Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1896-07-23
NEIGHBoREooD NOTES.
The attorneys o Mercer Co., will keep
their offices cln.el MI An gust 81 81

The attorneys Mercer Co., will keel
their Offices closed TIL August 81 st.
The corner Stone for the uew bridge a
Fteeport was laid on Wednesday of laF
1 week.
\ monster snake said 10 be thirty feet
/ lolg anL foot thick has appeared on the
I hill near Bravs Bend. IL is said % be Tie
same snake that crushed mule 10 death
some years ego.
"A detail from Co. Z. Pad PcuuA In
fantry Is. B, in command Of Lieuteu !
Edwin J Heberling will 20 TO camp on
the 81 pperyrock Creek about August 1st.
The detail! rs from regiment located IN
Allegheny, Pa
,Tuhu Fisher OF Wilkes barre had an odd
experience 3 few nights ago. de was on
a lonely road On his way come when three
masked women who were in the JsShrs
ran out in The road and seized him Affer
srcvr rely tying him they took his watch
aud rocAet-book and then fed.
Chamber sbuIe, Pa July l9.-Two chill
drrn Of Martin Drury. farmer living ncsr
Cham bersburg, died from the bites of cop
peTheed snakes, and the mother who was
also bitten will probably die The snakes
entered the house during the night first
biting the children whose cries wakened
the mother. who was then attacked by
ore of the snakes and twice bitten. A
physician came from MercerSburg eight
miles distant, but his skill was of no avail
both children one aged and the other 3
dying within q short time and no hopes
are entertained for the recovery of the
"a 81 hot
snakes escaped into the cellar of the house.
Harry Adams, of Sugar Grove Mercer
Co, young man abo1t u years Of age
who was charged with a murder and rob
berry which was committed in Kansas some
timJ ago bat managed to escape was cap
tured few days ago by a detective who
has been on MS trail tor some time. After
committing the murder Adams went to
Toronto, Canada, where he was discovered
and iu urde. 10 escape the detective he
jumped into tho lake and swan under the
docks. and eS the detective did not see
him again he was thought to be drowned.
From there he came TO this part of the
country, where he has been for about three
weeks, He became bold and visited
Franklin where he was captured. There
was reward Of $500 offered ior him dead
or alive. he was taken back to kansaS
Tuesday.
Mrs. Louis Foltz wife Of Richard Foltz,
Of New Castle and a sister of J. j. David
son. Republican candidate for congress
in this district, committed suicide last Sat
urday by taking a large dose of laudsnum
She took the poison about midnight, but
her husband did not send TOR q physician
until after dinner next day thinking that
her long sleep was caused by some whisky
she had taken during the night. When
the physician arrived she was past recovery
and she died at 4:30 that afternoon.
1t seems that the laudanum bottle was
handed her by Err husband, who believed
she was testing when she said she wanted
to commit suic De. She took the poison
while he was out of the room.
Mrs. Foltz was once married to Sergeant
Hopes, OF Beaver county. AMI some years
| alter his death she married Richard Foltz.
She was largely interested IN Beaver coun-
ty Industries and property.
A few nights ago gang OF burglars en-
tered the office Of the Park House at Par
| kers Landing and after tying the front
| door to post on the porch and all the
| doors inside, they moved the safe in front
| of the Office door and began their work.
| One man was stationed picket on the Side
walk in front of the hotel They poured
some powder down a hole they drilled
| through the top of the safe and blew the
door off and By the aid of fuse ignited
the same. A loud explosion fello Sed,
breaking the glass in the Office windows
and throwing the door OF the safe about ter
| feet across the room hitting against the
side or the chimney it bounced back deep
Iy cutting the floor. The robbers then
| took al the drawers etc, out Of the safe
| and left Mr.. Adams who heard the ex-
| Dlosion came running down stairs to find
the doors securely tied, he then returned
| to his room and dressed, but by the time
| he again returned the marsuders bad fled
| leaving no trace behind. They received
Tor their trouble about So in old coins, and
several oil leases and other papers thai
were of no value TO any one except the
| owner