Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1882-06-07

/ OF Summit township, lnlS County, pu
who has lately been working in the b
& o. r. r. as fireman, was killed a
Connelsville, last Friday night. H'
was on his engine, which was standing
at the station at the time, when som'
loaded coke cars, which had been stand
ing at Mt. Braddock, eight miles
above and which had aceidently beer
started down grade, crashed into ant
over his engine, killing himself anC
another man Immediately.
The high price of potatoes, owing
to the drought last season, have made
that crop a widely planted one this
spring, with prospects that the coun
try will have an abundant supply this
fall at roderate prices Other staple
crops promise as WELL and are depend
ent only on average good summer
weather. The outlook for large ex.
portation is favorable. This will les
Sen the cost of the chief articles offood,
now so high that labor is generally
dissatisfied with its wages. A great
deal always depends on the question,
"What will our harvest be ?"
-Pritchard's case, which promised
to furnish bone of contention be-
tween Ohio and Pennsylvania, settled
itself very rapidly when the facts be-
came known. The Ohio deputy who
arrested the defendant in Washington
city seems to have misrepresented the
case badly. Instead of having Gov.
Fosters requisition disregarded by
Pennsylvania authorities, it turns out
that he had no requisitioD when he
got to Altoona, the prisoner having
stolen it from him while he was asleep
and destroyed it. Having no proof of
his authority, the Pennsylvania Off
cials very properly held the prisoner
until the officer got duplicate requi-
sition which was promptly honored.
"A terrible story is told of an Ashe-
vile, n c., father who went off on
spree taking with him his little eight
year-old daughter. He laid down
under tree to sleep off the effects of
the debauch and while in this state the
child secured the bottle and drank
enough liquor to soon stupify her.
When the father awoke he found her
beastly drunk Ia towering rage he
reused her up and swore that he would
kill her The little thing begged pite-
ously for her life saying 'Pa, don't kill
me now | am drunk wait till | get
sobern The appeal was in vain and
few blows on the head with club soon
ended the child's life.
The comet known as "wells'
comet" begins to heave in sight. 1t
is located in the constellation Cas-
siopeia, and will be found about four
teen degrees directly under the North
Star. Placing the initial brightness
at the time of his discovery at l, its in
crease can now be placed at 80. On the
9Th of June it will have $50; three
days thereafter it will be $3.50 brighter
than at discovery, and two days later
it will have fallen off to $50 again
At 10 O'Clock in the evening" look for
the bright star in Cassiopeia, directly
1p toward the Pole Star and midway
between the two you will see the
60 omet.-Er.
Decoration Day" passed off very
at this place. Gen. Pur-
Vance presided at.the meeting in the
Court House, with Gen. G.. w. Reed.
Hon. Robert Storey, David Marshall,
Esq. and Prof Stauffer, as Vice Presi-
dents, and the press ofthe place, acting
Is secretaries. An opening prayer was
offered by Rev. Burke. Capt. Ziegler
made some remarks and read from
select readings appropriate to the day.
L. z. Mitchell, Esq, followed as the
orator of the occasion. Appropriate
songs were sung by the choir, joined
oy the audience, and music furnished
Dy the Citizens Cornet Band. The
ceremonies closed by benediction and
prayer by Rev. Waters. After which
The graves of the fallen soldiers here
we're again visited and strewn with
lowers.
Just as the Convention was
Monday afternoon, a wild
,yed individual with the appearance of
IN escaped lunatlc, entered the room,
Stop" said he to member of the
committee "did you say that this was
DO Independent Convention" ''The
independents seem to be in the majority
here" answered the Committee man,
"Then" said the wild-eyed man, shak-
ing his finger imprcssively, "There'll be
another Convention inside oftwo weeks" !"
And SO tho Republicans OF the county
can expect another Convention to be
called "inside of two weeks. "a Cam
eron, "all.go-to-h hell-together" Conven-
tion,-for Wild Rye-ter himself hath
said it.
The twenty-six rolling mills of
with the exception of that
of Carnegie Bros. Il Co., (imited),
put out their fires last Thursday. The
mill proprietors of Pittsburgh, Wheel
ing, Cincinnati, Ironton, Milwaukee,
Youngstown and other places have re-
fused to sign the scale of wages as de-
by the workmen, and are now
with few exceptions, shut down,
Some of the steel mills are still run
ming, they employ no puddlers, and
the scale does not affect wages in
their mills. The Carnegie Bros,
who have signed the scale own the
Union Iron Works, and also the Edgar
Thompson Works, both immense con-
Germs. This firm manufactures spe-
cialties, such as bolts, nails, nuts,
hinges, bridge materials, ETC., and have
contracts on hand that require them to
continue running. There propably is
not another city in the world where
so large proportion of the workmon
are unmarried aDd where they make
such good pay as in Pittsburgh
There are sixteen blast furnaces there
owned by ten establishments, with a
capital of s4,s90,0 900, employing 2,2S5