Evening Gazette, The (Newspaper) - July 20, 1869, Port Jervis, New York VOL I PORT JERVIS N y TUESDAY JULY 20 1869 NO 39 Abetting S JULY I I1 AT v V Every Tuesday Thursday and Saturday Afternoon at four o'clock of I In- Mm cd Ki nt then cs 01 is it toil cents n lol single mull for four dollars i fur MX fur months mini I I M Is ai d to until H ihai foi u incut 111 a Hunt L und i ptomnllv ut the ration ul Kn tcr In Tun will in- IH d IIK U or less one fin rts two N tli TC hi 21 mo gr six n inc i in g-i mo ttmi 812 lie fls One- MIA months 822 Brief Mention k has a- tWii to lie enlarged issued as ti morning piper Cornet have an to tn lion to play foi a and concert on Friday ol this week concert at Wednesday night lion Gilbert C Governor elect of Virginia is now ti to his place in this State Inw in go lie for- line 1 Nothin Hie e II 8 111 ss aids less in live Mile Notices local 1 eN per I ll INI in nail II i t cuts pel line t eai U lii eiu insertion Nothing counted less than tin liu entitled to un ivf of pt i An uniform pl miu IK ulna v i and no cuts u 111 he Insetted at V pace by mull r subscription mil in THE O iiw Spci iul Notice ui are the ji lilt IMI li Jems and Hill eh ef the village md make lieielor Collections he made every ruo iks i epics ol the current of Ti F at Vail and at Mrs and Miss ws Depots Trice cent- To t now hits an Inn a and its H In in the village and into tlie other paper hud so 1 a In section IL live paper In the news early and JM sli In interest carefully edited and nei printed il- i of interest to md U ning its Into almost every n is uid U Advertisers will n i in un- d are for placing where they be general y neen and Arrest for Alleged of the Highway Yesterday morning Mr of i tl e i din mid and two of liis id on it varra tt issued by Justice Potter ot town iit lie gation ol the of town tor an of the tit Point in the con- of the Thov were taken to the Justice Potter held They gave Lion Is to which may bo presented against at tho next Court of Young America B io Ball Club of this village will go over i morrow to play ti inn oh g line with the Lone oi that n wi rn Follows against an imposter inline I Rice who in going tli fr obtaining 011 false hear ol a to have on hand i n of just fifteen minutes than the on the lire of the Valley o the road be- cause lie raises many chickens and vonel hens while ting have topped on ace unit of the scarcity of raw cotton low tif manufactured goods gentleman of village received ti diamond pin from one of the wounded passengers at the Can's dis- aster in token of services n anel on usit to New was i of it by an pickpocket at Liberty wan by night last week and the safe was blown open with gunpowder robbed of in money No clue to this burglars L of tho broker on whose premises the recent fire ted has on a of It ib stated that i IB had his erty insured for more than it was worth hud offered one of his employees a sum e f money to set fire to the premises E anel 0 P will re- move offices building t3 Dutton A Samuels new brick building and Crawford The mi meeting of stockholders ot the and Crawford Company was held at Bullville yesterday An election was had for Directors of the Company for ensuing year and the ing were chosen Isaiah J Whitten Win II Kobert M Crosby Daniel Thompson li M Thompson and Samuel of the town ot Crawford D B Irwin II P E M Madden J H Norton S Colliding and II S ol tli town of Wallkill and K Conklin ol New York city Tlie following were chosen inspectors of next ai mini Gaston Barkley T M J E Duryea At meeting of the Board of Directors the following officers of the Company were Daniel son President D Irwin Vice dent J I f Norton Secretary W M ham and Samuel Treasurer On motion of Mr 11 M Thompson it was resolved that ti temporary executive and auditing committee of the Board be pointed to consist of the President Mr Daniel Thompson ami Messrs Madden and The Bourd adjourned to meet again at the Taylor House on Monday at 3 o'clock r AT The Bonding appointed tor the town of Crawford under the sions of the act authorizing the bonding oi the tow ri For in of the arc Messrs Augustus Thompson S C and L Brown The Extension The legal in tho Court ol of Now Jersey between town Unionville and on one part and and Newton on the other part over the question of the extension ot tho from to has it last in a substantial for tho Middle tow n Union villo and interest After hearing rate arguments of counsel on either side and due time for the Chancellor finally last week rendered a decision which throws tho appellants tho Goshen und Newton interest out of Court on tho ground that tho Court had no diction in the matter oi correcting any alleged informalities in the organization of about August 1st Mr hits secured the Sussex Valley Railway Company Tho large rooms over the rented by appellants therefore find themselves out of I ten Lea druggist find Mr Howell will Court with costs to pay while the rooms in Mr building in arc free to go on with their connection with Mr Hoi brook real estate enterprises and the construction of the od railroad extension from ville to may now be Accidents Last Friday and Disasters a m in named pot between two box on at Cm for tho purpose of stealing ride to When the train passing the stren he jumped front the and it'll train an 1 was instantly killed the train passing over his body His wife was buried last Thursday He leaves throe young destitute the that the building occupied by Li idley market at Ilyde Park was burned on Sunday night lad anil fad to a young man named slept over tho store Solomon k who was burned to death It is believed the file was tjc work of an incendiary day hist week a boy employed by Mr near this tillage had his hand badly lacerated by gi it fast in the pulleys of n patent cm Way Freight west name we have not been able ti t had his ham I badly mashed whilo nipling cars at ing Su iday afternoon a little boy son of John of Montague M J ir the absence ot parents succeeded ia obtaining a handful of blasting and i piece of tusj Hf next got t shovelful of and placing it near the er on the lui connected the two by thi fuse The powder ignited and flash xl up in the little fellow face blistering burning him quite badly Friday evening last Van d TI an old liuly living in wis in the f by a At last accounts she severely from the poison ius cts ot tlie bite and her was il 0 Under the new which took Monday the Co Express kaves this about fifteen minutes On Monday if ng a largo of passengers who were not gat There was some tall swearing and threutr of holding an in ii g but their wrath was appeased by the S tendon t making up a special train and sending fully on journey says there in an old lady living in town of chester Wayne county who was born in 1708 and IB one hundred years old She resided at near Easton during the Revolutionary war and remembers many of incidents of that struggle have born led their vil lage in the sum of to build the and Towanda railroad and now a is being waged tlie columns 01 the press of tho village over tho proper legation of the route Accidental Killing of a Little This afternoon about o'clock George a negro whs was hunting near Abraham a mile from Port Jervis saw an which ho says he took for a i n the tall grassi behind the fence and fired at it The shot Killed instantly a little of Henry Hoffman was pursued by some Ji early ilay German Benefit On Wednesday evening of last week the German of this village gave an ia their hall in brick building for the benefit of Joseph Meeker a former resident of Port who since his removal to Scran ton Pa has been last being tho destruction of his warehouse by fire in which he lost ing His property was insured but tho money was paid to his creditors The entertainment consisted of singing by thu with and music by a private band which tendered its services gratuitously comic etc The refreshments con- sisted of lemonade lager etc Tho net proceeds of the were dollars which will be foi warded by Mr Kadel Treasurer to Mr laborers and others and The Fire Mr Wm L Colo of this owned tho two buildings at Unionville destroyed by the lido firo which were occupied by Dunn Brothers merchants and tho Misses Mr Colo's loss in tho burning of the two buildings was f same He hail since sold the lot on which stood to sink and surrendered himself to Justice Penney and is now in awaiting investigation trio this j Dunn Brothers for who will rebuild New Time Tsitale A now time table on the Erie took effect lust Monday Tho on ly from old time table are as Port Jervis Way leaves atG instead of 6.15 grant West Vaves at 3 A M on tho fatal Near Unionville In tin of N J three miles Unionville on last John Buckley a wealthy fanner fell from the root ot his born and fractured his skull He died about three hours after the dent tie about fifty-five years of age and was a much respected citizen a He Tho Mast Hope Disaster Theio is nothing now of especial im- in connection with the late road disaster The wounded persons named in our lust as remaining at the ware House in village still doing well and uny very effects from injuries They will doubtless depart their several ways the close the week is held in jail in to action of Grand Jury We understand n of his friends from Depot went down to-day miike tion to Judge Sharswood of the Supreme Court who is stopping nt ford for tho of on bail Griffin makes a statement we in regard to his agency in tho to the effect that he had been asleep and when he pulled the throttle and started Ids engine on the main ho did the act unconsciously and without knowing what he was about in fact did not fairly up until tho shock aroused him to consciousness Ho acknowledges his fault m going to sloop the circumstances ruit hopes that thu fact that was no on his part will be taken i n mitigation ot I le also says that he did not intend to elude justice by went cul to at the of some of his friends to stop with h sister there until tho outburst of public indignation had blown over OF DAVID JUlitt The Amoral services of David Baer on if the victims of the Mast 1 disaster took place in the German Lutheran church on Sunday afternoon I ist Rev J Bocksthaler a very eloquent anel impressive sermon in tho i lan language ing his text from Mark So 37 His remarks were very II anel e touching an the un- c of life und death the church M us to excess by his co ple and others a large procession lowed his remains to Laurel tt i-y for interment At the church and also grave the choir sang some vor beautiful u id hymns Rev Mr made a few remarks also at the cemetery The behind a and three and child are in and have been Sint for by Curl tho son who was in- jn rod at the accident Boor's was THE LOST GERMAN FAMILY The husband wife and children lost at Mast Hope have been identified as John Kruch Elizabeth his wife and their children David 10 Lizne aged Kutie aged 1 They were going to Girard 111 were they hane three sons They from Co N Y where they had for some time Mil Mr Alvin oi Binghamton editor of tho Standard was on bo ird the train met with tho dent at Mast Hope It will be ed that Mr was on the train thrown off the embankment at Rock that ho was irery severely burned This time ho escaped injury At a special of tho Board of Trustees held on Saturday evening among the business was tho Citizens on petitioned for a street lamp to be in said The petition was received and lamp A communication was received from aware Engine Co Ho 2 giving a list of of as follow Michael Hook Philip Hesa Lovi Holmes ence A Joseph and James Tillewein action the Com- pany was certificates granted The committee on scwor repctrted tho work ti accord ing to con- tract On motion the counsel was instructed to obtain an injunction ing F E B O Dimmick and A P Thompson from Instructing or ing with Tho committee on placing a new roof on Engine House No 1 reported the work done On motion P was a committee to lay creasing On motion it was ordered P K and Owen Tiffany bei notified to remove the be- tween within daya Tho Owego Particular of a Gang of Desperadoes Wo have the following additional counts ill our exchanges of the ut Owego night 1 ist About one o'clock morning as officer Isaac of ing his beat nlong he detected the cf burglars about store He boldly encountered them and used his revolver freely iii his to effect arrests In turn he re- two shots and not knowing I he ex- tent of injuries he judged it besL to go lor Taking a tew steps he und giving him tho in- formation requested the Chief to assist him as he felt he was hurt The Chief accompanied and supported him wirds his but the door steps he fainted and immediately died From information soon gained the police were able to make the foi owing Kendall Doty Hyde and a fourth man name not known and all employees we be- lieve in the Bristol Iron Works These aie now in the Owego jail The against these is ample to Tho fifth accomplice by the name of Bowers was found partially hidden behind a box at the back of A D Ellis elen He had from tae effects of tho shots of Policeman It is supposed now that the gang were engaged in the attempt to burn the Bristol Iron Works during tho present week They entered the oil cellar sprinkled shavings over the barrels opened a faucet from oil was running and set fire to the shavings This was timely by thu night watchman summoned assistance and put it out Such a gang of desperadoes has not in- Owego the fire were pet that consumed tho business portion of the village Of course the greatest fueling of indignation prevails among the people who are almost ready to lynch the ers Tho family of the murdered man receives the wide sympathies of all in their sad and terrible bereavement Later accounts isay that a inquest was in session yesterday and of great importance arc being brought to light Some ten or twelve arrests have been made and without doubt tho gang of incendiaries and burglars which has heretofore escaped detection will be brought to speedy justice Explosion of a Person Hurt At about half past one Sunday afternoon our citizens wore startled by the occurrence of a loud explosion which shook the windows and rattled the doors out the village An alarmed crowd soon filled tho streets and down to tho old where tho explosion had taken pi ice It was hero ascertained that the boiler of locomotive No 294 had ex- She had been started out ettory to taking out a freight train and stood just outside of the Tte engineer Mr Clark was at homo then taking his dinner Tho fireman Mr George Decker had started the engine out and hud stepped off it only about two minutes before tho i to get a can of oil from the Being Su and about there were fewer of the railroad employees than usual in and around the To these circum- stances it is owing that most fortunately miraculously there was no loss of life occasioned by tho The wholo back paH of tho boiler from the door to the sand box together with the cab waa blown off A weighing several wag blown two hundred coming down ia tho n of Small worn six or eight hundred yards ami dows of tho were shattered and a portion of the was carried away Tho fireman says the steam indicated but one pounds of team when ho left the engine and no blame is to any one in particular The locomotive had boon running on tho road four or five years has held another railroad meeting on which usual there was great deal of talk a appointed Tho particular project in hard this time is a railroad to with the Midland at some point near trot at tho Fashion Course day between American and Lady Thorno resulted in the ot American Girl The whole affair was a merely for tho gate money ami no speed wae attempted Tho boat time
