Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1893-08-04
NEIoHBoRHooD NOTES.

Henry Moyes. solicitor for Pittsburg
agricultural implement firm of Pittsburg,
was '.held up" by four men in o'Hara twp.
last Thursday, choked.and robbed.
William Lancaster, barn burner and
Jail breaker from Washington county, made
murderous attempt upon the life of one
of the keepers at Riverside Penitentiary
last Thursday. Lancaster is colored man.
John McVeigh who has been an officer IN
the prison for IA years, was the victim.
Lancaster used an knife, stabbing the OIL
Ger in the neck, the blade narrowly escap-
ing the jugular vein, and inhicting seri-
ous though not fatal wound.
The New York papers are boasting that
a tally-ho coach left that city recently for
Chicago on wager of $4,000 that the
coach would reach Chicago in ten days,
with only "A horses, that is six changes,
travel 100 miles day, no more no less,
| with one nights rest Of eight hours. The
horses are to be changed every % miles.
| 1t is boasted that this is the first coaching
| trip to the Worlds Fair. New York is
not up to date, as Will Davis and Harry
Ross, two Beaver Falls boys, travelled tc
Chicago by horse and buggy, covering the
distance in thirteen days with ease through
rain and mud and without any wager as ar
incentive to speed. They are now on theil
| way home.
| John Boyle of Pittsburg committed sui
| eide by drowning himself because his pen
sion was stopped.
Joseph Cook, living at Pemberville, neal
Toledo, Ohio. went home drunk one even
ing last week and seizing young boy o
five by the feet dashed him against the
wall, cutting terrible cash in his heaC
| from which the brains ooZed. Not con-
tent with this, he grabbed the boy again
and threw him to the ceiling, letting hin
drop to the floor, breaking his legs. Th'
| child died in few minutes. Mary, th'
eldest daughter, aged 13, was also terribly
maltreated, tho bones of her right hand
crushed and cash cut across her face
The second girl, Anna, aged five, wa
pounded and kicked almost into insensi
bility and thrown with awful force against
the wall, her blood flowing in a stream
upon the floor She will probably die
The fourth child, boy, was frighttully
beaten and narrowly escaped with his life
| Cook was arrested and locked up.
Six murders were committed in ALE
| gheny County last month.
| Five floors and three interior walls in
large portion of the Second National Bank
now being remodeled at the corner of Nintf
and Liberty streets, Pittsburg, fell with
| terrible crash and without the slightss
warning during the noon hour Saturday
| The large force of workmen had gone t.
dinner and on this account the horrors
| the Ford Theatre disaster at Washington
narrowly escaped repetition. But TIVE
workmen remained in the portion of th'
building which collapsed, and one of these
Thomas McGladrigan, was buried beneath
the wreck OF brick, broken timber and
structural iron. His companion, Pheli1
Quinn, escaped by elinging to an iron pill
lar on the fourth floor, while the wreel
was tumbling past him.
The extensive establishment of the l.
H. Harris Drug Company, Nos. 46 and 4S
Seventh Avenue. Pittsburg, which had IL
stock drugs and liquors valued at $60,OOO
together with the buildings valued at $50
900 were almost completely destroyed b.
fire last Sunday evening In addition t,
this the A. G. Henderson & Co. drug ware
house adjoining was damaged by fire AM
water to the extent of about SIS, 900, whicl
makes total loss of over 100000.
Five men were killed by the explosion
of farm engine near Newark, O., Tues
day.