Spirit of the Times Batavia, Genesee Co., NY June 4 1887 part 2 of 3 OTHER COUNTIES. A six year old son of John DOLAN, of Lockport, was drowned in the race last Friday. Wm. LAPP's barn at Bennington was set on fire and burned a few nights ago by a colt kicking a lantern over. A valuable horse was lost. Two hundred acres of land near Albion will be devoted this season to the cultivation of tomatoes, the entire crop to be used by a Rochester firm. A wild cat of large size is said to roam the wood of Java, and has caused much excitement among the farmers in the neighborhood of the animal's headquarters. A force of men daily search for it. F.W. EDMUNDS, of Sherman, Chautauqua county, claims to be running the most extensive creamery in the United States. He works up 35,000 pounds of milk a day, runs four separators, and will put in two more. A burglar entered the house of John A. RICHARDSON, of Waterloo, Thursday morning, and his presence was detected by Mrs. RICHARDSON, who promptly knocked him down with a chair. This aroused the household, and the intruder made his escape. Reports from Lowmanville, Chemung county, tell of great consternation over the fall of a huge meteor which came Wednesday night at 11 o'clock with a tremendous roaring noise. The place where it struck is marked by an irregular hole twenty feet in depth and forty feet across. A runaway team of horses near Lockport Saturday last ran into Mrs. RATSKY, who was wheeling her infant child in a little cart along the roadside. They knocked the woman down, breaking both her legs and injuring her internally. The child in the cart was run over by the wagon and crushed to death. Elnathan MARSH, who ran away from Gainesville in 1884 to avoid a divorce suit, was arrested Friday and taken to Geneseo, his bail being $3,000. He has been in Kansas and thought everything had blown over. He left $15,000 with his brother, Nathan G. MARSH, of Livonia, when he went away, and came back to get it. Late Monday evening the dead body of an unknown man, apparently about 21 years old, with his throat cut from ear to ear, was found lying beside the fence of the north end of the east side ball grounds in Buffalo. Near the body was a jack knife with a blade about two and a half inches long, covered with blood. The case is evidently a suicide. The body of Albert WOOLEY, a carpenter, of Silver Creek, was found in the lake Monday. In his pocket was found a scrap of paper on which was written: "I am in the lake. I have got to do this or kill my poor mother. I am nearly dead and crazy. A. WOOLEY." Deceased was a fine workman, but it was the old story. Drink caused his downfall. Henry WILLOUGHBY attempted suicide at Canandaigua last week Sunday by cutting open his throat and wrists. He was a hard drinker and gave evidence of being beside himself when the deed was committed. A physician attended him and succeeded in saving his life. He was arrested and placed in jail, where in the afternoon he savagely tore open his wounds and expressed his wish to die. A Lyndonville boy named Derby, only six years of age, recently went into a small hen house and set fire to some straw. He could not get out and but for the timely alarm of his little sister would have perished in the flames. The mother rushed into the flames and rescued him not a bit too soon. She was badly burned and the boy is in critical condition. * * SUICIDE IN BERGEN. Our Bergen correspondent sends us word that on Thursday evening of this week when George MANNING returned from that village to his home at Bergen Corners he went into the woodshed and there found his father, Jesse MANNING, suspended by the neck from a rope attached to the rafters. He at once cut the body down but life was extinct and the body cold, it having hung there nearly all the afternoon. It was clearly a case of suicide though what motive actuated the deceased is not known. * * PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS. Miss Sarah M. BLOUNT has gone to Oswego county to visit her parents. Mr. E.A. WALLACE of Geneseo, is a guest of Mr. C.G. PURDY for a day or two. Mr. Eugene TELFAIR, of Lockport, has taken a position in STILES & DUDLEY's popular drug and book store. Miss Lizzie TODD, of Owen Sound, Ontario, is visiting her cousins, the Misses TODD, of Ellicott avenue. Miss Mary M. HOWARD started for Fayette, Mo., on Thursday of this week, to be gone a month or more. Mr. H.D. JARVIS, formerly of this village, is to be married on the 8th inst. to Miss Mary AVERY, at Dunkirk, N.Y. Messrs. Wilber SMITH and Wm. M. TOMPKINS have gone up into the Muscoka region, in Canada, for a few days' trout fishing. Mr. S.F. PERKINS and Conductor NORTHAM started last Wednesday for Austin, Potter county, for a two weeks' fishing trip. Mr. and Mrs. John F. HOLDEN, of New York, were in town this week. They came to attend the funeral of his brother, R.O. HOLDEN. Mr. and Mrs. Dwight DEWEY leave today for Turin, Lewis county, to make a prolonged visit with his mother at the old family homestead. cont'd. - submitted by L.C. Schmidt