Local Record. The commissioners who are to locate the new Refuge for women meet to-day (Thursday) in Attica to look over that town, and in the afternoon they will drive over to Corfu to inspect its advantages as a location. We hear that the Corfu people have raised $500 toward securing the Refuge. Going Into Camp. On Monday next the following young ladies will go to Horseshoe lake to camp out and spend the week under the shadow of the trees and on the water. The Misses Maud Pringle, Grace Cox, Helen Bull, Lottie and Myrtle Thomson and Cora Radley. The party will be chaperoned by Mrs._. Leavenworth. Quick Work. On Tuesday J.C. Shults and B. Schad, of the Schad Wheel Co., went to Avoca to locate the wheel factory. Between the rising and the going down of the sun on that day Mr. Shults purchased three acres of land, had it surveyed, let the contract for the building, staked it out, broke ground and entered into an agreement with the Erie railroad company to put in a switch in 48 hours. The building and land is to cost $18,000. Careless Driving. On Saturday night while two village delivery boys were racing their horses on E. Main street one of the rigs collided with a horse being driven by Wm. Green, of Roanoke. The force of the collision ran the shaft of the delivery wagon into the breast of Mr. Green's horse nearly six inches. Mr. Green was on his way to his father-in-law's, Mr. Horn's, on a visit, when the accident occurred. He continued on his journey and on Sunday went back, as best he could, to his home in Roanoke. It is thought that the beast will die. It is in the power of our merchants to stop this racing and careless driving of their delivery boys. ~ Stiles' Show Window. Our old townsman and druggist, N.W. Stiles, now in Boston, is alive, as will be seen by the following, clipped from a Boston paper: "A display recently made in the window of Mr. N.W.Stiles' store on Boylston street attracted much attention. It included a pewter spoon, used by a Salem witch for her last meal before she suffered the death penalty for witchcraft; a candlestick, brought from England by the Quincys a hundred years ago; a Bible, carried by General Warren on Bunker Hill; an Indian bow, said to be more than 250 years old; a rifle, taken from the British and used by Daniel Webster for hunting; and a cradle in which Rufus Choate was rocked." ~ Local Death Record. McDonnell. Nicholas McDonnell died on Sunday at his home on State street in the 23d year of his age. His disease was consumption. The funeral was held Tuesday morning. Holbrook. Mrs. _.C. Holbrook died on Sunday at her home on then Byron road, aged 64 years.The deceased was the daughter of the late Nathan Warner, and was the youngest of six children. She leaves three brothers who live in Whitewater, Wis., and one sister, Mrs. Levi O. Campbell, of this town. The funeral was held on Wednesday. ~ Takes Her Own Life. A correspondent writes as follows: "Mrs. Emeline Richardson, wife of Henry Richardson of Linden, ended her life by hanging herself on Friday morning. On Thursday evening, together with her son, Himer, she went over to her father-in-law's Dr. Wm. Richardson's, near by, to stay all night, and retired early. About six o'clock in the morning her son went to her room to see if she was all right, and then discovered that she was gone. He immediately went in search of her and went to the next house, owned by Wm. Perry, but now vacant, and searched the lower rooms. Discovering no trace of her he went out but after a short time returned and again searched the house. Upon going upstairs and entering the garret he was terribly startled by the sight of his mother hanging from a rafter. She was dead and her body was nearly cold. She had gained an entrance to the building through the cellar, and had gone to the attic and got up in a chair, tied the rope around a rafter and her neck, and kicked the chair from beneath ! her. The deceased was 43 years old, and for the past six or eight months had been subject to fits of insanity more or less severe. On Thursday, her family physician had been to see her, and the family had made arrangements to have her taken to the Buffalo Insane Asylum on Saturday." ~ Source: ~Progressive Batavian, July 25-1890 submitted by Linda Web-Page Editor BETHANY: Its Past and Present ~ http://www.arkwebshost.com/family/bluebird/TownOfBethany.shtml Contributor for the BUFFALO and Western NYS Website: www.buffalonian.com ~ History Through Newspapers