Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1890-08-01
NEIGHBORHOCD NOTES.

John Fink became jealous of LIZZIE
Cousins, at picnic at Templeton, Arm
strong Co. and shot her on the way home
o. 7. Sarver and Henry Irwin we're late
~ thrown over the bank of the river road
near White Rock, aud sarver's leg was
broken.
Miss Henry, a daughter Of J. C. Henry
formerly Of Parker was lately drowned by
a steamboat collision on Alexandria Bay,
Ny.
The hotel and residence of Geo. W.
Mutton in Armstrong CO. were consumed
by fire, lately. Loss $1,000 and no in
surance.
Earnest Woefel, the present leader Of
the Economic Society. at Economy Pa.
was stricken with paralysis last Friday
and died Monday.
The sixteen old daughter of NJ. l.
4. McCracken, one of the leading lawyers
Of Washington Pa. committed suicide by
shooting herself through the heart, last
Saturday.
John McCleery, the Democratic nominee
of Lawrence Co. for Co. Comm'r was found
dead in his barn, last Thursday, and an
election to FIJI his place on the ticket will
be held next Saturday the 9th inst.
The local wool buyers of Greene Co. who
had previously been paying 80 cents a
pound for wool, got orders from head
quarters last week to lrop to . cents
which they did promptly.
A Titusyille man treated his potato
vines to a bath of petroleum to clear away
the bugs. It proved a bowling success. 50
much so that now he is not troubled with
either bugs or potato vines.
One afternoon last week as Jennie Mead,
aged IA, of Corydon, Warren county, Pa,
was picking berries in sight of her father
who was sitting on the porch of their
home, it began to rain. She took shelter
for the moment under an uprooted tree
and was struck by lightning and instantly
killed.
\ Beaver Co. black snake six feet long,
got tangled up in the cutter-bar and shaft
of a moving machine last week, and
stopped the machine. When the driver
saw the snakes head appear about the
cutter bar he fed, leaving the horses
stand. lie returned shortly, however, and
found his snakeship dead.
Beaver Fails has been struck dead by
the strike at the Saw works and the calling
out of the men at Carnegie. Phipps Cos
mill by the 4. 4. of l. and 5. W. The
former firm refused to discharge George
Getcheli. a non-union man, hence the
strike; the latter refused to sign the
Amalgamated Association scale, hence the
the call ont. Business looks blue in that
place out present, and the streets are
with idle men.
During church services at Sharon, few
davs ago. a fine bred dog, which had
been nosing about the church-hall, dis
covered cat, Instantly has instinct assert
ed itself, and with raised paw, Stiffened
muscles and glaring eyeballs, he pointed
the cat, which in turn, true to its nature,
bowed its back, stiffened its whiskers and
bristles and spit and glared defiance at its
mortal enemy. All the same it kept
edging towards the church-room
door, and when opportunity offered whisk
ed in. In an instant the dog was in full
chase, and feline and canine dashed down
the aisle, the former making good its
escape, but there was, "fuss and feathers
for few seconds and CONSERVATION in the
first, then laughter. Wheth-
er any Of the worshipers thought that the
devil had invaded the sanctuary is not
known.
Arthur Busnger, 20 year-old farmers
son, living six miles north OF Springfield,
Ohio, met with shocking death last week
from heavy electric bolt while trying
with number of others to get some hay in
out of the rain. He was standing besied
hay wagon half loaded, pitchlork in hand,
when heavens weapon descended. Every
article of clothing ON his body was reduced
to shreds except his shirt, only small
piece of which was left around his neck.
His chest was made preiectly raw, and a
large, livid, nicely formed cross was mark
ed on his back Both legs were blackened
and made ghastly; but the most curious
part of the fatality was what happened
after he was struck. The bolt leaving his
body entered the ground at his feet and
exeavated as cleanly as if done with
steam shovel hole exactly like the grave
The six other men standing around were
all seriously but none fatally shocked.
The magnificent new shops of the Penn
sylvania Railroad Company located at
Juniata, in the eastern part of Altoona,
are rapidly approaching completion and in
a short while will be opened for active
operations, furnishing employment to over
1000 additional men. The new plant cost
something like Sl,000,0 900, and together
with the other vast works there will
undoubtedly be the finest in the world.
No expense has been spared in its con
structon. The buildings are models of
architecture and the workman's art, and
the massive machinery is of the latest and
most improved pattern. The plant CON
sists of a machine, erecting, boiler, smith
and paint shop. The machine shop is
254x75 feet in size, and its equipment COM
prises the latest inventions for power and
convenience Two floors are occupied
the finer machines and the wise depart
ment on the top floor. On the first floor
is located an immense five-ton crane that
travels the entire length of the building
and is to be used for transferring the heavy
work from one portion of the shop to
another. Electricity furnishes the motive
power.
A three year old daughter of Mr.. Amos
Sewers, of Armstrong Co., met with a
strange and sad death. The child was
play ing in the barn and it is thought at
tempted to climb into buggy over the
wheel. Its foot must have slipped and it
fell with its head between the Spokes of
the wheel and stranged before the mishap
was discovered When found the child
was quite dead, and although every effort
was made to bring it back to life by the
nearly frantic parents it was without avail.
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