News Heard Around the State

Utica Morning Herald and Daily Gazette

New York State News
Monday, November 8, 1880

 

Country

 

     Three starving children, aged 9, 4 and 2 were taken in charge by the authorities Saturday. A fortnight ago the father died of the effect of injuries received in a drunken brawl. The mother became insane, stripped the youngest child naked, stretched it upon the table and was about to kill it with a carving knife when the neighbors, attracted by frightful screams, interfered.

     Sarah Dempsey, aged 111, and undoubtedly the oldest woman in the state, has been found dead in her bed in her hut in the Ulster mountains near Ellenville. She has lived in a lonely hut since she was abandoned by the man with whom she eloped when a school girl. Beside the dead woman's bed was found a piece of paper, on which was scrawled in pencil: "My God, I am dying by inches from hunger. My money will be found.”

     Herman DeMoer, a clerk in a wholesale house in New York writes the following cool

explanation to August Arnold, a music teacher in Brooklyn, of how it happened that
he has run off with Arnold's wife. Mr. Arnold: “Whereas, I have made the acquaintance
of your wife for a length of time, and whereas we love one another with all our hearts, therefore, I do hereby inform you that she is now my wedded wife and that she will not yet again fall into your possession. We travel to another part of the world where I will take care of her as her husband. Respectfully, Hermann  DeMoer.” Arnold has also received a letter from his wife saying that she will now "travel with my new h u s b a n d” to another country. It is thought they have fled to South America.

     Mrs. Degrow was sent to jail at Williamsburg Saturday, as a habitual drunkard. The

prisoner was formerly active in the effort to reform unfortunate women, and acquired a
taste for liquor in attempting to show the latter how it could be used without being abused.

 

New York City

 

 

     Josephine Sparks died, Saturday, from an overdose of chloroform.

     The police records show that the past week was the most quiet for many months,
despite the election excitement [Garfield vs. Hancock].The weekly average of arrests is over 1,800. During the seven days ending at noon, Saturday, there were only 1,176 arrests made.