Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1883-12-19
BUTLER CITIZEN.
WEDNESDAY, DEC. l9, 1888.
LOCAL AND GENERAL.


Years day.
Sewing Machine attachments and repairs
ofalI kinds at 4. Grieb's Jewelry store
-Munkittrlck was the last man to lecture in
the old Court room and his lecture was SO eA-
eeedingly dry, that 1t may have mao an enect On
the building and brought about spontaneous
combustion.
Every retail grocer is authorized to recon.
mend and guarantee Days Soap as doing all
that we claim for it. A handsome set OF ex-
pensiye French chromos are distributed among
the buyers of it as an inducement to have them
try it.
Gen puryianc. sold the National Banks
interest in the Story farm to Chas. Duffy for
s575 and the Brady township farm to same for
S505 The Banks interest in the Clymer prop
erty was sold to VIM. Campbell, Jr-, trustee, for
$1,000.
Go to H Biehl & Co. for Phosphate,
Grain Drills, Plows, Fruit Evsporators, &c.
SUNDAY. Monday and Tuesday of next
week will, according to the almanac. be the
shortest DAYS Of the year, and then the days
will begin to lengthen at the rate OF about half
minute day.
The nlan adopted for ventilatng the
Court room was the best of which we have
any knowledge, but the ventilators them
selves should have been built of tin or sheet
iron, in which case they would have WORKED
better and-the Court House might not nave
burned.
Mr.. 1. Kuhn, Of Pittsburgh, the archi-
tect who planned the alterations made In the
Court room, thinks the fire could hardly nave
originated at the point where the stove-pipe
nassed through the ventilator, because u was
Guarded by cast-iron collar. He is OF the
0pinion that it was caused by defect IN the
hue either above below that point Soot,
burning aud falling, could have worked l"
way through defect below.
Light running Domestic Sewing Machines
Jos Niggle & Bro. Agents, Bntler, Pa. II
The triaI.Iist and minute book of the
Quarter Sessions Court, reported burned last
week. turned up all right; somebody had car
them out. The reeognizance book was burned
SO much as to be useless, but wonderful TO re-
that we're left lying on one of the desks in the
Court room, passed through the fire and were
not DESTROYED The edges are burned but the
printed and written parts are yet good.
The representatives Of the insurance COM
panies whose policies on the Court House are
held by the county were in town yesterday e4-
amining the ruins and consulting with the
County Commissioners. One OF the insurance
men thinks that the walls of the lower story
the companies may conclude TO rebuild the
Court House The walls of the upper story
have been condemned. Since the fire the
companies have kept night and day watch |
on the ruins.
Send or leave your order for Sewing Ma |
chine, of aay make, at Z. Grieb's Jeweiry store |
The bankers take the Pittsburgh CONNER
rial Gozefte for its financial news; the dealers |
for its mark ct reports; the minister takes it for
its religious news the politician takes it for |
It's live political views and its vigorous Repub- |
lican editorial opinions; the ladies want it for |
its society and household news, and no country |
home is complete without the CITIZEN to fur |
nish the home news and the Pittsburgh Week |
ly Commerciof GazeI, to give the news of the |
world. Subscription price to the Pittsburgh
Weekly Commercia Gasefte per year, si25.
A word to those wishing to buy watches, |
clocks, jewelry, spectacles and siiver-plated |
ware, Of which have now on hands well
selected stock 10 choose from. have nothing |
in the shape OF "Psize" to offer you as an in |
ducement to buy of me. But will offer you |
this inducement 1 will sell my goods as low |
as can possibly afford TO, giving each customer
the benefit Of the inducement instead OF giving |
it to the one lucky person only that may hap |
pen to draw the prize that others have paid for.
Yours Respectfully,
ID. L. CLEELAND,
Matchmaker and Jeweler.
Court met Monday in the English Luther
an Church room. The County Commissioners
have rented the whole building--better known |
as the old Witherspoon Institute buildiBg-for
81 900 a year, the church to provide janitor, |
and the county tc have the use Of the build
ing az long az il needs it. Prothonotary
Greer Clerk Dodds and Register Christie have
already occupied the rooms assigned them,
but some alterations will have to be made 10
the interior of the balance Of the building |
before the other officers go in. For the pres
ent the Commissioners can be found in the
Brady building, Sheriff Donaghy at the jail,
and Treasurer Miller at the furniture store.
Hon. Geo. z. Vending will deliver the
second lecture Of the course in the NJ. +. |
Church. in Butler, on Thursday evening. Dec. |
27. Subject, Satan" Vending is we'll and
fayorabIy known on the lecture platform. as
sound thinker and powerful orator. lie is
filing engagements this year in all the large
cities Of the east and il everywhere received
with profound attention and Inerited applause.
In his eloquent aud forcble manner he never
fails to win the favor Of his audience, and az
he is to be in Butler during the holiday
week, let everyone embrace the opportunity
of hearing him. No reserved seats. Admis- |
sion so cents. Course tickets for balance of
the season % lectures) $i.25.
The criticisms on our Fire Department
lust, but have a tendency To discourage men
who have done we'll and who have worked
hard for nothing. We doubt If there vol
unteer fire or hose companies in this State or
in the United States, who would ave done bet
ter than the Butler hose companies did at the
Court Hoxse fire. Ii was but a very few min
u.es not more than ten, after the alarm was
given until both the hose companies were on
hands, had their hose coupled TO the plugs, =
line up the stairs and into the attic, and
nfw ofp plavinO nm the ceiling Rut
here they met with q serious, perhaps fatal, OBJ
stacle-the old ceiling of the Court room had
been left stand, the new ceiling was built un-
derneath it, the fire was between the two CELL
ings, and the water that was poured in lodged
on the old ceiling. One OF the fireman ran in
and knocked hole in the old ceiling, and look.
ing in saw that everything between the two
ceilings was at white heat. The ire-trap
had been built, II was doing its work we'll, and
there was no saving the building. The fremen
were driven out Of the attic by the intense
heat, and by the dense smoke and steam. They
were blinded, and some OF them were hurt get
ting out and getting down the stairs. The
origin Of the fire is another matter. We had
supposed that it originated at the point where
the stove-pipe Of the Court room stove passed
through the yentilator on its way to the hue,
but this may not have been the case, The fire was
first seen bursting out al the very foot Of the
ventlator, right at the floor Of the Court room,
and at that time there was no fire at the point
mentioned, the plasterng was off around the
stove pipe, and had there been fire there. il
would have been seen. The fire at the foot Of
the ventlator was extinguished. and then the
janitor mounted the step-ladders, knocked
hole in the ventilator above where the pipe
passed through, and looking in saw that the
ventilator was burning some distance above
him, in the turn or arch. or course the fire
soon broke through and spread between the
two ceilings, aud also ran up the ventilafor,
through the upright wooden tube and into the
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ran lengthwise, the length Of the Court room,
in the attic, next to the ridge of the roof and
into which the vcntilator on the roof opened.
The fire was boxed in from the start, and con-
sidering the construction Of these ventilators,
and the material or which they were made,
dnCe sfarted and il was almost imposaible 10 ex.