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Subject: [News] Rochester, Monroe County, New York, June 25, 1900
Date: Sun, 11 May 2003 06:59:57 -0500


Democrat and Chronicle

Rochester, Monroe County, New York



JUNE 25, 1900

page 2

LITERALLY CUT IN PIECES.

Awful Death of an Inmate of the Bath Soldiers' Home.

BATH, June 25. - Laurence O'BRIEN, an inmate of the Soldiers' Home, was instantly killed Saturday by a D., L. & W. train.

His body was cut into pieces, the largest of which would not fill an ordinary cigar box. The limbs and other parts of the unfortunate man's body were scattered in all directions, and some portions fell through the bridge into the Cohocton river below.

O'BRIEN had left the home in the morning, and walked to a resort on the Kanona road, opposite the home, where he drank several glasses of hard cider.

He started to return to the camp at noon and was at that time under the influence of the cider. When he got half way across the bridge that spans the Cohocton river, he seemed to become dizzy, and he clutched the iron girders to support himself from falling. He was seen standing in that condition by several of his comrades near by.

The fast passenger train from Buffalo was soon due, and one of his comrades started up the embankment to take O'BRIEN from the bridge, but just then the train came into sight. The engineer saw the old soldier standing on the track in the middle of the bridge, and he blew the danger whistle and applied the air brakes, but it was of no use, as the train could not be stopped in time, and in another instant O'BRIEN was under the wheels, and his body was cut into pieces.

O'BRIEN was from New York. Coroner HORTON who was called deemed an inquest unnecessary.

A FATAL FALL.

Mrs. Julia ROGERS Sustains a Fracture of the Neck.

MEDINA, June 25. - Last Friday evening while endeavoring to drive a flock of turkeys into a barn at the farm of Warren IDE, Mrs. Julia ROGERS, Mrs. IDE's mother, fell and broke her neck. She was helping two or three of the family to catch the young turkeys and chased them up a steep approach to the barn when she lost her balance and fell. She died almost instantly. Two daughters, Mrs. IDE and Miss Martha ROGERS, survive her.





JUNE 25, 1900

Page 6

MRS. PALMATEER FOUND AT LAST

Was Lying, Nearly Dead, in a Woods Near Her Home.

She Had Been Without Food, Except Roots, More Than a Week.

Searching Party Was Finally Successful - Mystery as to How She Came There After Her Long Wandering.

Deputy Sheriff POLLOCK this afternoon telephoned to the sheriff's office the information that Mrs. Gilbert PALMATEER, the woman who strayed away from her home in Parma a week ago last Saturday night, had been found lying on the ground in a thick patch of woods about a mile an a half from the spot where she was last seen more than a week ago.

Mrs. PALMATEER was in a pitiful condition. Her clothing was ragged and torn and she was too weak from wandering and loss of food to say a word when questioned by the officer. Deputy Sheriff POLLOCK said in his telephone message that he was on the way to get a physician to attend the woman, as her life was in danger.

There was nothing that would indicate how Mrs. PALMATEER came to that spot, unless she had become confused and wandered there. It was at first thought, when news of her disappearance was received, that she had gone to the home of some relatives near Parma, but this was soon disproved when the officers and searching party got there.

It is almost incredible that Mrs. PALMATEER could have lived so long without food or drink. She might have eaten some roots and herbs, and this was the only thing that kept her from starving.

On the night of her disappearance Mrs. PALMATEER and her husband had had some disagreement, which ended in the woman leaving the house. This was about 8 o'clock. Three hours later she was seen at a point about two miles distant from her home. That was the last seen of her, until she was found this forenoon. Mrs. PALMATEEER was compelled to use a crutch to assist her in getting about, and for this reason her friends were more inclined to believe that she had met with some mishap. When Mrs. PALMATEER failed to return home Saturday night it was thought that she might have passed the night with friends, but when Sunday and Monday passed with no tiding of the missing woman, a search was instituted by friends. There is a number of pieces of woods in the vicinity of the PALMATEER home, and it was thought that she might have wandered from the highway into the woods and been unable to find her way out or that she might have met with an accident. The search was ineffectual and then it!
was determined to organize a regular party to prosecute the search.

Then it was decided to call in the services of the authorities and Deputy Sheriff POLLOCK was placed in command of the searching party. He selected twenty men, and for several days they scoured the woods and highways in search of her.

MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE

Another Strange Case Reported to the Police.

Man Left His Home a Week Ago to Go to Work and Has Not Been Seen Since.

Frank WERNER, a Sober and Industrious Man, of Whom all Trace is Lost.

Another strange disappearance has been called to the attention of the police to be added to the long list of missing men reported within the past few weeks, Frank WERNER, a sober and industrious citizen, who has a large family living at 177 Caroline street, has disappeared as completely as if the earth had opened and swallowed him. Although it is a week since he left his home and search has been made for him by members of his family as well as the police not the least trace of him has been obtained. The case is a peculiar one from the fact that WERNER was not a man who drank to excess and was always cheerful and did not appear to be a man who would take his own life. As he was a man with a powerful physique it does not seem probable that he met with foul play, as he would have been able to have defended himself against assailants. Since the matter has been reported to the police detectives have investigated the case and they are as much mystified as members of the family of !
the missing man, for they have not been able to get any trace of him from the time he left his home. He said nothing about any intention to remain away any length of time when he left home and it would seem from his actions when he left that he had no intention of absenting himself for more than the day.

Jacob WERNER, a son of the missing man, reported the disappearance of his father to Capt. FURTHERER at police headquarters last Saturday and requested that the matter be kept quiet for a day or two, as it was hoped that he would return on Sunday. The son called at the police station again to-day and stated that his father had not yet returned. He said that search had been made for him everywhere that it was thought he might go, but no trace of him was obtained.

WERNER had for some time been working at the Curtice canning factory and last Monday morning he started out to go to work as usual. He did not return in the evening at the usual hour and the family waited anxiously for his coming, but he did not put in an appearance. The following day inquiry was made at the factory at which he had been employed and it was learned that he did not appear there on Monday morning to go to work. The sons of the missing man made a search for him, but getting no trace of him during the week they reported the matter at police headquarters on Saturday.

The missing man is described as 54 years of age, 5 feet 11 inches in height, weighing 165 pounds and having dark hair and moustache streaked with gray. His moustache was clipped. He wore a gray soft hat, a dark gray coat, dark trousers and black shoes and carried a silver watch. The family consists of the wife and five children.

DEMOCRATIC COUNTY COMMITTEE

Meeting Called for Next Friday at Livingston Hotel.

William C. WEHLE has issued the following official call for a meeting of the Democratic county committee:

"Take notice that there will be a meeting of the Democratic county committee of Monroe county on Friday, June 29th, at 11 a.m., at the Livingston Hotel, for the purpose of appointing inspectors and poll clerks for the city of Rochester.

"The members from the city will send as soon as possible to the chairman of the county committee the names of two inspectors and one poll clerk he wishes appointed in each of the several districts of his ward.

"Dated, June 25, 1900.

"Wm. C. WEHLE, Chairman."

CONVICTED OF ASSAULT.

Portrait Agent Fined in Police Court - Judge ERNST Asks Questions About the Portrait Company.

Murray McNAIR was convicted and fined $10 in Police Court to-day of assault in the third degree on Mrs. Harriet F. GOSSON of 3 Averill avenue.

The assault has already been described in The Union. Mrs. GOSSON had given an agent of a portrait company a couple of photographs to be enlarged and crayon portraits made of them. She gave no order for frames. McNAIR, one of the agents of the company, went to the house with enlarged proofs of the photographs and spoke of Mrs. GOSSON having frames for them, as though she had given an order for frames. She said that she...... (didn't get rest of article).

MAYOR ANSWERS HUMANE SOCIETY

Says It Must Enforce the Dog-Muzzling Order.

Notifies Agents of the Society That He Will Hold Them Responsible for Its Enforcement.

Promise on Their Part to Gather Up Dogs Found Unmuzzled - Mayor Will BROOK No Trifling.

Mayor CARNAHAN has put his foot down in regard to the enforcement of the order requiring all dogs to be muzzled or led by a chain and notified the agents of the Humane Society that they must act and at once. On Saturday Attorney F.L. DUTCHER of the society and another representative, called upon his honor and told him that the society had no right to destroy dogs under the law and that it would not enforce the muzzling order unless the city would guarantee to protect the society in case persons whose unmuzzled dogs were taken up and destroyed secured judgement for damages.

The mayor has since seen the representatives of the society and told them that they must enforce the order and that he would hold the society responsible. He told them the city would not guarantee to pay judgments secured for the destruction of dogs and that the society must act entirely upon its own responsibility.

The agents of the society when they first called upon the mayor in the matter said that the only way the society could acquire the right to destroy dogs was by going through the impounding process, which costs about $15 a dog, and was regarded as too expensive for the society to undertake. The mayor has informed the agents that there is nothing in the law which prevents the taking up of stray dogs and carrying them to the..... (didn't get rest of article).

CHARGES WIFE WITH BIGAMY

Husband Supposed to be Dead Returns Unexpectedly.

Goes Back to Wife Who Leaves Second Husband for the First - Charges Follow Disagreement.

Wife Causes the Arrest of Her Legal Husband for Assault - Peculiar State of Affairs.

There is a very strange state of affairs in the family of William and Lena DOBBERTIN, who up to a few days ago lived at 90 Henrietta avenue. DOBBERTIN has a charge of assault preferred against him by his wife hanging over him and the husband has sworn out a warrant charging his wife with bigamy. The warrant has not yet been served on the woman, the husband apparently holding it over her so that she will withdraw the charge that she has made against him. The other man in the case is William SALPINE. He was at the police station to-day and in the hallway after the assault case had been adjourned took the side of Mrs. DOBBERTIN in an argument that took place between the parties. Mrs. DOBBERTIN during the argument held in her arms a 3-year-old boy of which SALPINE is the father and she is the mother, according to the woman's own admission, she denies that she was married to SALPINE, but the husband claims to have conclusive proof that his wife committed the crime of bigamy. The !
examination of DOBBERTIN on a charge of assault in the third degree on his wife was put over till next Tuesday.

DOBBERTIN and his wife were married in this city sixteen years ago by the Rev. GUNDLACH, at the time pastor of Emmanuel Church. They lived together till eight years ago, when the husband left his wife. He claims now that she drove.... (didn't get rest of article).

CITY HALL WEDDING.

Italian Couple United by Alderman BAKER at Mayor's Office.

Jacob BALLA of 153 Hartford street and Santa FERRARA, a pretty young Italian girl, were united in marriage at the mayor's office in the City Hall at 11 o'clock this morning by Ald. William J. BAKER. Both bride and groom were born in Valunca, Italy, and BALLA courted his bride of to-day in their native land.

Some three years ago BALLA came to this country to make his fortune, promising to send for his sweetheart. He has worked as a common laborer since, and some two months ago had laid by enough he thought to warrant him in sending for Santa FERRARA. She arrived in Rochester some days ago and to-day the couple appeared at the mayor's office to be married, in company with relatives of the groom. Ald. BAKER being present, he performed the ceremony in the mayor's private office. Ald. CALLHAN, Clerk M??nerney and Messenger FREEDMAN were witnesses.

DRUNKEN ROW.

Sheriff Summoned to Put a Stop to the Brutal Affair.

A brewery wagon driver and the agent of a local whiskey house got into a fight at Henry AUER's saloon and hotel on Schooley's ridge three miles this side of Irondiquoit bay yesterday and not at a bay resort as the Democrat and Chronicle had it this morning. The fight was engaged in by friends of the two men who started it and beer glasses and baseball bats were freely used during its progress.

No one was stabbed as the morning paper puts it but one man lost his watch in the row. Sheriff FORD was summoned to the place and with deputies soon put an end to the trouble. It was simply a low, disgraceful fight among drunken men, and not a riot as the morning paper would have people believe.

GILMORE SENTENCED.

Colored Cake Walker Sent to the Penitentiary for Five Months.

Fred GILMORE, the colored cake-walker, who was found guilty of assault in the third-degree in cutting Rubey EVANS with a razor in the Wheeler Hotel on West avenue several weeks ago, was arraigned for sentence before Judge STEPHENS in County Court this forenoon and was sentenced to serve five months in the Monroe county penitentiary.

GILMORE did not feel very badly over the sentence, especially as a well dressed and extremely comely young colored woman went over to the prisoner's dock after sentence had been imposed, and spoke consolingly to him for a few minutes, after which he was taken to the penitentiary by an officer.

FELL THIRTY FEET.

Brewery Employee Received Painful Injuries While at Work This Morning.

August LINSBERGER, aged 49 years, of No. 93 Evergreen street, received severe injuries this morning while at work in the Rochester brewery on Cliff street. (didn't get rest of article).



JUNE 25 , 1900

Page 7

THREE MEN HURT IN AN EXPLOSION

Milo THOMPSON, John STAUD and Chris NEWHARDT in Hospitals.

Ignition of Gas in a Deep Well the Cause of the Accident to the Men.

Burton Brewery on Wentworth Street, Between West Avenue and Brown Street, the Scene.

By an explosion of gas in a well under the wash room of the Burton brewery on Wentworth street between West avenue and Brown street, shortly after 7 o'clock this morning, Milo THOMPSON, Christopher NEUHARDT and John STAUD, employees, were seriously injured and considerable damage was done to the building.

The well is nearly 100 feet deep, a hole six inches in diameter having been drilled from the bottom of an old well about eighteen feet, seventy-two feet further down. The drillers completed their work Saturday night and pump men were on hand this morning to place the pump in position. At 7 o'clock THOMPSON, assisted by NEUHARDT and STAUD, started to lower a lighted lantern into the well to see how much water had collected. The lantern had not been lowered more that five feet when with a loud report the gas that had collected exploded, blowing the men some feet away and tearing up the floor for several feet around. Residents of the neighborhood for a quarter of a mile in every direction were startled by the report and the street in the vicinity was soon crowded with a curious throng.

Employees of the brewery sounded the fire alarm and telephoned for St. Mary's Hospital ambulance. There was no work for the firemen but the ambulance was compelled to make two trips to the scene.

The ambulance surgeons found THOMPSON propped up in a corner where he.... (didn't get rest of article).

GIRL RETURNS HOME.

And Her Mother Withdraws the Charge of Vagrancy Against her.

Bertha BOTT, who was charged by her mother with vagrancy, was discharged in the Police Court to-day, as no one appeared against her.

The girl was arrested several days ago and the case was adjourned till to-day. In the meantime the mother forgave her and took the girl back home. The girl had left home and was found in a hotel near the old fair grounds by the officers who served the warrant on her.



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