Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1890-08-15
NEIGHBORHOCD NOTES.


Charles Sterner has thus far picked 2o,-
600 quarts of huckleberries from his 500
acres of and in Monroe county.
At Johnstown, on Tuesday, Patrick
0,Connen was arrested, tried, convicted,
sentenced and jailed, all in two haurs.
The most tranquil game Of baseball
ever played took place at Easton a few
days ago. Deaf mutes participated in it
exclusively.
Charles Snyder, of Reading, drank
pitcher of ice water and then fell at once
into spasm, during which his skin grew
black in spots.
In preparing supper a Reading woman
mistOok poisonous preparation for brown
sugar and poisoned her whole family.
4 practical joker at York spoiled the
pleasure of Sunday school picnic by
sending word that the town was burning
down.
A rumor is current that an English
syndicate has purchased 80 tableware glass
houses in this country, one of which is
located in Beaver Falls, and one in New
Brighton. 1t is estimated that the factories
where natural gas can be had will be put
in operation, and those that cannot be run
with profit will be closed.
The most diminutive baby ever seen was
born in the family of Jesse 0ran, of Shamo-
kin, Pa, on Saturday last. The chill
measures exactly five inches in length,
and hundreds of visitors have called upon
Mrs. 0ran to see the midget.
Kittanning's young population is suffer
ing from cholera infantum. Thirty-nine
deaths occurred during the month -of July
of which % were infants.
Farmer Shannon, the Beaver county
farmer recently buncoed ont of $4,000, went
to Canada last week, where detective
bad preceded him few days, in search OF
the buncoers who got his money. He did
not catch them
The Franklin Pa. papers deny that
typhoid fever is prevalent in that town.
A venaugo Co. paper tells a sad story of
seven picknickers, who left Oil City. one
day last week, with we'll filed baskets, for
days outing at lockwood. They hid
their provendef in the bushes on their
arrival, and then started out to view the
scenery and promote an appetite. When
they returned 20 camp, they found that
four hogs had eaten their provisions
baskets, napIins-everything but the
dishes. They obtained six eggs and some
bread at a farm house and proceeded with
their picnic as best they could.
The idiot who has to carry revolver to
a Sunday school picnic attended the one
given by Miss Maud Kemble to her Sunday
school class at Beaver Falls last Thursday.
Having a revolver Of course he handled it
earelessly and when it exploded, as re-
volvers usually do under such circum
stances, the bali struck Miss Kemble just
below the heart, from which she has since
died The shooter is reported To be
properly half crazed over the the result of
his ioolishness.
The police of Pittsburg raided an
"opium Joint" on Grant st. last Thursday
and captured the Chinese proprietor and
one white woman, who offered her
diamonds and money to be released
At Watsonvilie, Armstrong Co. Thurs
day, two boys played with revolver, and
one of them, Charles Elder, aged 6 years
is dead.
AT Glade, Pa, last Thursday, the grocery
store of the Arid brothers was broken into
and bonfire built in an elevator we'll in
to which was put a quantity of powder or
dynamite The proprietors who sleep in
the upper part of the building, heard the
marauders and fired several shots at them
as they ran away. Harvey Arid was
knocked down by the explosion which
followed The force of the explosion
wrecked the building The fire did little
damage, and 30 goods were taken, the
intention evidently. being to destroy the
whole establishment by explosion and fire.
The outrage is supposed to be the work of
enemies of Harvey Arid.
Harry Ehrenfeld, of Freeport, was
smothered by the caving in of a trench last
Tuesday