Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1884-05-28
LOCAL AND GENERAL.

LUOdU hND uA1'hI4Ah
The drought which has prevailed in Cuba
for now over five months may effect the price
of sugar.
Rev. T. W. Young has declined the call ex-
tended to him by Adams congregation III
Adams county, Iowa.
The P. & W. R. R. will sell round trip
tickets to Allegheny City on Friday, good for
two DAYS at the usual excursion rates.
There will be Quarter Centennial cele-
bration of the Pastorate of Rev. james A.
Clark, of the L. P. Church at Prospect, on
June 10, coming.
The correct age of Mr.. Sutton Harper, late
of Concord township, whose death notice was
in last weeks CITIZEN, was % years ana IA
days. He died on April %, 1884.
Communion at Mt. Chestnut U. P. Church
on Sunday the lst of June. Rev. }. A. Shrader
will assist. Sermon on Sunday morning at ii
A. NJ, and also at 7:30 p NJ
We direct attention to the card of Mr.. Kis-
kaddon, of Freeport, who has farms, mills,
coal la2ds, etc., in Western pennsylvania, lor
SALE He is in Freeport every Monday and
Pittsburgh every Tuesday, his only office days.
Send for printed list.
Last Friday was pay day at the Office of the
Phillips Bros, Agnew Agt. in this town, and
Mr.. Powers, the clerk, informs US that since
the Office was established here last fall, he has
paid out over s55 600, and that they now have
ninety. nine men on their payroll.
Two men named Adam Mickey and Ed
ward Lehner were badly injured at Evans
City last Friday, by the fall of roof upon which
they were working. The roof was composed
of large timbers and was too heavy for its sup
ports Lehner is said to have received severe
internal injuries and is completely paralyzed.
Mickey had leg broken in three places,
spike driven into it and cash made IN his
throat by the hatchet he had in his hand at
the time.
We are under obligations to Mr.. III. P. Nc
Collough, Secretary of the Pittsburgh DRIVING
Park Association, for a complimentary to their
Spring Running Meeting of five days,
beginning with Tuesday, June 10th. There
will be four or five races each day, for each OF
which there are large number of entries.
The fifth race of the fifth day, Saturday, June
IA, is to be "handicap hurdle' for purse of
$500. of which 500 goes to second. For further
information or programme, address the Secre-
tary.
A blow in time saves nine when you are
fighting the currant worm. The best way to
kill them is to sprinkle the bushes with white
hellebore. You can get it at any drug store:
A full tablespoonful to gallon of water will
be enough. If hot water is used you will get
the strength out of it sooner, but cold water
will answer if the powder isstirred in and it is
then permitted to stand an hour or so. Apply
with sprinkling can wherever you find the
worms and it will soon kill them without in
Turing the fruit. If you would saye the cur
rant bushes you must kill the worms If not
killed they will eat the leaves off for successive
seasons until the bushes are killed.
The Pittsburgh & Western r. r. have ar
ranged for through cars, without change, to
Chicago on June I'd, to accommodate those de-
string to attend the National Republican Con-
vention in its session in that city June 3rd to
9Th, inclusive Excursion tickets will be sold
at points named at following low prices for
round trip Butler, $l0.50; Zelienople, S10
Harmony, $40; Evansboro, $40; Gallery juno
tion, $40; Baldridge, SO; Millerstown, S11.60
Petrolia, S12; Parker, $12.45 Foxburg
$12.65. Tickets good to return until June 18th
1884. This route offers fastest time, and ac-
commodations equal to any other line; ensur-
ing speed, comfort and safety. For further
particulars apply to Agent p. & w. r. r.
1t would be well for all persons to make it
a rule never to attest the signature of person
with whom they are not acquainted, nor to a
paper the import of which they do not know
though the contrary is the general rule. Some
time last summer, over eight months ago,
while the writer of this happened in the Coun-
ty Clerks office, w. Ii. III. Riddle, Esq, came
in with man we did not know, and address
ing the Clerk said that here was man who
wanted to make affidavit to an application for
pension or words to that effect. Mr.. Dodds
administered the oath to the man, and after
wards, at Mr.. Riddles request, attested to his
signature, as did also the writer Of this. This
alleged pension paper turned up last week as
the Elliott affidavit regarding his application
for license, and we write this merely as an ex-
PLANTATION to those of our friends who may not
understand the matter.
The Bald Ridge oil district had its first oil
fire and fatal accident last Friday night The
fire occurred at the Fisher Bros well No. 2,
on the Wallace farm, and caused the death of
Daniel McLafferty, an employee of the Philips
Bros. The night was very calm one, and the
gas escaping from the well settled close to the
surrounding ground. At about ten o'clock
that night McLafferty had occasion to pass
with lighted lantern within one hundred
feet of the WE'LL when an explosion occurred
which set fire to his clothes, and burned the
hair from his face and head He ran for the
creek, but was overtaken and the flames ex-
tnguished, but he had breathed the flames and
died in great agony next day. The flames
following the explosion Immediately ran to the
well and set fire to the derrick, boiler house
and tanks, which were soon consumed and
when the we'll began flowing the flames lit up
the surrounding country for miles around,
Trenches were dug around the wells to prevent
the fire spreading to the neighboring well, but
the workmen were not able to extingush it
until next afternoon.