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The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-03-16
TUE COUNTY BOARD,
Acts and Musings of La Sale County'r
Legislators. A Summary of Doings

The March meeting of the County Board
was called to order by Chairman Gum at
two clock on Monday afternoon.
Mr.. Armstrong moved that special COM
mittee be appointed to select warden for
the county asylum, TO take the place OF the
late warden. The position requires man
of strict moral and business integrity, strong
physically, kind hearted and Of mild TEN
perment,
The chair appointed Messrs. Armstrong
Burksrt, Cullen, Norton and Stanford.
On motion all bills were presented to the
appropriate committees without reading.
Mr.. Fades moved that the supervisors from
Ottawa be constituted committee to draft
resolutions of respect and coincidence upon
the death Of Warden Reedy. The motion
was adopted.
The special committee to CONVEX with the
highway commissioners of the town Of Free
dom upon the building of the Indian creek
bridge. reported that the bridge was com
peted and cost "a, 3l4.35, and recommended
that the county pay half the expenses-$2,
lO7.ls. The report was adopted.
Board adjourned to nine o'clock Tuesday
morning.
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THE DRAINAGE BILL.

The Business Mems Association of this
city will meet this evening to discuss the
Chicago drainage bill; which fortunately
the "ggangers" (see Tribune forced to take
wait.
The bill as II stands would wipe out
every dam In Illinois river; 1t would turn
over 10 Chicago the ownership of the water
power created on Illinois river, should any
in the future be created.
Do the people Of Ottawa want to sane.
ton any such transfer of power and priv
ileges TO Chicago corporation?
The truth is, Chicago is going the whole
hog on this matter. The comfort and con,
venience of the people of the Valley have
got to stand aside In order to give Chicago
an outlet for her filth, and, what Is more
give her In addition absolute control of the
river for Its full length with all the riparian
rights and privileges accruing to the peo.
pie for the last 90 years. Chicago is q
hog and ought to be sat down on.
What does she propose to give in re-
turn Nothing. Absolutely nothing, 1t be
Ing by the people In Chicago save the
Datly Neos expressly announced that the
city has no intention of making the ditch
even 30 far as one must be made, canal
The man Roche may lie to the "grangers'
and tell them IL means canal, but he
knows that II does not.
As drain for Chicago, the Illinois river
would probably never be ship>canaled-
certainly not in this century.
The meeting tonight at the court house
Is important. 1t means much to Ottawa
With new company In control of the Hi.
nois river water power property, who stand
ready it Is confidently believed, to improve
II in case the sewer of Chicago does no,
absorb the water power, the defeat of tina,
part of the drainage bill must be accom-.
p!ished. Probably the majority of the
people are willing Chicago shall send sew.
age and water down the river, but they
certainly are not In favor of her gobbliDg
the river along with 1t in order to escape
the damages she ought and must pay for
If she floods the country.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-03-16

pay but q of a cent pound Tor ia" sugar
though that is taxed at ls8 "a &c pound +;
for, as an authority on sugar making says
from "molasses containing SO per cent OF
crystals, from each gallon at least pounds
of sugar can be produced bv reboiling'
leaving remainder of marketable syrup
sufficient to pay the cost of reboiling and a
croft, while the sugar is sold at market
prices at parity of value with duty.paid
sugar" 1t does not require senatorial as
tuteness to comprehend that under the
senate act molasses testing above 90 de-
grees In crystals would not be imported
and that the whole amount OF raw sugar
imported would come In as molasses and
not as sugar The sugar trust, however, Is
well satisfied with the senate act
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-03-16
They Jumped on the Supreme Court.

They Jumped on the Supreme Court
Two old ladies, with large energetic TEN
pers, made an onslaught on the venerable
gentleman who compose that august and dig
nifed body, the Supreme Court Of this great
commonwe alth of Illinois, on Tuesday, and
came as near stampeding the Court as the
circumstances would allow. Their honors
are high toned gentlemen of the old school,
courtly in manner, rigidly observant OF the
most approved social etiquette, and elegant
in department, and il is their iron.clad rule
to treat the gentle sex as wax works and
handle them with the greatest caution and
propriety.
The first conner was an old lady from Jo-
liet. Imagine an angular female figure with
huge carpet sack full of legal documents in
one hand and gray gingham umbrella in
the other, giving the Supreme Court grand
setting down! Such was the situation The
sheriff was feeling requested to move the old
lady and after considerable DIPLOMACY she
was hustled out of the building. Just what
she wanted was hard to tell, but from few
sentences she let fall, it was inferred that
case in which she was greatly interested,
and which had been decided in her favor in
the lower courts, was under advisement, and
she wanted to know why in the name OF
the great Cesar it hadn't been decided by
this court. This was in the morning, and
after her departure the court breathed easier
although their Honors cast futive glances al
the door as if expecting her temperance
The second female, who hailed from
Bloomington, or some other village in the
central part of the state, pranced into the
court room in search of Attorney General
Hunt, whom she insisted should cease the
presentation of the case in hand and prose-
cute pension claim for her. She was re
moved with some difficulty and the cour
again resumed business. She was certainly
insane and should have been detained. 1t is
barely possible that the court will station
guard at each enterance to the court room
to exclude aged females in the future.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-03-16

If there has not been, rs steel men have
all along claimed, steel trustt there is to
be one and at once; and If negotiations
now In progress do not fail the North Chi
cago the Union and the Joliet mills (seven
In ALI will be merged In single corpora
ton and form the nucleus of a combination
which 1t is intended, If possible, shall con
troll the steel rail supply of America If not
the world. The combination will be pro-
tected at once by duty of SIT ton and
by duty of $l4 short ton by the Senate
act. There seems to be millions" In the
new trust
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to dust with their exorbirast and brutal

TO dust with their exorbiraHt and brutal
taxation.
But break up the solid South-enlist the
brigadiers on the side of taxation and
monopoly-remove the scales Of republi
can fetish from the eyes of the ruralists
and rid them of the delusion under which
they have so long and so meekly submitted
TO be ruthless:y plundered, and will there
not, in full correspondence to the changed
rate In the South, be response change In
the North? We religiously believe there
will, and therefore repeat what we have
said heretofore, that as TO the president
plan for breaking up the solid South, none
more than homes: tariff reformers at The
North cvn possibly more heartily wish hin
God speed!
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-03-16
TUESDAYS SESSION.
morning.

Mr.. Hiokok of the special committee to
confer with the county attorney in regard to
appealing the Milligan case should the de-
cison in the case be disadvantageous to the
county reported that when the case was decid
ed the committee and Mr.. Moloney had con-
cluded that it WAS best to appeal, in order
to settle certain important points of the law.
The committee recommended the appoint
ment Of committee of three to center with
the county attorney concerning the appoint
ment of additional counsel, il it be found
necessary, and to make definite agreement
with such additional counsel upon the fees,
The consideration Of the report was passed
to Wednesday morning.
A communication from Mrs. D. Hspeman
was received and read by Clerk McKeon. 1t
was strong recommendation of Mrs. Reedy
for the position Of warden Of the asylum,
stating that having an extensive scquain'
tence with wardens and matrons Of various
charitable institutions, she was enabled to
say that Mrs. Reedy was the best fitted for
the position in all ways, and had filed the
position in the past better than any one
whom she ever knew. The communication
was referred to the special committee on
warden.
Board adjourned to nine o'clock Wednes
morning.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-03-16

The farmers of Dayton are to have a
meeting at the Hess school house on the
23d to organize for protection against the
burden Irvine trust AS the present tariff
places duty of 40 per cent. on binder
Irvine land the Senate act duty of II SC a
pound 1t will be seen that the good farm.
ers of Dayton will have a job on their
hands 20 protect themselves when the law
gives so much protection to the trust.
There onght to be goo meeting on the
the 23d and a lively discussion of the meth.
DDS and powers of the Irvine trust will be
wholesome.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-03-16

In view of the fact that convention of
delegates of South and Central American
States is TO be held In the not far distant
future to devise ways for increasing the
commercial union of those States with
the United States, the trade papers of the
country are giving much space and thought
TO consideration of the commerce of these
countries, and the part the United States
has In 1t, 1t appears that the foreign COM
merce of the Argentine Republic alone
was $202, 100000 in 1887, an increase of
$36, 100000 over 1886, more largely in i'm
ports. Of this grand total the share of the
United States was only $11,000,0GO of i'm.
ports entering that country and S6000,00O
imports entering this country, total bust
ness of only seventeen millions. England's
share is double that figure. As the Age Of
Steel justly says: "The contrast is humili-
ating enough in the light of these bare
figures but there is deeper de pth for
humiliation In the statmsnt of Consul
Baker that no merchant steamer bearing
the ensign of our country ever appears In
Argentine waters" That country Is de
veloping with amazing rapidity. The eli
mate is In the main like that of Ohio, Ill
inois, &c, and the agricultural products,
too, are largely the same, consisting of
wheat, corn, rye, barley, flax and so forth,
together with wool, cattle, frozen meats,
hides and all related articles. This tact is
specially interesting to the farmers of
America, and is doubly impressive when
the fact is brought to mind, as 1t is by Con-
sui Baker In recent report, that the Ar
gentine States ARE already a promising
factor In the question of the bread supply
of Europe, having exported s37,s65 tons of
wheat In 1887, or more than six times the
quantity of the year before; 351 ,S44 tons
of Indian corn, against 231 $50 In 1856
besides increased quantities of flour, bar
ley, linseed, peanuts, and so forth So II
will be seen that the agricultural industries
of the United States are gravely threatened
In their foreign trade by the competition
from this comparatively new source" The
bulk of our European imports rs per cent
are paid for In American food products.
Until within comparatively few years,
Europe's main food supplies were bought
In America; but as our tariffs have grown
bigger and bigger our food exports threaten
to fall off. The buyer In Europe who must
find buyers of his goods before he can find
seller of food, is gradually building up,
outside of the United States, marts where
he can buy as we'll as sell 1t is safe to say
every pound of grain Europe buys in the
Argentine States Is loss 10 the American
farmer. When the American tariff shall
have done Its perfect work and driven
Europe to buy all her food there or In
Egypt and India, as 1t will some day. what
is the American farmer going to do with
his surplus grain and meat?
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-03-16

One OF the exceeding beauties of the
Senate tariff act,-of which It's friends
boast 30 much, to show Its great gifts to the
people,-is the reduction of the sugar
tax" True, II reduces the rates on raw
sugaa, and molasses Is reduced to four
cents gallon; but how this will benefit
the consumer who uses no raw sugar, 1t is
hard to imagine, The refiner gets all the
benefit, and trust stock goes up, while the
consumer will pay no less than he is and
has been paying. Practically the refiners,
with molasses at four cents a gallon, will
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-03-16

whether or not he would be recompensed IL
he advanced money to purchase railway
tickets for poor woman and her children to
Pennsylvani She was now charge on the
county and had relatives east. lie had not
been allowed money advanced at the last
meeting, on account Of resolution Of the
last board. The matter was adjusted by al
lowing Mr., Cullen the money advanced and
also the privilege Of sending the woman
away without mourning loss.
The bosrd adjourned TO nine O'Clock
Thursday morning.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-03-16
County Court.

The court sustains the demurrer Of the de
Tense in the case of Burton Barrett vs. Henry
Johnson, contested election, and has grsnted
the plaintiff time to file an amended bill Of
complaint.
Murphy. one Of the three precious youths
who robbed the Strestor second hand store
plead guilty and was fined three dollars and
costs.
Anton Neil, an orphan from La Sale, was
declared a dependent boy yesterday, ant
will he sent to the industrial school at Soutf
Evanston. He is fourteen years old anc
rather bright.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-03-16

doesn't seem TO be materalizlng very rap.
idly. The failure of the Reading Iron
Works is followed by the assignment of
the Finday, Ohio, iron works and by a
strike OF 5000 weavers at Fall River over a
refusal 10 advance wages, involving so
mills; and by strike of the Ames shovel
works, while rumor is alloat that the iron
mills of Pittsburgh will order shut down
owing to low prices. Still, the pig iron
men aim TO make hay while the sun shines
and the rumor Is that the pig iron trust are
paving the way for gigantic corner"
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-03-16
WEDNESDAYS SESSION.

Mr. Griffin presented petition in behalf
of the Fireproof Construction Company to
remit the penalties attached to their proper
ty, which had been forfeited for non'pay-
ment of taxes, through mistake Of the as
SCISSOR in not taxing the property in the
name Of the company. The penalties amount
to over two hundred dollars.
Mr. Ellsworth, of Deer Park, submitted
resolution that the last report of the Board
was unreliable, and that it be printed in a
more legible manner.
| The report of the special committee upon
the matter of appealing the Milligan case to
the Appellate Court was taken up as spe-
cisl order. Mr.. Armstrong, of Brookfeld,
did not see what could be gained for the
county by an appeal. According to his best
knowledge, Milligan had received verdict
for about eighteen hundred dollars instead
of for twenty thousand, which he considered
verdict for the county. The expense of
employing attorneys and the court costs
would be greater than any amount addition
al which the county could hope to recover.
| He did not wish to dictate to the board, but
thought that the end would not justify the
outlay.
Mr.. Eads said that the points of law in
the case were not defnitly settled. The
same troublesome questions would again
come up. and he would desire that the high
er courts pass upon the questions in order
thst they would be settled for this and for
other counties.
MIR. Dunaway said that II the case was
appealed to the Appellate Court it would
doubtless be affirmed, and it would then be
taken up to the Supreme Court, where it
would either be affirmed or reversed aud re-
manded. This would again bring it into the
| Circuit Court and the process could be gone
over as many times as the people would pay
for it, He was not in favor of an appeal.
Mr.. Norton spoke disparagingly Of Judge
Stipp and the decision. 1t was not based on
law but merely on equity. Milligan's attor,
neys had asked that the county leave enough
for attorneys fees and it was done, ETC., etc.
He was highly in favor of the appeal
MIR. Griffin said that he would not vote
against appealing. but thought that the
county should stand by its agreement with
Milligan, and pay him what it had agreed
to pay. He had followed the precedent Of
other sheriffs, and the board had balanced
the precedent of other boards. If the coun
ty should Withhold the illegal interest on the
Milligan note, it should also commence sui
against all others who had received illega
interest and compel return Of every penny
The report affirming the action of the com
mittee in appealing the case and recommend
ing the appointment of committee of three
to hire additional legal assistance, was ther
adopted by a vote eff thirty>hve to six.
The chair appointed Messrs, Fischer
Maierhoffer and Mcintyre as such commit
tee.
The county clerk was allowed to draw on
the treasurer for three hundred and fifty
dollars, to be used in the payment Of clerk
to write up the tax books for the coming
year.
! Mr.. Cullen requested to be informed as Il
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-03-16

A meeting of fox hunters will be held at
the Clifton Hotel parlOrs this afternoon, to
make arrangements for the grand fox hunt
on the 9th, at which the Chicago Hunt
Club will be present, and it contemplated 60
loose fox and deer. The meeting should
be we'll attended.
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/" winter mos. 1915

winter mos. 1859 % 81
Thermometer at or below re-
70, W inter months on days. % 8
Snow fail, inches. ITO l4.50
Rain and melted snow, in. 7.0l 6.29
1t will be noticed that the mean tempera'
ture for the winter last past, was $50 de-
grees warmer than the preceding winter ;
also that last February was LAB degrees
colder than February, 1888. although during
that month the thermometer reached 70 be-
low zero, while the minimum for last Feb.
was only II degrees below zero.
The rainfall continues to be below normal,
and this would seem to indicate either a
"wet spring or "dry summer"
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-03-16

The new era of presently" that was an
nounced to follow the settlement of the
tariff question" by the November election
on protective" --"Americsn"-basi
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-03-16

Our friend Browne "of ours did not
specially distinguish himself by his vote
against postponing the drainage bill. He
Is hardly in line with his colleagues,
Trench and Ross.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-03-16
Winter Weathe.

From DR., j. o. Harris weather observa>
tions:
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a[he OTTAWA tree GIaAer.
Ottawa, Ill.,. March 10, 1859,
Current Events.

The L. s. Senate continues In session
hut is doing nothing except confirm noml-
nations sent In by the President these
have been chiefly foreign ministers, terri
,orial governors and under cabinet Officers iU;en
inbn r Swift that to Japan; John -
Wsshburne that to Switzerland. Geo. Itch ,
snoo for many years in the treasury, ha;
basn made assistant secretary--a deserved
nromotion; Eugene Schuyler is assistant
secretary of state and Warker Blaine exam IN
insr of claims In the same department
Gov. Porter of Indiana, the mission tc
I,sly: Jas s. Clarkson of the Des Molne'
Rsgistsr the office of First Assistant Post
master General, and John A. kasson, VIM
Walter and Geo. II. Bates have been made
commissioners to represent the U. 5. at the
Samoa conference at Berlin.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-03-16

The house amused itself on Monday
with two patriotic resolutions; one pitch.
ing into the British government In great
shape" the other making the anniversary
of Washington's inaugural, April 30th, a
legal holiday The premises of the first
are doubtless true enough In fact, and are
appropriate enough for pablo meeting
of American citizens, but they were deem
ed hardly the proper subject for an Amer
lean legislature 10 pass upon, and so were
tabled. The Washington resolution was
passed and sent TO the senate for concur
snce. 1t will probably become law.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-11
IN SIMPLE FORM.

Popular Explanation of Matter Usually
Yelled In Technicallties.
In this connection there can hardly be q
more interesting subject than the ultimate
effect of eatarrh upon the hearing. The
processes of this disease in poisoning the
breath rotting away the delicste machinery
Of smell and taste, poisoning the lungs aDe
the blood and passing into the stoIaeH, enf
feebling the digestion, viitiatiHg the secr6
tions, all this ha s perhaps been very gen.
orally discussed; but the very frequent effect
of catarrh of the nose and throat upon the
hearing has not been touched upon as often
as the subject warrants.
A very little study of anatomy will show
the reader that the junction of the back
passage of the nose and the upper parts Of
the throat are connected with the ear by a
minute and delicate passage known as the
Eustachian tube. Along this tube the
catarrhal process extends, producing con-
gestion and inflammation. By the further
extension of this process to the mucous lin
ing of the tympanum of theear is caused. in
some cases, slight forms of eatarrh of the
mlddIe ear and in this way partial or COM
pleie deafness is produced.
Partial or complete deafness may in like
manner result from the swollen, thiekened
tissue enoroaching upon the mouth Of the
Eustachian tube.
Partial or complete deafness may result
from catarrhal interference with the nasal
breathing depriving the ear of proper supply
Of ofr 4 ofFa Of nhafr in
the nasal passages, causing undue rarifaction,
or condemnation of the air in the middle ear.
In such cases as these general remedies
which are often prescribed prove comparatively
ineffective. A cure can only be obtained by
skillful and scientific local treatment-and let
it be said here that nothing could be attended
with more disastrous results than unskillful
local treatment-combined with constitutional
treatment and care for the disease which
brought about the trouble to the hearing.