Sneak Thief at Levi Lynch's Home

New York, 1895

Woodhaven and Ozone Park News.

Harrison Tuttle is spending his vacation in Orange county.

Sunday afternoon a sneak thief entered the home of Levi Lynch, on Hatch avenue, and stole $10.

Charles Tucker is spending a week angling for weak fish. Charley has sent home some very nice ones.

Martin Rilling of the Twenty-Sixth ward, Brooklyn, is preparing to open a bakery at Woodhaven Junction.

Children's Day was observed in the Ozone Park Methodist church on Sunday evening. There was extra music prepared for the occasion by F. Luce. The morning sermon was by the Rev. William Ross.

Xavier Kumpf was buried on Sunday in Maple Grove cemetery. The funeral ceremonies were conducted wholly by the Odd Fellows' lodge, of which the deceased was an active member. About 200 Odd Fellows were in the procession and they made an excellent showing.


The Siacs crossed bats with the Giants of Brooklyn on Saturday and took them into camp after a hard struggle. Score: Siacs 13, Giants 9. The Siacs have secured a phenomenon for first base. He can fairly eat the ball. A large crowd enjoyed the game from start to finish.

An inquest was held Monday night by Coroner Nutt and a jury as to the cause of the death of the unknown man whose body was found in Maple Grove cemetery last month. The jury rendered a verdict of death by strangulation at the hands of parties unknown.

The funeral of Franz Eigenbrodt took place on Sunday. The Odd Fellows and several other organizations, with a band of music, escorted the remains to Broadway and Ocean avenue. Fully 250 men were in line. A large number of carriages followed the remains to Maple Grove cemetery.

The citizens of Union Course will hold a mass meeting this evening for the purpose of co-operating with the board of education in its efforts to provide adequate accommodations for pupils. The board has appointed a conference committee of forty citizens residing in the several parts of the school district to examine into the pressing needs.

The inquest on the boy Jerome Gainer, who shot himself while out walking with his sweetheart last week, was held on Wednesday night. Several witnesses were examined, among them Miss Blanche Hempstead, who was with him when he committed the deed. The jury rendered a verdict of death by his own hand.

A lady claiming to be the wife of Joseph Garcia appeared at Aqueduct on Friday, and created considerable excitement by claiming that her husband had been recreant. He is a well known resident of that place and is a member of the grocery firm of Van Brunt & Co. His partner a young lady and she was the especial object of the wife's wrath.

The Gillespie artificial ice company has erected a large building extending through from Ocean avenue to Lawn avenue fifty feet on each street, for the manufacture of artificial ice. They have invested nearly $30,000 in the plant and the citizens are taking great interest in the new venture. The first lot of ice was turned out last week, and now fifteen tons are made daily. The size of each cake of ice is 11x22x44 inches. The well from which the water is obtained is 15 feet in diameter and 50 feet deep.

The article in THE FARMER last week pricking up Coroner Nutt for apparent sympathy with an attempt to conceal the identity of the suicide found near Cypress Hills caused a genuine sensation in this village. The result was that the jury ascertained the deceased to be one Charles Schaefer, of Brooklyn. He is supposed to have taken his life during a recurring fit of suicidal mania. Investigation revealed that he was of excellent family and that his relatives were desirous of keeping his identity from the public prints.

William J. Howard, who has a goat farm near Aqueduct, has had three men arrested for slaughtering his goats to gratify a grudge. The men are locked up in the Town Hall. The farm, which covers an area of some 150 acres, is devoted to the breeding of goats from stock brought by Mr. Howard from Mexico. They are very thin and wiry, and have skins of peculiar texture, suited better to conversion into kid than that of almost any other breed of goats. The experiment is being made of feeding them on meadow grass and hay, on which they seem to thrive. The firm has a factory in Brooklyn, where the skins undergo treatment. When Mr. Howard reached the farm Thursday morning he found five of the goats slaughtered. Extreme brutality had been resorted to in the destruction of the animals, one having been struck with a knife in eighteen places. Then a second slaughter took place, when six animals were killed.

—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, NY, June 21, 1895, p. 8.

A Smuggler

1895

Some years ago a tame long haired goat formed part of the regular crew of a passenger steamer on service between an English port and a continental one. After a time the customs authorities discovered that it wore a false coat many sizes too large for it. The goat's own hair was clipped very close. Round its body were packed cigars, lace, etc., and then the false coat was skillfully put on and fastened by books and eyes. — Notes and Queries.


Electric Travel Almost Universal

Twenty-four cities in the United States, having a population of from 100,000 to 500,000 each are said to possess between them something over 3,000 miles of street railways. Of those railways 65 per cent are worked by electricity, 20 per cent by horses, 10 per cent by cable and the small remainder by other systems. — From a Kansas City newspaper.

Kansas "Goat Gland Specialist" Missing

1920

Wife Tells Sheriff She Has Come to "Close the Deal."

MILFORD, Kan. — Indications are that the "bubble" formed here when Dr. John R. Brinkley, "goat gland specialist," put this small village "on the map" by his famous "discovery," which he claimed would restore youth to the aged thru gland grafting, has burst.

The "bubble" showed signs of weakening when Brinkley departed for parts unknown two months ago, followed shortly by thousands who had swarmed into Milford, seeking the "fountain of youth."

Following the arrival of the "specialist's" wife here with the announcement that she had come to "close up a deal," the sheriff of Geary County was called upon to take steps to block any move looking to the removal of the "gland hospital's" equipment.

—The Saturday Blade, Chicago, Aug. 7, 1920, p. 4.

Goat Starts Farmer In Fight With Pigs

1920

Butts Man Into Pen and Porkers Resent His Intrusion.

MONTGOMERYVILLE, Pa. — While gazing with pride at his pen of fast fattening hogs and dreaming fond dreams of juicy hams during the coming winter season, Gustav Stoney, who lives near here, was awakened from his reverie when a goat butted him over the rail of the pigpen among the pigs.

The porkers crawled all over him, and Stoney and the pigs gave vent to a medley of grunts, squeals and yells.

Finally, when the pigpen calisthenics were at their height, Stoney's son came to his father's rescue. He chased away the pigs, and Stoney, the elder, emerged. His clothing was torn and he was cut and bruised.

—The Saturday Blade, Chicago, Aug. 7, 1920, p. 3.

Men and Women Shocked by Billy Goat

1910

INDIANAPOLIS. — Mr. Billy Goat partook of a breakfast of hemp rope and started out for a little recreation from a shed in the rear of 916 Fowler street. It was a fortunate incident for several persons who met Mr. Goat that they had eaten their breakfasts before leaving home, thus avoiding the trouble of eating from the mantel or top of the kitchen cabinet. The animal was in a joyful mood, and liberty and fresh air made him tricky. The goat made no distinction as to sex. In his playfulness he enjoyed seeing a woman just as much as a man, and the result was that two women were badly frightened and shocked by having their bonnets shaken violently when they felt a sudden shock from the rear.

It was stated to the police that one man was shaken loose from his false teeth by the unexpected greeting of the goat, but the bicycleman who investigated failed to learn his name.

Clara Langsdale, 710 East Eleventh street, made the acquaintance of the goat, according to the police, and, although given a jolt by the animal, she maintained her footing and escaped injury.

In answer to an excited telephone call Bicyclemen Rodemacher and Rowe were sent to the place from the substation in East Seventeenth street. The goat by that time had moved over in Ashland avenue and persons in the avenue, including men, women and children, were giving the animal plenty of room. Rodemacher had never wrestled with goats before, but instinct warned him that the only manner in which to held a goat successfully was by his horns.

The bicycleman showed a bold front for the reason that he has to sit on a bicycle seat much of the time and he could not afford to take the chance of turning his back. Mr. Goat accepted the challenge of the bicycleman, and he started toward the men in a manner that caused them to glance with longing eyes at the lower branches of the nearest tree. They stood their ground, however, and Rodemacher met the animal with outstretched hands. He seized the goat's horns and perhaps saved himself from being butted over a church in the neighborhood. The bicycleman held on and during the struggle he called for Rowe.

"Just hold on, Roddie, until I get up this tree, and then let go," was Rowe's jest.

Rodemacher needed no advice, and he held on until Mr. Goat came to the conclusion that he was violating the law. A goat with better manners could not have been found after he seemed to realize that he was "pinched."

Farmer Charges Cat Sucked Breath From Children

1908

Gladstone, Michigan — Two children of Clarence Stearns, a farmer living near this village, are dying and three others are seriously ill, due to a cat having "sucked their breath" when they lay asleep in bed.

The father, in the dim light, saw the family cat sitting on the child's breast, its nose close to the babe's lips. The cat's claws scratched the child's breast as the father drew it away.

Going to the bed of the other children he found, he says, that the cat had sucked the breath of all and that two were so ill it was necessary for him to hitch up his horses and drive to the village for a doctor.


Goat and Man in Duel

Kansas City, Missouri — Bruised and battered on all four sides and with all of his corners knocked off, Frank Schleich lies on a cot in the emergency hospital as the result of a battle in the dark between him and a goat. The goat invaded Schleich's room in the barn and, as the man was unarmed, the goat might have killed him had it not been for the arrival of another barn man, who subdued the horned and whiskered beast by throwing a horse blanket over its head.


Baby Born with Brand

Peoria, Illinois — A letter "H" as distinct as though branded with an iron shows on the forehead of the two-months-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Hartman of Alton.

Neighbors gather daily at the Hartman home to view the unusual birthmark, which is exactly in the middle of the forehead and which has become more plainly visible within the last few weeks.

Physicians say the birthmark will disappear within two or three years.

A Poet's Union

A Baltimore bard is trying to organize a poet's union, but the scheme is likely to fail owing to the fact that all the applicants for membership wish to be walking delegates.
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Four goats, inoculated with a billion disease germs, have wandered astray in New York. However, this is not the first instance in which modern scientists have lost their goats.
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A woman in a New York town owes her safety to the fact that she wore a harem skirt and the trouser part gave her freedom to run for her life. So here is one good point registered for the persecuted apparel.
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A woman in Spokane has been graduated from a school of stenography at the age of seventy and expects to take up active work. When the spirit is so young there are no limits to activity which age can impose.

--The Ellis Review-Headlight, Ellis, Kansas, 1911