The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1890-07-19
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boring Exchanges.
Chief Of police Webb, Of Rockford,
who tried TO commit suicide the other
day by putting two bullets into his
head, is still alive and likely To recoV-
| er.
The population Of Mendoza town
ship, according 10 the ofiicial figures
in 1850 was 4513, and the enumerators
this year give IL population OF isl a
gain Of 23S. Considering that Mendoza
within the last ten years has lost the
organ factory and Lutheran Seminary,
the town has held its own very well.
When Kankakee census enumer-
ator had stopped at certain house IN
that city and listed all the family, on
asking whether there were any more,
the lady, suffusing slightly, replied
hesitatingly, mot now, but II you
should call in day or two" lie
called, and marked down bouncing
boy.
The Reverend Madison G. Peters
and his bride will visit Ottawa in
July. He will be remembered by the
readers of the E'rpress as the boy
preacher Arrangements are being
made with him TO deliver a lecture
while here.-LeLond Erpress boy
preacher" is putting 1t rather strong,
as Mr.. =. was at least % years old.
]. b. Smiley, of Joliet, who for some
time past has been connected with the
NeuS OF that city, has severed his con-
nectiOn with that paper and thinks OF
starting in business on his own respOn-
sibility. hoping TO win fame and for
tune in the field OF literature as a com
ic and poetic writer, in which direction
he is certainly not without some gifts.
The man is a rarity these days Of
whom it can be said There are no
flies on him." for they are everywhere;
but twenty drops Of carbOlic acid
evaporated from shovel, says an eX-
change, will Danish them from room
quicker than all the stckey fly-paper
in existence. A small piece OF camph-
or gum held over lamp till it is con-
sumed, will also do the work well.
An eleven-year-old boy named FOw-
Ter, residing near Gays carriage factO-
nv, met with a painful accident last
Wednesday. While playing with sew
eral companions he was thrown vi0-
lently to the ground, one OF the boys
falling on him, and his thigh was
broken Just above the knee. Drs
Buttertleld and TrainOr set the bones
and the little fellow Is slowly i'm
proving.
Lorenz Hintz, well-knOwn farmer
residing two miles north of Holloway
vile, while driving to Peru on Thurs:
day in double-seated buggy, accom-
panied by two ladies and a child, had
an ugly runaway coming down the
hill AZ Spring Creek. The buggy was
upset and all thrown out, the ladies
and child escaping with slight bruises,
but Mr.. II. himself being probably
fatally hurt.
The Tonica Ne,cS despairs of being
able to equal its contemporaries in
snake or fish stories, but challenges
them TO equal the following in the
way Of hot weather printers story:
''Through the carelessness Of one Of
our compostOrs handful Of type was
left on the window sill in the fierce
rays Of the sun. When he went to
pick it up half an hour later, he
found it melted and the lead dripping
on the floor"
=. Il. Low, a Morris printer who has
been for some time connected with
the Morris Nocs as editor and pub
Usher, has received call, says that
Journal, TO become the editor of the
Laramie City (Wyoming) daily and
weekly Boomerang. The paper is thor
oughly known throughout the United
States, as il was made famous by Bill
Nye, who was its founder. 1t is an
SODIUM daily and one Of the leading
papers Of the state.
The little village of Triumph, in
this county, had a sensation on We'd
nesday OF last week in the suicide OF
Emanuel w. Bee, the village black
smith, who ended his life by putting
bullet through his brain. The only
cause given for the rash act is that
Mr.. Il. had been suffering from intense
pain in the breast and shoulders from
which he could obtain no relief. He
was 3S years old, and leaves wife and
five children.
The man Maxwell, alias Murray, the
white man of the duet that committed
the Decker murder and outrage at
Morris few weeks ago, has added his
confession to that of the negro Will
lams, the two substantially agreeing
i'm the main details OF the crime, eX-
cept, OF course, that each alleges that
the other inflicted the blows. Both
acQuit Mary Simpson of having had
anything to do with the crime, though
neither give any explanation of how
they got on to the idea Of box full of
money.
Jerry Wood, the whilom Ottawa
miller, used to say the only reason why
| the La Sale county farmers don't raise
good crops of winter wheat is, that
| they are too lazy to give it proper at
tention. The La Sale county farmers
probably know better. Nevertheless,
occasionally fine crops are raised in
this county. Thus the Tonica Ne,cs /:
| Squire Trout has cut his I5-acre field
of winter wheat and says it is the best
crop he has had for several years. He
thinks it will thrash out over 30 bush
els to the acre.
Justice in Peoria appears to have
the bad habit Of which the grangers
complain against the railroads, of
making unjust determinations" The