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HIE OTTAWA FUEju TRADER, SATURDAY. FEB. 8, ihjiO.
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'1'PJIKWS.
WEDNESDAY.
The condition of Secretary Tracy,
whoso terrible calamity lias appealed
to the sympathy of the entire nation,
was improved yesterday, as was that
of Mrs. Williams and her daughter.
"With care and freedom from excite
ment it is believed all will eventually
fully recover. The funeral of Mrs.
Coppinger, daughter of Secretary
Maine, took place yesterday at Oak
Hill Cemetery. The members of the
Cabinet have been sorely alllcted, in
deed, since the, opening of congress,
and their misfortunes can scarcely
fail to throw a cloud over t he doings
of Washington society, at least until
after Easter.
The centennial of the organization
of the U. S. Supreme Court took
place at Metropolitan Opera House,
New York, yesterday. The liter
ary exercises, presided over by (hover
Cleveland, were brilliant, and a
distinguished audience listened to
them. The address of the ex-President
was up to his usual standard
of patriotic utterance, lie was fol
lowed by Itev. Morgan Dix, Win.
Allen Hutler, etc.
There appears to be a prospect of a
settlement of the, deadlock in I lie
Iowa legislature, through a proposi
tion from the democratic, side, to di
vide the permanent ollices equally be
tween the two parties.
The Sixth Nation and Equitable
banks have resumed business under
the old management, which appears
to be satisfactory to depositors.
THURSDAY.
The funeral of Mrs. Tracy and
daughter took place from the White
Ilouseyesterday, an Impressive funeral
.service being held in the east room,
which was attended by every promi
nent government olllcial as well as the
foreign diplomatic, corps, Kev. Ir.
Douglass, of St. John's Episcopal
church, and Kev. L'lliott, of the
Foundry M. E. church, officiating.
The house went through the farce
yesterday of approving the. record by
t he speaker's counting enough non
voting members present to make up a
quorum present. No attempt to do
business was made, however. The new
code of rules has been furnished the
republican caucus. They will be kept
secret until that side of the house is
thoroughly familiar with them.
Portland, Oregon, is inundated by a
Hood and the city is practically cut off
from telegraphic communication with
therestol the world by high water,
which at last accounts had entirely
slopped st reel trade.
William 1 1., of Germany, wants a
European labor conference held, with
a view to meeting t he wants and needs
of t lie workingincn as expressed in the
recent st rikes and labor disputes.
The New York World's Fair bill
was put on its passage in the. Senate
at Albany yesterday and failed to pass.
It will never be resurrected.
John Graham, one of the Chicago
juty-bribers, it is announced, has left
the country and is believed to be In
Mexico.
FRIDAY.
"Wheat opened strong, but closed
weak. May sold at 7!H cents and olT
to 7MJ cents at the close. Corn sold
Mill lower, touching '111 cents for May
and .'Hi cents for July. Oats were
active, selling heavily between 221 and
224 cents for May. Mess pork closed
12 cents lower and lard and ribs ,r
cents lower. Receipts of cat tie, 1 4, (KM):
slow and prices unchanged. Keeeipts
of lions, 20.000; in fair demand, with
lii t le or no change as compared with
Wednesday. Packers paid '.!H) to
:i.'.i.", and shippers to l. Light
sorts, .'l.!'2i to .l!i.-. Receipts of
sheep. 12,ihmi; alout everything selling
Pi to 2 cents lower.
The ballot-box investigation was re
newed in Washington, with Senator
Mi niian and Mural Halstead on the
stand. The testimony went, of course,
to show the forgery of the names to
1 he paper published and threw Mr.
1'oiaker still further into the mire.
A frightful accMeut occurred yes
terday in Monmouthshire, Eng., there
having been an explosion in the mine.
The mine had several hundred men at
work, 120 of whom are probably dead.
Of these forty liodies have already
been recovered.
n Ir. Rauch, of the State Hoard of
Health, has made a report on the
"griplie." If it Is as valuable as his
reports on Chicago sewage in I he Illi
nois river, there'll 1m; a lot of sjoiled
paper for sale cheap at the Junk shops.
The Jury-bribers' trial will U called
next Monday in Chicago, but John
Graham, the chief of the gang, is still
missing and probably will not report
fortrial.
The majority have the right to rule,
which the minority in Congress
denies. Chicago Journal
It is not the rule of the majority,
but of a minority of Republicans, that
the Democrats are fighting against.
The Republicans havea clear majority
of the In the house. Then let their
majority be on hand and vote, and
not depend on Democrats to help them
pass their unrighteous measures by
accommodatingly helping nut an Im
potent minority by giving them a
quorum.
to i:ovi.i.k uoniu:iV.
What kind of people are they up in
North Dakota, anyhow? While every
state in the I'nion except one has
put its foot down on lotteries as the
basest, most vicious, ruinous and dis
honest of all kinds of gambling, N.
Dakota is actually about to throw
wide open its doors ami Invite the
entrance within its borders of this
vile system of swindling and robbery.
The excuse is, in the first place,
that the State treasury is hopelessly
empty, and the State itself bankrupt,
while the Louisiana State Lottery,
whose charter is soon to expire, alone
offers effective relief by paying into
the treasury $1 00,000 a year tor the
privileges of transferring its business to
N. Dakota, and that various other
wealthy concerns are ready to pay
equally high licenses for the same
privilege; and, secondly, that to have
lotteries at home will keep from going
out of the state vast sums that are
now sent, annually to Louisiana and
even to Europe, where this species of
gambling at a few points is still toler
ated, and will turn the tide so that
these ami much larger sums will How
info Dakota.
It would be a great, deal more to the
credit of that state if it offered liberal
licenses to gambling hells of all kinds,
to faro banks, sweat cloths, poker
dens, &., &c. At these games there
is something like fairness, at least.
At faro the percentage in favor of the
dealer is comparatively small; at dice
the chances are supposed to be even,
and draw poker Is almost purelv a
game of skill, at which the best player
wins In the long run.
Put a lottery is all one-sided. More
than half the money paid for tickets
Is gobbled by the management itself,
and the prizes are so arranged t hat a
large proportion are draw n by unsold
tickets and the money drops into the
same till. At each drawing a lew
prizes, ranging from I,000 to l."".,Mio,
are allowed lobe drawn, and these,
together with others alleged to have
been drawn, are duly blazoned abroad
to captivate the greedy, st lipid, inno
cent dolts wlio are ready loolisli
enough to imagine money can be made
in that way. Why, my good sir,
though you buy a dozen tickets a
month for ten vears. von stand .Vooo
chances of being struck by lightening
to one of drawinga capital prize! We
have seen a statement somewhere
that the Louisiana State Lottery
takes in 2.oui),0oo a year and pays out
less than .1CiOO,onii a year in prizes. A
man who will "blow in" Ins dollars
on ii game like that' is fit only .for a
lunatic asylum, and a state that will
legalize such robbery deserves to he
kicked out of the Union!
The sale of street ends, the feasi
bility of which Is now in the hands of
a committee of the Council for a re
port, would seem to be a more fanci
ful than practicable idea. The al
leged power to Hell is thought to he
conveyed by a statute passed at the
last legislature which enables cities
having lands or lots which they had
acquired for certain purposes, such as
school building lots, tc, to sell the
same when no longer in use for t heir
original porpose. This frequently
happens in such a city sis Chicago,
where new school buildings or engine
bouses take the place of old ones on
different, sites, the latter by the act
ill question being then subject toil
sale if the Council see lit to do so.
Put the act contains no power to
sell st reel s, or "street ends," so called
to which the city never acquired title
except by dedication to the public
use, under the control of the city
when so used, but belonging to the
original ownersof the land and revert
ing to them when vacated by the city.
If vacated, a few of Ottawa's street
ends would revert to private persons
who laid out additions, but most of
them would go back to the Canal
Commissioners, t he legal successors of
the canal trustees, from w hom only
buyers could obtain title, as in the
care of ex-Mayor Allen's purchase of
the cast end of Jackson street, the
deed to which after the abandonment
of the end of the street by the city,
he and Mr. Shotwcll obtained by pur
chase of the Canal Commissioners.
Tiie speculative deal in real estate
proposed by an evening ignoramus,
that the city should go Into a singu
lation in real estate ly getting (.. C.
D.'s of the Canal Commissioners to
street ends and then retail them out
to the highest bidder, is very cute;
but the tax-payer w ho hojtes for a re
duction of his taxes through the
profits of such a speculation, Is doomed
to chilly dlsapiointnient. 1 n the first
place, the city has no power to go into
such a sjMH-ulative Investment; and,
in the second place, the coffers of the
Canal Commissioners' treasury are
not to overloaded with cash that they
are likely to give away any real estate
available as a source of revenue. The
whole idea is visionary, and were it
uract icable, could he the source of
only a comparatively small revenue,
as the number of ends that could
safely be sold, w hich have any con
siderable value as building sites, is
alter all, very small. There arc per
haps a few in South Ottawa, still
fewer In East Ottawa, and one or t wo
practically valueless pieces along th
river in West Ottawa. .No one, for
instance, would think of selling the
west, end of Congress street, or of East
Pearl street, the most valuable of
these tracts on the cast side, the only
approaches to a bridge that must
eventually be built over the Fox river,
either from Madison or Jefferson
streets. And about all that would be
left would be one or two bluff lots in
South Ottawa, whose value would de
pend entirely on the final settlement
of the Prospect avenue controversy.
No. the chances for relief from taxa
in that direction are decidedly mea
ger While the people of the U. S. un
doubtedly admire pluck, and Mr.
Speaker Peed relies on t hat cir
cumstance to be sustained In Ids pres
ent arbitrary course, he may tlnd that
the people have discovered that his
pluck is nothing but an evil-designed
bullheadness, and that, the people do
nut admire. At the bottom of all the
trouble is the absence of rules, and at
the head of the committee to prepare
a set. is Speaker Peed himself, who,
however, has never yet called the com
mittee together to consider the sub
ject. Meantime he expects to bull
the business through in his own way
and make rules to suit himself. One
notable rule he has made, contrary to
all precedent, is to count non-voting
members as present to make up a quo
rum; and another is, to refuse to en
tertain any motion that don't suit
him by deciding that it is "dilatory."
The excuse he gives for the inven
tion and application of these arbitrary
rules is, that without them it would
be impossible for the republicans to
maintain a quorum, or. to do any busi
ness. Tli is is mere pretence. Every
body knows the general business of
th. (house always goes on without the
least trouble, and that it is only when
it is attempted to railroad through
some mere party business, which is
t lie most useless of all to the count ry,
that the democratic minority
would
insist that the republicans must pa
their party measures by a party ma-!
jority. When the country
I'ullv understand the bottom
gets to
unlives
of Mr. Keed's daring course, he will
tlnd that he has made a bad mistake
and that as a Napolcan of the gavel
he isii failure.
The gubernatorial contest which
has been pending before the West Vir-
gini.i legislature for over sixteen j
months was brought to a close on
TMrl:iv Tli.. ''dnw tli-it l.rnL-.. tliol
earners back" was proof positive of ,m.S(:nt's ,ut as indicative of the' L;ist Tuesday three men, whose
attempts by agents of (Joff to bribe a popularity of the groom among names are unknown, were accident
couple or Democratic members. This t he emploves or the Ottawa ' 'illy killed on the main line of ti eChi-
won to the side of Fleming t lie vote of i
' ---- ... -
the president of the Semite and that
of a labor union member, who had
hitherto acted with the Kepublicans,
and Fleming was declared governor by
;i vote of 4.'t to 4n. There never was a
doubt, of his legal election, but the
legislature being a tie between the
parties, the decision in his favor was
staved off until now. The Democrats
have been thoroughly aroused by tin
contest, and say It is the last, tor no
Kepublican will ever again come as
near being elected governor as (Joff
WilS.
The New York Presbytery, after a
six weeks' debate, by a strong vote de
clares in favor of a revision of the
Westminster Confession. The Chi
cago Presbytery came to the same de
cision after a sharp word-war of one
day. Other presbyteries arc rapidly
following the wjike, so that by the
time the next (Jeneral Assembly of
the Church meets, the question of re
vision may have been decided in ad
vance. As the object of the revision
seems to be to make somewhat easier
the journey through the "pearly
gates," of course all-we poor sinners
arc in favor of the utmost liberality.
The summary on Feb. 1st of the
crop reports to the 111. State hoard of
Agriculture for the past month gives
quitea glowing outlook for the winter
wheat crop. The acreage sown ex
ceeds that of last year 10 percent.,
and in spite of the snowless winter,
the condition of the crop was never so
promising on Feb. 1st. Should the
conditions remain favorable until
harvest, the largest yield per acre is
predicted of any year In the wheat
growing history of the state.
Again the binder-twine trust comes
to the fore. The whole business is in
the hands of two giant companies,
which have fixed the prices for IS'.tO at
lsje for pure manilla, lte for sisal and
1 Ic for sisal crow. At these prices the
farmers of Iowa have already decided
to Iniycott the twine and bind with
straw or put up their grain loose, and
no doubt the farmers generally
throughout the west will follow in
their wake, as they certainly should.
Gen. Greeley, the signal service
Ikss. Rays there will l no February
thaw this year, lieeause there Is noth
ing to thaw. "Happy thawt," says
the Chicago lhraUL
BRILLIANT WEDDING AND RECEPTION.
TJniquo Nuptials of Miss Clara J.
Orimth and Mr. Geo. M. Trimble.
The rrPKli.vtrriuil Church rowilcil by
Mmi.v IliinilrciU Sonic Were Turned
Mil) -All Society Attiuilfil t
KUIiimitc l(T,.itl,iii,
Til K KIIKMONV.
The marriage of Miss Clara Jane
(iritllth, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
William (Jriffitli. and Mr. (leorge M.
Trimble, only son of Mr. and Mrs. (J.
D. Trimble, took place at the Presby
terian church at eight-thirty o'clock
last Thursday evening, Kev. Harris II.
(Jregg otliciating.
Mrs. C. W. Weeks presided at the
organ, and. at the entrance of the
bridal party, rendered the wedding
march from Lohengrin. The bride,
met (led by the ushers, Messrs. T. J.
Lynch, W.J. (irahani, Nate Degen,
('has. and Arthur Hook and Kector C.
Ilitt, entered the 'church, unaccom
panied save by her charming little
maid, Miss Dot Huncan and Master
Clarkson Pradford. (each about live
years old) and passed up the main
aisle to the center of the rostrum,
where the groom, accompanied
by Kev. (Jregg, awaited her. The
ushers divided to the right and left,
and the bride and groom, with joined
hands, took their places before Kev.
(regg, who stood below the rostrum.
The bride was attiied in a lteautiful
costume of white taile cut decollete,
and wore a white bridal vail adorned
with natural orange blossoms, from
Santa Karhara, Cal. The groom was
in full evening dress. At the con
clusion of the beautiful ceremony the
bride and groom passed down the cen
tral aisle and out of the south door,
and were driven to the home of the
groom's parents, where an elaborate
reception was given.
I he reception at the residence of the
groom's parents was a most pleasant
and brilliant affair and was largely at
tended, i he home was beautifully
decorated bv Mrs. King with cut
(lowers and potted plants and festoons
of vines on the chandeliers, making a
pretty scene, while Willis' orchestra.
tationed in the library, made the
usual "concourse oi sweet sounds."
The bride and groom received the
congratulations of their friends in the
front parlor, which, like the rest of
the house, was soon crowded with
friends. To tell who were there won Id
be to repeat the names of every well
known lady and gentleman in Ottawa
society, both young and old. Over
.'too invitations had been issued, and
I save those or invited guests troni
abroad, there were very few rejects,
not less than 2."o people being pres
ent during the course of the evening.
Mr. and Mrs. Trimble, both seniorand
junior, are verv popular in Ottawa,
hu'd all took advantage of the oppor
tunity to express their good will and
regard for .'ot h the senior and junior
i, ranches of
t he family, and the oc-
ciision will long br. remembered as one
of the most pleasant events of the
season. Those present from abroad i
Were. MISS Ilelle .cwton, .MISS l.elle
Harris, and Messrs. J. F. Evarts and
K. N. Newton, of Yorkville: Mrs.
Clarke and Mrs. Silas Wood, of Chi
cago. The congratulations given, refresh
ments were served under the direction
of Mr. Loins Mess as caterer, and sit.
midnight the company reluctantly
dispersed for t heir homes.
It is HOW, We believe, Set (IdWU ilS !l
(. ,, mI. lid. .i lict of u'.l,limr
' A '.' '' " p;iiiy, m,
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oi w hich lie is iNioK-iveeper, l lie ina.L:-
nillcent, gift of a clock and candelabra,
in wrought brass, should be men
tioned. Among a profusion of beauti
fill and costly presents it was the most i
conspicuous
mis. The dav laborers about
the works also remembered the popu
lar "Triiiuny" by a large plush chair;
and the members of the Presbyterian
church testified their esteem by the gift
of apair of luxurious easy chairs, while
the ushers provided a handsome dining
table and chairs.
Mr. and Mrs. Trimblo will take ,i
short Journey and I lien ret urn to Ot
tawa to begin married life by keeping
house in the Colwell Hats.
A Novice.
One of the most unworldly young
men who ever stood in the dock of a
police court, was up before Judge
Weeks Wedesnday afternoon charged
with picking the pocket of John
Shaddock, a farmer from Sandwich.
The culprit. Robert Fleming, of
Marseilles, has t n a frequenter of
the saloons about town for several
weeks, and on Tuesday evening be
came acquainted wit h Shaddock in a
down town saloon. Shaddock had
money and was in a spending mood,
and as Fleming had nothing else to
do lie assisted him in disposing of it.
At two o'clock Wednesday morning
Officer Fischer met the pair at the
corner of Superior and Columbus
streets and asked where they were go
ing, its Shaddock was very drunk.
Fleming answered that they were go
ing to Marseilles, when Shaddock
broke in and said they were bound for
Sandwich. Then Fleming, seeing his
error, hastily remarked that they were
looking for a bed, but, at this. Shad
dock pushed him away, saying that, he
(Fleming) had placed his hand In his
pocket and attempted to rob him and
he wanted him to go away. Fleming
edged awav and ran down the street,
while Officer Fischer locked Shaddock.
up in the cooler, when he toil ml that
his watch was gone
Officers Dalv and Moloney were im
mediately notified, and after a short
search, (ifficer Daly found Fleming in
White's hotel, lie asked him to step
outside and then searched him. but
did not find thewatch. He then told
Fleming that If he did not produce
the watch he would send him up for
fifteen years, and the unworldly
youth, cowed by the gigantic bluff,
"went out to one of the outbuildings
where he had concealed the ""ticker,"
and fished it from a hole in the side
of the wall
When this tale of woe and bluff was
told before Judge Weeks, Fleming had
no defense to make, and in default of
,VW bail, was committed to the
care of Sheriff Mcrr'ssey to await the
action of the grand lin;. .
The regular monthly meeting of the
W. C. T. l will be held in the Pres
byterian church on Friday Feb. 4th,
at 2 r. m.
A llolil Trick.
Some five years ago Joseph P.rewster
oie.i hi jsi. mollis, leaving nearly tioo,
' worth of property. 11 is estate was
probated In the usual manner; but
when the heirs brought rorsvard proof
of heirship, three children of Caroline
Phalis, w ho had been a member of the
M'cwster ramiiy before her marriage
and had died previous to the nrobat
ing of the estate, came Into court and
claimed a full share in the estate.
I hey produced what purported to bt
a tetter or adoption signvd bv Jo
seph ifrewster and wife and Carolin.
Phalis. It was dated in I8ii8, and bore
me seal or trie I'robate Court of this,
La Salle, county. As It seemed a little
irregular In form. It was sent to
prominent law firm of this city for
wnesugauon.
The document arrived in Ottawa a
few days ago, and the investigation
nas neen conducted behind closed
doors, out an Inkling of the matter
escaped from around the window cas
lugs in the reporter's ear.
Joseph Itrewster was an eastern man
who began moving westward early In
in the tlfties. He lived In Ohio from
about 18"4 to lstio, anil then came to
Illinois, residing near Peru, where he
was well known, until, In lS70orl872,
he removed to St. Louis, where he ac
cumulated a large fortune.
With Itrewster and his wife was a
young woman by the name of Phalis,
who was quite an attractive person.
She married a St. Louis man and was
the mother of three children. After
Itrewster's death it appears that the
children of his late charge concocted a
scheme to get a share of the estate by
producing the alleged letter of adop
tion. This document is written on
the old style blue tint legal cap of the
fifties, and appears on its face to have
been prepared in Ohio in ls.VT, and ac
knowledged before the Probate Court
of this county in ISiiS. It bears the
signature of A. P. Moore as Probate
Clerk, and a fuc. simile of the seal of
the present I'robate Court.
Now it so happens that there was no
such court known as the ProhateCourt
in Lii Salle county in lstis, for that
court, as a distinctive tribunal, was
not created until the year 12. There
was, of course, no seal of "t he Probate
Court" in existence in 108, for the
seal attached to probate matters prior
to 12 was that of the county clerk,
who had charge of probate business.
The present seal was, therefore, not
in existence until 12, w hen the court
was organized as a separate court with
its own judge and clerk. The signa
ture purporting to be that of Col.
Moore does not in the least resemble
his signature, and is a self-evident
forgery.
This paper was recorded in the re
corder's office in this county in 1887,
but was not noticed particularly, as it
had no bearing upon any La Salle
county case.
The forgery was not at Jill clever,
and appears to have been the work of
bunglers, who were making a bold at
tempt to capture a large slice of a
large estate at any cost. The seal of
the ProhateCourt waseasily obtained,
as it has stood upon a desk in the
clerk's office and was accessible to any
one, cspcciallv when a crowd was in
the oil ice.
These facts, when reported in St.
Louis, will probably create a "scatter
ing" among the descendants of Caro
line Phalis.
THREE MEN KILLED
On the "O" lUilroad Near I. eland I. list
iucih.
TuendilV.
.. V' ' 7, Z
near Leland, in this county
At an early hour on the morning in
question two freight trains collided
about seven miles from Earl vi lie, and
a S'"'K raiser irom Jowa. wnose name
jf 'uid not ie learned, was Kiueii. a
large number of cattle were butchered
in the wreck. The morning was dark
and cloudy and a heavy fog hung
over the earth. A freight train loaded
with hogs and cattle, going east and
bound from Iowa to Chicago, was tele
scoped by another freight which came
up from behind. The first freight was
riuming slowly in order to avoid acci
dents, while the last freight came
along at the rate of forty miles an
hour. The engineer said he was un
able to see the first train until it was
too late to prevent the collision. Cat
tle and hogs cut in all shapes were
strewn along the track for a distance
of several rods. The cattleman was
riding in one of the stock cars and ap
peared to be uninjured shortly after
the accident occurred. An hour later,
however, he died, and it is probable
that death was caused by internal in
juries. The loss amounted to $2,000
or $.1,000. Many people went over from
Earlville, seven miles distant, to view
the wreck.
TWO XOKWKOtANS KILT.KD.
Five Norwegians, whose names can
not be learned, were in Leland Tues
dav and spent the day drinking bad
whisky. They left Leland about 10
o'clock that night and started along
the "O track for their home, two
miles distant. They were all very
drunk, it is said, and sang snatches of
old Norwegian ditties as they went
along. When a mile out from Leland
a train was seen approaching. Three
of the party got off the track and told
their conqwuiions to get off or they
would be killed. These two were not
afraid of a train, however, and the
engine struck them, death resulting
instantly. Deputy Coroner Vosburg,
of Earlville, held an inquest and a
verdict was returned in Accordance
with the above facts.
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lunc or chest, ourh as i-onsunipdon, Inflam
mation of lungs, lirom hiti!-, asthma, w hoop
inir cough, croup, etc., etc. It is Pleasant and
agreeable lo taole, perfectly safe and can al
ways be relied upon. Tral bottles free at D.
Lorriaux's drug store.
IeaU In Keal Kstate.
John P. Flick hast transferred a lot
In Allen's addition to Fiske & Peeru
for f Z').
Charles H. Force and wife to Rich
ard Farnsworth, a lot in South Otta
wa for M.1.
The Ottawa and Vermillion ville
Kiver Plank and McAdamized Road
Company have sold an acre of land in
South Ottawa to Richard Farnsworth
for a consideration of tlOO.
OBITUARY.
Another l'loneer none,
Mrs. Lovina, wife of Mr. A. D. Wyc
koff and only sister of Mrs. Wm. Cul
len. of this city, died at the family
home in York, Nebraska, on the .'loth
ult. She had been in failing health
for a year or more. Mrs. Cullen reach
ed her sister's home three weeks before
her death, and had the melancholy sa
tisfaction of being by her bedside when
surrounded by loving and sorrowing
husband and children she quietly pass
ed awav.
Mrs. W. wiis the eldest daughter
of Kobert and Mary Peresford, who
came to Ottawa in 1X2."), being among
the earliest settlers of the county. She
was born near where Wedron now
stands, in 1X27, and was thought to be
the first white child born within the
present limits of Lii Salle county. In
is:.2she married Kev. A. D. Wyckoff,
who during the war served as chaplain
ofthe4th 111. Regiment, but who,
soon after his retu;n, engaged in the
drug business in Moneeand Roberts in
this state, finally settling in York,
Neb., continuing the business until
recently.
Mrs. Wyckoff was a model christian
wife, mother and friend. She never
seemed to weary in well doing. With
her it was more blessed to give than to
receive, and her work was without os
tentation or pretense. She left to
mourn her loss a husband, three daugh
ters and a son, two of the former being
unmarried, besides a sister and an el
der brother.
The many friends and acquaintances
of Miss Sara C. McDonough, formerly
a resident of Ottawa, but later of Chi
cago, w ill learn with tearful regret the
sad intelligence of her death, which
occurred on Sunday, Feb. 2d. Her ill
ness commenced with the prevailing
influenza and ended with pneumonia.
Her death seemed doubly sad on ac
count of her easy reach in eight weeks
of an honorable graduation as a physi
cian from the Woman's Medical Col
lege, of Chicago. She bore her illness
with Christian patience and resigna
tion. The funeral services were con
ducted by Rev. E. E. McKay, In the
Presbyterian church at May wood,
where her parents reside. The funeral
wiis largely attended. The Woman's
College was closed for the day to allow
her classmates and other students to
be present in a body. Her friends
from Dakota and several from La
Salle county were also present. The
remains were taken to Forest Home
cemetery to await interment. Her
home and friends will miss one whose
untiring ambition to succeed and self-
sacrifice, made the future so full of
promise, and so radiant with cloudless
hope. While the dark angel has dug
a deep grave of affliction in the affec
tion of the family circle, Divine grace
can fill it with flowers, and place upon
it the seal of a sure anil ceitain resur
rection. ' L.
Jacob Mardoe died at his home on
the north side Thursday morning at
12:10 o'clock. He had been ill several
weeks and death wiis caused by lung
fever, the result of a relapse of a severe
attack of "l;i grippe." Deceased was
born in France in is:i(), t litis making
him 00 years of age. In bssi), just ten
years ago, he removed with his family
to the I'nited States. While in France
he had amassed a snug little fortune
and with this purchased real estate in
Ottawa, where he took up his resi
dence on coming to America. His
estate is valued at considerable. A
wile and four children survive. One
son, Nicholas liardoe, who resides in
Pittsburgh, I'enn., has been tele
graphed the news of his father's death.
Frank Ford iljed at his home, corner
of Columbus and Washington streets,
Saturday afternoon, at 1:20 o'clock.
His death was caused by a complica
tion of diseases. Although he had
been ailing for the past two months,
his condition was not of a serious na
ture until last Sunday, when he was
taken suddenly ill and death had been
expected at any moment since then.
Three sisters, who reside at the family
residence, and a brother in Ophir
township, survive him. The funeral
will take place from the residence,
Tuesday morning at !) o'clock and the
remains will be interred in the family
burying ground at Freedom Junction,
a few miles north of this city.
Frank Ford was 47 years old. The
greater part of his life was spent on a
farm, and until five years ago, since
which time he had resided in this city
and was engaged in farming twelve
miles north of Ottawa. The family
have t he sympathy of the entire com
munity. Deceased was a loving broth
er, and the afflicted sisters are crazed
with grief over his death.
Mrs. Michael Flanagan died Sunday
morning at 4:.'I0, after a lingering ill
ness, aged 04 years. She was a native
of Kildare county, Ireland, and had
lived in Ottawa since 18."2. A hus
band and ten children survive her.
Two of the daughters are married
one, Mrs. Jeremiah T. Walsh, resides
in this city, and the other, Mrs. Mau
rice Ilefferan, lives in Chicago. The
funeral cortege will leave her late res
idence on De Leon street this morning
at !::t0 o'clock, and a service will 1;
conducted at St. Columba's church by
Kev. T. S. Keating. The remains will
be interred in the Catholic cemetery.
Mrs. Flanagan was in every respect
a model woman, and the earlier resi
dents of Ottawa will ever remember
her as such. As a wife, mother, and
friend she possessed all which makes
such a relationship perfect and happy,
and alK)e all things else she was a
good Christian and a pillar in the Ro
man Catholic church. A happy house
hold has been made desolate by her
death.
In lHSti some twenty head of cattle
got into Archibald McClean's farm In
Miller township, and destroyed the
fences and crops. Mr. McClean locked
the cattle in the stable and held them
as security for the damage done. Nels
and Samuel Anderson came along,
claimed the animals, and forcibly took
them from McClean. They were each
lined ?t0 by 'Squire "Weeks, but ap
pealed. The case was tried in Sep
terulter, 1888, and each were fined $.50
by a jury, in the county court. An
appeal was taken and the appellate
court reversed and remanded the case
for a new trial. The case was re
docketed as No. :it8, Wedesnday.
February 22 has been set as the day
for holding an election at Grand
Ridge.