The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1890-07-05
OUR NEIaHBORs.
Tho Cream Of whatever 10 Newsy, Inter
ssting or Spicy In our Neigh
boring Exchange.

The mayor OF Morris has offered two
hundred dollars reward for the arrest
and conviction of the parties who, on
the morning Of the 10Th inst, entered
the home OF Charles Decker and his
mother. near Morris and socruelly beat
them that it will probably cause their
death.
The rough footings of the census OF
Rockford give that city 23,507. Aurora,
that called Rockford the ''windy city
and claimed larger population by a
thousand or two, must be content
with 1920. Elgin promises 10 foot
up about 1900, and Freeport Will
have TO be satilied with II, 200.
A very curious sort Of campmeeting
is being held in a grove near Streator,
commencing yesterday. 1t is wholly
undenominational. Every one has UNI
restricted liberty to take part as they
may feel disposed. Also TO ask any
questions regarding doctrine or eXpe-
rience. No gate fees or collections
will be taken. A cordial'invitation is
extended to all.
In Streator sidewalks made Of brick
are generally conceded TO wear longer
and give better satisfaction than those
made OF tile.-Free Press. What kind
Of tile have you, for goodness sake !?
We have plenty Of brick pavements in
Ottawa, and we have tile pavements,
but man who would pronounce the
best brick pavements here equal to the
worst tile would be-laughed at.
Forty-six years ago to-day, says the
Sandwich ArVtS OF the 9th, Joseph
and Hyrum Smith, two celebrated
Mormon prophets, were taken from
the old Jail at Carthage, in which
they were confined, and killed by an
enraged mob. The first prophets son,
Joseph Smith, Jr., has consented TO
deliver an grafton at NauvOO on July
4. in which he will review the days of
Mormonism.
Joliet had three horrors in one day
on Thursday, to say nothing of half a
dozen cases of sunStr0ke. "A convict
at the penitentiary by the name OF
Schatfer cut his throat: James Freder-
lex Long, an employe of the blast fur
mace, while attempting to board
moving freight train, was thrown
under the wheels and killed: and
three Polanders were drowned in an
old disused quarry pool, formerly used
by the Joliet Stone Pearl company.
Streator is beginning to realize the
cool and decidedly unpleasant fact
that ice in that city has "riz" to the
figures Of $l2 a ton.
The saloon keepers, butchers, etc, had
made an arrangement with a Madison,
Wis. man for the delivery Of ice
through the summer at $3.50, but the
man died, or failed. or went crazy,
and was unable to fill his contract.
So they are thrown back upon Colley,
who is squeezing them at the above
rate.
There is a good deal Of mystery
about the outrage at Morris. 1t is
evident the object was not to obtain
money. No drawers were opened,
pockets rifled, or other acts tOindicate
a search for money or valuables. The
only thing taken was tin box con-
papers, and it is said young
Decker owned one paper of consider
able value which a certain relative
would very much like to have, but
which is safely locked up in Chicago.
We can hardly open an exchange
more cases of sunStrOke, generally at
tended with death. There were five
cases on Thursday in Streator, two at
Joliet, one in La Sale, and so on. In
Dubuque work on the street railway
was suspended after several hands had
been overcome by the heat. The Their
has ranged during the mid
die of the day at from SO to i05 through
out most of Iowa, Illinois and Indiana
since about Tuesday.
Mrs. Hilton. wife of Hiram Hilton,
died very suddenly about IL o'clock on
Thursday at MarSeilleS. "She had
dressed to 90 out to dinner" says the
Ne,cS, land was entertaining a caller,
when she fell from the chair dead"
The cause of her death is supposed to
have been heart disease. Her maiden
name was Rachel A. Cummings. She
was about 50 years old, born in Massa-
chuSettS, where she was married to
Hiram Hilton, with whom she came
to this county in 1856, living here ever
since.
The superintendent of the Soldiers
Home at Marshall, Iowa, lately dis
number of veterans from
that institution for getting drunk
AS if an old soldier, in state overflow
ing with original packages like Iowa,
could commit an Cffense by getting
tight. Gov. Bois ordered the men to
be returned to the home, advising the
that it was absurd to
punish an old soldier for such an Of
Tense by sending him out to become a
pauper, and that he must devise some
other plan to enforce discipline at the
home.
The Aurora Express has some odd
views on the great question, When
will the 10th century end? "At the
end of the year 1899" he says. this
century, the 10th, is completed, and
we commence the Goth, January /,
1900. At the end Of the year 1900, wei
shall write 1901; one year of the Goth
century will have passed, and we COM
mence on the second" All of which
is as clear as mud. To give a parallel
case. A youth born in 1880, at the
end of 1889 completes his first decade;
and at the end of 1899 his second, so
that at the end Of 1900 he is p years
Did and can vote. We suspect he
would find il a little risky, however, |