THE QUINLAN CASE--PART TWO

Cortland Standard Semi-Weekly Edition, Tuesday, June 4, 1895.

THE QUINLAN CASE.

THE EXAMINATION OF WITNESSES RESUMED FRIDAY.

Miss Quinlan Tells Her Story—Clark’s Testimony—Judge Smith Sums Up the Case.

   The examination of the witnesses in the case of Jack McDonald charged with the murder of Patrick Quinlan, which was adjourned Tuesday afternoon, May 20, was resumed Friday morning at 10:45 o’clock before Justice Dorr O. Smith at the courthouse.

   Geo. F. Pratt, forty-four years old, proprietor of “The Inkstand,” Homer, was called first and acknowledged his depositions of April 26 and May 3. Said he made no memorandum of time that defendants were in his place at the time he did up McDonald’s hand. He remembers the dates, however, from other circumstances. First heard of the murder in the forenoon of Saturday, after the crime had been committed. Had known Mr. Quinlan for about twenty-five years. On the night of Quinlan’s injury he was in his saloon until about 10 or 11 o’clock. Defendants were in his place between 6 and 7 o’clock that evening. They were not in again that night. Thought he did up McDonald’s hand on Saturday morning about 8 or 9 o’clock, according to his best recollection. Graham came in just before him and said McDonald got stuck on a fence and couldn’t get off. He was laughing. McDonald was coming from opposite direction from the school ground. Said he observed McDonald’s hand was bleeding near the fleshy part of the thumb. Got a cloth and did it up for him. Said he heard Fred Graham’s testimony. Thinks defendant could have gone through an opening in the screen wire fence by going two or three rods further than where he claimed to have got stuck on the top wire of the fence. The top wire only was barbed. Fence is about five feet high. Graham said he went through the opening.

   Patrick Kinney, 41 years old, a saloon keeper of Homer, was next called. Acknowledged his deposition of April 24. Knew Patrick Quinlan since a boy. He was not in his saloon the evening before the murder. Clark and McDonald were in the saloon about 7 or 8 o’clock the evening before the murder. Was informed they went from his saloon to the “Inkstand.” McDonald was under the influence of liquor. Couldn’t say that Clark was. Didn’t know anything about McDonald’s injured hand.

   Geo. Pratt being recalled said he thinks he refused McDonald and Clark drinks the evening they were in his place.

   Miss Julia Quinlan, daughter of the murdered man, 34 years old, was then called. Resided in Homer all her life since seven months old. Miss Quinlan’s story of the circumstances concerning the return of her father to the home the morning after the injury when he was brought up by his son was substantially the same as her brothers and we will not repeat it. She said in addition that her father had come home intoxicated before that time and her brother had helped him into the house. He had not frequently remained away from home all night. Was sometimes away till quite late at night. Since her mother’s death she has performed the household work as a general thing. Knew of no trouble ever arising between her and her father or between her father and brother. He always gave them what spending money they asked for. She had the turkey money, The day before her father’s murder he had paid her $40.57 from the sale of turkeys. There was no other arrangement between her and her father whereby she was to receive compensation for her labors at home. At her mother’s death she left a bond and mortgage against the homestead to witness and her brother Thomas. She has had possession of the bond and mortgage. Nothing has been paid on them, and no demand of payment has been made. Bond, mortgage and will marked as exhibits and offered in evidence.

   At 12:30 the examination was adjourned to 1:45 P. M.

   At 3 o’clock Miss Quinlan, continuing her testimony, said the night before her father’s injury he gave no intimation on leaving home that he expected to be away all night. During the night no one else was at their house excepting her brother and herself. One of the neighbors was there in the afternoon on the day before. He went away at about 3 o’clock, before her father went. Father weighed about 210 or 213 pounds. They were milking about seventeen cows at that time, requiring two cans to carry the milk. She visited the spot where her father was found about the middle of April. It was pointed out to her then by Mr. Rogers’ little boy. About a week after the funeral her brother hired Morris O’Connors to work on the farm and he has been there since that time. No arrangement had been made with him to come and stay until after the injury. He was also there in November, about Thanksgiving time. Her brother said he had a hard time getting his father into the wagon after he found him. She found blood on two of his coats, trousers and on one pair of his overalls, and mud on the seat of his trousers and on both knees, also a little mud on his overcoat. The seat of his trousers was pretty well covered with mud as though he had sat down in the mud. About an hour after her father was brought home she tried to give him some water, but he could not drink. Her father lay in his bedroom off from the sittingroom. The kitchen was off from the sittingroom. Her brother staid with their father while she mopped the kitchen that Saturday morning at about 10 o’clock. She did no other work after that that day. Her father usually came home from the village about 9 o’clock, although sometimes it was 10.

   She first saw the bond and mortgage seventeen years ago, when they were drawn. They came into her possession then. Her father took them down and had them recorded. She understood that her father owned the farm in his own name. On the night before her father was brought home she and her brother went up stairs at 9 o’clock for retiring. She didn’t sleep soundly that night. Hardly ever did. Lay awake an hour listening for her father’s return. Awoke twice during the night, but did not hear a particle of noise. Usually she awoke in the night. Could have heard her father had he returned. From the time that her mother died until the time of her father’s death she had not been away from home to exceed twice a year. From the time of her mother’s death she had never had any money only the turkey money and had no use or occasion for more than that amounted to. No one was present when the turkey money was paid to her on Friday.

   Miss Quinlan proved herself a very clear and positive witness, substantiating almost entirely the evidence given by her brother a couple of weeks ago.

   At 4:40 Frank Corl of Homer was called to the witness chair. His deposition of April 26 was read and acknowledged. Gave his age as 50 years. He had no occupation. He knew defendant McDonald. Neither defendant or Clark were present after dressing the turkeys when there was talk concerning the amount of money the turkeys brought.

   At 5 o’clock the examination was adjourned till Saturday morning at 8:30.

SATURDAY MORNING.

   The examination in the Quinlan murder case was reopened at 8:50 by reading depositions of Jerry Sullivan made May 2, O. P. Carlon, May 1, Alex. H. Stewart, April 20, Josie Corl, April 26 and May 2, Daniel Donahue, April 21, William Huttleston, April 8, and Cora E. Godfrey, April 18 and May 3, and cross-examination of these witnesses was waived by defendant’s attorney.

   At this point the plaintiff rested.

   Justice Smith then informed Defendant McDonald of his right to make a statement pursuant to Section 196 Code of Civil Procedure, and the defendant waived the right to make such statement.

   William Jones, a colored barber of Homer, 62 years old, was the next witness called. Said he knew Patrick Quinlan and heard of his injury on Saturday. He cut Quinlan’s hair Friday night, he thought a little after 8 o’clock. Didn’t smell his breath. He didn’t seem to be intoxicated. Was in his shop about ten minutes, paid his bill and left, no one else was there at the time. Didn’t see McDonald that night.

   Darius Ripley, aged 29 years, a carriage painter of Homer, was next called. Lived in Homer twenty-six years. Has known defendant McDonald about eight years. Has known Lewis Clark about twelve years. Heard of the Quinlan injury on Saturday afternoon shortly after 5 o’clock. Friday evening, Dec. 24, he was at home and in the Brunswick saloon. In the latter place from 7 to 9:30 o’clock. Saw McDonald and Clark there about 8:45. They came in at about the same time, McDonald ahead. They staid there five minutes, possibly ten. Didn’t remember anyone else being in barroom at the time except Proprietor Kenfield. Couldn’t say whether they left the place together or not. Couldn’t say they got any drink there. Since then his attention was called to their being there Saturday night by Kenfield. On Friday evening Kenfield was on one side of the bar and McDonald on the other side. Kenfield asked him who the tall one was and he told him it was Clark. He was in the saloon possibly half an hour after McDonald and Clark went out. He was waiting at the saloon for the show to open. Didn’t go to the show. Went home. Show commenced about half an hour before he went away.

   Mr. Lucius L. Clark was the next witness. Resides at Homer, aged 60, occupation, house and carriage painter, father of Louis Clark. Louis’ age is twenty-five last December. Last Monday went on foot from Homer to where Quinlan’s body was said to have been found, Went up the Giles road past Eldridge’s for the purpose of seeing how long it would take to walk up and back. Walked possibly a little faster than ordinarily. Started from his home. Coming back stopped at home, about three-quarters of a mile northwest of corner Main and James-sts., toward the Quinlan place. It takes him twenty minutes to go from his place to the corner of James and Main-sts. and it took him one hour and fifteen minutes to go from his home to where Quinlan was and return, which would make the time one hour and fifty-five minutes for him to go from corner James and Main-sts. up to where Quinlan was found and back. Should say the screen wire fence near school ground spoken of yesterday, is from three and a half to four feet high. While he was at the spot where Quinlan’s body was found he could distinctly hear voices at the Quinlan house. Also walked possibly five or six rods beyond where Quinlan was found. Paced across road. It was 21 feet from board fence to bank on west side. It looked to him as though a wagon could be turned around there anywhere near where Quinlan was found.

   Morris Sullivan was the next witness for defendants. Age 20 years last October. Occupation carriage painter. Son of Daniel Sullivan. Lived in Homer all his life. Known defendant McDonald for about five years, Known Louis Clark about three years, Remembered night of Quinlan’s injury. Heard of it the next Sunday morning. On Friday night he was around the village of Homer from about 6 to 9 o’clock. Saw McDonald and Clark near Rider’s jewelry store, about 9 o’clock. They were going toward Murphy’s saloon. Did not see them again. Before seeing them met several other persons on the street, but could not remember whom. From Randall’s saloon went home with three or four other fellows. Could not tell anything about who they were excepting one. Earlier in the evening between 6 and 7 o’clock saw McDonald and Clark at Murphy’s. Couldn’t state whether they were under the influence of liquor or not when he met them at 9 o’clock. Got home about twenty-five minutes past 9 o’clock.

   Louis Clark, who was arrested in Syracuse on the charge of being one of the murderers of Patrick Quinlan, was the next witness called on the part of the defendant. Gave his age as twenty-five years, occupation carriage painter. Said his attention was first called to Patrick Quinlan’s injuries Saturday night. Has known defendant McDonald five or six years, perhaps longer. Met him at about 6 o’clock on that Friday evening. Was with him all the evening, left him a few minutes at about 7 and then saw him at Murphy’s. Was with him the remainder of the evening until they retired. They staid together that night. They did not either of them leave the village of Homer that night after 7 o’clock. Did not know Patrick Quinlan. Never saw him that he knew of. He did not hear anything said in Doyle’s saloon that night about turkeys or turkey money. Had no knowledge that Quinlan had sold turkeys or received money for them. Did not then nor now know where Quinlan lived except as given here in evidence. Don’t remember of saying in Doyle’s that “It’s time we were going if we are going up there.” If any such remark was made it was not said in connection with Quinlan. Could not tell what time we got back to Murphy’s saloon that night for retiring. He was intoxicated that night, knew what was going on, but was sick, vomited there. At Murphy’s we found Fred Graham. The way he came to stay at Murphy’s that night was, when he went out of there he was quite sick and McDonald asked him where he was going. Said he was going home. McDonald asked him to go in and stay with him, He knew his people were opposed to drinking so he went in with McDonald. There was no other motive. He didn’t undress. Lay on sofa all night. After going in got sicker and went out on porch and vomited. Don’t remember whether door was locked or not, nor who opened it. Called for something to vomit in and some one opened the door for him. Was examined before the coroner, and has never made an attempt to get away from the law. Since being confined in jail has had no conversation with McDonald, as he is on one side of the corridor and McDonald on the other. He was never arrested before, nor charged with any other crime. Examined by coroner on Jan. 1 and signed his evidence. Was just as familiar with the story of his whereabouts then as now. Don’t know that he swore to having told his mother that Saturday morning that he staid in Cortland that night. Couldn’t swear that he was in Murphy’s saloon at 9 o’clock. Said he did not testify before coroner that it was half past ten when he went into McDonald’s room. Can’t swear that Murphy was in his saloon at all between half past 8 to 10 o’clock, but think he was. On the night of Dec. 21, 1894 after he left Doyle’s he was in the Brunswick saloon, Donahue’s and Murphy’s, with McDonald. Said he was not in any other place in Homer that night except those three places after leaving. Doyle’s about 7 o’clock. Thinks he and McDonald spent all the rest of the night in bed except when they were in those three saloons after leaving Doyle’s.

   At 12:15 an adjournment for dinner was taken to 1:45 this afternoon.

   At 2 o’clock Saturday afternoon Louis Clark continuing his testimony said it was about half past 8 or 9 o’clock when he left Doyle’s saloon. John Doyle, Thomas Danes and Elbert Salisbury were all he remembered seeing there. He did not hear an old man say, “It’s after 8 o’clock and time for me to go.” After leaving Doyle’s went to the Brunswick, was there about five minutes; from there to Donahue’s, was there perhaps twenty minutes. Don’t think it was Kenfield, the man in the courtroom, that was behind the bar at the Brunswick. At Donahue’s Dan Donahue was behind the bar. Think it was after 8 o’clock; not positive. From there went to Murphy’s and there spent balance of the night. Couldn’t tell when he got to Murphy’s. Said it would only be a guess. Was in Patsy Kinney’s at about 7 or 7:30 that night. McDonald applied for drink at the Brunswick on trust that night. Think he did not get it. After going into Murphy’s the last time he thinks he got a drink there. Thinks it was about half past 9. Did not see Proprietor Murphy the next morning when he got up, but thought he saw Eddie Murphy. From the time he fell in with McDonald that night he doesn’t think there was any time but what he knew what he was about, Was not in the Brunswick the night before or the night after with McDonald or alone. Think he told Kinney that he could pay him for the drink the next morning. Said he had now been in jail twenty-eight days. Never been to Kinney’s since that Friday night and hadn’t yet paid for the drink. He never wore a narrow toe shoe. That Friday night he had on a wide toe shoe. McDonald didn’t have on a narrow toe shoe. He noticed it that night and the next morning. Didn’t know why he noticed it. He had also noticed Salisbury’s shoe. It was not a pointed shoe. Had noticed other’s shoes since then but couldn’t say whose.

   At 2:45 Darius Ripley was recalled, stated that in the morning he swore that he saw McDonald and Clark at half past 8 on the night of December 21, in the Brunswick, but that he was mistaken. He had seen them there at the Brunswick together, but couldn’t tell when, and that Kenfield, the proprietor, inquired of him who the tall one was and he said it was Louis Clark. The only thing that changed his recollection as to that night was that Kenfield has since told him that he (Kenfield) was not there until after 11 o’clock that night. Kenfield was there the night he saw McDonald and Clark there.

   Bert Darrow of Homer was next called. Aged 22. His deposition of April 22 was read and acknowledged. Was at the show on the night Quinlan was injured. Saw Mike Murphy there. Show was out about 10 o’clock. George Paddock was with Murphy. Saw them during first part of show. Saw McDonald in the Inkstand on Sunday. Never saw Clark there. He had since learned that what McDonald handed Murphy was a confederate twenty-dollar bill. He did not see it when it was handed Murphy, but had since. Said he thought he saw Clark and McDonald at Kinney’s Friday night. Bought Clark a drink there.

   Melvin Chapman of Homer, aged 45, was the next witness. His deposition of April last was read and acknowledged. Said he was employed by Wm. Shirley to assist in finding the murderer of Quinlan. He was paid a dollar or a dollar and a half on the start. He played cards with McDonald and they were drunk together. Didn’t know which of them was the most drunk. McDonald took him home drunk two nights and he took McDonald home drunk one night. The first time he saw McDonald after Quinlan was hurt was on Christmas. Didn’t know whether Quinlan was dead then or not. Was with McDonald four or five days, most of the time at the Inkstand. Said he is a married man.

   Edwin B. Kenfield, proprietor of the Brunswick at Homer, was next called, 33 years old. Was in Syracuse on the Friday before Quinlan was hurt. Got back to Homer at 11:08 that evening. Never saw Clark to know him till to-day. Had seen McDonald. Heard of Quinlan’s injury about noon Saturday. Didn’t know who told him. Knew he went to Syracuse December 21 because he paid J. H. Doolittle some money then.

   Nelson Crance of Homer, aged 29, who was a bartender for Kenfield last December, testified that he heard of Quinlan’s injury on Saturday. Said he was in charge of the Brunswick Friday. Kenfield was out of town that day. Supposed he was in Syracuse. Think McDonald and Clark were in there a very few moments that evening, between 6 and 7 o’clock. Thought they were not there again that evening. They wanted to get trusted for the drinks. McDonald asked for the credit and was refused. They then went out. Some few days after that McDonald was in the Brunswick and asked if he remembered what time he was in there on the night Quinlan was injured and he told him he did not. McDonald said it might make a difference with him if he could remember it. Wouldn’t say positively he told him then it was between 6 or 7 o’clock. He knows J. D. Clark, brother of Louis Clark. Presumed he told him last week that he didn’t know Louis Clark, for he didn’t know him. Witness identified Louis Clark as the stranger with McDonald in the Brunswick.

   John O’Conner, 30 years old, now employed by the Cortland Wagon company, next testified. Said he knew McDonald and Clark. Said he was in Murphy’s saloon Friday night, Dec. 21, and that Murphy asked him to tend bar as he wanted to go to the show. He remained in charge till Murphy’s return, about five or ten minutes past 10. Before Murphy went to the show witness was in the saloon about half an hour. Remained at the saloon till a little before 11 o’clock. Went away with Barney Burns. Did not see McDonald or Louis Clark in the saloon that night while he was there. They were not there in the saloon part. McDonald or Clark did not get drinks there while he was there after the time he went in. Heard of Quinlan’s injury on Sunday. Did not make a memorandum of the patrons of the bar while he was there. Didn’t remember of but four persons coming in and being waited upon by him while he was there. Didn’t see any one in the side room between 9 and 10 o’clock. Couldn’t testify there was no one. Didn’t know of any women coming in while he was in charge. Didn’t hear McDonald or Clark come in and go up stairs. They didn’t come in and go through the barroom. Can say Clark and McDonald were not in the barroom from a quarter after 8 'o'clock till he went away. Don’t remember of seeing them at all that evening. Couldn’t say they were not there the fore part of the evening. There are back stairs leading from the alley way to the sleeping rooms. From the barroom could not hear persons going up those stairs. If they went in by the back stairs he knew nothing about that. “Boby” Owen was in there that evening. McDonald and Clark might have been there when he first went in, but he didn’t see them.

   Fred S. Owen, a carriage painter of Homer, aged 45 years, next testified. Said he was in Murphy’s saloon on Friday evening, Dec. 21, from after 6 o’clock till about 9 o’clock, Saw O’Connor there. Saw McDonald and Louis Clark there that night between 7 and 8 and it must have been a little past 8 when they left there. Couldn’t say whether O’Connor was there then or not. Think McDonald and Clark staid in there from seven to ten minutes and then they went out. Didn’t see them after that.

   Attorney Courtney then offered in evidence portions of Louis Clark’s testimony given before Coroner Bradford last December.

   Attorney Smith suggested that the evidence given in the McDonald examination with the exception as to that part concerning the two women, be also read as evidence in the examination of Prisoner Louis Clark for the purpose of saving time, but it was held that Clark had not in a legal sense been in court and therefore it had better not be done.

   At 5:40 the examination was adjourned to 7 o’clock in the evening, but on reassembling at 7 o’clock another adjournment was taken to 9 o’clock Monday morning.

   The summing up of McDonald’s examination before Justice Dorr C. Smith, at court chambers Monday was commenced at 9:20 o’clock in the morning by Judge A. P. Smith, who continued until 10:40. He first took the position that no murder had been committed; that Quinlan had died from apoplexy, brought about by a clot of blood at the base of the brain, some six or seven inches from the wound; that apoplectics invariably fall forward and in so falling Quinlan had struck his head on a stone thus producing the bruised eye and bloody nose.

   The next theory was under the supposition that a murder had been committed, and along the line he undertook to show by the evidence that had been produced that it would have been impossible for McDonald and Clark to have committed the crime. That there had been no motive shown on their part and that between times when they were seen in the saloons and on the streets in Homer there was not time sufficient for them to go to the spot where the body was found and return.

   He then cited a vivid example to the prisoners as to what carousing around the saloons and hell holes of Homer might bring a person to, as it had to them thus far; but said if the experience that they had had in this matter would tend to keep them out of such places in the future then all had not been in vain.

   Justice Smith being obliged to attend a meeting of the town board this morning, another adjournment was taken to 3 o’clock this afternoon when Attorney John Courtney, Jr., will review the case in behalf of The People.

   Before adjourning the justice announced that decision in the McDonald case would be reserved until after the examination of Clark.

   Inasmuch as Judge A. P. Smith starts for Washington this afternoon and Attorney Henry Dickinson being detained from business by the illness of his father, it is understood that Nathan Miller will act as attorney for Louis Clark in his examination.

THE OLDEST VETERAN.

CORTLAND CLAIMS HIM IN ISRAEL RICKARD.

Enlisted at Sixty—Hale and Hearty Yet—Walks His 8 Miles and Hoes Corn and Potatoes with the Boys.

   A conspicuous figure at Thursday’s Decoration exercises was Israel Rickard, a veteran of Company G, 76th regiment, New York State Volunteers, who has nearly reached the age of ninety-five years, but is still as sturdy as an oak. He was born in Massachusetts Dec. 31, 1800 and moved with his father to Truxton in this county in 1802. His father then had the only team of horses in that section, and the country was a wilderness full of bears and panthers.  At six years of age he was sent to mill on horseback with sometimes three or four bushels of corn. He always had to work, with little or no time for play, and thinks there is no man to be found who has used the axe or handspike more than he.

   He was sixty years old when he first shouldered a musket in the service of his country, though forty-five years was the age limit, having enlisted as a private in the fall of 1861. But he was young and vigorous enough then to handle ninety-nine out of a hundred men twenty years his junior, and as full of patriotism as he was of “sand” and strength.

   At first he had charge of a wagon train, but when it came to driving mules he preferred to shoulder the musket. One who knew Mr. Rickard in his prime told us that he was worth more than two ordinary men at any work, and to-day he shows, in his powerful build the evidences of remarkable nerve and muscle. He served his three years with loyalty to his country and honor to himself, and wears his Grand Army badge with the feeling that it is the proudest decoration which can adorn the breast of an American citizen. We doubt whether there can be found in this state, if there can in any state, a veteran of the war of the rebellion who enlisted in the ranks at a more advanced age than Mr. Rickard, or who has a more honorable record, or is more sound and strong and vigorous for his years.

   He can still hoe corn and potatoes and keep his end up with many of the boys. He has never had occasion to use a cane, and often walks to his nephew’s near Truxton, a distance of eight miles. He refused to ride on Decoration day and insisted on marching. He is now the third oldest man in Cortland county, Hosea Sprague of Homer being the oldest and Daniel A. Thompson of McGrawville being the second.

   May his years be still further lengthened, and may they be full of comfort and enjoyment, the well-earned reward of a manly and patriotic life.

BREVITIES.

   —About thirty Cortland people spent Decoration day at Glen Haven.

   —Two candidates took the civil service examination at the postoffice Friday.

   —Governor Morton signed the bill on Wednesday for the Sunday closing of barber shops.

   —The Baptist church Sunday decided to extend a call to Rev. A. Chapman of Hoosick Falls, N. Y., to become the pastor of the church.

   —The conductors and motormen on the electric road came out Sunday with new blue suits with brass buttons. The suits were made by Chatterton & Graham.

   —Girls and women, fat and lean, short and tall, shingly and shapely, who are riding bicycles this year, will find their future foretold to-day in our editorial columns.

   —Mr. Sylvester Davis of 10 Venette-st. died Sunday morning after an illness of four and one half months with heart disease, aged 68 years. The funeral occurs to-day at 2 P. M.

   —Chas. A. Hammond, the two weeks’ old son of Mr. and Mrs. Ora Hammond, 34 Cleveland-st., died Wednesday night. The funeral was held from the house Friday morning at 10 o’clock.

   —There will probably soon be a special meeting of the Stove Moulder’s Union, as President Seabrook has a candidate for membership in the person of a brand new 9 1-3 pound boy that came to his house this morning.

   —A large hay barn on the farm of Michael Wiegand about a mile northwest of Truxton on the road to Tully was struck by lightning and burned at about 1:30 o’clock Friday afternoon.

   —The liquor case of the Village of Cortland against R. Burns Linderman was called for trial before Justice Bull Friday morning. Owing to the non-appearance of a witness who had been subpoenaed, the case was dismissed.

   —All the barber shops in town were closed up tight Sunday under the new law, and all the barbers were happy in their day of rest. If any one went unshaved yesterday he must learn a lesson to get around before Sunday next week.

   —The Homer steam laundry has again resumed operations under the management of Mrs. W. F. Santus, daughter and wife of the former proprietors. The team was on the streets this morning picking up laundry and will be down again on Thursday,

   —A resident of Binghamton, says The Republican, is at work on a compact music box to be fastened on bicycles. When approaching a corner or a pedestrian who is looking the other way, the rider touches a button and the music box gets in its work by playing one of the latest and most tuneful operatic airs.

   —The main sewer on Port Watson-st., near the D., L. & W. track which was left unfinished last fall, was Thursday completed. All parties on the line of completed sewers who now desire to connect with the sewers can do so at once by making application to any one of the sewer commissioners and securing a permit.

   —There will be a very interesting service in Grace church on Saturday of this week when Mr. Henry E. Hubbard will be ordered deacon by Bishop Huntington. The candidate will be presented by the Rev. John Arthur, formerly rector of Grace church, but now of St. John’s church, Oneida, and the sermon will be preached by the Rev. A. Watkins. Service will begin at 11 o’clock.

   —Thursday afternoon as workmen were blasting in the rock for the James-st. sewer, a piece of rock as large as a hen’s egg was thrown to the yard of Mr. Sidney Hammond, 15 Owego-st., a distance of nearly a quarter of a mile. As it struck, it bounded over the fence into the yard of Mr. John L. McKee who lives next door. Luckily no one was in range of the flying missile.

   —Lewis Cole and Thomas Leach returned home Thursday evening from a day’s sport fishing in Crooked lake. They had without doubt the finest lot of fish taken from any of our lakes this season. The catch of twenty-four was made in two hours. Most of the fish caught were pickerel. In this instance they could not be accused of the proverbial “fish story,” for they had the goods to show.

   —Some of our semi-weekly subscribers have complained because the edition of last Tuesday did not contain the Decoration day program and line of march. The explanation of this fact is that the committee did not decide upon the entire program until Tuesday after the semi-weekly edition had been printed, We were just able to get it in time for the Tuesday’s daily. The only conclusion or moral we can draw from this for our subscribers is that if they want the latest and most complete news right up to date they must take the daily.