Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1895-11-28
NEIGHB oRKooD NOTES.

4 few nights age there's broke into and
plundered the Centre County jail, at Belle
fonte. Pa. All the valusbles N The Sheritfs
apartment were carried away.
At Toledo a woman named Kate Envoy
is under arrest on 199 separate charges of
violating the liquor law. An exchange
concludes that this is case OF Envoy Ex-
traordinary and the lady is liable to have
to go TO the Plempotenuary.
The safe of Hess, Lindsey & Co.'s store.in
Tsrentnm was lately blown open, and
robbed of so.
After seven years OF wanderings, during
which he travelled over large part of the
country, John McWhirter arrived at his
home in Normalville, Fayette Co., last
Thursday. His homecoming was as mys-
terious and unexpected as his disappear
ance. Seven years ago McWhirter, then
= youth of 9 years, walked out of his home
one evening. At first it was thought he
had wandered off into the woods and got
lost, and a search was instituted, which
was kept up for weeks. According to mis-
story he went TO Connellsville and joined
a circus which carried him through the
West. Ee was stranded in little town in
Nebraska. He worked his way South as
lhI &c odlOu IAOukcp Ld.t hbu III 1OCJ Ic
landed in New Orleans, where he saw the
Sullivan Kilrsin fight Soon after he came
North again, aud has since been living With
q farmer in Butler county. During all the
years he was away he never sent any word
home to tell his family he was alive.
Fred and Anson Fnss we're married at
0lean on Monday. Fred married Amanda
Tody and his brothers bride was named
Dora Buttker.
A young man Of Clarion was going home
one night last week about midnight, and
when near the court house noticed black
and white cat sitting along side of a store
box on Main street. Feeling rather frisky
he gave the cat kick and sicked Judge
Clsrk's dog on the animal. He will never |
do such foolish thing again, for he is now
mourning the loss of q $50 suit of clothes |
and the dogs have been sent out to a farm |
where it is hoped that the pure country air |
will blow upon them in sufficient quaint |
ties TO cleanse them of the oder of polecat, |
which clings to them. The young man,
besides losing his clothing, is afraid to 90 |
to see his girl for month and even then |
LIE will have to take Turkish bath before |
making the trip.
Typhoid fever in the Third ward of New |
Cattle has been traced to an infected well, |
the water from which, when analyzed, |
proved to be alive with bacteria The |
well is on John Stewards lot, where the |
VIII ole neighborhood was accustomed to go |
for drinking water. Mr.. Stewart first con- |
tracted the disease, and was recently dis |
charged from the hospital. Since then |
many new cases have developed, which led |
TO an analysis Of the water.
Mrs. Laura Weissbeck died Monday
evening at the West Penn hospital Pitts
burg from peculiar ailment which three
doctors have pronounced hydrophobia.
Misc Bessie Jonston of Beaver Falls was
combing her hair in front of dressing
bureau wnen the comb caught on the
fringe Of the silk lamp shade, upsettlng
the lamp and breaking it. The oil took fire
and ignited Miss Bessie's clothes. The
flames enveloped her like q fash setting
FIRE to her lair. She did not scream or
faint. bnt with rare presence of mind
plunged headlong into bed, wrapped the
clothes about her, thus effectuRlly and ex-
the flames. Her hands, face
and hair were badly burned, but her inju-
les are not serious.
The third annual convention of the We
mango County Bee-Keepers' Association
will be held in Franklin on Friday, Dec. q,
beginning at "a. M.
After holding out long time, the di-
-ectors Of the Western Theological Semi
nary have at last consented to placing that
under the wing Of the General
Assembly OF the Presbyterian church.