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Rochester, Monroe, NY
Union & Advertiser
Sat Apr 6, 1867
 
PATENT ISSUES - The following have been obtained through the well known agents, J. Fraser & Co.:
     C. F. SPENCER, Rochester, lantern.
     H. J. KINTZ, Rochester, potato digger.
     G. F. HEDRICK, Buffalo, lash fastener
     M. A. PAYNE, Farmington, N. Y., sand pump.
     Messrs. F. & Co., are entering many applications.
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NEW GROCERY FIRM - The store corner of Main and North streets, formerly occupied by C. C. GOODALE, has been taken by H. H. BABCOCK and A. S. COLEMAN, who have a lease of the same for a term of years. They propose to continue the grocery business generally, also to dealing in foreign and domestic fruits and produce. BABCOCK and COLEMAN are citizens of long standing, have extensive acquaintance and have always been considered upright business men. Their prices will be as low as any similar establishment in the city.
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REMOVED - R. MILLIMAN has removed his tobacco and cigar store from 49 State street to 14 Front street, west side, between Buffalo and Exchange Place. He has, as usual, a fine stock of goods, embracing everything in the line of tobacco, cigars, pipes, etc. His old customers and all others will find him ready to serve them as in times past. His store is only a few doors from Main street, on the west side of Front street.
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MARRIED
 
At his residence on the 6th inst., by the Rev. Samuel LUCKEY, Mr. R. DOWELL to Miss Jane E. GULLEY, all of this city.
 
Thursday evening, April 4th, by the Rev. Dr. HALL, John BARNETT to Charlotte A. RUDMAN, both of Irondequoit.
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DIED
 
In this city, on Thursday morning, the 5th inst., John BEADLE, aged 41 years.
-Funeral from his late residence, No. 4 Madison street, on Sunday, the 7th inst., at 2 o'clock P.M. Friends of the family are respectfully invited to attend.
 
In this city, on the morning of the 6th inst., Christopher L. BURROUGHS, father of A. BURROUGHS, Esq., aged 84 years.
-Funeral Sunday from St. Mary's (French) Church at 4 p.m. Friends are invited to attend.
 
In Murray, on the 4th inst., Mrs. Esther BLANDON, formerly Mrs. H. P. DANNALS, aged 63 years.
-Funeral from the residence of D. C. DANNALS, 22 Tremont street, on Sunday, the 7th inst., at 10 A. M. Friends are invited to attend.
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Rochester, Monroe, NY
Rochester Daily Democrat
Apr 18, 1867
 
FIRE AT THE PENITENTIARY - Yesterday afternoon a fire occurred in a drying shop at the Penitentiary, which came near being a serious one. It appears that a large quantity of small pieces of wood was stored in this building for the purpose of being dried. This was done by means of steam pipes, which run through the building and which were covered by those small pieces of wood, in consequence of those pipes becoming overheated, and this wood becoming exceedingly dry, the fire ignited. It was found on removing the wood that all which was in close contact to the pipes was charred and burned like charcoal. From the time the fire was discovered until the steam engines arrived, steam was allowed to escape into the building, which had a salutary effect so far as to prevent the fire from spreading. The means of obtaining water at the Penitentiary are rather meagre. The only reservoir there is small, and one engine exhausted the quantity of water which it contained in a very short time. In case a fire should gain any headway, the buildings would be wholly at the mercy of the flames. This is rather a bad state of things under the circumstances.
     The fire yesterday did not cause a great deal of damage. A hole was burned in the roof of the building, and that together with the damage by water will probably not exceed $50. The Fire Department got up to the Penitentiary as soon as possible. The Mayor, Chief of Police, and several of the force, beside many citizens were early on the ground.
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A COAT THIEF IN LIMBO - A fellow who gave his name as William IRVING, was yesterday arrested for stealing two coats. IRVING called at a clothing store on State st. and offered one of the coats for sale, asking only four dollars as the price. The coat being worth at least $30, the suspicious of the storekeeper were aroused and he notified the police of the matter. Officer YOST was despatched in search of the individual and soon had him in custody and locked up. Shortly afterwards Mr. J. L. LUCKY made a complaint that his coat had been stolen, and he identified one of the garments in possession of the police as his property. The other garment was a spring overcoat purchased only a few days since by Wm. L. WALLACE, one of the editorial corps of the Democrat. The coat was stolen from his room during his absence at dinner yesterday. The man who can enter an editor's sanctum and steal from his meagre wardrobe must be utterly demoralized. (didn't get the rest)
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DEATH OF AN OLD CITIZEN - John H. ROBINSON, an old and respected citizen of Rochester, died at his residence on East Avenue yesterday forenoon, aged seventy-one years. We believe he was at one time a Superintendent of the Poor of this county. For some years past he has been engaged in business as a lumber dealer on New Main street. He was the father of the late Wm. H. ROBINSON, School Commissioner of the Fourteenth Ward, whose death a few months since was so much lamented.
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ARRIVAL OF THE BODY OF JOHN R. SNOOK - The body of John R. SNOOK, son of the late Thomas SNOOK, who died at Fort Snelling, Minnesota, last March, arrived yesterday morning. The funeral will take place to-day from the house, 21 Jones street.
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HUMAN BONES FOUND - Some workmen who were engaged in tearing down an outhouse on Monroe street yesterday found some human bones concealed among the timbers of the roof. It is not known by whom they were placed there.
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ARREST OF DISORDERLY BOYS - Officer HUGHES and Detective DRESSER arrested four boys yesterday afternoon who were engaged in disorderly conduct by insulting a minister of the Dutch Reform Church.
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PLEADED GUILTY - Fred WOODHOUSE, the fellow arrested a few days since for stealing a gun worth $65, pleaded guilty yesterday to the charge, and was sentenced by Justice BRYAN to six months in the Penitentiary and one hundred dollars fine.
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Rochester, Monroe, NY
Daily Democrat
Apr 24, 1867

A YOUNG LADY KILLED - The Watkins "Independent" has the following.

On Tuesday last, Miss LOCKERBY was accidentally shot by a young son of Jacob FITZGERALD, late County Treasurer, in the town of Cayuta. It appears that Miss LOCKERBY, daughter of widow LOCKERBY, who had been employed for some time past in the family of Mr. FITZGERALD, was up stairs on Tuesday last, and while making up the bed, a little son of Mr. FITZGERALD, seven or eight years of age, came into the room, and observing a gun standing in one corner, took it up, and not thinking it was loaded, commenced playing with it, and while doing so, it accidentally went off, and the whole charge went into the side of the unfortunate young lady, causing her instant death. The discharge of the gun set the bed on fire, and the little boy ran down stairs and told his mother. Mrs. FITZGERALD immediately ran up when she discovered, to her horror, Miss LOCKERBY prostrate on the floor, a corpse.
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HEARD FROM - John B. GARRISON, the rascally foreman of Chapin's mill, who absconded in the summer of 1865, after having embezzled some $2,000 worth of money and property belonging to his employer, has been heard from. For about a year and a half, and until a short time since, he has been located at Lawrence, Kansas, as agent at that point of the Pacific Railroad.
A young man named CURTIS, formerly a clerk in McKindley & Pollock's hardware store, but now a resident of St. Louis, saw and recognized GARRISON at Lawrence, but the latter denied his identity. He was passing by the name of J. G. PARKER. Mr. CURTIS held some conversation with him, and the result was that the rogue became alarmed, and in the course of a few days disappeared, greatly to the surprise of the people of Lawrence, among whom he was held in high esteem. His wife, who was with him, still remains at that place, but all trace of him is lost, for the present. It is unfortunate that Mr. CURTIS did not apprize Mr. CHAPIN of GARRISON's whereabouts at once. If he had done so the fugitive would have been in the clutches of the law at this time.
It is said that the young girl from Syracuse, with whom GARRISON is supposed to have contracted an illicit connection before his departure from this city, has become a professional wanton, and was, some months since, an inmate of a house of ill-fame in Rochester.
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