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NEWSPAPER EXCERPTS
Source: Cayuga Chief, Auburn, New York -
Volume: 7 Issue: 17 Page: 2
Dated: Apr. 24, 1855
The Wayne county Whig
takes us to task for our remarks upon the course of
Senator Clark We have no reverence for men
unless their acts appear consistent.
Perhaps the Whig knows better than we of the
temperance sentiment of Wayne county, but we again
affirm that Senator Clark, in his speechees,
utterly misrepresents the temperance people of Cayuga;
and but for an understanding that he was in favor of a
stringent prohibitory law, and pledges to that
effect, he never could have received the temperance
vote of this county.
The temperance people of New York are shoulder to
shoulder upon this question. the idea of
Prohibition with Prohibition left out, is rank nonsense.
The temperance press is unanimous upon this same
question.
We have an inkling of the character of some of the
advice which gave Senator Clark such remarkable
light upon this question. An agent to whom had
been confided the interests of the cause in the
lecturing field in Wayne, went down to Albany to lobby
for the Maine Law. It was found, however, that he
was lobbying for Senator Clark's kind of
Prohibition, and was forthwith branded by all the
friends of the bill in the Legislature, as an enemy in
disguise.
- With due deference to our friend of the Whig,
we must be allowed to say that our opinion of Senator
Clark's honesty, and ardent devotion to the cuase of
prohibition, has not undergone any change. |
Source: New York Herald, New York, New York
- Volume: XXXIX Issue: 294 Page 10
Dated: June 30, 1868
AN ABSCONDING CASHIER OF THE WAYNE COUNTY BANK
TURNED UP.
(From the Baltimore American, June 29.)
About the middle of last week policeman Stone,
of the Middle district, observed on one of the wharves
of this city a man whose eccentric conduct induced the
officer to take him to the Middle district station.
The fact being reported by Captain Mitchell to
the police authorities here - the man making certain
statements - a telegraphic despatch was sent to
Superintendent Kennedy, of New York, at whose
request the party, who represented himself as
Beardsly Van Alstyne, cashier and
proprietor of the Wayne County Bank, at Lyons, State of
New York, was taken on to that city on Thursday.
The New York papers, noticing his arrival, state that in
March last he is alleged to have absconded with a large
amount of bonds and other securities, and the bank was
found to be insolvent and ruined in consequence of the
victims. Two gentleman named Warren had
$22,000 deposited, and Mr. A. P. Warren placed
the case in Superintendent of Police Kennedy's
hands, who notified all the police bureaus in the United
States. Mr. Warren sued out a writ of
attachment against $3,700 in gold coin and some jewelry
which was found in the possession of the prisoner, the
same being handed over to the sheriff by Kennedy.
Van Alstyne is a native of New York, and is
between thirty-five and forty years of age. |
Source: New York Herald, New York, New York
- Volume: XXXIV Issue: 147 Page: 7
Dated: May 27, 1859
NEW YORK
Body Snatching in Wayne County.
ROCHESTER, May 26, 1869.
A disgusting case of body snatching has just occurred
at Williamson, Wayne county. Stephen Burton,
a respected citizen died on Wednesday last from an
overdose of chloroform and was buried on Friday.
It was suspected that his grave had been violated and
the tomb ws examined. The body had been dragged
out of the coffin and mutilated and concealed in the
woods. Dr. Brent of Ontario, has been
arrested, with two students, and held to answer for the
crime. |
Source: New York Herald, New York, New York
- Issue: 182 Page 10
Dated: Oct. 21, 1874
A BUTTER FRAUD.
How a Wayne County Dairyman Caught the Man who had
Swindled Him - Mr. Snow, alias Wiggins, alias
A. A. Greely & Co., alias Peter S. Clark & Co.,
Held for Trial.
The case of a man who
labored under a terrible mistake regarding the side on
which his bread was buttered was heard at the Tombs
Police Court yesterday morning. Mr. Bradshaw,
of Alton, Wayne county, New York, was swindled out of
$330 worth of butter on the 10th of the present month.
The manner in which he traced his lost goods and finally
captured his victimizer would do credit to any of our
metropolitan detectives, whose ability, unfortunately
for the city, is in no way equal to their reputation.
On the 6th of October Mr. Bradshaw, who keeps an
extensive dairy, received a letter from "A. A. Greely
& Co" Middletown, Conn., ordering him to send
fifteen tubs and one ___ of butter to "Peter S. Clark,"
New London, Conn. Mr. Bradshaw put up the
butter and shipped it as directed, and the same day made
a sight draft on "A. A. Greely & Co." The
cashier of that institution immediately returned it with
the remark that there was no such firm in the town.
On receipt of this information a letter of inquiry was
sent to the cashier of the First National Bank of New
London asking if he knew of such a firm as "Peter S.
Clark & Co." Two days later Mr. Bradshaw
received a letter from New London stating that no such
firm existed in the city. An ordinary dairyman
would have stopped here, but Bradshaw was not to
be daunted. He sat down and wrote to Mr.
Prentiss, the agent of the Norwich line of steamers,
asking him if he could give any information regarding
the lst butter. That gentleman wrote back that it
had been receipted for at Middletown by a man named
James Snow, and that Snow had immediately
reshipped it to New York, the consignment being marked "G.
Sherman & Co, No. 342 Greenwich street.
This was a clew, and Mr. Bradshaw came down to New York to trace
his lost butter. He went to the fifth precinct
station house, and Officer Stevens was detailed
to work up the case. Mr. Bradshaw told the
officer his story on Greenwich street and ask Mr.
Sherman if he had the goods. On entering the
place, Mr. Bradshaw recognized some of his
property, which was on the floor of the store.
Mr. Sherman was not in, but Mr. E. H. Coffin,
the clerk, gave an account of how the goods came there.
He said that a man named Wiggins had brought the
goods to the house and left them for Mr. Sherman
to sell on commission. The consignment was fifteen
tubs of butter and one __ins, but only five tubs and the
__in now remained, as Mr. Wiggins had been there
in the morning and took the tubs away with him on a
truck. The remaining stock Mr. Sherman had
purchased for $83, and had given Wiggins a check
for that amount.
The officer got a slight clew as to where Wiggins,
alias Snow, could be found, and after a
twenty-four hours search he found and arrested im on a
warrant. When brought to Court yesterday morning
Wiggins alias Snow, said his name was
Wiggins, but he refused to say anything regarding
his guilt or innocence.
The Judge took the papers and committed Snow in
default of $_,000 bail to _____ the charge of (the rest
of this article is missing) |
Source: New York Tribune, New York, New
York, Page; 2
Dated: July 15, 1884
THROUGH NEW-YORK STATE.
DAMAGE BY HAIL IN WAYNE COUNTY
[By Telegraph to the Tribune]
LYONS, July 14 - Farmers
living in the towns of Rose, Sodus and Wolcott, in the
northern part of Wayne County, report that hail fell
there in great quantities early yesterday morning,
accompanied by a strong wind. The damage to field
crops, especially corn has been estimated at thousands
of dollars, while the apple crop in that vicinity has
been seriously injured. Apple trees were literally
stripped and young apples torn off. Hail fell to
the depth of three inches in several localities, and the
stones were universally large. Old weather
observers here state that this is the first instance
they ever knew of hail falling the night time. |
Source: Aberdeen Weekly News, Aberdeen,
South Dakota, Vol. 3 Issue: 39 Page: 4
Dated: Nov. 4, 1887
THE prohibition
candidate for school commissioner in the western
district of Wayne County, New York, is Miss Ellen A.
Clark, of Macedon. The lady is canvassing the
district with a brass band, distributing her own
handsome photographs and calling on the editors.
The NEWS will go its last dollar on Miss Clark
every time against any rum soaked male biped who would
warm a soft chair and squirt tobacco juice over its
elevated feet. |
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