The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1890-03-29
Our NeighbOrs.

Our NeighbOrs.
The Streator Free Press states that
George Flanagan, COalville miner,
was caught by a fall of rock as he was
quitting work on Thursday evening,
and received injuries that are liable TO
prove fatal. His head was cracked
from the left eye to the base of the
skull on the right side, also back over
the left ear. The man however remains
conscious and it is hoped he will pull
through.
StreatOr seems to be either very rich
or very dead. The local building as
ISOLATION met on Friday night and out
of SO, 800 offered for loan two lots of
$240 and 1000 brought only ! of one
per cent. premium and one lot of $500
brought 5! per cent. premium. In
Ottawa borrowers for building pur-
poses would have gobbled this money
quicker than scat" at 20 to % per
cent.
The ice men of Rock Island have Or
ganized a sort of local trust and deci-
ded to charge about double last years
rates for ice to consumers. The action
of the trust has aroused considerable
indignation among the people, and a
movement is on foot to have the city
council bring the ice business under
the peddler license, and thus get back
good part of the extOrtion into the
city treasury.
The Streator police, according to the
Free Press, on Friday night arrested a
hard looking stranger who answered
the description given of the man who
lately murdered the Hon. j. Gillian
of Upper Alton, and for whom Mrs.
Gillian has offered a reward of $500
and Gov. Fifer 5000. The authorities
at Alton were notified by telegraph
and replied to hold the man until a
minute description could be sent by
mail.
The Leader has again been selected
by the Board Of Supervisors as the Of
fetal paper of the county, and next
week will publish their proceedings for
the March term. Eortuille Leader. The
Board made an excellent selection, IL
it's object was to have as few people as
possible see its proceeding, for of
over twenty papers published in the
county hardly one has a more limited
circulation. But the board Is ecOnOm-
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culation is cheap
Little Louise Clara Fritz, a bright,
rosy fodder two and half years old,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. j. Fritz, of
Joliet, came to a sudden and shocking
death on Saturday. Not far from the
kitchen door of her home a slop barrel
had been sunk into the ground and
contained about foot of kitchen
waste water. Into this the child fell
head foremost, in such way as Meth
to be able to eXtricate herself or cry
otlt, and though found less than min
utes after she had left the house, she
was stangled beyond all hope of resus-
citation.
Streator parties are evidently in ear
nest about boring for gas and oil in
that vicinity. A company has been
formed with Daniel Heenan, James G..
Wilson and NJ w. Jack at the head, to
undertake the work, and they are not
the sort of men that engage in a wild
goose chase" That they may be able
to put to profitable use the gas or oil
they find, they have already obtained
Of the StreatOr city council the pass
age of an Ordinace giving them the
right to lay pipes through the streets to
conduct their oil or gas TO any part of
the city for sale or use
While the preaching of the cowboy
evangelist gave StreatOr some 200 new
Christians, they were Of the fallible
sort Of ordinary evangelical denomina-
tions-the kind that, do what they
will to live up to their profession, are
constantly cOnfessing that somehow
1ni
to do, &c. But Streator is also bless
ed, according to the Ind. Times, with a
small body of perfect Christians
Christians who have attained unto per
feet holiness, from which there is no
falling away. Streator has right TO
be proud of SO precious possession as a
body Of perfect Christians" They
are mighty scarce article, allow us to
suggest.
We have not heard much of late
about that gold-silver-copper-zinc mine
that was lately discovered on a worn
out old farm near Joliet, and although
stock company was at once olganlZ-
ed to work the mine and its shares Of
fered in the markets of the world, we
have thus far looked in vain for quota
tiOns OF the stock on the London, New
York or Channahon stock board. Yet
the mine no doubt is still there and
there need be no uneasiness about 1T
as mines seldom run away. Meantime
Joliet continues her delving into the
bowels OF the earth after the mysteri-
Gus aud wonderful, and now behold
another splendid find she has ''struck
lie" better still, she has struck natu-
raj gas! The find Of both was made on
the TRULY farm near Joliet in sinking
an artesian well for water. Happy Jo-
liet Soon her borders will be invaded
by the great oil trust with its untold
millions, and Chicago will be laying
down lines of huge pipe to carry of her
surplus gas