Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1889-07-26
NEIGHBORHOOD NOTES.


Allegheny Co. remandcd Rev. Flemon
alias John Yeldell to the custody of the
Sheriff, and unless Gov. Beaver withdrawS
his warrant or the Supreme Court inter
ieres he will 90 back to South Carolina,
where he is wanted on a charge of murder.
The colored people OF Pittsburg took a
great interest in the case.
Rev. DIR. Eaton, of Franklin, Pa, died
on 10th inst of heart disease.
The Mccoy family. of Grove City and
vicinity, will reune in Thomas MeCoy's
grove on Sept. 10Th.
Mr.. Louisa Keck has been appointed P.
NJ. for Greenville.
Several localities in West Virginia were
flooded last Saturday, and several persons
were drowled in fuckers creek.
The buffalo fly" is burrowing into the
base of cattles horns near Doylestown,
and the horns will drop off.
4 York county paper reports that VIII
liam Arnold has shot and killed IA lobseow
which measured over feet across the
wings
Around ElHcottville, Perry county, there
is much better crop of snails than of any
thing else, about the only thing exempt
from their ravages being peas and corn.
The Johnstown Tribune says: The State
Board of Health is employing disinfect-
ing preparation for locating bodies The
bodies generate ammonia, and when this
comes in contact with the liquid used a
vapor arises, and the worknen know what
it means.
\ colored woman of Wellboro employed
gipsy fortune teller to bring her lover to
time, without effect. The result was a
lawsuit, and the restoration of Il set of
silver knives and forks and lot of table
linen. which she bad given the fortune
teller in exchange for a red flannel bag
containing bread crumbs.
As Cyrus King, farmer living near
Union City, Erie county, was plowing a
short time ago a monster bird with large
beak swooped down on the neck of his
horse. Fortunately it struck on heavy
horSe-collar, without doing any damage
and flew Off toward flock of sheep. Mr..
King ran to his house, got an old gun, and
shot the bird dead as it was tearing a
sleeps vitals rayenously. 1t is probably a
South American bird.
William Knox. of CouderSburg, loaned
an agent some money to be repaid next
day. Time passed but no money and no
agent. Mr.. Knox called ON the agent in
his room at a hoter and told him he must
either pay or take and emphatic licking
He could not do the former, and Mr.. Knox
proceeded to do the latter. 1t was all over
in two minutes. The debt was cancelled
Knox quietly left, and doctor was called
to fix up the agent.
Two colored men, of Franklin. Pa,
named George Harris and Samuel Briant
got into a controversy on the street, when
the former hit the latter on the abdomen
with a hickory club, disemboweling him,
from the effects of which he died.
Matthew Riddle, farmer of Pleasant
Gap. Pa, lost four cows recently by a
most singular death y merchant of that
place threw the grass in which bananas
had been shipped in the alley at the rear of
his store The four cows ate of the grass
and died in apparent agony in a few hours.
An examination disclosed the fact that in
all cases the grass had become one solid
mass or lump in the stomach almost as
hard as wood and in that condition caused
speedy death.
At PhillipSburg, a farmer named Peter
Burell was cutting grass with moving
machine; the horses got into sink hole
and became uumanageable. Mr. Burell
was thrown from his seat onto the knives.
His right hand and both legs were nearly
severed and he was terribly cut about the
body. His injuries proved fatal.
\ tramp called upon L. B. Brown, of
Greenville, and wanted to sell him watch.
Brown ordered the fellow off his premises
and when he did not move picked up a
neck yoke to accelerate the tramp's foot
steps, whereupon the latter pulled revol-
yer and fired, but luckily missed his man,
and unluckily made his escape.
AN explosion of bark-dust, last Friday,
caused the destruction of the Eagle Valley
tannery at Ridgway, Pa.
THE sugar trust is said to have 300, 900
barrels of sugar stored in Brooklyn store