Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1884-02-13
LOCAL AND GENERAL.

latest news, sir;
Murders, scandals, accidents, in numbers tf
Is that great sensations fever heat now grow
ing cold. sir.
Then, the latest wonder must be surely Mint
days old, sir,
Next, sirl Next, sirl That's the peoples tex
sir;
When they've drained enc subject dry they're
ready for the next, sir!
Fond parents in this town can now promise
their children the mumps, for being real good
The Kloman Bros, iron manufacturers o.
Pittsburgh have suspended.
AT Cincinnati and vicinity about 75,0OC
people are homeless to-day on account of the
food.
Our enterprising shoe dealers. Messrs. B
C. Huselton and John Bickel are now in New
England buying goods.
Henry DeWolf has purchased the Ander-
son property in Springdale from the Butler B.
& L. Association. Consideration S475.
Mr. Philip Smith, carpenter, has purchas-
ed lot on West North street, and intends
building this summer.
Sewing Machine attachments and repairs
of all kinds, at E. Grieb's Jewelry store.
Representative Morrison's new tariff bill
proposes reduction of 20 per cent. on the
present duties on wool and woolens, cotton and
cotton goods, metals, sugar, glassware, etc.
We learn from our esteemed contemporary
of the Herald that slight deafness has some,
what changed the personal appearance of Mr..
Archibald Hoge, of Worth township.
On account of the list of Sheriff's sales be.
ing larger than usual, the favors of some of our
correspondents are crowded out of this issue.
Thirteen properties belonging to one man are
among those advertised.
Yesterday was probably the worst day Of
the food at Cincinnati. At nine o'clock Mon
day night the official water guage marked 81
feet 1 inch, and the water was rising at the rate
of one inch per hour.
The Grand Jury of Westmoreland county,
la st Monday found true bills against Bowser,
Weston, Blakeley and twenty others, charged
with the murder of o. NJ. Haymaker at the
Murraysville gas well.
Light running Domestic Sewing Machines
Jos Niggle Bro. Agents, Butler. Pa. tt
During the flood in Pittsburgh the accom-.
mediation trains between the Union Depot and
Allegheny carried over $4,000 passengers in
the SO hours they were running.
Mr. Adam Troutman has taken his son
Henry into partnership with him, and here
after the name of the firm will be A. Trout
man & Son as per card published in another
place.
The people of Pittsburgh and Allegheny
are fearful of an unhealthy Spring and Sum.
mer on account of the food, which washed
great quantities of filth into the cellars of the
submerged part of the building.
-McCalmont farm we'll No. 4, f. I. Agnew
Agent, reached the sand last Thursday evening
and with one bit in the sand flowed at the rate
of 100 barrels per day. The well was complet-
ed and was being tubed yesterday, and will
probably be a good 100 barrel pumper.
AT the Borough election next Tuesday two
members of the Town Council are to be elected
to fill the places of John Frazier, and
Cas-. Rockenstein whose terms expire /;
also two School Directors to fill the
places of Lev McQuistion and Adam Troutman;
also one Poor Director to ell the place of John
laval.
A wonderful case of alleged cure by prayer,
or rather cure by the Almighty in answer to
prayer, is reported from Warren, this State,
ubar pnIra~o rha ;o or
Judge johnson and a niece of Rev. Loyal
Young, formerly of Butler, was, in answer to
continued prayer, cured of cancer Of the womb,
after having been given u to dieby her physi
clans.
Send or leave your order for Sewing Ma
chine, of any make, at E. Grieb's Jewelry store
One of the curious results Of the late food
in Pittsburgh. Wheeling and other towns along
the river, was the number of fires caused by
the water coming in contact with lime stored in
glass and other factories and in stores, and also
with the fire in furnaces and causing explo.
sions. The Pittsburgh Fire Department was
called out five times during the two days of the
food for fires caused by the high water.
The pier of the Kinser bridge over the
Connoquenessing west of town was partly
washed out by the flood but the bridge is still
in use; and the abutments of the Hunter bridge
over glade run were wrecked. Both bridges
will have to be repaired by the County The
props under the Monroe bridge in Buffalo twp,
over the Little Buffalo, were knocked out, and
the bridge has been shut up by order of the
County Commissioners until it can be repaired
This bridge will have to be rebuilt next
Spring.
Mr.. Harrison Coe, Who lives near Farm
ington, slipped and on the pavement of Jefer
son street, last Friday afternoon and broke the
bones of his right leg just above the ankle.
He was taken to the Vogeley House, where the
broken bones were set and he is doing we'll.
Mr.. Coe is the defendant in a civil suit on the
list for this week, but thinks he will, be able TO
attend Court. The same case was on one of
the trial lists for last winter but had to be post
poned en- account of Mr. Coe having both of his
an kles broken by a run-off in Parker few
days before the time set for the trial.
Mr.. John Benton who lives near Worth
ington, Armstrong county, killed an eagle, a
iCW unyS siHCc, tidC IutdsuTtu 4 IeeL, lncDeS
from tip to tip, its claws covering 6 inches
square, and with beak large enough to kill
man at one blow should it pounce upon him
A terrible conflict ensued between the monster
bird and its antagonist, but the eagle being
fast in fox trap Mr.. Benton gained the field,
and to do so he had to use hatchet and gave
1t several good taps. The bird is quite a Curl
osty and is attracting great deal of attention
in that neighborhood.
Go TO ii. Biehl & Co., for Phosphate
Grain Drills, Plows, Fruit Evaporators, &c.
The Presbyterian church of this town was
discovered to be full of smoke, last Wednesday
noon, and the fre-bells were rung. The hose
companies were on hands promptly, but there
was no fire. 1t was simply case of a smoky
stove, the fiue being stopped up either by frost
or SCOT. On Friday afternoon smoke was seen
issuing from the roof of the Mitchell building.
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