Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1900-09-06
NEIGHBoRHOoD NOTES.

\ New York real estate company will
build thirty-story building at the
corner of Broadway and 33rd st, at a
cost of two and half million.
In a coast county in Oregon, lately,
while man and his wife were driving
in a road cut in an almost perpendicular
mountain slope. the road-bed gave way
and the wagon, occupants and team, this
last consisting Of horse and mule, We're
precipitated.
The woman fell to the ocean beach
about !, 900 feet below, and the wagon
and team with Mr. Cole found lodgment
against a tree some fifty feet under the
grade. Mrs. Coles first fall, clear of all
distractions, was about 100 feet; she
landed in the tor of a myrtle tree, thence
tumbled unconscious the remaining 300
feet to the beach over the ragged sur
face of rock. She escaped with severe
bruises. The mule was unhurt.
In refusing to pay the big shortage in
the accounts of John Bleyins, late city
treasurer of New Castle, the bondsmen
take this ground: If it is shown that the
money was taken in a guilty manner by
the deceased, they Will settle; but If the
shortage is clearly made up Of a series of
clerical blunders, and the city had not
asked the controllers for an audit in all
these - years they do not deem that
they are responsible.
Emil Rossberger. a farmer residing in
Wilmington township, near Sharon,
discovered an eagle trying TO make of
with a big rooster. He had a hoe in his
hand, and struck the bird on the wing,
disabling it so that it dropped the chick
en-. When he tried TO strike it again il
dashed at MIN, and clawei his face in a
painful manner He succeeded in kill
ing the bird. which measured seven feet
from tip to tip.
Rev. c. II. Polterfeld of Breedtown
Venango Co. was arrested last week, on
the oath of rs year old girl
In defense or the honor of a girl of Il
years, Norman II. King, n business
man. of Everson. was fatally shot by his
brother-in-law. Harry L. Frew, at mid
night, Saturday night. The tragedy is
complicated by another story, but evi-
dence CLEANED, points to the former
being correct. After Frew did the
shooting the neighborhood was aroused
and a chase was instituted by about 10
men and boys, with the intention of
Iynching Frew The man ran desper-
ately, fearing the vengeance of the mob,
and after making circuitous route,
came back to the home Of James Fergu-
son, another bro: herin-law, married to
a sister of the wives of King and him
self. The little girl who it is alleged
caused the shooting Is the fourth sister.
When Frew reached Ferguson 5 house
he barricaded himself, and the crowd
kept up a siege until noon Sunday
when Frew surrendered to Alexander
McBeth. ,the county detective of Faye.te
county, in which the shooting TO place
The day was the most sensational that
Scottdale has ever had. and as all the
principals are well known the news
spread far and wide.
Over in New Castle the Collector
could lot wait upon the crowd. last
Friday and is now perplexed because
they demand the rebate; and the New
Castle Electric Company and the City
Council have locked horns on the ques-
tion of city lighting. The contract
with the electric company expired July,
/. since WHICH time the company has
been providing light. The electric com
pany has sent in bill of $3.50 for the
incandescent lights and have charged
the city $50 for the arc lights
Several miraculous cures are alleged
to have been performed by Rev. H. c.
Blandford. the healer Of London, Eng,
who is holding meetings on the Court
House steps in Pittsburg every night
Mr.. Blandford does not claim to be a
divine healer or a second Nazarene, but
IL preacher of the Word of God sent to
assist suffering mankind He heals by
laying on Of hands, and three people
who had not known comfort for years
claim TO have been cured.