Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1883-04-25

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Two candidates for District Attorney an
nounce their names this week.
The Pardon Board has commuted Silas
Gray's sentence to Imprisonment for life
-Burglarsattempted to blow open Chris. Mar
DORIS safe at Laneville last Tuesday night but
failed on account of the fuse not connecting.
&C. G. Christie, ESQ.,, has removed his Of
fee to the south side of Diamond, two doors
west of this office-second story.
There is a call for few reliable, energetic
men, in another column. See advertisement
| MEN WANTED.
JAS. NJ. Denny, Esq, formerly County
Surveyor of Butler county, but now practcing
| law in Colorado is home on visit.
If the lambs of the Oil Exchange would
| turn their attention to grain and pork and give
oil the shake, they would find it just now more
| exciting, and perhaps more profitable.
The lambs of the Oil Exchange danced to
the tunes of new shepherd, last Saturday-a
hand-organ man, but he couldn't make them
dance as the Standard can.
A model of AL. Wilson's washing machine
can be seen at BiehPs. He took the machine
| he had there on exhibition up to the Orphans
Home some days ago for trial, and they
wouldn't let him away.
With the mercury down to the freezing
poiut and the snow flying, last Monday, 1t
seemed as though March were paying back her
debts to April in accordance with the old
weather saw.
We call the attention of any of our readers
| who are in want of salaried situation, ana
who can fill the bill, to the advertisement IN
another column of r. G. Chase Co., headed
Statesmen Wanted" Write to them for par
ticulars. apr2o,4t
The overseers of Cranberry twp, took
charge of John Powers last Wednesday John
was sent to the insane department of the Alle-
gheny Poor Farm the week before and had be-
come violent.
j. R. Karns, agent for A. Roessing, As
signee of L. B. Roessing, will be found at the
Miller Bros furniture store, every Saturday
night for the coming six weeks. See notice in
another place in this paper.
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risburg caused by several cases near the Capitol
grounds. Neither of our representatives, how
ever, are alarmed in the least, they have all
had the smallpox twice and didn't die either
time.
Esq. Walker in the case of the two Swedes
for use of r. C. McAboy against the county
gave judgment in favor of McAboy for the full
amount of the Swedes' bill-$15OOO in one case
and $4,000 in the other. The County Commits
sioners intend appealing to Court.
The members of the Building and Loan
Association of this town will meet in the Court
room next Saturday evening at O'Clock, when
another effort will be made to agree upon meas
ures looking toward the winding up of the AS
sociation. A full attendance is desired.
Theodore Tilton will Lecture in the Court
Room tonight on the subject of ''The Worlds
Tomorrow" On account of services being
held in several of the churches tonight, the
lecturer will not commence till 81 o'clock.
Reserved seats can be had at the Savings Bank,
price so cents Tickets 35 cents.
BY the theory of the common law husband
and wife are one in law and cannot sustain ali
action against each other or be witnesses for or
against each other, except in cases of divorce
or assault and battery and there
fore the Petrolia woman whose husband
made information against her for adultery, last
week, was discharged by the Court. Her
paramour, Deeter, still languishes in Jail.
A charter was granted last Monday to the
Ihmsen .Glass Manufacturing Company, in
spite of the objection of the Ihmsen Glass Com
pany Limited, that the similarity of names
would injure it. The stockholders are DOM
mick Ihmsen 5 shares, Thomas o. Ihmsen 60
shares, Herbert 8. Ihmsen IL shares, al. A.
Ihmsen 81 shares, Mary A. Ihmsen and Ada j.
Patton shares each.
The Mercer Republicans says that Clyde L.
Moore, grandson of J. c. Kelly, of Pine town.
ship, goes one ahead in point of living ances-
tors. of the youth recently mentioned in the
Coneautyille Courier: Clyde L. Moore is near
ly two years old and has now living both par
ents, two grandfathers, two grandmothers, two
| great-grandfathers, four greatgrandmothers
| and one at-great- grandmother, Mrs. Ray
en-, now resident of Butler county, this State.
| This beats Crawford county and is a wonderful
record in the line Of living ancestry.
| Manufacturers and dealers who present
claims to the Revenue Collector for rebate of
tax paid on tobacco, snuff, cigars and cigarettes
on hand May l, 1885, will be required when
taking inventories of stock on that day to af-
fix label to each stamped package of tobacco
or snuff of one pound more in weight, to
each box containing stamped packages of to-
bacco or snuff less that one pound in weight, to
each stamped package of cigars, and to each
box containing stamped packages of cigarettes.
Blanks with which to make claim and labels
will be furnished on application.
The new Foxburg bridge was opened last
Monday, and trains of the P. & W., and p B.
& r. 4. Rs. are now running over it. On Mon
day the p. & w. railroad announced that it is
ready to receive freight for all points on the
Pittsburgh, Bradford & Buffalo and the Tic.
nesta Valley railroads and is the only line that
can ship to way towns. The distance to Shelf
field via this new line is 55 miles shorter than
via Oil City and III miles shorter than via
Driftwood from Pittsburg. The bridge was
erected under the superintendency of Major w {.
C. Mobley, of the Pittsburgh & Western.
james Park, Jr one of Pittsbugh's most
prominent business men died at his home in
Allegheny City, last Saturday morning. Mr..
Park was the senior member of the firms of
Park, Brother & Co., and Park, Scott & Co.,
President of the Penn Cotton Mill, OF Allie
ghenY, largely interested in the Pittsburgh
Steel Company limited; manager OF McIn-
tosh, Hemphill & Co., limited; manager Of
the Sixth Suspension Bridge Vice President of
the Pittsburgh Bank for Savings; an ncor-
porator and director of the West Pen. Iiospi-
tai; director of the Western University;
Vice President of the American Iron and
Steel Association, and for several years a di-
rector of the Allegheny Valley Railroad Com
pany.