The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-04-20

case VIII Oe hppeaieu' AneTe are BIea'
many of these notes all through the west
and decision from court of final appeal
Will be looked forward 10 with interest
| Yet when one stops to consider the matter,
| IL Is really strange that men OF ordinary
good sense could be induced TO take part
In transaction In which fraud OF some
kind was so clearly defined.
On Friday last the lnman steamship City
Of Chester reported az Queenstown the fact
of encounterng In mid-ocean, on April Sth,
the steamer Danmark, abandoned and In n
sinking condition. The Danmark left
Christiana March 90 with $50 passengers
aboard. What has been the fate OF these
$50 souls Is as yet q mystery. The Dan
mark was accounted strong, sen. worthy
vessel, and the cause of her abandonment
Is also n mystery, as she had no appearance
of collision The appearance of the sink
ing ship indicated deliberatlon In remOv.
ing her passengers, who may be aboard a
sailing vessel
The Philippine Islands are afflicted with
cholera Of violent type, the average OF
deaths being two 10 every three cases
The strike of street car hands In Minne'
apllis has practically stopped all travel by
that means for the past 10 days and the
companies seem 10 be unable 10 hire new
men.
The prohibitionists are slowly gaining
ground, especially In the country towns.
In Mclean county II towns and villages
voted no license on Tuesday and In Piatt
county every town voted the same way, 50
there will not be licensed saloon In that
county.
The coroner's jury, investigating the
Santa Zee accident AT Lorenzo returned a
verdict charging the engineer and con
ductor of the freight with criminal care
lessness. Both men have been arrested by
the sheriff Of VIII county and will be in
dicted for killing Miss Winslow ana the
Hart family.
The Standard Oil Company on Wednes'
day closed deal by which II swallows up
the Ohio Oil Company, of Lima, Its only
opposition, thus securing control of the
Lima oil fields, and consequently of the
fuel oil territory Of the country.
Since the purchase by the sugar trust
of tho San Francisco refinery sugar has ad-
vanced 30 cents per 100 lbs, and trust stock
q per cent.
The agricultural department atWashing
ton announces the general condition Of
winter wheat as averaging %, as against an
average OF SO in April, 1888 Illinois
quoted rs 81, or above the general average
Two tremendous new gas wells have
been drilled at Findlay, Ohio, during the
week, the two having n com bined capacity
of 50,00O,000 feet per day.
The Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company
has purchased the Ford City Company,
consolidating three companies, with cap
ital of $2,750,000, and production of 800
900 square feet per month with Mr.. Ford
at the head.
Another trust" has been organized: the
American Boiler Manufacturers Union.
The nominal object is to secure the pass
age of laws making II criminal 70 manu-
facture boilers of inferior materials.
Parnel has brought suit against the
London Times for libel, claiming damages |
Of 600 900, Sir Charles Russell being his
chief counsel. The charge is founded on
the publication Of the Times of facslmiles
Of letters falsely ascribed to Mr.. Parnell,
and for the publication OF other forgeries.
Six thousand emigrants left Liverpool on
Wednesday in seven steamships, all bound
for the u. 5, except small number who
90 to the Argentine Republic.
II is reported that the Empress of Aus,
ria is afflicted with her family's heredi'
AIRY malady and is now insane, and ex-
libts suicidal tendencies. The Emperor
$ serious contemplating abdicating the
hrone in favor of his nephew, the heir
apparent.
The French senate Is engaged in for>
nal Inquiry into the recent conduct of the
amous Gen Boulanger
An Englishman named Harrison, a stu.
lent of Ballot college, Oxford, was on the
18th arrested at Gweedore, Ireland, for
IMPLYING food to beseged Irish tenants
lie WAS handcuifed Immediately upon
'efng taken into custody.
At a special election of Nj. p In England
N the 10th to fill u vacancy the Gladstone
,arty gained the seat.
O'Bren's jail sentence of six months has
,een reduced. He will be released May
I'd.
Sir Julian Pauncefote, the new British
minister to Washington, sailed for New
orK on the 18th