Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1894-08-30
NEIGHBORHooD NOTES.

Squirrels are appearing in large numbers
in parts of Forest county.
The grasshoppers are damaging the
growing buekwheat in portions oil Eric
county
The Coroner's Jury in the case of VIII
liam Miller, of Mercer, the Y. D Bank
Examiner; returned that Miller took his
lite with his own hand, and whether by
intent or accident, they were unable to
say. Gardner, the cashier of the Altoona
hank. is said to have stolen about 5000, 900
from the bank the books of which are
bewlldering work of fiction.
Twila. a 4-year-old daughter of J. Alt
man, of Clarion, while playing on the
pavement laid down, face foremost, and
was playing with small toad. While IN
the act of laughing the toad hoped INTO
her mouth and down into her stomach.
She suffered such extreme agony for some
time that it took several persons to hold
her. While waiting of the physician one
of the neighbors gave the child whisky,
which had the effect of either stupetylng
the toad or causing its death. DR.. Myers
gave an emetic, and the little one expelled
the toad from her stomach in pieces.
G. C. Kennedy. Pittsburg book keeper,
|
Emsyorth, one night laat week. He had
been in protracted spree, and his wife
and child had gone TO her home.
The unusual sight of man and woman
handcuffed together was witnessed IN Ale
gheny last Friday night. They were John
| Aston and Mrs. Ida A. Sloop, who about
| q month ago absconded from Bagdad, a
| small mining town four miles east oi
| ~, Tho CoparOauph river They
were arrested at Mcdonald, Pa.
| Practical Joking ought to be discouraged
| it all times 1t does no good, and Often
/ does much harm. A few days ago, accord
| ing to the BrockwsyvIlle Record, three
men went into a field to rake hay Con
| cluding it was not dry enough to rake they
sat down to rest. One lay Hat on the
| ground, and the two others covered hin
with hay. Soon a fourth man, who wa
| examining the hay in another part OF The
| field. came along with fork in his hand
"Try that pile" said one of the men point
| ing to the hay under which the fellow lay
And promptly the man with the fork thrus
it into the pile, only to be startled by
| veil from the man under 1t. A prong o
the fork had penetrated between two RIBS
the point entering his lung. Fortunatel }
the wound was not very severe, and tht
man was around again in few days
Practical joking don't pay.
Al Heron, we'll known man
Fallston, Beaver county, was murdered a
picnic at Aliquippa Grove, on Thursday
His body was found at 9 O'Clock he wa
dancing with q young lady at the pavilion
not more than 20 feet from where he wa
killed. Heron had been terribly beatei
up. His neck was broken. There was I
great lump on It's right temple, evidently
produced by handibilly or stone. HI
front teeth were all knocked out, and hi
!. lips were badly cut. There were severa
deep cuts on his head which looked as
} inflicted By an edged instrument. Whsr
the body lay the ground was satnrate
with blood. So far as could be learned
nothing had been taken from the pockets
and the clothing was not disarranged
Although some claim his death was a
accident, the murder theory is general
believed by those attending the picnic