The Press., 1884-08-07
ROCKVILLE.

Rev. c. H. Ricketts of the Congrega- tional church starts on his months vaca- tion this week. He will divide his time between his old home at Wales, Mass. and Bar Harbor, Me.
 | William Baker has sold to Conrad Schnering 8 house and lot on New Eng. land hill for $1 800.
 -Workmen are busy grading Market street in very thorough manner.
 Charles, son of J. O. Hammond, has gone to Boston to enter the general ticket office of the New England road.
 1 Rockville Journal: Last Wednesday afternoon (3Oth) young man made his appearance in the neighborhood of George Davis's farm, in Ellington, just beyond Daleyville. He seemed to have come down the hill by the road leading through the Daleyville woods. George Davis and his hired man first noticed him about five anxious, irresolute way then disappeared in the bushes beyond This performance was several times repeated, some boys passing near him as he stood in view by the roadside the last time. About half past five MT. Davis and MT. Winchell set about milking, when the short, sharp re- port of 8 pistol was heard. Suspecting something wrong, the two men started to investigate, and were met by MT. Palmer of Ellington, who informed them that somebody had shot himself, and that the body lay near the road at the foot of the hill. MT. P. drove away in quest of Cor oner Phelps and had the good fortune to meet him on the road. The man was ly- ing face downward upon the grass, a bull let hole ill his head, near the right eye, a revolver grasped tightly in the right hand, the body still warm, but life extinct. No one present could identify the unfortunate man. Undertaken Preston was sent for and the body conveyed to his rooms on Park-st. Scores of people passed in and viewed the remains, but for nearly two hours no one, could identify them. Final Charles. attracted to the scene in common with friends and neighbors. They in stantly recognized him as their brother Il Robert, and were overwhelmed with grief. They stated that Robert came to this country from Germany about three years ago, and for few months worked for his brother Charles, who was then proprietor of a marble-yard here. Then he went south and returned to Rockville few days since, expecting that his brother could again furnish him with steady employ ment. In this he was disappointed, for Charles had retired from the business and I is now himself in the employ of Elbredge & Adams The brothers had noticed that Robert had become gloomy and very homesick, and longed to return to his fatherland, but had not sufficient money. The verdict at the inquest was that ''the deceased died from the effects of 9 pistol shot fired by his own hand, with the in- tention of committing suicide. f ty k New York Tribune Mrs. Fanny Ja- cobs. of No. 319 East Fifty -seventh-st, in 1.-the Jefferson Market police court yester- day was charged by Marcus M. Johnson, the president of the National Thread Com . pany, of Mansfield, Conn.,, with unlawful fly retaining and converting to her use money and goods, the property of the ] company, to the value of $6, 901. 40. .Si- mon W. Jacobs, the husband of the de- : fendant, was the New York agent of the National Thread Company up to March, with an office at No. 51 Lispenard- st. I About the middle of March he became in- sane. and was taken to an insane asylum, <. the president of the company authorized Mrs. Jacobs to carry on the business. On