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EOCHESTEK DEMOCRAT AND CHRONICLE, SATURDAY, JANUARY 15, 1898. 4 jJUfLEREDJjRJEjH A MAN DOOMED BELLONA MAN CAUGHT IN MILL MACHINERY RAISING THE LEVEL OF SENECA LAKE LE ROY TAXPAYERS STILL PUZZLED years of age and was the mother of Mrs. George Hooper, of Waterloo. Messrs. Barlow and Martin, contractors of Seneca Falls, have been awarded the contract for rebuilding culvert f4, and for repairing culvert 78, near Medina, in the western division of the Erie canal.

The sum paid for the work is $4,150. The Lehigh Valley Railroad Company has completed the spile driving and building of the bridge across Silver creek at Waterloo, and wiil now rush the work of laying the rails to connect the new Seneca county branch of the line with Seneca Falls. A preliminary examination in an action brought by Martin II. rnith. of Fayette, against W.

II. Biddlecom, of Geneva, was held at Waterloo on Thursday. The trial wid come off before Justice Benjamin Hendricks and a jury on Wednesday. The Davis Stevens Company, of Seneca Falls, has sold a large portion of its machinery to II. A.

Judd. of Clifton Springs, who will at once remove his purchase thither, and engage heavily in the manufacture of the fame goods. The company, at Seneca Falls will still continue operations there, employing a smaller number of hands, a large part of their goods to be made by Mr. Judd. a farm, which was mortgaged, representing it as unincumbered.

The second term of the training cfass in Ilarnmondsport school will begin January 24th. There are at present ten members in tbe class, two of whom expect to graduate at the close of this term. Mis Satie Allen, of Avoca, and Miss Blanche Carney, of Dansville. The tax collector of the town of Dansville will receive taxes at one per cent, as follows: Wood's barber shop. South Dansville, January 17th and 20th; Burns a hotel.

Burns, January 19th; Rowe's store, Stoney Brook Gien, January 21st, Rogers-ville depot, January 24th. Invitations have been issued to the marriage of Miss Rosella Mary Martin, of Rome, and James Stevens Shanley, at St. Peters Church. Rome, January 19th. Mr.

Shanley formerly lived in Ilarnmondsport, but is at present agent of the United States Express Company at Ithaca, N. Y. The new organ at the Presbyterian Church, at Pultney, being built by Frank Beeman, of Binghamton, will be formally dedicated on the 20th at a church concert, to be given by tbe Misses Martha and Madge Drake, daughters of J. A. Drake, of Corning, Professor J.

C. Bostelmann, of Corning, and F. J. O'Connor, of Binghamton. The Prattsburg Union Agricultural fvciety has elected these officers for 1898: President.

William WT. Babcock; vice-presidents, C. F. Hayes. D.

Z. Gibbs, of Wheeler: Dr. William M. Fulkerson. of Ingle-side: W.

A. Kennedy, of Italy Hill; F. N. Goodrich, of Pultney; secretary, Laverne Thomas; treasurer, W. G.

Dean; general superintendent, C. W. Dearlon; directors, Emanuel Stone, Thomas Hutchinson. Bladder and Kidney Disease Born in jjochesjei jearsja MR. WILLIAM WOOD, oik? cf th residents of this city, and respected who have the honor to know iijm .,5.

testimony to the thousands published Ur. Walker in th past few 1t side at No. ''12 r- several years I have snlTerpd untold from kidTsp-r nn.l l.lri1.r though I have cone to some of th obtain relief until I fallal specialist. 47 South Clinton St. Had It not been for him I don't know I would have done.

The pain amountwi't. agony. I was frantic when I went to meat relieved me and now I feel like a Be tSigned) WILLIAM Wood It Is the old. old utorr, but it brlnga uiflio I Uivusriiii'in 'i rai ru flTTs, JOT tells of Ir. Walker's unparalleled t'jnvL the treatment of chronic and nervous digtjT of restoring to perfect health and happS the victims of catarrh, asthma, dynr scrofula, epilepsy, paralysis, nervous dfe Rpfria! irritation, kidney, bladder and troiibias.

rheumatism, many other ailments that battle the fax physician. It tella young or middWji men who may rw stiff erins from the effeq of their own follies or excesses that they aaj te restored to perfect manhood by i Walker. Charges for Treatment Very Low, DAILY OFFICE HOCUS 9 A. SL to P. M.

SUNDAYS 10 A. M. TO 12 1L I CONSULTATON In Person or by Letter FREE Dansville, both in the sum of $10,030, both as a result of injuries sustained froo falling on defective sidewalks. Mrs. Ira Allen, of Dansville, was injured by a fall on an icy sidewalk during tin month of February, 18U7.

8he sues tb Tillage for injuries claimed as the resol: of the falL The village authorities mt that the sidewalk, on which Mrs. Allen'i accident occurred, was ia good condition that time, admitting, however, that it might have been coated with a thin lay- of ice or frost. The other eompiainaat, I Mns. John Smith, has already obtained allowed her by verdict of a jurj, supreme court, in Oeneseo, last summer, a full compensation for her damages. Sm now sues the village again to recover additional, in payment for time money lost during the period of her ilket and convalescence and for medical a penses that her condition necessitated.

The village is determined to vigorous? i oppose these two actions, as far astjf damages are concerned, in the fear tixt if the claimants are successful, thepr edents established would be extremyf dangerous to the interests of the co.T9.-r tion. The funeral of Creortre Brewer, Geneseo, took place yesterday. The Echo Springs restaurant and on Perine street, recently destroyed bj fire, has been rebuilt and refurnished. The funeral of Thomas Bailey ru i held yesterday afternoon at the old homestead, near Livonia, where he had lira forty years. A contract has been awarded to HeaiT Townsend and W.

J. McCurdy, of Das-ville, to remodel and make extensile improvements in the Huber building. The annual election of officers of ta Genesee Valley National Bank took piw at the banking rooms in Geneseo, Thursday. The new otlicers are: Director James W. Wadsworth, Herbert Walworth, Nelson Janes.

Charles N. Stewar. John It. Strang, Charles W. Fielfe Theodore F.

Olmsted; president. Janw W. Wadsw-orth; vice-president, John B. Strang; cashier, Theodore F. Olmsted; assistant cashier, Charles W.

Fielder, NIAGARA. William Henry Enderton, of BarkfR died at his home in that place from Thursday. The deceased was a member of the Twenty-third New York li pendent Battery. Bills were posted Thursday by town clerk of Somerset, calling for auefi special town meeting January 2zd, for purpose of further consideration meeting held December loth, to cos the claims of one Arthur Snowdesi wife for alleged injuries from drivin? an open sluice, said to have been ins-" ficiently guarded. 1 BEFORE lonfr my throat amps formed on kj neck, and a horris vrrk mif.

nn mv taW, eafi Mr.O. H.Elbert, who resides ateor. 2d St. and Avenue Galveston, Texas. He was three times pr nounced cured by prominent per sicians, but the dreadful disease ways returned; he was then toWtn HOT.

SPRINGS i out, and he was in a sad pl After takiner one bottle of b. he began to improve and twoo" bottles cured Lira completely, so that for more ban si years be has had no sign of the disease. Book on the tliseaoa and its treatment tree by Swift Specific Atlanta, Ua ETrs ARE -1 We me the latest prpliances fa scientitio world tor testing eyes; oil nf Tilt 'V. ltliB. L.

1. Miucer, Ml. Opueiau, Main etreet. Tbe East Sid? Sayings Bad T. mortraff and PP 4a I 4 tlff 1W collaterals at Pr ef 11U J.

PisLi'y. To Die From Malarial Blood Poisoning Cured by Drs. Henion and Wild, of 20 North Clinton Street. Engine Hulck, of 17 Goodman park, Rochester, has Buffered with malaria for the past six months, and for the past two mouths he has been so feeble that he had to give up his business. He Buffered from a dull, "heavy pain In the email of the back, attended with it.

weakness of the limbs; he had severe aches and was distressed by soreness at the pit of the stomach. He became sallow, and there was hardly a spot in his body that was free- from pain; he was very restless aid nervous, could not. sleep well, and be Buffered extremely frm a general languor and weakness. He had chilly sensations attended by hot Bashes and a soreness at times of the whole body. He was tortured by j.am In one side and through the heart, nausea, Jaundice, soreness of the eyeballs upon pressure, and a dry, parched condition of the mouth and skin.

Mr. Hulck says he took quinine enough to fill a barrel and other medicines in proportion and he bad given up tn despair when a friend of his suggested that he make trial of treatment at the Rochester Sanatorium. He accepted the advice, and strange as it may seem, from the first dose of medicine given him by Drs. Henion Wild has never had the slightest trouble from chills or feverlshness. He can.

be re-, fcrred to and will confirm thia statement tn every particular. Consumption, paralysis. Eright's disease, dumb ague, jaundice, dropsy, liver complaint, enlargement and congestion of the spleen, nervous exhaustion, neuralgia, may all be" traced to an attack of malaria as the prime ana predisposing cause. Drs. Henion Wild will absolutely and unconditionally agree to perfectly nnd permanently cure any and every case of malaria! disease, no matter how se-rcre nor of bow long standing, and they do this without the use of quinine in any form whatever; for if it is true that calomel has slain its thousands, it is equally true that quinine has slain tens of thousands.

Drs. Henion Wild treat nil forms of chronic diseases sneessfciij- and may be consulted daily free of charge at No. 2f North Clinton street, Rochester, N. Y. Hours, A.

M. till 6 P. M. Sundays, 12 till 2 o'clock; Tuesday. Thursday and Ssturrtiy evenings till I'.

I. Drs. Henion Wild give a free clinic to the sick poor every Saturday, 'Z to 5 in the afternoon. No charge for it 'dicines. Just FINE LINE OF Violins, $5 to Sioo.

Bows, Si to $15. Apollo Gut Strings. Brass, Silver and Wood Band Instruments. American and Swiss Husic Boxes Criterion and Symphonion. American- made, warranted.

Mandolins, Guitars, Banjos, $3 to $75. The celebrated brand of Washburn, Conservatory, Arion, Marquette, Lake Side, etc. OUR LEADERS IN PIANOS: i. The Celebrated Knabe 2. Hazelton 3.

Mackie 4. Ludwig Co. BARGAINS TO CLOSE: Vose Sons, price. Wilcox White Symphony, 1-2 pries. A Chickerinp; Boston Piano, $50.

A Wagner, $100. And' many other bargains fa our new decorated warerooms. Pianos To Rent and Sold on Installments. MACKIE PIANO, ORGAN MUSIC IOO-STATE-IOO COME TO STAY. And Rochester Extends a Glad Welcome.

Because it stop Hnuffing, Hemming, Hawking, Gagging, Excessive sneezing. And tickling in the throatf California Catarrh Cure does it. Sweetens the foul breath, Cures the pain across the eyes. And in the back of the head. dropping into the throat.

Cares scabs in the nose, Keeps the nose always clear. And absolutely cures the worst cases of chronic catarrh. Rochester people say so. Not a few, but hundieds among the people you see every day, your own friends and neighbuiii. lie re are the words of one of them: II.

Jaynes, 273 K. Main says: "1 had the catarrh iu a very disagreeable form for a long time. My nose was blocked most of the time, -while scabs -were continually forming on the inside of the nostrils. I ot battle of California Catarrh Cure at the store of the Paine Drug and it has relieved me wonderfully. I can surely speak well of it." California Catarrh Cure is for you.

too. case of colds it is invaluable, as it helps ia breaking them tip, and entirely prevents a cold on," as well us the attacks of acute catarrh, which so often follow a severe cold in the head. Sold by all dealers. A bottle for 50 cents, three times as much for one dollar. E.

J. CHAPMAN, Commission Broker la Stocks, Grain, and Provibtous. attention g-iven outof town customers. I 2irect lew York and Chicago wires. lelepUoaB IO StatvSfc Question of That Village's Bonds Grows More Ccm plicated.

LARGE SUM AT STAKE How the Matter Stands Two Ways of Possible Relief From the Present Predicament Their Advantages and Disadvantages Genesee. Never in the history of Le Roy has any matter came up of such importance to the people of the whole village, as the problem which now confronts the taxpayers, in regard to the electric light and gas matter. As time goes on, th-a situation becomes more grave and new complications have arisen. At least $40,000 of the taxpayers money is at stake; and, in case the matter should not be satisfactorily settled, the expense entailed would bring the amount up to a much higher figure. Owing to certain irregularities of the law, it was found that the $40,000 of village bonds, which the village was to issue to pay for the electric light and gas plant, would not be good; and Bertron Storrs, who purchased the bonds, refused to take them.

By an order of the supreme court, entered November 19, 1S97, the village was commanded to take possession of the plants, and pay over the money for thein on or before December IS, 1S97. Now that the village has been unable to sell the bonds, there is no money available to turn over to the former owners of the plants. A number of bills for supplies and help-have been contracted, and as there is no money to pay these, the claims are likely to result in judgments against the village with still further costs. Further the former owners of the plants may begn suits against the village, demanding that their money be paid them. Out of the difficulty the Le Roy board of water and light commissioners see but two ways.

One is to have a curative act passed by the legislature, legalizing the issue of bonus, so that the money can be obtained, or to levy upon the taxpayers at a single assessment for the whole amount. The latter plan would result disastrously as there are many owning property in the village who would be unable to meet such an assessment. On the other hand, it would probably be a difficult matter to obtain the signatures of the majority of the taxpayers, requesting a special act of the legislature in the matter because when the specdal election was held on the 30th day of March, 1897, to vote on the question of the village's owning its own lighting system, the taxpayers supposed that they would have to take only the electric light plant at an expense of about $10,000. Under these conditions the election was carried- After the election the village found itself obliged to take the gas plant, incurring a debt of $40,000, besides one of $00,000 contracted by the putting in of a new system of water works. There is, however, hope in the fact that the ballot used at the election last March, when the people voted upon owning their own lighting system, has been found to be defective by an Elrnira attorney, who lias rendered an opinion in the matter.

Should this opinion be sustained, it would make the result of the election void, and another on the question would be necessary. In that case the election would be conducted under the new village law, which greatly differs from the former one, in that the people vote directly upon erecting a new plant or buying one already in use, the same time 6tating the price which the village is to pay for the plant. South Byron Visited by Thieves. Thieves operated in the village of South Byron some time after 1 o'clock yesterday morning. The postoffice, which is located in the hardware store of A.

J. Waterman, was entered, and a little change was taken from the money drawer. Stamps were not molested. None of the hardware seems to be missing, but a new suit of clothes, left by a Rochester tailor for a Byron customer, was taken. The dry goods and grocery store of B.

II. Gall, in the same block, was also entered. The cash drawer was pried open, but no money had been left in it. The safes were not molested ia either store. Both stores were entered by the front doors, which were pried open by means of chisels or jimmies.

Telegrams were sent out, and Deputy Sheriff Gillett is scouring the country. Carl Berg, of Elba, recently arrested on the charge of asault in the second degree, was arraigned before Justice Crosby in Elba on Thursday and held to await the action of the grand jury, lie was released on bonds for $500, Job A. Staples being his surety. 'In surrogate's court in Batavia yesterday the proceedings brought by Walter II. Chaddock, as executor of the esttae of the late Hiram Chaddock, of Batavia, were continued.

The proceedings were commenced for the purpose of obtaining authority to sell the real estate, and thereby secure money with which to pay the debts of the estate. According to the testimony of Walter II. Chaddock yesterday the real estate of his father's estate was valued at about $52,000, while the indebtedness amounts to about $43,500. Judge North yesterday selected B. Kemp, E.

E. Leavenworth and J. II. Potter to appraise the property and an adjournment was taken until next week. SENECA.

Possible Explanation "Why Joha Marshall Drove to His Death. The remains of, John li." Marshall, the unfortunate young man who was killed by the cars at Waterloo on Thursday morning, have been prepared for burial, and will be removed to his home in Junius as soon as the inquest is heip this morning. The funeral will be held to-morrow afternoon. It is -aid that the victim of tbe accident was near-sighted and somewhat deaf, which facts may account fur his driving to his death. It is snid that an action for damages may be brought against the raiiroad company.

William. Van Tuyl died at hid residence on the Geneva road, west of Waterloo, yesterday morning, aged 44 years. Death was caused by paralysis. During the pait two years, the Ixj.ird of trustees of the village of Seneca Falls, has held a total of Jifty-two meetings, giving an annual salary to each trustee of George E. Safely, sou of James W.

Safely, formerly of Seneca Falls, and Miss Carrie S. Kebliuger, will be married January 2th, at the home of the bride's parents, at Trevilians, Va. The remains of Mrs. Margery Wamby were received from Rochester for burial in Maple Grove cemetery at Waterloo yesterday afternoon. The deceased was b4 Geneva Residents Will Confer With the State Authorities.

THE SCHEME OPPOSED Plan Proposed at Thursday's Meeting of the Geneva Beard of Trustees Arguments Pro and Con Watkins Objects Ontario. An enthusiastic meeting of the Geneva board of trade was held at the city building Thursday evening, for the purpose of discussing the proposed scheme for raising the level of Seneca lake. The scheme is to raise the level of the lake two and one-half feet above the low water mark, in order that a greater amount of water may flow into the Seneca and Cayuga, canal, which receives its waters from Seneca lake. The reason for wanting more water in the canal is that when the lake is low boats are run on the canal with considerable difficulty, and that the mill owners at Waterloo, Seneca Falls and other places may run their mills during the dry season, which thevare unable to do under the present conditions. The proposed action is favored by the state engineer and superintendent of public works.

In order to raise the level of the lake it will be necessary to build a bulk-head in the outlet and back the water up. Spirited discussions occurred at the meeting, and the general sentiment was opposed to raising the leveL It was argued that, if the water be raised two and one-half feet, it would affect the flow of the sewage in the new system at Geneva, and, instead of the steady flow which is now maintained, it would be necessary to pi mp out the sewage at considerable expense. It was urged also that there would be danger of overflow and flood. Watkins is much opposed to the scheme, because by it much of that village's land would be flooded. After the subject was thoroughly discussed a committee, consisting of P.

N. Nicholas, W. G. Dove, Charles Mellen, F. C.

Ilofman and Dr. A. L. Sweet, was appointed to confer with the state authorities, in regard to the proposed scheme, and to obtain their plans. Canandaigua Union School.

Canandaigua union school has just been rated as a high 6chool, by the state regents. The department has recently inspected the buildings, curriculum, library, laboratory and apparatus, sanitary features, and pronounce Canan-daigua's school to be an ideal institution, and that "there is no better equipped or conducted echool of its kind in the state." It has a four year's academic course, and is entitled to rank among the highest 01 the four classes into which public schools are divided. The vacancy left by the recent resignation of Miss Margaret Shaw, as principal of the senior department, has just been filled by the appointment of Professor George B. Hickox, recently of the Williamson public school. Mr.

Hickox's home is in the town of Canandaigua, The remains of Mrs. Lena Burgess, of Phelps, were taken to Phelps yesterday from Warsaw, here she died on Wednesday. Ground has been, broken at Phelps for a new building, which will be used for a test station of the loag distance telephone company. Several schools hare been closed in the vicinity of Manchester for the past two days, as the teachers are in attendance at Commissioner Stephens's examinations at Phelps. On Thursday evening at the Methodist Church at Canandaigua, ft reception was given by 'William G.

Lightfoote, to a large number of friends and especially those connected with the church, in celebration of the twentieth anniversary of his service as superintendent of the Methodist Episcopal Sunday-school. Ontario County Grange Insurance Company has elected these officers: President. Robert Moody; vice-president, John B. Ilall; secretary. Darwin AfcCJem; treasurer, J.

P. McJannett: fcxe'utive committee, Prosser Jones, E. M. Mott and G. E.

Haskell. The annual report shown that the present number of policies held by members is 503, an increase during the past year of forty-one. The present insurance aggregates 81,404,274, an increase in the year of 74,515. STEUBEN. James Drake's Barns Entirely Destroyed by Fire Yesterday Morning.

The handsome barn of James A. Drake, of Corning, caught fire early yesterday morning, and was destroyed within two hours. The fire department responded promptly, but was unable to stay the flames which spread with alarming rapidity, threatening several fine residences. The valuable horses, carriages, robes and other articles were rescued with great difficulty. Luther Rogers, Mr.

Drake's horseman, had a narrow escape in rescuing the property, and was somewhat burned about the head. A number of the firemen had close escape when high wails fell. The barn was one of the handsomest in Steuben county, and was built about fifteen years ago at a cost of over It was richly finished, and had dinning rooms, kitchen, elaborately fitted up. Other rooms were provided with pool and billiard tables. Each New Year's Day it was Mr.

Drake's custom to invite his friends, and entertain them at his barn parlors. Although much was saved, Mr. Drake has lost articles valuable through association. Cohoeton Agricultural Society is arranging for a fair at the Warner opera house, February 14tli-19lh. Ilerivul meetings are being held at the Methodist Episcopal Church, in Cohoctoii, conducted by the pastor.

Rev. T. C. Bell. The records of the town of Dansville show that thirty-one deaths, ninet-eii births and marriages occurred during the past year.

About twenty Masons from Ham-inoudsiKrt attended the installation of officers of Bath chapter Thursday evening, going by special train. The revival meetings which are being held at the South Wetdevau Methodist Church, of Loon Lake, have resulted in a large number of conversions. The Mutual Vigilance Society of Steuben awl adjoining counties in tliis prate and Pennsylvania has a ninKr-ship of Its fund is N. Peck, of North Oohocton, is under indictment by the grand jury for grand larrvny in the first degree. The charge alleges that he borrowed on Frank Blood Killed Yesterday Afternoon Almost Instantly.

NO ONE WAS TO BLAME The Coroner's Jury Exonerated the Employes of the Custom Grist Mill Where the Accident Occurred Yates. A fatal accident occurred in the custom grist mills in Bellona yesterday afternoon about 2 o'clock. Frank Blood, an unmarried man, aged o2 years, was wandering through the mill in an apparently melancholy mood. While in the basement he was in some manner unknown to the employes caught in the heavy main driving gears of the mill. His body was terribly causing death almost instantly.

By the sudden jolting oC the machinery the mill was stopped as quickly as possible. Investigation disclosed the body several feet below where he met his death. Coroner Havens was summoned and impaneled a jury who, after hearing the evidence, rendered a verdict of accidental death and exonerated the employes from all blame. The proprietor of the mills was away from home. The installation of officers of the Knights of Pythias lodge, of Penn Yan, will occur next Wednesday evening.

H. K. Armstrong has been elected to fill the office of treasurer of the Presbyterian Church in Penn Yan, in place of Charles Hunter, resigned. The annual district convention of the thirty-first Masonic district, embracing the counties of Yates, Ontario and Seneca, will be held in Geneva, January 21st and The New York Sun has published a list of United States pensioners receiving over $45 per month- John S. Ganon, of Dundee, is the only Yates county resident on the list.

He receives a pension of $72 per month for total disability. As a result of the last regents' examinations the Penn Yan academy received thirty preliminary certificates, nine first-year certificates, eight second-year certificates, five third-year certificates, eleven academic diplomas, and four advanced diplomas. The will of the late John II. Ixwn, of Penn Yan, divides his property as follows: Mrs. Lown will receive $10,000 and the family residence, besides a life interest in $10,000.

The two children will receive the balance of the property, besides the reversion of their mother's life interest. At the annual meeting of the stockholders of the First National bank of Penn Yan these directors were elected: Theodore F. Wheeler, Clarence W. Perkins, Edward Donahue, James II. Garuby, A.

Flag Itobson, Clarence T. Birkett, George II. La.pb.am. The directors chose as officers: President, George II. Lapham; vice-president, Theodore F.

Wheeler; cashier, A. Kendall; assistant cashier, George H. Lapham, Jr. Johnnie Lynch, eon of Timothy Lynch, a boy about 11 years old, whose home is at Dundee, was taken to Rochester, Wednesday, for the purpose of having an operation performed to remove certain substance from the appendix. A number of orange seeds were removed and some small shot.

Mr. Lynch returned home Thursday night and reported the boy as doing well. The operation was performed at the Rochester City Hospital. WYOMING. Silver Spring9 Residents Going to the Klondike in February.

1st will see Mr. and Mrs. Clayton E. Clark, of Perry, P. II.

Pratt and W. Piatt, of Silver Springs, on the road to the Klondike. They join a party of about thirty, which is going from Franklinville, Cattaraugus county. The party will have a large supply of canvas boats with them, and several St. Bernard dogs.

The full supplies for the outfit will be forwarded from Chicago, where they can be purchased at one-half the rates asked at Seattle. Mr. and Mrs. Clark wrill open a hotel on the Yukon. Lyman Payne, a former resident of Portage, is dead at Muskegon, Michigan.

Several new streets are to be opened in Perry in the early spring on account of the demand for new building lots. News has been received of the death of Sidney O. Brininstool. a former resident of Warsaw, at Orion, on Sunday, from pneun onia. The Warsaw board of trustees has engaged Brown Coleman, as attorneys, in the action brought against the village for alleged diversion of water for Oatka creek.

The enumeration, which has just been completed at Perry, shows a total population of 12,200 against l.OtW at the last census. The gain is tho largest of anj- single village in Wyoming. Seals on loaded freight cars at Bliss have been broken the past week, and la-t week cars loaded by Messrs. Buck and Ward were broken into and the contents carried off. The officers have instituted a rigid search for the robbers, supposed from their work to be a local gang.

Thus far investigation has been without success. LIVINGSTON. Mrs. Eleck Bortle Found Dead ia Bed Yesterday. Mrs.

Eleck Bortle. an aged woman, was found dead in her bed yesterday morning, at the home of her son-in-law, M. C. Moot, about five miles northwest of the village of Springwater. Her death was unexpected and was doubtless due to a stroke apoplexy, as she had been in usually good health during the last! few days and had retired Thursday evening with only a slight headache.

The people with whom she was staying called her yesterday morning, as was their custom, and alter several calls, receiving no response, went to her room. Coroner Ferine, of Dansville. notified. The deceased was the widow of the late Jeremiah Bortle, for many years a resident of the village of Springwater, and was 73 years of age. A brother, George Miller, proprietor of the Mineral Springs hotel on Hemlock lake; two sisters, Mrs.

Harry Ward, of Richmond, N. Miss Mahaley Miller, and three daughters, Mrs. M. Moot, of Oonesus; Mrs. C.

D. Carr, of Ilaruuiondsport, and Mrs. A. J. Jacobs of Bath, survive.

Two Actions for Damages. Considerable importance attaches to two actions brought against the village of ALLEGANY. A Lighted Lantern and an Oil Tank at South Bolivar. George Sherwood went too near an oil tank on the Miner lease, at South Bolivar, Tuesday night, with a lantern. The lantern flame ignited the oil, and two.

250-barrel tanks went up in smoke. The tanks burst and the flood of burning oil set tire to a boiler house on Brown Murphy's lease, the roof falling on the safety-valve, causing the boiler to explode. The flying iron cut twenty feet off the top of an oil derrick. -Sherwood was quite severely burned. The loss amounts to $1,200.

The Belmont Courier is a new weekly paper edited by Virgil A. Willard. The funeral of Mrs. WTilliam Blanch-ard, of Belmont, was held yesterday aft-ernono. Mrs.

Alfred Burrows, of Rochester, is the guest of her mother, Mrs. Charles E. Jackson, at Belmont. The Richburg schools are closed on account of an epidemic of scarlet fever and diphtheria in the village. Lawrence LeForge, who has had charge of the observatory at Alfred University for a long time, has entered Harvard for a three years' course.

John P. Madden, formerly of Scio, has received the appointment of deputy superintendent of highways for Queens county, at a salary of $5,000 a year. Assemblyman Litchard, of Allegany county, has a bill ready to introduce into the assembly. It provides that the rate of interest be reduced from 6 to 5 per cent. Bolivar men are raising a fund of $2,000 to send a Bolivar man to prospect for gold in Alaska.

He will go with a Coudersport party in March. The money has all been subscribed. The Baptist, Presbyterian and Methodist Churches of Cuba are holding union evangelical meetings. The pastors of the churches are assisted in the work Fy Evangelist Berry, of Michigan. The" commission of E.

W. Chamberlain, as postmaster of Belmont, will expire March 31st Several candidates for the office are already in the field, and the name of Melvin Homer is prominent. The water commissioners of Belmont have found it necessary to put on an extra supply of water. The springs failed to do the work and from a supply of 750 barrels daily the amount diminished to less than 250. The reservoir was nearly empty nnd much inconvenience was occasioned.

The pipes have now been connected with North Greek. ORLEANS. A Medina Resident Who Shows None of Age's Infirmities. Henry L'Hommedieu, Thursday evening celebrated the ninety-ninth anniversary of his birth, at the residence of his son, Hon. Wallace L'Hommedieu, on Maple Ridge, near Medina, surrounded by his children, grandchildren and a few of his oldest friends and neighbors.

Mr. L'llominedieu, who is the oldest resident of Orleans county, is in excellent health and has control of all his faculties to a remarkable degree. He has never worn glasses, can read ordinary print with, ease and enjoys the news of the day. His physical and mental condition is such as to give promise that he will live beyond the century mark. The losses by fire, in Orleans county during 1897, aggregated $110,000,000.

There were fourteen fires, caused by lightning, during the last summer. Grand and trial jurors will be drawn at the county clerk's office in Albion, on January 21st, to serve at a term of supreme court to be held February 17th. Ilira-n B. Joslyn, a farmer, of Clarendon, living about two miles south of Hoi-ley, has made an assignment for the benefit of his creditors to A. M.

Potter, of Clarendon. The Historical Club at Albion willhold its next meeting with Miss Loraine F. Hart. Judge W. C.

Ramsdale will talk upon "The Divergent Forces in Grecian Politics," and E. K. Hart upon "The State of Society in the Homeric Age." G. Roland Sheffield has completed the enumeration of the village of llolley. The number of persons over 21 years of age ia 954; tinder 21 years of age, 519, making a total of 1,473.

The census, taken in showed the population to be a gain of S4 since that time. The funeral of Roana Phillips was held at Clarendon Thursday. Mrs. Phillips was one of the oldest persons in Orleans county, being 15 years old at tbe time of her death. She was a pensioner of the War of 1S12, of which there are but now a few left in the state.

There has been talk of building a new-light house at Oak Orchard harbor, but it has been given tip for the present, as the tower has been found to be in better condition than was supposed. J. P. Bumpus. superintendent of tbe tenth light house district, who has been at Albion, has gone tu Toledo, to finish some work there.

The next quarterly session of Gnesee County lodge, No. 28, I. O. G. will be held with Batavia lodge.

No. 525, iu Fet-ruary. Mother Gray's Sweet Powders for Child ten Mother Gray, a nurse In the CliilJieu'a Home iu New York, has lor jttuva treutt-il children feucceghf uliy with a remedy, now prepared una placed iu the druis doles, Mother a ray's Sweet I'owtiern for C-hUUreu. Xhi-y are told by all druggist at -U f'13, a Package. They remove worms, are as milk, pleasant to take and ncTtr lull.

aluahle for everit-hnerts. constipation, headache and stomach disorders. Ask your jtrugKint nt KHKK. Address Allen a. Olmsted, Le Key.

V. MONROE. Importance of the Court cf Appeals Decision in the Wilcox Case. The opinion of the court of appeals in the Lydia M. Wilcox case, of Broekport, of which mention was made in the Democrat and Chronicle Thursday, is considered of extraordinary importance, establishing, as it does, a precedent which may cost the county of Monroe many thousand dollars.

It is an acknowledged fact that in some of the towns a large portion of the real property taxed for many years has been illegally assessed. The opinion ij written by O'Brien, J. The plaintiff and respondent in the matter were represented by Delbert A. Adams, executor in person, and the defendant and appellant by Attorney John Desmond, of Rochester. John White, of Spencerport, aged 43 years, is dead.

The deceased was a member of Spencerport Tent of K. O. T. M. John hite died early yesterday morning at his residence in Spencerport after a very brief illness with pneumonia.

The deceased was 43 years of age, and is survived by his wife. Mrs. Melinda Fisk, widow of the late Nathan Fisk, of Broekport, died at her home in that village yesterday of senile pneumonia. She is survived by the following children: Mrs. E.

C. Whipple of Morton, Mrs. Helen E. Banker of Brock-port. Mrs.

John Paine of Greece, Mrs. E. S. Iloskins of Washington, D. Mrs.

A. J. Briggs of Edmore, Mrs. Louise Williams of Broekport. Nathan Fisk of Hamlin, Greenleaf Fisk of Broekport.

Mrs. Fisk was one of the oldest residents of Broekport and is survived by eight children, twenty-seven grandchildren and twelve great-grandchildren. WAYNE. The funeral of Joseph C. Young, of SoduB, was held yesterday afternoon.

Miss Jennie Proseus has been appointed postmistress at Lock Berlin, to succeed the late postmaster, James Dunkley. The officers of North Sodus Lodge, No. 454, I. O. O.

were installed last evening by D. D. G. M. Edwards, of Clyde.

The American Express Company has retained Marion E. Dennington, as tem porary expiess agent, at Clyde, to fill th-i Vacancy made by the recent death of his father. G. F. Claflin, of Canandaigua, has been appointed freight agent.

Clyde Grange, Patrons of Husbandry, will install the recently-elected officers of the grange this afternoon. The ceremonies will be in charge of an officer from the state grange. Prior to the installation exercises, there will be the usual feast. The members of the John Hance Post and the Woman's Relief Corps, of Williamson, installed their officers at the G. A.

R. hall yesterday afternoon. H. P. Benton, twist commander of the post, but now a resident of Orleans, was the installing officer for both the post and corps.

Harry Stimson Wright, of Lyons, died yesterday morning. The deceased had been an invalid a year or more. He had been able to take walks and drives almost daily since going to his Lyons home and his condition the day before his death seemed no worse than for months past. Mr. Wright was a native of Syracuse, where he was born iu 1871.

For eight years and until his recent removal to Lyons, he had been an officer of the Bank of Syracuse. The Deluge Hose Company No. 1, of Newark, is making preparations for its third annual masquerade ball to be held in the Sherman opera lionise, January 27th. The following committees have been appointed: Committee 011 arrangements. M.

J. Flynn, Charles Frey, George Cratar, William Robinson, Waiter Ellis, Floyd Moore; reception committee, William Herman, William Parker, H. W. Krum, Leonard Frey, Berney McKown; floor committee, Walter Ellis, Wilber Doty, Fred Frey, Charles L'tter. THE SHERIFF'S ADVICE.

What it Did for Charles Robillerd. Some Good Advice." Some people's advice like their pocket-book notliing in it. That's bad advice. Other people's advice Is like a well tilled purse- BoiuetiiliiK iu It you cuu prove it. That's Rood advice.

l'roving advice, is the best way to make people believe it is good advice. We have bi-en -jrivinij good advice to rheumatic people for many years aud proving it iu every case. We prove it by elVectitig a cure. That': why no mauy people believe in Pardee's Kheumatic liemedy. It cures.

J.ockpoit. N. V. Julie oth. 1H.S.-;.

A short time ago I was afflicted with rheumatism so badly that 1 could not move. My hands and linibs were ail one leW wj.s so badly swelled that it hurt the skill. The Sheriff of our -ounty advised me to try Ir. I'anWs Remedy bought me a iot-tle. Alter taking the Ueuiedv one day I felt relieved and iu its thaji two week I was able to go to work completely cured, uiul liuve not felt Rheumatism sinre.

Three bottles cured me nied 1 recommend it to all -who ure buflcrlug from KheuTmitism. Charles Hoblllerd. Kubserllwd nnd sworn to liefore me, litis 5tU day of June, ltfvi. Jd. J.

Tovell. Notary Public. This" Is the kind of proof we fcive, sworn and Httested a'-eordinj; 10 law leiral proof What more can anyone do Uow muuy can do as much? PARDEE REMEDY CO. Wocbester, N. Y..