Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1889-12-13
NEIGHBORHOOD NOTES.

The first Farmers Institute of enango /
county. will convene in the Court House /
at Franklin. on Tuesday, January II;
nnder the auspices of the State Board ol
Agriculture, as the State appropriates SlOO
for AGRICULTURAL meetings of this nature
ESSAYS will be read by several farmers OF
The county. and some of the leading agrl-
culturalists and stock breeders of the
state will take part in the discussions
Greene county, in the southwestern cor
ner of the State has been the scene OF
remarkable financial crash lately. Sever
nj of its citizens who were considered
wealthy and substantial failed and made
assignments. and quite number OF 'otnerS
are ruined from having placed their names
upon the paper of those who went under
The cause Of the crash is as follows:
few years ago John r. Rush, of the
East End, Pittsburg, Cashier Lantz ana
John Dowlin, of Waynesburg, invested IN
cattle ranch in Wyoming Ihey formeu
stock company and sold large amount
of shares to other parties. The capital
invested was principally borrowed and
Greene county was drained of some
500. 900. having been taken out by mem
hers of the company. Wherever money
could be borrowed it was done. As re-
| suit money became very scarce, ana TWO
wears ago farmers were compelled TO mort
gage their farms to life insurance compan-
| les and outside parties to raise needed
cash.
The men who failed were estimated TO
be worth half million, and the Prothono-
tarv of the county recorded 23l Judgments
in four days.
Joe Lawrence, the aeronaut who was
eaton nv sharks at Honolulu, q few days
ago. was a native of Hookstown, Beaver
| comfy. Pa. His balloon was carried over
| the sea by an upper current; he had TO
drop into the water, and was deYoured py
the sharks before boat could reach hlnl'
The Monongahela House, Pittsburg, had
n narrow escape from complete destruction
last Thursday noon. A fire originating IN
meht h ta5 Slot rS ab the 1eevator Shalt to the tin
roof and was spread by it oyer the entire
upper story. The guests were promptly
notified and all got out safely. The build
ing was then flooded with water, and the
| loss is put at $50, 900. The MOnongahela
House was first built sixty years ago; II
was destroyed by the great ire OF lo4a
| and afterwards rebuilt; it is q five story
building occupying an entlre Dlock anu Is
| valued at half million.
In Wheeling, West Virginia, some loaf
ers in barber shop, poured alcohol ovel
a sleeping negro; and then set his clothes
on fire. and the man was roasted alive. 1t
was a grim joke.
At Beaver, Friday, two men named Mel
son and Frazier were sentenced to years
and months each.
At Pittsburg. Saturday, ". II. Smith
was sentenced to be hanged for the mur
der of his wife, and Jas. i. Orr was sen
tenced to four years and ten months in the
enitentiary for criminal assault
The Right Rev. Jno. Tuigg Catholic
Bishop of Pittsburg, died at Altoona, last
Saturday
A Mahoning county (0.) man shot l9C
| squirrels in the past six months, while ms
wife took in l25 washings during the SAINT
time
In boring for oil or gas near Wadsworth
Medina county, Ohio, the prospectorS ias @
week. at a depth of $500 feet struck bee
of pure rock salt, through which the drll
has penetrated over one hundred feet. A
there are no salt man nufactories III North
ern Ohio this strike may be more vaIuaDi'
than oil or gas.
The large iron tank brought down by
| the flood from Johnstown and which land
| ed in field below Bolivar Junction, ha'
| been taken back 1t was used as an OIL
tank by the Cambria Iron Company anc
when it started on its trip of % miles down
| the river it contained 1000 gallons of crude
| oil.
The last check for the Johnstown suffer
ers has been mailed by Secretary Keener
The last distribution amounted to 81, ,6oO
O00 The Secretary says more money mas
been paid out to Johnstown than the value
of the property lost by the flood.
Wm. G. Schneider, an employe at the
| Independent Refinery. at Oil City, was
accidentlv killed while hunting near Rynd
Farm, last Thursday. Several companions
were with him. They started rabbit
which ran under derrick. Schneider ant
a Young man named Huffman got on the
floor of the derrick, ready to shoot as the
rabbit came out Edward Carter, anoth
er companion, stopped to look under the
derrick His gun was cooked and pointed
toward the men on the floor, few fee
above him. The hammer came in contact
with a pump-rod, and the gun was dis
charged. The whole load struck Schneid
er in the face, causing instant death. ThC
unfortunate man was about twenty seser
wears old, and leaves a wife and one child
| Alfred andrews, who is supposed tt
have murdered Miss Clara Price at Kar
thaus, Centre county, last wednesday
while attempting to commit an Outrage
upon her, was captured at Brisbin las
Monday, by Captain Clark of the Coal anC
Iron Police There is said to be LITTLE
doubt of Andrews guilt. He is an English
man twenty five years old, and something
of dandy, being contemptuonsly styls'
"Prinee Alfred by his more sensible com
panions.