The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1890-05-31
NelghhOrhOOd Items.


The census ennumerator for the
the extent of his domain. The Strea-
tor Monitor says: "The description of
his territory Is as plain as mush. The
man. who apportioned it may know
where it is or what he was doing, but
no one around here knows"
The Monmouth Journal tells the
following story, but leaves it to the
reader to believe 1t or not, at his own
discretion: "a fellow near Galva re-
Gently had boiled eggs for breakfast
and In one of them he found six
penny casing nail. He recognized the
nail as one in a piece or barb he threw
at an old hen the day before"
Streator had another of those pecu-
liar local incidents on Monday known
as a "cave in" sit was about ten
feet wide and seven feet deep" says
the Free Press, and occurred within
five feet of the manufacturing and
building cOmpany's large brick smoke
stack on Main street and the company
is afraid the stack will fall over.
w. II. Fursman, the Pontiac fayger,
pleads insanity in defense of his trans
gressions, and upon it has gained a
continuance. When FurSman is judi
cially declared insane, people need not
be surprised, suggests Pontiac paper,
'to find some remarkable clever bust
ness men in the asylum" Their real
surprise would probably be at not find
ing more of Fursman's dupes there.
TO guard against mistakes, we'll
known young married man of Mon
r,o,tfh cove tho To,i,nuJ had a chin
ping tag printed at one of the job
offices there with these words on il ::
Il am out on a h of time. When
can't stand, tie this to my button
hole, steal my pocket book, sponge my
clothes and cart me home. My name
is: residence: liquor had of
-. Keep this out of the.newspaperS
and tell my wife it was an old StOm-
ach trouble"
Rev. Whitman, the Baptist minister
of Joliet, who was lately found guilty
of all sorts of improprietieS by a
church council, wrote to ii Joliet paper
ridculing the finding of an ca parte
council. 1t was ca pdrte only because
Mr.. Whitman was too conscious OF
guilt to attend it and attempt Il de-
tense. He will not get off so easily
when the members whom he has eX-
PEELED from his church get into court
with their suit to ascertain who owns
the property
The papers have been signed and all
the preliminarieS settled, for a grand
mill, or prize fight, between Gibson, a
noted bruiser of Rock Island and Nc
Intyre, an ''all around pugilist," (what-
ever that may mean of Moline. The
fight is to take place somewhere in the
vicinity of Moline, within Is days, and
is to be for blood, Ia Sullvan-kil-
rain. OF course the authorities are on
the alert and will stop the fight if
they can, but, as in most of such cases,
the police as a rule get there just too
late.
In the WenOna Gazette of Thursday,
Walker & Keyser announce their with
drawal from the publication Of that
paper and its sale to S. S. Mckenny.
The new publisher announces that in
future, as in the past, the Gazette shall
pursue a strict Democratic course,
standing squarely upon the platform
adopted by' the Democratic National
Convention. Mr. Mckinney is not un-
known to Ottawa, where he has rela-
tives living, NOTABLY of the Ebersol
family and where he has been fire.
Quent visitor.
Charley Lippencott, bright, six
year-old boy, met his death at NAL
den. bureau county, on Thursday
by falling under and being crushed by
the cars, while playing around them in
company with other bOys-anOther sad
warning. ''lIe was the youngest of
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Lippencott's
three children the pride of loving
mother and the hope of fond father;
but by following the bad example of
older boys. he has lost his life and
there is sadness in that humble home
a bright ray of sunshine and hope is
gone forever"
Swan Nelson, a boarder at the For
est City House, Rockford, was robbed
by a fellow boarder, who broke open
his trunk, took out 800, and then
skipped for Chicago. Nobody seemed
to know the thief'S name though he
and a watch in the trunk were over,
looked by the thief, in his hurry. Mel
son has followed him to Chicago. pro-
badly to enjoy, if he catches him. the
agony of the thief when he learns that
he overlooked the S25 and the watch
in rifing the trunk, as it is preposter-
Gus, of course, to imagine any of the
stolen money can be recovered.
Capt. Zeller, while narrowing near
Spring Bay. Woodford county, few
days ago, turned up stone axe, in an
excellent state of preservation, which
weighed 234 pounds. In the same
field, some time ago, similar axe was
found that weighed l5t pounds. As
an ordinary axe weighs but , pounds,
evidently there were giants in those
days" when these axes were used. and
according to the best posted biologists,
the "stone age" when these giants
lived, dates back-back-well, beyond
the birth of Susan b. Anthony, or even
of Job or King Cycrops. Manifestly
before the Indians came to this coun-
try" the vast plains of the west were
traversed by gigantic races long, long
ago extinct.
Yesterday, says Fridays StreatOr |
Monitor, strange woman, good look
ing and nicely dressed, stopped at a
saloon On west Morrell street, kept by
n family nv tho namn pf nnal and .