Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1890-01-31
NEIGHBORHOOD NOTES.

| are Announcing in Armstrong comfy.
| contract of more than common i'm
| p ortance and interest was closed in Pitts
| burg. last Friday. 1t WAS entered into
by Hostetter & Co, of Fourth avenue, and
the representatives of European iron
manufacturing firm, and calls for the de
livery of 80, 600 tons of coke at a point in
Belgium between the lSt of July and the
close of the year.
The cashier Of the New York City post
office, George H. Lounsberry, on the eve
of the discovery that he was detaulter
to the amount of $27, 600 or more, made
two attempts to kill himself At first he
tried to asphyxiate himself, and the next
dav. shot himself in the head. lie was IA
hard drinker. He was appointed cashier
by ex- Postmaster General James, when
the latter was postmaster at New York.
The three burglars caught in Mercer
last October were sentenced to the peni-
tentiary for six years and nine months
each.
Rev. johnson, Presiding Elder Of the
Blairsville VI. L. district. who became in
sane and was taken to Bedford Springs
is no better and has been brought back
to his home. on the way he made a dash
from his attendants and jumped from the
train. When picked up his head was bad
" cut 1t is probable that he will be con-
fined in a private hospital for he has
made several efforts to Kill himself.
Samuel Carpenter, Il blacksmith at
Pottstown, had a narrow escape from
drowning few days ago, when he was
precpitatcd into a barrel of water. He
had been in the habit.of sitting on Il board
laid across the barrel and some joker had
sawed the seat partly through
4 Northfcld (Ohio) farmer named Ab
ner Greenleaf, having premonition that
the summer weather would extend far into
the winter, tried little experiment. He
planted number Of hills of potatoes late
in September The tubcrs throvc well,
and OH Christmas day the farmers table
was supplied with new potatoes from his
own garden
The fact that law snit was brought
against her husband so preyed upon the
mind Of Latrobe woman that she made
two attempts TO take her life.
Judge Rayburn, Armstrong county's
new Democratic Judge, was elected by
Republican votes. He had not been in
office an hour,till he turned out every Re
publican official holding appointment
under the court.
A decisi on of the. York county Court, in
regard to the sale and purchase of goods
on the installment plan, may interest per
sons in this region. An agent sold n
woman a sewing machine for so, To be
paid in monthly installments. After pay
ing $3S the payments ceased, and the
agent removed the machine. The wom-
an sued for larceny. On presentation of
the Court ruled that the machine was
leased until paid for and that the charge
Of larceny could be sustained.
\ Mrs. Brocius was injured by fall on
q dangerous sidewalk in front of proper
ty in Brookville, owned by Richard
Arthars, and having sued the borough
recovered verdict Of $4,000. The bor-
ough then sued Arthurs TO recover back
the amo1nt of the verdict recovered
,.I, - nI IN
pay. The borough gained the suit. The
case was taken to the Supreme Court and
Mr.. Justice Stcrret has delivered an opin-
ion reversing the judgment oi the Court
of Common Pleas of Jefferson county,
stating that in such case the property
owner il reliable and sends the case back
for new trial. This would indicate that
property owners are liable to dam ages
caused by detective side walks abuttng
their property.
| James Robinson, farmer living near
JelIersonvillc o., il the owner of car
nivorous horse which wants nothing bet
ter for n good, square meal than fat pig.
| Whenever the horse sees pig that it can
get at, it will grab it by the back Of the
would shake a rat The horse then de
yours the pig with great relish. Mr.. Rob
inson is very careful to keep his pigs away
from this horse as far rs possible.
A villain pretending to he the agent %
the New York World, received pay in nd
vance from large number of subscriber
in ,fitusyille who are now vainly waiting
for the paper The HcrdH very properly
remarks: Those who read their hons
papers carefully are not apt to get caugh
by such fellows because they know tina
no foreign paper will send n paper to Al
unknown subscriber miles away withou
cash in advance, and those who read
good assortment Of papers know, too, tha
when the subscription for such papers c2
pires the paper stops at once.
The residents of Chester Were treate'
to a rare sight about q o'clock Monda,
evening. A meteor was seen to shoe
through the clouds and dcsccn
rapidly toward the earth. IL looked lk
II mass Of fire, the size of cannon bal
and left stream Of fire behind il. Whc
within about 100 feet of the earth it burs
into apparently a thousand pieces, tn
shooting fragments appearing to the awe
stricken witnesses like the bursting of
mammoth rocket. The sound oi th
shrieking pieces upon the paved street
were heard, but no traces of the lalle
meteor could be found.
) A gang of thieves have been operatin
quite extensively in the ncighborhood ,
: Iatrobc. They have Il rather novel wa
Of doing business, too. They seem {
have n mania for killing live stock, an
, nearly all the farmers in that vicinity hay
lost either cattle, sheep or hogs With
: the past few weeks. The thieves are III
like ordinary people who follow the sam
) profession. Instead of driving off III
J stock they slaughter it upon the spot an
carry it away dead, and all efforts to d'
Q tect them have been futile The thicv'
a are supposed to be gang Of tramps VIII
t infest the coke works along the Pennsy
yania railroad. 1t is said they have twio
put officers to fight when efforts WEI
made to capture them.
5 The Whitla Glass Co.'S works at Beave
: Falls were closed by the Sheriff. Of IL
| L.. III.