Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1891-02-13
NEIGHBoRHooD NOTES

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At Reading, Pa, Friday, the great boil
and nut works of Steinborgh Son, wa
destroyed by fire, and loss estimated a.
$3.50, 900. The firm employed $50 men and
boys.
Three of the Hungarians implicated IN
the riot at Braddock, a month or so ago,
were found guilty of murder in the first
degree, in the criminal Court of Allegheny
county, last Saturday.
C. C. Martin was arrested in Pittsburg,
last Thursday, for passing counterfeit
money.
The Beaver County Farmers Alliance
has petitioned the Legislature to abolish
the Office of County Superintendent of
Schools.
Fred Johnston, Of Centertown, Mercer
Co. was killed last Thursday, by the ex-
plosion of the boiler of well, being drilled
near Wilmington. A piece of the boiler
weighing two tons was thrown 500 feet up
the hill.
A Titusville young man courted q girl
up to the engagement point, and to help
things along purchased her handsome
wedding outfit But she ceased to love
him before the day for the wedding ar
rived, and finally Tilted him. Romeo could
stand the loss Of bis girl all right, but he
didn't propose to lose the clothes too,
hence his plain, business like demand that
she disgorge. In fact lie went after the
clothes himself, got them, and lugged
them home under his arm. They II do for
some other bride.
woman in Grove City sewed thirty-five
pounds of carpet rags in one week.
One of Blairsville's most wealthy and
shrewd business men takes a section of old
fashioned ginger bread to his room at
night and while reading the evening papers
munches the seductive sweet cake. He
knows a good thing when he sees it.
Meadville is to have an electric street
railway. Four miles of tract will be laid
to begin with and the road is 20 be in oper-
alton By September l, 1891. The trolley
system is to be used.
The question as to the availability OF
artificial gas as substitute for natural gas,
appears to have been settled by the New
Castle Wire Nail Co. says the Courant.
The system they have in operation at their
rod mill in this city gives good results, and
that, too, with saving in labor aud fuel
that should recommend it for all places
where similar arrangement could be used.
The great rapidity with which steel bill
le,s can be heated at the rod mill shows
that the same system would be equally
advantageous in rolling mills and glass
works, where an intense and uniform de-
gree of heat is required. and the absence of
smoke and dirt is desideratum. There
are only six small generators at the rod
mill, and one of them is generally under
going repairs, so that only five are in oper
alton, and yet 225, 900 pounds of billets can
be heated and made into wire in eleven
hours.
: A sofa with history fell into the hands
Of a neighboring upholsterer the other day
for repairs. When taken apart there were
found between the back and the cushion Al
hairpins, 3 moustache combs, 10 suspender
buttons, 13 needles, 8 cigarettes, pho
2l7 pins, some grains of coffee,
O few cloves, q cuff buttons, 6 pocket
knives, Is poker chips, vial of homeo-
pathic medicine, "a Jumps Of chewing gum,
SO toothpicks, % matches, and 4 button
hooks. The sofa belonged to man who
had several unmarried daughters
A man worth $4,000 walked into a
saloon in New Castle, lately aud sold seven
halfpint whisky bottles for seven cents.
Judge Mehard of Mercer Co. granted l3
8. Among those refused license were the
w histler house at Mercer and the Pierce
and Knauff houses at Sharpsville.
0he day last week deer was captured
in Diamond Valley by gentleman named
Brumbaugh, says the Huntingdon Journal.
Coming upon the deer standing quietly in
the woods, Mr.. Baumbaugh made his way
towards it, but instead of running away, as
he supposed it would, the animal lowered
its head and event for" Mr.. B. Siezing it
by the horn, for it had only one, the other
having been broken off, he had little trouble
it. After securing it was taken
to Barred and turned loose in a stable, where
it died in day or two. Through mere
curiosity some persons about the place
the animal and were aston
ished at being unable to find the least sign
of liver. The deer did not appear to be
sick when captured, but it was evidently
suffering from diseases, slse it would not
have submitted to capture without an effort
to make its escape. We have often heard
it said of men that they ''had no heart"
but this is the first instance that we ever
heard of deer without liver.