Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1890-10-17
NEIGHBORHOCD NOTES.

Up in Erie a few days ago grapes sold at
/ so ton or 81 cents pound. One tram
that left FredoHia y. Y. carried 10 tons
In the Supreme Court last Thursday an
argument was heard in the case of George
I ;. Neon against Patrick Creation, appealed
by tn. defendant from the Common Pleas
J of Nenango county The snit was to
recover money paid out in caring for the
plaintiffs injuIed son. The sou, Ayron Il i.
| Neon, was "A musician. One night he anu
a companion named shannon, while N
| tuxlcated. We're struck by train. shannon
was fatally injured and Veon had one leg
| cut off Creation was the proprietor OF 2
| saloon and restaurant, and it was claimed
! that the injured men got drunk in his place
| and were then put out by him. and that he
/ was liable for the money paid out by Neon ;
father. Creation denied that the men got
drunk in his place and appealed the case.
On Friday last it was discovered that an
| old hermit named Funkhouser, who lived
near Beaver Falls had been dead for weeks
William Shumm, a printer on the
Muncie, Ind. Times. laid down on the Big
| Four track near SaliEa, that county, and
was decapitated by a freight train. He
took off coat, vest and hat, rolled up his
| sleeves, laid down outside the track with
his head on the rail, holding his head so it
would pass under the pilot. He leaves a
widow and eight children in destitute cir
| cumstaneeS. He was driven insane by set
| ting up the description of murder case.
In New Castle, few days ago. a Hungar-
| ian woman gave to her crying two-year- old
child small bottle to play with. The
child swallowed the bottle, which was filled
with cathartic pills and was tightly corked.
A doctor was sent for, and all he could do
was to leave matters take their course.
| He said as long as the cork stayed in no
serious results would follow, but if it came
out it would purge the child out of the
present stage of existence.
S. s. Bulls of Olean paid J. X. Hall and
| Others $500 900 last week, for Is, 600 acres
of timber land in Elk Co.
At Washington Pa last Saturday West,
the colOred man, was found gnilty of
murder in the first degree, for killing the
Crouch family.
The other day, in Meadville, a reporter
of the Tribune saw countryman who.
after selling load of hay, let his team
stand in an alley for seven hours without
food or drink while the owner made the
round of the saloons and filled his hide
with bulge. The pencil-pusher informed
an officer, who had the poor horses cared
for. For his humane act the reporter got
cursing from the owner of the team for
interfering with the rights of citizens"
The abuse of dumb animals is not punish
ed half enough. The man guilty of it
ought really to be made to suffer in kind
lash for lash, hunger for hunger, thirst for
thirst.
A woman entered an Oil City dry goods
store on Wednesday and confessed to the
proprietor that she had stolen cloak from
him l6 long years ago. She paid for it
and was freely forgiven.
Mr.. Robt. Anderson, Of Armstrong CO.,
was the victim of peculiar theft on Satur-
day night. He was visited by midnight
narauders who spirited away several hives
of choice Italian bees.
The Warren county fair was failure
this year and the loss is put at $4,000 which
will have to be put up by the stockholders.
A geological find is reported from
Youngstown. William Burt, while hunt
ing recently a short distance from there,
discovered imbedded in sandstone a
were petrified nuts. He sent them To the
Smithsonian Institute. and the other day
received letter stating that the specimens
were petrifed fruit Of great antiquity,
growing in a climate which was entirely
different from the present. The find is
regarded of great value by geological
Students, aud the Smithsonian Institute
will send representative to prospect for
more specimens.
An unusually long train passed through
Beaver Falls, over the Pittsburg and Lake
Erie road last Friday. 1t had $50 cars,
divided into thirteen sections drawn by
thirteen locomotives, and took thirteen
minutes to pass given point. This was a
combination that ought to be of interest to
the superstitious-thirteen sections, drawn
by thirteen locomotives, and thirteen
minutes in passing a given point on
Friday.