Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1889-11-22
NEIGHBORHOOD NOTES.

Henry Walter. the barber of Evans City,
was killed in a railroad accident at Goshen
y. Y few days ago.
On Monday of last week, Augustus and
Christian Schumck Of Emlenton, Peter and
VIM. Gardner, VIM. and Fielding Mays,
of Salem; A. II. Kribbs, of Knox; John
Robinson. of Nickleville, and n. Z. Gra
ham, of Duke Centre, left for New York
City, and from there sailed for India The
distarc ce il about 1000 miles, and the tin e
required to make the trip is about six
weeks They go to that far away country
for the purpose of drilling oil wells for the
Burmah Oil Company, and are under the
employ of Daniel Dull, of New York.
The gentlemen have engaged themselves
for period of three years, at 800 per
month and expenses from the time they
left New York until they return again.
Byron Jones, young man residing at
Luzerne borough, near Wilkesbarre, walk
ed in his sleep to the mouth of an aban-
doned shaft at o'clock last Tuesday
morning. lie fell to the bottom, 45O feet,
and was instantly killed.
A swindler sold a Clinton County farm
er a receipt for making his wheat weigh
twice as much a. it ought to, and signed a
contract to divide the money gained by
the extra weight with the scientific swim
die The contract eventually turned up
as a promissy note and the farmer paid
$500 for it, and didn't advertise the matter
with brass band, either.
There are now between 12,000.OOO and
u. 900, 600 feet of logs in the boom at Will
liam sport and numbering operations will
be lively for several weeks. The recent
rise in the river enabled the loggers to
drive between 5000, 900 and 10000, 900 feet
that were banked between the city and
Lock Haven, which about clears the river
west of Willamsport. The operations east
are being pushed as rapidly as possible.
A Parkersburg telegram says: A little
child of Mr.. and Mrs. Dan Gilchrst, few
miles below town, met his death in q
strange way yesterday. The child was
going up the steps with a small tin horn in
its mouth, when it fell forward on its face,
forcing the horn down its throat, lacerat-
ing it so terribly that it died from the
effects Of its injuries.
! An affecting scene was presented recent
| " in Jeanette. In a coffin was the body
| of a young Belgian woman, eighteen years
of ago The foot of the coffin rested on the
| floor and the other end on q chair. by
! the side of the ,sket which contained the
remains Of his dead love, stood young
Belgian. A photographer was taking
their photos together. The corpse Of the
young woman was dressed in white and
the profusion of flowers, indicated that lov
ing hands had cared for her. Her name
was Mille Wagner, she arrived at Jeanette
from Belgium just six weeks ago, and was
to have become the bride of him whose
photograph was being taken with hers.
The young mans name was Godfrey
Dovanni
Teachers cannot be too kind to their pu-
pills 1t is better far to rule by love than
fear. At Bradford recently teacher told
one of her scholars, a sixteen year-old boy
named Jesse Harvey, who was of rather
proud and sensitive disposition that he
was behind his class and that if he did not
keep up better she would be forced to put
him in lower grade. This is said to have
so preyed on his mind that he became de-
spondent and retiring to his room one cv-
ening deliberately took piece of cord and
hanged himself This should be a warning
to all teachers to study the character OF
the pupils as well as the best means of in
stilling the proper knowledge into their
young minds BE kind.