The Ottawa free trader., 1890-06-21

Plumb's flank cotton sock movement,
that they each ordered dozen pair of
cotton socks for future Use at Repub-
lican caucuses.'
The Republican county convention
at Morris on Saturday appointed dele
gates to the Joliet congressional con
yention opposed 10 Hill.
Monmouth has So large negro pop
ulation that the colored Methodists
are building church OF their own,
large enough TO seat 300. There Is no
race problem" in the case, Of course,
| but whenever they are strong enough,
the colored "bredren" sensibly prefer
to keep 10y themselves.
Mendoza is not dead 10y any means.
Three new brick stores, each TO nave
20 feet front. be three stories in height,
and of fine architectural design, are to
be built this summer on Illinois street
opposite the post Office. The upper
stories are to be finished upas flats and
the ground floors are already engaged
for business purposes.
The Streator Ind. Times has had a
call from Dan Maher, and as a result,
admits, that if ALI. Kennedy, OF Streat-
or. IS not Il candidate for the office
of sheriff, Dan might I'LL the bill. Any
how, without any more preponder-
ence Of evidence in his favor, the hld
Times is ready to admit that Daniel
would make number one sheriff"
And now, after Chicago and St.
Louis, comes Rockford. with howl
that. from the slovenly manner in
which her census is being taken the
count will fall at least 5000 short Of
her actual population The RepuJh,
can is going to make the matter all
right, however, by taking a census OF
| its own. Let all who have been skip
ped send their names TO the RepuJh-
can.
One Wm. West. on his homestead
farm in Blackberry, Kane county, has
a beautiful natural lake covering
twelve acres, with an average depth
of from five to twelve feet of water.
| The Aurora Post makes the eXtraordi-
nary statement that the owner of this
beautiful sheet of water has been
crazy enough to ''eXpend $500 in laying
tile for the purpose Of draining it, pre-
ferrng to utilize the land for crops,
and has efectually accomplished his
object, so far as getting rid of the
water is concerned" He ought to be
sent to Elgin.
Morris mourns the loss Of its old and
honored physician, DR.. a. f. Hand,
who died on Sunday afternoon at the
age of II years. He was native Of
Vermont, had come to Illinois in 1913,
was educated at Jacksonville college
and then studied medicine, after
which. in 1917, he came to Morris, and
resided there permanently until his
death. He was a Skillful physician, a
good. christian man, and in mourning
his death, his surviving family are
Joined by the entire community in
which he lived. His disease was
chronic dyspepsia, and it is mentioned
that while his weight year ago was
1856, at his death he weighed but 90
pounds.
Schweinfurth, the miserable Rock
ford mposter, actually glores in the
recent serious disaster which visited
that city by storm and flood, and
claims it as fultillment of pr0phesy
he made several months ago that
Rockford, on account of its refusal to
lacknOWledSe MS ulNlnlty, would De
utterly overwhelmed and destroyed" )"
In his Sundays talk to his followers
he INDUCED in twO-hours utterance
of sacriligious rot like this: Il am
the defender of the truth, and the
truth must be established though the
heavens fall and every city in the land
be washed away. Men revile me, but
beloved, when | was upon earth before
it was the same. History and tradition
: may be explored in vain for parallel
to my character, and this devastating
flood. which has fulfilled my propheSy,
proves that in the annals of modern
greatness ! stand alone" The bias
phemous wretch ought to have been
tied to one OF the houses swept away
by the food and told to command the
storm" if he was what he claimed
to be-