Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1893-10-06
NEIGHBoRHooD NOTES.

Ex-Councilman Robert Norris of Tar
rentum had quite tussle with burglar
early Thursday morning. Mr.. Norris, who
resides in the First ward. was awakened
about three o'clock Thursday morning by
a noise at his front door. Quietly slipping
ont of bed he went down to the front room
and looking out of the window discovered
a man working at the front door. endeav-
oring to pick the lock. After some ten or
fifteen minutes the would-be robber gave
the door up and slipped down into the cell
lar hole where he began work on the cell
lar window. Mr. Norris. who was stand
ing inside the door with nothing on but his
night shirt, thought that this work had
gone far enough, and opening the door he
ran out and caught the burglar. In the
tussel that ensued Mr.. Norris was cut on
the wrist By a large knife in the hands OF
his antagonist. Mr.. Norris then rushed
into the house and secured a hatchet, and
on coming to the front again the burglar
was just issuing from the coal hole. The
two grappled Norris struck him once with
the fiat of the hatchet and it was then
wrested from his grasp. Blows were ex-
changed between the two, the robber get
ting the worst of it and finally taking to
his heels he escaped with his coat almost
torn off.
Typhoid fever is raging in the Western
Penitentiary. Two deaths have been re-
ported within two weeks.
David Shelly, formerly of Harmony,
found pocket book along the road in
Lawrence county some time ago, and failed
to return it. He was arrested, tried and
convicted for larceny, and sentenced to
pay costs and be imprisoned in the county
Jail for ten days.
A. G. Church of MeadviIle was appointed
Receiver OF the Sandy Lake Mutual Ben netit
Association.
Mrs. Phoebe Birch, the gay and festive
young wife of Alfred Birch, Cattle dealer
residing on Morningside road, Pittsburg,
has left her husband, who is about double
her age, and taken with her 81, 100 in
money, the property of the forsaken one,
and youth named Charles Miller, aged
II years. There are some persons who
call the incident an eloLement, but young
Miller's parents and relatives say it is a
case of kidnapping and are as eager tolearn
the whereabouts Of the missing pair as is
the deserted husband, who wants both his
cash and his wife Miller was employed
by Birch in the capacity of cow-driver
and has been engaged at that job since last
May. While Mr.. Birch is called a cattle
dealer, his title, more properly speaking,
is that Of a cow drover. He is about 81
ears of age and his wife is just turned 20.
They are both English and came to Pitts
burg from Windsor, Can, about eight
months ago. He frequently makes long
journeys into the country districts and
purchases fresh cows and other cattle and
sells them at retail Young Miller, who
is quite handsome, lived with his parents
near De Haven on the Butler plank road
until last spring, when he was hired by
Birch and then took up his residence at the
home of his employer.
Three years ago William Brown, of Lost
Creek, in the eastern part Of the state,
spent Sunday on the mountains between
Nal onoy Plain and Shenandoah, and in
the evening walked down path to the
Philadelphia and Reading railroad tracks
lust in time to have a leg cut eH by pass
ing train. Two weeks, ago on Sunday,
Brown walked down the same path, and
when at the spot of his previous misfortune
tripped and fell idst as train run by the
same conductor who had charge Of the
train which cut his leg off before went by.
The train cut eff his remaining leg in about
the same place where the first leg was man
gled A queer coincidence indeed.
Mary Strohecker, and her two daughters,
Anna and Emma Strohecker, of Lawrence
county, who several months ago pleaded
guilty to assault and battery, We're sem
enced at New Castle, lately. This is the
case in which it was shown that the Mers-
hemier boy was so badly injured The
three women said they had nothing to
say when asked why sentence
should not be passed. D. B. Kurtz, Esq,
as attorney for them, however, spoke in
their behalf After which Mrs. Strohecker
was sentenced to pay fine of $40 and
costs, and each of the girls So and costs.
Arrangements for the payment Of the
amount were made with the sheriff and the
defendants were permitted to 90 home.
Two valuable stations, owned by DR.. O..
l.. Thudicum of Haddonfeld, N. j. fought
a duel TO the death last Friday. They
were known to be vicious and had been
kept in seperate fields. Yesterday they
got into the same field by accident and at
once went at each other Their hoof5
struck terrible blows and the horses bit as
effectually as zebrays Finally the more
valuable stallion, worth 81 100, fell. The
other soon trampled over HIM. Then, to
make sure of finish, the victor seized his
rival by the throat and dragged him about
the field.