Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1894-06-15
NEIGHBoRHooD NOTES.

Worms by the millions are devastating
| orchards in Allegheny county. A Pitts
| burg paper says that the little creature
/ that is playing havoc among the trees is
popularly known as the measuring worn.
| When the warm starts on its mission OF
destruction it is a bright green color, SC
| that it is almost impossible TO detect it on
the fresh leaves After it has gorged itseli
| the color becomes almost black. Hun
dreds of apple trees have been denuded oi
every vestige of foliage and the trees are
left brown as though fire had passed
| over them.
Lafayette Boyd of Rimersburg was ar
rested on a charge of arsen last Friday,
week, and taken to Clarion, where he gave
bail for his appearance at court, in Sc. 600.
He was one of the proprierors of the AL
bion store.
A jeweler in Oil City has cased up the
presence of loaiers in his doorway by
posting this sign in the window: Head
quarters for Coxey recruits in this door
way"
Nearly all the family of James Perry, of
Cranberry twp. Yenango Co. have died of
diphtheria, and a stranger is now nursing
Mr.. Perry and his wife, both of whom are
down with the disease, as its dangerous
nature and swift work made the neighbOrs
afraid to enter the house. Mr.. and Mrs.
PERI and the remaining children We're
moved TO another house, nearby, and their
old homo and everything in it were de-
stroycd by fire.
Samuel Delehanty, Blair Co. prisoner
in the Western Pen, cut his throat with q
knife during music hour. last Monday.
Samuel Spencer, 80 years old, residing
at Hartford, O., wealthy farmer and a
prominent member of the G. A R., hang
ed himself from a beam in the barn day.
1t is said that Spencer's mind become at
fected several days ago by an old sweet
heart rejecting him.
Solomon Hook, who lost the Jury Com
missionership through detention by the
flood, with several committeeman, peti
toned Chairman King for a recount of the
vote at the primaries TIE petition was
ignored, and Hook will now contest the
nomination of Davis in the courts of Arm
strong county.
A case in which a man who is not ply
sician stakes his liberty upon the cure of q
Mrs. 1uttle, the wife of former will
known citizen of Butler county but now of
Beltzhoover, was brought to the attention
OF the district attorney of Allegheny Co,
last Monday. Mrs. TGttle has been at
tended by number of physicians, but she
has obtained no reliet and they say she
will not live longer than q few weeks.
L. Moore, an itinerant medicine man, re-
Gently moved to Beltzhoover examined
Mrs Tuttle and said she was suffering with
cancer of the stomach and that he could
cure her. The doctors heard of him and
decided to prosecute him under the act
any person other than physic-
ian practicing medicine, if he undertook
the case.
Mr. Tuttle waS anxious that his wife
should be treated and called on the district
attorney tor advice. AS the case would
hay to be prosecuted by the district attor
ney, he was told to see another lawyer.
Moore said he is willing, if he can find a
bondsman, to take the risk, as he says no
ury will convict him if he cures the wo-
man The outcome of the case is being
watched with interest by lawyers and
others who heard of ii.
At the Adrian mines, near Punxsutaw-
ley, Slavs decided to kill COW which
one of them owned, but had no money to
pay butcher. They tied the animal be-
.ween two trees, so it could not move
md sawed off the head at the shoulders. |
rhe cows believing could be heard for
niles.
The destitution among the miners in |
he Clearfeld coal region is terrible. At
Phillipsburg, the other day, Mrs. Dobbs, |
. widow, who lived among the miners, |
vas found dead in her bed from starvation. |
She bad four children, the youngest only |
four months old. Her eldest boy, mere
ad had made gallant fight to feed his
mother and the other children, until the
works were shut down. The mother had
denied herself that the children might
1ave food. The woman was too proud to
accep public charity.
Franklin man got his safe opened by
an ,,ert who set the combination aud
gave 1t to him on a slip of paper. The
owner then put the paper in the safe and
locked it up, so he wouldn't lose it.