Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1896-03-05
NEIGHBoRRooD NOTES.

They had !. 200 more votes at the recent
Republican primary in Jefferson county.
than there were for Hastings for Governor.
New Castle had sensation last week.
A married woman named Carlisle told her
folks one evening that she Wss going down
town, but instead OF doing so she went to
the office of Manager Thompson Of the
steel works. Now this steel works Office
is built over furnace stag which emits a
poisonous gas; and the next morning the
woman was found dead On the floor, and
the man lying unconscious The woman
-has been buried, and the man has since re-
gained consciousress sad denied sll recol-
lection of meeting the woman.
The people o: Dubois. want borough
water works, and want it bad On last
Tuesday they TOted to raise The bonded in
de5tedness Sllj,9l9 to get 3 good water
supply. Other towns are beginning to see
the great advantage Of owning their water
supply.
Out Of 43 applications Tor license in Ven
angu county, only % were granted.
W II. Stanner, marble enter, was re-
turning from Sharon, Feb. 9th, and on
the road met weary stranger, who asked
for a ride In return he told Sta1ner he
was selling catarrh medicine. and offered
him a bottle. Stanner following the direc-
tions, took long sarff Of the contents, and
remembered nothing more till he found
himself at home, with his pockets turned
inside out and his pocketbook gone.
Armstrong county has a debt OF $64,
lGj "A.
The borough Of Warren voted to issue
bonds for water works By large majority.
VIM. J.. Mcconnell. the temperance
evangelist, after getting $500 signers to
the total abstinece pledge in Westmore-
land county, became so drunk at ut. Pleas
ant lately, that he had to be carried from
the opera house
The project for poor house in Clarion
county was defeated a. the election last
week By a small majOhty-2759 to 1863.
A four week sold baby boy was left at
the door of Mrs. John Maddigan, at Frank
lin, one night last week. With the baby
were four saits Of clothes, a coat and q
hood, q nursing bottle and a nipple.
Only few days ago the New Castle
COurant contained an account of q Mahon-
ingtown man named John Thorn oson be
ing taken to the insane asylum, as he had
become insane on the subject Of religion.
On Monday it says, Richard W. Blucher,
a farmer who resides in Shenango twp,
went insane over the revival meetings of
the Free MethOdists that were held in his
neighborhOod, and on Tuesday he was TAX
en- to DiXmont insane asylum. He became
violent and was deemed to be dangerous
not only % himself bat to the public.
Judge Henderson granted Il licenses in
Meadville, % in Titusville, 2 in Spa-tans-
burg and refused all others.
The citizens Of Grove City want a new
school house and will hold an election on
Feb, 25 for the purpose of voting on in
creasing the indebtedness Of the school
fund 200.
BURGERS entered the general store of C.
G. Pfordt, at Natrona, Saturday night,
and blew open The safe. Mr.. Pfordt knew
nothing of it until Sunday morning. when
jon entering the store he discovered that
some windows had been broken and the
safe blown open and the cash box carried
off. The robbers, however, were disap-
pointed. Gs there was only few dollars in
char ge in the box. They took check for
$248 90 on the National Bank of Taren-
tum, made payable TO the order of Arbuth-
not Stevenson d Co, OF Pittsburg, pay
ment Of which has been stopped.
Harry McAuliffe and Dee Sing, China
man, wore committed to Jail in pittsbure,
Monday charged with the murder Of
Harvey Ecker, who was found dead in bed
at the st. Charles hotel Saturday after
noon. McAuliffe had been brought from
Crestline, o., in the morning by Detective
Sol Coulson. MeAuliffe and Ecker had
been taking in" the city together, aud
visited Sings Opium den. The opium
JOINT was raided by the police Monday.
Cambria county will have 175 licensed
houses this year, Judge Barker having
granted that number out Of 21G applica-
tons.
There are fifty-two citizens Of Crawford
county in the Western Penitentiary at
Allegheny. One hundred and twenty
more residents Of that county are in the
insane asylum a. Warren. Five are in the
Allegheny work house, eighteen are in the
Morganza reform school and six are in the
asylum for chronic insane at WerDerville,
Pa.
The vote at Grove City for sewerage re-
sultei in the defeat Of the measure by
majority Of 10 against it.