Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1889-11-15
NEIGHBORHOOD NOTES.

Some Lawreneeville capitalists intend
huilIinr a sl0O. 900 market house there.
In Washington Co. a well is producing 2
80 bbls from the fifth sand
A runaway coal train on the p. r. r.
last Friday, went round Horse shoe bend
at the rate of 80 miles an hour, theh
crashed into a construction train, killing
one man, aud wounding several Others.
The town of Woodeock, Crawford coun-
ty has female electrician and dermatolo-
gist.
The Bradford toothpick factory turns
out more picks than any factory in the
world.
Kittanning also has murder on hands.
On Wednesday last puddler named Jas.
Price. shot and killed "Scotty' Atkins.
Peter Graf. of WorthingtOn, Armstrong
county. has donated SO, 900 to the Penn
sylvania College, at Gettysburg, for the
purpose of endowing the professorshlp OF
hygiene and physical culture.
The sharpsburg Herald tells of a boy
who swallowed silver dollar, and when
q
dimes and nickles.
A York county schoolmistress has got
into trouble through fastening sticking
plaster over the mouths of the pupils to
keep them from talking.
There were ffty-one people lost with
the destruction Of the Hurlbult House. at
job nstown, and the last ore missing has
u-a.
tin, a domestic.
Don't get too funny when you're out
hunting. Henry Merit, of Franklin coun-
ty, was peering into a stone wall the 9th er
day in search Of woodchuck. The AMI
nal saw him first and bit off the end OF
his nose.
few nights ago the police of Titusville
found five empty beer kegs and four full
bummers together They were repeating
GIVE kegs for four Of US, thank God there
no more of us
There is a great embankment of slack
coal and cinder on the outskirts OF Johns
town that has been burning ever since the
great food Tuesday morning the roasted
body of an unknown man, about 40 years
of age, was found lying on this bank. IT
was supposed he was rendered unconscious
by the gas and that his body was slowly
aoasted. There was nothing on his person
bv which he could be identified.
A Brookyille firm is now making oil well
derricks to ship 14,000 miles TO India.
| They will work a revolution in the oil bus
mess there. At present most of the oil
taken out of the Indian field is got by dig
ging hole like an ordinary water wen
between 100 and 200 feet in depth, into
| which the natives are let with a MINDLESS
| and from the bottom of which, floating on
water, they dip the oil. The deposit OF OIL
NAV be very large one, as the present
crude method Of operation never tested IT.
A dispatch from Kittanning dated last
| Friday said: The Democrats are jubilating
| tonight over their victory for President
Judge of this, the Thirty third Judicial dis
trict. Their candidate, Calvin Rayburn
had 722 majority over Judge Neale: The
| fight was between license and antl-hcense
| as Judge Neale had refused licenses. Ray
burn is expected to grant licenses freely.
| There is some anxiety in Warren, Pa.
| over the prevalence Of diphtheria. Several
| cases of it have appeared, and two have re
suited fatally in one family. The schoo
authorities are taking precautionary steps
| such az fumigating the rooms of the schoo
| building with sulphur every day and thor
oughly airing them. The Mirror wisely
advises that children attending school
| should be sent home upon any symptoms,
such as a chill, headache, or sore throat ex
/ hibiting themselves, and kept there I'll
| their ailment declares itself fully, or the
unfavorable symptoms disappear.
A young man, after coming upwards oi
| hundred miles to see his girl in Meadville,
called at o'clock p. m. and received word
| that she was in bed and too Indifferent u
get up. The Tribune truly infers that such
| a thing is very discouraging to the ardent
and trusting lover. 1t would have been a
favorable time for the poor fellow to have
| twanged his light guitar meath her window
and sang, "Why art thou silent, thou star
| of my heartF
On October Is Mrs. Frisbee, the wife o
| r. S. Frisbee, of the Superior Mills, ALE
| gheny, eloped with a man named William
! M6rrisey, taking with her her l4-year-old
son. Nothing was known By her husband
| of her whereabouts until Detectives Gala
| han and Jackson, of Cincinnati, located
| them at the home Of Morrisey's parents, II
| Cincinnati, last Thursday. The boy, &
| bright faced lad, was found employed in O
store as cash boy, and contributing to tie
support Of his mothers lover. The couple
may be brought back TO Allegheny.
A peculiar feature of the late judieia
| con test in Armstrong county vas that cacf
| candidate failed to carry his own precinct
| Judge Neale was beaten in Kittanning and
| Rayburn in North Buffalo township.
At Pittsburgh Thursday night the Court
| House tower wore a handsome appearance
| in honor Of the visitors, the Pan American
| delegation. II was ablaze with electric
| lights, while in the center, on the Gran
street side, was fiery shield in red, whit,
and blue lights, with the word America
| beaming out Crowds stopped to admire
| il all the evening, and praises could b'
heard on every side.
Richard Tenbroeck. the once famous
horseman Of Kentucky, was examined
recently by n commission in lunncy at Red
wood, Cal. A physician testified that h'
| is insane. TenbrOeck il an old man, ant
| at one time was a citizen Of New Castle
He was the most prominent figure in the
| early turf history Of this country.