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COUNTY NEWS. Peekskill has purchased a big whistle to be used as a fire alarm in the future. —The board of trustees of Sing Sing have changed the name of Mott street W. Maple Place. — Salem Baptist Church is to be closed two weeks for renovations The pastor the Rev. Mr. Farrer, will return the latter part of this month from Europe. —The German Catcuttas sete $2,000 at a fair held recently toward securing a fund for the erection of a new stone church at Mount Vernon. —The newly installed officers of Mount Vernon Lodge I. C. O. S. are David Teed, N. G.; John Le Page, V. G. J.E. Marshall, grand represen tative, and J. B. Spicer, proxy. —The number of children of school lage in the Port Chester school dis trict as shown by the census just com plete is 1,431. —The Rev. Mr. Bradley, pastor of Zion Church, has secured subscrp tions to the amount of about $1,000 toward the erection of a new place of worship for his congregation. The grand encampment of the son of veterans which was to have been held in Peekskill in July has been postponed until the latter part of August. —Patrick Curtis, a war veteran, will, on Monday, commence running a stage daily between Verplank’s Point and Montrose, which is the nearest station on the Hudson River Railway went among some laborers on the new race track on Wednes day Waril Meniecrik a Hungarian, was stabbed in the breast and died a few hours after. Coroner Matthews caused the arrest of John Mastwone on suspicion of having done the deed. —The handsome real estate of the late William E. Toole, at Premium Point near New Rochelle, compris ing about twenty acres of land and a house, has been purchased by B. I. Molloy of New Rochelle for $30,000. —A corps of twenty-one teachers, has been engaged for next year in the ublic schools of New Rochelle. Nine of these are new, only twelve of the former teachers making re engagements. —William B. Donihee, a lawyer who has an office in New York, was arrested Monday and taken to the county jail. He was indited in Feb- PaAFeste Gi BACAR Ame second —Matthew Bede, aged forty, was b badly hurt in Peekskill last week from the effects of a bad wound in the side of the head, caused by the bursting of an emery wheel at which he was at work in Horton Mabic's firebrick works. —The Pansy Society, an associa tion of twelve little girls of the first Presbyterian church, gave an inter esting and successful entertainment in Presbyterian hall lately one night. The result was a handsome addition to their pledge toward the church building fund. —Edward Field’s steam yacht Alida, while on its trip down the Hudson from Dobbs Ferry last Friday morning, came in collision with the Yonkers ferryboat Alpine and lost her bowsprit. She came to anchor. The Alpine was not seriously injured. Nobody was hurt. Justice..., MM Henderson and citizens, went to Albany on Thursday to protest to the state board of health against the action of the village board of health in closing the opera house, where the annual closing exercises of the public schools were to have been held, on the grounds of the preval ence of scarlet fever on Lyon’s Point. —The will of George H. Purser of Yonkers was propounded in the Westchester Surrogate’s office, Mon day, but was not filed. The petition did not state what the estate was worth. It was given out that the whole estate was left to his widow during her life, and at her death it is to be divided equally between his children. The formal opening of the new school-house lately erected at Mamar oneck, will take place with appropri ate ceremonies in a few weeks. The structure is a substantial building and is well equipped. Samuel Pres ton, principal of the old school, near the railroad station, will be the prin cipal of the new school, and Profes sor Sniffen, of the Weaver St. school will be first assistant. —The residence of William A. Burnham, of the firm of Lord and Burnham, at Irvington-on-the Hud son, was entered early Sunday morn ing by burglars, who carried off three overcoats, some other clothing, and a small quanity of silverware. They then carried the contents of the re frigerator out on the lawn and had their breakfast, leaving the dishes on the grass. —An improvement association has been organized in Torytown whose object is to beautify and adorn the streets and public places, and pro mote public spirit in that direction. The officers elected are president, L. T. Yale; vice president, Peter S. Hoe; secretary, F. A. Jane; correspond secretary, F. R. Pierson; chairman of executive committee, John Rock well. —Charles Hadley, aged twenty one, who lived with his parents on Highland avenue, Sing Sing, went out on the end of Secord Washburn’s dock to fish on Monday morning. Soon afterward his hat and fishing rod were found floating in the river. He was subject to fits, and it is supposed that he had one while sitting on the string-piece of the dock and fell into the river and was drowned. His body was grappled for and found soon afterward, and Coroner Sutton was notified. The will of Joel Parker of Yonk ers who died June 19th while staying at Summit N. J. was filed for probate in the Westchester county surro gate’s office. He leaves his entire es tate of $25.00 to his widow, Parthe nia and her his sole executrix. —The commencement exercises at the Port Chester Union Free School took place at Fehr's Opera House on Tuesday evening. There were about 1,100 people present and the exercises were very creditably gone through with by the scholars. Two children of Willian Grosse Carl, age sixteen, and Gussie, age fourteen, were found at 5 o'clock Thursday morning insensible in their beds, at their home in Mechanic street New Rochelle, from the effects of es caping illuminating gas. Dr. Taft was hastily called, and succeeded in restoring them to consciousness. The taxpayers of New Rochelle at a special election held on Tuesday evening, voted an appropriation of $2,000 for equipping the fire depart ment and incidental expenses, and $3,000 for grading sidewalks. The proposition to raise $10,000 for re pairing and improving the streets of the village was defeated. —Fenton Corcoran a ten-year-old boy, was convicted last week in the Peekskill court of stealing a horse from the Yonkers Railroad Company and sentenced by Judge Thayer to the West Chester Catholic Protec tory. Marshal McGrath took him there. He was left alone in a room on the second story for a few minutes and dropped to the lawn beneath. Search for him proved fruitless if found he will be sent to the Elmira Reformatory. —Mr. and Mrs. Harry H. Wood, who alanad Iran Tarrytown about two weeks ago, have leased a house on Linden avenue, Sing Sing, where they will make their home in future. Mr Wood is a young man and a clerk in the Grand Central Station, New York, and his wife, who is the daugh ter of William L. Wallace, the wealthy candy manufacturer of New York city, but residing at Tarrytown, has about $25,000 in her own right. Tier father has disowned her for run ning away and marrying against his wishes. —The free Post Office delivery in Sing Sing went into effect Monday morning. The four carriers in regu lation gray uniform, the same as those of New York, with big brown canvas bags, started out on their routes loaded with letters and papers and their appearance delighted “the small boy” as much as a circus. The villagers regarded them with curiosity and admiration. The vil lage is divided into four districts, one of which is apportioned to each car rier. They make three deliveries a day at present and collect from the lamp-post boxes. aweuawn 2. xmipsiuan Voce UTS- orderly in the office of the Yonkers Statesman recently to such an extent as to interfere with business. He abused the editor, John W. Oliver, on account of his editorials against the Clan-na-Gael Society. Mr. Oliver had him arrested for disorderly con duct. When he was arraigned in court the Clan-na-Geal and the liquor’ dealers’ Association rallied to his sup port, and instead of Higgins being on trial they are trying to put the editor on trial. It promises to be an inter esting fight. —Frederick Rice, an employee of the Shoe and Leather Reporter, of New Rochelle, is the son-in-law of th. —John—H--Prenor, the wealthy proprietor of a dancing academy of that place. Mr. Rice is the father, of several children and has been married sixteen years. Mr. Trenor, who resides on North street at West New Paahalla had his can-in law arrested warrant against her husband for threatening to do her bodily harm. Rice then through his council, made a complaint against his father-in-law for assault in the second degree in threatening to shoot him with his istol. All parties appeared before Police Justice Steves Saturday, and were released on their own recogni zances until Monday.
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White Plains Eastern State Journal
White Plains, New York, US
Sat, Jul 06, 1889
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