Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1891-09-04

Rye, wheat and oats wanted at Kiln
gler's West Penn Elevator
Seventeen suits for divorce were
entered in the Allegheny Co. Courts last
Saturday.
The First Ward Hose Co. is building
dancing platform on the Mcbride lot on
corner of jefferson and Washington SITS.
The newspapers are discussing the
question "Is the passion for notoriety a
contagious disease" What do you think
of it.
The people of Butler paid its tax col
lector $32, 600 last Saturday. The School
fund was increased by sI3, 900 and the boro
fund s12, 1000.
"A Chicago gambler fell dead with
three jacks and two skies in his hand.
From the poker players point of view he
had much to live for.
Mrs. Heath owned frame building
next to the bridge, and while they were
trying to raise it last Saturday it fell into
the creek She was in it at the time, but
escaped without injury.
AT Saturdays meeting of the Lutheran
Conference at Greenville the article of the
new Constitution giving the President OF
the Synod the power to oversee all Con-
gregations and their pastors was adopted
by close vote.
Two New York oil brokers have sued
another for $3S, 900 their share, as they
claim of transactions resulting from tips
received from a member of the Standard
Oil Trust. The suit if it proceeds will be
watched with interest by all oil producers
and spectators
This is scrap of law that may not be
familiar to very many: "a finder OF
property is compelled to make diligent
inquiry for the owner thereof, and to re-
store the same. If on finding such proper
ty, he attempts to conceal such fact he
may be prosecuted for larceny.
| 1t is now possible to pass over the Cen
tire Ave, or Freeport, bridge, and though
grading is being done on both e. Wayne
and the south end of Mexican SITS, they
will probably be passable next week. The
north end of Main st. is completed. West
Jefferson is closed at present, but may be
opened to the public next week, otherwise
fthe travel to the Fair will be by Miffiin
and Cunningham streets.
| When that drunken fellow, said to be
La glass blower, races his horse up and down
| the north end of Main St.. of an evening,
it is dangerous for people, and particularly
for children, to be on or to cross the street;
and he makes nuisance Of himself by
continually calling his horse pet names.
He and the fellows who chase the darkey
| girls should be exhibited in glass case.
| The steamer '.Teutonic" lowered the
record of trip from England to New
York, by few hours lately and the illus
trated papers of last week gave accounts
and descriptions of her. She carries 1000
passengers, burns 300 tons of coal day
when running, converts 120 tons of water
into steam each hour, has twin screws that
overlap each other and are nineteen feet in
diameter, six big engines and several little
ones, etc.
| Several of the lodges of Jr. 0. U. A.
NJ. met at Prospect last Wednesday for the
purpose of greeting the State Counsellor
who had sent word that he would visit the
lodge there that day. One hundred and
fifty men were in the procession and they
had good supper and a good time in
Critchlow's Grove. The lodge is prosper
ing and it has bought lot and proposes
building two story hall 30x70 feet. The
officers of the lodge are Counsellor, J. G.
English; ". c., J. C. Robbery; Rec. Sec'y
e. L. English; Financial Sec'y, p. II.
Sechler; Treas. J. p. Hays.
The Independent Gas Co. of Butler is
laying 3-inch line to the Lensner farm near
Jefferson Centre, which will cost them
some new wells in Winfield twp.-the gas
territory about Butler being almost entire
ly exhausted. The line OF the Home Co.
to Winfield Co. is ten inches at Butler and
six inches at the wells, and the pressure is
holding up very well. The pressure of the
wells of the Westmoreland Co. fields has
decreased from 500 lbs to about 20. Mr..
A. L. Hoyis is laying the new 3 inch line
at IS cts. foot
| The bi carbonate department Of the
Salt Mfg Co.'S works at Natrona was
destroyed By fire early last Sunday morn
ling. The building burned was known as
the "stone- building" two story structure
about 200 feet long and was considered
fire prof. 1t was fitted with steam pumps
and fire apparatus, but the boilers had
been blown out to make some repairs, and
consequently the pumps could not be used
The loss is stated by one paper to be
$780, 600, and by another 81, 1,000, 900,
covered by insurance. The fire threw a
couple of hundred men out of employment
The capital stock of this Co. is 81, 0OO, 900,
and it is the largest Chemical plant in
the country. The cryolite from which
soda and aluminium are produced, is
brought from Greenland, the only place
where deposits of it exist. The company
has an exclusive right on this line of manu-
facture. The pyrites, from which sulphuric
acid is produced, is brought from Spain
Copper, silver and gold are extracted from
the materials used in the various processes
| AS mosquitoes are unusually numerous
this year, some facts regarding them may
not be out of place. In the first place it is
only the female mosquito that annoys us,
the male behaves himself, and sucks grass
and leaves for living, but the female is
devilish Gas usuaD and wants blood
During the day she sleeps and lays her
eggs on the surface of any stagnant water,
but when the shades of evening come on
she starts out, makes trouble for her
betters, and occasionally gets mashed on
man. The little boat or raft of eggs that
she builds on the water, looks like speck
Of SCOT, but if you look sharp you will see
the difference, and il you take one up you
can scatter the eggs over the end of your
finger with the point of needle. The
sun matches the eggs, and the little shippers
live in the water, heads down, they
breath through their tails, and by and by
white sack forms around them, and they
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