Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1890-11-07
NEIGHBORHOCD NOTES.
Diphtheria is reported to be epidemic il
Williamsburg, Allegheny Co.

Dlphtheria Is reported 10 be epidemic i
Williamsburg, Allegheny Co.
4 farmer named Matthias near Madison
estmoreland Co. lost 81 sheep last Satur
day night. A neighbor met the chal
driving them away but did not suspec
anything wrong at the time.
A misplaced switch sent train of load
ed coal cars through hotel at Hunting gdor
last Thursday night. and the guests rushed
TO the street in their night clothes
The Parker Phonir says that rambo
apple tree on the farm of James Martin, on
Jacks run, in Ross twp, Armstrong Co,
is loaded down with blossoms which came
out some few days ago and is the wonder
of the entire neighborhood.
In the East End, Pittsburg, there is a
fashionable sowing society that meets once
a week, and during its last meeting the
husband of one of its members dropped in.
took the chair offered him, and then took
pair of old stockings out of his pocket and
darned away at them till the ladies ordered
him out of the house.
The Seventy eighth regiment held their
eighth annual reunion in Kittanning last
week Over 100 of the survivors were in
attendance, who. with their friends. COM
fortably filled the Court House at the re-
ception held in the afternoon. The pro
gramme consisted of reading of letters of
regret from absent members and interest
ing impromptu addresses BY many of the
present. The committee on the
oirwell monument made report showing
an Indebtedness of SO which was quickly
by the members present to-
gether with considerable surplus which
was voted 10 the family of their late colo
nel. a largely attended camp fire was
held il the evening.
Farmer Owen Graf, of Quakertown,
BucSs county, lost haystack of fifteen
tons Oh Wednesday by gunner shooting
into it accidentally and setting it on fire.
The people of Youngstown o. are excited
over the report that syndicate Of English
capitalists has purchased eight of their
rolling mills for four million dollars.
AXE Miller, of Oneida township, Hunt
Ingdon county, saw three deer in his corn
field one day last week. He got his gun
and succeeded in shooting one OF them.
The anti-lottery law passed by the recent
Congress proves tie be very tight fit. 1t
excludes from the mail everything in the
shape of games or schemes that depend on
chance. Last week the entire edition of
the Ft. Wayne Journal was thrown out of
the mails by the postmaster because the
paper published an account of Catholic
church fair, which contained list of the
numbers which had drawn prizes. Another
paper was stopped because it contained a
short item in regard to "chancing Off
sofa pillow.
1t is said that the farmers of Mercer
county are going tn start paper of their
own at Mercer. The Cochranton Times is
is of the opinion that they can get rid OF
the net proceeds of their surplus crops
about as surely by starting a newspaper in
a field already filled as they can by signing
papers for strangers.
County Controller Speer of Allegheny
Co. last week, refused to approve the bill
of Theresa Teets for 1905 for witness fees
The woman was witness in the Killen
murder case and was committed to Jail by
the coroner pending the trial of the case
She was i'll Jail 305 days, and according to
custom presented bill for 81 day for
The time she was imprisoned Judge White
followed precedent by approving her bill.
When it was presented to Controller Speer
ne took new course and declined to
the payment. He said there was
10 law to authorize the payment of such
bills and referred to decision of Judge
~ ickham of Beaver county in a similar
case. In this decision it was held that
witnesses for the Commonwealth who
could not furnish bail Or their appearance
were not entitled to pay for the time they
were il Jail. The present case will pro-
eably be taken to the court for a decision
which viii serve as rule for the future.
George Fagundas of Franklin; who was
wen known in this county, was found dead
IN an outhouse at Semple's Station, Mon
day.
There has been startling exposure OF
official corruption in the Commissioners
Otflce of Clinton county. That lost
heavily in bridges by the great flood of
June, 1889, and it is alleged that the Coun-
ty Commissioners, in making contracts for
new bridges, were guilty of collusion with
the builders and paid over $24, 900 for
work that actually cost only $4,000; yet
this in only the'beginning of the investiga-
ton. The Commissioners held secret ses-
sions in awarding the bridge contracts, and
it is darkly limited that they received a
portion of the doodle" T. C. Nipple,
Esq, attorney for the Commissioners, re-
signed his position in disgust because the
officials ignored his protests and treated
him with contempt. 1t is stated that steps
are being taken for the criminal prosecu-
ton of the Commissioners, two of whom
are Democrats and one Republican.
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