Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1892-03-04
NEIGHBoRHooD NOTES.

In the case of the Commonwealth vs.
George W. Delamater, late Quay candid
ate fer Governor of Pennsylvania, tried at
Meadville, last week the jury disagreed.
They stood to in favor of conviction,
and were out for thirty one hours. The
other indie Iments against the Delamaters
were held over till next term.
In the case of the Commonwealth VS.
the Post Publishing Co., at Pittsburg, la t
Thursday, for libeling NJ. S. Quay, Judge
Porter sentenced the Co. to pay fine of
$500, A. J. Barr $50, asd James Mills $50
and costs.
The District Attorney OF Lawrence Co.
is investigating the case OF Maggie Rutter,
a demented girl, who says she was assault
ed by the students of Westminster Col
lege.
The Beaver valley seems to be overrun
with desperate characters at present. At
Beaver Falls, last Thursday night, officer
Douds was knocked down and stabbed
Prof J. NJ Anderson, principal of the
schools of the new town of kensington
along the Allegheny river, is in Jail in
Greensburg on charges preferred against
him by a young lady school teacher
Carl Hartman, of Rochester, Pa, went
to the woods last Saturday and secured
some root that he thought was sassafras.
He ate some of it on his ret1rn home, was
siezed with spasms and died. A boy who
was with him, and his mother and sister
were also made sicF by eating of it.
The store off. d. g. H Reimolds at
Grove City was closed by the Sheriff OF
Mercer Co. on Wednesday OF last week, on
writs aggregating So. 16S7s. The firm
afterwards made an assignment to DR.. J.
NJ. Martin.
At Pittsburg, one day last week eggs
dropped from 40 cents to 20, and there
were some sales as low as 16 cents The
drop was accounted for blythe arrival of
four steamboat loads of fresh eggs from
the Kanawha valley. The market had for
weeks been supplied by storage eggs and
the supply was nearly exhausted.
Lederachville, Bucks county has a dog
that eats three pounds of crackers without
taking drink. Neighbors say ''it proves
that the town has gone dry too long"
James Fitzmaurice,a blind man. of Union
town, got verdict for $500 damages
against the Baltimore d Ohio railroad for
injuries which he received by being put off
a moving train.
The rather unusual surgical operation
of transplanting portion of the eye of a
rabbit and substituting it for a similar part
of the human eye was performed by DR..
Hill, the occulist of Youngstown, and Drs.
F. H. Hoyt and J. II. Reed of Sharon
last week. The patient is William James,
the blind grocer of Sharon, whose eyes
were, one wholly and the other almost SO,
blinded, about twelve years ago by fash
of molten iron. The cornea of the eye of
a rabbit was substituted tor the similar
portion of the eye not wholly blinded. 1t
is hoped that the operation will prove
successful, but it will be several days be-
fore the bandages can be removed and its
success or failure determined.
Judge Mayer in the Clearfeld county
court last week sentenced q man to two years
and three months to the penitentiary for
carrying concealed weapons. Make note
OF that you boys who have habit of lug
ging revolver around in your hip pocket
The principal feature at a meeting OF
the literary society of the Meadvllle High
School the other night was debate on the
question: Resolved, That the hpyocrite
does more damage to a community than a
liar"
After wtirl with the grip, says the Oil
City Blizzard, Uncle Billy Sullivan, aged
107 ears, is reported to be all right again.
1t is worth while to make a note of any
pointers on health thrown out by a man
like that. He says he owes his good health
and long life to minding his own business
and always treating his neighbors as he
would have them treat him.
At Pittsburg, Tuesday, Michael Scan :
FOn fell into the clay grinding machine of
a brick works and was ground to pieces.
In the Allegheny Co. Court, Wednesday.
Mrs. Christina j. Simpson filed her answer
to the divorce suit brought by Wilbert
Sim pson. She says that he left her in the
oil country, taking their child, and telling
her to sell their house. She sold the house
and came to Pittsburg. where she gave him
the money. He furnished her with no
home or support and she with her hus-
bands assent, got a room and received
men. From November. 1890, to March,
1891, he accepted and took from her vari-
ous sums of money earned by her. In
June 1891, she bought him a suit of clothes
with money thus earned. She got a board
ing place Tor their child. In 1891 Simp
sen went to work and now earns over 800
a month, but has failed to support her,
though she has been sick eight weeks
She says he is equally as guilty as her