The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1890-03-01
OUR NEIGHBORS.
The Cream of Whatever Is Newsy, Inter
esting or Spicy In our Neigh
bOrin0 Eychanpes,

settles, have moved to Tiskilwa, where
Mr.. M. goes to study for the ministry
G. w. Lininger, a well known pOpu-
lar young Peruvian, has gone to Mon
tana to accept a position on railroad.
The Illinois Valley Paper Mill at
Marseilles, which had been idle FOR Sc
veral weeks undergoing repairs, resum-
ed work on Thursday.
Diphtheria is prevalent in Wenona
in an epidemic form and the schools
and churches are closed in conse-
0uence There were eight or ten cases
on the Goth, and up to that date I'VE
deaths.
Ottawa has gained a permanent and
valuable citizen in Mr.. Carter, the no
ted Serena grain man, who has built
him comfortable house and moved
his family here with the view of max
ing it a permanent home.
The Marseilles sports were skating
Yesterday on the canal between that
point and Seneca. How much nearer
is MarseilleS to the North Pole than
Ottawa? for such sport here on the ca
nal would have been rather risky.
Some miscreant says the Marsellles
Ne,cs, entered the school house near
Jere Melady's, in the town OF Brook
field, on Monday night, and deliber-
ately crammed the books of all except
four Of the pupils into the stove and
burned them.
There was decided sensation at
Belleville, Ill.,, the other day when
Justice Medart married white man
named John Higgins to a negro la
DIV from st. Louis named Mary Brown.
There is no race hostility in Illinois,
of course, but the parties found it adj
yisable to get out of town as soon as
possible
It has been found necessary at the
new mining town of SeatOnville, where
a number of negroes are employed to
organize separate church for them,
with pastor Of their own. There are
other churches there, and "there is no
race hostility at the north" but some
how in churches the cOlOrS don't seem
to mix as kindly as they ought to.
The Morris Ne,rs gives the following
account of the strange fatalities pur-
suing the Demme family of that city:
Henry was torn to pieces in a hay
press; his mother drowned herself in
the canal; his father hung himself in
his barn; his sister drowned herself in
the lake at ChicagO: and his only broth
er Joe hung himself at Chicago. Two
sisters remain.
The La Sale brewery is getting its
supply of ice for the summer from Ma
Olson, Wis. BY the way, the freight
from Madison is about a dollar ton,
but the Rock Island company charges
&c Inn Il tn,, ff,r ifph
ing the cars from Spring Valley to Pc
ru. about four miles This may not be
a violation Of the Interstate Com
merce law, but doesn't it look little
hOggish?
G. w. Wiley, prominent citizen of
Wenona, is missing. Two weeks ago
he went to Gibson City to visit bro
Their, and on Wednesday of last week
started for home, taking the l.. E. &
Western train for Bloomington. All
trace of him has been lost since, tho
his wife, who is almost distracted with
grief, has kept up the most thorough
search for him. 1t is feared he has
been fOully dealt with.
A mysterious explosion took place in
the Illinois Fiber Works at MarseilleS
one night last week. Mr.. Abbott had
been feeding cast-otf miners clothes
into picker, when suddenly there was
terrific defamation, knocking the ma
chine into kindling wood and wreck
ing things generally. Doubtless a dy-
Mantle cartridge had been careleSSly
left in the pocket of an old vest or pair
of pants, and coming in coOtact with
the iron teeth of the picker, exploded.
A La Sale newspaper, which seems
TO issue a cheap second edition at Uti-
Ca, is apparently possessed Of the queer
notion that Ottawa is ready to die OF
jealousy of Utica because visitors to
the proposed summer resort at Starved
Rock BY railroad may want to get Off
at Utica instead of Ottawa! Nonsene.
OF course they will go to Utica if de-
cent provision is made there for con-
veying them across to the Rock. If
not, of course Ottawa can run her cleo
trio cars down there, but she won't
probably do it unless Utica's want of
spirit and enterprise cOmpels her.
The Tonica Ne,os propounds the CO.
nundrum: when wild geese are seen
flying both ways at the same time or
on the same day, what is it a sign Of 2"
As DR.. Franklin said, when asked to
explain why placing fish in a vessel
full of water don't make it run over,
''let US first be sure of the facts" In
the first place, did the editor of the
Netos actually see wild geese flying at
the same time two ways for Sunday?
and secondly, were they flying north
and south or east and west, or Oreast
and sou'weSt, or nOr'west and soueast?
When giving us the game of conun-
drums, deal fair. Your con. may be
like that propounded to DR.. Franklin,
based on blasted lie.
The Streator +. Press is hardly man
ly in its effort to cast contempt on the
soldier claims of Johnny Bean, of the
Monitor, because he enlisted and served
his term in the army as drummer
boy. The army can no more get along
without drummer boys than without
men to carry muskets, and the post of
drummer is often more dangerous than
that of men in the line. The drum
mer of the Ottawa company in the
Mexican war was killed in battle tho
he never touched musket and he was
ANYTHING but coward. Some Of the