Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1888-08-10
NEIGHBORHOOD NOTES.

The family Of EDWARD SWartZ VI
Nickleville, Venango county, were
poisoned few days ago by eating a
mess of toadstools in mistake fol
mushrooms. One child has died and
two of the other children are not ex'
pected to live.
The celebration of Em i9eipltion
day at Sharon last Thursday. by the
colored people of Western Pennsyl-
vania was success.
The merchants of Greenville, Shsr-
on and Sharpsville are arranging for
q mammoth picnic at Trout Island on
Thursday, August 23d.
Indiana County has a new Jail,
and great rivalry now exists among
the crooks of the county as to who
shsll first occupy it.
There are three blind men in Lam
caster County who put together bind
ers, reapers, and other farm imple-
ments, make canoes, and repair or
gans.
TIE sixteen year old girl who was
so brutslly outraged recently at Punk.
sntawney by couple of scamps who
accompanid an Indian show, has
since died, She was enticed into one
of the tents where she was drugged
and outraged, after which they left
the unconscious victim of their lusts
in front of saloon. She never regain.
ed consciousness.
A terrible fate befell Miss Nellie
Gibson, of Erie, as she was driving
home from a picnic at Massaugua
Point on Tuesday evening She and
her escort, John Brown, were seated
in a buggy. Meeting hack the driv-
er, Charles Murray. took the wrong
side of the road and ran into Browns
buggy. The pole of the hack struck
Miss Gibson in the abdomen, almost
disemboweling her. She fingered in
great agony till next day, when she
died. She made an ante mottem
statement upon which Muir
raw was arrested last
night and charged with manslaught-
er
The Franklin Pa, Spectator, SAYS
that: "The action of some citizens of
Salisbury township, Crawford coun-
ty, in which Evansburg is situated,
in suing the Meadville & Linesville
Railroad Company for running Sun
day excursions to Conneaut Lake, is
exciting much comment. The gener
al newspaper opinion is that those
citizens are moved by puritanic intol-
erance. But there are two sides TO
the question Sunday excursionists,
as a general thing, are not the best
behaved people in the world. Hav.
ing thrown of Christian restraint, all
other restraint bears lightly upon
them. The dumping of few hun
dred of them in quiet town on Sun
day may we'll be disagreeable to a
God fearing people; and if the laws OF
the land prohibit such Sabbath desc.
Grafton, it should be permitted to
those aggrieved to invoke the protec.
ton of the laws in this case as well
as in any other case, without being
charged with over-righteoasness or
intolerance.
The heaviest rain and thunder
storm that has visited Freeport for
fifty years occurred last Saturday af-
ternoon. The rain fell in torrents.
until everything was flooded. Fifth
street, from its head to the Keystone
corner, was raging stream; boats
could have been run over tine whole
street. Cellars were flooded and
great washouts made Reports from
the country cay the like was never
known The lightning was fierce
and thick, striking the Western I'm
ion telegraph Office and burning out
an instr ument. No lives are report
ed lost. but the damage is great.
The U. z. church across the river
was struck, and the cupola knocked
off. A man named Whinnsy
was struck but only shocked Angea
Galbraith's barn was struck and un
rooted. The heavy storm moved }
Mowour's large barn from its founds
tiyn in South Buffalo township. Ths
creek was small river, and did con
siderable damage.
"A fakir struck the town of Mer
Ger last Saturday. secured borough
license to sell jewelry, for which ht
paid $3. and proceeded to swindle the
people of that burg. The Dispatch
says of him: The quiet observer
was not long in determining that.
though be had for sale watch chains,
his prime object was to see if there
were any small sized Money Mill
ers" in the town that was 30 horror
stricken at Farmer Mller's gullibili
ty. 1t took tho oily tongued faki
less than an hour to lind that there
were from forty to fifty persons il
the assembly who were blessed will
purses of such size as he was looking
tor, and when train time arrived h'
advertised for an evening exh ibition
but instead was driven TO the trair
to seek fresh pastures, remaksing II
the driver on the way out that SIT!
was not bad for an hours work
Comment seems useless, for though
mention ia made OF the fellows trick
in every town he strikes, nobody be
lievcs he can fool them, and hence
we can only console the boys VIII
bit, that the fakir finds their kind il
every town, more or less numerous
Don't try to beat fellow at his OWL
game.