The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1890-06-14
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Dixon has been accorded free postal
delivery, with three carriers, tC go into
effect July lst. The salary of the car
riers will be but $50 per month for the
first year.
Mrs. Anderson, the Rockford lady,
who had paid $50 to get rid Of her hus'
band, but when he was killed by
railroad accident considered her loss
equal to 81 1000, has compromised with
the railroad company for $500.
The insect of which we made men
ton yesterday as devOuring the oat
fields of Southern Illinois, Prof.
Forbes. the State EntomOlogist, re-
ports as leaving the oats and attack
ing the wheat, samples of wheat bear
ing out the statement having been
sent to the department at Springfield.
The new flint works at Streator
have been located in the north part OF
the city and are to be completed by
the middle of August. The main
building will be about POO feet square.
The latest improved Gill fourteen pot
furnace will be used: the contract has
been let to Woods, Dixon & Co., of
Pittsburgh, says the Ind. Times.
The editor of the La Sale Dem.
Press, mentioning the fact that "the
good news is waited in from the south
that watermelOnS are ripening six
weeks ahead of time" asks the reader
to note the fact that he refrainS from
ringing off any threadbare gag in that
connection. His fOrbearance reminds
us Of that of Wendell Holiness self
restraint when he ceased '"TO write as
funny as l can"
Thursday of last week the La Sale
marksmen who participated in the
shooting tournament near Chicago, re-
turned home and brought with them
the honor Of having won the prize,
Milt Anderson being the winner of the
board of trade diamond badge. La
Sale feels about as proud of the honor
achieved by one Of its citizens as OF
tawa does over the winning of seven
straight games by her base ball club.
A terrible and disastrous collision
occurred about 10 o'clock on WedneS-
day morning on the Santa Fe rail-
road near FOgerty's quarry, about
seven miles south Of Joliet. A con-
struction train bound south and a
gravel train coming north came in vio-
lent collision, the result being the
death of one man, another with leg
broken, others badly bruised and
shaken up, and a general wreck Of en-
gines and cars of both trains.
Over at Streator they have invent
ed, says the Monitor, a new kind of
social amusement. 1t is called an
avoirdupOise party. All the girls are
weighed and the weight Of each girl is
written upon piece Of paper with
her name. Then the papers are all
put into hat and the young men
draw. The young man must go into
supper with the girl whose weight he
draws and must pay for her supper at
at One-half cent per pound. 1t is very
exciting so far as the young men are
concerned.
Rockford had the serious misfortune
on Wednesday to lose one Of the most
of the various new indus
tries started there during the past
year. A very nice old gentleman, 60
ing by the name Of Oscar d. Klamph,
had come there quietly and engaged a
room in the Peacock Block, where he
engaged in the OStensible business OF
silvering the nozzles Of atomiZers and
other instruments used in medical
treatment. But somehow L. 5. mar
shall at Peoria got a long-way-Off sus-
picion that one artist, in connection
with his nozzle business. was doing a
little in the queer line. and paid him
visit. The result was, the Register
says, he took hmi into custody-so quiz
city, in fact, that but two persons in
the block knew what had been done.
Shortly afterward he was on his way
to Chicago with the officer. About a
gallon jar full Of well executed silver
,oin, principally dimes and quarters
we're fonnd in his room and nearly two
Dushel baskets full Of dies, stamps,
&c. And thus, as we said, Rockford |
oses one OF her most interesting in
iuStries.
n. J. Aldrick, an Aurora attorney, |