The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1890-06-21
OUR NEIoHBORs.
The Cream Of Whatever II Nswsy, Inter
esting or SPICY La our Neigh
boring Exchanges.

had twenty.six children.-Diron TEL.
What did he strike her for? He must
have been out Of his census.
The Princeton assessor is in perss-
piratiOn over a puzzle like this: "A
taxpayer whom he called upon stated
very positively that he owned no dog
but soon afterwards sued ne'ghbor
for shooting his dog the same day he
had been interviewed by the assessor.
James II. Bartlett, of Rockford, says
the Republican, "has become infected
with the store building fever in Chi
cago and has contracted for the erec-
ton of business block to cost ST.
OOO." Chicago will feel more than ever
like having on boom when she sees
that sl7, 900 block go up!
The Democrats of Grundy county,
the Morris Post says, will probably pre-
sent as their fall ticket. p. A. Arm
strong for County Judge, Daniel O'Con-
nell for Treasurer, and Jas. McNa-
mara for County Clerk. They will
present such good names because, says
the Post, they believe they have a good
fighting chance OF winning.
Tonica was visited on Tuesday by a
sudden and unusually heavy rain fall
"a sort Of ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
10y hail. The water came down IN
such torrents as to wash out small
bridges, tear up sidewalks, &c. AS
nothing of the kind occurred at that
time at La Sale, a few miles north or
Wenona, few miles south, the Ton
tea storm must have been exception
ally local.
When Rockford leads off Aurora is
sure to follow. Rockford having a
week ago suppressed local manufac-
tory of queer dimes and quarters, Au.
rOra follows by SuppreSSing a local
manufacturer Of bogus nickels. lie
was an elderly gentleman, whose mod
est ambition seems to have been con-
tented with making other use of his
leaden five cent pieces than to beat
the street railway company.
OF one of the worlds magnates,
safely deposited in his tomb, the poet
says: ''Lifes titful fever DER, he
sleeps we'll" The editor of the Grand
Ridge Herald, however, sleeps just as
we'll in bed. He says, Things were
lively up at the hotel the other night
From what the boys say a person
would think from the noise Barnum's
calliope had broke loose. We can
hardly tell what did happen as we
were in bed asleep at the time"
The district in Rockford devastated
by the late flood promises to develop
into frightful breeder of peStlence.
into the houses great masses Of mud
filed with angleworms. They are
now dead and the OdOr is most sicken-
ing. They are being shoveled out in
buckets full, but the smell can't be
Shoveled out. Then there are dead
rats and over the muddy field are mil
lions of blue bottled flies, helping out
the dreadful mess. The people can't
stand it and those who can are NOV
ing"
One of the latest lodges of the peri
patetic fraternity of checoliers d. IN
duStrie was played at Bloomington the
other day. A fellow representing him.
self as an agent of Barnum's great
est on EARTH" sc, called upon two or
three meat market men and entered
into contracts for large amount Of
meat to supply the men and animals
and when the figures were made he
would intimate privately that the
amount was less than the show had
been paying elsewhere. He then sug-
gested that it be raised, and the butch
er pay him half of the increase in cash.
The proposition took, and he secured
several cash bonuses.
Joliet is having another upheaval IN
the form Of labor strike. Two hum
dred quarrymen. most of them SwedeS
from LOCkpOrt, on Wednesday formed
a procession and marched to the quar-
ries Of Sanger, Moody & Steel, north Of
the prison. After forcing the men
here TO quit work they went to the
Joliet and Chicago quarries and forced
the men out there. At the quarries
of Weinberg & Co. they were met by
and ordered to disperse. They refused
and the posse attacked them. After
brief skirmish they broke and ran,
eight being arrested and lodged in jail
on charge OF riot.
The Illinois Zinc Company, at Peru
appears to be one of those rare corpo-
ratons that have souls. Some months
ago "shake purse" was made up in
Peru to bore an experimental gas
well" on the grounds of the zinc works,
1886 being contributed for the pur-
pose. The boring was prosecuted to
UOuDIe Ulle COSU VI IIle dulOuuU TdlSeu
and no gas found, but instead splen-
did flow of artesian water. AS the lat
ter is worth great deal more to the
company than the cost Of the well, the
managers think they cannot in good
conscience allow the citizens generally
to pay for even part of il. and there
fore have refunded the money contrib
uted to the individual subscribers.
Wenona, according to the hoder, is
alarmed over the discovery. within
her village limits, of thrifty growing
bunch of genuine Canada thistles, and
the authorities are urged to give i'm
mediate attention to the matter.
There has, for over twenty years, been
growing annually on vacant lot near
the ravine in the city of Ottawa, a
small bunch of genuine Canada thist-
les" but though the situation and
ground around them was as favorable
as could be to their spreading, they
bave died down to one or two stalks.
81 hn sli.rhfast 1ispp-