The Daily News Batavia, Genesee County, New York State May 19-1891 AT AN INDIAN POWWOW. District Attorney WOOD drove this morning to Alabama, where he had legal business, and from there went on to the Tonawanda Indian Reservation to attend a pow-wow of the chiefs. The annual election on the Reservation takes place early in June. Last year the Indians had a white man's time at the polls and took the election into court, a decision being handed down in February placing the Christian party in power. This year the election no doubt will be exciting again, but it is expected that the Pagans will be successful. + + WHERE ARE THE KEYS? "If you should discover a fire late at night in the vicinity of the Erie depot, what would you do?" asked a citizen this morning. "Why, send an alarm from box 45, of course." "Would you? There is no key attached to the fire-alarm box, neither is there a sign on the post telling where a key can be found. I think that matter should be attended to at once." + + DEATH AT COUNTY HOUSE. Joseph JONKINS, for many years a resident of Elba, and the father of Mrs. Henry STEINFELT, died Sunday night at the County House in Bethany. His age was 83 years. + + FRED RUPP BROKE HIS PROMISE. Fred RUPP of Oak street is again doing penance in the county jail. Notwithstanding his good promise of a week ago to stop getting drunk and be a good husband and father to his wife and children, he got on another "tear" yesterday and was "pulled" by Officer GRIFFIS late in the evening and lodged in the "cooler" to sober up. + + SUSPICIOUS CHARACTERS ARRESTED. Late last night Officer HORSCH arrested two suspicious looking characters that he found prowling about the Central depot yards. One of them, on being searched at the jail, was found to have several keys in his possession. Whether they were railroad switch keys was not known. + + Don't fail to be present to enjoy ice cream and strawberries at the Y.M.C.A. social to-night. + + THREE BOYS DISPOSED OF. The three lads who were stealing a ride on the fast mail that arrived here early yesterday morning and were turned over to Officer HORSCH, who took them to jail, were arraigned before Justice WEBSTER yesterday afternoon. They gave their names as Frank BURNS, John R. WILLIAMS, and Joseph ROUMAIN. Their ages were respectively 17, 17 and 16 years. Two of them claimed to have been bell boys at the Niagara and the other a bell boy at the Hotel Iroquois in Buffalo. They had $12 among them and claimed they had intended going to Cleveland, but had boarded the wrong train. Justice WEBSTER, after giving the boys a good lecture, instructed Officer HORSCH to escort them to the depot and see that they procured tickets for Buffalo, which the officer did. The boys had an order on the National Hotel for three lodgings, which was given them by one of the mail clerks and was signed "E. RUPP." They had no occasion to use the order, however. + + RE-ARREST OF BISSELL SANFORD. Dr. D. PALMER of Batavia, special agent of the American Society for the Preservation of Cruelty to Animals, went to Bergen yesterday and re-arrested Bissell SANFORD of North Bergen for cruelty to animals. SANFORD gave bail to appear before Justice PARMELEE on Tuesday, May 26th, at 10 a.m. Mr. SANFORD was arrested about three weeks ago, and the case was to have been tried by Justice STRATTON today, but the death of the Justice, a week ago Monday, annulled the suit and made necessary the re-arrest. + + GIRLS IN MEN'S CLOTHING. Three young girls, who reside in different parts of the village but work together, it is believed, in the same manufacturing establishment, and whose names will be printed next time, laid themselves liable to arrest on Saturday night by attiring themselves in men's clothes and parading the streets. Should they some time be arrested and their "jolly time" be made public, the pleasure of an occasional "lark" unknown to their parents might change to an unpleasantness quite undesirable. + + AGED RESIDENT OF LE ROY DEAD. Mrs. Margaret FITZPATRICK, aged 87 years, died at the home of Mrs. CONNOR on Sunday. The funeral was held yesterday morning from St. Peter's church. The interment was at St. Francis cemetery. + + BARGAINS IN COTTONS. Brown cotton 5c, worth 6c; bleached cottons 7c and 8c; pillow case cottons 12 1/2 c and 15c; prints, 4c and 5c; apron check gingham 5c; large plaid ginghams 8c, worth 10c; satines at 6c. Come soon and secure some of these bargains. J.B.&H. HEWITT. + + FOUR MEN PROBABLY DROWNED. New York.--The finding and identification of the body of a man in Newark Bay yesterday afternoon as John GASSERT of Newark has settled the fate of three other men in the minds of their friends and relatives. GASSERT, his brother Jacob, his brother-in-law, Jacob HAULENBECK, and Joseph VOSS went fishing on the Passaic River on Saturday afternoon and none has returned. A gale prevailed at the time the men left in their boat and it is probable the men perished during the storm. + + submitted by Linda C. Schmidt