The Ottawa free trader., 1890-06-21
OUR NEIGHBORS.
The Cream Of Whatever IL Sewsy, Inter-
esting or Spicy In our Neigh
boring Exchanges.

they can get ready, expect TO surprise
the town with parade.
The Free Press is now assured that
Streato. will make greater progress
this year than has been made during
the entire five years proceeding. ole
or two more large factories ana the
boom will have begun in earnest.
Peru has clock factory, 1t seems
and the NelrS- Herald says II Is TO be en-
larged to three times its present ca
pacitv, the business of the establish
ment warranting such an enlargement.
The present capacity is l2O,OOO CLOCKS
a year.
According to the Spring Valley Sen-
tnel, there is a war of rates between
The Great Rock Island railway and the
steamers Rex and Rescue between
Henry and Peoria. 1t is said paSSen-
gers have been carried from one place
to the other for cents, the distance
being 40 miles.
Nancy Warren, supposed to have
been the oldest person in Southern IL
linois, died at Centrala on Saturday,
aged los years. Her husband having
been a soldier in the war of ISL ana
been with Gen. Jackson at New Or
IpdIlS. NdllCy vi NpulNC ulNN " pN'
sion, which for the past twelve years
had been about her only support.
a young Peruvian named Gavin was
fined in LaSalle justice court yester'
day. What for no one seemed TO know.
A Peru man who was taken before a
LaSalle justice might as well throw
up both hands, or tice rerSd. d.-Netrs'
Herald. Now what in the dickens do
you mean, in this particular case, by
''rice rerS0."
A trip across the country to Odell
and return this week convlnceS the
pencil pusher for the Seneca Rec0rd
that there is not the least apprehen-
sion that famine will strike this sec
tion this season. Crops OF all KINDS
are looking splendid, and more beau
tiful and productive country does not
lay out of doors.
During some excavations at Aurora
the other day. pocket of sand was
found containing ten or fifteen tons OF
precisely the same quality OF sand
Elgin cot from the Gulf of Mexico
to use in the filters of her water-works.
Elgin paid 800 per car for ten car
loads of that sand, firmly persuaded
that there was none like, it nearer
than on an island in the Gulf OF
Mexico.
Sheridan is blossoming out as sum
mer resort. The Mdependct says
"During the past week several of ouI
citizens have received letters form
parties abroad for board, as they wished
to spend one or two months here. Two
or three parties have already made ar
rangements to spend their vacations
in our beautiful village. AS summer
resort Sheridan is Scoming to the 'front.'
There is some magnificent scenery
along Fox river up that way and some
excellent fishing ground.
The papers are talking Of it in a way
to indicate surprise that the widow of
Frank Milton, formerly Of Dubuque,
Iowa, and at one time private secreta-
ry to President Lincoln, but who re-
signed and returned to Dubuque, died
there in 1884, isnOw supporting herself
as chief cook on the steamer st. CroiX
What is there strange about that
Head cook on a Mississippi floating
palace is situation at which few need
turn up their noses.
Mr.. Nelson, the MarseilleS young
man who is making bicycle ride from
Chicago to New York in the pay of the
Intel-Oceon, GOT away on Thursday
morning. and at the close of his first
day sent dispatch from Valparaiso,
Ind, saying: "Arrived at s O'Clock,
after thirteen hours actual riding.
The roads are terrible My cyclometer
registers seventy-fOur for to day" He
must average about 81 miles day, we
believe, to get through in the time to
which he is limited.
Geo. ID. Ladd, sitting on a pile of
fruit boxes in front OF a store in Peru
the other evening talking over the af-
fairs of the country with some friends,
suddenly found his underpnning to
give away, and spasmodically throw
ing out his hands to save himself,
thrust them through window, pretty
badly cutting himself about the wrist.
The NeicS- -Herald has apparently no
other apology for mentioning the Incl
dent than that it gives the editor an
opportunity to say that "Mr. Ladd
has not yet applied for pension
L. A. Simmons, a cigar man ufactu-
rer of Cedar Rapids, has got into
trouble by monkeying with Uncle
Sans mails. His game was to send a
circular to the small retail dealers and
prominent farmers throughout the
west, reciting their griefS and losses
through mercenary middlemen, and
Offering, for the small sum of s. to
send book by following the directions
of which they could purchase of man
ufacturers direct and save retailers
and middlemen's profits, The book
was simply list of manufacturing es-
tablishments in the United States,
compiled for trade and advertising
purposes. Letters were to be sent to
Carl McGuffy." The postmaster was
soon beSeged with inquiries in ref
erence to Mr.. McGuffy, and poStotlice
inspector was put on the scent, who
run down Mr.. Simmons, and gather
ing him up carted him off to Dubuque.
there to answer in a charge of using
Uncle Sans mails for fraudulent pur-
poses.
The Republican caucus at Streator
on Saturday to select delegates to the
county convention at Ottawa to-day,
was full of excitement, not to mention
a fine sprinkling Of fun. There We're
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