Rochester, Monroe, N. Y.
Union & Advertiser
Dec. 13, 1887

DEATHS AND FUNERALS

Jacob WAMBACH died yesterday at his home, corner of Ulm and Keller streets, aged 19 years. Funeral services at the Holy Redeemer Church at 8:30 o'clock to-morrow morning.

Frank B. WEICHER died this morning at his residence, 194 Chatham street, aged 35 years. The funeral will be held Thursday morning at 8 o'clock at St. Joseph's church.

Daisy BLACKWOOD died last night at the family residence, 78 Atkinson street, aged 9 years. She was the daughter of Henry and Louisa BLACKWOOD, and died from diphtheria, to which another daughter succumbed a week ago. The funeral will be held at 3 o'clock this afternoon, and will be private.
*****
POLICE COURT CASES

Elias SWANTON was arrested last night at the Academy of Music by Special Officer MORGAN, on the charge of creating a disturbance. SWANTON was this morning fined $5 or 20 days.

William DAVIS, arrested for non-support of family, was sentenced to give a bond for good behavior in $250 or serve four months in the penitentiary.

George SCHALER will be examined Dec. 14th, at 10 a.m., on the charge of wilfully injuring property belonging to Thomas McCORMICK.

John TULLY was fined $10 or 30 days for being drunk and disorderly and breaking a window in a railroad car at the Erie depot,

Joseph HALL, colored, was arrested last night on the charge of assaulting Arthur JONES. The trial will take place December 15, at 9:30 a.m.

Her? B. FRANCIS was sent up 4 months for stealing two keys of powder from James PALMER Sons.
*****
POLICE LOOKING FOR HIM

Dublin, Dec. 13 - Mr. PYNE, member of Parliament, who has been barricaded in Lisfinny Castle, in County Waterford, resisting the efforts of the police to arrest him. Left the castle early this morning, eluding the police and taking a car that was awaiting him. He drove to some unknown place. The police are scouring the country for him.
*****
NEW YORK, Dec. 13, ‘87 — Considerable excitement has been occasioned in clothing circles by the $40,000 purchase of overcoats made by the Union Clothing Company of Rochester, N. Y., from Alfred BENJAMIN & Co., of this city. It is understood that the price paid was 67 ½ cents of cost to manufacture. This is the largest cash sale made in this line in some years.
*****
KILLED HIS MOTHER

Claremont, N. H., Dec. 13 - Joel CROWTHER, aged 22, a cigar maker, last night killed his mother, with whom he lived, by choking or striking her, it tis not clear yet which. CROWTHER is a hard drinker.
*********
SMUGGLERS FINED

Liverpool, Dec. 13 — Harris GOLDSTEIN, Isaac WOLF and Aldolph SILVERSTEIN, the latter a New York detective, have been convicted of smuggling tobacco into Liverpool inside of cotton bales, and fined $8,000.
****
POWDERLY HAS A HEMORRHAGE

New York, Dec. 13--Grand Master Workman POWDERLY had a severe hemorrhage of the lungs yesterday at Scranton. He is better to-day and resting quietly.
*****
HOPKINS, TRIAL BEGUN

Cincinnati, Dec. 18 — The trial of Benjamin E. HOPKINS, late assistant cashier of the Fidelity National bank, began to-day.
*****
A MYSTERY CLEARED UP

The Remains of a Young Man Who Mysteriously Disappeared, Found

Owensboro, KY., Dec. 13 — Edward HOAG of Denver, Col., came here two months ago to marry Ella BROWN, one of the belles of the city. Two days before the ceremony was to have been performed HOAG disappeared mysteriously, and although a vigorous search, lasting four or five weeks was made for him, no trace of his whereabouts could be obtained. He was given up for lost and his disappearance was set down as a mystery that would never be solved. Yesterday morning a little colored boy found a skull and some clothing on Bon Harbor hills four miles west of the town. The remains proved to be those of HOAG and had evidently been exposed during the whole time of his absence. He had over $500 in cash when he was last seen by his friends and there is a strong suspicion that he was murdered for his money.
*****
ARREST FOR ELECTION FRAUDS

Columbus, O., Dec. 13 — The arrest so far made in connection with the tally sheet forgery indictments are: Algernon GRANVILLE, Chicago; Thomas J. COGAN, Cincinnati; Fred STRUEBE, Robert and C. R. MONTGOMERY, Columbus. Each have furnished bail. It is understood that Allen O. MYERS and G? F. BLACKBURN of Cincinnati are also indicted but have not been arrested.
****
AN ABSCONDING GROCER

Springfield, O., Dec. 14 — Frank LAYBOURNE, a grocer, left the city on Saturday. It has since been learned that he has been guilty of forging a number of notes upon which he secured money.
*****
A HORRIBLE CALAMITY

A Mother and Six Children Burned to Death in Dakota

Huron, Dak., Dec. 13 — Complete details of Saturday night's calamity, near Washington, have been received. About 1 o'clock in the morning Mrs. HARRIS and her husband were awakened by fire and smoke, and found that the house was on fire below. All of them were in the upper story, which was in one room. The father tried to get down the stairway, but was driven back by the fire. Then he went through a window to the ground below, calling to the others to throw out the children for him to save. The youngest was thrown out by its mother and HARRIS caught it. Haire, Mrs. HARRIS's brother, who was living with them, did not stop to aid his sister, but followed HARRIS to the ground, and so did HARRIS's largest boy. Before the mother could toss out another child the building had fallen, burying her and the six children in a fiery grave. One or two wails from the victims and all was over with them. Before help came all who were saved were seriously injured by the cold, the mercury being 12 degrees below zero. On Sunday morning when the remains were taken from the ruins heads were found burned from the bodies, feet severed from the legs and legs burned from the bodies. It is not known how the fire started.
*****
PERSONAL

Hon. Charles DURSTON, Agent and Warden of Auburn prison, and Hon. W. W. WRIGHT of Geneva, were in town yesterday.

President PARSONS and General Ticket Agent BUTTERFIELD of the R., W. & O. R., R., are at the Powers.

Ex-Mayor EDSON of New York is at the Powers.

Herve D. WILKINS has gone to Angelica, N. Y., where he will give an organ concert this evening. He will return to Rochester to-morrow morning.

L. F. ABBOTT, of the firm ABBOTT & BRADSTREET, left last night on the Chicago express for New York.

B. F. BLACKALL, formerly superintendent of the Telephone office in this city, who has been engaged for the past ten months in placing a police patrol system in Toronto is home for a few days. Mr. BLACKALL, expected to return to Toronto yesterday morning, but Saturday night was subpoenaed as a witness in the telephone suit now on trial in the equity term.
*****
COUNTY POOR NEWS

A woman named Mrs. Bridget McKINNEY applied to County Superintendent of the Poor McGONEGAL yesterday to be sent back to her home in Ireland. She said her daughter had abused her and put her out of the house, and that she had no home to go to. She was sent temporarily to the county house. Mr. McGONEGAL also sent Margaretta SOMENBURG to New York last night. She is a German and had been in this city but two weeks. She will be turned over to the Commissioners of Emigration.
*****
LE ROY

Mrs. Mary A. LIVERMORE, the noted advocate of Woman's Suffrage, is to lecture in Le Roy on the evening of January 13th.

The funeral of the late Samuel A. BALL was held from the family was held from the family residence, on Myrtle street, yesterday afternoon at 2 o'clock. Rev. Dr., T?TH??OH of the Presbyterian church conducted the services. The interment was made at Machpelah cemetery.

Albert E. COE and wife are visiting in western cities.
****
MEDINA

Joseph CHAMBERS, 17 years of age, while examining a revolver last night, shot his grandmother, Mrs. James ROGERS. The ball entered the thigh and glanced upwards, and the physicians were unable to locate it. Mrs. ROGERS is 65 years of age and in feeble health.
*****
ONTARIO

Dr. J. W. BRANT and wife have gone to Florida to spend the winter.

W. C. VAUGHN of Rochester was visiting friends in this town and Williamson last week.

Young WATERSTRAW, who was found injured in a freight car at Buffalo last week was well known here, having worked for Walter TRIMBLE, a farmer near the village about two years ago.

Commander HALL, a salvation army evangelist, who has been conducting meetings in the different churches for the last two weeks, is having such poor success that he has consented to remain till after the holidays.

Eva GRAHAM, who has been very sick with pneumonia, is slowly recovering.

Peter FREER is a new dwelling, to be put up in the spring.
****
DANVILLE's BROKEN BANK

Dansville Advertiser, Dec. 8, 1887

We published last week without comment various press notices of the case of Lester B. FAULKNER before the U. S. Grand Jury at Auburn, although there was much to criticize. Among other things, it was represented that loud and boisterous talk had been indulged in by Col. FAULKNER's enemies, and boasts had been made by government officials which induced some people to think he would surely go. Now, all this is slush! Then the talk that the Bank Examiner was largely at fault in the bank failure, is a statement for which even the shadow of proof cannot be educed. We shall next hear, perhaps, that the creditors brought the disaster upon themselves.
****
IRA D. HARROUN SENTENCED

Remarks by County Judge Morgan Before Inflicting a Fine

Ira D. HARROUN pleaded guilty to the indictment charging him with willfully and maliciously killing a colt belonging to William S. WARNER. In passing judgment upon HARROUN, Judge MORGAN said: "In your case, BARROUN, the court, in view of your previous record, is inclined to be more lenient than it otherwise would be. The offense of which you stand charged is one of a very serious nature. The way you took is not the way to obtain satisfaction for such injuries or annoyance as you claim to have suffered. We can see how you might have resented a continued provocation by some act against the person who was the cause of the injury, but we cannot understand or appreciate how a man could possibly be led to try to obtain revenge by causing an innocent dumb creature to suffer. That is neither the lawful nor the manly way to proceed. Nevertheless, in view of your previous good character, as attested by your fellow citizens, and especially in view of the fact that you bear wounds received in your country's service, the judgment of the court is much lighter than the seriousness of the offense would warrant, and it is that you pay a fine of $100 or stand committed to the Monroe County Penitentiary till paid, not to exceed 100 days.
__

GjS