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William S. Berrs burned to death.
Howard Boughton, one of Catskill's foremost citizens died as he was about to retire for the night. Born at Windham 1849, came to Catskill in 1865. Was in business with L. R. Doty. Very successful business man.
Waldo Schmidt found dead in the lots near Summit Hill House, Catskill. He had been hunting, and shot himself by accident.
Capt. Geo. R. Benter, formerly of Catskill, died in New York.
Julius Colwick, of Alsen, was buried in a bin of cement at that place and killed.
George Trumpbour, aged 69 years, died at Palenville.
Sally Davis, aged 92 years, died at Oak Hill.
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CHRONOLOGY 1906.
William Ford, of Cairo, enlisted and went to Philippines.
Nelson S. Bloom died from stroke of paralysis at Oak Hill.
Oscar Greene dropped dead at Coxsackie.
Hart House at Catskill Point destroyed by fire.
Bolivar Newbury, one of the early manufacturers of power presses for printing, died at Coxsackie, at the age of 82 years.
A crazy man called on the Rev. I. H. Hoag, at Leeds, and an- nounced that God had sent him to kill him. The pastor side stepped him, and the sheriff got the quarry.
Ned Mirles, of Catskill, killed by the cars at Alsen.
Justice Howard presided at February term of the Supreme Court.
Greene County Bar Association met at the Palmer House, Catskill. Justice Chase presided. Arthur M. Murphy read paper on Judge Osborn.
Dr. Henry L. Whitbeck, a former resident of Greenville, killed his wife, Emmaline Haight, of Freehold with a tack hammer and then blew the top of his own head off with a rifle.
John Paige died at the home of his daughter in Coxsackie at the aged of 87 years.
Abram Sickles, aged 65 years, tried to cross the river on the ice at Coxsackie and was drowned.
Truman Gillett, a former Catskillian and private secretary of Thurlow Weed, died at his home in Chicago, aged 87 years
David Davis, of Union Society, died at the age of 82 years.
John Slattery, a prominent resident of Athens died at that place following a stroke of paralysis.
George H. Vedder, of Leeds, a graduate of Harvard college pub- lishes magazine at La Hacienda.
William Raney died at Coxsackie of pneumonia.
The Rev. John W. Gorse, aged 80 years, died at Catskill.
Tev. Rev. C. G. Hazard, the Rev. E. P. Miller, The Rev. Wm. Fitz- gerald, the Rev. Robert Knapp, William Van Orden, F. S. Lynes, Orrin Day, James P. Philip, William Palmatier and P. Gardner Coffin com- mittee to raise funds for San Francisco earthquake sufferers.
Arthur Coggswell, of Athens, killed by the cars.
Antonio Gentillio killed by the cars at Coxsackie.
Ransom Thorne, oldest resident of Freehold, died from heart trouble.
The Presbytery of Columbia met in Catskill. Large attendance.
Norman Francis, of Oak Hill, found dead in his room.
Walter Dederick, of Catskill, fell against buzz saw he was operat- ing in lumb camp at Leeds and had his leg cut off. He recovered. Charles Thatcher dropped dead on Mansion street at Coxsackie.
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Mrs. Margaret Ensign, formerly of Coxsackie, lost all her posses- sions in the San Francisco disaster.
Elder E. P. Pratt, of Oak Hill, representative to General Assembly at Des Moines.
Jacob Fromer, of Hunter, passed through serious operation at Albany hospital.
Amount sent from Catskill to San Franscio by committee, $2829; other sources, St. Patrick's church, 150 and Reformed church, $59.
Albert Hoffman, of Coxsackie, committed suicide by taking strychnine.
Joseph Ostrander ,of Tannersville, committed suicide by taking arsenic.
Charles Young drove to Oak Hill, tied his horse and then went into the barn and cut his throat with a jack knife. He died.
The body of Joseph Pulaski, of Catskill, found in the river.
Willis S. Post died at Palenville at the age of 71 years.
Albert Chase, father of Justice Emory A Chase, died at Henson- ville, aged 84 years.
William Garrison, aged 77 years, while hunting rats shot himself and died instantly.
Buildings of J. G. Newbury at Coxsackie destroyed by fire. Loss $18,000.00.
Justice Fitts presided at June term of the Supreme Court.
Citizens Hose Company, of Catskill, paraded at Rensselaer.
Ninety-first annual meeting of Greene County Bible Society at Catskill.
Lucius E. Tuttle and Mrs. Tuttle were shot July 4th as the closing event of a celebration. The shot was fired by Italians on Water street, and they were never apprehended. Mr. Tuttle died instantly and Mrs. Tuttle finally recovered. The bullet passed through her body.
Company E spent 10 days in camp at Fleischmans.
The upper town bridge at Catskill blown up by dynamite.
Hiram Bogardus, former school commissioner of county, died at Coxsackie, of gangrene. He was 74 years of age.
Mrs. Edgar Poole found dead in her home on Broome street, at Coxsackie.
Clayton Bump, a Catskill veteran of the Spanish war committed suicide at Albany, using gas and chloroform.
Hendrick Hudson steamer, of the Day Line, made first trip on August 23rd.
Commodore William B. Nelson died suddenly at Catskill.
Great firemen's celebration at Hunter on Labor Day.
Teachers' Institute held at Catskill. W. N. Anderson and Leslie Tompkins, commissioners.
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David Layman killed at Washburn brick yard at Catskill by a falling derrick.
Jacob Fromer elected president Greene County Firemen's Assn. Barns of Omar Mackey at Oak Hill destroyed by fire.
Kingston District Conference held in Catskill Methodist church.
Greene County Sunday School Convention held at Palenville. Sixty-three schools in the county.
Alvin Brewer found dead in bed at his home in Catskill.
John Post, of Catskill, celebrated his 97th birthday.
Ice house of New Jersey Company, at Smith's Landing destroyed by fire.
George Burleigh, a Civil War veteran, died at Athens, at the age of 72 years.
Steamers Adirondack and Saratoga in collision below Catskill. Two dead, many hurt.
Kennedy Valve Works at Coxsackie, damaged to extent of $9000 by fire.
Morris Guards encamped at Catskill.
John W. Rusk, of Haines Falls, invents steam wagon, also process of printing 50 photographs a minute.
Greene county gave Hughes for governor plurality of 500. W. C. Brady elected member of assembly; E. A. Gifford, district attorney; J. C. Tallmadge, county judge; Ira T. Tolley ,sup't of county house, and Hardy Stewart, sheriff.
Henry S. Van Orden elected chairman and Geo. B. Van Valken- burgh clerk to Board of Supervisors. Board-Ashland, Homer Tomp- kins; Athens, J. K. Van Woert; Cairo, Charles P. Jones; Catskill, Henry S. Van Orden; Coxsackie, W. T. Haswell; Durham, T. I. Smith ; Greenville, Henry Botsford; Hunter, Renwick Dibble; Halcott, L. J. Deamer; Jewett, Geo. H. Chase; Lexington, Geo. Moore; New Balti- more, Brand Van Slyke; Prattsville, Elmer Krieger, and Windham, Sidney L. Ford.
Thomas Brown, aged 78 years, a war veteran, an old time whaler, died at Freehold.
Work commenced on new concrete bridge at Catskill.
Maggie Van Cott held revival meetings at Pittsfield and Baltimore.
J. B. North, of Tannersville, a brakeman, was killed by a fall from his train.
Company E entertained Board of Supervisors.
Thomas Regan fell off a high bank at Alsen in the night and was killed.
Greene county Board of Supervisors vote unanimously for state roads.
CHRONOLOGY 1907.
Edward Butler, of Coxsackie, was murdered on the road near Troy.
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J. T. Henderson died suddenly at the Smith House, Catskill. Jane Walsh found dead in bed at Woodstock.
Catskill Trolley Company went into hands of a receiver.
Hiranı Goff, of Catskill, committed suicide at his boarding place, taking carbolic acid.
William H. Denton and Laura Denton, old people, burned to death in a fire that destroyed their residence near Cairo.
James Van Tran, a civil war veteran, died at Prattsville, from gangrene in his foot. He lived four years after the disease set in and one by one he cut off his toes with a pocket knife.
The Rev. C. G. Hazard, of Catskill, attended the Hague Tribunal. Frank Norton drowned in the creek at Catskill.
Monroe Truesdell, of Lexington, youngest soldier in federal army, being fourteen when he enlisted. He was a member of Warrens and Sheridans staff. Wounded at Winchester. In lumber business at East Jewett.
Eleanor C. Heermance endows Hermance Memorial Library at Coxsackie, leaving $60,000 for that purpose.
William G. Plank, Grand Army veteran, of Cairo, passed away, aged 70 years.
Chauncey Dixson, of Catskill, rounded out 100 years. War veter- Mrs. Dixson died at the age of 103.
an.
Kate Dunlap, of Windham, tried to deal in liquors at that place and it cost her $200 fine, and not having the money she went to jail.
Tenth annual convention of the American Zionists held at Tan- nersville.
Ribbel Hess drowned in the river at Catskill.
Robert Scott, of Catskill, a Grany Army veteran, died at Cairo at the age of 87 years.
Jacob Makeley, a Cairo farmer, committed suicide by taking laudinum.
Walter Mott, of Catskill, died of strangulated hernia at his home in that place, aged 76 years.
The new concrete bridge at Catskill opened with a celebration and fireworks in the evening.
Barn of Burton Van Derzee at Coxsackie destroyed by fire, the building being struck by lightning.
Cooper shop of Howard Carey and dwelling of Edward Dixson at West Coxsackie burned.
Store of Nicholas D. Onifrio at Athens destroyed by fire. success.
Major Leroy Palmer, a Catskill boy, returned to the Philippines.
The council tree of the Mohican Indians, located on the Casper Hallenbeck farm at Coxsackie, struck by lightningand destroyed. It was under this tree that the Indians met to sell land to Jan Bronk,
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Martee Genisee Van Bergen and Jan Jacobse Hallenbeck.
William Curtis, of Kiskatom, died from gas poisoning while at work in a well at his place.
Forty-ninth annual convention of the Greene County Sunday School Association held at Catskill.
Store of C. I. Collier, at Coxsackie, partially destroyed by fire.
The Rev. John B. Thompson, former pastor of the Catskill Re- formed church died at Trenton, aged 77 years.
The Greene County Firemen's 19th annual convention was held at Coxsackie.
Hanah Pierce died at Kiskatom at the age of 95 years.
Ford H. Clegg, of Leeds, died as the result of injuries when he jumped out of a window at his home, during his sleep.
Annual meeting of the Greene County Bible Society held at the Reformed church in Catskill.
The first horseless wagon said to have been made by Peter Van Hoesen, of Leeds, who lost all his money trying to perfect the machine. Morris Guards encamped at Catskill.
Thomas Whitlock, of Brooklyn, in his 92nd year visits Catskill. A friend of General Lafayette. Past master Odd Fellows over 53 years.
Order of Forresters organized at Catskill. Angelo Sission first chief.
Levi M. Francis, a veteran of the civil war, suicided at his home in Catskill, taking strychnine.
St. Patrick's church at Athens dedicated. Bishop Burke officiated. Thomas Bell, of Catskill, died suddenly at the age of 81 years.
Edward Smith dropped dead at his home in Athens.
Mrs. Jennie Olm, of Catskill, gets verdict of $9000 for death of her husband who was killed by the cars near Hudson.
Ten Democrats and four Republicans elected supervisors. The Board: Franklin Finch, Ashland; Elmore Mackey, Athens; Charles P. Jones, Cairo; Charles A. Post, Catskill; William B. Townsend, Coxsackie; W. S. Borthwick, Durham; N. Sanford, Greenville; Ren- wick Bibble, Hunter; L. Van Valkenburgh, Halcott; Geo. H. Chase, Jewett; V. R. Kirke, Lexington; Ezra H. Palmer, New Baltimore; Elmer Krieger, Prattsville; Dr. Sidney Ford, Windham. Judson A. Betts, County Treasurer. Pierre S. Jennings, District Attorney. Wm. C. Brady, Member of Assembly. Durham no license by six votes.
James B. Mitchell, wat veteran and 13 months in Andersonville prison, fell down stairs and died a few hours later.
Justice Fitts presided over Dcember term of Supreme Court.
Maggie Myers, aged 60 years, indicted for keeping house of ill repute. Sixty days in prison.
E. S Hay dropped dead in the office of the Catskill Recorder. County budget for the year $82,206.
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Jeremiah Dean died at New Baltimore. He was 76 years of age. Was for three years on awhiale vessel. In California during the gold excitement. He was an uncle of Supervisor J. H. Deane, of Catskill.
CHRONOLOGY 1908.
Aaron Wynkoop, of Cairo, drowned in the creek at South Cairo, attempting to cross the stream while intoxicated.
The new school building on the West Side in Catskill completed by Contractor Geo. W. Holdridge, at a cost of about $30,000
Rene Rowlinson, of Windham, burned to death at the Smith House in Catskill, his clothing catching fire in some unknown manner.
Charles A. Post, of Catskill, elected chairman of Board of Super- visors; George B. Van Valkenburgh, clerk.
The barn of Newton Spoor, at Coxsackie, valued at $3,000, de- stroyed by fire.
Residence of Peter Fitchett, near Coxsackie, destroyed by fire.
Supervisor Franklin Fincli, one of the leading citizens of Ashland, passed away at his home after his return from a meeting of the Board of Supervisors. He was 63 years of age.
Marry E. Garrison found dead in her home at Indian Ridge.
Mrs. Catherine Goodwin, aged 82 years, died at Palenville.
Philip Freese, died at Purling, at the age of 80 years.
Tannersville and Cairo want county seat located at these places. Judge Clearwater presided at February term of Supreme Court. Wilbur Brown died at Catskill, aged 58 years.
Tannersville offers to raise $100,000 to have county buildings located there.
Trustee Charles A. Elliott offers site for court house in Catskill.
Frederick S. Lynes, a prominent Catskillian died at the age of 84 years. Forty years sup't of First Baptist Sunday school.
Greene county Board of Supervisors met at Catskill and decided to locate building there and to spend $150,000 for new court house. The vote to locate in Catskill was 11 to 3. It was also decided to locate the buildings on Bridge and Main streets, and Messrs. Post, Krieger, Dibble and Chase, of the Board of Supervisors were appointed a committee to secure plans, etc.
Mass meeting of Citizens of Catskill held at court house in the matter of new buildings. New sites proposed.
Estimated that site of lands will cost $47,000 on Bridge and Main streets.
Emory A. Chase re-elected president of Bar Association.
Burton Whitbeck shot and killed his wife, Maude B. Whitbeck in front of their home at West Coxsackie and then committed suicide in the barn of his uncle, John Curtin.
The remains of Fred Brandt were taken from the Catskill creek
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below the bridge. He had been missing for six weeks.
Emanuel J. Hill, former resident of Catskill, and steamboat man, died in Brooklyn at the age of 84 years.
Philip Spencer fell from the dock at the pumping station in Cats- kill and was drowned.
Celebration of Old Home Week in Catskill, October 4-7. Great parades, carnival, fireworks, athletic sports on race track, and ball game following day. Hon. Wm. P. Fiero made the principal address. Catskill was thronged with guests all the week.
Michael Doherty found dead in his home at Coxsackie.
Governor Hughes given a rousing welcome in Catskill.
The committee passed a resolution of thanks to Chairman J. P. Philip for his services and zeal which made Old Home Week a great success.
William H. Tatt, president, carried Greene county by 478; Hughes, governor, 263; Brady, assembly, 290; Tompkins, commissioner, 488; Longendyke, corner, 488.
Justice Fitts presided at November term of Supreme Court.
The Malcolm Mill went out of business at Catskill.
District Attorney Pierre S. Jennings had 30 cases before grand jury. Jas. Cartan, of Catskill, held for attempt to poison his wife. Sentenced to 18 years imprisonment.
Henry Limbrick, Catskill's oldest resident, died, aged 93 years.
Elmer Overbaugh, of Palenville, went after pitch to make gum and did not return. His body was found in the creek.
Set of resolution presented to Bank President J. P. Philip by Old Home Week committee. Addresses made by Rev. Clark Wright, Will- iam E. Thorpe, Village President Charles A. Elliott and Senator Bloodgood.
Shops of the Catskill Mountain railroad at the Point destroyed by fire.
Charles A. Elliott attends session of Hudson Fulton committee in New York.
Michael O'Hara, of Tannersville, appointed county superintendent of highways.
$150,000 appropriated for Fulton Celebration; $5,000 for Catskill.
Bonded indebtedness of town of Catskill, $73,500, of which $42,- 000 was for concrete bridge.
Work commenced on steamer Robert Fulton.
Company E entertained Board of Supervisors.
Frank Packer, of Catskill, successfully treated for lock jaw, being first case on record.
Catskill Civil Organization expended $1072 for the year. Omar V. Sage president.
Mrs. Mary Griffin burned to death by the explosion of a lamp at Ashland.
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CHRONOLOGY 1909.
Dominic Sabbatani drowned at Catskill Point New Years Day attempting to cross on the ice.
Charles Paddock found dead in bed at his home in Purling. He was 78 years of age.
Bank President J. P. Philip and wife, of Catskill, leave on a three- months' tour of Europe, January 31, 1909.
J. P. Philip and wife sailed for Egypt.
Sarah Timmerman died at Palenville at the age of 86 years.
Jolin Costigan, aged 77 years, dropped dead at the residence of Joseph Malcolm.
John Huested died suddenly at Cairo, aged 77 years.
Barn of Silas Finch at Cairo destroyed by fire.
Mrs. Willis A. Haines elected Worthy Matron O. E. Stars.
Harry Boyne, of Catskill, received 15,000 volts of electricity from Woodstock high tension wire, rendered unconscious but recovered.
Charles R. Howard, a prominent resident of Tannersville died at that place. Eight hundred people attended his funeral.
Justice Howard presided at the February term of the Supreme Court. Eugene Kurau, foreman of grand jury.
Annual banquet of Bar Association held at Catskill.
Catskill Gun Club held banquet at Smith House, Catskill.
Catskill Masons held annual banquet at Y. M. C. A. hall.
Rip Van Winkle Club held annual banquet at Smith House.
Asbury Ringman, driver on the Oak Hill stage, was killed at Eagle Bridge in a runaway accident. Rig went off the bank into the creek. Mrs. Z. A. Pratt had hip broken. Three other people hurt.
A number of liquor dealers fined $200 each for violation of the tax. law
Annual banquet of Brotherhood of Reformed church at Catskill.
Mass meeting held at Catskill on water question. Nothing settled.
William Hamm killed by fall at the ice house of .Smith and Haines at Catskill.
Maggie Van Cott, aged 89 years, closed successful revival at Claverack, Columbia county.
George Doyle, a workman, was ground to death in a machine at the Catskill Cement works.
Corporation counsel Arthur M. Murphy died suddenly from blood poisoning. A very successful lawyer and prominent member of St. Patrick's church at Catskill.
Citizens Hose Company celebrated 40th anniversary.
Catskill Millenial Dawnists decide that the world will come to an end in 1914.
Justice Fitts presided at April term of Supreme Court
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Rip Van Winkle produced in the woods at Palenville. A great The grand jury had but three cases to consider.
George W. Holdridge appointed receiver of the Catskill Trolley Company.
Jacob Miller, of Hunter, committed suicide by taking Paris green. Lydia P. Millard, aged 80 years, died at her home in Catskill.
Mystic Five basketball team played 59 games, winning 33.
The Arch Deaconry of Albany met at St. Luke's church, Catskill.
Barns and residence of John Lind at Sandy Plains destroyed by fire.
Famous stone house, erected in 1751, on Cauterskill road, torn down.
Catskill Savings Bank's new home finished and opened for busi-
ness. W. 1. Jennings, president.
Jacob June, war veteran, aged 70 years, died at Lime Street.
Company E encamped at Fort Ticonderoga.
Eddie Shepard thrown from a horse in the races at Cairo and injured so badly that he died.
Sanford Overbaugh walked off the open end of the Catskill draw bridge, escaping with a broken arm. Town settled for $250,
G. W. Holdridge awarded contract to pave Main street at Cats- kill for sum of $10,769.
Citizens Hose Company attended State Firemen's Convention at Po'keepsie and got a very raw deal.
The Wiley mill at Catskill closed on account of hard times.
Maria Clute died at Coxsackie at the age of 86 years.
Wilbur Funk, conductor of the Catskill trolley, killed by a fall while boarding his car at Leeds.
Richard Phelan, a Grand Army veteran, died suddenly at Leeds.
Washington Kennedy, a former resident of Catskill, died at Kingston at the age of 84 years.
Joseph Porter hanged himself in a shed at Athens.
Democrats elect entire county ticket: J. Lewis Patrie, member of assembly; Abram Post, sheriff; George B. Van Valkenburgh, county clerk; Ira T. Tolley, superintendt. Democratic Supervisors: Elmore Mackey, Athens; Charles P. Jones, Cairo; J. Henry Deane, Catskill; Lorenzo Van Valkenburgh, Halcott; E. B. Goslee, Hunter; W. H. Woodworth, Jewett; Herbert Kipp, Lexington; H. J. Miller, New Balti- more; Elmer Krieger, Prattsville; S. L. Ford, Windham. Republican Supervisors: Frank Dodge, Ashland; Dayton B. Smith, Coxsackie; W. S. Borthwick, Durham, and Truman L. Ingalls, Greenville.
Seven barns burned in town of Jewett, incendiary. Detectives employed to get evidence. Four men arrested. No one convicted.
William McManus, of Drummond Falls house, Palenville, died at the age of 80 years.
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Charles A. Post, chairman Board of Supervisors, George B. Van Valkenburgh, clerk.
Frank Sanger killed at Alsen cement works.
West Shore station at Catskill destroyed by fire.
Catskill Board of Trade organized December 7th.
Catskill's league basketball team, with Matthews, Grobe, Deer, Hallenbeck and Boyne, defeated Newburgh, Paterson, Hudson, Yon- kers, Po'keepsie and Troy, winning their first six games.
Mrs. Hannah Osborn, of Windham, fell down stairs while walking in her sleep. She was 88 years of age. The accident resulted in her death. She was the mother of Counselor Frank H. Osborn, of Catskill.
CHRONOLOGY 1910.
Board of Supervisors appropriated $35,000 for jail, court house and grounds.
Ann Overbaugh, aged 91 years, died at her home in Catskill.
Emauel and Carl Nufia burned to death in tool house of West Shore railroad at New Baitlmore.
Atlas Cement Company's buildings at Hudson destroyed by fire. Loss $100,000.
Catskill Trolley line sold to Wm. C. Wood for $33,000.
Hotel of M. P. McCabe burned. Loss $9,000.
Harry Holdridge, of Catskill, killed by hte cars at Alsen.
Dr. Sidney L. Ford elected chairman of Board of Supervisors, William B. Townsend, clerk.
J. Holmes King committed suicide at Palenville, taking chloroform.
William H. Bogardus commenced action against Catskill village for $10,000.
Miss May Hoy voted most popular young lady in Catskill.
Charles Roorke, of Catskill, smothered in a bin at the Alsen cement works.
Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Philip presented the Catskill Reformed church with $500.
William Shryver, son of William Schryver, of Tannersville, killed by the cars at Saugerties.
Hotel of Stephen Shufelt burned at Haines Falls.
Hotel of Charles Speenburgh burned at Catskill.
Harry Van Valkenburgh was killed by the cars at West Athens.
Nellie and Lewis Desco, of Catskill, completely recoved from malformation after operation made possible by County Clerk Geo. B. Van Valkenburgh. Both would have been cripples for life.
Daniel J. Barnaby, of Coxsackie, run down by automobile and killed in New York city.
Stanley Luciskis murdered at Cementon by parties unknown.
A million dollar improvement wiped out by fire at the Burden iron mines opposite Catskill.
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William Freese and Elias Lasher elected trustees of Catskill.
Assemblyman J. Lewis Patrie gets teachers' pension bill passed.
Dominic Leone, of Cairo, killed while attempting to get on train at Cairo.
Barn of Sylvanus Story at Gayhead struck by lightning and destroyed.
Hon. O. V. Sage elected president of Catskill Civic Society. Justice Le Boeuf presided at April term of Supreme court.
Egbert Bogart, an old time resident of Palenville, died of cancer.
Bank President J. P. Philip and wife visited the West Indies and the scene of the great disaster at Martinique.
Citizens Hose Co. produced the Passing Show. Receipts $1200. Contractor Geo. W. Holdridge laid pavement in Main street.
Moses Covel killed in runaway accident at Catskill.
Mrs. Giles Sutton dropped dead at her home in Leeds.
Chauncey Wolcott, of South Cairo, died following an operation.
Senator Addison P. Jones died at his home in Catskill, aged 87 year. He started business in Catskill in 1840.
Fred Lewis, of Saugerties, Nettie Naylor, Mabel Van Valkenburglı and L. B. Decker, of Catskill, all badly injured in automobile accident. All recovered.
John and Richard Doyle and Harry Abeel playing with matches in a barn at Saugerties set fire to the building and were burned to death.
Steamer Po'keepsie burned to the water's edge at Highland. Loss $100,000.
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