Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1893-01-06


Tribune, this year, for 81 So
The chappies now consider it bad
form to turn up their pants when it rains
Did you ever hear Of a person who
made good New Year resolution and
kept itf
Some of the railroad conductors now
call ont Don't forget your han baggage
when the train stops.
1892 with it's Homestead riot, it's
cholera scare, and it's ta-ra-boom- de-aye,
has passed into history.
"A. d H. Reiber are already hauling
stone for their proposed new building on
Main st.
When q person considers himself as
zone Of thousand" he naturally regards
the others as cyphers.
The proposition of base ball people to
enlarge the diamond will put the hotel
clerk on his mettle.
The new year started out somewhat
chilly for the people of Harmony and Ze-
lienople whose supply of gas ran short
One or two OF the U. s. Senators are
In favor Of the members of the Senate
wearing gowns.
Mr.. ]. II. Morrison shipped 2700 bush
els Of buckwheat, this winter, from Har-
risville to Butler.
-Notwithstanding the fact that hun
irsds Of sleighs were brought to Butler for
this winter there is scarcity of them here
now.
I'm making up your resolutions for the
New Year, don't forget that one of the
best things to do Ii to square your sub
scription to THE CITIZEN.
The State Senate Of South Carolina has
passed bill providing for the dispensing
Of Gil liquors by officers Of the State and
doing away with the licensing system.
Hereafter the Jarecki will do the oil
we'll supply business in Butler, and the
Supply Co. in Harmony. The two com
psnies have divided the oil territory.
The mercury was five degrees below
Zero Monday morning. 1t was somewhat
foggy in Butler that morning, and down
1t Pittsburg it was 80 dark that some OF
the street cars burned their head lights all
dav, and the Sun appeared as you see it
through smoked glass.
a couple of Indiana Pa. citizens, re-
putable men and supposed to be as sharp
- they make them and always up to snuff,
were taken in by the green goods" SWIM
die to the tune of $500. There are green
people In the town az we'll as the country
While d. w. Forester of Franklin
twp. was tearing down the chimney of an
old house few days ago he found COP
per half cent piece, dated 1905. They are
entirely ont Of circulation now.
The Good People Of Chicago are be-
ing robbed right and left, in their homes,
on the sidewalks and in the street cars. by
burglars, footpads, roadagents and several
other varieties Of highwsymen, mounted
and unmounted.
Tho open air concert given by the
orchestra Of the Decker Bros. Minstrel
Troupe, ON the Diamond Saturday evening
caused very large crowd to assemble
around them, considering the weather.
Their music was excellent, and so also was
the entertainment that followed.
The plate glass business Of this coun-
try Ia already overdone, and the manuiac-
tursrs have entered into combination to
curtail the production. 1t is said that
plate glass cannot proftably be produced
cheaper than the present rates
Alta congregational meeting of the
English Lutheran church Of this place last
Sunday it was decided to sell the lot the
church owns on corner Of Centre and Zeig-
ler avenues, southside, it IL said to be
valusbls property.
-Nessrs Coulter d Baker, two of our
most capable and active young attorneys
have removed their Office to room "BD on
the second floor Of the Armory Building.
Mr.. Baker is now Secretary of the new
Gas 70. and also Of the Town Council, and
the firm needed more commodi0us quar-
ters.
Before Paderswski, the pianoist, had
set foot in New York on his new tour the
uo1n x.r 1.
amounted to $4,000. Pad. is truly the
great piano slugger Of modern times.
The annex to the Cambria County Jail
Immediately in the rear of the main
building-is completed. 1t is intended
exclusively for female prisoners. The
structure IL Of stone and brick, thirty by
thirty-two feet, two stories in height. The
basement story contains forty -horse-pow-
Or boiler, locomotive pattern, from which
the entire Jail is heated; coal bins. and a
dungeon. The latter is receptacle four
by six feet on the inside, walls of brick two
feet thick, laid in cement, solid iron door
and four two-inch air fues. Dangerous
ouo uuiuiJ pAicVbOio Will bC Ctnnucu Ill
this place until they are tanned.
On the second floor there is steel cage,
disconnected from the ceiling and narrow
corridor between it and the side and the
end walls. The cage is divided into six
cslls, eight by eleven feet, with grated
doors. There are two folding beds in each
cell. water closet. and wash basin with
cold water. Electric bells connect each
cell with the Wardefs office. The annex
is connected with the main jail building by
covered passage way sixteen by five feet.
The doors connecting with the main build
ing will be kept locked so that no one but
the warden, or those under his direction
can pass to and fro. The entire Jail build
Ing Is lighted by electricity-Er
The above is interesting from the fact
that an addition Of the same sort is needed
to the jail of this county.