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

| Recently New orE saloon kee pei
I made the attempt 20 import bArmaids
/ from London. TO serve drinks Of the Eng
| lish style. Then it was that the power Of
woman in this country was exhibited.
| Twenty-four hours after the bArnaid
scheme was announced, kilograms and
letters had gone 10 the white ribbOners
urging them to concentrate against this
new outrage upon women. Their petitions
we're Immediately drawn up and issued by
Mrs. Mary c. Burt, president Of the New
York State W. c. T. e. and her sturdy
clan. % 600 women of the Embire State.
concentrated their efforts upon Albany and
law was passed prohibiting the hiring Of
women in the barrooms of that Common
wealth.
Postmaster Hollister, of the MeadvIlle
postofice, has been removed and Win. ).
Rose appointed in his stead.
At the late election, Mrs. Lindsay of Nc
Keesport was elected q school director on
q only female school director in Western
Pennsylvania.
Charges of defalcation have been made
against the Treasurer of Mexican County.
Since the licenses were granted in Sharon,
the hotel and saloon men have got together
and reduced the size of the beer glass without
making corresponding shrinkage In the
fee. This action has cast gloom over the
community.
Some of the money in circulation about
Mercer must be like the poets gold, "hard
to get and heavy to hold" as one of the
papers there reports the sale of 40 lambs
for $500 weighing 46l4 pounds. it is not
often that $500 weighs more than q couple
of tons.
The 3-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Gubbs of Sharpsburg met with a most sad
and painful death on Thursday night of
last week. She fell into kettle of boiling
slops and milk that had been heated for
pigs, which was standing in the back yard.
The child went To the back yard while her
parents were eating sup er. Out of curl
osity she orept TO the edge of the kettle
and peeped inside. She reached over too
far and fell into the boiling refuse. When
discovered by the father the child was
banging across the sharp edge of the
kettle. The flesh was almost roasted off
the head and shoulders, and not a spark of
life remained. The parents are almost in
sane from grief. The coroner has been
notified.
Frederick Sherman, of East Deer twp,
Allegheny Co, and whom his Reighbors
ChlA 10 LhO .UOllhlc
poorer than he was few days ago, and
two nice young men who boarded with
him for few days are that much richer
The two nice young men went there to
hunt; they had money maker with
them, and fooled ''bismark" into buying
il.
James Brodley, of Chester, lost his life
in a strange manner At the Wellman Iron
and Gfaal rnrEs Tho hos
appliance for loading coal into cars through
chutes. Brodley was on top of 400-ton
pile of coal. and when the chute was open
ed he was sucked into the chute and seven
ty tons of coal covered him over. Twenty
men worked for an hour to move the coal
pile, but when Brodley's body was recov
cred life was extict.
S. Gleitz and wife, of Tarentum attend
ed the funeral Of friend last Saturday af
ternoon, leaving their two children at
home. Two hours sfterward they arrived
home finding their two children in bed with
the bed in flames. Before the fire could
be extinguished the daughter, aged s years
was burned to death. There is no hope
for the other child. The children had been
playing with fire.
". B. Fultz, q travelling salesman for
r. G. Orr, the Liberty street grocer, was
found dead in bed in his room at the Key
stone hotel, Pittsbr rg, Saturday, with q
bullet hole in his head. At the hotel it
was stated by the proprietor that Faltz
was a comparative stranger to them, only
having stopped at the house twice before,
and on each occasion remaining from Fri
day until Tuesday.
sensation was created in Wheeling
last week by revelations affecting the
standing and reputation of Rev. J. T.
Chenowith, pastor of the North Street N.
E. church and one of the best-known min
listers of the state. Mr.. Chenowith is 60
years of age, the father of a family and has
been in the ministry of the Methodist
Episcopal church for nearly So years. He
is past grand chancellor OF the Knights of
Pythias OF West Virginia, and has occupied
numerous other positions of honor and
trust. Three years ago Mr.. Chenowith was
stationed at Fairmount, W. Va, as presid-
ing elder OF the Morgantown circuit. In
his congregation in Pallatlne, opposite
FairmOunt, was a handsome young lady
by the name of Floyd, a member of good
family and highly respected. Between
Miss Lloyd and Rev. Chenowith an ac-
quaintance was formed which gradually
ripened into friendship. Two years ago
the minister was removed from the charge
at Palatine and located in the pastorate of
the North Street church, one of the
wealthiest church organizations here Miss
Lloyd was an occasional visitor to Wheel
ing and Rev. Chenowith paid frequent visits
to her home. During these visits it is alleged
an improper intimacy sprang up between
them, which was continued through a con-
siderable length of time. The alleged
guilty couple paid frequent visits to small
towns registering at hotels as man and
wife. The young lady's family became
aware of the alleged facts in connection
with this intimacy and Rev. Mr.. Cheno-
with was confronted with statement of
the local Knights of Pythias lodge of
Palatine. In the face of the facts the ur-
fortunate man broke down, making q full
confession to the representatives OF the
church in this city and surrender ed his
Credentials as minister