Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1892-08-19
NE1aHBoRHoop NOTES.


Near Carmichaels, Greene Co, Pa,
Thursday, Thomas Morgan shot and killed
his father, John Morgan, because he wish
ed to re-marry.
At the Horseshoe BeEd, Thursday, a
deserter from the regular army, under
arrest, jumped from the car window and
was killed.
The wife of James Watson, OF Roekland,
Venango Co, committed suicide, by shoot
ing herself, last Thursday.
Eighteen thousand Lutherans attended
| the picnic at Idlewild Park last Thursday.
In Pittsburg. Sunday, an Italian set fire
to a residence because the hired girl would
not marry him.
The brush factory in the Huntingt on re-
formatory was burned last Saturday.
There are now about 80 students at the
Tionesta Keely Institute. The ladies OF
that place are preparing to give grand
picnic for the benefit and enjoyment Of the
students and their friends.
bank in Edinboro, Erie county, has
purchased the safe used by the Delamater
bank in Meadville. Hope it will hold its
contents better than under former auspices.
Amour d Co., the Chicago meat firm
has broken ground in Altoona for the
erection of the largest iceing station
in the world. The structure will store at
least I2. 600 tons of ice, and 20 -cars can be
given two tons each in less than. two hours.
The station at Williamsburg will be aband-
oned.
4 farmer named Thomas, who lives near
President, Venango county, planted quite
a large tract of land in tobacco and raised
GOO pounds of fine quality which found a
ready market at Is cts. pound. The
Tionesta indicator says that next
season Mr.. Thomas will increase the acre
age of tobacco plants, and number ofoth-
er farmers will 60 into the business, as 1t
is more profitable than raising potatoes at
40 cents per pushel.
In Allegheny, Monday evening, two
sisters, one married and one single, met
two men in the Park, during the concert.
They walked up to the top of Monument
Hill .ito see Mars" The unmarried sister
and her companion fell over the precipice,
and the girl was killed while the man es-
capped with a broken leg. The accident
revealed to the bethrothed of the girl, that
she had engaged in O Irritation with a
stranger, and to the husband of the mar
ried woman that she had done the same.
The girls lover was present at her death
bed, and the woman's husband will apply
for divorce.
This is frstrate weather for a story
about a frozen snake. Robert Hanna, who
handles the Conneaut Lake ice in Mead
vile, receives it in cakes weighing about
200 pounds. While handling one of these
he observed in tie centre of the cake
large water snake, artistically coiled and
apparently frozen solid. The cake was
split open and the snake removed, a work
which required careful management, as the
reptile was frozen fast to the ice. After
inspecting the snake to their satisfaction,
it was thrown out or pile of sawdust, in
the sun, and in less than an hour it began
to show signs of life, finally uncoiling it
self and crawling away. The cake of ice
in which the snake was discovered was
cut last January, hence the reptile was
frozen solid for a period OF about seven
months.
Meadville milkmen tried to work a milk
preserVative on their customers, but the
latteriwould not have it. The Journal says:
Contrary to their usual custom of deliver
ing milk twice day to their customers
during the warm weather, this season the
Milkmen Of Meadvilie inaugurated new
plan and continued to 20 their rounds, but
cold weather. The milk delivered was at
first was inno way dissimilar inquality from
that unusually furnished except that after
standing twenty-four hours it did not sour.
But what was just as bad, however, when
used in coffee and tea, it took on a curdled
appearance. There was no pereeptible
difference in the taste of the fluid but it
was evident something was wrong. The
fact soon leaked out thet the milkmen
were using some sort of a preservative
known as "Preservaline," and by this
method were able to save one trip day,
which meant considerable saving to them
and increased the profits of their business.
A majority of their customers, however,
protested vigorously and in many cases
ceased to procure their supply ofthe lacteal
fluid from the yenders. As a consequence
of this action on the part of their custom :.
ers the milkmen were forced to abandon
the use Of 'Preservaline" and are once more
making their rounds twice day. While
it is claimed by the milkmen the use of
"Preservaline' is entirely harmless, the
majority of the consumers perfer to use
the unadulterated product and their prompt
action in refusing to purshase milk which
has been dcctored has had good effect