Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1888-03-02
NEIGHBORHOOD NOTES.
Over at Osceola Mills, CIearfeld

! in an attic, aud Intended holding her
for ransom, but the girl got loose
and went home, and the Young man
was captured and jailed Trash lit
era,ure and whiskey put the idea in
the young mans mind.
"A Volapuk class has beeG form
ed in Pittsburg.
| Up in Mercer couuty at the jan
uary term Of Court. the number OF
names on the remonstr les exceeded
those on the petitions Nine OF the
the ten applicants from Sharon then
! lied sfiidavits setting fnrJn that 25S
! names on the re.nonstrance7 from
that town were non residents, minors,
or not genuine signatures. This
brought the number Of remonstrGnts
below the humber of petitioners and
Judge Mehard granted eight OF the
| ten applications. At the first meeting
of the Wet Z after the granting of
the licenses, the matter WAS taken up
and an investigating committee ap-
pointed who thoroughly re .canvassed
the town, and who have accounted
for all but 80 names on the remon-
strances, and the Union has appealed
to Judge Mehard for re- hearing OF
the cases.
Michael McKenna, the old man
from McKeesport, who was found
guilty OF killing his wife was sent to
the penitentiary for ten years.
Two Pittsburg detectives who
furnished evidence against the saloon
keepers of Wellsville, o., were mobbed
in that town last Saturday.
Rev. John Wendell, an alleged
preacher, was arrested for swindiipg.
at McKeesport, Saturday.
A new oil we'll at Findlay, o ,
is said to be flowing 2.00e barrels a
day.
--Uniontown and Wilkesbarre, this
State, were visited by heavy storms
last Saturday.
DR. j NJ. G. White, an alleged
abortionis5, OF Indiana county, was
arrested ia Kansas, and Is now in
jail in Greensburg.
An insane man, named Lawrence,
of Emlenton, tried to blow up the
Hotel Boyer in Pistsburg, last Satur-
day night.
The house of jos. Franklin near
Meadville was completely wrecked By
a gas explosion last week. Gas bad
been shut off for months at the main,
200 feet from the house, and the sup
position ia that freezing caused leak
at the connection, thus permitting the
gas TO fill the cellar. Mira. Franklin
went into the cellar with a lamp in
her hand, when the explosion occur
red, blowing both sides of the house
completely out, leaving both ends
standing supporting the roof Mrs.
Franklin was thrown so feet and
badly bruised and burned. A young
child sick in bed was thrown SO feet
out into q snow drift and slightly
bruised. Mrs. Frankllu's recovery is
doubtful The explosion was felt
half mile distant.
The great Edgar Thompson
Steel " orks of Draddocks were closed
last Monday, the National Tube
Works, and rolling mills of Mckees-
port are partially closed, some of the
Connellsvlle coke ovens have been
shut off, and altogether from ten to
twelve Thousand men up the Mouon-
gahala river have been thrown out Of
employment.
Sheriff Montgomery Of Arm.
strong county, took Peter Rosenber-
ger to the peniJentiary last week He
was convicted 10 1886. but escaped
from the Sheriff aud went to Ohio,
and was lately re-captured.
"A man in Meadville says he has
cat that regulates the natural gas
fires by turning on more gas when
the rooms get too cold. If the story
be true, we may expect cat.astrophy
from that quarter before long.
Three boys, named Veeon, Ma.
loney and Jackson, whose homes ore
Newton. Beaver Falls and Connells.
vile, respectively, escaped the vigi.
lance OF the officials of the Soldiers
Orphan School at Mercer Saturd ay
afternoon. and were found in New
Castle about O'Clock Sunday morn
ing, almost exhausted They had
walked through the mud from Mer.
Ger to New Castle. Their reason for
running off was their disinclination to
study. They were returned to the
school.
Jacob Hollenberger, aged 90
years, died at Reading, on Tuesday
having literally starved to death.
Over four months ago piece Of mol
ten iron flew into bis throat while he
was working, closing up the passage
way to his stomach. Since that time
he has been unable to cot, aud was
kept alive by liquid Injections His
weight was reduced from l65 to &c
pounds.
The Bradford Era of 22d ult
says: A party of young lads ranging
in age from IL to Is years have been
caught in the act of making bogus
five cent pieces in an old deserted
building 10 the lower part of the city
They made mould of babbit metal by
getting the impression of nickle
Into this mould the melted metal was
poured and clever counterfeit wa,
made by the young counterfeiters
When accused OF their misdemeano
the boys said they were making th'
spurious money just for fun" They
stated further that man had taugh
them how the countcrfeiting was &C
complisbed bat would not give hi
name. Their system OF making th'
bogus pieces was very simple anG i
they had been supplied with bette
quality Of imitation they conld hav
turned out fair fac simile Of the cur
} rent nickel of the realm.
Judge Ermsutrout, of Derk
county, decides that the collection C
tickets or money for admission t.
campmeetings on Sundays. is vic
lation Of the law of 1894 agaius
worldly emnlnvn,ent IN tha Suhh,. h