Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1893-04-21
NEIGHBoRHooD NOTES.


Miss Lloyd, has been convicted BIZ a church
court, and will be expelled.
A four year-old eolored girl by the name
of Jackson, of Ford City, while playing on
Saturday last, krocked over a loaded shot
gun and the contents were discharged into
her bowels, from the effects of which she
died in q few hours.
The Health Inspector OF Allegheny Co.
captured sixty "bob" veals at the East
Liberty yards, last week.
Pink-eye. disease more to be dreaded
than ridiculed, is raging among people in
some OF the interior counties OF this State.
One of the Pittsburg papers, the Dis
patch is performing an unpleasant but
much needed service in showing up the ex-
ecrable nature of the water used in that
city. The supply is taken from the Ale
gheny river. The Dispatch has made in
vestigations as far up as Kittanning, and
has developed q list of contaminations
which show the water OF Pittsburg to be
about the vilest fluid that man could use.
For example, at FreepoTt the refuse from
1,500 animals in the cattle pens IS daily
dumped into the stream. The drainage
of acids from paper mills at other points
is SO rank that it kills the fish in great
numbers. Then there's the drainage from
oil refneries all along the stream, TO say
nothing of the drainage from dozen towns
such as Parker, Emlenton, Franklin, Oil
City, Titusville, Warren, 0lean, Bradford.
DC.
The biggest potato patch in Pennsylvania
this summer. will be on d. W. Zeller's
farm, near Lebanon, and will cover fifty
acres.
The great Singerly steer Prince Victor,
fed and fattened by Jason Sexton, in Mont
gomery county, is now on exhibition at the
market, Arch Street, below 11th, Phiadel-
phia, previous to his shipment to the
Worlds Fair, Chicago. His actual weight
is 3, $50 pounds, six years old, height, six
feet two inches, girth. ten feet nine inches,
length from root of ear to end of rump, ten
feet.
Pittsburg and Cleveland capitalists are
considering wonderful project. They
propose to connect the two cities with an
electric railroad and propose running il
over county roads and making almost q
straight line, making the distance but liz
miles, and think that they can run al
the rate of about 100 miles an hour.
The T. H. Nevin paint and white lead
works, three story brick building at the
corner of Island and Preble avenues. ALE
gheny was partially destroyed by fire Sat
urday. The fire broke out in the screening
room at the southeast corner of the second
floor of the building and spread rapidly to
the white lead drying and paint mixing
rooms, which were burned out. The
flames were confined to these departments,
the color department and Office rooms be-
ing saved. The loss is about $50, 900, on
which there is $50, 900 insurance.
Chester County, Pa, has been enjoying
very lively breach of promise case
Plaintiff is a gay schoolma'am and defend
ant is son of the president judge OF the
district. She testified that she met him in
May last; he called almost every day, took
her rding very numerously, proposed in
August, brought her silk stockings and
CATERS from Europe, and finally married q
Chicago girl. The usual sickening love
letters figure, Of course. The cross-exam-
ination brought out the fact that the fair
plaintiff smoked cigarettes and drank
whiskey. This drove the defendant to the
desperate length of marrying a Chicago
girl.
j. b. Brawley, of Meadville, didn't drop
into sinecure wheh he got the appoint
ment of Sixth Auditor Of the Treasury. II
is one of the most arduous positions in the
Government service. For $4,000 q year he
will have to do more work than Commits
sioners of Pensions and Internal Revenue
who receive Sc, 900 each. The thousands
upon thousands of postoffice accounts, o
every description and every degree of ac
curacy and inaccuracy, have to be audited
IN the Office over which he is placed. lie
will have over 500y clerks directly under
him, and he will need the constitution OF g
horse to stand the strain.
A new Law and Order Society is report
ed for Pittsburg It's object is to stop la
Dor OF all kind on Sunday, and proposes &c
commence on the big mills, bridges, street
car lines, undertakers. A detective of tho
new organization visited the Carnegie mill,
Sunday, and serveral hundred informations
were lett with an Alderman of the city.
A disease which causes the eyes Of poul
try To drop out Is alarming berks county
poultry raisers.
A young man named Edward Seigle was
drowned in the Shenango, near New Gas
tie, Sunday, while attempting to cross in
rickety boat.
Mrs. John Budner, of Beaver Brook
near Blairstown, n. J., gave birth TO four
children on last Thursday morning. Two
of the babies were boys and two girls. Mrs
Budner is the wife OF young farmer and
is but l6 years of age. Both mother and
children are doing well.
At Burgettstown Wednesday night John
Perry beat his old mother insensible and
then, as he was leaving the house, turned
and fired three shots al her as she lay on
the floor He was jailed at Washington
Thursday. The woman is 81 years old and
will probable die.
At Ebensburg yesterday the Court re-
voked the license Of W j. Cannon of Cone
maugh because it had been shown that
Cannon had given his 3-year-old son whisky
TO drink
A farmer in Fayettc county, last week,
fell asleep under a tree. While slumber-
ing, with his head against the tree, his dog
got after large gray squirrel, which, in
its haste TO reach place Of safety, jumpe d
into the farmers mouth, taking IL for a
knot hole. The farmer, not being used to
raw game, disgorged the animal with an
effort and it is said has not fully recovered
yet.
Saturday night, George Martin, one OF
the policemen Of Carlisle, Pa, while in the
performance of his duties. was instantly
killed by some unknown dcsperado, the bull
let penetrating his heart, from which he
died in few minutes. The evidence gath
cred and the description of the murderer
plainly show that Charles Salyards, a no.
torious burglar, who has served at least
twenty years of his life in the Eastern Pen
itentiary and jails, is the man who commit
ted the murder. The town council offered
n reward of $500, which will be followed
by the county commissioners offering $500
more for hig arrest.
About one year ago "Dick" Smitten,
son Of John Y. Smitten, of Jefferson Co.,
who was confined in the insane asylum at
w arren, succeeded in escaping from that
institution and returned home. From gen
eral appearance il looked very much as
though the young man had rcgained all of
his mental faculties and no effort was made
TO have him returned to the asylum. Dur
ing the twelve months he has been at lib
erty the Young man has been industrious.
and has worked whenever opportunity Of
fered His latest venture. that Of stealing
4 horse will result In his being iucarccrat-
sd at Warren. A few days ago he appro-
Driated an animal belonging to farmer
lear Marchand and taking it TO Anita, pre-
Ientcd the horse TO n boy whose parents
le remained over night with. Suspicion of
he theft pointed strongly TO Smitten and
10 was arrested in Dubois, and upon be.
ng interrogated made no Genial OF his
guilt. bnt was unable to tell where he had
eft the horse, only recollecting that be
iad presented the animal To boy. After
iome difficulty the owner succeeded in 81
,uring his steed, and now everything has
,ceu gatisfactorily Rcttled