Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1891-06-26
NEIGHBoRHooD NOTES.

The Court of Somerset county has grant
ed an injunction against the sale of Wern-
er's history OF the Umberger murder case
on the grounds that it contains hbellous
matter.
In criminal case against two young
men tried IN Mercer last week, the dc
PENDANTS worked game that was not only
sharp but laughable. man named Nc
Clusky had Frank Davis and Morris Thomp-
son arrested for fishing on Sunday. They
agreed to appear before the Squirer next
day and answer. Meanwhile, each offend
er made information against the other thus
saving half the fine, as one half the fine
of s25 goes to the prosecutor, and leaving
McClusky in the cold.
A Forkston, Pa; woman has applied for
divorce because she is compelled to light
wildcats too often. The part of the courtry
where she and her husband live Is infested
with these animals, and as he refuses to
move, she wants to leave him. She says
that in the last three years she has killed
43 cats.
According to the Osicego Record, a
maiden of that town says to the girls OF
everywhere else: 'DoL't come here with
the expectation of getting married. Good
manageable men are as scarce as gray
hairs on my head The girls of my set
often get so hard up for the sight of a man
we are tempted to 90 out and flirt with the
soldiers monument"
of the 5000 men employed in the sand
and limestone quarries of this county, fully
three-fiths are foreigners who do not pay
taxes. 1t is estimated in court here that
during the past six years the cost of pros
ecution and suits against these aliens,
civil and criminal, has been more than
the cost on account of all the other people
in the county combined.-New Castle
Guardian.
At McKeesport, Saturday night, VIM.
Myers shct Mrs. Harding because she
would not elope with him, and then shot
himself through the head.
Pittsburg is to have another big hotel to
be built on the property facing Duquesne
Way, now occupied by the Speer Plow
works, and to cost whole million.
A bride in Indiana county, Pa; was in
dead enough earnest when getting married
a w..days ago, but got the baptismal and
marriage rituals somewhat mixed. To the
clergyman's solemn question, "Dost thou
take this man to be thy lawful welded
husbandl' she responded very distinctly
and emphatically, "God being my helper,
| do"
The funeral of Charles Kahrer, the Coal
town young man whose death resulted
from heavy lifting on a lifting machine,
took place at New Castle last Sunday DR..
A. NJ. Cook performed post mortem ex-
animation and found that the bile duct had
been ruptured, causing the discoloration of
the body, which existed.
Stock to the amount of $219, 900 has been
subscribed in New Castle toward the cree
ton of mammoth steel plant in that city,
to be run in connection with the wire nail
and rod mill.
A Luzerne girl who had too many lovers
asked for "sealed proposals." took the
fellow who wrote shortest one; and the
other fellows gave him a licking,
The breaking Of an axle of a freight car,
while heavily laden train was on the big
curve near Lockport, last Saturday eve
ming, caused fourteen cars of pig iron to be
dumped into the river, the track to be torn
up and all traffic delayed.
Several days ago when Charlie Johnson
ofBeaver Falls, went home from work, he
found the table set for supper and a card
stating that his wife had taken the child
and gone West to live with an old lover,
who had written to her and invited her to
come. johnson has sold all his belongings
and gone after his wife to get possession of
his child.
Mrs Jane Dnff, of near Moravia, Law
renee county, died June 2l, 1891. She
was 80 years of age and the Oldest per
son in Lawrence county.
Judge McMichael fingered in the Court
House in New Castle until late hour on
Thursday evening. He was in one of the
rooms when the janitor closed the building
at night, and had to climb out of window.