In 1909, William J. Bishop whose home was at Batavia, N.Y., was captured while in the act of forcing an entrance to the inner room of the third floor of the Koehl Paper Box factory on Steele Street in Jamestown. The man was under suspicion and the policemen were lying in wait for him. He was locked up on a charge of burglary. It was believed he was trying to steal ideas of special devices used by the Koehl Company. He had been employed as a machinist in a paper box factory at Batavia and the management of that factory had retained a lawyer to defend him.

The cornerstone of the Orsino E. Jones General Hospital was laid by Mrs. Sarah J. L. Hall on Sunday in the presence of 2,000 spectators. Brief addresses were made by Jamestown?s ex-mayor James L. Weeks and Mayor Samuel A. Carlson.

In 1959, streets in Jamestown and roads throughout the county were reported in ''pretty good'' condition despite accumulations of 4 to 6 inches of snow throughout the area since midnight. Jamestown had a 5 inch snowfall between midnight and 9 a.m. and nine pieces of equipment, including street plows, graders, and salt spreaders, were pressed into service over the morning. Sidewalk plows were also out on all routes. It marked the first time this season that street plows were used in the city.

A Randolph ambulance and a Falconer police prowl car collided during a blinding snowstorm overnight on Main Street in Falconer as a suspected drunk driver went on his way unintercepted. Officer Harold Hirsch, driving the patrol car, saw the erratic motorist and began to turn around in the street when the oncoming ambulance and the police vehicle collided. No injuries were reported and both vehicles were only slightly damaged. The ambulance was not on an emergency run but was taking an asthma patient to a local hospital for treatment.

In 1984, the foiled plot to bomb the U.S. Embassy in Rome had reinforced reports that the Islamic Holy War terrorist organization might be aiming at American targets beyond the Middle East, a Western intelligence source said. In Lebanon, an anonymous caller claiming to represent Islamic Holy War telephone a Western news agency and warned Italy ''not to intervene in matters which do not concern it'' or face retaliation. The source described the plot as ''pretty much the work of amateurs'' but praised the Italian and Swiss police who cracked the case for ''a brilliant detective performance.''

Some 20 Prendergast Ave. residents concerned about traffic safety attended a public meeting in the Jamestown Municipal Building. Organized by City Councilman James E. Westman, R-Lakeview Ward, the meeting was called to convince state officials to allow stop signs to be placed at the intersections of Prendergast Avenue with Crossman Street and Newton Avenue. Westman said the traffic on Prendergast had increased in amount and speed since stop signs were placed on Lakeview Avenue in the spring.

In 1999, a little more than a year after its crowning achievement in Tracy Plaza in Jamestown, the Veterans Memorial Commission was making a push to expand the information on its computer data base inside City Hall. James Westman, a commission member and video production project chairman, said the focus was on getting more veterans to videotape their stories about service in the military.

The Jamestown area's two major furniture manufacturers reported a very positive response to their new offerings at the recently concluded fall International Home Furnishings market in High Point, NC. ''We had a very good market,'' said Dave Messinger, senior vice president of sales and marketing at Bush Furniture. ''All of our major customers came to the show and we had very positive meetings with all of them.'' Likewise, Michael Cappa, vice president of Crawford Furniture Manufacturing Corp. reported favorable customer response to its new introductions. ''I was very happy,'' he said. ''I think we hit on all of them.''