Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1890-11-14
NEIGHBORHOCD NOTES.

In Harmony twp. Forest Co. last Tues
day, young man named Kinzna wa
standing on top of an oil tank; the deckin.
gave way and he fell into the oil and wa
drowned.
In the criminal court of Allegheny Co
last Saturday. Frank Gesade was sentenced
to be hung for the killing of his step
/ daughter.
In the tube works at Oil City is said to
\ be working a man who spent twenty five
years of his life, as an exile, in the mine:
of Siberia.
May Cummings, an Erie girl, took dose
of laudanum for the toothache, the othtl
day, and was found dead in bed the next
morning.
Miss Emma Bertles, of Doylestown, has
a chrysanthemum plant with :, ,3SS buds
and flowers by actual count.
Two men named Kamerer, of Washing
ton county, killed "a squirrels in two days.
This is true story, for the Monongahela
| City mail carrier counted the tails hung
on string their store.
Somebody up in Union City, Erie county,
has undertaken to stop the work of book
agent on the ground that under the Inter
State Commerce law books published in
one state cannot be sold in another with
out a license This is certainly wide
construction OF the law.
The enterprising citizens of Apollo have
subscribed $3.50 toward an electric fire
alarm. BY this method an alarH can in
stantly be given from any quarter of the
town.
At a recent Hungarfon christening at
Sarr, Nestmoreland county, $50 pounds OF
beef. 10 gallons of whisky and 80 kegs OF
beer were consumed by the gueets.
Jaundice is epidemic at Mercer. One
doctor reports having prescribed for one
hundred cases.
While taking up the collection in a
church. at Edenburg, Clarion county, re-
Gently some one dropped a 800 note in
the basket. There are only two editors in
the place and neither will own up to
making the mistake.
venango county has probably the oldest
surveyor in the State. William Hilands,
who has filed the office of County Surveyor
y y
18th ult Mr.. Hilands still holds the office:
He is in vigorous health and bids fair to
live many years yet
Nicholas Krautz, of Temperanceville.
Washington Co., one of the proprietors OF
the Canonsburg ice plant, is engaged ex-
tensively in the hauling business in Tenn
peranceville. He says that some four
weeks since man who had once been in
his employ went to his stables in broad
daylight, harnessed one of his best teams,
hitched to q wagon, drove to feed store,
procured a ton of feed, had it charged to
Krautz and drove off, and, although Krautz
has since spent 5000 in hunting him, he
has found neither the man nor the team.
The illicit whisksy seller has caught on
to a new scheme and is working it very
successfully in Washington Pa. The dealer
will order from Wheeling or Pittsburg, a
large number of quart, half gallon and
gallon packages OF whiskey by express.
He will have them addressed to various
fictitiouS persons Then he will go to a
customer and ask him if he would like to
have a package. If he wants it he will
give him an order signed by one of the
fictitious names and the customer, armed
with this authority, goes to the express
Office and pays for and gets the G. o. d..
package.
Fred II. Leider, who took an overdose of
morphin October 25, and was supposed to
have died, was buried 0ctober27, at New
Philadelphia, Ohio. His brother, who
could not get to the funeral, came We'd
nesday and wanted to see the body. When
the coffin was opened it was found that the
supposed dead man had been in a stupor
and had come to life in the casket. His
face was scratched and the glass in the
coffin broken