Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1888-07-27
NEIGHBORHOOD NOTES.

MdA ldJer Ol lllSouTS was dTIeS
ed, Friday last, Oh charge of mul
dering man named August Wetzs
over year ago.
John Reay of Hubbard, O., wa
killed on the Shenango r r., nea
Pine Grove station last Thursday.
Viola and Victor Ramsey, twins
fell into the Allegheny ri7er at W hit
Rock, near Freeport, last Friday ant
were drowned.
The Emlenton Ne,US, of last weel
said: For several nays past a rumol
has been in circulation in this plac,
that the Pittsburg and Western Rail
road Company will extend their line
to this place, coming up the rive
and then going up Richey Run
This change, should it be made
would be made to avoid the hills a
Foxburg, and would thus give the
road much better route, besides il
would connect it with one of the bes
towns in the lower oil country and
be of great benefit TO the company.
The company has already lost much
money by accident, besides the sacri
ficing of several lives, by their pres
ent route, ascending the hills at Fox
burg, and it does seem some hat
strange that it has not long since
deemed it advisable to c1me up this
way.
Lee Young, a Chinese laundryman,
of New Castle, has filed papers to be
come naturalized. Young is "a years
of age, and has been in this country
30 years He is u member of the
New Castle Y. M. G. A.
A West Middlesex, Mercer Co.,
man writes as follows under date of
July IA: Between this place and Pu-
laski, there is camp of Pittsburgh
butchers, and they are whoppers, too;
none of them weigh less than 200
pounds and one weighs over 300
pounds. They receive each day four
to six kegs of beer. There are also
several women in camp
A young man named DeHaven, of
Allegheny, while visiting relatives at
New Wilmington. went with some
boys to gather cherries. While he
was in the tree the Others frightened
him by stating that someone was aft
er them. In his hurry to get down
from the tree, be fell, alighting on a
moi tar box and breaking one arm
badly besides receiving other injuries.
Blood poisoning set in and he died
Sabbath night.
The "Holy Rollers" had Elmer
Giebner, arrested for disturbing u re-
ligious meeting at Hendersonville,
Mercer Co. He was tried by jury
at Squire Shipler's on Saturday, was
acquitted but had to pay the costs of
suit. not trifing sum. During
the trial the defendant did lot deny
having shouted" along with the rest.
The Franklin robbery we mention
ed week before last, in which Jack
Kilgore was said to have lost 50 .040,
is explained A number of circum-
stances connected with the story led
some Franklin business men who
were financially interested in the FAM
lily to doubt the genuireness of the
steal, and finally came to the conclus.
ion that Jack was attempting to de-
fraud creditors, and he was arrested
on Friday. He gave bail for hear
ing on Monday, but before the hour
arrived the case had been settled, and
there will be no more ado about the
the public iscontident that the
masked men were imaginative
The able and truly rural editor Of
the Cochranton Times has no buck
wheat this year, but he has cut $50
dozens of wheat from thirteen acres,
and having shocked it without drop
of rain, he can afford to smile at Sa.
tau's rage and face q frowning world.
Two "green goods" men who had
an Armstrong county farmer in tow
were arrested at their boarding house
in Pittsburg. last Monday.
The body of Frank Mersheimer,
who has been missing since last Sat
urday, was found three miles from
New Castle last Monday. The body
was perfectly black, which, taken in
connection with the fact that the
corpse was found under tree that
had been struck by lightning, leads to
to the belief that he was struck by
During the storm of last Monday
a young man named McGeary. of
North Buffalo township, Armstrong
county was struck by lightning and
killed.
The Stout murder case, tried in
Pittsburg this week, was one of un-
usual interest. The murder was the
result of family troubles and was des-
cribed by an attorney, as follows:
"Seldom in the history of all the
causes celebres of theAllegheny Grim
inal courts has there been one con-
centrating SO many points of interest
as the Stout case," 1.-The father, es-
tranged first from his wife, next from
his family, brooded over his troubles
until the idea of sacrificial atonement
struck him. and thinking his son, by
his espousal of his mothers cause,
was the incarnation of his troubles,
he slew him. This is the story"
Two men on Thursday went to Mon
ey Miller, farmer Lying near Mer-
Ger. and while pretending to bargain
for his farm, induced him to take a
chance in lottery. They told him
be had drawn 81 500, but that the
money could not be paid until he
raised $4,000 He went to Mercer,
borrowed the amount at the First Ma
tional Bank and took it to them.
They coolly pocketed the money and
drove rapidly away They were last
heard of at West Middlesex, where
they took o train going south.
Wool Thieves Captured.
About four hundred pounds of
wool, the product of about eighty
sheep, were stolen from John Gun
ming, of Mahoning twp, on the
night of the 18th. The next morn