Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1891-05-22
NEIGHBoRHooD NOTES

4 Steuben county farmer, who keeps a
good many sheep, was feeding his flock one
day recently when he noticed black spot
on the back of one Of his sheep which dis
appeared while he was looking at it. he
looked closer and was amazed to see three
mice come from somewhere down the sleeps
thick wool, jump TO the ground and scamp
er away. The farmer put his hand down
into the wool and found three snug and cozy
mice nests, each with a new born litter OF
young ones in it. The mouse colonies were
broken up. Similar ones were found in the
warm-feeces of three other sheep in the
flock The sheep didn't seem to mind it.
A Beaver Falls colored man, ia years
old, was making garden last week. He
says he expects to live 200 years.
The Beaver Co. Bar Assn. made formal
charges against W. II. Martin, formerly of
this county, last Thursday. Four cases
are cited against Martin. First, it is alleged
he collected money and failed to pay it to
his client. Secondly, he is charged with
acting dishonesty with Mrs. Rebecca
Shepler, of Beaver Falls, in accepting
retainer in divorce proceedings and
then notifying her that she was to come to
Beaver on certain day and receive her
divorce In this instance he is charged
with taking testimony without authority
from the court, and alsD with pocketing
fees for taking depositions which he never
took. The third charge is that Martin
represented himself to be the District
Attorney, in order to effect compromise
of case in which he was interested. The
fourth charge is collecting fees which
should Lave gone into the clerks Office,
but whieL Ecycr went there.
At Mercer, Thursday, jury rendered
verdict of 81, $50 against saloon keeper of
Sharon, for furnishing liquor to an intoxi-
Gated man, and thereby causing his death.
The Tobin mystery of Franklin and
Staten Island, is to undergo another legal
examination. The housekeeper OF DIR.
Bryan has stated positively that Mary
visited the doctor, remained late in his
office, and was improperly intimate with
him.
A six foot vein of coal is reported to have
been discovered near Ellwood, Lawrence Co..
Quite a number of the people of Sharps
burg, Etna and 0'Hara were poisoned last
Friday by eating smoked sturgeon supplied
from tn wagon of Pittsburg fish dealer.
A Hungarian in Jail at Franklin, for
larceny, committed suicide by hanging last
Saturday.
Sixteen murders have been committed
in Allegheny Co. within four months.
AT st. Petersburg, Clarion Co. a few days
ago, some children went to a barn to play;
a boy threw lighted match into the hay
and one little girl was burned to death.
1.-TWO Indiana county farmers quarreled
over division fence, and one of them be-
came insane.
Near Enon, Beaver Co., last week boy
named Miller who was playing with
Flobert rife was shot through the heart,
and instantly killed.
Wallace d Co. lshowmen, took out their
state license at Kittanning. 1t cost them
00,-two-t thirds of which went to the
State Treasury.
At Pittsburg last Saturday, j. P. Hall,
an attoney at law, was sentenced to the
pen. for two years for forging the names of
parties to bond and mortgage.
When Bucks Co. farmer heard that
railroad would run over his farm he began
laughing, and cannot stop himself. and is
shaking all the flesh off his bones.