Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1892-12-30
NEIGHBoRHooD NOTES.

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| Miss Mccullough, who clerked in his store
here, and put some letters and presents on
evidence. She got her divorce, and the
the youngstown store
The biggest owl out of doors was killed
in Indiana County lately. 1t was of the
horned variety weighed 3s pounds and
measured II feet from tip to tip.
An evidence of the neighborly, fraternal
feeling of that religious people known as
the Amish, who live in sections of of Berks
and Lancaster counties, and considerable
number in Mercer and Lawrence counties
was witnessed recently. The wife, two
| daughters, and two sons of David 5. Byier,
| a well known farmer of the Conestoga Val
ley, have been critically i'll for over TWO
months and unable To assist in farm work.
| Nearly one hundred persons, male and
female, visited the Byler homestead, set to
work with a will and before sundown 1000
| shocks of corn were cut and husked and
over 200 bushels of corn stored in cribs.
At noon a famous country dinner was par
taken OF and in the evening they drove
home, some fifteen and eighteen miles.
Nearly every Amish family in the Conesto-
ga and Pequea Valleys were represented
in the party.
Sharon and Sharpsville, il Mercer Co.,
are now connected by street railway,
four miles long.
At Uniontown last Saturday, Jack Ram
sey, one If the leaders of the Cooley gang.
was sentenced to 10 years in the peniten-
tiary. David, another member of the gang
got 81 years and Martin 3.
On Saturday last Judge Ewing of Pitts
burg put the affairs of the Order of Scion
in the hands OF a receiver. Rev. Coovert
applied for Il release from the hospital
At Wilmerding last Saturday night,
John Purdey was burned to death in the
lookup.
A dispatch from Kittauning dated Dec.
23d, stated that R. B. Ivory, of the law
firm os Hunter, Ivory & Beatty, of Pitts
burg, was defendant in a suit in court this
week brought by DR.. C. J. Jessop, of Kit
tanning, to recover 81 900 Jessop alleges
that he purchased for $1,000 in 1889, 100
shares of stock in the Cold Rolled Steel
Wheel Co from Ivory, upon promise that
if any time he was dissatisfied with the
stock, Ivory would refund the money with
interest
The story of the plaintiff was corroborat-
ed by Walter Sturgeon, druggist, S. L.
Cochrane and James Heilman lumber deal
| er.
The allegation of Jessop was denied by
Mr. Ivory in toto and his story waScorroh-
GRATED by his partner John A. Beatty, sec
retary and treasurer, and d T. Mckee, Of
Pittsburg, president of the company. The
jury gave the plaintiff a verdict of $l,2o8.
The result is of great intere: t to stock
holders in Greensburg, Butler, Indiana,
Clarion and Pittsburg.
Last Thursday afternoon the American
| House in Indiana, Pa, was discovered To
be burning. and before the fire partnent
arrived the flames, famed by strong
| wind, communicated with the Thomas Ho-
i tel adjoining. Both are three story struc
tnras. the fnrmer being brick and the latter
| frame At 3 o'clock the situation had be
| come SO desperate that il was feared the
| whole block, running from Railroad Ave
/ nue. Ia Seventh street, would be consumed.
| Bairsville was teiegraphed To for assist
| ance. ana 80 minutes later arrived with
two hose companies, having made the run
of l6 miles in 20 minutes.
That evening the flames were got under
1 RI
! destroyed.
To decide whether Richard M. Reese
was murdered or committed suicide is puz-
zling officials aud persons who knew hlaI
| III three counties, though verdict ot SUI
eide on behalf of Allegheny county was
rendered last Tuesday. Reese was an en-
| gineef at the Watson Coal Company
| Works. at Watson He was found in his
engine house with bullet in his head and
a revolver by his side yesterday morning.
His brother was found dead under equal,
| mysterious circumstances three months
ago and three brothers Of girl, with
| whom he had had trouble are awaiting
trial in the Washington Jail The Reese
family is alleged to be the object of re-
veuge of gang of their friends. Richard
NJ. Reese was the hero of an unfortunate
love affair himself. and the suicide verdict
was amply warranted by the facts brought
| out at the inquest His friends will, how
ever, push az investigation to determine
if ne could have been murdered
There are Eog pending in Potter County
and two other northern tier counties of the
State forty-six divorce cases in different
stages OF litigation, and in Tioga County
there are now Brooklyn pay scian,
well-known actress, the wife of a we'll
known New York State politician, New
| York city Merchant, two women from
Buffalo, a coal operator OF Albany,
| Brooklyn broker, the daughter of CON
spicnons preacher of New York State, and
Lake Erie steamboat captain, gaining
residence Tor the purpose OF beginning pro-
ceedings of divorce. 01t of the twenty
two DEGREES of divorce granted by the
courts of Northern Pennsylvania last
month, twenty were to people WHO came
from New York State especially for di-
| vorceS The strict marriage law of this
State sends hundreds of couples over the
New York border tn get married IN that
State and, to even things up. the strict
laws of New York sends hundreds of
complies over the Pennsylvania border to
get unmarried in this State.
John Urben window glass blower OF
the S. c., Pittsburg, disappeared some
time ago His friends hunted for him
high and low but no clue could be found
SIS to his whereabouts Two or three days
after his disappearance the employees of
the glass house noticed horrible stencil,
but could not tell from whence 1t came
Finally watchman thought of going into
pit under the tank. Lantern III hand, he
slowly made his way into the gloomy re
cesses of the pit, the horrible smell becom-
ing worse as he proceeded. After going
short DISTANCE be picked up a hat, which
WAS subsequently found to belong to
Michael Pastorinus, who had loaned it to
Urben At last, directly under the tank,
be found what remained of the unfortu
nate man. He summoned assistance, but
when they tried TO lift it up it fell to
pieces 1t was literary roasted, as well as
being badly &, composed. A undertaken
| placed it in coffin. and the crroner's jury
that sat upon the body returned verdict
ot death by suffocatiOn The body was in