The Daily News Batavia, Genesee County, New York State September 11-1895 Indian Hangs Himself Tonawanda Reservation.-William MOSES hung himself on the tree Sunday morning about 5 o'clock, but he came to life again. Last Saturday MOSES went to the dancing platform at what is known as the racecourse and he came back home early Sunday morning. He told his wife that he was going away again, but she told him that he better stay at home. It is supposed they got to quarreling. A little while after this she went over across the road to her neighbor's and while she was there her children came up where she was and said their father had hung himself on the tree. The woman went to other neighbors to notify them that her husband had hung himself on the tree, and the neighbors came and took him down. They took him inside the house and in about three or four hours after this he came to life. It is supposed his feet touched the ground so his neck was not broken. He has a wife and three children. It is thought the cause of it was that he drinks firewater a good deal and was a very poor fellow. Sometimes he has no food for his family. Unpaid Board Bill It was not on charge of swindling people in connection with their soldier's monument scheme that A.A. JORDAN and H.E. LESTER were wanted over in Wyoming county. They were charged with attempting to defraud Webster NORTON, landlord of the United States hotel in Warsaw, out of a board bill amounting to $7.50. The young men worked in Warsaw last week and left town Saturday afternoon, saying they were going to Wyoming and would be back that night, or the following day anyway, according to Landlord NORTON's story. Sheriff WOODWORTH arrived from Warsaw late yesterday afternoon and when he told the young men what the charge was against them they seemed to be much surprised. They asserted that they had a contract for board with the Warsaw hotel man and that the amount was not yet due. They claimed that they mailed a letter to Mr. NORTON Monday night, telling him that they would send the money. They were taken to Warsaw by the Sheriff last night. Mr. and Mrs. Drake. Buffalo papers have a story about a Mrs. Helen S. DRAKE of Batavia being in that city looking for her husband, George B. DRAKE of this village, who left her recently, taking with him a girl named Sadie MARTIN, said to have been employed as a domestic in a Batavia family. DRAKE is referred to as an expert carriage upholsterer and his wife is quoted as saying that he left a note for her when he departed imparting the information that as work was so slack in Batavia, he had decided to go to New York, where he expected to work for the Judd Hardware company and that he would write to her in a few days. The girl, Sadie MARTIN, it is said, formerly lived in Rochester, and was wild, but had reformed and behaved herself until she met DRAKE. Mrs. DRAKE has two children and has commenced an action for divorce against her husband in Buffalo. The DRAKES are unknown in Batavia. So is Sadie MORGAN[sic]. Death of Albert B. SHOWERS.' Mrs. Henry LOOMIS of No. 28 Pringle avenue has received a letter from the Ruddock Cypress company of Ruddock, La., announcing the death of her son, Albert B. SHOWERS, an employe of the company, at New Orleans on September 6th, after a few days' illness. Mr. SHOWERS was about 34 years of age. When he was about 17 years of age he left his home in Elba and went to his birthplace, Fulton Canal, Ohio, where he remained until six years ago following the occupation of a schoolteacher. His relatives have heard nothing from him in three years. The Cypress company wrote that he had been employed by them four months and that they had given him burial. Dies While His Barn was Burning. Ceres.-During a heavy electric storm yesterday morning a large barn on the farm of George STICKLES, two miles northeast of Smethport, was struck by lightning and burned. The loss foots up $1,500 and there was no insurance. Mr. STICKLES rushed out to save what he could when the barn took fire, and he suddenly fell dead while he was at work in the burning barn, and his body was rescued with difficulty. He was 70 years old. submitted by Linda Schmidt *********************************************