Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1889-11-29
NEIGHBORHOOD NOTES.

John Dimmitt of westmoreland county,
! member of the Freeport Q. P. Church,
was killed by his clothing being caught by
the shaft of thrashing machine last week
'eNellie Bly, of Armstrong county |
and who is now on the stat OF Ne"
York paper, has undertaken to go around
the world in seventy five days.
The P. r. R. Co. and the citizen OF Free
port are fighting for the possession OF part
of Walnut Alley. The r. R. Co. claims II
as part of the old canal and put men 10
work grading it, and the citizens had the
men arrested and locked up. Then the
r r. Co had the Burgess and ponce Oh
the town arrested for false arrest, and the
case will go to court.
At Pittsburg. last Friday, VIM. ID.
Smith. colored, was convicted OF murder
in the first degree.
Oil has been struck along the ALE gheh!
river, opposite Tarentum.
The Tarentum Sun complains OF the
speed at which trains run through that
town. and notes the accident 10 Jno'
Frantz Parnassus, one of whose horses was
killed at the crossing last Friday.
The Pittsburg Times denounces the
International Publishing and Art Co.
which has A branch in that city, and
whose agents solicit subscriptions for
F Family or Home Magazine and Ladies
journal as fraud
A Crawford County man is on trial for
selling "sweet maple bitters," which prov
ed to be sweetened whiskey.
The .fgreen goods" swindlers in Ne"
sso4-44IIg out tnelr Uait Tor country
suckers.
Peeping through the keyhole of his
neighbor's front door, Edward Bergle, of
Johnstown, saw his wife sitting on mans
knee. When the husband knocked and
made himself known, the stranger beat
him and threw him into the street, and
then had him arrested.
Unacuuainted with the game birds of
this country, a newly arrived German Nv
ing near Scranton, shot a barnyard turkey
under the impression that it was wild
fowl He took it home and had it cooked,
and was about to sit down at the dinner
table to eat it when he was arrested for
killing his neighbor's poultry.
4 couple of Sharon citizens, J. Bonacker
and Philip Bauer, went to law about an
umbrella. They attended church supper
and both put their umbrellas where they
thought they would be safe. When Bon
acker went to get his it was gone; then
human nature prevailed and he took
Bauer's, and Bauer went home in the rain
stopping over mad. Meeting Bonscker
next morning he demanded his property,
which was refused him, and he carried the
case before the Squire. Now, the Squire
had soul above petty things, and by
jury trial decided that the defendant was
not guilty of theft, and that the costs $l3
be paid by both parties. The umbrella
probably cost IS cents. s.originally.
While marriage ceremony was being
performed in a church in Franklin, Pa,
last Thursday, a thief entered the resi-
dence of the brides parents and stole her
purse containing $500, and number of
wedding presents,
Jas. Artman, a we'll known music teach
er of Armstrong county, was drowned in
Carnaban's run, lately.
The Jefferson county Mutual Live Stock
Insurance Association has been declared
insolvent, and W. W. Ames, Esq,
Brookyille, has been appointed receiver.
Alb Gibson, of North Buffalo, Arm
strong county, shot an eagle on the farm
of James r. Greene, which measured sew
en- feet, nine inches, from tip to tip of
wings.
A Westmoreland county Republican
lawyer says that the Democrats in that
county spent $50, 600 to elect Doty judge
The bulk of this came from Pittsburs liq-
uor men.
The Meadville Gazette says: tMrs. Ben
nett, of Linesville, has had wonderful
exper ience for one so young and artless.
A masked assassin attacked her with a
fish knife and she fed for her fife. A few
days afterwards she published certificate
that the per son who tried to cut her throat
was not her hqs band, bpt that the two are
living in the utmost eonnnbial felicity.
n ow it is reported that she has left her
husband and has zone homo to her parents.