Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1890-02-28
NEIGHBORHOOD NOTES.

/ AHt tlll ne ttItliio4iita consisted &
music, addresses by Andrew Carnegie. Prest
dent Harrison, Governor Beaver. Congress
man Dalzell and others; and the preseuta
tion Of golden key bg Carnegie to Mayo
Pearson.
At Meadville last week, the jury in tn,
case of the Commonwealth vs.. X. p
Brown and NJ NJ. Meyers, indicted fo
libel at the instance of two of the COUNTY
Commissioners of Crawford county. re-
turned a verdict of not guilty, the county
to pay the costs. The difference of opinion
between the editors and the Commissioners
was over the. value of bridge Judge
Hazen, Of this county presided at the
trial
Mr.. Evans, eroceryman, has daugh-
ter named Hattie Beecher Stowe Evans.
Hattie sleeps with loaded revolver under
her pillow every night The Evans family
secured the services of a raw German girl
a few days ago. She went up stairs to
make Hatties bed she discovered the
shining silver mounted pistol. She in
spected it, it went off, the ball grazing the
skin of her hose. When the family has
tened to the room, the servant girl stood
with fingers spread, shaking with fear.
She pointed to the smoking gun and ex-
claimed 1T vas loose"
On Friday OF week before last sixteen
people signed the big book to become
members of the Economy Society. There
were five married couples, the rest all he
ing single Mr. Hermansdorfer and wife
who We're citizens of Beaver Falls, were
also taken Ia. Three members were taken
Il about four weeks ago, which makes
nineteen in all The married people were
Mr. Duss and wife, r. Feight and WIFE
H. Feight and wife and Mr. Hermans-
dorfcr and wife
A Beaver Falls lady is now lying in bed
with the prospects of leaving it only as a
helpless invalid all the rest Of her days, and
all through the very foolish practice OF
pulling a chair from under her when she
went to sit down. The lady was sitting in
front of the fire and arose to replace some
thing on the mantle Her husband, to
play joke on her, pushed her chair back
quietly. The lady went to sit down, but
there being no chair there she sat down on
the floor, but in so doing struck her back
against the edge Of the seat Of the chaic,
which had not been moved far enough
away, and injured her spine so badly that
the doctor says she will never get over it.
The little village of Rarbyville, near
Sharon, in Mercer county. has been cap
tured by graybaeks The schools have
been broken up and the whole community
set by the ears by the little pests.
The city of Erie is at present in debt to
the tune of 1902, 400, but the income
from the city water works will alone keep
up the interest and leave fine balance
for a redemption fund.
high is to marry girl four feet six inches
high She is little over half the neces
sary length to make his better half
The annual report of the Mercer County
Commissioners, showing the assessed value
of taxable property for 1890 is as follows
Number of taxables 17,919, number o
dogs 1S47, money at interest 50, GA GO
livery $l2, 3j5, occupations f60G, AS, per
sonal property $s72, 5O2, mills, etc, 81 ,O25,
449, real estate 500, ,844 They fix q
tax levy of ,! mills on the dollar, and sci
Saturday, Marcn J. as Il day Of general
appeal for personal property and correc.
ton of the military roll
Mrl. James :. Cooper left for RntlcI
Tuesday afternoon in answer to her tele
gram. Her brother, Mr.. Paul Mcbride, the
lucky oil producer, has again struck il
rich in the oil fields below Gallery. We
heard, by way of 4 whisper, that Mrs. c.
is personally interested with her brother
in the new well. We wish them success
a 200 barreler is not bad medicine to
have in family. Oh, my, when will ''om
luck" change i-PdrkcF PhOcRir
Conductor George Hanna is receiving
the smiles of all the school marms al
Springdale, Allegheny comfy. George
was elected School Director down there
The Office Of the Superintendent of til,
Pittsburgh & Western K. r., has beeI
transferred to New Castle. the object be
ing to have it more centrally located on
the road.
Mr.. VIM. Mnnicl, prominent either
of Allegheny Co., is now an inmate of the
Dixmont Insane Asylum. lie was taken
there by Constable Groetzinger, but not
without a struggle Mr.. Mnnick claimed
that he was perfectly sane and fought fol
his liberty, when he found that he was
bound for refuge for lunatics lie assert
ed that his wife was infatuated with othcl
men than himself and the wife says that
this is the cause Of Mr. Minnick' insanity
He was very jealous of her and this de
lusion, says Mrs Minnick, finally resulted
in actual dementia.
The man particularized by Mr.. Minnicb
as the one who he'd stolen away his wile's
affections was Rev Mr. Riley, of Monon
gahela City, and that gentleman says that
the charge is outrageously unjust and OK
lists only in the disordered mind of the un
fortunate man who made it. He says Mr.
Minnick is victim Of jealousy in an ex
trcme form, and that short stay ut Dix
mont will, no doubt, restore him to ,
norm al peniteutial condition.