Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1893-10-13
NEIGHBoRHooD NOTES.

OWING 70 the low price Va ~ASse' 5O'SA al
persons in Berks county who can afford
the outlay Of money hsve put up ware
houses for the storage OF grain, which they
are buying up at the prevailing price, ex-
pecting an advance later. Instances have
come to light where farmers have stored
up and have still on hand the wheat crops
of 81, 90 and '93.
A curious incident transpired some time
since at Harrisburg, in connection with
the renewal of the charter of the Indiana
| Deposit Bank. of Indiana, in which Judge
Harry White is largely interested. Among
| the different departments which have to
approve the extension of bank charter is
the auditor generals. When Judge White
| presented his application to Auditor Gen
eral Gregg, that official caused an examin-
alton of the records of the department to
be made. and found that the second in
stallmeut or bonus, which was due almost
nineteen years, had ne-er been paid. Be-
fore General Gregg would approve the ap-
plication, this amount, with interest for
nearly nineteen years-about s400-had to
be p4iu into the state Treasury by Judge
White.
\ wonderful spring is said to have been
discovered in the mountains about three
miles from Connellsville, Fayette county.
The effect of the water when drank is to
make one act as though under the influence
of liquor except that instead of being
quarrelsome and in a fighting humor, one
feels happy and inclined to laugh, sing and
dance. A sportsman found a crowd Of
hilarious Hungarians about the wonderful
spring. They let him drink Of the waters,
but swore him to secrecy as to its loca-
ton.
Another death from eating toadstools in
mistake for mushrooms is reported. This
time it is ". A. Van Brunt, ticket agent
of the P & n. r. R. at Bellwo od. He
was most excellent young man and his
death is lamented by a large circle OF
friends.
Albert George, a restaurant keeper OF
Kittanning, fired his revolver to brighten
some young men who were rolling empty
oyster tubs against the door of his place,
One of the shots struck Ralph Crum in the
back and he nearly bled to death.
James Goss, of Punxsutawney, has dog
that does not expire for ary slight or in
sufficient causes. One day about three
weeks ago this canine, whose name is Bob,
was run over by locomotive and appar-
entity killed. He was crushed and broken
almost beyond recognition. Life, however
was not extinct, for the automatic action
OF the sensory ganglia commonly called
breathing" was still kept up. But the
dogs friends pittied him, and believing
that he could not live, resolved to put him
out of his misery. Two executioners were
accordingly appointed, who took Bob to
the fair grounds. and shot him full of holes.
Then they started home, but they had gone
only short distance when one of them
happened to look around, and to their in
tense surprise, Bob was jogging along
after them. Having used all their car
tridges a club was procured and poor
Bob's head was beaten.into jelly. He
was dead this time, sure. And they left
him there alone and went their way. Two
days later, however. Bob turned up again,
and there was great rejoicing in the house
hold. He is living still and doing well,
and it would take a good deal of money to
buy that dog.
fount N the woods near Sharpsburg, Mon
day.
s.,aewall j. De France, the renowned
confidence man and crook who is in De-
troit under arrest and is wanted in ST. Paul
Minneapolis, Chicago, Kalamazoo and
indianapolis, and gho has grown wealthy
by means of his rascality, was born and
raised in Mercer, Pa. In 1888 he was en-
plOyed by Griffiths O. Son, firm of attor-
neys there as their law clerk A crowd of
tough drinking men were the young fell
lows associates, and ostensibly to break
away from them he went to Cleveland and
went to work as an amanuensis for Pane
rene, Hippard g. Davis, stenegraphers.
Hippard, now dead, was also from Mercer
A dispatch from New Castle says: The
judgeship fight in Lawrence county is al
ready on, and it promises to be most bit
ter one. heRepubliean candidates are
Judge Hazen, the present incumbent; Col.
Oscar L. Jackson and w. D. Wallace.
Each one has large following in the coun :
ty, and the contest will be close. Next to
the judgeship fight is that for sheriff. The
candidates announced are J. Ii. Brown,
chief of the New Castle Fire Department;
t. J. Garvin, J Milt McMillin, of the Big
Meadows Gas Company, ex-Deputy Sheriff
Lee Fulton, John Waddington, E. l..
Ayers, II. J. Emrey, Ephraim Frishkorn,
John Tillia, John Y. McCandless, George
D. Brown, Ersk Aiken and James McKe
1t is thought that there will be several
others to the field soon. For Congress,
Thomas W Phillips will probably have no
opposition. II. W. Griggsby and A. l..
Martin will ask to be returned to the Leg.
islature. Ex-District Attorney S. L. Nc.
| Cracken and D. n. Keast are also candi
dates. For district attorney Robert X
Aiken and Archibald Gardner have beer
| ann ounced