Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1888-06-29
NEIGHBORHOOD NOTES.

was confined in the Jail of Allegheny
/ Co, charged with numbering Bridge
Mullen, committed suicide by hanging
last Friday night.
The marriage which was to have
taken place at Frecport last Thursday
between Frank Forrest, charged witt
abortion, and Miss Alice Holibaugh
,he victim, failed to materializ1
Everything was made ready, but just
as the ceremony was about to be per.
formed, the physician who attends
the girl stepped forward and refused
to allow it to proceed, claiming the
girl was too wei K to stand the excite
ment as yet I le wedding was post
poned indefinitely. Forrest got rid
of the Deputy Sheriff who shadowed
him % closely by securing $4,000
bail
". Z. Vorous, of Millcreek town
ship. Mercer county, who was shot
by ID. T. Montague on the 7th inst,
aud supposed to be fatally wounded
is yet alive, with fair prospects OF. re
coVery.
DR.. White, a quack doctor, of Indi.
ana, committed suicide in Jail at that
place last Friday night, after having
been convicted of the crime Of produc,
ing an abortion, which proved fatal.
DIR. White was blacksmith by trade
and of late years had been practising
medicine in various places.
Mercer county Prohibitionists bave
placed the following ticket in nomina.
ton: Congress, w. L. May, of Shar-
on; Legislature, j NJ. Brown, of
Grove City; John NJ. Dunn, OF French
Greek; j. w. Sloss, of Shenango.
The infant child of Charles Wolf OF
Lima, o had its brains crushed out
few days ago under unusual circum-
stances. Mrs. Wolf entered a store
room and left the little one sitting in
its buggy on pavement. A gust of
wind started the buggy toward the
gutter, into which it upset, throwing
tie child under horse which. be.
coming frightened, commenced kick
ing and crushed the little one to
death.
In the Mercer Co. court, last week,
NJ. Il Moore was sentenced to pay a
fine OF $500, aud be imprisoned for
mos. Moore TOOK orders for whis-
Ky in the southeastern part of the
county and sent them to the distill-
cry at McKeesport. The wet goods
were sent to Grove City in due time
and Mr.. Moore then collected the
money, two dollars and fifty cents a
gallon. The jury brouht in a verdict
OF guilty.
John Haney, an engineer from
Freeport, made an attempt to cut his
throat last Saturday, ct tie Forty
third street bridge, Fittsburg but, for
lack Of courage, failed He used a rag
ged-edged case knife in the attempt.
and gave it one slash across the
throat, partially severing the windpipe,
and then threw the knife away.
No one was present when he made
tho attempt; but be was found soon
after by policeman, in an almost in.
sensible condition from loss of blood.
Haney was taken to the West Penn
Hospital in wagon, and there his
wound was carefully dressed, and he
will probably recover.
When asked by Superintendent
Cowan the cause of his action, Haney
replied that he was tired of living,
and want d to die.
A legram from McKeesport says;
A strange event occurred in the West
moreland county natural gas district
recently, which has placed the farmers
IN that vicinity in a turmoil Of excite
ment. Recently the Philadelphia
Natural Gas Company lea I'd por-
tion of a farm and proceeded to put
down well. They had drilled but
short distance when a mineral rock
was struck, portions of which were
sent to the company's headquarters.
AZ few days afterwards operations
were suspended. the derrick taken
away and the hole plugged up. The
farmers became very much EXCITED
and one Of them claims to have got
ten II piece Of the rock, which be says
is valuable gold quartz.
The postal detectives lately arrest
ed a mail carrier of Allegheny
City, named Cooley. who is accused
OF stealing letters containing postal
orders and money.
The Democrats of Mercer Co have
reno minated Norman Hall for Con.
gross.
a young woman named Harman, q
de nestio in the family of John Logan.
who resides q few miles from Kittan-
ming, was struck by lightning last
Saturday and has been blind, dumb
and deaf ever since. She was wash
ing dishes in the kitchen, when light,
ming struck q tree 20 rods from the
house, followed the, tree to the ground,
cut furrow 10 inches deep to the
kitchen, passed up through the floor
and struck the girl with the above
result,
lGS persons died in Pittsbnrg last
week, 73 of whom were childre un.
der one year Of age.