Rochester, Monroe NY Democrat & Chronicle Jan 29, 1922 WOMAN LEAPS INTO RIVER; IS RESCUED Taken to Hospital, Where Her Condition Is Said to Be Good While her husband slept, Mrs. Florence MATHEWS, 42 years old, slipped quietly from her home at No. 31 Scottsville road before midnight last night and walked across the meadow north of Elmwood avenue in Genesee Valley Park to the bank of the river. According to the police she walked out on the ice which covers the river near the bank and jumped into the water. Her screams attracted Frank KAISER, of No. 67 Seager street, and Otto GEHRING, of No. 267 Caroline street, who were at the Marquette Canoe Club. They obtained ropes and with some difficulty effected the woman's rescue. An ambulance was called and Mrs. MATHEWS was taken to St. Mary's Hospital. While she is suffering from shock, her condition is said to be good. It is said that Mrs. MATHEWS has been despondent because of illness. ** SUICIDE WANTED HERE Was Believed by Police to Have Engineered Joseph Ave. Robbery William SKUDWICKI, alias SHUDWICK, 28 years old, of Buffalo, was found hanging from a steal bar in his cell in the Orleans county jail at Albion yesterday morning. He had fashioned a crude noose out of (her)? clothes and attached it about his neck. SKUDWICKI was waiting trial in Albion for breaking into William Robinson's general store at Waterport and stealing goods valued at $2,000. Two companions in the burglary were arrested with him. News of SKUDWICKI's suicide was received at police headquarters yesterday by Detective M. J. DOYLE, who sought him in connection with the burglary at the Brody women's garment store in Joseph avenue last fall. SKUDWICKI is alleged to have engineered that burglary, when furs and women's coats, valued at from $3,000 to $5,000 were stolen and carried away in a motor truck. ** ACCUSED OF SHOPLIFTING Jennie and Rose PALLADAM, 35 and 23 years old, of No. 153 Atkinson street, were arrested yesterday afternoon in the Duffy-Powers store for stealing $30 worth of merchandise. The women were caught by Miss GRIDLEY, an operator for the Whaley-Doyle Detective Agency, who turned them over to Special Officer Ignatz HETZLER. ** ACCUSED OF DRIVING LAME HORSE Enricoe DELAPORTA, 45 years old, a driver of No. 460 State street, was arrested in White street yesterday afternoon by Patrolman James M. MURPHY, of the Lyell avenue station, on a charge of cruelty to an animal. DELAPORTA is alleged to have driven a horse attached to a wagon that was lame and sore, being unable to stand on one hoof. ** YOUNG MAID GIVES BLOOD AND LIFE FOR HER FINANCE Geneva - Miss GAPRONI, a 20-year-old girl of Locarno, has just given her blood and then her life to save her afflicted husband, who had been seriously injured in an automobile accident. The physician declared that immediate infusion of blood was the only hope and Miss GAPRONI, against her parents' wishes, volunteered here. The operation was a success, both recovered health, but three weeks later the girl contracted pneumonia, attributed to the indirect result of loss of blood. The wedding had been fixed for Christmas Day. ** *Part of some article* TEST OF CONFIDENCE WITHSTOOD The Indians disappeared in the forest. Hours were made long with anxiety. Evening drew nigh, and in the distance appeared the chief with the daughter tripping gaily by his side. The test of confidence had been imposed and withstood, and from that day WHITE knew no friends more faithful than his red brethren. During the year 1780 a trading house was established near Waterloo by Captain Horatio JONES. His son, energetic, bold and skillful with the rifle, joined the regiment commanded by Colonel PIPER, as a fifer. A few months later he enlisted in a company of riflemen known as the Bedford Rangers and commanded by Captain BOYD of the United States Army. A few days later the command was ambushed, a large number killed, and JONES attempted to escape. He was captured, marched for two days without food, and forced to run the gauntlet, which he did successfully. He was adopted into an Indian family, and shared all the privileges of Indian hospitality. He established a trading house within the borders of Seneca, later removing to Geneva. He is said to have sold to John JACOB ASTOR his first lot of furs. He was married in 1789, and removing from Geneva, was the first white man to settle in the town of Leicester. He was the first white settler to raise wheat west of the Genesee river. He was appointed Indian interpreter by President WASHINGTON, a position he held until his death in 1836. SOME EARLY SETTLERS Job SMITH emigrated from Ulster county in 1877, and was the first settler upon the Military Tract. He erected his cabin on the flats at Seneca Falls, now covered with fifty feet of water of VanCleef Lake, near the later site of the upper red mill owned by Colonel MYN?ERSE. He lived alone, trafficked somewhat with the Indians, and was the owner of a yoke of oxen. A party of travelers, passing up the river in 1789, was transported by him around the falls upon a cart whose wheels were sawed entirely from logs. He married a Miss GORHAM at Waterloo and returned to the flats. Two Connecticut traders, bearing a pack of goods, visited the Canoga reservation in 1785 and traded their merchandise for furs. James BENNETT, from Northumberland county, reached the Seneca county border in 1789, and was (parts cut out) choosing a pleasant locality in the now village of Ovid, founded a claim upon the place by right of tomahawk improvements. This consisted of building a pole cabin thatched with bark, the deadening of timber in the vicinity, and the clearing of a small patch of ground. Legally these acts had no force. But they gave a patent to the claim. Unsatisfied with undisputed possession after succeeding well. FAUSSETT sought out the owner of lot No. 88 and purchased two separate parcels of ground of 200 acres each. Among others who sought homes in southern Seneca during 1789 were the DUNLAP brothers, Andrew and Wilson. With them came James WILSON. Arriving in May, Andrew DUNLAP located upon Lot No. 8, in the town of Ovid. He is known as the man whose plow turned the first furrow in breaking for cultivation the soil between the lakes. It was in the latest days of the month that a half acre of ground was tilled and the plot planted with potatoes brought by him for that purpose from his former home on the Susquehanna. But a short time elapsed before Mr. DUNLAP was enabled to make full payment for his lot, and he became the possessor of a fine farm of 600 acres, the value of which was constantly enhanced as time passed. He lived in comfort and independence in his latter days. Parties continued to arrive until in the spring of 1793 more than thirty families were established in the southern part. Groups gathered at Seneca Falls and Scauyase(?), and isolated families at distant points in other locations. James McKNIGHT settled in Varick, David WISNER in Romulus, and Ezekial CRANE in Tyre. There came Elijah KINNE, John SEELEY, Peter HUGHES, Nicholas and Richard HUFF, James DeBOTT, Abraham W. COVERT and Tennis COVERT, the last settlers of 1794. JEMIMA WILKINSON About 1790 the settlers went to Newtown, now known as Elmira, forty miles away, to buy groceries, seed and provisions. Feelings akin to pity and astonishment would steal over those of to-day could they know the incidents of those long and wearisome journeys through the woods on winding roads. They were accustomed to take their grists in canoes and boats across Seneca Lake to a mill near Penn Yan. Among the strange character who made their appearance with early settlers was a woman named Jemima WILKINSON, who rode in style through the streets of Geneva in a coach on whose panels were the mystical characters, "C. F." which translated meant, "universal friend." Some flocked to see her to satisfy curiosity, while others became her followers. Among these latter was a party of settlers that followed the road made by CLINTON from Connecticut and, reaching Geneva, cut for themselves a road to Crooked Lake outlet, and established the mill mentioned above. Samuel BEAR, of Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, was the first settler on the south side of the river in what is now known as Scauyase. Here he established a grist mill in 1794, upon the site of the present "White Mills," erected by the firm of Pierson, Becker and <snip> that's all I got. ** Find ALL of the News Abstracts for Monroe Co., NY at http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/NY/Monroe/index.html -- GjS