Daily News Batavia, Genesee County, New York State January 11-1889 SMALL-POX AT WYOMING. The small-pox cases at Wyoming are in family of P. HIGGINS, who lives about four miles West of the village. The disease was taken there by a boy named Frank CURREN of Buffalo, a relative, who contracted it in Buffalo. He was taken sick nearly three weeks ago, and at first the attending physicians (one of them of long practice) pronounced his disease chicken-pox. Ten days ago five of the HIGGINS' children were attacked by the same malady, and early this week Mr. and Mrs. HIGGINS came down with it. Then it was discovered that it was small-pox. There were at that time eight cases under the same roof. Two members of the family--an infant of eleven months and a boy eight years old--are not sick. One of the HIGGENS children, aged five years, died on Wednesday. ++ FIRE SCARE AT OAKFIELD. At 11 o'clock yesterday during the high wind smoke was seen coming from the roof of J.F. TILLEY's house at the corner of Main and Drake streets. An alarm of fire was given, the church bell rung and the volunteer firemen hurried to the scene. The fire engine was brought out, but fortunately it was not needed, as it was found to be a chimney burning out and was easily extinguished. One excited business man carried a pail of water to the scene and then very carefully took it back to his place of business. In addition to unroofing HALSEY & FRARY's warehouse Wednesday night's storm blew down many chimneys, including the smokestack at NOBLES's mill, and the windmills of W.F. REED and John WAKEMAN (the latter of Wheatville) were wrecked. Several of Charles GOFF's apple trees were blown down. William COLLIER of Clinton, formerly of this place, is visiting friends in town. Mr. L. _. STEDMAN has charge of the affairs of E.H. VanHOESEN. ++ DEATH OF FORMER BATAVIAN. Richard LIVINGSTON, a senior member of the firm of LIVINGSTON & HARMON, proprietors of the Hotel LIVINGSTON, Rochester, died yesterday morning after a prolonged illness. Mr. LIVINGSTON was born in Batavia forty-three years ago, and resided at Mount Morris and Niagara Falls before going to Rochester. At Mount Morris he was in the hotel and livery business and was connected with the Cataract House at Niagara Falls. ++ BERGEN'S CANNING FACTORY. On Wednesday evening the ways and means committee reported that the amount subscribed for the canning factory was $768. The committee were instructed to continue their work and report tomorrow evening. The following are the amounts raised by the committee: J.R. McKENZIE, $368, Philip SNYDER, $147.50, D.W. HOWELL, $82.50, Morse T. WHITE, $80., C.N. CARPENTER, $50, George H. CHURCH, $40. Edward JENKINS has begun an action against Matthew LILES and William B. MILLER for $500 damages, and on Wednesday Sheriff REEDY served the necessary papers. Messrs. LILES and MILLER broke into JENKINS' house about a month ago and held possession, to the great fright of the family, until Constable HATCH evicted them. Matthew LILES is a son of Abraham C. LILES, whose place was bought by JENKINS at Sheriff's sale. Yesterday morning about 4 o'clock the part of the brick wall of the Luscher block which had been standing since the fire three years ago last summer, was blown over, and falling upon a wooden addition of the Southworth block, used for a kitchen by Mrs. PRIMMER, completely wrecked it. Some of the bricks fell through the window of the room and upon the bed where young PRIMMER was sleeping, but without injuring him. ++ A BUSINESS CHANGE. Barnard SCHAD has purchased the interest of Messrs. J.C. and Frank SHULTS and M.C. HACKLEY of Batavia and H.C. TIFFANY of Darien in the SCHAD bicycle wheel for hose carts and agricultural implements which has heretofore been manufactured by the above named gentlemen, together with Mr. SCHAD, under the name of the SCHAD Manufacturing Co. Mr. SCHAD will continue the manufacturing of his bicycle wheel at his place of business and will in connection with that do a general repairing and machine business. Mr. SCHAD says he has now more orders in than he can fill in some time, and more are constantly coming. ++ submitted by Linda C. Schmidt