Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1884-05-07

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secret is committed to her, gets ten other
women 10 help her keepit 1t.
A fire at Herman last Sunday partially de-
stroyed the derrick and engine house oil the
Smith & Co. we'll.
Twenty nine bodies have been burned to
ashes at the La Moyne crematory in Washing
ton comfy. In two hours a corpse IS entirely
consumed.
The charge of adultery preferred BY e.
Ambuster, of Centre township, VS.. w. y: NC
Candless was Withdrawn last Saturday and the
costs paid.
Frank McMillen's store building at
Bakerstown, with the greater part OF his stocK'
was destroyed by fire last Thursday afternoon;
1t was insured in the Butler County mutual
for -, 900
The dangerous nature of carpet cleaning
was illustrated at Chicago lately where car
pet cleaner named jacobson killed man
named Berdell because the latter refused 10
pay for whacking the carpet
The Schneideman building is for sale, and
it wouldn't be bad idea for the National
Government to buy it for postofhce. Inc
postoffice should be on Main street. and In all
towns of this size the Government should own
the building.
The people of Petersville have petitioned
the Postofice Department to give them
daily mail between that place and Evans
City. and discontinue the tri-weekly mail be-
tween Butler and Evans City.
Mr.. A. w. Mccullough met with a painful
accident while running up the steps 10 the
new telegraph Office last Wednesday. His foot
slipped and the shock loosened the leaders OF
one Of his legs.
The post Office department has conferred
authority on postmasters not possessed before,
10 correct misdirected letters, where possible,
and forward them, instead as has been the Gus
tom. OF sending them to the dead letter office.
This is certainly a commendable step.
-Anandale. this county, is said to have a
citizen who lately sucked fifty eggs on wager
of 30 cents. The forty fifth egg was a bad one
and caused him to dsgorge the lot. He then
demanded the so cents, but it was refused HIM
until he sucked the required number, which
he did ON short notice.
An exchange says: Grocers should in
struct their customers who buy canned goods
TO pour out the contents Of the can as soon as II
il cut; it will not do to wait fifteen or twenty
minutes; the cans should be emptied at once.
A few minutes exposure to the air Will give
the contents metallic taste that is not at all
agreeable.
Tank Kee. a "Chinese" lecturer who re-
Gently spoke in several places in this county,
has turned out to be a fraud OF the worst KIND.
He isn't a Chinaman at all, and last week
while lecturing in Rochester, n. Z, induiged
in such protracted sprees that the churches
were closed against him and he had to skip out
for parts unknown.
Mr. Adam Sheakley, son Of Henry B.
Sheakley, Of Parker township, lately deceased,
committed suicide by hanging himself with a
chain in his barn, last Saturday morning. He
was about As years of age and leaves wife and
three children, and is estimated to have been
worth ten thousand dollars, but is said TO have
grieved over the small amount willed him by
his father until his mind became affected.
The Bald Ridge Oil and Transportation
Company held their regular annual meeting on
Monday, May 5, 1884. The following officers
were elected for the ensuing year: President,
w. u. Brandon; Secretary, Harvey. Colbert;
Treasurer, Jno. s. Campbell; superintendent
Ferd Reiber; Directors, w. ID. Brandon, A. L.
Reber, Geo. w. Fleeger, s. M. Piersol, Geo.
Krug; Auditors, K. P. Scott, A. l.. Reiber.
DIR. VIM. Sarver an old and prominent
physician of Pittsburgh, has been expelled by
the Allegheny county Medical Society "for
advertising that he could cure certain diseases
in or days, thing which no physician can
do" To this "charge" DIR. Sarver plead guilty
and said he proposed to carry on his busines:
in his own way. He was not permitted to re-
sign but was expelled. Doctors don't want To
cure people in four days.
They are carrying on a vigorous campaign
in Emlenton against illegal traffic in liquor
Charges have been preferred against all the
hotels on different counts, such selling tc
minors, selling on Sunday, and selling to men
Of incorporate habits. About sixty witne:se.
have been summoned to attend court at Frank
lin. These movements are fully justified by
the frequent spectacle of boys in their teen'
reeling intoxicated on the streets.
During the high wind that prevailed las
Friday morning the west end wall Of the old
Court House fell in. Workmen are now en-
gagged taxing the rubbish from the interior and
when they are done the other walls will bt
pulled over and outwards. The iron fence wa,
taken down last week, and with the stone il
rested upon, is for sale. The Commissioner:
ask but 5000 for it all, great bargain for any
person or persons wanting some iron fencing
The stone pillars will also be pulled down
1t would cost large sum to take them down
in pieces, and they will not be used in the new
building, excepting as foundation stone.
Mr. J. w. Irwin returned home from thu
South last Saturday, greatly improved il
health. He passed the greater part Of tn,
winter at the house Of the Rev. l.. K. McAboy
formerly of this county, but who now lives il
Tryon Valley, Polk county, North Carolina
This valley il several thousand feet above thu
sea level, and is a summer resort for Southern
ers to escape the malaria of the sea coast cities
and a winter resort for Notherners afflicted
with throat and lung diseases. The valley i
surrounded by high mountains, the scenery
sgrand, and there is good fishing and hunting
in the vicinity. 1t is never visited by frost
and the season is from six weeks to two month
ahead of OURS, as shown by the samples o
green peaches and apples brought home by Mr.
Irwin.
Another of the scnseless contests known a
walking matches took place in New York las
week. There may be some excuse for tn
walkers themselves, for sometimes there Is
great deal of money for the best man; but only
very low or brutal order of curiosity can i'm
pei thousands Of men to enjoy the spectacle O
few fine fellows being wasted and tortured b,
long, unnatural and meaningless physica
strain. A six-day walking match il a NOR
brutal exhibition than prize fight or gladi
atorial contest; it is simply an effort to deter
mine which man has the most of the loves
quality of animal endurance. Men who fgh
for few moments with swords or fists can a
least have the use Of their senses to the yer,
last, but in the last half Of six-day-wali
nearly every contestant is vacant minded 0
literally crazy-he becomes an unreasonabl
animal, whom his keepers find sometimes sui
len, sometimes savage, but never sensihls
Such exhibitions are disgrace II tha age an
TO all whose curiosity makes them possible an
profitable.
Sewing Machine attachments and repai,
ofall kinds, at f. Grieb's Jewelry store
Light running Domestic Sewing hin,
Jos Niggle 4 Bro. Agents, Rntler, IA II