Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1893-05-19
NEIGHBoRHooD NOTES.

d. ". Ault. of Chntonville, who was ar
rested last week, charged with assaultine
the l4-year-old daughter of A. s. Sweet
| apple and was held for court in the sum o
| 81 500, by Alderman Borlaud- After con.
| siderable skirmishing ball was secured and
Mr.. Ault returned home
The first vein of white marble ever dis
covered in Pennsylvania has been located
| on the property of the Acme lime company,
at Avondale, Chester county.
George Mcbride a well-known pottery
man of New Brighton, was committed to
jail Monday morning for a hearing on q
charge of attempting to poison his wife.
He denies the charge and says his wife is a
monomaniac on the subject of poisoning
About o'clock Monday evening Mrs.
William Thomas Graham, of New Castle,
made two desprate efforts to commit sui
| eide. She first took big dose of lauda-
mum. Before this had time to show effect
she jumped from the Mill street bridge into
the Neshannock river, distance of thirty
feet She was rescued of from drowning
and physicians who are working with her
say she will live.
The McCune building, 90 Water street,
Pittsburg, was the scene of a fire Monday
The building is three-story brick affair
and the first floor was used as warehouse
tor hay, grain, feed flour, etc, by j. & C..
McCune. The second floor was taken up
with offices principally, while James Peteres
d Co. of the Loyalhenna Paper Company
occupied the first floor. The fire started
among some bales of hay on the floor and
had gotten good headway before the
arrival of the firemen who soon got the
flames under control.
When the survivors of the war steamboat
Sultana, which blew up in the Mississippi
river near Memphis in 1860. with the loss
of over 800 lives, held their annual re-
union at Maryville, Tenn, a few days ago,
James Lawton. who was supposed to have
been drowned in the disaster, appeared.
much to the surprise of everybody He had
been in Mexico for years, and came up to
show his face to his companions in misfor-
tune.
Charles kirkpatrick, whose skull was
crushed with brick in the Beaver Jail on
Friday evening by Adam Limbright, fel-
low prisoner, died about Z O'Clock Monday
evening. He never regained consciousness
or spoke after the first blow was struck.
Adam Lambright is suffering deep mental
agony, and fully realizes his condition.
When asked for motive for his crime be
said l can give none. We were good
friends; he did some writing for me after [
was placed in Jail. | can recolleet nothing
about the matter. For several weeks be-
fore / was placed in Jail l had been drink
ing considerable, and l felt curious for
several days after | was locked up. A
friend was arranging to pay my fine, and |
was to have been released the next day
after the affair occurred. The statement
that the two men were friends Is corrobor-
ated by the other prisoners, although they
say that Lambright said to someone that
Kirkpatrick was "a Pittsburg cop :. who
was after him. This Lambright denies.
County Detective Lazarus this evening
made an information, charging Lambright
with murder. The latter's mother and sew
eral brothers reside in Bridgewater and
are well-to-do, respectable people The
prisoner has always given them a great
deal OF trouble on account of his wayward.
ness. A gentleman who is well acquainted
with Kirkpatrick's family, says that his
wife talks of entering suit against the
county to recover damages on occount OF
her husbands DEATH