Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1893-04-07
NEIGHBoRHooD NOTES.

Inc ARRIVAL oil TWO steamboats, NJ Iltto-
burg, from southern ports lately, with III,
900 dozen eggs knocked, prices down IN
that market to 10 cents.
At Meadville, a young woman dropped
a s. gold piece into the slot OF the weigh
ing machine in the waiting room at the
Nypano depot. That young lady has GER
taiLly fallen into extravagant weighs.
Jacob Kroner, one of the Leechburg
suspects, was released from Jail at kittan-
ming on last Friday, and his bail was
10000.
The Spring elections in Ohio were held
on Monday of this week.
Great crowds watched the removal, last
week. of the famous Indian mound in Wal
nut Grove, near Martins Ferry, ONO, last
week The mound was 1I6 feet in diameter
and 80 feet high, and it was full OF skele-
tons, arrow and spear heads, flint cups, and
other Indian household and agricultural
implements.
Secretary Edge, of Il State Board OF
Agriculture, had been notified of the out
break of some unknown disease among the
live stock of Mr.. Griffin, near Mt. Pleasant,
Westmoreland county. and will leave to
investigate its nature and cause. The ami
ready the loss has been quite heavy.
The Higgins House in Bradford was
burned, early. Saturday morning. Five
persons were burned to death or drowned
in the creek, and twenty five more were
injured. at least two fatally. The fire
communicated to and destroyed the But.
falo. Rochester and Pittsburg depot,
freight house and A. J. Edgett's store,
occupied by Leroy d Waldo as a grocery
and feed store The fire started about
10 a. III. from q gas jet under coffee
boiler in the kitchen. Ed Pickard, the
night clerk, first saw the blaze. Instead
of making an attempt to extinguish the
flames he ran upstairs to arouse the sleep
ers He hammered upon all the doors IN
the second story and ran to the third,
where repeated the alarm. In moment
all was confusion. The house was filled
with smoke almost instantly and the tin
der like partitions and ceilings of the first
floor were soon in mass of flames. Of
tie hundred and more people who were a.
sleep in the house but a few escaped by
the stairway Those who were in the va
cinity, several railroad men, sent in an a
larm These men say that in a moment
after the fire started in the kitchen the
entire first floor was enveloped in flames
and the escape of those above was cut off
Many persons were seen at the window
who dare not jump, and those doubtless
lie buried beneath the blackened embers
of the ill-fated structure. A brisk breeze
was blowing from the south and soon the
flames had licked up the B. R & P tele-
graph and freight Office, the passenger
station and the freight sheds, as well as
some boxcars standing upon the siding.
Shortly after the buildings on the opDO-
site bank of tie creek from the hotel were
in flames. Leroy's grocery, Waldos feed
store and meat market burned IN the order
in which they stood. Mr.. Waldo's family,
the family of Mrs. A. Lyons and family
named Wilson were soon homeless.
William Arnold of Beaver Falls was at
tackled with a violent tOothache in a big
''double" molar. The man has dread of
dentists, and he could not be brought to
the point of having it pulled. Sunday the
pain grew into parOxysm of agony, and
while the man was writhing there was a
muffied explosion in his mouth, and the
next instant he was splitting blood and the
fragments of a tooth from badly lacerated
mouth.
Dentists who have been asked concern
ing the case, say that while the breaking
Of diseased tooth in such paroxysms OF
pain is very rare, still the case is not uu-
PARALLEL.
Tuesday evening, Allegheny witnessed
the most destructive fire that it has had
for many years. The Eberhart & Ober
Brewing Co.'S. ware house and elevator,
Godfrey Glark's paper house, Lowbridge's
silver plating establishment and two brick
tenement houses were consumed,
The Sun figures out that Tarentum peo-
pie pay SO, 900 a year for the support of
the gospel and SIS, 900 annually for beer.
L. A. Stunkard, farmer residing about
four miles north of New Castle, is the
owner of fine sugar camp which be has
had in operation this spring. Owing to
the high water Saturday he was compelled
to move his boiling kettels to a more ele-
waited spot A rocky ledge underneath
an overhanging cliff some distance from
NeshannOck creek seemed very desirable
situation and soon the apparatus for hang
ing kettles was in position and the fires
lighted. The process of boiling the sweet
sap bad continued nearly half day, and
MI: Stunkard was just congratulating him
self on being high and dry, when some
thing happened that seriously disturbed
his serenity. His attention was at first at
tracted by low kissing sound, and an in
distinct rattle, which gradually grew loud
er until from a crevice in the rocks above
the ire score or more of rattlesnakes
came rushing The heat of the fire had
brought life to their dormant bodies, and
the smoke blindes them so that they tumbl-
ed into the fire and kettles of boiling syrup.
Mr.. Stunkard seized club and succeeded
in killing IA of the reptiles besides those
those that were burned. lie was not long
in changing the location of the kettles
after the little episode, yet he is consoles
himself for the loss of the syrup by having
the satisfaction of telling the first snake
story of the season.