****************** The Daily News Batavia, Genesee County, New York State August 18-1897 # 2 Burglars at a Ticket Office Two Men with Evil Intent in Corfu Frustrated in Their Attempt Corfu -Station-Agent EDWARDS was seated in the ticket office at the Central depot, which was unlighted, about 8:30 o'clock last night, when he heard a rear window in the building rattle. He quickly rose and went into the waiting room. A window was partially raised and two men stood outside. When they saw the station agent they dropped the window and ran. A short time before a couple of tramps had met Mr. EDWARDS and asked him where they could find some drinking water. He concluded that they were the men that were at work at the window and a little later started out to look for them. He found them in a box car near by. They insisted that they were not the would-be burglars and he allowed them to go. A couple of patent-medicine fakirs[sic] struck town last night and undertook to do business on the street. They not only did not sell any "medicine," but after being unmercifully guyed by the crowd for a few minutes packed up and decamped. * * Committed to Willard Dr. PARMELE of Batavia and Dr. MILLER of Alexander went to the County House yesterday afternoon and made an examination of Susan SPITZER, who was recently taken from the Newark Custodial Asylum for Women, where she had spent twenty years of her life. The woman will be sent to the Willard State Hospital for the Insane. At least a score of unfortunate people have been committed to Willard from Genesee county since January 1st last. Two or three have been sent at their own request, and three have been transferred from the County House. Five of the total number are women. * * Stafford Grangers' Picnic. Stafford Grange will hold a picnic at Seven Springs on Saturday of this week and a most enjoyable time is anticipated. In the afternoon there will be a programme of children's exercises, consisting of music and recitations. Entrance to the grove will be through the lane opposite the home of George W. SCOTT, where teams will leave the main road, this route affording easier access to the grove than by way of the Town Line road. The membership of Stafford Grange includes many residents of Batavia and other towns beside Stafford. * * P.C. Earl DODGSON of Batavia. P.C. Earl DODGSON, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. Earl A. DODGSON of No. 19 Ellicott avenue, died in Detroit, Mich., last night under peculiarly sad circumstances, plunging his parents into deepest grief. He had been ill for several months and was on his way home from the West when his death occurred. Early last spring Mr. DODGSON was attacked with hemorrhages in Chicago, where for a year and a half he had been employed in the Western office of the Phenix Insurance company of Brooklyn, and about the middle of March went to Phoenix, Ariz., accompanied by his father, where it was hoped the climate would be beneficial to him. He seemed to improve for a time, but recently there was a recurrence of hemorrhages, and last week he started for home. He arrived in Chicago on Monday morning, weakened and exhausted, and relatives there immediately informed his parents of his condition. His father left for Chicago on Monday afternoon and started on his return home yesterday afternoon, accompanied by his son, who suffered a serious attack on the cars, dying in a berth in a Wagner sleeper just as the train reached Detroit at about 11 o'clock last night. Mr. DODGSON was 21 years old on March 1st last. Before going to Chicago he was in a department in Washington for about two years. He was bright intellectually, of a studious disposition and very popular among his associates. He had many friends who will be sincerely sorry to learn of his death. The body is expected to arrive in Batavia at 5 o'clock this afternoon. * * Mrs. Hester A Young of Morganville. Morganville. - Mrs. Hester A. YOUNG, widow of the Rev. William YOUNG, died at her home last evening at 9 o'clock, aged 79 years. She leaves the following children: Miss Julia A. YOUNG of this place, Mrs. A.W. TREMAINE of Le Roy, Webster YOUNG of Cortland, Mrs. Howard LATHROP of Amador, Kan., Myron K. YOUNG of Le Roy, Mrs. David ASHENFELTER of Potwin, Kan., Fred H. YOUNG of Buffalo and Mrs.. E.H. WILSON of South Dakota. The funeral services will be held at the house on Friday afternoon at 3 o'clock, with interment in Rural cemetery. * * Abduction of an Albany Boy. No clue has yet been found to the whereabouts of the 5-year-old son of M.J. CONWAY of No. 99 Colorado street, who was abducted while at play near his home on Monday morning. A few minutes after he was missed by his mother a boy came to the door and left a letter, saying that the boy would be returned upon payment of $3,000. Instructions given in the letter for the payment of the money were followed, but nobody appeared at the spot to receive it. The excitement over the affair is intense. * * submitted by Linda Schmidt *********************************************