Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1894-11-08
NEIGHBoRHooD NOTES.

NEIGHBoRHooD NOTES.
Mr.. Jos Beale and his son were "held
up" and robbed mile or two above Free
port, last Friday night.
A family in Gallipohs. o., were poision-
ed, Monday, by drinking rain water, which
ran from newly painted roof. The white
lead did it,
Geo. Wilhelm of Pittsburg who cut his
throat and windpipe some time ago is get
ting well. For nine days after his attempt
ed suicide he breathed through tube aud
was fed from pump, but after remark
able operation by young surgeon he is
recovering.
A few evenings ago F. NJ. Dome of E
Franklin twp. Armstrong Co., did not re-
turn home from his coal bank for supper
nor did he put in an appearance in the
morning for his breakfast, and failed to !
show up for dinner. After dinner two of
his sons walked ouT to the bank and not
finding any signs of their father outside
or in the shanty, entered the bank. They |
had hardly done so when they heard his
calls for help. Rushing on in, they found
him all buried except his head and arms. |
As speedily as possible they dug him out,
and took him home. This was about /
o'clock, and the unfortunate man died at
5 O'Clock, hours later. An examination
of the body showed that the right leg was
broken, and internal injuries had been |
sustained. Mr.. Dome was conscious up |
until he died. He said he had just entered |
the bank Tuesday noon, when the caye-ln |
occurred, and for "a hours, or until We'd |
nesday afternoon, he remained IN that
horrible condition, surrounded by inky
darkness. He kept calling continually for
aid, but none came until his sons entered
the bank. For "a hours he died by inches
A wedding took place a few days ago at
Sugar Loaf Mountain, in Grant county,
W. Va, in which the combined age of the
bride and groom reached the extraordinary
figure of 10 years. John Shilling, the
groom, is in his Goth year, and the blush
ing bride, Miss Ruth Sears, has experienc-
ed the passing of "A summers. Both bride
and groom are mountaineers, having been
born and raised in the Sugar Loaf Noun
tain country. They have known each
other for over sixty years, and for fifty
four years haYe lin mountain parlance)
"courted." The wedding was a typical
mountain affair. The attendance consist
ed of several hundred people, all relatives
and friends of the bride and groom, many
of whom rode horseback over the noun
tains forty and fifty miles to witness the
ceremony. On the morning before the
ceremony both the bride and groom were
baptized and received into the church.
Beaver Falls was hit hard by the dis
cretionary pools people of Pittsburg. 1t is
said that $50, 900 went out of that town.
One old German invested $1,000 with
Ir win & Co and the loss of his money has
almost made him insane.
The coal mining town of Glen Campbell
in Indiana Co. is being scourged by ty-
phoid fever.
One hundred acres of ground in Dia-
mond Valley, Huntingdon county, sa-
cred spot for deer hunters, and the best
hunting grounds in the county, have been
purchased by the Pittsburg Hunting club.
The purchase embraces some of the wild
est territory in the valley, and deer IN
abundance are said to be found there.
In Mayberry township, Montour county,
the tax levy for 1894 has been fixed at
ninety six mills for road purposes. Secre-
tary Edge, of the State Board of Agncul-
ture, wrote to the County Commissioners
for an explanation of the cause of this ex-
orbitant tax, and received reply that it
was to make up damages recovered By a
woman for being thrown from a sleigh
last wintsi and seriously injured on dan
gerous road on which the township author
tiles had failed to place guard rail to pro-
tect the public from danger.
A farmer near West Middlesex, Mercer
county husked 110 bushels of corn this
fall from a scant acre of ground.
Two prisoners in the jail at New Castle
crawled through the aperature called the
"hash hole" and were making their escape
when another prisoner also crawled
through the hole and captured one of the
two first and held him till the deputy came
| to his relief. The other escaped prisoner
was recaptured at Ellwood next day.
Mrs. Samuel Jack, of Mercer Co., near
| Sharon, who was found Thursday morning
entombed in hollow log half dead, las
partially recovered, and there are hopes of
her recovery. She has told a startling
story of the crime. She says she was not
assaulted, as supposed, but attempted to
take her own life. Becoming discouraged
she said, / decided to end my existence.
| came to this decision when 1 was return
ing home Tuesday afternoon after q visit
with my mother. l entered the woods,
and having nothing better to use decided
/ would knock my brains out with a stone.
l laid down on the ground and placed my
head on boulder and with another stone
beat myself on the head The stone found
on the ground covered with hair and blood
was the one / used. / found this was a
poor way of taking my lite. After had
struck my head twice. grew weak, ard
the stone dropped from my hand. In a
halt conscious state crawled under a tree
about 100 yards distant, where l lay for
two nights, unable to move. About 3
O'Clock Thursday morning 1 crawled into
log, where 1 thought l would be left to
die. The serching party located Mrs Jack
by the blood which flowed from the wound
in her head.
THOSE New Castle registry lists were
somewhat Stuffed" Judge Hazen struck
off IA names last Saturday.
ALEXANDER III, Gar of Russia, died at
his country place at Liyadia in the Cri-
mea, last Thursday afternoon; and was
succeeded by his eldest son, the Grand
Duke Nicholas, who will reign under the
title of Nicholas ii.