Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1890-02-07
NEIGHBORHOOD NOTES.

The County Controller OF Allegheny Co.
estimates the receipts of the county for
1890 at 1888. 900, and the expenses at ST.
155. 900. leaving 1922, 600 to be raised by
taxation, plus 100000 due the managers
Of the workhouse.
Alfred Hardwick, an Englishman,
who for several years ran wooleu
mill at Kennerdell, Scrubgrass town
ship, recently eloped with a young
woman of that township and is believed to
have retHrnad to his old home in England.
He left a wife and several children in des-
titute, condition at Kennerdel. Before
leaving Hardwiek gathered together all
the funds he could and took everything
that he owned with him.
On Friday last the Oliver Iron and Steel
Co. of Pittsburg paid $163 600, the last of
their million and half Indebtedness. In
January of 1885 the firm was forced to al
low some of their notes to 90 to protest,
but their creditors gave them five years and
they came out all right. A member Of
the firm said: I'VE have been most fortu-
nate in having a strong IN arket most of the
years since 1885, and with the advantages
Of protective tariff, have not only been
able to free ourselves from debt, but also
to frequently advance the wages of our
employee. We are naturally very glad
that the debt has been cleared off, and
hone that the present era of prosperity has
come to stay"
B. W Bredin, Esq, of Franklin, Pa, Is
seriously i'll.
Major Lightcap of Klttanning, formerly
of Freeport, died last week.
Mr.. B. c. McNutt of near Parker and
Miss Dade Parker, eloped to jamestown,
n. Y last Sunday night.
Carlisle, this state, is paradise for
tramps, and out of one hundred and TWEEN
ty tramps in the Jail there sixty-one of
them were found to be stout, able-bodied
| fellows who could work if they were put
to work Why don't the Carlisle authori-
ties fix up their streets with chain gang
of these burly tramps? But doesn't 1t
look little strange to see one hundred
and twenty tramps in one jail-and men,
at thatl 1t was only few years ago that
the members of the Legislature from Cum
berland succeeded in passing tramp law
which it was thought would do away with
the boarding and lodging Of a horde of
of tramps in the county Jail. Either there
is some ddfect in the law or it is disregard
ed No wonder the sheriff of Cumber
land county can draw thousands of dollars
every year from the treasury for boarding
and lodging inmates of his county hotel
A lot of big, lazy loafers do not want
softer thing than life of ease in Carlisle
jail. And, come to think Of it, the sheriff
has a soft snap, too.
A Sharon butcher was badly taken in by
buying wagon load of calves from She
mango township farmer. The latter tied
them in the bottom of the wagon so as to
hide a lot of convenient sized stones
amongt them. The whole cargo was
weighed and the stones thrown out on the
slaughter house, then the weight of the
wagon was deducted, minus stones. Lat
er developments led the butcher to believe
he had been tricked out of at least fifty
lbs. of veal.
A Lancaster county Judge a few days
ago sentenced young fellow to pay fine
of fifty dollars, costs of prosecution and
undergo an Imprisonment of Of 40 days in
the county Jail for giving boy drink Of
whiskey on an excursion train one day
last summer. There is warning in this
sentence that should suggest a better en-
ployment than putting the bottle to his
neighbor's lips
The murder of Grover McCausland will
cost Greene county upward of $1,000
The trial of Jim Neff, who was acquitted
by Washington county jury, cost Greene
county So, 1892. The trial Of the Clarks
will no doubt swell the cost to at least the
first named amount. The murder of Her
man Umberger, has cost Somerset county
$2506, "a.
1t will take 100000 to put the famous
stone bridge at Johnstown in the condition
it was before the flood.
At Bellefonte, Pa, Tuesday, Andrews
was conyicted of murder in the first de-
gree, for the murder of Clara Price, whom
he followed the woods, assaulted, outrag-
ed and murdered. The only sensation of
the trial was the evidence of Sheriff Cooke
who testified that shortly after the incar
ceration of Andrews he was taken sudden
ly i'll and sent for him. He went to his
cell and found the prisoner in a broken
condition. He said, ''Sheriff, you would
MT like to hang me, would your "Why,
no." replied the Sheriff
"Well, my God" replied Andrews, you
will have to, for l was the only man that
followed Clara Price down to where she
was murdered, and there is nothing under
the heavens that can save me -