Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1892-04-29
NEIGHBoRHooD NOTES.

The oratorical association of the New
Wilmington College, has appointed 3
committee to meet the faculty and demand
from that body the names of the sly
1 students charged with being implicated II
the Maggie Rutter scandal, and TO know why
these students were obliged to leave col
| lege The sophomore, Junior and senior
classes haye prepared petitions asking the
| faculty to reinstate the students who were
requested not to attend the present term
The faculty is in delicate situation. The
parents of the lady students threaten tc
take their girls from the college If the
Young men return, and the fathers OF the
| young man now attending Will likely re
| move their sons unless some satisfaction i
vouchsafed by the faculty
The store of C. Morgan, in Parker, was
robbed few nights ago.
The residence of Henry Coyle, in south
| Buffalo twp Armstrong Co, was totally
destroyed by fire on Tuesday afternoon OF
last week Most of the furniture was
saved from the burning building.
Jordan Mair, a lunatic, was struck
several blows over the head last Thursday
by CASTOR Burns, wealthy farmer, OF
| Lawrence Co., by whom he was employed.
MAR " i'll die and Burnes was arrested and
released on 81, 800 bail.
W. Madison Walker, the most notorious
horse thief probably Pennsylvania has
ever turned out, and for whose arrest large
rewards have been standing for several
months, was taken last Saturday after a
| desperate struggle. His captors are two
| farmers who caught him at his mother 5
residence in Blair county. Walker Is
about 45 years old, and has already served
| eight years in the western penltentlary
for horse stealing since the war. lie Is
credited with having stolen in all thirty
two horses.
Counterfeit So bills are flooding Johns
town.
| Captain Hatfield. the leader of the Hat
field gang of West Virginia, whose record
of murders is probably second to none in
| this or any other civilized country, has
met his fate. Baftsmen from the head of
/ the Tug fork of the Big Sandy say that
while engaged in a game of cards at his
home in the mountains Of Logan county,
with some of his boon companions, the
| Captain, being big winner, was accused
of cheating. This brought on row and
brought out pistols. The firing was pro-
miscuous, but the captain was finally laid
| low by two bullets in the heart, fired by
4 X.
brothers was among the card party.
At Clarion, the last four days of last
week and first two OF this week were occu-
pied in Court in the trial of the cause OF
| the Commonwealth VS.. Theo. Ansel, in
dicted for the murder of his uncle, Godfrey
| Ausel The men lived in the same house
near Edenburg and on the 23d ult, God
| frey came home drunk, in company with
| another man, and attacked Theo. in his
| own kitchen; and Theo. struck him blow
with club, the blow causing his death in
day or two after. The jury acquitted him.
At Dennison, o., Monday, George Moore
Panhandle railroad man, killed his wife
and Edward McClelland, saloonkeeper,
and then committed suicide. He suspect
| ed improper relations between his victims.
| Miss 'Holt a fascinating young lady OF
| Raymilton, Venango county, pumps four
oil wells. She fires up, runs the engine,
and delivers the oil into its respective
tanks just as well as any male man in
the oil country
Thos. b Simpson, of Oil City, lost his
valuable brown PAGER, Aaron, by a singu-
| lar accident. In company with two ladies
he started to drive to Franklin via the Deep
Hollow road Near the city limits, a dog
ran barking in front of the team and the
PAGER struck at it with both feet. Moth
ing was thought of the accident at the time
but in a few minutes the horse went
lame He was unhitched and taken to a
| field alongside the Hays Farm school
| house Mr.. Simpson hired q horse and
drove the ladies home. When he return
ed he found the PAGER unable to stand and
one hoof was bent back to the shin bone.
| 1t was deemed necessary to put the
horse out of misery, and so he was chloro'
| formed and shot. The horses feet were
| dissected, and it was found that both front
| hoof's We're dislocated. 1t is thought that
in striking the dog the horse strained the
joints and the drive down the small hill
completed the dislocation.
VIM. Kennedy, Republican, was elected
Mayor of Allegheny. Tuesday, A very
light vote was polled.
Near Elizabeth, Allegheny Co., James
Gilkey, sick in bed and watched by two
men, cut the arteries of his left wrist and
bled to death.
A six-year. old daughter of Jno. Turner,
of Rostraver township. Westmoreland
county. was burned to death last Wednes-
day. Her clothes caught fire in the garden
where her father was burning rubbish.
An Indiana county man recently went
TO New York and was swindled out of $34C
by green goods" men. He is a man oi
family, but has never subscribed for q
county paper.
A case Of small-po discovered in g
crowded tenement quarter is Phittsbure
has excited the authorities of that city
and the health officers are busy. with theii
vaccine quills.
Alex. Burket, of Kittanning, is anxious
to know of the whereabouts of his sor
Frank, who left home last May, and has
been heard from but once since. He is 10
years of age.
The largest elephant ever taken into
captivity reached Pittsburg lately ovel
the Pennsylvania Railroad He was ell
route for Kansas City. He was landed in
Jersey City from the steamer City of Bang
kok, having been shipped from Rangoon,
an East India port. He is known as Ra-
jah and measures ii feet, III inches, o.
about two inches more in heighth the ia
nous Jumbo. Gondola car of 10000
pounds capacity was arranged for hi
transportation, as the ordinary cars would
not accommodate him. A Panhandle
freight brakeman will have good reason t'
remember Raiah q trip through Pittsburl
ON account Of little incident which oc
cured in the freight yards Rajah's cal
was placed on the front of the train anC
while the brakeman was in the act o
coupling the engine to the train the ele-
phant gave him gentle tap on the iact
with his trunk. The brakeman beat 1
haSty retreat and no amount of persuasion
would induce him to resume his position
On Friday night of last week Harvey Ii
Shrk a well-known young man of Ian
caster fell out Of bed while sleeping at thu
county hospital and broke his neck, caus'
ing his Immediate death.
| Youngstown girl has become insane
through morbid love for cat, and the
authorities have removed her to thG
ssy lum.
In western Crawford disease with
symptoms like the grip in the human fam
lily, has attacked the sheep, and many ar
dying.
Potatoes are glut in the market in the
northern districts of Berks and Lehigi
counties. They are selling at 20 cents
bushel.
1t is likely that the 10000, 900 brick
needed to build the State Insane Hospita
at Wernersyille will be manufactured from
clay taken from the building site.
Very low prices on Fine Umbrel
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