The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1890-06-28
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| An eTOft 10 raise money IN Strcdtul
for a 4th Of July celebration was a
total failure. Even the saloon men
refused 10 come down. The truth
probably is, that half the town expects
| TO come 10 Ottawa.
Streator is not content with having
a flint glass works Of her own, but II
now moving 10 have rough plate
glass factory. 1t will be necessary 10
raise from S2j, 600 10 10000, and IL is
said half the sum is already pledged.
Nine girls were fined in Danville,
H., for playing with the boys last
Sunday. That was right, OF course,
| such thing were winked at the
sabbath day would be undermined and
front gates put AT discount. by the
way, was il base ball that the girls
played, or what;
Morris NurS, 10Th: Frank Kelley, a
demcnted young man from Ottawa
was sent home today. He has been
here for the past fOrty-eight hours dur
| ing which time he refused TO eat or
Drink. He is very much emaciated,
and abors under the hallucinatiOn
that some one is trying TO XIII him.
The current worm has appeared at
Marseillcs, says the FLdindedler, and
is stripping the bushes bare Of every
leaf THE fruit may ripen, but will
he imperfect unhealthy, II not actual
lily poisonous. Some are sprinkling
wood ashes over the bushes In the early
morning, while the dew is yet on and
the effect has been found good"
Utica will celebrate the 4th in bet
ter style than ever before. says the Gd-
zette. There will be picnic in the
grove surrounding John Fitzgeralds
residence on the north bluff, with
speaking and other exercises in the
forenoon and platform dance in the
afternoon, TO wind up with big dance
in Clark's hall in the evening. In adj
diton to this, about $50 has been
raised for celebration in town. with
games, fireworks and all the usual
trimmings.
The government Of New South
Wales, in Australia, having offered a
reward Of Sl25, 900 for an invention to
eXterminate the rabbits in that Coun-
try, Bloomington man named j. w.
Funk, along with about $4,000 Others
from all parts Of the world, makes ap-
plication for the reward on the
strength of an exceedingly ingenious
trap he has invented. He is invited
to take it to Australia and show how
it works, with encouragement that it
will be accepted.
A farmer of Loam township, Sang
anon county. has excited considerable
interest in the Agricultural Board
quarters at Springfield by exhibiting IA
stalk of wheat that had perfect head
on the top, yet lower down stems
branched out on which there were a
number of well formed grains Of cheat.
The farmer regards it as a perfect set
tier OF the long mooted question,
"Will wheat turn into cheat" In 9TH
er words is wheat and cheat the same
plant, or are they different plants"
When the other day in Dubuque the
Republican congressional convention
met to renomnate Henderson for con-
gress, ~ delegates had made their APP
pearance n town, but when the con-
vention was called to order but 81 had
put in an appearance. The rest had
gone to witness the base ball game,
and no coaXing could get them away
until the game was over. AS Hender-
son had no opposition, however, the
81 nominated him and adjourned.
One would almost infer from this that
there were some base ball crankS up
about DUBUQUE.
w. II. Miller, local reporter of the
Streator Ind. Times, received fearful
pounding on Saturday evening from a
local rough named ChaS. Johnson.
Without word of warning Johnson,
who was much the larger man, sneaked
up behind Miller, and knocked him
down. Miller, gathering himself up,
yelled for the police and sought refuge
in the Plumb House, on the steps of
which he was again struck from be-
hind and knocked down. Citizens in
terfered and the fracaS ended, Johnson
soon afterwards being arrested and
held for trial. But was the motive of
the assault? No intimation is given
in the indignant half column the Ind.
Times debate to the matter of what
provoked johnson to make the assault.
The heroic effort of the ladies of the
pretty Chicago suburb of RavenswoOd,
had SO long been held by the hired
XII |, Has liltU WItl an lSubulIllOuS lc-
feat. Their plan was to organize a
cooperative housekeeper's association,
which no less than seventy families
had Joined, subscribing freely all the
necessary funds to secure a suitable
building, provided with large kitchen,
dining room, etc, with a full outfit to
provide meals for all the families reg
ularly three times day at common
table. Everything went along swim
mngly, all the necessary mental help
was readily engaged, until it came to
procuring hOusekeeper or Superin-
tendent, and on this single rock the
ship went to smash. No erson that
answered at all the purpose could be
procured for love or money. Hence
the scheme had to be abandoned and
hence also the return Of the penitent-
rebelliouS ladies under the time hon
ored yoke of the untamcd hired girl.
Congressman Hit, of the Rockford
district, is said To be largely indebted
for his recent unanimous nomination
for reelection TO the warm support
given HIM by the Republican newSpa-
papers of his district. That this sup
port was as diantcrosied or hearty APP
pears from what the Rockford Register