Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1890-06-13
NEIGHBORHOCD NOTES.

Some farmers and laborers of Mercer Co.
at meeting lately held in the court house
resolved that the offices of Poor Directors,
Jury Commissioners and County Supd't
should be abolished, and that the county
officers should be salaried.
Last Friday evening about 6 o'clock c.
P. McCaferty of East Brady, started TO
drive out to Fairview, Butler county. His
team was spirited pair Of bays. At the
East Brady end of the river bridge he
stopped to talk with some one. His clerk
in the store was holding the horses By the
bits, when an engine on the Valley rail
road scared the horses. The bride broke
and the bit came out of the lead horses
mouth. In an instant they sprang away
across the bridge. Mr.. McCaferty saw he
powerless TO stop them, so he jumped out
of the buggy, alighting on his hands and
shoulder, and badly injuring his right
wrist and shoulder. The team ran the en-
tire length of the bridge and kept the right
hand track, but on the other side is
small bridge across Sugar creek, which
they failed to strike, it being on a curve,
and both horses went down into the bed OF
the creek, among the rocks, distance OF
some eighteen feet. One horse was in
stantly killed, and the other but slightly
hurt, and strange to say, the buggy was
left on the bridge, but very little damaged.
The horse kill was valued at $500.
The Pittsburg Times has received state
ments from its correspondents in IL coun-
ties in Western and Central Pennsylvania
respecting the prospects for fruit, and from
them concludes that the fruit crop will be
a failure Erie and Centre counties report
good outlooks, but all the rest are discour'
aging.
At Warren, Pa, c. l.. F. Kinner. who
pleaded guilty to embezzling $40, 600 while
cashier of the Pennsylvania Gas Company,
was sentenced to pay fine of $1,000, re-
turn the amount embezzled, and be impris
years and months in the penitentiary
A singular fact about the young man''
/
he did with the money. Like most thieves
| of this Sort he is a quet young man OF nC
e1travagant habits, and lived in modest
unpretentious way.
The sad death from suicide of a stee
worker in Greensburg is recorded, and it Ii
given out that he took his life through des
pondency caused by repeated losses in th'
Louisiana lottery. He was regular pa
tron of the swindle and spent nearly all hi
money in the scheme, but he never drew ;
penny. And so it goes. Victims increase
and the great devil fish goes on uninter
rupted, its tentacles reaching out in every
direction and fastening on the money o
the poor who can not afford to lose 1t
giving them any return. The Louisiana
lottery is responsible for trightful amour
of misery.
Samuel Ruffner, an estimable young mar
of East Franklin township, Armstrong Co
was instantly killed Saturday while Telling
tree opposite Mosgrove Station. Ruff
ner and several companions were clearing
field, but he was working at some dis.
tance from the others One of them wen,
to find him on some trifing errand and
discovered his body pinned to the earth by
the trunk of tree He gave the alarm
and the body Of the unfortunate young
man was soon extricated. Surgical aid
was summoned at once, when it was found
that the tree in falling had crushed in his
head and broken his neck
A Kittanning woman, upon being told
that her missing husband had probably
gone fishing, ini snantly dtnied tie asSer-
tion, as she said bis whisky flask was rest
ing quietly on the pantry shelf Here is a
woman who thoroughly understands her
husbands habits.
Mrs McGinty of Lawrence Co., who
conspired to murder banker Foltz, has
made a confession. She says that man
came to her store in Rhinestown four
weeks ago and engaged her az an accom-
plice to get banker Foltz out of the way.
She was to see Sam Kissinger, and if he
could be hired to do the job there would
be lots Of money in it for her. She claims
she does not knOw the men, peyeF say him
before, and does not think she would know
him if she saw him again. She was per-
suaded to go into it, and at once opened
comm unication with Kissinger.
A miner named Cookson dived into a
creek near Grove City. struck his head on
log or rock, injured his neck or spine,
and the lower part of his body has been
paralyzed eyer sinea.
A madman escaped from a hospital Qp
the Southside, Pittsburg, last Tuesday,
and made lis way to rock overhanging a
precipice d hundred feet high. A police.
man named King descended the hill from
above the rock, with p rope tied around
his waist and held by Others, and OYER
came the crazy man and recaptured him.