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From: "Dick Halsey" <>
Subject: old news - July 21, 1870 (last one)
Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2005 12:12:01 -0400

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. Oue 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 aud 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.

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