Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1893-03-17
NEIoHBoRHooD NOTES.

Fred Sterling of Torentum, suicided last
Saturday, by the revolver route, because
his wife left him.
A hog saved the First National bank
of Catawissa from being robbed early last
Saturday morning. The night before pro-
fessional bank burglars invaded the town.
They had no difficulty in getting IN the
bank by boring hole through the door
and prying the lock off. They were at work on
the safe containing S60, 900 when a squall-
ing pig came along. The porker had escp-
ed from his pen, and the owner, John Huls
hizrr, was after him. The burglars became
alarmed and fed. To make their escape
sure in case their working alarmed the
neighborhood the burglars had wired all
| the doors OF the houses near the bank build
ing so that occupants would have to come
through the windows in case of a pursuit.
Mayor Gourley vetoed the tax and ap-
preparation ordinances, lately passed by
Pittsburg Councils, aud the Councils Turn
| ed down the vetoes.
Monday was the opening day of License
court in Pittsburg, between judges Magee
| anu Porter.
An explosion in coal mine near Con-
nelsvili. Monday, killed the state mine in
spector, VIM. Duncan, and two other men
Ralph Crossmire, who was convicted of
the murder of his mother by strangling
her with his hands and afterwards hanging
the corpse to beam in the COW stable,
was sentenced to death by Judge Morri-
son at Smethport Pa, Tuesday The mat
ricide's counsel presented a number ofI
points to the court in a motion for a new
trial, but all these we're overruled The
prisoner received his sentence calmly. and
asserted that his neighbors chad it in for
him."
William and Henry Mattshaw, brothers,
aged respectively IL and years, sons of
William Mattshaw, farmer residing near
Youngstown, O., while walking on the rail
road track on their way to school last Sat
urday, were struck by a Ft. Wayne freight
train. William was hurled thirty feet and
instantly killed. Henry had one arm cut
off aud was otherwise injured so that he
will die. Their mother who is in delicate
health, came to the scene of the accident
soon after it happened and was so crazed
with grief that it is thought she cannot re-
cover from the shock.
At Kittanning, Thursday, all the Leech-
burg prisoners, Sprague, Ryan, Wycoff
and KRONER, were indicted by the grand
jury for murder and burglary; and Judge
Rayburn refused motion to continue
their cases till June term.
The strike of the miners at Punxsutaw-
ney was satisfactorily settled last Thurs
day
At Pittsburg, Wednesday, 15-year- old
boy jumped from the Larimer avenue
bridge overlooking Silver Lake, a distance
of ninety eight feet, to avoid arrest, and,
after making the fearful leap picked him
self up and made off before the eyes of
Detective Gumgert, whose hot chase of
the boy had driven him to the dangerous
chance.
The boy. whose name is Horsefeld, is
the leader of gang of boys in the East
End, ranging in age from 10 to Is years,
that has been committing depredatiOns in
that section of the city The latest crime
was the looting of tn store of r. L. Twy
ford. When Horsfeld saw Gumbert he
ran. The officer followed.
The boy ran out to the middle of the
Larimer Avenue bridge and, seeing that
the detective was gaining ground, vaulted
on top the hand rail- and after steadying
himself, jumped to the hollow below, al
most 100 feet. The officer hurried to the
ha 4 raj expecting to see the boys life
les, body below, but to his surprise Horse
field was on bis feet and running toward
river.
The long fight over the control of the
Edinboro Normal School is probably end
ed. a compromise has been reached
through DR.. d. J. Waller, state s1perin
tendent of public instruction, who was in
Edinboro last week and acted as peace
maker so far possible between the war
ring factions and with considerable diff
Guilty obtained the signatures of both par
ties.