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SAWfD IN fONDA JAIL DESPERATE CHARJWI'ERS HAD ALMOST SUOOEEDED IN PLOT TO Cl.TT THEIR WAY TO FREE- DOM, WHEN BETRAYED. W1lliam Graham, a desperate young character of Amsterdam, all{l an older man, named Abbott, a typical crook, who was arrested in Amsterdam for Mrs. Anna Dygert Grimes wl>fe of Wilham Grimes died at her home, No. 713 South Perry street shffi'tly before :midnLgh:t Fri,day. The deceased was 41Z years of age. sale had resijded in Jo-hnstown all !h~r life and h:1d many friends all of whom will be grieved to lea,rn of he!' deruth. Sbe WlllS a very brighlt oeapa!ole wo- man, one of her chief clla1'acteris't1cs beJ.ng the thoroughness Wlltih whdc 1 h Elhe desp'atclhed any undel'taking in wituc.h s'he w~s mteresrt:ed She w!aS a devoted wife and moth'er, 1and will GAVf BUT Ulllf RfLiff GROUND PARCHh\D C B 0 P S S00RCHED, CATTLE THIRSTY AND MILI.S LOSJ:'NG TIME FOR LACK OF ENOUGH WATER. The roams of F'rld.a,y nxghot ~av>e but little relief to the $'Corohed vegeta- tion which h>a£ been suffering from the prolonged drought. The streams be sadly missed m the ihome e1rele of of Fulton county are reyO'J.'ted to be w'hicli she wa:s the center. the lowest in mamy yea.rs. Far>mers For a year or more s'hoe had 'been are complaining bitte!'lY a'bout the coyery of an attempt to escape on m failing heaJ.th, sufferling w1rbh val- dTy weaJther. There is prootiCially no thair part was frnst:rat€d on F.r:I- vular disB~a.se Gf the helairt. A'hout pti!Sturage tor the Iive stoek and da.y morning by She11ff Bnce and three weeks s1noe an abllack of acute many da1ries a:re rep{)~ted to be feoo- hrs deputles. md1gestion confined her to her bed ing their cattle from the ihia;y and Graham, who IS <>f a v1cious d1sposi- and the depletion of her strength re- short green eo>rn staJ.ks ln the fields. tion, and Abbott, who IS bemg held suited m a stroke of pai'aly:s1s albout 'IIhe ind;,oations are tbla;t hay and i'or the actwn of the grand jury on a noon yesterday, death occurr.mg in g.t•ain will be eJCeeedling!y ihl!gb; in entermg the store of John M. S. Aocee on Bridge street, m the fiflth ward, are in solitary cQon.finement in the county jail at Fonda, as a result of the dis- h f b I h d th 1 ~~ ~. \'ew ho,•r~ Fulton .county this wmlter. e arge o urg ary, a e1r p a~~ w t - ~ well laid tor a Jall delnery and would She 1s eurv1ved by her husbJand The severe drought has also elarus- have ca.rned out thE' proJect but for and an only son, George, botlh of thls ed the water in the MO'hawk and! Hudr tnnely info1mation afforded the keepe<r mty; tJwo brothers, George Dygelit of son nvers to be e:x>ceedingly low, and by an Amsterdam Pole who IS servmg a fe!W days' sentence The two at the boil,!;om of the scheme had made three s~s _out of kmveo; and had succeeded Jn loosening tht> ·w1ndow frame of one of the wind(}WS on the m:nn floor of the Jall, frontmg the east. Albany Bu\h and Wilham of :this unless a prolonged rain oomes soon cM.y; ~our sisters, Mrs. 'John Van sertlous results ... re bound to come Dusen and M1·s. Seth Little of Glov- The mills and o-t:her p~ants t'hat de- ersvllle, MI's Jo:hn Rolson of :tJhis pood on wa•ter from the Moh,ruwk r'lv- mty, and MTS. Brayton Grmnell of er allld its tnbwtaries for power pur- SeaJttle, \Wash , bes1des a hilf-slster, pooes are being l;a;dly 'h'ampered bY Mrs Phoebe V<an Nostrand of \''lnv- t.he low water, and as a result the They had u ~ -\'II employers are los•ng money and tlhe cut out the ..vood \ork so that 1t per- ersn e. ~he f e 1 as h~Id M' -~ he[p are losing much ~n w'\·~es. A mitted them to release the bars by re- '' un ra w ~· o-nua.Y ..., a \'ternoon at 2 o'clock Rev. f'Jh~rles prominent river man of 35 years' ex- movmg the nuts boltmg them on the '\ ' r\~~ ]\ ~. K = *<n~ perience StaY'S the Hud!son river never under Side. By rmsong the window d.C enz1e ommaw. • ..,. before reached a lower level than aJt frame t!hey expected to obtam an extt :through a space a foot or more m beight and drop to •the g\\onnd. The work had been carried on during the day tl!ne a.nd until Fnda.y mormng no mformat10n of 1t had reached the POSTAL fMPLOYfS TO fNURTAIN NfiGHBORS present. NaV'iga;tion on the Hudson riveT is bedng had with dtffieu1ty, many of the boiB>ts plying the river bemg in danger of runmng ll!g!'ound Crops Are Parched- authoritJe a;p Grruham and Abbott _The valley crops that were so ihad threatened the life o-f anyone of ' pl\omdsing a. few weeks ago are now thetr fell<YW pnsoners who told of then:, Local and Gloversvillt) Government prurohed and are burmng up from a undPrtakmg Employes to Entertain Amster- want of rain The dry spell 'has set ·when the Amsterdam Pole gave dam and Schenectady Brethren at milk dealers thmlung, as many >pas- them aW;l'' the sheriff and h1s men ture.s are burned up and t!he result > Mountain JJake Labor Day. made an im estlgation and found one is a decre1sed supply of miilk. In of the improns€'d saws under a closet. On I1abor Day the employ.es of the many places people have been forced The other two sa\\ s, 1 t was said, had ,l'Ohnsto.wn and Gloversville >poSitoffi- to close up then country homes amd been thtown out of a\ mdow Graham ces Will entertam the employ>oo of the return to the c.ity on ll!c>count o.f t'he and Abbott had seem·ed one of th€> offiC'es at Amsterdam a'lld SChenec- wells drymg up and Ieavmg 'bhem heavy wmdow weights and attached a tady at Mountam lake. Last year wtthout water. wire through the ltole at the upper the Fulton county forces >welie tlhe No cuTrent whatever is being re- end of this, thus affordmg a swmgmg gues,ts of the men from the vla.Iley cedved from Stner Falls in Sohenec- weapon whwh they owould undoubted- towns and now they mtend to reC'Ipro- tady, and w1th t.he General Electric l.r haYe usf'd \ 1 th deadly €'ffect had cate in elaborate style Company generatmg all the power anyone attempted to mterfere Wlth A long llst of sports conltests has that 1s bemg used to operate its local them after they had once succeeded bBen prepared, mcluding a ball ga.me plant and to supply the SdheneCIUa.dy iln securmg a means of egress from the hetween a tea,m repr1ooentmg the Ra1lway Company and t!he Schenec- bastJ!e. Abbott 1 s believed to •be an Schenectady force and one p1cked ia;dy lllum1natmg Company, Sc'hnec- old-timer and young Graham, an Am from the Amsterdam, Johnstown and taldy f!lJces an electnc fam1ne. 'Dhe sterdam product. who has already Gloversville crowd. northern pa.rt of the sta.te Is literally served m the Elm 1 ra Ieforrnatory, 18 The man w'ho has been employed burmng up. The streams thrut always an apt pup 1 1 ''1\ho would, It IS thought the longest m one office Will be guven ran deep throughout the dry season Jles 1 tate at nothmg. a praze. About 150 men are expe1cted of prevwus years are no'W the venest MURDtRS INCRfASf AT STARTLING RAU People in the Umted States Gwlty of Enormous Xumber of Homicid- es 1<:, ery Yeai·. . .• to parucipate m the field day. The broks, and can be forded dTy shod various events to be pulled off m the at most any place along the course. sportmg tournament, together wit'h Hudsoll Drying Up-- the pnzes, arfi as follows. 'l'ug of v.rar. s1x men from Schenec- tady office a.gamst s1x from the Am- stecr-daam, Johnswwn and Glovers- The water m the Hudson lbehind the big ~pier Falls da.m is nine feet from tj:Ie top of tne diaJm and ts lOlW- enng every day. .M tne fat of the ville OIYlces Pnze one box of cigars dam t'le bed of the r1ver iS perfectly One hundred Y'ard dash, open to all dry and looks like an anc1ent water- Farst pnze, diamond stick pm, se- course. It Is J:II<any miles below the cond prize, framed PICture, third dam before i:!he Hudson ~ora1n takes pnze, pearl handled jack knife in case Fat man's race, open <bo IJH! 180 pounds or over, 100 yards First pnze, adJusta'ble handle s1Ik • um- brella, second prize, old watch fob Egg and spoon race, open to all; egg to be carried upon spoon 50 yards. F1rst pnze, Sijlk um'brelloa, s~ond pnze, srwe\JJter First pnze, faunta,m pen and razor; second prize box of 25 c1gal\s Shoe and sltockmg ra;ce, oven to all contescants to run 25 yards, remove shoes and stockmgs• replace them and recurn, ox[oTd and low shoe& b'B..:rred ].,1rst pr1ze, dress suit case; second pnze, one half dozen fancy hos'9 Running long jump, open First pnze, ~ohd gold cuff to all hnks, second pnze, gold framed p~cture. GLOVfRSVIUE WOMAN tSCAPfS fROM fiRf I ::\b'S. H. E. Cromvoell, Wife of Deut- ist, Notifte~ Het• Husband of Safe Arrival in Portland From Old on 'the a'P'pearalliCe of being a river. The amnliary supply reservoir at Indian lake in the AdP·ond>acks. tha;t 1s generally used 1]:1 eases of extreme drought, ha;s been of !11ttle as.;nst,a.nce as the supply even t!here 1s limited !!.nd 1s rapidly dimmishing The res1dents of many of the out- lymg d1stncts in the foothills of the Adirondaeks are llving in dia1ly fear of forest fires. The underbTUSh ts a3 dry •a,s tmder, and a spark of a pas- ging locomotive or a lighted mabch thrown carelessly aside b) a hunte~ is l'lruble to sta.\'t a fit e that Would do thou£ands of dollars' worth of d>am- a.ge. Set'ious l<'orest Fires- The drouth, too, l•as cau:;ed many ser10us forest fires m dQff~rent parts of the state, resultmg in the de<ltmc- twn of much valuo.ble t1m'ber. The wruter m the Hudson ts so Io-\v that tlhe Hud&on RIVe: Elf!Ctnc Power Co. is ne>w ustng 1ts reservo[r for the first time since. the rese\voir was buQl•t. The reservoir has been used the last two weeks, and b11t for it the company would experience mrnch diffi- culty m provuding power for its pa- trons. So thrut the comp,any W111 not be required to furni!!lh the usual amount oi po w;e.· req uireu to opemte OrchiU'd, t:1e several lines of t~e Unitf'd Trac- (Every law, unless a ilifferent timel~~j~:~~;~~~~jl~~~~~t~~~; 1 t~;oic~ cham- ~ ! :p \\ \.fl shall be prescr1bed therem, shall not o, sa;~ take effect until tile twentieth day :~t~~r~ri~ after .tt o;hall have became a law, terest thereon shall be a lien upon Seetlon 43, article II, chapter s, Gen- the real estate against which the same was assessed. The proceeds era! JJaws.) of all assessments and taxes ;collect- CHAP. 671. ed by the chamberlai~ of the per- AN ACT t<> amend chapter five hun- sons as!essed, as provided in ,this dre d an-' nm ~ty-three of the ln~s of section, shall be applied to the pay- \- ~ ~.. ment of the bonds or certiticil,tes of nmeteen hundred and five, entitled mdebtedness hereinafter provided \An a0t to revrse the charter of the for, and the interest thereon, as the same shall become duet; and, in no city of J(}hnstown,\ generally. case, shall the proceeds of such tax- ----' es or assessments be Jised for any Became a Jaw, July 20, 1907, <With other purpose than the payment of said bonds or certificates of indebt- the approval of vhe Governor. Pass- edness and the interest thereon, ex- ed, three-fifths bemg present. cept the first installment thereof, Accepted by the e!ty. which shall be applied to the pay- ment of the cost of such improve- The People of the State of New ment. York, revresented in Senate and As- d. One-fifth of such port10n of the cost of such Improvement as, sembly, do enact as follows: under the provisions of section one Seetio'n 1. Seetion s.1xty-nme of hundred and twenty-three of titus. chapter fiye hundred and nmety-tm·ee act, IS payable by the city, shall be of rthe Jaws of mneteen hundred and paid by the eommon council out of the street fund of said city, levted five, entitled \An ad to rev1se the and collected for the year in which charter of the city\ of JOhnstown,\ IS such improvement is made, and one- hereby amended to read as follows. fifth of the mty's portiOn of the cost of such improvement, w1th lll- 69. Subdiv1s1on ot funds: transfers terest on the bonds or certificates from one fund to another.- Except as of indebtedness issued to provide otherw1se pmvided in tins act, the for the payment of the remaming funds of the c1ty shall be subdiVIded four-fifths of the city's portion of the cost of such Improvement, as mto the several funds as designated heremafter provided, remaining out- in section s1xty-seven of thiS act, and s~anding and unpa~d, shall be appro- pnated from the city taxes raised m amounts -ol' proporb<>ns as deter- annually each year therafter, until mined upon therefor by the common the city's portion of the cost of council pursuant to section sixty-six of such improvement has been provided this act. NQ transfer of money from for, and transferred by the com- mon council from the street one City fund to another shaii be fund to the, pavement fund, and authodzed or made except that the used and applied by the com- common coun-cil may, at the close of mon council in paying and cancel- ling the bonds or certificates of m- the fiscal year, by resolutwn d1rect the debtedness tssued pursuant to this transfer of surplus moneys in the poor section and the Interest thereon fund to any other 'fund and the city e To provide for the payment of Chamberlam shall re:tate his ac- the remaimng four-fifths of that port10n of the cost of such Improve- counts of the fund~ so changed ment as, under section one hundred accordmgly. The expenditures from and twenty-three of this act, is pay- any fund shall •be lrn:nted to the able by the city and to provide funds for the payment of such portion of amount standmg to the credit of that the cost of such improvement as shall fund upon the books of the city cham- have been locally assessed as here- berlam unless a d1fferent and greater m provided and rema.ms unpaid, exljenditure IS auuhorized at a special the common council may borrow up- on the faith &nd credit of the city city eleetwn. such money as may be neces!if.rY, 2 Sectwn one hundred and th1rty- to the extent of four-fifths of the six of said act is hereby amended to total cost of such improveman.t, a11d read as follows: may 1ssue bonds therefor payable at such times and 1n such amounts 136 Pa:yment 1by installments for as such local assessments before 1mproved pavements; 1ssue of bonds specified shall becqme due and pay- able, and as such portion of the therefore.- WlwneveT the common cost of such improveme!lt as is pay- connell, m aeoordahee with the provi- able by the mty is proVlded herein swns of this ruct, shall have declared to be raised. as near as may be Its mtent 10 n to pave or repave with practicable. Each ef said bonds shall be signed by the mayor and asphalt, granrte or other Improved countersigJled by the clerk and the pa>ement, or to macadamize or re- chamberlain of sa1d c1ty, and shall macadam;ze any street 01; part of a be delivered, when issued, to the chamberlam and shall be sold by &treet, the sa1d common council may, hlm as provided m tl}.IS act. All •by resolution adopted ;~Y a two-t):mds moneys derived from the sale of affirmative Y(}te of all the aldermen in said bonds shall be kept by the office, declare that all the provisions of chamberlain as a separate fund, des- ignated as the pavement fund, and this section shall apply to the malnng all moneys paid from said fund $hall of such improvement, the assessment be upon the warrants of the com- of the cost thereof, and the payment mon counml, signed by the mayor, countersigned by the mty clerk, and of such assessment. The common accepted by the city chamberlam council shall there-upon authorize and of said city, payable at the bank d1reet the city engmeer to make all where the fund upon which tj:Iey are drawn is deposited. necessary surveys, establish all grades f If any of said lnstallments, so and prepare all necessary plans and locally assessed, or any part thereof, spedficat10ns for such improvement. e1ther prmcipal or interest, shall re- 'l'he c1t,y eng;neer shall haye charge of mam unpaid for sixty days after the t1me of the delivery of the warrant and supermtenil the same until its for the collection thereof to the completion and furnish an estimate of chamberlam, then and in that case. the probable cost and expense thereof. the whole =ount of such unpaid A map show>ng the sur-veys made and assessment, together with the mter- est thereon for the full time for grades established, together With the which such payments were extend- plans and specifications adopted by ed or deferred, against the default- th I h mg party, shall become due and e common oounci, s all be filed w1th payable immediately after tb,e de- the city clei'k. fault so made and the common coun- a. Arter the adoption of the pla'ns cil shall, by Its warrant, command and specificatwns as herem <pr<>VIded the said chamberlam to collect the same, with interest, costs and fees and the determmation of !Jhe kind and immediately, and the same shall b~ quality of mater1als to be used in collected in the manner prov1ded makmg such nnprovem€'nts, the com by this act for the collection of as- .1 h 1 sessments for other local improve- mon co11nci s a I, unless the improve- t mens 1 meut S'hall consist <>f the macadamiz- g. No action to set aside, cancel mg or remacadam1zmg of a street or or annul any assessment ma'\tl.e un- part of a street, advertise and receive der the provisions of thiS sectiOn shall be maintained by anY· person, sealed proposals therefor, m such unless such act,ion ahall have been m'\m\r as the common counc1I shall commenced within thirty days after prescr1be, and the contract therefore the dehvery to the mty chamberlam of the first asseSilment roll and war- shall be let to the lowest responsible rant as provided in this act, and un- J)ldder \'ho shall comnly with the re- less w1thin thirty days aq mJunct- quuements of the common councll, in 1on shall have been procured by givmg a satisfactory bond for the such person from a court of com- petent JUrisdiCtiOn restrmning the fmthfull performance Qf the contract, common council from issuing' bonds and mtiemmf;png the city from dam- as hereinbefore provided~ ages ansmg out <>f the pprf<>rmance § 3. Sectwn one hundred and the1eof, but m case the 1mprmement thirty-eight of said act 1s hereby amended to read as !ollows: shall consist of the macad-amlZ)ng or § 138 Construction and repair remacadamiZmg of a street or of a of sidewalks, curbstones, gutters part of a street, the common council and culverts; pa'y.Dlent by install· Inents; issue of bonds therefor,- may, Ill Its discretion, caTise such im. Whenever the common council shall provemeut to be made either 'by c()n· deem it 'nel)essary that any sidewalk, tract let as rubove '!}ronded. or by 1 ts curbstone, gutter or- culvert be made, constructed, re-set, relaid, .or servants or employees without the let- repatred, as a distinct and mdepend- t!ng of a ~ontract therefor. ent Improvement unconne-eted with b. The common -council shall, ~vifh- the paving, asphaltmg, or macadam- m a reasona,ble time after the eomple- lZing of ;;he adJoining street, it ll\aY by ordmance require that such Im- tion of such improvement, direct ':the provement be made by or at the ex- C()st thereof tQ be assessed by the pense of the owner or occupant of The murder of two Italtans 1at Am- sterdam and the as.sasma:twn of an aged woman at Gloversville, three hfe-takmgs In our Immediate viC1n- ity w1thm a week thM 1s but barelv ih>3.1f passed, Ea} s the Schenectady Umon, att'ract attentiOn to the sta.rt- ling mcrease m the number of mur- aers durmg the past twenty years throughout the country, notwtth- standtng the great morfa1 advances that \e ha' e made In that period nhere has been· one executiOn for eal\h se•enty murders Of course ca;-p~tal puniShment has been abolished in some of the states, wh1ch le::sens the ratiO, but the figures are amazmg just the same A WJ.'Iter in an Eng- lish publlca,wn shoows that 1n 1885 there v.ere 1,8{;8 murders and only !08 execuuons, while mneteen years iater there were 8,482 murders and only 116 execut10m: In other words wh1le horrucHle has tncreased five~ fold, t'here has been no proport!ionate illlcrease in executions ' Taere are fourteen t1mes as many murders commUted w Amenca on 'a m1llion populatiOn basas as 1n Englfamd, e1ght times as many as in Japan, ten tlmes as many as un Canada, twenty- five times as many as in Germany and five t1mes as many as m A ustrfa- lia The figures show tbwt Amen- cans are ln!lmg each other at the rate of 9,000 per year, tMs not m- elmnve of the mu<\derers executed. Even though the mta•JOI'ity of l'ife- :takmgs are t:he acts of foreigners, we must assume the stigma. ~here I.e certainly food for thought in these ghastly figUI es, and such tragedies as have taken place m our nelghbor- in;g count1es of Fulton and Mont- . f the adjoining property. Such ordin- engmeer, or In ease o his dis_qtru·oa,vl·lifi·rl--J ance shall prescribe the materials to cati<m, bf t)Ie city as!>essor, as 'l be used in making such improve- Gloversville 8aturday rece1ved a Albany in <>D<>t·ation. ed m section one hundred and twenty ment, the width and thickness there- postal card from his wife, who con- The pl!J;mpmg of w•ater into the Co- two of this act. The cost of such 1m- of if the improvement pe a side- walk, the form and manner of con- uuets a music studio at No. 37 West hoes reservmrs has been grea.tly 1 m- provement shall be 'llssessed as provid- struction if the hllprqvement be a twn Co , the latter company has pla:c- Harvey E. Cromwell, a dent1st w1th I ed 1 ts engmes and dynamos in the offices at :Xo. 13 North ~lam street, South Pearl street !)ower station in • gomery withm the qJast few days prompt earnest con,,derrution. Fulton stleet, announcing her safe ar- peded, by low water. and as a result ed m s<>etion one !hundred and thl.rty- curbst(/ne, gutter or culvert, the rn al at Portland, :Me., after es0aping vhe wreter in the city reservom; is three of this act, and sections ane time within which the work shall fro n one of tl'e hotels destroyed in the hundred and thirty-three, one hundred be done, and shall require that such low. improvement shall confovm to t1le flw at Old Orchard, rwh1ch almost and thirty-foUl' and o11e hundred and grade established or to be. establi!lh- w1p0u out that resort Thursday night. MOVTNG PICTURE MAN'S thirty-five of this act shall apply to ed therefor. At lea$t ten days be- n'his wns 'the first intimation MI,. the making of such assessmeut, an.d fore the expiration of the time Speci- i RIG AUTOlUOBILE BALKS. tied in the ordinance th.ee,;;_~,~m.,t,~ Croillw<'Il had that his wife was at th the collection thereof, except as council shall cause 'be ;;, h fi M C II otherwise provided in this section. on t:e~dJ~]~]; rf'sort during t e l'!!. • rs. romwe Lymnn H. Howe Of the Moving pic- 1 f I II T ~\ i c. The assessments made on ac- e t G o~et SV 1 e ue,...ay morn ng for ture fame, who has been in Johns- ! count of such improvement shall thP hom<• of her father, w 10 resides in town on severa:l different OC!Ca:Sions, I f t ·1 f \ in five equ,al annual in- ~ tune, some or v m1 Ps rom Port- and 'who Is visiting QI~s brotheT, :a. A fire \luclt origin.I b>d ThurS<lay I J ,, t hr I [ sltallrotElDl~S. The fil'st installment lan<l, antl Hs \\'• •au o l'aso:; t oug 1 H. Howe, Qf 12 Pa.rkwood BoulevaJri'l, f k • f shall be payable ili'lmediatety after noon 1•om spar s 1ssmng rom a the ~:~mnuH'r t•esort on her way she Sc:henectru::lt,..for a few day~;~,' missed 1=4~~~ 11 ~::~~~i~~~i::~~~:~~i the d,ell..ver:y of the :(!i'st w«rraiit for smokesta<:I• at Sebamberger's lumber statt>d th.1t slle might stop over there an exeelletlt opnartun~ty to \'Sit a. \' \' the collection thereof to the city mill at BlcN:ker caused considerable for a few days. new and lnt~Jre£.t!ng set <of. ftlm!! 'i~i;~~:~d~:~~~~~~~f=~i!~~~~~~~i~ti chamberlaixt, and tp.~ remaining in- 1 danfa,ge to tlwh· I•lant at the abo\e l!rs. Cromwell saved all of her per- quite recently m U'PP~';r'bnion stllllmenta shall be p~cya.ble each ed 1 b f th fl I sonal effeets. She states in the com- street, Sche>ll£'~auy, when IJ:I,is blg year thereaftel' on warrant\ ~;r.i;~~;~~~;~~~~~~7:l, nam p ace e ore e ames \ere . .,. \ municatwn thnt ~>he Will write full touTing o11r, a 60 'horse-power Tll:om· ts 11 ued tor the coU~cti:on thl!reof, ',~:!~f!~. extingl)lslwd. It 1s estima.ted that the particulars of her escape upon :u.uiv- 'llG flyer, b,<PJkecl, smashillg ,one Of 1ta vJth irtterest l ~ 5 ~~:~w~~~r~ i!:~\jl'\i~ loJi>i 'W .11 a.!liOUnt to about $4,000. mg at her father's home, fibar Wll.aaJ!!r• • . , .: '• ot SUCh '8 ' ' c1ty, l'lr otherwise the on his agent or other person having charge of the property, or by depos- iting the same m the postoffice, properly inclosed and the 1 postage prepaid thereon, and directed, to f notify the such owner at his last known suph -defa)llt and place of residence; or in case standing and unpaid such owner or his place of council shall by its .lesidence is vUnknown, and there the chAmberlain fn'rtl1wiUrc ~e no resident agent or occupant to lect the amount the knowledge of the common conn- with interest, co)>ts and ---~~~~~~f.i~{;~ cil, by affixmg a copy of such ordin- same shall be collectible a.nd ance and notice upon a conspicuous ed accordingly. Whenev<er part of the premises. If there be this section the expense two or more owners' of any piece of struction or r~pair of a .si•ile'walk or,,,,~,., property service upon one of them sidewalks has become shall be sufficient Affidavits of the wP.ole O>' ia part, m publication or service of such notice Wft?:h annual interest, the and ordinance may be filed or re- council may borrow upon the corded, or both, in the office of the and credit of the city succlh~t:~~~~~~J clerk of sa1d city, and the affidavits as may be necessary to a or the record thereof, or a certified the payment of installments copy of either, shall in all courts and at the time of the issuing to places, actwns and proceedings, lJe chamberlain the special assessment pnma facie evidence of the facts roll and warrant for the collection therem stated. If the improvement thereof, and may 1ssue bonii.s there- directed by the ordmance is not for, payable at such times, not .a•·..c-, ... ,~,,, completed as required w i t h i n ceeding five years, ,Wlth mtere13t the t1me specified therein, the exceedwg five per centum per an- common council may cause tlie 1 num, as it may deem advisable. Eacb:; Improvement to be made, and bond so issued shall be signed by having done so, shall, without the mayor and countersigned by tbe g!Vmg any other or further notice, city clerk and city chan;~.berlain, and upon affidavits of the mty engineer shall be delivered, when issued, to or superintendent of streets haVlng the chamberlain, and sliall be sofd the work m charge as the case may by him as provided in this act, and be, showing the actual expense the funds denved from the' p..:.y~ thereof, which affidavits shall be ment of the anticipated ':ltalh tiled With the mty clerk, proceed to ments as they become due • 1 ~n be make a special assessment roll and set apart as a special fund auc, l'Jhall duphcate ther,eof, both of wh1ch be applied to the payment of said shall be deemed originals, assessing bonds, and not otherwise No ac- agatnst the delinquent owners or tion to set aside, cancel or annul occupants a11d upon each parcel or any assessment :made under the pro- lot of land owned or occupied by VISIOns of this sectwn shall be main- them immediately adJommg the tained by any person, unless such sidewalk, curbstones, gutter or cui- action shall have been commenced vert, so built or repa1red by the wlthm thirty days after the delivezy mty, the cost and expense of such to the city chamberlain · of tlte • improvement, which assesment rolls special assesment roll ani! warrant when completed shall be filed m the as provided in this act, and unless, office of the city clerk. Whereupon m case bonds may be issued under the c1ty clerk shall g!Ve not1ce m this sectiOn, within such thirty days the official newspapers of the city an InJUnctiOn shall have been pro- that the spemal assessment roll has cured from a court of competent been left w1th h1m and may be ex- JUrisdiCtion restraining the common amined by any party interested, and council from issumg bonds ..as here- that at a time and place to be speCI- inefore provided The gutters in fied in sa1d notice, whiCh shall not streets, paved, asphalted, or macad- be less than ten days from the first almzed, m whole or m part, by lo- publication thereof, the common cal assessment shall be kept in re- coup.ml w1ll hear and r ct upon the pair at the expense of the city. application of any person deeming Whenever the grade of any sidewalk himself aggrieved by said special has been established by the city and ae;sessment After hearing all such recorded, and has been conformed, applications the common council to by the owner of any adJoining may proceed to make such altera- property, any chan~e of grade there- tiona and corrections, if any, in smd after made by th8 mty must be special assessment roll as 1t may made at the expense of the city. deem just, and by resolution con- §4. This act shall take effect im- firm the same, and said assessment mediately. shall thereupon become and be final State of New York, Office of the and conclusive upon all part1es 1n- f'ecretary of State ss . ' terested in said real estate, or af- I haV!J compared the preceding fected thereby, and the amount as- with the ong1nal law on file m this sessed shall be a lien upon the office, and do hereby certify that lands and premlj>es mentioned m the same is a correct transcript said assessment roll and adJoimng therefrom and of the whole of said whiCh said improvements have been origmal law. made Where an assessment has JOHN S. WHALEN, been made under this section to de- Secretary of State. fray the cost and expense of con- structing a sidewalk of stone or cement, or of any material other than wood, the common counml ~>.t the time it shall confirm the assess- ment, may pro·nde by ordinance adopted by a two-thirds affirmative vote o£ all the aldermen 1n office, that the owners or occupants of any real estate agamst which such as- sessment has been made may have tb,e privilege of paying their respect- ive assessments in five annual in- stallments, as near equal as may be, upon filing with the mty clerk with- Ill a time specified in the ordmance, their electiOn and agreement to pay such assessments in five annual In- stallments with interest thereon at five per centum per annum, payable annually Such ordinance shall be published at least once in the offi- cial newspapers of the mty not Jess than ten days prior to the exp1ration of the time specified m the ordm- ance, and a copy of the ordinance with notice of 1ts adoptiOn shall be served upon each of the persons so assessed, by depositing a copy there- of, mclosed m a post-paid wrapper, addressed to the person assessed at his or her last known place of residence m the postoffice m the mty of Johnstown, at least five days prior to the time spec1fied m such ordinance for fihng such electwn and agreement. In case any per- son asse~sed shall fafl or neglect to file with the city clerk such electwn and agreement withm the time hm- ited such fa1Iure or neglect shall be deemed a reJectiono of the pnv1lege of paying the assessment by mstall- ments, and his or her assessment sh~ll thereafter be payable as an en- tire sum After Lhe expiration of the tlme within which such election and agreement may be made, 1f the assessment relates to the construct- ion or repair of asidewalk, or after the confirmation of the assessment, if the assessment relates to the con- struction, setting, laymg, or reset- ting or relaying of a curb, gutter or culvert, if no appeal has been taken :lirom the assessment as prov1ded in sectiOn one hundred and thirty-four of this act, or if an appeal' therefrom has been taken and such assessment has been affirmed, such special as- sessment roll, together w1th a war- rant for the collectwn of the taxes therein assessed, and each election and agreement, if any, to pay m m- stallments as above provided, shall be left W\th the city chamberlain who shall proceed to collect such taxes with hiS fees thereon. Sections one hundred and thirty-four and act shall apply to the making of the assessment and collection thereof ex- cept as otherwise provided in this section. Every asessment for the constructwn or repair of a curb, gutter or culvert, and every assess- ment for the constructien or repair of a sidewalk where the same has not been made payable in install- ments as in this section provided shall be payable upon the delivery of the warrant for the collection there,.of to the 9ity chamberlam, and every assessment for the construct- ion or repair of a sidewalk as to which an election and agreement to installments has been filed as ~;,~:\~,J'~ under an ordinance n sball be payable installmenJ;s, the shall be payable of the warrant for the assessment to the city ch:~mbelrlailn and t;lach sub- sequent installment, t'()gether with interest at the rate <>f five per cent- Hunting for Trouble \I've lived in Calfornia 20 years and am still hunting for trouble in the way of burns, sores, wounds, boils, cuts, sprams, or a case of ptles that Bucken's Arnica. Salve won't quickly cure.\ Sierra Co. 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I-t possesses medwmal propertws of its bemg a valuable demulcent, .n~:•triithrA7 :• antiseptic and antlferment. greatly to the efficacy of th:el'~la.cli:.Cli~x?y;~'''' bark, Bloodroot, Golden Seal root and Queen's root, \Golden Medicul Discovery chrome, or hng<:>rmg COllgliS, throat and 1 ung a:tl'ections, these agents are recommended by ard mecilcal authorities. In all cases where there is a. away of :flesh, loss of s~~~j~~-as in the -~ therecan cei·iull-/ acts a. per annum upon the whole am<;tUnt of the assessment remaining outstood- ing and unpaid, shall be payable annually there!lifter, Until fully paid. U any of said installments, or any part ther0f, ettlier of principal or in tere~. shall remain unl)~id for s\xty 'dlliys atter: the time when the =~fit~~~;l~i~i~~~ sp.'l;;le ll4tlU be PIIJ&bl~. then and in j thll!t C&~;e the wbOle aJD.O\Jllt of the • l ... ~
