Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1892-01-22
NEIGHBoRHooD NOTES.

| The valuation of Allegheny county Is
over s4O0, 600, 600.
The Leader building on upper Fifth Ave.
Pittsburg was destroyed by fire last Fri
day night. The loss is put at 500, 900 and
insurance at $4,000.
In Sewickly twp, Allegheny Co. last
Thurs day, they had great time on the
| John Walker farm. Walker is the man who
claimed that his wife and son had bound
ana gagged and mistreated him because
he would not sign over his property. He
had advertised his personal property, con-
sisting of hay, grain, farming utensils etc,
for sale, and, accompanied by Constable
Patterson went to the place OF sale. Mrs.
Walker, her sons and a constable from
North Sewiekley twp. were on hand and
securely locked the doors of the parn and
other buildings and forbade the sale to go
on. There was great crowd present and
Walker seemed to have their Sympathies,
He seized.an ak and began smashing in the
doors, being heartily cheered at every
stroke of the ak His wife and sons sat on
the fence at distance and entered their
protests. Then the crowd began 10 divide
in its sympathy and excitement ran high.
Constable Patterson mounted haystack,
and made a speech. He was followed by
Walker. This flow of oratory overwhelm-
ed the wife and sons, and they finally al
lowed the sale to go on. As result the
pigs, sheep and personal property was
sold, the old man netting a neat sum.
The old Opera House at Parker was
burned early Wednesday morning of last
week. 1t was first built in the early seven
ties.
Another horrible crime was committed
in Somerset county the other night. The
shanty ofan old coal digger named John
Bittern, near Hooversville, was visited at
night by two young Irish miners, who
knocked the old man down, and while one
held him the other cut his mouth from ear
to ear aud his tongue almost out of root.
The wreches then went and told what they
had done, and were arrested and jailed.
When the students of Western Univer
sity, Allegheny, went to chapel last Thurs
day morning, they found skeleton in fe-
male attire and rigged up with wings. hang
ing by wire from the ceiling DR.. Hol.
lond was mad about it and after ascertain
ing who the culprits were, reprimanded
them severly-
A man is delivering to the Lake Shore
road at Oil City 5000 white oak ties cut
east of that place. At the present rate of
cutting. the time is not far distant when
white oak ties will be extinct in this coun-
try. Every tie means the death of a tree.
The replacement of this species of oak by
cultivation is a slow and difficult process.
David Glassburn, teacher of the Mines
school in Bullskin twp, Fayette Co., died
suddenly last Thursday. A year ago he
was kicked i'll the head by horse and his
skull fractured All his previous knowl-
edge deserted him, and after a years hard
work he was able to pass a teachers ex
animation. The mental strain was too
great, however, and last Monday he be-
came violently insane and continued up to
the time of his death. He was 80 years
old and leaves large family.
The following notice was printed in the
Monongahela City Republican few days
ago;
We disputed about two loaf of bread,
she say to John Vezzetti, Ego to the devil"
John says-"Go yourself, want to leave
you, because you say to me go to the devil
you 90 yourself When l got married to
you, had to pay six big Gags of beer, 1
will pay six more to leave you; L am all
right now. ri am as free as before, I am
young fellow once more" Thank you l
like it this way. l can find woman like
you as plenty as the stones on the railroad
track that 1 kick with my foot.
This is to warn all store-keepers, no
more to trust Felicia Vezzetti. l am much
obliged to you, Felicia, for going away.
JOHN VEzzETTI.
At Mercer, Monday, Judge Mehard
heard the arguments for and against the
granting of license. In Sharon and Green
vile the temperance people made no fight,
and the petitioners who in the former place
number IL and the latter five, filed their
largely signed petitions in addition to the
original petitions. In jamestown the ap-
plication is objected TO by very large ma
jority. In Stoneboro a majority is claimed
by both sides. In Sharpsville the petition
for the Knapp House is in the lead, and
that of the Pierce House 30 behind. In
Mercer j. W. Nickum, lessee of the Whist
Ter House, which has been without license
since 1888, filed petition of $50 names,
which is greatly in excess of any hereto
fore presented from this place, and the
temperance people had filed remonstrance
which, through technical errors, he hopes
to have stricken off, will place the petition
in the lead. The Judge is expected to file
his opinion the second Monday of Februa-
ry.