The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1890-07-26
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boring Exchanges.
Ole Thompson and Thomas Larson,
who live near Morris, says the Ne'cS'
were quite seriously hurt by the rail-
ing OF hay derrick Tuesday laSt
Though they were working on diner
ent farms their mlsf0rtunes were SIM
liar.
Beinp little short In that line, Ut
tawa no doubt will he rejOlced tolearn
that she is soon TO have another law
yer. The La Sale Express says: Lee
O'Nrll Brown, our popular attorney,
l. soon 10 remove 10 Ottawa. ms II
a necessity owning To his increasing
business at the capital OF the county
Happy Usage The village Is still
without a government. The ola mem
beers refuse 10 meet with the young
men and no quorum can he secured
The boys now threaten 10 retallatc
and, in case license board is elected
next year, to stay at home themselves
and break the quorum.
Minonk Blodc: Major Walrath, the
old scissor grinder, was IN the city
Monday. He GOWNS aside from his dogs,
three horses having - legs; one Is
three, one two, and the other year
ling, all the colts OF one mare. He eX-
poets To sell them for good price.
The Streator Free Press learns that
1.-THE La Sale Dam. Press and Utica
Gozetie have consolidated at La Sale,
and home daily will probably be the
result. ia place the size Of La Sal lie
cannot support one daily there is prob
ably some excuse for the large list Oh
papers reported continually to the
board OF supervisors.
1t was not TO the La Sale Dem.-PreSS
as we were misled by Streator paper
into saying, but TO the Republicdn, that
the Utica Gozeue has been sold. w,
presume the statement that it is tn,
intention of Messrs. Boswick x Hen
nessey, OF the Repujlcda, to start q
daily in La Sale is equally aprocrl
phal.
Guest, the Streator miner whose
mysterious disappearance week age
we mentioned the other day, has not
vet been heard from, and his family is
thoroughly satisfied that he has been
foully dealt with. In her great anxiety
it is even reported that Mrs. Guest
has about lost her reason. "A vigorous
search is still kept up.
Galesburg is all tore up or rather her
main streets are, by "A street car war.
Two companies claim the right to use
the same streets, and having got them
into the worst possible condition, the
work of both has been stopped by in
functions, leaving the condition OF the
streets meantime in an impossible
condition TO await the laws delay.
Last Tuesday night the barn of
David Kerns, on the bluff north OF
Marselles, took fire and was burned.
Besides various gardening and farm
ing tools, 1t contained about a ton OF
hay. Loss about $400. The theory Of
Mr.. Kerns is that it was set on fire,
either by accident or design, by some
chicken thieves who have lately an
noycd him.
Streator presents a varied, though
strictly characteristic, programme OF
for the closing week of
the present month. Her villa park Is
TO be occupied as a race course from
July % to August !, and on July 81 a
Methodist camp-meetlng Is To open on
the same ground. With so much
"pisen" around there is nothing like
the presence Of an anti-date.
The Sandwich argus mentions the
death in that city on Tuesday, or
Enoch Darnell, in the I'D year of his
age. lie had settled there In 1872 and
lived there ever since, having grown
wealthy, owning a large farm, besides
a warehouse in Sandwich, and other
property. Most Of the older settlers In
the Fox River and Sandwich region
have known and respected Enoch Oar
nell.
The new tramp law of Illinois,
which provides that every person over
sixteen years Of age going about with
out any trade or calling shall be
deemed a tramp, went into effect on
the LIST of July, and already many or
our Illinois exchanges are noting "a
visible diminuton Of the tramp nulS-
ance. Any falling off in Illinois, how
ever. will only add so much to adjoin-
ing states. The tramp has come to
stay.
Billy Myer, the Streator slugger, who
was so badly Knocked outSat new VI
leans some months ago, don't propose
to STAY down on his back, but email
lenges Andy Bowen and Jack Nc
AulifTe to another fight for $1,000, un-
der the auspices Of the Audubon Club
oe New Orleans. Billy is now under
the management of All Kennedy and
bent on rcgalning his former reputa-
ton.
There is one staunch advocate OF the
law i'm Iowa, and he is
Capt. Adams in Dubuque. On Tues
day he secured hfty-tve injunctlonss
against Dubuque saloon keepers and
was allowed $25 attorney fee for each
case according to the provisions or the
law, thus netting him $l,3l5 for ms
work. As in times past,
not single saloon will be permanent
" closed by this proceeding; but CAPT.
Adams pockets his little roll Just the
same.
The Ottawa FREE TRADER pub
fishes the Free Press census table and
stuifs the returns for OF
tawa a round 1000. The figures as
published in this paper are correct,
and no Democratic methods will give
Ottawa any greater population than
she really has.-Strydtor Free Press.
We simply added South Ottawa to the