eventually paid for. The
fellows that usually beat the country
publishers are those who pOmpously
order the paper and are abundantly
able to pay for it, but are not honest
enough to do so.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-12-21

Nothing is more certain than that
the Russian influenza, as it is called
or La Grippe" as the French call it,
has crossed the ocean and appeared
both in New York and Boston. Travel.
ing here at the rate it travels in Eu-
rope, we may expect it to reach Ottawa
in a month or two. 1t is hard to dis
tinguish from bad cold and is
entirely harmless, except to consump
tives and persons with weak lungs,
and is readily cured by the free adj
ministration of hot lemonade, going to
bed and taking a sweat. To many
people the lemonade is rendered more
appetizing by the addition of little
whisky, but not more etficaciOus, re-
member
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-12-21
sewage, and 1t will never be used for
any other purpose.

The Free Press reprints with evident
glee a screed from the Ottawa FREE
TRADER crticizing the actions of the
Ind.- Times In donating lot to its
thousands OF readers. This paper
never violates the laws Of the land.
But during the trying times of the
past few months our thousands OF
readers stood nobly by this paper. In
recognition of this fact we propose To
donate lot to them, to be disposed of
in such manner as they see TIT. No
one will have enough cast-irOn gall to
assert that il is illegal TO make a pres
ent. The FREE TRADER refers to IA
business proposition made by l.. A..
Rose, the enterprlslng publisher of the
Ottawa Journal, TO his readers. What
worries the FREE TRADER is the fact
that the Journal has circulation
greater than all the other dailies in
Ottawa combined. -StredtOr Ind Times.
As matter, Of course Rose reprints
the above probably for the consola-
ton of the swindled ticket-holders in
his prize-team lottery. OF course,
neither Rose nor the Ind Times will
duliIJ Iilcy WcIc VI are running
swindle, yet If they will consult the
statute they will find that they are,
as the code classes all such schemes as
swindles, punishable by fine: a game
or scheme of chance classed in the
same category as the Louisiana lottery
swindle, whose letters are refused pas
sage through the mails. No doubt the
md Times intends to rattle off its lot.
The Louisiana lottery swindle regu-
larly raflles off its money. In both
cases there is no doubt an honest in
tention to rattle the gift, to get which
suckers spend their money. One is
willing to give the Louisiana swindle
and the Ind. Times credit for honest
intentions. But as Rose advertised
his lottery for certain date, now
more than four months past, since
when his team has been dis
posed of by mortgage, [even at the
time he advertised to rattle the team
it was the property of another per-
son by value Of bill of salel, what |
can be said of the honesty of has in
tentiOnS?
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-12-21
THURSDAY.

Juror Culver made Judge Longe-
necker visit yesterday, probably to
relieve his mind as to the charges
limited against him by the states at
torney the day before. What trans
pired is not fully known, but it is
pretty plain that Longenecker took
advantage Of the occasion to relieve
his mind before Culver secured a
chance to unload as to himself Gull
yer certainly is not "A man to be en-
We'd, for whether or not he was re-
sponsible for the life sentence or no,
he is credited with it, and in the
present condition of public opinion
such position can hardly bring to him
anything pleasant or even quietng
after the enormous strain of the trial
itself
A telegram from Bloomington says
Mr.. u. Eddy, of that city, at the head
of a house-eXporting firm, has taken
an order for several hundred complete
grain elevators to be shipped to the
Argentine Republic. He repeats the
statement often before made by travel
ers that 'Ee fears that the wonder
full wheat growing ability of the Ar
gentine Republic will soon be felt by
our wheat producers"
The Cyclone Fan Company, at
Streator, has been granted license of
incorporation TO manufacture mine
and ventilating fans; capital stock,
500, 900: incorporators, John Kangley,
Charles ii. Rathburn, Louis Graves.
A resolution congratulating Brazil
on the change of government and
formally recognizing the new govern
ment, was presented in the Senate
yesterday and laid over until to-day.
Judge Brewers confirmation as JUS
tice OF the Supreme Court of the
United States still "hangs fire.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-12-21

Here is news as is news. A cOntri-
button of $4,000 was on Wednesday
made by New York millionaire
to the Grant monument fund. This
swells the fund thus far gathered to
over $4,000. AS only half million
is needed, there is hope that the bal
ance may yet be raised before the close
of the 10th century.
Mud, Mud-nOthing but mud !!
Where, O where is that thousand mile
wide blizzard from the north pole, and
why did it fail to connect? And where
is that cold, stormy December the
Iowa prophet promised us? Nothing
would please our business men better
than stout, solid freeze up about now.
The latest mystery is the finding of
a well-known Chicago citizen, of tenn
perate habits, drowned in the river,
with money in his pockets. 1t was a
case of foul play, of course, but evident
ly neither the police nor Clan-na-Gael
has hand in it.
The Minneapolis ministers have held
meeting and resolved to wage a war
of determination on the Sunday news
papers. They will have an easy job of
it if they prevail upon the papers to
publish every Sunday one of their SER
| mons.
Foraker, it is stated, is booked for
the Russian mission on the expiration
of his term as governor of Ohio. 1t
will no doubt be relief for him to get
away from the stink of those Ohio
| fOrgeries.
Lancaster has woman VINO smoked
| two big cigars in seven and half
minutes-Lancaster cigars, too.-Esr.
That's nothing. There isn't enough
Nicotine in Lancaster cabbage to hurt
anybody.
An honest Vermonter sent s, 900 tons
of pure maple sugar to the Western
market. BY the time it reached the
retailers here it weighed $4,000 tons.
Price per ton the same, however.
Senator Allison has started a boom
in favor of his reelection to the Sem
ate among the women of Iowa, by an
nouncing that Immediately after his
election he intends to be married.
Where is the usual southern Novem-
Der flight of the ducks and geese this
year? Thus far hardly squawk has
been heard. Have they concluded to
winter in the north?
Senator Farwell is said to be suffer
ing from a chill. He is understood to
attribute it to the frigid atmosphere
of the ante-room to the executive man.
sion.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-12-21
The latest from Montana is that the

The latest from Montana is that the
deadlock in the legislature is broken
compromise between the two parties
having been arrived at on the basis OF
a division of the U. S. Senators. The
democratic senators have joined the
Republican wing and taken the oath
of office. The house, it is understood
will be that recognized by the Cover
nor, including the Democratic mem
beers from Silver Bow, and all the Re
publican representatives except those
from that county.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-12-21

hibitionists that it will probably be
defeated. The objection to him Is his
decision in the Kansas brewery cases,
where he held that the state must pay
for the breweries it destroyed. The
decision was undoubtedly a righteous
one, but then the Kansas Prohibition
lists don't believe so, and declare if a
Republican Senate confirms Judge
Brewer that they will never again vote
the Republican ticket, and that's what
staggers the Senate.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-12-21

Sympathizing with the wife of the
Chinese minister, who is unable t.
mingle in the gay society of Washing
ton on account of her diminutive feet
the Chicago Herald says: ''The Chi
cago girl now walks freely about, goes
into society and does pretty much as
she pleases in spite of her diminutivt
feet" But the Herald forgets that
diminutive is a comparative expires
sion. Applied to Chinese feet, it means
two or three inches in length; to Chi
cago feet, eight to twelve inches.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-12-21

The Inter Ocean Washington special
of wednesday contains good news
if true" 1t says the House Ways and
Means Committee has already buckled
down to work and i'm the matter of
tariff revision will greatly astonish the
democrats by "doing exactly what the
democrats predicted would not be
done" What the Democrats all along
predicted would not be done" by this
or any other Republican congress, was
to bring about such revision of the
tariff as would lessen taxation, stimu-
late our industries by giving them free
raw material, and tighten the burdens
of labor. If the republicans in congress
do this it will indeed be an astonish-
err" But all such rosy hopes are not a
little dashed when, further on, the
same special says the proposed tariff
revision is to be made on the line of the
which no tariff measure ever proposed
in or out of congress was devised with
more scrupulous regard for the inter-
ests OF the mOnopOlies, syndicates and
trusts
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-12-21
FRIDAY.

Wheat is still bullsh and yesterday
scored an advance Of &c. (Dec.) over
Wednesdays closing figures. May
closing at S3s. Dec. corn sold as high
as BAT, but closed at 33t. Oats firm;
provisions few points lower. Cattle
market dull and prices of; IL 900 head
received. Hogs about SC. higher, with
5000 received. Sheep 1Oc to 3Oc
lower.
Heretofore, since the Cronin verdict
was handed in, the worrying man has
been the juror Culver, upon whose de.
voted head all the cursing over the
verdict has fallen. Yesterday, how
ever, attention was, at least temper
arily, diverted from Culver TO the con-
victed ice man O'Sullivan, who Is said
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-12-21

Edward Bellamy, who found no diff
flculty In his dream of the Goth century,
in so recognizing labor and the social
system rs to fill the world with hap
piness, has written a magazine article
in which he tackles the servant-girl
question. After good deal of philos-
ophizing and dreaming upon it, he gives
up the problem as beyond the grasp of
the social student. No possible or
imaginable state of society can do
without girls, ana "girls will be girls"
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-12-21

TO be suffering from an acute attack
of conscience, and reported to be be-
having In a manner to indicate that
his malady Is about to develop itself
In the form OF confession. Honest
confession Is good for the soul, 1t Is
said; and the Ice man might try II.
There are bigger men than O'Sullivan
behind all this matter. He may be
able to say who they are.
Fair weather, with nOrthwesterly
wind and lower temperature are prom
ised by the signal service for this
morning, but in the fall Of rain at 10
o'clock last night, and the many
previous disappointments OF the past
two weeks, one begins TO lose his faith
in Mr.. w. Forecast.
Congress will adjourn on Monday
next to January 9Th, leaving three
days of open dates, I'd to 9Th, in which
the La Sale County Board may cavert
themselves without any opposition
attraction.
Further removals Of police officers
were made in Chicago, yesterday.
Other reasons are assigned, but 1T is
said the removals were all results OF
the Cronin case.
Local lodges Of X, Of p, near Ster-
ling are holding an annual celebration
in that city, the anticipated attend
ance to-day being over 500.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-12-21

AS showing the inadequacy Of the
present Illinois revenue law, it may
be remarked that in 1872, soon after
the present law went into effect, the
the assessment of this county was
about 40 millions Of dollars. For the
past year it was II millions; yet both
assessments were made under the
same law. Next year it will be still
less, no doubt, because year after yeal
it has been reduced by the State
Board, and each year the assessors
take the Boards equalization for the
year last past as the basis of assessment
for the year they are at work upon
Only once since 1872 has an assess
ment been made according to law,
and that only in one town, Farm
Ridge, when the assessor followed the
strict letter of the law and his oath,
assessing all property at fair cash
value. The assessment so upset the
equalization committee of that year
that they ordered him to reduce it
one-half before they could equalize as
between towns, which was done by
him under protest and not under oath.
The result is that year after year the
county revenue has grown less and
less at the rateof So, 600 to $4,000 a year
even when the full legal limit has been
levied. Had the finance committee of
last year brought to their aid little
common sense and not allowed them
selves to be carried away by the dem
agogism of such men as Norton, or
had taken notice Of the above facts,
which they could have obtained very
easily if they were ignorant of them,
the county to-day would not be S25, 900
behind, for a tax levy based on bust
ness-like consideration of the actual
conditions of raising revenue, and the
actual necessities of the county could
have been made, and sufficient money
raised by taxation.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-12-21

The Senate on Wednesday con-
tirmed the appointment of Judge
Brewer, of Kansas, as a Justice of the
Supreme Court of the United States
There were but twelve votes against
him, all red-hot prohibitionists like
the Senators from Iowa and the two
Dakotas. Moody, young and green,
from North Dakota, was the noisiest
in his opposition. Besides that he
was an anti-prohibitionist, he brought
the grave charge against Judge Brewer
that he had punished a white man for
abusing negro.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-12-21
EHE NEWS.
WEDNESDAY.

The Cronin verdict Is still the talk
of the country. In the first place the
one "wise man" OF the twelve comes
in for large share of the kicking
made by the men who had hoped for "a
conviction with death penalty Last
evenings Chicago Journal contains an
interview with the States Attorney
in which that officer recited the story
of a futile attempt to bride Juror DIX
to vote for ''acquittal or life sentence, A"
even after the trial had progressed
some way, and i'm which he hints that
il is possible the twelfth man, who
insisted on 'acquttal or life sentence"
may have been influenced" The trial
is having one effect, however, and that
is to wake up the Chicago police
official, who have begun the summary
removal OF officers known to have been
friendly to Coughlin, those who testi-
fed for him and those who are sus-
pected to have Clan-na-Gael aflili-
atiOns.
May wheat yesterday dropped from
82sc at the opening to Slsc at the close.
The bears had hard time forcing 1t
down, but it went. Oats remained
unchanged. Corn was hammered all
day, December selling down to 32tc,
closing 32sc; January TO Bic, closing
3ltc; May, 33c. Receipts of cattle,
1000: business slow; of hogs, $4,000,
with light demand on account of bad
packing weather. Prices generally
unchanged.
The great Russian sneeze has
reached New York and been reported
to the health department. In family
of thirteen, one of whom received
letter from Berlin recently, seven are
now affected by the regulation symp-
toms, which put in an appearance the
day after the letter arrived. tits sup
posed the little cus-micrObe came in
the letter. 1t is now in order for the
Western Hemisphere to help this
sneeze on its tour around the world"
in eighty days?
Two electric light wire accidents &C.
CURED yesterday, one at Toledo and
one I'm New York. At Toledo rail-
road employee, measuring a sky-light,
in some way came in contact with the
wires, his dead body being found
strung across two live wires, slowly
roasting. In New York the man was
at work removing the dangerous wires
and fell from the poles upon the wires,
from which he fell to the pavement.
Yesterday was Whittier's SD birth
day.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-12-21

The Winnebago republicans appear
to be dissatisfied with the way their
present member Of congress is dispens-
ing the patronage, and have begun
casting about for new man in 1890.
The talk thus far points to the selec-
ton of Chas. A. Works, who will be
kindly remembered bymany old friends
in this city, as man of much ability,
who would fill the place with honor to
the district and the State.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-12-21

There is consolation down this
way in the hter-Ocedn's views of the
result of the election of Drainage Com
missioners in Chicago. The members
of the Board elected are all the worst
kind of boodlers, and will commit such
robberies on the money raised that it
must take years and years before any
serious amount of Chicago sewage can
be turned this way.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-12-21

Call usually wins nowadays" says
the Chicago Herald. Then where is
the chance of Chicago getting the
Worlds Fair away from Washington,
which, instead of putting up guaran-
tee fund of five or ten millions, asks
Congress for an appropriation of 49,
900, 900 to cover the outlay. There is
no beating gall like that.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-12-21

that he had treated over one hundred
dlphtherla patients by very simple
remedy, within the reach of all, with
out losing one. What do you mean?"
cried the Others. "Do you want to
take the bread out Of our mouths?"
The frightened NJ. d., to allay the
storm, put forth another statement
that the remedy, though simple
enough, must be administered in a
certain way. and people had better
consult physician. That ended the
rumpuS.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-12-21

According to the Purvis Miss jury
the Sullivan-Kilrain mill was not a
prize-fght at all, but merely case Of
assault and battery. This decision
may be all right, but it was evidently
wrong for the jury to convict Kilrain
of doing the assaulting and battering,
especially in view of the way he was
"dOne up"
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-12-21

Emin Pasha, who after successfully
overcoming endless deadly perls in the
wilds of Africa, reached supposed safe
ty and civilization only to escape death
by a hairs breadth through careless
tumble from balcony, has so far re-
covered from his injuries as to be out
of danger.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-12-21

The confirmation Of Judge Brewer,
of Kansas, whom the President lately
appointed a justice Of the United
States Supreme Court, is meeting such
violent resistance by the Kansas Pro-
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-12-21

There was a row among the Chicago
doctors. One OF them, man OF high
reputation and known skill, recently
let a statement get into the papers
The Portland daily press., 1889-10-31

pool. A close contract exists between the
railroad company and the steamship COM
pany, SO that practically they constitute one
through line from Canada to Europe. The
Grand Trunk road employs Canadians as
well as Americans in its train service and
contracts with them in Canada for labor to be
performed in. American territory. Ii the con-
tract labor law be construed strictly accord
ing to the letter it would seem that the train
men could be barred out so long as the train
was on American soil. But of course Congress
intended 70 such absurdity as that, and the
courts would never put such a construction
upon it. The contract with the Canadian
'longshoremen is made, just as in the case of
the trainmen, for services part OF which
are 10 be performed in British and part in
American territory. Setting aside the char
ac;er of their service, the cases of the train
men and 'longshoremen are exactly alike.
they are both essential parts Of a transporta.
tion line beginning in Canada and ending in
England, and the question arises whether
the law can consistently be enforced against
the 'longshoremen and not against the train
men. OF course there is difference found
ed on the nature Of the services of these
classes. 1t would be impracticabe to
discharge all foreign train hands at the
border and substitute American citizens.
But to substitute crew of American long
shoremen while the ships are coming to this
port is both possible and practicable; though
American 'longshoremen might make it i'm
practicable by taking advantage of their
monopoly to put up their rates beyond
reasonable figure.
The subject, though at first it appears SIM
pie, on closer study presents some difficult
ties, and the decision of the treasury depart
ment will be looked for with interest. The
Portland 'longshoremen are deserving body
of men, and they are certainly entitled to all
the protection fair construction of the law
can give them.