Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1891-01-16
NEIGHBORHOoD NOTES

EIGH bORHOOD MI Co
| Mr. Eugene Rev, well known torpedo
man OF Oil City, was blown to pieces by
an explosion of nitro glycerine, last Thurs
day.
Mrs. Bent Moore, of Scrubgrass Twp.
Armstrong Co. fell from the loft of her
barn, and aighting upon a hay-fork re-
ceived injuries that caused her death in a
| few hours.
The farmers of Mercer Co. will hold an
Institute at the Court House in Mercer, on
the 10Th and Goth of February.
The former citizens of Butler Co. now
living in Beaver Falls and vicinity, will
hold their banquet next Thursday evening.
In the suit of New Castle and Beaver
Valley Railroad Company, at Youngs-
town, against the Pennsylvania Company,
on leases and damages, Judgment was
given for the plaintiff for $ll9, ,202.
Pittsburgh claims to have more milli'
onaires in proportion to her population
than any other city in the world,
A $3,000,000 mortgage was entered
against the P, S. & l.. E. railroad at
Mercer last week.
A Jefferson colaty editor elected to the
Legislature says his constant prayer viii |
be to be preserved from the "big head"
The remains of 1t Casey, who was kill
ed by the Indians in Dakota. passed
through Pitts5arg, last Monday, on their
way to his home.
Beware of the travelling savings and in
vestment man One of these, a smooth talker
visited Niles, O., and organized branch of
the ST. Paul Savings and Investment Co.,
which he clainsl Vas gilt-edged organ
ization with paid up capital of 81, 600, 900.
He succeeded in getting $l2, 500 of stock
taken, on which the members paid $3.50
Soon after his l,p lrt1re the members be
came suspicious and, making an inves-
tigation, discovered that they had
been victimized and that the $4,000, 600
capital consisted of 400 of acres unimprov-
ed land lying nine miles from st. Paul.
Information has been received from st.
Paul that the scheme is being worked sue
cessfully in many cities and towns.
VIM. Neely, one of Pittsburg's 49ers
returned home few days ago, after an
absence of A. years. He was brick
maker, and quarreled with his wife,
about the time the crowd went to Cali
fornia in 1849 He went with the crowd,
was not successful as miner and turned
to brickmaking again and got rich. His
three boys, grew up in Pittsburg, and one
of them located his father and went West
lately and induced him to come home.
Miles Davenport, "a well-known and prom
inent resident of Luzerne County, Pa,
started few days ago. to drive over the
mountains from his home to Plymouth.
1t was intensely cold, and about p. IN.
his rig was seen on Welch Hill, one of the
suburbs of Plymouth. He was seated in
the vehicle, but was entirely unconscious,
and frozen stiff. He was taken to the res
idence of his brother -in-law, Hon. John j..
Shonk. Everything possible was done for
him, but he never regained consciousness,
and died. Mr.. Davenport was seventy five
years of age.
Maggie Robson, servant girl at the
Dean House in Connellsville, and but nine
teen years of age, gave birth to four boy
babies. last Monday, and swore the whole
brood upon young iron-worker named
Kane, who left for parts unknown, who will
probably flee to the uttermost ends of the
Earth
The Pittsburg, Akron d Western R. R.,
which is now being constructed between
Akron, o., and Chicago Junction, is being
rapidly pushed to completion. When fin
ished this connecting link will prove a
valuable assistance in the Pittsburgh d.
Westerns heavy traffic between Pittsburg
city and the West. At present trains for
Chicago are running over the Pittsburgh
g. Western to Cuyahoga Falls o., and from
there over the Cleveland, Akron q Colum
bus road to Orrville where they are shifted
to the tracks of the Wheeling d Lake Erie.
AT Monroeville they branch off on to the
Baltimore d Ohio for Chicago. The new
part of the road will be through line from
Pittsburgh to Chicago. Within few
weeks it is expected to run passenger trains
as far West over the new road as Sharon,
O. The connecting line will give an excel
lent western outlet to the Baltimore d
Ohio road through the Mahoning valley.
At Johnstown bridal couple were SER
enaded with horn that required eleven
men to blow it. 1t is very evident that
the town Of the Conemaugh Valley is'boun1
to be ahead in some fashion. When hav-
ing too much water ceased to be attractive,
she INDUCES in more wind than any other
town would think of or stand