Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1893-03-24
NEIGHBoRHoop NOTES.

Y A singular case is reported to have been
4 brought in aJustice court at Nelson a few
I DAYS ago \ woman was charged viii
sending obscene literature through the
mails. At the hearing the evidence devel
/ oped the fact that her accusers had writ
/ ten the letter themselves and then tried q
/ fasteu It upon the defendant The woman
was discharged, and the prosecutors had
| the costs to pay
/ John Bruner, aged 10 years, an employet
/ Of Samuel Hamilton, music dealer, Pitts
| burg, attempted 10 jump off a moving
/ elevator and his clothes caught and be va:
| crushed 10 death between the floor and
| the elevator
The Cunningham block in Indiana Pa,
/ in which the postoffice was located was de
! strOyed 5y fire, last week
A few DAYS ego Mrs. Croneuweu, OF
Mansfield, o., was chatting with some call
ers. when large picture fell from the wall.
/ The sudden crash frightened her dumb,
and since then she has been unable to ar
ticulste, although every means known to
| science has been reSOrted to- Husbands
NAV find this scheme worth an experiment
providing they can stand the expense OF a
smashed picture frame
An Oil City man who wears a wooden
leg and is frequently in the hands of the
police f.r drunkenness ard GIsorderly con
duet was long a puzzle to the authorities
They would run him into the lookup, with
the expectation that be would be- at least
partially sober in the morning and ft to
discharge. The surprise came when they
found him at daylight drunker than he
was the night before. The secret was dis
covered few days ago. His wooden leg
was hollow and capable of holding a com
siderable supply of whiskey- In his soh-
tude and confinement, when he became
thirsty at night he would pull his leg and
take drink.
Andrew Stinson. of Beaver Falls. left
home in company with Nick " elsh, for the
purpose of going TO Pittsburg- The young
men boarded freight train and ct a point
near Conway, Stinson attempted to walk
over an ore car. In the center of the car
was an opening, through which the un-
fortionate young man fell That he was
not ground to pieces, seems almost mirac
ulous. Just how be escaped is not known,
but when found he was unconscious and
his right leg was crushed and terribly
mangled below the knee.
The New Castle papers have a queer re-
minder of the vOciferous and halcyOn days
of special legislation, before the present
State constitution was adopted, when al
most every bill that passed the LegiSla-
ture concealed q job of some kind or other.
II is in regard to one of these acts of sDe-
cial legislation that legal notice is not
given that the present Legislature will be
asked To repeal an act, so lar as il relates
to Lawrence county, entitled IAN Act to
reduce the expenses of collecting State and
county taxes in the county of Vensngo;
to incorporate TIE Greenville and Ohio
State Line Plank Road Co., and authorize
the appointment of an auctioneer in the
county of Lawrence" approved the third
day of April in the year of our Lord 1851,
which was extended to the counties of
Crawford and Lawrence by an act entitled
"An Act relative to the collection of taxes
in Crawford and Lawrence counties; to
authorize the Commissioners OF Erie coun-
ty to borrow mOney: relative to q State
road in Crawford county; extending the
time for completing the works of the Cen
treville Water Co. and relative to the
Justices of the Peace in Bedford county
With some slight additions it would seem
the old time legislators might have made
one act cover a whole sessions legislation.
The Leeehburg steel company and its
employees have presented Mrs VIM. C.
Shaffer, widow of the man who was killed
by the bank robber there recently, q check
for six hundred dollars. Shaffer was en-
plOyed in the mill at the time of his daath.
1t is understood the banking company Will
assume the payment of a debt of eight
hundred dollars on a house just erected by
Shaffer for his family.
The Western Penitentary received 10
new prisoners last week, and now hes a
coviet population of 923, the largest num-
Der in the history of the institution
However their are cells for several hun
dred more The ratio Of increase is not
in tNr-ss of the growth of population in
the western end of the state.