Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1882-04-26

peclally farmers In town OH Duslnes
wanting good meals at any hour {
the day, can be accommodated at th
Restaurant Of Geo. j. Smith, Jeffer
son street, Butler. Pa.
Gents fine white and colOre
shirts, low prices, at Heck & PatteI
sons.
Fire seems to be making about tn
most effective war on whisky even il
these days of active liquor legislation
Another large distillery, located nea
Peoria, ILL.,, was destroyed the othe
night entailing a loss of $3.50, 900.
The Pearl shirt, the finest dres
shirt in the market, only 81, at Heel
Il PatterSon's.
While Nick Sailer was loading {
sack of -four on his wagon, standing il
front of Reibers' grocery, last Friday
afternoon, two ten dollar bills dropped
from his vest pocket. One of then
was picked up in front of Stehle's
store by Mr.. Jones.
Fine Accordians at j. F. T.
Stehle's
"A new dance which promises to
FIJI long-felt want at summer resorts,
during warm evenings, has just been
invented. The couples have nothing
to do but to stand up and hug while
the band plays funeral dirge.-Har-
isburg Telegraph.
Some of our exchanges are taking
very especial pains to criticise harshly
the action of Governor Crittenden, of
Missouri, for authorizing the killing of
Jesse James, and write as if that Off
cial had deliberately sanctioned and
encouraged cold blooded murder.
This is wrong. James was the avow-
ed enemy of his race, and lived upon
bis fellow men, regarding their lives
and property as his legitimate prey.
Governor Crittenden is no more to be
censured for trying to have him re-
moved from earth than had he ordered
the destruction of some venomous rep
tile.
Detective Peter Kramer made .
successful arrest last Friday at the
West Penn Railroad junction near
Freeport 1t is not perhaps generally
known that a small part of the railroad
there passes through Butler county,
and on this smell part the arrest was
made. He had a capiss for one Au-
gust Winters and arranged to arrest
him as he was passing through
on train, and succeeding in so doing.
1t was very narrow margin to work
upon but detective Kramer was equal
to the emergency and brought his man
to Butler.
"A dispatch from Harmony, dated
last Saturday says: "The PROPOSE
tion made by the Pittsburg and Wes-
tern company 10 the stockholders of
the old Pittsburg, New Castle Il Lake
Erie road, to pay them the sum of $lO,-
900 was not accepted. The said stock
holders say that they will not accept
anything less than the original amount
of stock, about 100000. The attor-
neys for the original holders of stock
are working for percentage, and will,
Of course. endeavor to get all they can.
They claim that their clients have a
good case, and that the proposition
made by the p. & w. folks shows
that there is just grounds for the suit.
Something of an idea of the mag
nitude of the graveyard insurance busi-
ness in this State may be CLEANED from
the fact that the Attorney General, up
on information made by Insurance
Commissioner Forster, recently return
ed to the Dauphin county Court list
of 2l3 of these companies doing busi-
ness in Pennsylvania. At the same
time he made an application for rule
compelling these same companies to
show cause why their charters should
not be forfeited, and they be prevented
from hereafter doing business in this
State. The rule was granted and
made returnable on the llth of May.
The business of these companies has
been pretty nearly wound up by the
exposures of the press, and this action
Of the State authorities will put an end
to the swindles.
Last Thursday was pay day for
the r. r. hands aud on Friday and
Saturday, there were many drunken
men on our streets. Some of these
were arrested for being drunk and
disorderly, and fined FIVE dollars each
and costs and one or two of them pre-
fered going to Jail for 48 hours rather
than pay the fine. In these cases the
borough had to pay the costs. The
borough ordinance says they shall be
fined not less than FIVE or more than
ten dollars. If the mot less than FIVE"
were dropped from the ordinance, the
Justice would be enabled to impose
such fines as could be paid and the
borough would not be put to any ex-
pense. While speaking of ordinances
we would suggest to our town coun-
Gil the propriety Of giving new ordi.
nsnces q more thorough publicity.
During the first part Of this month the
council passed an ordinance relating to
the firing of guns, pistols, ETC., and
regulating the sale and use of fire
works in the borough. This was pub
lishedin but one paper and we will YEN
ture to say that not more than one in
three of the voters of the borough, read
it or know anything about it
Professor Langley, of the Alle-
gheny observatory thinks that the re-
markable spot on the sun, now visible
with the aid of smoked glass, was the
cause of the recent auroral display.
On the lst of September, 1859, while
two English astronomers were indie
pendently examining and measuring
the spots on the sun, bright outburst
in the fiery orb was noticed-the
u, oIa t;pna of tha ohoorvotion not ay.