Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1891-11-27
NEIGHBoRHooD NOTES.

farmer was offered $40 for FIVE DelainC
ewes
An immense amount of coal was started
down the river from Pittsburg This week.
At Kittanniug, Friday evening, Esq
( Donaldson held j. B. Ruffner to an swer al
Court for having killed boy twenty five
years ago; and Judge Rayburn admitted
/ Ruffner to bail in -. 500. In Septemhe er,
/ 1866, Ruffner who then lived on his faith
| er's farm. discovered a boy in tree, gath
/ ering chestnuts. He ordered the boy To
come down, but as his command was not
obey ed he threw stone at him, merely
to scare him, as he says. The stone struck
the boy and b fell TO the ground, the fall
causing almost instant death.
Rev. Carl We'll. of PittsbuIg. committed
suicide by shooting himself last Saturday
night.
At Pittsburg. Friday, plumber named
Sullivan was killed by coming in contact
with live trolley wire. With a felo
workman named Thomas McGonley, he
mounted the ladder TO make a connection
near the ceiling of the powerhouse. Ne
Gonley was holding the pipe while Sulli-
van was driving the nail into the wall to
told it. In striking at the nail he missed
it and struck live wire with the hammer.
An awful flash resulted, which completely
endowed loped both men, particularly burn
ing Sullivan. He fell backward striking
another live wire with the back of his
neck He doubled up, aud was thrown in
the air. His almost lifeless body then fell
to the floor, distance of sixteen feet. He
stcuck on mis- head and lay motionless.
Jacob Byers, of Lgonier Valley, is the
tallest man on the pension roll in the
United States, being feet 6! inches in his
stocking feet.
Cider is cheaper at Meadville than here.
The Tribune says that on the market on
Thursday new whisky barrels market value
81 30, filed with 46 gallons of cider, were
freely offered at So price for the cider of
a little over three cents per gallon.
4 number of five-dollar counterfeit it
treasury notes have been passed.
on Lancaster business men within the
past ten days. The engraving is good, but
the paper and printing is very ordinary. Tie
note is counterfeit of the series A 1880
The portrait vignette and other work on the
note is very much inferior to the genuine.
In the title ''Urited States" the "P' is not
dotted, though the heavy shading of the
dot is there.
A careful investigation OF the hemlock
region in this State. where the worm, we're
abundant during the summer i not en-
courlg.ng 10 the owner. Of hemlock tim
ber In Potter COUNTY. where tlc worms
were annoying the timber is al, turned
brown. Ia Elk county the same condition
exists. The timber infected with the
cooper caterpillar" in July a1d August
IL dead, and in order tn save the logs 1t
will have to be cut down before it is
ear older.
Joe Mulhattau, the drummer, who claims
20 be the greatest liar on earth, Is in prison
in Pittsburg. charged with larceny and
now viii have a chance to pnt his extcaor-
dinarr ability to some practical test. The
greatest liar on earth ought 10 have 10
trouble in prevaricate his way.
Bethel, Mercer county, can boast ofhav
ing the Oldest woman in that county, Mrs.
McGGffy, mother Of the author of Me
GuFy's Readers, of which most readers
Of this paper are familiar. She is past
ninety-eight years and can talk quite well,
ana seems to enjoy herself in conversation
Pool & Son, bankers of Irwin Pa. have
closed their doors.
4 few days ago a man named James
Wagner accompanied by girl Of about
IL years. appeared before magistrate in
Franklin and asked him to marry them.
lie had no license, and the justice refused
Wagner was about 20 start with the girl
for New York State, where license isn't
requisite, when "A constable from Mercer
county appeared aud arrested him on
charge of abduction. From the officer
il was learned that the girl's name is
Mary Weed and she is the daughter of
well to-do farmer residing near Middle
sex, whom Wagner, who is about fifty
wears old. had induced to elope with him,
upon the promises Of fitting her for an ar
tst n a circus company he claimed to be
organizing for next summers season. The
girl was willing to return home, and the
officer and his prisoner left for Mercer.