The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-11-25
SOUTH SIDE NEWS.
Michael Battle and Michael O'h0lierau
Arc In Jail Charged with Abusing Their
Respective Families -Other Notes.

Tailor Michael Battle, OF Lavelle
court and Birch street, wa < up
in the Alder street station at $50 last
evening on several charges, the most
serious being his attempt to kill his
| wife with an ak. He returned home at
suppertime after a debauch In the
afternoon and proceeded with q VEN
| peance to demolish the household eff
fects. He first attacked the furnishings
of a room upstairs and desisted not
until he had destroyed everything but
the walls. His family made nc effort
to, stop his drunken fury. but sent a
messenger after the police. Patrolmen
Boland and Coleman arrived and they
found Battle still engaged in his war
on the furniture. He had sufficient
time before the officers reached the
house to leave it in almost az bad a
condition as IL a cyclone had passed
that way. Every pane of glass was
broken and the doors were reduced to
kindling wood. Battle was shouting at
the toS of his voice that he had re-
volver and would shoot the first one
that interfered with him. When. he
was arrested and searched no firearms
wer found in his possession. This Is
not the first nor the tenth time that
the prisoner has been deprived of his
liberty for the same offense. When
ever he gets drunk, hich Is usually as
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liquor. he makes a demand upon his
wife to restore to him the property now
in her name: she refuses, n the out
come is a HOUSEKEEPING engagement.
Another Wife Bcatcr In the Tolls.
Blacksmith Michael O'Holleran, of
Cedar venue in the Twentieth ward, a
chronic wife-beater, was arrested at 8
o'clock Saturday evening by Patrolmen
Flaherty and George Jones, for abusing
his family in a brutal n shameful
manner A message came to the Alder
| street station from Minooka store early
| Saturday evening asking that a couple
| of policemen be sent out to take charge
| of O'Holleran or that he might commit
murder. His ~1S-year-Old daughter,
Mary, is so ill that her death is feared,
and with savage and unnatural cruelty
he caught hold of her and attempted
to drag her from her dying bed. Some
of the neighbOring men came in and
with cowardly haste he fled. The police
| captured him on Cedar avenue an hour
later and brought him to the central
station, where he was given a hearing
| and held under bail in the sum of $500
to appear at court. His family is sadly
neglected. His wife was toe i'll to ap-
neal against him. Last night he sent
word to her, begging her to withdraw
thS Sho = oAu
Arranging for Their Annual Ball.
A meeting of the members of Century
| Hose company was held yesterday af-
%t,rnoon and final arrangements were
made for their annual ball at Matters
hall on Thanksgiving afternoon and
evening. The event will be quite unique;
the ball will begin at 4 p. m. and con-
tinue until a seasonable hour. Ample
refreshments and eatables will be on
hand and good music will be furnished.
The entire RinggOld band has been en-
gagged. The committees appointed yes
terday are as follows: Reception COM
mittee, 5. s. Spruks. John Wagner, Rob-
| ert H. Deter, Charles Neuls, Adam
Neuls and ambrose Herr; loo commit
tee, Louis Scheuer, T. j. Hickey and
Louis Schwass.
Shorter Paragraphs.
The South Side mill was shut down
Saturday morning. The management
says that the suspension Is only tempo
rary.
Saturday was pay day al the Green
wood ~collieries, and the usual enliven-
ment was noticed.
c. G. Boland has returned from a
huSineSS trim To phi1adplphia