Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1891-09-25
NEIGHBORHoOD NOTES.


day, MeKeesport man was convicted for
stealing his own trunk from the r. r. Co.
He had il checked, aud when the agent
was not looking, had It hauled away and
then claimed damages in S209, from the
Co. This the Co. was about 10 pay, when
one Of is detectives found the trunk in
the owners house.
At Wilkesbarre, last week man 'eas
tried for murder committed in 1864. \
{. s. officer was shot while hunting draft
ed men, and his brothers kept at it un-
I'll they secured some evidence against the
supposed shooter, bat he Wa acquitted
] jas. McAlillen Of Lawrence Co., Round
head, died last Thu1sday aged IS years.
1t Jewett, o., last Thursday man who
was being chased BY mob jumped upon
a locomotive, thrust his revolver into the
fremans face. and made hin run the en-
CINE ont Of town mile or 30. when he es-
capped into the woods.
A Louisville drummer, who look's ike
Fitzsimmons. was arrested in Pittsburg
last Thurscay.
According to reports from the Dawson
settlement, up the Allegheny river. ped
der some time ago left packages Of goods
at two houses in that vicinity. Two re-
ceipts signed By the ladies Of the nous
holds, one for,s25 and the other for so
have now come up for collection. The
signatur es appear 10 be genuine, but tie
women have no reccolleetion Of having
written them, and are sure they must have
written when unconscious Of the fact. II
is therefore believed that the peddler must
have secured the notes through some by
motto or mesmeric influence.
at the lair IN Sangamon county, H.,
held last week, $500 piano was offered
by merchant, as a prize for the best jelly
cske made by lady in that Congressional
| district. About 600 ladies competed for
the prize which was awarded to Mrs. Sam
uel Willet, Of Springfield. The 500 dis
appointment competitors found that Mrs.
VS.. cake was simply angels food with
jellp spread between each layer. They
raised the protest that a cake built in
that way is not jelly cake. The local
| cooks decided that It is. Delmonico, Of
New York, telegraphs that angels food,
with jelly layers, may properly be classed
| as jelly cake, but that it is not customary
TO make them that way The matter i
still undecided, and the community are
taking sides in the warmest fashion.
Almost before we know it, the season is
once more at hand in which the human
race begins to thin itself out by means
OF climbing into vehicles with gnns
opulr ling guns out Of wagons with the
muzzle toward the puller. a close ap-
proach to the regulation accident occurred
at Oil City YESTERDAY, when Joe. Holmes a
youth Of 10, was shot in the arm by rife
| in consequence Of the hammer striking the
wheel Of a wagon into which be was climb
ing The bullet traversed bis arm from
the elbow to the shoulder
A remarkable snake story was told by a
resident Of Clarion recently and but for
the unapproachable character Of the narra-
tor would sound like a ''snake story, He
stated that farmer who lived near Clarion
town was moving in field when he was
attacked by white snake fully ten feet
in length. The reptile coiled. itself around
the farmers waist and gazed fxcdly in his
face evidently trying to charm him. Shak-
ing Off the dizzy feeling caused By the
snakes hynotic gaze, the farmer cut il
TO pieces with the scythe, and then exhaust
ed with fright and overezertion sank TO
the ground The head Of the snake, with
a portion Of the body, lay near him, and
the peculiar odor caused him TO pickitup, and
he found il was an albino backsnakc. The
peculiar formation Of the snakes eyes
caused him TO examine them closely, and
he could hardly believe the evidence Of his
sences when he discovered perfect repro
duction Of his face photographed in the
center Of thcseye. He brought the snake
70 town, where it was photographed and
preserved in alcohol The negative taken
by the photographer shows the snakes eye
per fectly with the farmer face showing ~
clearly a. If also taken with camera The
picture and snake were exhibited at the
Clarion fair
Mrs. Fitzsimmons the wife Of the o.
capped murderer was put on trial Monday
afternoon IN Pittsburg, for participating
in the murder Of Detective Gilkinson. Do
tectivc Murphy said she had pistol under
her apron aud that she fred tho first shot
Pittsburg aud Allegheny are suffering
from q milk famine.
a diaease, believed to be the Texas
splenic fever Is carrying off Blair and We
mango county cattleby the hundred. When
attacked the animals head ialls helplessly
to its side, aud its legs seem 10 be unable
TO bear the weight Of the body The State
Board.oghealth will be appealed TO TO devise
means Of erndicating the disease.
At Carnegie, Phipps and Co.'S. Home
stead mill, last Saturday, lldle Of mol
ten steel exploded, while being lowered
into the pit, and four men were burned
one Of whom died few minutes after
AT Brookville, Pa, Philip Richards wa
arrested for violating the postal laws
lis game was to send out cards Offering
10 loan money a. per cent secure biz