The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1890-04-12
Our NeIYhbOrs.

0tOuO, W. tuN NAss sSsseSo ~
qiste,,, has been appointed and confirm
ed as postmaster at Marseilles.
AS there is very strong probability
of a general strike among the coal MI
ners of Illinois about the first OF May,
wouldn't IL be wise for numerous es-
Establishments hereabouts to take hint
from the WenOna Brick Il Tile Works,
which have taken time by the forelock
and laid in q supply OF coal for all
summer?
The Streator Window Glass Works,
destroyed by fire on Monday morning,
will no doubt be at once rebuilt. The
loss is fully covered by Insurance.. The
concern was owned by the combina-
ton known as the United States Glass
Company and was one OF their most
profitable plants.
Dick Hallet can no doubt Justly
claim to be the best rifle shot In Utica.
The Gazette says last Tuesday, seeing a
flock of wild geese passing over town,
he got out his Winchester rifle and
dropped one at the first shot. He Is
SO elated over it that he challenges
anybody to a match at flying game or
glass balls.
At last the StreatOr boom has COM
menced. The Ind. Times bubbles over
with elation in making the important
announcement, said commencement
consisting in the fact that the Strea-
tor Bottle Works have commenced gra-
ding the grounds for two more bull.
ings capable of working one or two
hundred more bottle blowers.
Guess the Illinois supreme court was
, right in deciding that the Young
J Mems ChristiOn Association is not
J religious organization. The chief in
terest in the association at Rocford is
| taken in the gymnastic exercises. All
right enough for merely secular or
benevolent organization, but church
: with Turn-Section attachment would
be an anomaly.
The strike Of quarrymen at Joliet,
which broke out in somewhat tnreat-
enng proportions on Wednesday, has
+ been happily settled. The men had
been working all winter at l2s to loo.
an hour with the promise OF better pay
, in spring and they concluded spring
had come. The companies fianally
made an offer of 10 cents an hour dur
ing five months and ia cents during
seven months of the year, which the
men accepted and the strike was over.
The electric street railway enterprise
in Marseilles has run against snag.
The company was duly organized and
the right of way granted through the
2 desired streets, but to the grant the
! town board attached an unfortunate
!, rider, requiring the company to give
$40, 900 security to protect the town
against all claims for accidents that
NAV occur. TO this the company de-
murs, and the enterprise will probably
fall through.
The bill appropriating $4,000 for
government bnilding at Aurora passed
the senate on Friday and having pre-
viously passed the house only awaits
the Presidents signature to become
9 law. AS Aurora is about a third larger
. than Ottawa we are entitled. at the
same rate, to a $50, 900 post Stfice build
, inc here, but as our dear Uncle Samu-
ell at present pays but 81 a year rent
for his post Office accommodations in
Y Ottawa, he will probably have doubts
t about its paying to build.
: 1t was not case of gong through a
l train in the Jesse James fashion, but
:. it gave the passengers nearly as bad a
!. scare. While c.. & Nj. train was run
| ming towards Elgin the other day, the
e door of a crowded car was flung open
! and "Throw up your hands," proceed
! ed from half a dozen men entering
| with drawn revolverS. But they were
only sheriff and his posse, who had
: located a couple of notorious safe blow
S ers in that particular car, who were
seized and handcuffed, and the passen.
5 gers thereupOn felt easier
1t won't do any longer to plead ina
bilitv to pay or to rely on cOnstables
return of mo property found as a way
to escape paying for newspaper after
taking it from the post Office. The Ia
: test postal law makes it larceny to
: take paper from the Office and refuse
to pay for it. Under this law the SUI
preme court of Ohio recently ordered
a lot of newspaper subscribers against
! whom a publisher had obtained judg-
ment and who pleaded insolvency to
be bound over in 800 each for petit
!, larceny.
The Rockford Register, commenting
! on recent paper by Frances e. Will
= lard on 1.-The Position of Woman, cri-
q ticises it as incomplete. For instance,
: nothing is said about the position the
: waiting wife takes at the head OF the
, stairs at 2 a. M, with a rolling pin in
, her hand and blood in her eye. That
, position that makes a man determ-
inc that the next lodge he joins will be
Y IA lodge in some vast wilderness" But
the Registers criticism of Miss Willard
is unfair. AS an unmarried lady how
3 could she know anything about the
! wifely position referred to? whereas
{ the editor, a married man, no doubt
I often having been there himself and
5 knowing all about it, availed himself
of an unfair advantage Of Miss w.
Y Rockford is getting to be a little Ches-
, ter or League island in the way of laun-
= ching water craft. A week ago we
| mentioned the launching Of the little
Y pleasure steamer Arrow at that city in
the presence of 5000 people. and on
Saturday another steamer, the Edo
= ia. was launched, but being smaller
= craft. a smaller crowd sutficed to wit
, ness it. But the procedure, as describ-
: ed by the Register, was not without in
r terest. '"The boat was let down grad
rallv into the water with "A WindlasS, a