Rochester Daily Democrat
Rochester, NY
July 21, 1870
page 4
Officer McKelvy is lying dangerously sick with fever.
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SUSAN B. ANTHONY. - The N. Y. Tribune says: "It gives us the most
heart-felt satisfaction to announce the prosperity of our old friend, Miss
Susan B. Anthony. Other ladies have advocated Woman Suffrage, but Miss
Anthony, while advocating, has also believed in it. We learn from the
Leavenworth Bulletin of July 9 that Miss Anthony has been engaged to deliver
twenty lectures in California at $100 a lecture - and cheap they will be at
the money. Miss Anthony while one of the most active and untiring and, we may
say, peripatetic champions of the Rights of Women, has not always received
from her associates of the sex that kind of consideration and reverence to
which her services and her years entitle her. When she comes back from
California with the trumpets of fame sounding before her, and with a good
check on New York in her pocket, she will find the number of her sisterly
admirers largely increased.
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ANOTHER ARTFUL DODGE. - A couple of sharpers raised ten dollars in the depot
yesterday by the following game: One of them accosted a green young man and
engaged him to load goods at the east end of the depot. A confederate of the
rascal was encountered, who contrived to make a bet with the young man on the
question whether a tobacco box in the rogue's possession was solid or hollow.
The young man took out his money when it was grabbed by one of the parties,
and they both fled. One of them named Bernard West was captured by officer
James Sullivan and Depot Policeman Buck, and the money refunded. The other is
named Thomas Fogarty, and he will be caught. West was examined in the
afternoon, convicted and will be sentenced to-day.
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POLICE COURT - Bryan P. J. - July 20.
George Low - drunk. Discharged.
Effie Perry - arrested for disorderly conduct. Sent to
House for Truants.
Henry Dunlap - drunk. Sent up for 60 days.
Margaret Long - arrested for disorderly conduct. Sent up
for want of bail for good behavior.
Peter Morey - drunk. Discharged.
John Murray - arrested for assaulting a girl, Minnie Grant,
at a house of bad repute. Not disposed of.
Daniel Hill - drunk. Fined $5.
George Wilson - confidence operator. Fined $50, and in
default of payment went up.
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GENESEE COUNTY - CRIME AND CASUALTIES.
We have received an extra, issued yesterday, of the Batavia
Spirit of the Times, from which we make the following extracts:
Monday morning a man named Julius Beschang was discovered
suspended by the neck in in the jail, having committed suicide during the
night with a piece of fine rope in his possession. He was a native of
Baden-Baden, and about thirty-eve years of age.
A shocking affair occurred at Indian Falls on the
Reservation on Sunday afternoon last, which resulted in the death of a man
named John Wight. It seems that on two or three previous occasions this
fool-hardy man had accomplished the dangerous feat of jumping into the water
from the window of the mill at Indian Falls, a distance of some fifty or sixty
feet. On Sunday he proposed to take another leap when a concourse of some two
or three hundred people were present to witness the performance. He made the
leap, but turning in his fall, he struck the water on his chest and face, when
he sank to the bottom. The blow had so stunned and injured him that he
immediately drowned before he could be rescued. When taken out the blood was
flowing from his mouth, nostrils and ears. He was about twenty-eight years of
age.
On Saturday night last a valuable bay horse was stolen from
the barn of Mr. Ira Armstrong, three miles west of Batavia. The thief also
took a saddle and bridle. On discovering his loss early Sunday morning, Mr. A.
notified the officers of the Vigilance Association, of which he was a member,
of his loss. Bills describing the animal were issued, and riders dispatched in
every direction to catch the thief. Traces of him were soon found at
Alexander, where it was discovered that he had "traded" Armstrong's
horse for a bay mare of Elder Waite's which was in the pasture. The Elder
hitched up what he supposed was his own horse to attend meeting in a
neighboring village, but was unceremoniously arrested at Avery's hotel, alter
being told that be was driving a stolen horse. The Elder was much chagrined at
this announcement, and made hot haste to relieve himself of the stolen
property. The thief with the Elder's horse was seen to pass through Attica on
Sunday, and was traced by the officers some miles beyond, where he
unfortunately evaded pursuit. Mr. Armstrong has recovered his horse, but the
Elder is minus his "old bay mare."
Last evening about eight o clock a young man named Philip
Detzel, a German by birth, in the employ of R. O. Holden, Esq. accompanied by
two or three others, went to bathe near the Attica railroad bridge in this
village. He unfortunately went beyond his depth, and, being unable to swim,
was drowned. We understand that his companions, instead of endeavoring to
assist the drowning man, ran off to give the alarm. A large concourse of
citizens soon assembled, and the creek was dragged for the body, but it was
not until half-past ten that it was found, when, of course, life was extinct.
This morning Coroner Tozies summoned a jury and held an
inquest on the body, when a verdict of accidental drowning was returned.
Deceased was twenty-one years of age, had relatives in the
village, and had been but a few months in this country, and was a very
promising and faithful young man. His funeral is to take place this afternoon.
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MARINE.
PORT OF CHARLOTTE, July 20, 1870.
Arrived.
Schr Ayaline, from Toronto, with lumber.
Str Norseman, from Port Hope, with passengers and freight.
Str Spartan, from Toronto, with passengers and freight.
Schr Marie, from Shannonville, with railroad ties.
Cleared.
Schr Isabella for Brighton, light.
Schr Enterprise. for Oswego, light.
Schr M E Burgoyne for Sodus, light.
Str Norseman, for Port Hope, with passengers and freight.
Str Spartan, for Oswego, light,
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DIED.
SMITH - At Chili, July 11th, 1870, from drowning, Georgie
H., only son of J. Lee and Phebe A. Smith, aged 8 years, 8 months and 7 days.
A bud of promise, nipped while here,
To blossom in a Heavenly sphere,
Mid kindred flowers of odor sweet,
For Jesus kingdom only meet.
RH
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