Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1893-06-16
NEIGHBoRHooD NOTES.

The annual assessment of the business
tax of Pittsburg, shows that thirty firms
of that city did over a million dollars
worth of business during the past year.
The greatest business in the city was
done by the Csrnegie Steel Company,
whose assessment leads the list with $e,-
52S. .32S. After the Carnegie Company.
Jones and Laughlins takes second place
with $500, 600, and the Westinghouse
Electric Company has fourth place with
-. 600. 900. Dilworth lead the list of whole
sale grocers with s., 500, 600; t. c. Jenkins
as 81, ,496, 600; Allen Kirkpatrick, 81, 200,
600; johnson, Egye il Earl, 81, 10000 S.
Ewart & Co, 81, 900, 900; Hsworth d Dew
hurst, 81, 600, 900. The drygoods men az
ter Horne & Co. are led oy Arbuthnot,
Stevenson & Co. with So 009, ,5S4; the J. n.
Gusky Company, 50, 900, 900; J. Kaufman
& Bro, 81, 900, 600; N. II. Danziger, 81 900
600; Solomon & Reuben, 81, 900, 900.
GeoI ge Frederick MeAfoose and Mrs.
Caroline Cochran were married at Indiana
| Pa, Friday. The groom is ~ years old
and feeble almost to helplessness. TIC
bride is 6S.
At an election held by the Harmony So
| ciety last Thursday, three women were ell
&c ted members OF the board OF Elders.
The entries for the Fourth of July races
| at Tarentum close on the 9th. There
will be two 500 purses, and one $780,
Four safes were blown open in New Cas-
tie, Tuesday night.
The New Castle Guardian calls atten-
ton to the fact that one of the largest and
| best equipped tin plate mills in the world
pronounced by English judges to be the
equal of any of the Welsh establishments,
is practically completed in that place, and
| will be ready to start the second week In
July. The main building is $50 by 110.
| This building will be four mills and four
| sets of cold rolls, with room for four addi-
tional mills. On one side of the line of
rolls are four double heating furnaces,
while ON the other side are three sets of
shears connected to a single shaft driven
| by small engine. Four powerful cranes
are almost in line with the rolls. Beside
the rolling mill is a washhouSe, 392 feet
| long by 60 feet wide and % feet high under
the roof which will have twelve timing
stacks. with five rolling timing machines
and three annealing furnaces on the 'St.
| Louis" plan. y separate building 40 by 40
| feet is provided for the machine shop, in
which the rolls will be turned and the gem
| eral repairing done. A furnace for pile
heating it located just outside the mill. A
railroad will traverse all the chief depart
ments of the big plant This plant will be
started with between 200 and 300 skilled
workman, with the usual proportion of un-
| skilled labor.
The Marion Centre Independent says
| that p Ii. Danforth, the man who sw1nd-
| led Thomas Montgomery, the grain cradle
man of Armstrong county, out of Sc, 800
last summer, has been buncOed out of the
Newburgh, \. Y. Jail, where be was do
| ing time for taking New York farmer to
the tune of s., 1000. a short time ago q
man alleging himself to be U. S. Mar
| shall and having warrant for Danforth,
appeared in Newburgh and demanded the
prisoner Of the sheriff, saying he was want
| ed in New York for a big swindle. The
sheriff promptly turned the prisoner over
to the marshall, who lett with his man,
and neither marshall or prisoner have been
| heard from since. The marshall was q
well known crook and the warrant was a
| forgery.
| Lancaster county was visited by a storm
recently, and after it had passed by, lice
were seen in great numbers and covered a
| strip fifteen miles long and five miles in
width. The people are alarmed and meas
ures are being taken to destroy them. 4
| dispatch from Lancaster says:"The exterior
of buildings several miles away from the
| lice infected district in the eastern end of
the county were covered with strange lice
this morning, having been carried and
spread b. last nights heavy wind storm.
DR.. Weber, of this city, who was ordered
| to investigate the character of the plague
| by the State Board of Agriculture has
pushed his Investigation far enough to have
determined that they are not fleGS and that
they subsSt on starchy substances.
Last Monday evening just at dusk three
! men called at the residence of W. d. Byers
| at Pulaski nine miles north of New Castle,
aud got Byers from the house. Then two
pistols were placed against his face and he
was ordered TO throw up his hands. The
men then bound and gagged him, after
which they pushed him into an old she'd.
They entered the house AID ransacked it
from top to bottom, first tying Mrs. Byers
and other members of the family to beds
and chairs
The thieves secured revolver and only
So in money. 1t was daybreak before one
OF the members of the family could unite
himself and liberaJe the others.