Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1889-10-04
NEIGHBORHOOD NOTES.

Miss Mamie Robinson, daughter of
Sam1 Robinson of Franklin, Pa. drowned |
herself in French Creek last Sunday night. |
She left note saying that she was tired
of life
4 Brownsville woman undertook to cut
bread while holding the baby in her arms.
She cut the bread and also the end of the
baby's nose off.
In Allegheny last Thursday man was
fined S25 and costs for keeping a Vicious
dog chained in his yard The dog bit a
woman, who brought suit under the new
law.
The top of the crucible of blast furnace
c, of the Edgar Thomson Steel Works, in
Braddock, gave way last Thursday even
ing, allowing the molten metal to pour
down in burning stream upon General
Manager William r. Jones and ten work
men, who were on the sand below. One |
of the workmen was burned to a cinder, |
another died on Friday, and Capt. Jones
died Saturday evening. Furnace c, at
which the accident occurred was not work |
ing well during the day. At o'clock, |
shortly after the night force reported for
duty, Captain Jones with six of his men
went to work to remedy the trouble. The |
monkey at the bottom of the furnace
through which the iron passes into the
sand pit was taken off. The cooler next to
the monkey was also removed and it was
found that hard crust Of cinder had
formed inside the furnace. This crust had
caused the trouble and in shattering it |
with a heavy iron bar it passed through !
into the furnace, which is so feet high and
90 feet in diameter. 1t was completely |
filled with molten iron.
With that enormous pressure steam of
seething fire flashed from the 15-inch hole |
made in breaking the crust. 1t struck the |
workmen with terrific force and scattered |
them about in wild confusion. Captain |
Jones was thrown back full forty feet, |
while the others were lifted about the same |
distance in other directions.
At Mt. Alton, l6 miles from Bradford, |
Pa, John Quinn shot and killed his wife |
last Thursday with Winchester rife. |
The cause of the crime is said to be unjust |
jealousy. Quinn claims that his wife had |
been intimate with a man named Brennan. |
After shooting his wife Quiun started after |
Brennan with the Winchester on his should |
er, but was disarmed by Constable Wash
,aI- anI lnI0a1 |
in Jail.
On Thursday last the Hebrews of Pitts
burg celebrated their New Years Day. All
the synagogues were crowded, and the ser
vices were especially beautiful at the
Eight Street Reformed Temple, where
Rabbi Mayer occupied the pulpit A num-
Der of the orthodox congregations went to
the river bank and there proceeded with
their devotions according to an old custom
Two of the three prisoners who escaped
from the Brookville jail some weeks since
were recaptured, tried and convicted of
the offense charged against them. They
also got year each to the workhouse for
breaking Jail. 1t is pretty severe to be
sent to prison for falling out of Jail.
The last remnant of the once powerful
and warlike tribe of Seneca Indians, who
remain on the reservation in Warren coun-
ty, has dwindled away to less than 100
members. The red man is passing away
at such a rapid gait that it won't be many
years before the last one has obeyed the
summons of his Manitou and gone to the
happy hunting grounds, leaving behind
him only the romance of his life and the
history of our country to remind US that he
was ever among us.
The physicians of Lawrence county have
effected a combine and according to a
New Castle paper are at work compiling
blacklist which will appear October l. Per
sons whose names appear on this list can
not secure the services of any member of
the Association without first paying up the
old score
Barney Martin, noted in Forest county
annals, was tried at Tionesta last week for
selling liquor without license. He was ac-
quilted. Several years ago, it is said Bar
ney beat the county out of several hund-
red dollars by manufacturing the ears of
wildcats and getting the bounty on the
same With genuine ear for a pattern,
he would cut its shape out of the hide as
far as the hide would go. Then, as wild
cats ears have hair on both sides, he scrap
ed the flesh side of the bogus ears till they
were thin enough, and then glued them
together. One day, while getting his
bounty for false ear, it fell into tub of
water, came apart, and put an end to Bar
ney's game.