Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1890-11-21
NEIGHBORHOCD NOTES.

A flock of wild geese startled the people
of Allegheny, during dense fog, one
night last week, by lowering around the
electric lights.
The elephant presented by Mrs. Guskey
to Schenley Park, Pittsburg, arrived at
New York, from India, last week.
The last Grand Jury of Westmoreland
Co. reported having found filthy beds,
lousy inmates, cruel treatment, etc. at the
County Home, and recommended change
in management.
The village of Luthersburg. Clearheld
Co. near Dubois was wiped out by fire
last Saturday evening.
Eddie Myers is on trial in Pittsburg for
the murder of his amt, Miss Douglass,
last May.
The pumpkin butter factory at Parnassus
was destroyed by fire few days ago.
A Young white woman of Latrobe makes
weekly calls at the Greensburg Jail, out OF
affection for big burly negro incarcerated
there.
Several years ago daughter ofPresident
Taylor of Beaver College, married young
English Professor, named Hill, who after
wards secured chair in Muir College,
Allahabad, India. They became acquaint-
ed with Rudyard Kipling. now famous as
an author. and he visited with them at
Beaver. Prof. Hill died a few weeks ago,
Mrs. Hill is on her way home, 'Kipling is
in Europe sick, and as Kipling is very
fond of Mrs. Hill, the gossips of Beaver
are wondering whether or no there will be
another chapter to the story.
A Mercer Co. man is yet eating roasting
ears, and proposes having them for two
weeks yet. He planted his last corn on
the 4th of July, and he has green corn
every year, until it is frozen.
Ex Sheriff Fruit of Mercer Co. died last
week.
Tarentum people are being annoyed by
thieves and buglars.
An Indiana county "Dr." contributes
this gem to the pathological knowledge OF
the day ,as reported by the Indiana Gazette:
A young woman in the town of Indiana
died suddenly and an inquest was held DIR.
White, who had attended her, testified as
to his treatment of her, and when asked
a. 1a nf uhI
spoken, was functional or structural, said
he thought it must be structural, "because
it struck her all at oncew The jury, how
evere thought her death was due to 1.-THE
ignorant, imprudent and improper admins
tration of narcotics by James White, a
man practicing medicine in this com
munity," and invited "'the attention OF the
proper authorities to this case" There is
evidently need of.the enforcement OF the
medical laws of the State in Indiana county.
]. r. Fulton, of Strattonville. in Clarion
county. is so years of age and was never
on railroad car till last week. He never
saw train of cars until 1856.
This story comes from Bedford county:
On Tuesday morning Mrs. Peter Stiffier
made up straight Democratic ticket and
sent her husband to the polls to vote for
Pattison. But Peter fell into the hands of
Republican hustlers and voted the Repub-
lican ticket instead. Then he went home.
His amiable better half found her ticket
81, bod pnf in
She taxed him with bad faith, and when
he confessed, she declared that he was no
husband of hers and not worthy the name
of man. Opening the door she told him to
go forth and never to return. and helped
him out. He went away sadly and in town
told the story with tears in his eyes.
At Erie, two years ago, piece of
machinery standing on the side Of the
street fell over, and William Mattimore a
school boy, was badly crushed. A jury
has just awarded the lad q judgment of g.
100 against the city.
Thos. A. and VIM. Gillespie of Allegheny
Co. were fined $25, each by Alderman Bell
of Pittsburg, last Monday. for operating
an oil well on Sunday. Capt Wishart
broght the suits.
At Allentown, Pa. Monday, cherry
stone was removed from the left ear of an
old man, that he thinks started in at the
right ear nearly seventy years before.
This is Hubbard Enterprise pumpkin
story: M. s Price, of this place, reports
big pumpkin yield that beats oil records
TO date, From one single seed. planted in
year twenty five fully matured pumpkins,
the average weight ofeach being % pounds
or total of 575 pounds for the one vine.