Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1889-06-28
NEIGHBORHOOD NOTES.

\ porcupine was lately killed at Laurel
Hill, Westm oreland Co., that had quills
four inches long and paw as big as a
boys hand
Armour & Co. of Chicago have located
a wareroom at Beaver Falls.
New Castle is having boom in tape
worms and Titusville is terribly excited
about the location of new school house.
1t would seem rather far to ship building
stone. but dressed stone ready for placing
in a new Y. NJ. c. A. building at Charles
ton, South Carolina, are being quarried
and shipped from about midway between
Sharon and New Castle by Warren firm,
who have the contract.
Mrs Miriam Gullinger of Mercer has been
an invalid for forty years, and has not been
out of bed for nearly or quite thirty years.
This seems like a long a long time to be
helpless, and unless the old lady has
sources of comfort to which most of US are
strangers, the question seems pertinent,
'Is life worth livingH"
Alexander Recke died of blood poison
ing at Homeopathic Hospital in Pittsburg.
This is the man who stood up in the Johns
town debris for two days with spike driv-
en- into his leg, and entirely without sus-
tenance.
A resident of South Wiliamsport, Pa.
who had put his two pigs in his parlor to
shield them from the flood, soon aftel
missed them, and concluded they had go
out and drowned. At bedtime, on going VI
to his room, he found the.two slowed il
hisbed, and fast asleep.
The case of Mrs. Ellen A. Jones, of New
Brighton, VS.. the Pittsburgh and Western
Railroad Company, for the killing of hel
husband at Foxburg, Clarion county, il
July. 1887, was tried before Judge Wick
ham in Beaver Co., last week, and a yer
dict given Mrs. Jones by the jdry of 81,
900.
A posse of United States officers raide'
an illicit distillery located in Wild Ca
Hollow, not far from Stoneboro in Merce
| Co., but the moonshiners had scented dan
ger and were not to be found. 1t is sal
the thickets and ravines in that part c
| Mercer county contain numerous illici
whisky mills.
Indiana county will lose about $500
in county bridges which were swept ava!
by the recent flood, in the Conemaug
river which forms the southern boundar
of the county. There were large numbe
of bridges most of which are gone.
A Clarion correspondent says the Ever
hart murder case will come up again in tn
Clarion Court in August, and that severa
more arrests for the commission of tn
crime will soon be made.
Mrs. A. L. Martin, of Little Beaver twp
Lawrence county, recently discovered
needle protruding from one of her lowe
limbs and succeeded in removing it from
the flesh. Thirty eight years ago, while
little girl, she was playing with her doll
and had a needle in her mouth. An olde
person coming into the room playful!
picked her up and laid her in the ope
drawer of bureau, causing her to swallow
the needle. This circumstance had beel
forgotten, but was recalled to her mind b,
the temperance of the needle. In its de
vious wanderings the little piece of stee
had caused many unpleasant symptoms,
from which medical skill failed to reliev
her.
A three weeks old Johnstown child, un
named at the time the flood occurred, ha
been christened May Wreck. The littl
thing had narrow escape from death, bu
that is no reason why it should be burden
ed all through life with such a name.
John B. Moore, of Brookville, Pa, VIII,
landed in Guthrie, Oklahoma, on April 3
with but Is cents, now holds an $500 claim
owns the only opera house in Oklahoma
and is exhibiting more Indians than an!
other white man living"
Berks county is afflicted by swarm o
red locusts that make clean sweep of al
vegetation wherever they alight. Horse
and cattle are terrified by their number
and even the steady going country folk
are bit ratified.
A colored man was kicked by. a hol Sc a
Sandy Lake about ten days ago and hi
skull so crushed that considerable brail
oozed out. DR.. Coley removed two piece
of the skull and felt sure the young mai
would not live more than half an hour, o
an hour at most. DIR. Glebner, who say
him, was of the same opinion. Contrar!
to experience, the fellow didn't die, ant
was out washing buggies, as usual, thi
| week. His case is an extremely rare one
Medical works give examples of a similar
nature, but they do not come under the
observation of one physician in a thousand
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