GINTER MAY WITHDRAW
American Tobacco Company May Lose
His Services
Rumors were afloat in Wall street
yesterday that Lewis GINTER of the tobacco and cigarette firm of ALLEN
& GINTER of Richmond, Va., was about to withdraw from the American
Tobacco Company, of which he is one of the directors.
Mr.
GINTER has been of the active promoters of the American Tobacco Company in
which the firm of ALLEN & GINTER owns 30 per cent of the stock and his
withdrawal would be regarded in the trade as very significant. The KIMBALL
tobacco works of this city is a part of the American Tobacco Company
works.
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MR. CARVER'S NARROW ESCAPE
Thrown From His Buggy and Badly
Injured - Other News
Lyons, May 1 - State Game
Protector George CARVER had a narrow escape from being killed Thursday
night while returning home from a trip to Sodus Point. While driving along
near the Dan GOETZMAN farm, north of this village, a farmer ran into the
horse Mr. CARVER was driving, and Mr. CARVER was pitched over between the
horse's heel's and the front wheels, in which position he was dragged for
a considerable distance. He was at length able to extricate himself
and stop the horse. He was considerably shaken up and the carriage was
badly damaged.
A notice
of pendency of action was entered in the Wayne county clerk's office
yesterday in an action brought by Benton C. RUDE of Sodus, as attorney for
Elias PROSEUS against Spencer V. HEWITT and Susanna E. HEWITT, for the
foreclosure of a bond and mortgage of $2,450 upon seventy-six acres of
land in the town of Sodus.
A deed
from Hannah L. DUNCAN and W. A. DUNCAN of Newark to Mary E. McCARTHY
of the same place, conveying for $400 a corner lot on Willow avenue and
Dell street was recorded in the county clerk's office yesterday.
A
deficiency judgment for $1,173.14, recovered in the Monroe County Court in
favor of Charles RAU against William W. MINER, Arthur W. MINER and James
Le ROY, was docketed yesterday.
Photographer T. D. GEHRING has invented two photographic specialties and
intends going on the road, leaving a Syracuse man in charge of the
gallery. One of the inventions is for doing bas<viz> relief work
effectively and cheaply, the other is for surrounding a photographic
subject with miniatures in a variety of poses.
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DEATHS AND FUNERALS
--Geo. Parsells CLARKSON, son of
ex-Mayor Geo. G. CLARKSON, died in Buffalo last night.
--Libbie MARSHALL, wife of Samuel
MARSHALL, died at her home in Chili yesterday, aged 41 years.
--Philo McNEIL died yesterday
morning at the home of his parents, No. 15 Euclid street, aged 21 years.
--Dellas HALL, infant daughter of
William and Sarah HALL, died yesterday at the home of her parents, No. 63
Ravine avenue.
--Michael A. SCHEIDNAGLE died
yesterday morning at his home, No. 9 Hart avenue, aged 23 years. He is
survived by two sisters, Mrs. G. SHIPMAN and Mrs. F. FOWLER, and two
brothers, Frank and William SCHEIDNAGLE.
--John C. ARNOLD died yesterday
morning at his late home, No. 538 South Clinton street, aged 37 years. He
leaves a wife, four children and a brother. The funeral will be held from
the house at 8:30 o'clock Monday morning and from St. Boniface's Church at
9 o'clock. The Knight's of St. Eustace of which the deceased was a member,
will attend in a body.
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DIED
BACKUS - In Peru, South America,
March 14, 1897, Montgomery BACKUS, son of Frederick William and Emily L.
MONTGOMERY BACKUS, formerly of this city.
ARNOLD - In this city, April 30,
1897, at his home, 538 South Clinton street, John C. ARNOLD, aged 37
years.
-Funeral Monday at 8:30 a.m. from
the house and at 9 from St. Boniface's Church.
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HE HUNG HIMSELF
A Front Street Character
Deliberately Ends His Life
Put His Head Into a Noose and
Then Slowly Strangled Himself
Peddled Sausage During Life and
Was Known far and Wide as
"Sausage Joe."
William
JOSEPH, a Front street character, known as "Sausage Joe,"
committed suicide by hanging in an outhouse at the corner of Norton and
St. Joseph streets, at an early hour this morning.
The body
was discovered by Ferdinand SCHNEIDER of No. 9 Borchard street, who sent
word to MORGAN's grocery store, from which place a call was sent to
Coroner KLEINDIENST.
SCHNEIDER entered the outhouse at about 10 o'clock. He saw a man
apparently standing up against the wall. His hat and coat were off and a
paper containing a sandwich was on the floor beside him.
"Good morning," said SCHNEIDER. There was no answer, which made
SCHNEIDER angry.
"Why don't you say something; what are you standing there for
anyway?" This remark was made in an irritated tone.
SCHNEIDER then stepped up to the man and shook his arm. It was stiff and
cold. Then he glanced at the man's face which was ghastly white. A rope
was around his neck, and looking down SCHNEIDER saw that the man's feet
did not touch the floor. With a shriek SCHNEIDER bolted out of the door
and gave the alarm.
Coroner
KLEINDIENST arrived on the scene in a short time and ordered the remains
taken to the morgue. It was evident that JOSEPH's suicide was deliberately
planned. He had entered the building and removed coat and shoes. Then he
drove a spike in the wall about seven feet from the floor, to which he
attached a small new rope. He placed the noose about his neck and slowly
strangled himself to death.
JOSEPH
was well known about Front street. He was something over 70 years of age
and eked out an existence by peddling sausages. He had no family, his wife
having left him some years ago, and he occupied a room alone over
WEISMAN's saloon on Allen street. For several days past none of the people
with whom he was accustomed to trade had seen the old sausage vender, and
it was supposed that he was ill.
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UNITED IN MARRIAGE
Amelia Elizabeth T. PREDMORE and
Joseph P. EAGAN were married at the Immaculate conception Church at 10
a.m. April 28th, by the rev. Father GLEASON.
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(Didn't get the Beginning)
Edward PECORRORO, a good looking
Italian of about 35 years, was next arraigned on the charge of trying to
steal a pocketbook from a person unknown to the grand jury on the 3d of
last April.
Mr.
HANFORD suggested that perhaps Edward didn't understand the English
language very well and that perhaps his arraignment had best be deferred
until an interpreter could be secured.
His
attorney Henry Selden BACON, however, said he thought that his client
could understand enough to make an intelligent plea and Mr. HANFORD
accordingly read the indictment to the defendant.
The
latter wrinkled his forehead, as he tried to grasp the significance of the
legal phraseology, and his countenance lighted up when the words
"steal" and "pocketbook" were reached.
"My
pocket?" he inquired with a grin.
Mr.
HANFORD explained that it was not from his pocket, but from someone
else's.
"Ah; accus-ed me of peeking pockets?"
"Yes," said Mr. HANFORD.
"Not geelty," was the reply.
Stephen
CALLIHAN, a massive six-footer with jet black hair and black moustache,
asserted his innocence of assaulting James CULLEN with a knife on April
13th last. He will be tried a week from Tuesday.
Clarence
HAYS, who pleaded guilty some time ago to burglarizing a West avenue
laundry, was allowed to go on parole, after a severe lecture had been
administered him by the court.
John P.
CRAMER, 17 years of age, pleaded guilty to stealing $33 from his father.
It was his second offense and the court decided he had best go to Elmira
Reformatory, although his father was anxious to give him another chance.
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A POLITICAL PARTNERSHIP
Thomas C. Platt and Cornelius N.
Bliss Looking for Patronage
Washington, May 1 - Senator
Thomas C. PLATT and Cornelius N. BLISS are said to have formed a political
partnership.
It has
for its objects the disposal of the federal patronage in the state to suit
the senator, and the gratifying of Secretary BLISS' desire to be the business
man's candidate for mayor of Greater New York.
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SENTENCED IN RELAYS
Kansas City, Mo., May 1 - Mr. and
Mrs. SANDT, an old couple from Bates county, Mo., together with three
near relatives pleaded guilty in the federal court to swearing to a
false affidavit. As they are farmers and would lose their crops it all
went to jail, the judge decided to send them in relays and accordingly
sentenced three of them at present and released the other two under
bail until fall, when they will receive their sentences.
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MYERS ATTEMPTED SUICIDE
Corning, May 1 - Floyd MYERS, who
was taken to Auburn prison for life yesterday, attempted suicide by poison
Thursday night. He failed to take a sufficient quantity, and was simply
rendered ill.
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A SONG DID IT
Member of a Chicago Band of
Thieves Turns Over a New Leaf
Chicago, May 1 - A song by the
choir in a church two weeks ago is responsible for the capture of four
members of the desperate WEIR gang.
As the
church was filled with the song "Where is My Wandering Boy
To-Night," Fred DRENKSON, a member of the gang, bowed his head in
sorrow. That song marked the turning point in the young man's life, and he
assisted in breaking up one of the most dangerous gangs of criminals
that ever operated in this city.
DRENKSON
after hearing the song, two Sunday's ago, broke down and told all about
the gang. The police did the rest.
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HEAVY LIABILITIES
Montreal, May 1 - James A.
CANTLIE & Co., wholesale woolen and cotton agents, who have made an
assignment of their estate at the demand of the Bank of Montreal, have
liabilities amounting to about $200,000.
Rochester, Monroe, NY
Union & Advertiser
Thurs May 27, 1897
WOULD CARVE BOARDER REED
Landlord McEntee Makes a Savage Attack
Armed With a Big Knife He Terrorized His Family at Their Home on Center
Street
When the Boarder Tried to Protect a Child McEntee Made a Lunge at Him
John McENTEE, about 50 years old and six feet in height, was before
Judge ERNST in the police court this morning on two charges, that of
drunkenness and disturbing the peace, on complaint of J. M. ANGLE, who
lives next door to McENTEE, and that of attempting to assault William G.
REED, who boards at McENTEE's house. He was convicted of both charges
and on the conviction of drunkenness was sentenced to serve sixty days
in the penitentiary and on the conviction of attempted assault on
Boarder Reed McENTEE was sent to the penitentiary for three months. He
will therefore, remain in the penitentiary for some time and there will
be peace in Center park, where he lives, and in which neighborhood he
has raised frequent disturbances while drunk, and has made life
miserable for his family.
McENTEE's spree, which ended in the police
court this morning, began several days ago, and during it the family has
been obliged to flee from the house several times when McENTEE has
threatened to kill them. Mr. ANGLE and his family have been much annoyed
by the man's vile and loud language.
McENTEE has a wife and several daughters. There
are a few boarders in the house, Mrs. McENTEE being obliged to let out
rooms and give table board in order to support herself and children, as
McENTEE contributes little or nothing towards the support of the family.
Yesterday afternoon, according to REED's story
told on the witness stand to-day McENTEE after having been tearing about
the house for the greater part of the day, picked up a big knife and
chased his wife and daughter about the house, threatening to carve them.
REED was in the kitchen at the time and one of the daughters ran behind
him for protection. REED had always tried to keep from getting mixed up
in the family rows, but when McENTEE chased his little daughter with a
big knife and she went to him for protection, he felt in duty bound to
prevent the father injuring her if possible. When he showed an
inclination to defend her, McENTEE, with an oath, raised the big knife
in the air and saying that he would cut REED's heart out, he made a
lunge at him. REED managed to dodge the blow and the big knife struck
the window casing, the blade penetrating the wood to the depth of about
an inch. It was so firmly imbedded in the wood that McENTEE could not
pull it out. The daughter managed to get out of the room and ran
screaming into the street.
REED ran around a table, and picking up a
chair, prepared to defend himself. McENTEE came at him again, and REED
swung the chair around and brought it down with such force upon the
drink-crazed man's head that it made a cut in the scalp and caused
McENTEE to totter and fall against the rink. REED seeing his
opportunity, got out of the house and went direct to police
headquarters, where he applied for a warrant for the arrest of McENTEE.
Mr. ANGLE having become so much disturbed by
McENTEE's actions, had preceded REED to the station and entered a
complaint against McENTEE, charging him with drunkenness and disorderly
conduct.
McENTEE was taken into custody last night. He
did not deny to-day that he had been drinking and raising a disturbance
at his house.
McENTEE at one time conducted a saloon on West
Main street. What seems to bother him when he is drunk is the fact that
the family property is in his wife's name. He becomes terribly enraged
at his family when he is drunk and on one occasion he terrorized them so
by flourishing a big carving knife and threatening to cut them to pieces
that they locked themselves in clothes presses in the upper part of the
house. They were kept imprisoned in this way for hours, while McENTEE
tore about the house, yelling and swearing at the top of his lungs and
threatening to kill them if they dared come out. It was only after the
man had become exhausted and fallen asleep that his wife and daughter
dared venture from their hiding places.
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FIREMEN HAD A LONG RUN
Charles Klenk, a Cobbler, Mixed Cement Over a Lamp and it Exploded
While Charles KLINK, who runs a shoe shop at 989 South Clinton street,
was mixing a pan of leather cement over a lamp about 9:30 o'clock this
morning he overturned a bottle of benzine which caught fire from the
lamp and an explosion resulted. An alarm was sent in from box 221,
corner of South Clinton and Benton streets.
By the time the firemen arrived the lamp which
had caused the trouble had been thrown into the street and the blaze
extinguished. The work bench was slightly scorched, but otherwise no
damage was done.
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SUDDEN DEATH
Mrs. Lena Beir Expires at Her Home on Clinton Place
Mrs. Asher BEIR, aged 66 years, widow of the late Asher BEIR, formerly a
well-known furniture dealer of this city, who died four years ago
to-morrow, died suddenly at her home, No. 50 Clinton place, of heart
disease at noon to-day.
Mrs. BEIR was feeling as well as usual this
morning, but suffered from a slight cold. She went to her physician's
for that this morning and on her return went to her room to rest. She
died sitting in her chair and was found soon after death by members of
her family.
Mrs. BEIR is survived by three sons, David and
Albert of New York and E. A. of Chicago, five daughters, Mrs. H. M.
STRAUSMAN, Mrs. A. G. BLOOM and Mrs. M. ETTENGER of Rochester and Mrs.
A. A. GRAFF and Mrs. L. A. WILEY of Syracuse. She was born in Schirzind, Germany,
and had been a resident of Rochester for forty years.
Mrs. BEIR was a woman of high character, a fond
mother and a true friend. She was charitably inclined and for years had
been a member of several relief societies beside doing a great deal of
private charitable work. She will be missed by many.
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THE LATE OFFICER HYNES
His Funeral to be Held from His Late Home on Saturday
The funeral of Officer Michael HYNES, who died yesterday afternoon at
his home, No. 30 Woodward avenue, will be held from the house on
Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock, the services being conducted by Rev.
Edward P. HART of St. Mark's Church. Representatives of the A. O. U. W.,
the police department and the old Alert Hose Company will attend. The
bearers will be: Officers John DEAN, Jacob FRANK, Robert SLOAN, Michael
FITZPATRICK, Detective Patrick KAVANAUGH and ex-Detective Thomas DUKELOW.
A meeting of the Police Benevolent Association of which Mr. HYNES was a
member (didn't get the rest)
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