Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1883-09-19

! The County Commissioners will award
| some masonry and wood work contracts on the
9th, a3th and 29th, inst See notice in another
place.
! Two young men from Centreville, this
county, who have lately been camping out and
hunting in Somerset county, were unjustly ar
rested on h charge of burglary last Thursday.
| They had a hearing and were discharged.
We direct attention to Al Heck's adyertis-
ment of his Fall stock OF Carpets, Clothing,
Hats, Caps and Gents Furnishing Goods.
Al. carries a large and well selected stock OF
these.articles and has but one.prce for all his
goods.
The original stockholders of the P. & w.
| R. r. are feeling happy these days The re-
! port of the Master in their suit with the. COM
| pany was in their favor, and if sustained by
| Courts will make their stock good.
There will not be much more than fourth
of crop buckwheat in this county this year.
Our farmers SOW this grain entirely too late.
A patch inside the borough limits sowed early
this season. about late oats Sowing time-dld
very we'll.
The great war at Renfrew had rather
tame ending. Each party had or have their
attorneys to pay and bill of costs. The costs
of the Renfrew party will amount to about
$500 and those of the Purviance party to about
500.
Two courts were running in the Court
a1 RI
stairs, and a court to inquire into the alleged
lunacy of William Christie, of Washington
township, consisting OF jury of six with Judge
Wier presiding, down stairs. The jury decided
that Mr.. Christie is not of unsound mind.
The tracks of the P..& w. R. r. leading
into the West Penn depot, at this place, have
been torn up and the P. & w. company have
surveyed for and intend building branch
road from point on their road between the
bridge and the crossing to the east end OF Gun
ningham street, with depot near the bluff.
Mr.. William Johnston of this place, who
had both his legs broken at the ankles by an
accident of the p. dE w. r. r., last week, was
taken to the West Penn Hospital, in Plttsburg
and is doing we'll. Conductor Con. Mccarthy
was also injured by same accident but is now
able to be about again.
Henry Pfaif, who was sent to the Reform
School from this county last spring for horse
stealing escaped from that institution some
time ago and made his way to the home of Mr.
Henry Cromling, Of Petroiis. On Saturday Oh
week before last he induced the fourteen year
old daughter of Mr.. C.'s to elope with him, and
neither have been heard from since.
The visitors to the Exposition last Thurs
dav. witnessed 6 thrilling scene. The
Aeronaut's gas balloon burstej when he and 1t
were a mile and a halfabove ground, but tha
balloon caught in the ropes and made sort OF
paranhute, and the aeronaut by throwing all
the ballast out of the car, succeeded in getting
to the ground with only few bruises.
Mrs. Bolestridge, the niece OF Mr.. Ii, }.
Klingler, of this place, who was injured In
ternally by an accident on the p. & W. X. r.
some weeks ago, taken to her home IN
Philadelphia last Saturday. Her spine was
injured by tha accident and she has been bed
ridden since and may &c TIE balance OF her
life.
"A notice of Mr.. B. c. Huselton's large ad-
yertisement was ccidently omitted last week.
Ben's advertisement should be carefully read
and considered. He carries a large stock OF
good goods--Docts, shoes, rubbers, leather, ETC.,
which he sells at reasonable figures, and he
has ALWAYS been liberal in the use Of printers
ink. Hence his phenomenal success.
"A man named Rosenblaum is in Jail on a
charge of i,orse stealing, preferred by Mr.
Campbell, Of the willard kopse last spring.
Detective Peter ramer captured him al Leeeh-
burg last week. A man named Koontz, who
was engaged in a riot in Buffalo township,
some time ago, and who was afterwards sent to
the Workhouse from Armstrong county, was
also hrouS Sl. here last week from the Work
house by Peter, 10 sn4~ef the old charge.
The rowing regetta on the Allegheny
river at Hutton Station, begins next Tuesday
and continues for four days. Some of the
most noted oarsmen in the country, including
Hanlan and Courtney, will take part in it.
The course is one and half miles long, max
ing a total distance Of three miles TO bG row
ed. The start is just below the island and
grand stand has been erected on the Allegheny
or west side Of the river
The men appointed by the ALCHEMY Coun-
ty Court to appraIse the Glass Works here were
in town Monday for that purpos. What the
/ apprasement will amount TO is not yet known.
There is a mortgage of $500 against the estab-
lshment and all the judgments, we are inform
e9, will not amount to over $4,000. Mr. Ihmsen
says that if he is given a years time he will be
able to square everything up. The Works will
probably be running again inside of a week or
| two,
If you want good Lunch, Square
Meal OF az Oyster Stew go to Morri-
sons City Bakery. If
Another Artic disaster is reported. The
| steamer Proteus, sent out by government
to relieve the party under Lieut.. Greeley at one
9f the circumpolar stations, which the leading
Governpentg ci the world have agreed to main
tain within the Artic 1ope for the purpose of
making simultaneous scientific observatiGng,
was crushed in the ice in Smiths Sound, lati-
LDhC 20 ~ l'iN tiO NiS"J linz '"'' W WV
| Jeannette. bad 10 travel hundreds Of miles in
open boats before reaching safety. The party
at the station will probably evaeda;e i and re-
treat southwark, as their provisions are about
exhausted.
| Over q hundred persons from this county
took advantage Of the Rapert Bros excursion,
last Tuesday, to see Niagara. About Gfty took
1 Al III
hour or two later than they expected, but yet
had plenty of time to see everything there
worth seeing, and the illumination of the Falls
by electric lights after nightfall was grand
sight. The train left the Falls at l.. rs. sg9
| twas after o'clock next morning when it ar
rived in Butler. This night-riding is the only