The News of Queens

New York, 1895

The late Increase C. Hendrickson had an insurance of $10,000 on his life.

The new St. Joseph's church edifice is nearly completed and will be dedicated the first Sunday in April.

C. W. Ward, florist, on Hillside avenue, has over one acre of ground covered with hothouses filled with carnations of every known color, from which he cuts over 1,000 flowers daily for the New York market.

Silas Holland and Joseph Newland of Rocky Hill, who were arrested last week for cutting down and stealing locust trees from the woods of C. W. Ward, W. E. Valentine and Georgianna Doughty were arraigned before Justice McKnight at Bayside on Tuesday and held in default of $1,000 ball each. They sold the wood in Brooklyn.

Saturday evening a strange boy about ten years old walked into Kelsey's store and seated himself by the stove. He was questioned by Mr. Kelsey and gave his name as Henry Cobby, of 71 Hooper street, Brooklyn, and admitted that he had run away from home. A telegram was sent to the above address and Sunday morning his mother came and took him home.

—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, NY, March 29, 1895, p. 8.