Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1888-08-17
NEIGHBORHOOD NOTES.


Last Thursday at the City poor farm
Dr. Ayers removed piece of broken
skull from his brain aud he again be-
came rational, though be remembers
nothing that happened in the twenty
years.
That generous fakir sold the peo.
pie of Kittanning some watches last
week
Franklin, Pa, has lately been an
noyed by trsmps. and officers Hassen
Hitchcock and Neil raided gang of
them on Monday evening of last.
One OF the gang struck Hasson and
then ran, and Hasson fired at and
killed him ,and is now held for murder,
but seems to have the sympathy of
the community. The tramp is des-
cribed as being 5 feet, | | inches tall,
dark complexion. eyes, hair and mus
tache; weighed about ITO pounds,
both arms tattooed. and was known
by his companions as "Slim"
Another big gas we'll was struck
in the Pine Run district, near Free
port last Saturday.
The Cochranton Times says. The
amount of butter made at the Cochran
ton Creamery We believe is greater
tEan that of any other creamery in
Northwestern Pennsylvania. Here
arc the figures for June and July:
Amount of butter made in the SO
days, from June lst to August lst,
$4,000 pounds, an average for every
day of the two months of 1900
pounds. The price paid for the cream
-l5 cents a guage - amounts to
1925 day. Seventeen wagons are
engaged in delivering cream, at an
expense of about $40 a day. This
added to the 1925 makes 1855 paid
out in cash every day anon the 400
farmers of this section who are pa.
irons of the creamery.
Five tramps were arrested by the
police at Sharon last Sunday night,
while engaged in fighting in the boro
Upon searching them, rings, knives
and toilet articles were found in their
possession. They are supposed to
be the perpetrators of several robber-
les last week. On Monday they
were taken before a Justice of the
Peace and after hearing were SEN
fenced rs follows: James Haley, to
pay a fine of five hundred dollars, and
five months in the workhouse; Charles
Miller, fined four hundred dollars,
aud ninety days imprisonment; James
Burke and James Mcmahon. same
foe as Miller, and four months in
prison; Joseph Calvin, fine of one
hundred dollars and ninety days i'm.
prisonment.
James Hoer, the Freeport man
charged with criminally assaulting
the sixteen year old daughter of
James Faugh was sent to Jail in de.
fault of 50, 500 bail for a hearing on
Wednesday. The crime is alleged to
have been committed last February
but was not made known by the girl
until recently. Hoer has large fam
lily living in Freeport.
Jno. L. Emery, an old citizen of
New Castle, expired in a barber 3
chair last Monday.
At Clarion, Monday, the Bepub.
lican county convention met and
nominated the following ticket: Ex-
Senator David Macclay for Con gress,
Robert Piper and j. G. Ogden for
Assembly, Washington Logue for
Sheriff, aud A. B. Rimer for Jury
Commissioner. County Chairman
Booth was reelected, and resolutions
indorsing the national platform and
candidates and protective tariff were
passed.
The three year old daughter of Geo.
DUNCAN. farmer living near Beaver
Falls, fell over large ant hill while
playing with some other children on
Saturday. The ants swarmed over.
her and bit and stung her 80 terribly
that she is not expected to recover.
Her whole body seems to have been
poisoned and the child is swelled to
almost double her natural size.
At Beaver last spring Rev. w. s.
Harper, of the United Presb yterian
church, created a great deal of excite
ment by charging from his pulpit that
infidelity was being taught in the
High School through the medium of
text book in the geology then in
use. Feeling was raised against the
teachers and the board, and much
talk was INDUCED in. The board
was asked not to re-elect the teachers
who used the text book, but it did
1t now asks Rev. Harper, Rev. Pet
ty, Rev. Dempsey. the two latter
Methodist Episcopal ministers, and
Rev. McKallip, the Presbyterian
minister, to act as a committee and
select appropriate text books on geol-
ogy to be used at the coming term.
The Sharon Herald says: IL is al
together probable that "Blinkey"
Morgan, who was hanged at Colum
bus for the murder of officer Hulligan
at Ravenna, was one of the Lowery
gang that blew open and robbed the
Gteenville express off ce safe five or
six years ago and afterward made q
sensational escape from Mercer Jail
Morgan was not arrested with the
gang. but it is thought that
it was he who was arrested
here in Sharon for stealth a
coat. shortly after the capture Of the
Lowery gang. and was committed to
Jail as Francis Morgan. He escaped
from Jail with the Lowery gang. but
was not recaptured The Nell Low
cry, of Cleveland, whose name has
been largely associated with Morgan g
was the wife of Lowery, the leader Of
the gang, and visited the Mercer Jail
as Mrs. Dennis, wife of one of the
other prisoners, and doubtless assist
ed them in getting out of the county
Lowery is now doing time in some
penitentiary for burglary commit.
ted after his escape from Mercer Jail
The Soldiers Orphans Schools
of Pennsylvania will close in 1890
Since 1864, when the sy stem was es.
tablished, there have been l4.8lO