Union and Advertiser
November 2, 1872, page 2
Last evening a man about 50 years of age named Louis SIEBERT, and who resided in
Bay street, was walking on the Central Railroad track near the new engine houses
at "East" Rochester. In attempting to avoid a train he stepped
upon another track and was struck by a locomotive and killed. His body was
terribly mangled. He leaves a wife and four or five children.
Coroner MORRISON was called to hold an inquest.
The inquest in the case of James HURLEY, who was found dead on the river bank
Thursday brought to light the fact that he came to his death, as the Coroner's
Jury say, "by accidentally or otherwise falling over the bank."
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Rochester, Monroe, NY
Union & Advertiser
Nov. 5, 1872
SUSAN B. ANTHONY AND COMPANY CAST THEIR BALLOTS
About nine o'clock this morning Susan B. ANTHONY and eight other ladies went to the Polls of the First District
of the Eighth Ward and tendered their ballots to the Inspectors.
The votes were challenged, the oath was administered and accepted. The votes were then deposited in the several
boxes. At a later hour eight other females who had previously registered in that district repaired to the polls
and deposited their votes.
This is not the first instance in the United States in which females have voted. We understand that a lady in Detroit
has voted at two successive elections. It is safe to say that in the event that the votes cast by women to-day
in this city should determine the result between any two candidates, the matter will be taken into the courts.
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YET ANOTHER PIONEER GONE
Death, the Great Reaper, ceases not his work;
But daily, hourly, goeth forth and gather,
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For the last ten or fifteen years we have often heard of the decease of the pioneers; that the original settlers
were going fast, and that soon there would be none left. Never was that expression so near to fulfillment as now,
for in the search for the "first settlers" he finds less than he can count on his fingers, and almost
without exception all are laid aside, and are waiting for their change. People take different views of these inevitable
results. Some talk mournfully and with dissatisfaction - others speak joyfully when the aged die, and place them
beyond the burthens of life and of age, in a state of rest and bliss; the universal wish of all the living towards
those who have fulfilled long, well and faithfully the duties of life. I am glad that there is so generous a feeling
towards the pioneers. It shows an appreciation of the labors and service of those who grappled the forest with
the enemies that lurked in it, and made a way for the civilization that now "blossoms as the rose."
MABEL BERTHRONG
It was a sacred and mournful privilege that a goodly number of citizens had a few days since, of a gathering around
the remains of Mable BERTHRONG, commending her spirit to God, saying a few tender words about what she had been,
and how well she had lived, singing a song of exceeding sweetness over her, and then laying her away to her long
sleep and rest in Mount Hope. It was a good thought of the preacher, who said that while we mourned the separation,
there was no sorrow over the result, no misgivings that the change was not infinitely for the best.
MRS. B. was born in the town of Durham, Conn., a small, neat quiet village, and early settled by the descendants
of the pilgrims from New Haven and Guilford. Her maiden name was PARSONS, and she was the daughter of Deacon Ithamar
PARSONS, and at 12 years old she removed with her father's family to Middle Settlement, Oneida county. Some years
after she was married to Henry BERTHRONG, and removed to Ogdensburgh, St. Lawrence county. In 1825 the family removed
to Rochester. Mr. BERTHRONG was a mason by trade, and about the first work he accomplished was the building of
the old Rochester House for Palmer CLEVELAND. He died in 1831.
Of Mabel BERTHRONG it may be said that she was a cheerful pilgrim, and carried her youthful feelings with her all
the way through. It was this buoyant spirit that attached her to the young, among whom she had always many friends.
Being blessed with a good organization, she was able to exercise her faculties to the full, and that she kept her
strength so long and so well she attributed to temperate living and to unremitting labor. Last season, when in
her eighty-seventh year, she visited her grandchildren in Washington, went on foot to most of the places of celebrity,
and up to the highest point of the dome of the Capitol, enjoying herself, as she said, as well as in any visit
she ever made in her life.
An incident of her life may be recorded here. Four years ago, by appointment, she met at ten with two aged friends
on Monroe street. She walked there and met her friends, and these were their ages: Mrs. PRINDLE, aged seventy-
four; Mrs. BERTHRONG, eighty-four; and Mrs. MARSH, ninety-four - their united ages being 252 years ! These old
ladies were all born in April - one the 3d, one the 4th and one the 5th. The meeting was one of great hilarity,
but one never to be repeated, as Mrs. MARSH died soon after.
Mrs. B. was a member of the Pioneer Society of this city, and wore the medal for two years, being its oldest member.
Not being able to attend the last meeting she returned the medal, saying her growing age and the cloud over her
vision admonished her that she must give up. She was only a few days confined to her bed, and
died "peacefully
as one who lies down to pleasant dreams." she was eighty-eight years and seven months old, and leaves one
widowed daughter, who has been with her many years, and four grandchildren, three of whom are in Washington. Peace
to her memory.
An Old Citizen.
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ANOTHER PIONEER OF MONROE GONE
In Watertown, Wisconsin, Oct. 26th, Mrs. Lucy THOMSON, aged eighty-eight, widow of Joseph THOMSON, of Riga, long
since deceased, and mother of Mrs. Horace GAY, and Mrs. O. L. ANGEVINE of Rochester, N. Y. Mr. THOMSON was one
of the earliest settlers of Monroe county, having first come to Riga from Berkshire county, Mass., in 1808 though
he did not bring his family until 1810.
Mrs. THOMSON knew well the trials and hardships incident to a pioneer life in Western New York, still in 18?? she
with the younger portion of her family, moved to Fox Lake, Wis., where she cheerfully endured, a second time, the
privations inseparable from a settlement in a new country.
Hers was the quiet, consistent, christian character, her heart and hand ever ready to engage in her Mas???? work.
She was one of the few members that compose the First Congregational Church in Riga, whose first place of worship
was a log Barn. She had long been the last of those few who have been called, one by one, to go up higher and worship
in a "House not made with hands."
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DEATH OF EDWARD A. HANVEY - We regret to hear of the death of Edward A. HANVEY, who died last evening of typhoid
fever after an illness of three weeks. Mr. HANVEY was formerly chief clerk in the Erie Railway freight office,
but latterly was engaged with a company in the transportation railroad freights. He was formerly a member of the
choir of the Brick Church and at the time of his death he was connected with the choir of the First Presbyterian
Church. He married a daughter of Ex-Aid RELYEA, and leaves a wife and two children. Mr. H. was twenty-six years
of age. He was esteemed by all who knew him, and his death will cause general regret. His bereaved family and friends
have the sympathy of all.
The funeral of Mr. HANVEY will take place at 2:30 p.m. to-morrow from the First Presbyterian Church.
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DIED
In this city, Nov. 4th, of typhoid fever, Irene T., wife of Egbert? B. ROBINS, aged 61 years, 5 months and 14 days.
-Notice of funeral hereafter.
In this city, on the 4th inst., of typhoid fever, Edward A. HANVEY, son of Thomas and Daphia A. HANVEY, on the
26th year of his age.
-Funeral at the residence, No. 93 North st., at 2:30 p.m., and from the First Presbyterian Church at 3 o'clock
p.m., on Wednesday, Nov. 6th. Friends of the family are respectfully invited to attend.
In this city, on the morning of Nov. 5th, Nettie, aged 24 years, wife of Leopold ?TICE.
-Funeral will be held on Thursday next, at 10 a.m., from the house, No. 11 Pleasant st. Friends are invited to
attend.
In this city, Nov. 5th, Mrs. Maria SHALE, in the 45th year of her age.
-Funeral from her residence, No. 59 Prospect street, at 8:30 o'clock Wednesday morning, and from the Church of
the Immaculate Conception at 9 o'clock A. M.
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Nov. 8, 1872
THE WOMEN VOTING NONSENSE
The New York World assumes that the inspectors of the Eighth Ward poll in this city, at which Susan B. ANTHONY
and other women voted, were competent to their duty, and that it is not possible that their votes were counted.
The World has altogether too high an opinion of the competency of the Inspectors. The votes were both cast and
counted, vitiating the vote of the whole election district. But the vote of that district does not affect the result
upon any office filled at the election, and as no one has a personal interest at stake it is possible that the
wrong will not be judicially righted. The duty, however, ought to devolve upon some public officer to teach Miss
ANTHONY & Co., that they are illegal voters, and the Inspectors of Election everywhere that they shall not
trample Law under foot with impunity and regulate the qualifications for the elective franchise at their pleasure.
The World arg??s clearly, what every person of intelligence knows, that Miss ANTHONY & Co., have no more right
to vote by virtue of their citizenship than the male citizens who are denied the franchise in Rhode Island, or
infants and idiots who are denied it everywhere and says:
And if Miss ANTHONY and her companions thought to achieve anything more by their votes, than a demonstration of
their desire to vote they are as unfit to vote by lack of intelligence as they are disqualified from voting by
law. If they think they consult the dignity of their "cause" by attempting, not to batter down the barrier
law and opinion which keeps them from the ballot-box, but to slip in by a poster? which was certainly never meant
to admit them, that is quite their own affair. But that they should Imagine that the people f the male sex will
quietly stand by and see an enormous social and political revolution consummated on a quibble would show, what
we certainly never maintained, that they are incorrigible fools.
We doubt as to that. The people of the male sex, and the officer of the law, who should take proper cognizance
of the outrage upon the ballot box in the Eighth Ward of this city, appear to ignore it and treat it as a joke.
But it is no joke. Miss ANTHONY, we will do her the justice to say, does not consider it a joke. She no doubt sincerely
believes that her citizenship, under the Constitution and laws as they stand, give her the right to vote. And so
believing she proposed to exercise the right claimed at every opportunity. She no doubt desires a judicial test,
and both the law trampled under foot by her voting, and the public interest, demand that she should be accommodated.
Down at Norwalk, Ct., a woman named Mrs. Sarah M. T. HUNTINGTON went before the board of Selectmen and requested
to be recognized as a voter. She was so recognized. But the action of the selectmen met with opposition on the
part of the registers, and they refused to enter the name of Mrs. HUNTINGTON on the voting list. After the voting
list, as finally revised and perfected by the registers, had been deposited with the Town Clerk, Mrs. HUNTINGTON
applied to Judge MINOR, as one of the Judges of the Superior Court, for a writ of peremptory mandamus to compel
the registers to place her name upon the voting list. The hearing, before Judge MINOR, took place in Bridgeport.
A. B. WOODWARD and John H. PERRY, of Norwalk, argued the case in behalf of Mrs. HUNTINGTON and Hon. O. S. FERRY
appeared for the registers. Mr. FERRY claimed that, according to the Constitution of the State of Connecticut,
women are precluded from the rights of the elective franchise, and, therefore, the action of the selectmen, in
admitting Mrs. HUNTINGTON, was void. On the part of Mrs. HUNTINGTON, it was claimed by counsel that the Board of
Selectmen were the able judges in the case, and that after she was admitted as an elector by the Board, the registers
exceeded their duty in assuming to overrule the action of the selectmen, and leave her name off the list. It does
not appear that Mrs. HUNTINGTON'S counsel were stupid enough to claim her right to vote by virtue of citizenship,
but based it upon the technical point of the admission and decision of the selectmen. Judge MINOR, of course, coincided
in his decision with the claim of Senator FERRY. He refused the writ applied for, on the ground that by the Constitution
of the State the selectmen could not legally admit Mrs. HUNTINGTON as an elector, and, therefore, their action
was extra-judicial and void. Selectmen, he held, strange as might seem, the necessity for so deciding have no power
to change the Constitution of the State - the very thing the Inspector of Elections of the Eighth Ward have assumed
to do in the case of Miss ANTHONY and her associates. Mrs. HUNTINGTON has appealed to the Supreme Court. A case
ought to be made here, to the end that a decision may be reached that will put a stop to this women voting nonsense.
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A VERY STRANGE CASE - The Mt. Morris Union gives the particulars of a remarkable case of illness which terminated
in death in that town on the 2nd inst. John CONKLIN aged 65 years was the victim. Twenty-three years ago the past
summer, deceased was repairing fences on the edge of Owasco Lake, and accidentally struck his thumb with the hammer,
and it is supposed he hit the nerve. He immediately went to the lake and washed it and though (unreadable) days
when he felt a tingle in his hand and arm which finally became paralyzed and during the next eight years it gradually
spread over his whole body, rendering him perfectly helpless, and for the past fifteen years was unable to move
only as he was helped. He was in no pain, his mind was clear, and his memory remarkably good. His appetite remained
good until about a month ago, since which time he has gradually sank away, until last Saturday, when he quietly
passed to that "home from whence no traveler returns." His remains were taken to Owasco, Cayuga county,
for burial from which place he removed to this town in 1869.
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RETURN OF A WEDDING DAY - To-morrow (Saturday) will be the twenty-fifth return of the wedding day of Dr. VAN INGEN
and wife. They are to welcome their friends at their residence, 23 West avenue, from 3 to 10 p.m..
The congratulations of many will attend these good people on this occasion, and they will not be of the rich and
prosperous only, but of the poor, the sick, and the unfortunate of every kind, to whose comfort they have so long
and so faithfully ministered. Dr. VAN INGEN has made himself known to the poor by seeking them in their abodes
and ministering to their temporal as well as their spiritual wants. He has sought the outcast in the prison and
the dungeon to assure him that though by his follies he has been driven from society, yet he is not so far off
as to escape the observation, the remembrance and the sympathy of those who believe there is a power to save the
most erring.
We tender our congratulations, and trust that Mr. and Mrs. VAN INGEN may live to the golden period in married life,
and we are sure that the intervening time will be spent profitably to them and to those around them.
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MARRIED
At the residence of the bride's mother, on the evening of the 7th inst, by the Rev. Dr. FOOTE, Mr. Theodore C.
RUSSELL and Miss Emma B. BABCOCK, all of this city.
Nov. 7th, by Rev. Henry ? ROBINS, Henry T. ROGERS to Anna J. NOBLE, all of this city.
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DIED
In this city, on the 7th inst., John George COBB, aged 54 years.
-Funeral from the house, corner Reynolds and ???ng sts., on Saturday, at 2 o'clock p.m. Friends of the family invited.
On the 7th inst., Willie Raymond FISKE, aged 6 years, son of Dr. Wm. M. L and Julia P. FISKE.
-Funeral at the house of Nelson SAGE, 74 East ave., on Saturday, Nov. 9th, at 3 o'clock.
Nov. 19, 1872
SUSAN B. ANTHONY IN COURT TO ANSWER FOR ILLEGAL VOTING
It was announced a few days since that United States Commissioner STORRS had issued warrants for the arrest of
Susan B. ANTHONY and fourteen other women for casting their ballots at the polls of the First District in the Eighth
Ward in this city on election day. The service of the warrant was delayed until yesterday in order that a United
States Attorney might be present when the defendants came into Court. Yesterday p.m. Assistant U. S. District Attorney
John E. POND arrived. At five p.m., the warrants having been served, Miss ANTHONY and her associates came into
the office of the Commissioner, attended by Judge H. R. SE (I or L) DEN and John VAN VOORHIS, Esq., who had been
retained as counsel. Commissioner STORRS read the warrant as follows:
Whereas, Complaint has this day been made by --- ----, on oath before me, William C. STORRS, Commissioner charging
that Susan B. ANTHONY, on or about the fifth day of November, 1872, at the city of Rochester, N. Y., at an election
held in the Eighth Ward of the city of Rochester aforesaid for a Representative in the Congress of the United States,
then and there vote for Representative in Congress in the United States, without having a lawful right to vote
and a violation of Section 19 of an act of Congress approved May 31, 1870, entitled "An act to enforce the
right of citizens of the United States to vote in the several States in this Union and for other purposes."
Mr. POND, who acted for the people, said to Mr. SE(I or L)DEN: "I suppose you plead not guilty to the charge."
Mr. SELDEN replied: "We do not plead guilty to anything. We say not now that we are not guilty. When an indictment
is found we will plead."
Mr. POND said he wanted to fix a time for the examination.
After consultation it was agreed that the examination should be set down for Friday, November 29, at 10 A. M.
Miss ANTHONY volunteered some remarks to the people assembled when the case had been adjourned. She wanted this
case made a test of the law. She anticipated a luxury in eating the bread of Uncle Sam if it should so be that
she was compelled to do so. She took a view of the prospect in future when women should be in possession of the
right of suffrage, and contended that the laws would be better executed than now under male rule. She cited Wyoming
Territory, where crime had been frequent and nobody was hung. When women came to sit on juries a number of murderers
were convicted and hung.
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THE ABORTION CASE
Investigation is progressing in the abortion case in which Esther A. COLE lost her life. The fact having been established
by the most positive testimony that the crime was committed, and that the girl died in consequence thereof at the
house of the woman MOORE, on Spencer street, it now remains to be shown who committed the deed and who was accessory
thereto. That the woman MOORE knows all about it - if she was not the actual operator herself - there is no room
to doubt. She is again in jail, having been returned to that place last night by the officer in charge, after her
daughter, who is married, arrived and assumed charge of her family.
The post mortem in this case, made at Drummondsville by two highly competent physicians, reveals the fact that
the deadly work was done by unskilled hands or by some one wholly regardless of the consequence. No. Person at
all conversant with the human anatomy could have performed an operation in such a manner, unless it was intended
that the result be fatal. With this knowledge before them the Police need not confine their search for the guilty
to skillful physicians, or even to those who only pretend to be such.
A respectable physician of this city having been seen to enter the house of this woman MOORE on Sunday evening
- the night before Miss COLE died - and again on Monday morning, his name was mentioned in connection with this
affair unfavorably. He has deemed it his duty to call upon the District Attorney and make a statement of his connection
with the matter. The physician named is Dr. T. C. WHITE, of the firm of Sumner & White, homeopathic physicians.
We give the statement as published in the Democrat.
STATEMENT OF DR. WHITE
On Sunday morning of last week some one of the MOORE family called at the office of the above physician, and Dr.
WHITE was asked to attend a lady whose name was given as Mrs. BENDER. Dr. WHITE paid no attention to the request,
as he had once or twice before during the year attended someone of the MOORES and found them more ready to receive
medical services than to pay for them. But Sunday afternoon a note, evidently written by Mr. MOORE, was received
to the effect that Mrs. BENDER was in good circumstances, and the Doctor need not hesitate to call. Dr. WHITE thereupon
visited the house on Spencer street, arriving there at 12 o'clock Sunday night. The physician here saw Esther COLE,
or Mrs. BENDER as he supposed her to be for the first time. She was in her last moments, the death rattle could
already be heard in her throat. Dr. WHITE saw at once there was evidently some trouble of the lungs, and of this
he was the more convinced on sounding them casually. He made no examination, as it was evident nothing could be
done. He saw that the patient would die in a few hours at farthest. Dr. WHITE before leaving asked Mrs. MOORE several
questions in regard to the lady. He was again informed that her name was Mrs. BENDER; that she and her husband
arrived here a day or two before, and on the wife taking sick Mr. BENDER had brought her to the MOORE'S, whom he
knew; that the husband had then departed with a promise to return in a few days. The lady had been ailing, and
suffered from hemorrhage of the lungs, &c. Dr. WHITE, after learning these facts - for such he supposed the
statements were - left and continued on his rounds till 3 o'clock, when he slept for an hour and again resumed
his visits. All this was his usual customs and will not surprise those who know the wonderful amount of professional
work accomplished by Drs. SUMNER & WHITE, - Being in the vicinity of Spencer street once more at about 8 o'clock
Monday morning, Dr. WHITE called for the second time and learned that Mrs. BENDER or Mrs. COLE had just expired.
That afternoon BENDER, the supposed husband, and MOORE called at the physician's office and asked for his certificate
of death. Dr. WHITE had seen so little of the case that he was reluctant to comply, and asked if some other practitioner
had not been previously called in. He was answered - No. BENDER appeared to be a gentleman, and as he came with
MOORE there was nothing in all the surroundings to excite suspicion. Still Dr. WHITE, as he states, felt a lurking
surmise that everything was not right, that at some time back, how long he could not determine, an improper act
had been committed. Still, the surmise was so vague that he was not affected by it, and finally made out a certificate
of the cause of death. He was given to understand that Mrs. BENDER had been suffering for a considerable period
from consumption. He had been told also that she was able to walk about the house on Saturday and Sunday; and although
this was possible enough in the case of consumption, it could not have been possible had an abortion been performed
which was causing death. We need hardly stop here to say that the whole statement of the MOORES was false, but
the physician had no reason to suspect that. The certificate was granted in view of what a brief visit had shown
and on the assertions of all the parties who had any knowledge of the circumstances.
THE CORONER'S INQUEST
The testimony by the Coroner at Drummondsville, Ont., is given - - - - , it being a duly certified copy:
Canada, Province of Ontario, County of Welland, to wis? - Info?????ions of witness severally taken and acknowledged
on behalf of our Sovereign Lady, the ??ueen, touching the death of Esther A. COLE, - - - dwelling house of W.
F. ELLIS, known by the name or sign of the International Hotel, in the village of Drummondville, in the county
of Welland, on the sixteenth day of November, in the thirty-sixth year of the reign of our Sovereign Lady, Queen
Victoria, &c, before Zenas B. LEWIS, Esq., one of the Coroners of said, county, on an inquisition then and
there taken on view of the body of the said Esther A. COLE, then and there lying dead, as follows:
William J. ROGERS, of Rochester, State of New York, Detective, being sworn, saith: On Wednesday afternoon a complaint
came to the police officer (Chief of Police) that a corpse, or a box supposed to contain a corpse, was taken from
a house, No. 6 Spencer street, between ten (didn't get the rest)
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DIED
At her home on South York st., this morning, Mary B. SIBSON, of consumption, aged 29 years, 6 months and 21 days.
-The funeral of Mary B. SIBSON will take place from her home on South York st., Wednesday, Nov. 21st, at 2 p.m.
In this city, on Sunday evening, 17th inst., of pneumonia, after a short illness, Alonzo K. AMSDEN, aged 54 years.
-Funeral services to-morrow (Wednesday), from Christ Church, at 2 ½ o'clock p.m.
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