Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1891-10-23
NEIGHBoRHooD NOTES.

The Dunlap building on Federal st.
Allegheny, occupied by Geo. W. Snamen
for carpet store, was destroyed by gas
explosion last Tuesday noon. One OF Mr..
Snamen's employees smelled escaping gas
and he and Mr.. Snsmen went to the cellar
to find the leak One of them struck
match and away went everything. The
two men were badly burned but managed
to stagger up stairs and went to the street
when they fell and were carried home.
The building and stock took fire and burn
ed for some time The loss by fire and
water is put at $50, 900. The two men may
recover. Latimers stock OF carpets IN ad-
Joining building was injured.
Perhaps the most substantial boom
of which Meadville can boast this season
is furnished bv the enlargement OF the
plant of the Vallonia distillery. This
famous whisky mill now has capacity
of 1900 gallons day, and requires 500
bushels of rye per diem to keep it running
full head.
Deacon Hungerford, of near Chester, has
large apple orchard which this year pro-
duced the largest crop of apples ever
known in the country. After he used all
he could in the way of apple butter, pre-
serves and jelly, he found several hundred
bushels on hands. He is an ardent pro-
hibitionist and down on cider, so he was
at his wits end what to do with tie sur
plus He asked his pastor what to do, and
he advised him to destroy them as should
he sell them they might be made into cider.
So he and his sons went through the or
chard stripping all the trees and dumping
| hundreds of bushels of delicious apples into
the neighboring mill pond. We have
heard OF such things as straining at gnat,
and this is certainly one of them.
The people of Fawn twp. Allegeny Co.,
are annoyed by spring house thieves.
W. S. Stewart, secretary of the North
| Huntington township school board. West
morland county, is missing. He was
charged with forging 81, 500 bond on the
township.
Judge Doty says a wife need not live
| with her mother in-law. The case in
| question was that of the wife of Eli. Camp
bell, of Latrobe, who refused to live with
q tarter of mother-in-law and obtained a
divorce under Judge Dotty.
In a butchering contest, at Pittsburg for
| $500 side, Herman Doernberger killed
and dressed two CALVES in minutes and
| % seconds This breaks the record.
About $4,000 changed hands on the result.
| John A. Born was Doernberger's opponent
/ and his time was minutes, IL seconds
| The keg of bright silver dollars, dated
| from 1923 to 1880, which was sent by the
| Ecolomite Society to its bank in Beaver
Falls few days ago. when rumorS reflect
| ing Oh the stability of that situation were
1 being circulated is said to be part of the
| immense treasure buried by Father Rapp a,
the founder of the society, in 1881. when
| Count PrOli and his brother adventures
were trying to carry off the wealth oi
| Economy.
| An order has been made by the Dauphin
county court in the case of the Common
wealth ex rel W. o. Hensel, Attorney
| General, VS.. The Economical Mutural
| Benefit Association of Sandylake, Mercer
county, citing the latter to appear at
Harrisburg, November 8, aud show cause
| why its business should not be closed.
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Regarding the Westmoreland Co., Poor
house, the Greensburg Tribune says, "The
more light that is let in upon the manage
ment or rather mismanagement of
! the County Home, the more obnox-
ious it becomes and the more reason
there is for change in the management
of that institution, which has become a
strench in the nostrils Of the taxpayers OF
| the county. That there is an unnecessary
| and needless expenditure OF thousands ol
| dollars Of the peoples money by the pres
ent board is az indisputable fact. Every
bill, no matter whether just or reasonable
or not, is paid and no question asked by
| these guardians of the poor, Out door re-
lief is given TO persons, (and Is KNOWING
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| ly done) who are running speak eas'es,
| living with men who are lot their hus-
bands, keeping houses Of assignatlon and
in some inst III ces spending the money or
trading the provisions obtained. for liquor
with which they get drunk aud disgrace
themselves and the county, whose gener
osity feeds aud clothes them. Especially
is this true in a township, in the southern
part of the county, where there are four
women living who are now and have
been obtaining relief from the county, and
who squandered the money thus received
for that which is neither bread nor raiment
and this too almost under tho very shadow
of the Home itself, and to the full knowl-
| edge of some at least of the members of
the board, who either "stand in, with this
| quartet Of female cont door relief subjects
or else "dont care II darn" how much Of
the peoples money they squaadcr SO long
as they can have hold of the public teat
ard feed from the public crib.