Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1893-12-22
NEtoHBoRHooD NOTES

Angelo Zappe was executed IN the yAru
of the Pittsburg jail, last Thursday. Inc
execution passed Off quietly; death seemed
TO be sudden and painless, and the body |
was buried without a mourner, IN tue
county lot in St. Mary's cemetary
The banking house of r. Patrick & Co on
Fifth Ave Pirtsburg, closed its doors last
Thursday noon. An assignment was made;
and notice was given that depositors would
be paid in full.
At Beaver Falls, Friday, two Hungarlans
ouarreled at their boarding house, ana one
shot and killed the other at the supper
table.
Near Chestnut street station, Friday,
Jno. Kennening of Allegheny, threw olm-
self under P. & W. EXPRESS and was
ground to pieces.
William Sheridan, an election judge,
of Philadelphia, pleaded guilty to violating
the election laws At the election IN Feb
ruarv last he refused to allow John. b.
Middleton, a watcher for the Prohibition
marty to remain in the booth He was
fned 500 and given 80 DAYS in jail, the
sentence carrying with it disfranchlsement
for four years.
Geo. Hasinger Frank and John O'Hara
and Joe Nesbit, all of Indiana, Pa, went
ont to the woods to kill few dozen raoolts
one day last week They got along pretty
we'll until they struck the farm OF MI
George Row, mile or two outside OF town.
Here the dogs along with the hunters IN
atead of attending strictly to business
made a raid on Mr.. Rows sheep They
succeeded, before being chased of, IN XIII
| ing a couple of the finest in the hJek MI
| Row heard the racket and got To the nelu
| in time to be in AZ the death OF the sheep;
| The hunters, after the dogs were rsken OH
the sheep, left on short notice; but MI
| Row is a good runner and overlook one OF
them and proposed a basis Of settlement,
which was that as the hunters would pay
SO 75 each all would be forgiven. The
| bows concluded that the best thing to 90
| was to pay the bill, which they did. They
| aver that the next time they go hunuhg
they will go without dogs, as the other way
is trihe too expensive.
There is every indication that the disease
known as epizootic or influenza, now pre-
| walls in this vicinity says the Indiana, Pa,
| Messenger Numbers of horses have re-
Gently died in the county, and veterinary
surgeons are kept busy treating the disease,
which seems to be of a peculiarly mallg-
nant character DIR. Miller advises the
| greatest care of horses both before and
after being attacked. They should be kept
warmly stabbed and bl nketed in chilly,
raw weather; carefully and thoroughly y
groomed, fed with clean hay and grain and
the bowels kept in regular condition
| Upon tie first symptoms of the disease
running at the nose and trembling rigors
ur chills-pronipt medical treatment shoulo
be at once commenced.
| Vim. Jones and J. A. Davidson were
arrested in Pittsburg, Sunday, and ldentl
tied as the men who robbed the statloI
agent at Groveton, They are believed U
be the men VINO murdered young Farrestel
of Worthington On Monday they admit
ted their guilt as to robbing the railroad
station but denied all knowledge OF Far
rester's death.
A Beaver woman set tightly lidded car
of water on the stove the other day. w heI
she went TO remove it, carrying at tn'
same time lighted lamp, the can explod
cd, the fragments striking the lamp &nt
breaking it, The oil took fire, the woman
dress in a moment was IN flames and every
particle of clothing was burned from he
| body and the corpse badly charred.
three months child was, also severll
burned
lanes Kennedy, P. N. at Tarentum, wa
l
night.
Mrs. J. G. Haser, wife of the wellknowr
wealthy liveryma and undertaken at Mill
vale, committed suicide by hanging AM
shouting herself, Monday morning. Atte
her husband had gone to his stables MIS-
/ Ha,er told her four children, who were a
| breakfast, that she was going To feed tn
chickens moment later the crack OF
rav,,Iv.r attracted attention. and the life
. iess body of the woman was found swing
3 ing from the rafter of an outbuilding Tn
r bullet had entered the right temple an
death had been instantaneous.
A l6-year old lad named Harry Straw
burn, OF Lawrence county, went out hunt
ing lately, and not returning at suppe
' time, his family became uneasy, and
, searching party was organized To look 10
I him. About 10 O'clock that night the
c fuuud his gun leaning against hollow 10
in a neighboring woods, and shortly afte
: his feet were seen protruding form the los
: An ak was procured, the log was split opel
, and the boy taken home almost dead. ii
) had wounded a rabbit. 1t ran into the lo
> and he crawled in after
\ and caught it by the leg
i When he attempted to get out he fonn
2 he was so tightly wedged in that he coul
not do so. He soon became unconsiou
! and would have died had it not been fo
r the searching party.
a George Harvey, former citizen of TAI
, entum, was sentenced to the penitentlar
e on Tuesday of last week for 9 years and
months. He was one of the five scoundrel
I who tortured au old lady at Coraopolis al
: robbed her of large sum Of money.