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

evening of last week aud his wife visited a
neighbor, leaving their three year-old,
alone in the house. During their absence
the house was burned and the child perish
ed in the flames The fire is supposed to
have been caused by the explosion of a
lamp.
"At Mechanicsburg Pa, a woman
named Mosher spent the afternoon with
two female friends, and upon reaching her
home her voice was gone. For three
months she could not speak loud word.
Her voice then suddenly returned. All
the doctors could say about it was that she
had talked her tongue into being tired and
needing rest. And the malady was liable
to return at any time when too much talk
ing was indulged.'
Jerry Murphy plead guilty ia the United
States District Court at Pittskurg to run
ming a distillery in Forest county without
paying the Government tax. He SAID all
he distilled was sassafras and watergreen
and he don't know that was wrong. He
had never been in any trouble. de was
fined 500 and ordered to be confined in
the iail of Forest county one mouth.
At Tarentum last week several persons
were hurt and one lady had her leg broken
by the falling of the seats of circus.
There is on the Robert McLaughry farm,
south of Edinboro, an apple tree that
deserves mention as wonderful natural
curiosity. 1t was planted by John
| Campbell in 1910, and is therefore so
years old. But it is the great size of the
| tree and not its age, that makes it Won
| derful. The trunk, which is very smooth
| and straight and free from knots, measure
| eight feet and seven inches in circumference
| one foot above the ground. When it is
noticed that this is the size of the clear
trunk, free from knots, the great size of the
tree will be appreciated.
| The aged parents of the Nicely boys
went to Indiana, Pa, one day last week
and spent their time with the unfortun-
| ate men, The mother is a very nice old
! lady and when she entered the cell where
her sons were confined she broke down
completely and hung upon their necks as
| though she would never consent to part
with them again. Both parents aid child
| ren cried pitifully. The parents believe
| most implicitly in the innocence of the
| boys and cannot think that they will be
executed. Since the visit of the parents
the boys are very quiet and spend much of
their time reading the Bible.
A party of New York men lately paid a
round million for Is, 900 acres OF land on
the Punxsutawney basin.
Three cases of suicide happened in
Allegheny Co. last Saturday. John
Geiger hung himself through religious ex-
citement; Lizzie Miller of Pittsburg took
Paris Green because her lover Tilted her,
and Mrs. Nurse of Allegheny took the
same because her husband flirted with a
young lady living at Berver Falls.
At this term of Court in Allegheny Co.
six murder cases and one man slaughter
case will be heard
A singular accident and marvellous
escape during the heavy storm Friday last,
is reported from Lawrence county, near
the Beaver county line. 1t seems that
while the storm was raging, Farmer
Browen undertook to bring in from the
field young horse. He had the animal
h1- bol I,t tla
made by the storm frightened the animal
and it refused to follow. 1t pulled back
and the farmer pulled the other way.
While in this position, with the halter
strap pulled taut, vivid stroke of light
! ming came, and cut the halter in two as
neatly as if done with a sharp knife. Both
man and beast were thrown to the ground,
but both recovered in an instant, and
scrambled unhurt to their feet. The
animal took to its heels for the field. while
the farmer made tracks for the barn.
Several who witnessed the affair We're
certain at first that both were killed
While herding cattle between Bradford
and Kendall Creek, last Saturday after
noon, Austin Peterson and William and
Joseph Trantor, ranging in age from
| twelve to fourteen years, found two
torpedo squibs. Joseph Trantor and
Peterson each picked up squib, and, after
examining them, threw them on the
ground. The explosion that followed tore
the flesh from Peterson's hand and blew
out one of his eyes. The other two boys
were bruised and cut all over the body.
William Trantor died at 5 o'clock on Sun
day morning. The two other boys are
thought to be fatally injured. Each has
lost an eye, and if they recover, both will
be disfgured for life.
THE Pittsburgh Dispatch observes that
the Supreme Courts decision, that a will
deciding property to married woman in
fee simple wholly separate from her hus-
band, gives her only life interest in it, is
one of the finest achievement of hair
splitting on record since the time of
Hudibras.