The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1890-01-25
NEAR TOWN NOTES.
Happenings and Sayings in Neighboring
Cities

NEAR TOWN NOTES.
Happenings and Sayings in NeighborinR
Cities.
A North Aurora man employed in
the smelling works is minus his wife
and a months pay. Both disappeared
toward Michigan on Thursday even
ing.
Marseilles hunters are becoming
somewhat reckless, according to An
drew Lynden, who, while working
about his residence, was struck in the
face and thigh by stray shot from a
hunters gun.
Six sticks Of dynamite were recently
found on the Illinois Central track be-
tween Minonk and Rutland, cut in
two by the cars. Fortunately they
were to damp to explode, or there
would have been a terrible accident.
Doctor Montgomery appears to have
been taken in upon several occasions
and voices his wrath in the following
squib in his Marseilles Ne,rs: "a
laper-eared, steel-clad, iron-jawed Jew
has been doing the town for the last
twenty-fOur hours in trying to sell a
75-cent spectacle for $3.50. Beware of
'sich.'"
OSwegO was few months ago a
town with a boOm-On paper. Five OF
her prominent citizens went to Chi
cagO the other day to attempt to in
duce knitting factory to move OS-
wegoward, but soon returned with the
mOurnful announcement that, His
tory repeats itself, OswegO's boom is
busted"
Morris has decided, according to the
Ne,cS, that a water works plant,
erected by outside capital upon guar
antee of per cent, is not one of the
necessities of life. The bonus, it
would seem, is going out of style,
especially in relation to water works
and kindred enterprises of semi
public nature.
The Rockford Driving Park Associ-
alton has purchased new park at an
Expense of $4,000. 1t lies east of the
city in commanding situation. The
association should now send delegates
to Ottawa to learn how to conduct a
race course.
An Elgin cOlored woman, alleged to
be 120 years old, is on her death bed.
Medicine has no effect upon her.
The Rockford watch factory is to be
removed from its present location to
another portion of the city, and the
present building will be used for a
knitting factory. The owner of the
watch plant expects to sell lots on the
new location and realize enough to
build mammoth factory and hotel.
The Aurora street railway has
changed hands, the controlling inter-
est in the stock owned by Messrs.
Hopkins and Van Lew being pur-
chased by Aurora gentlemen on Thurs
day.
Miner II. Ames, owner of the Min
onk coal mines and tile factory died at
his home in Chicago few days since,
aged 55 years. AS coal operator he
was given by the miners an unsur-
passed record as an OppreSSor of labor.
La Sallians express desire to have
the proposed route of their electric
street railway changed from Buck
lin to Creve Occur street, as the latter
is the home of many labOring men who
go long distance to their work, be-
sides giving promise, in their esti-
nation, of better paying route.
The Peru Neacs seems to hope that
the distillery will be opened and oper-
ated in the spring. This is, indeed,
amusing, especially while the whisky
trust hangs together, and there is not
even remote prospect of it's going to
pieces. 1t might be converted into a
slaughter house or some kindred use.
The La Sale Republican is authority
for the statement that the Hydraulic
Cement Company, of Utica, will build
another mill in the neighborhood of
the cement quarries in the spring, and
also that the Rock Island road will
build a bridge across the canal and
head off the proposed c., b. & Q. ex-
tension.