Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1896-04-16
NEIGHRoRKooD NOTES.

In compliance with the compulsory
educational law, approved May 10, 1895,
thu commissioners Of York county are now
having prepared the books necessary 20
| meet the requirments of the act. The emu
meration will be made according TO its
provisions and will be paid for out of the
county treasury.
At TrevoIton Northumberland county,
| one day last week a mother and daughter
! gave birth to children simultaneously. and
the flustered doctor mixed the babies M
| so that their own mothers could not tell
which was which. By q curious coinc.-
dence, simila- mishap occurred OF the
same day in the Granite State, where Dr.
Chandler mixed the Reed and Mckinley
babies up so thoroughly taat Dame lamp
shire can't precisely determine which is
the ''favorite son.
\ remarkable double wedding of twins
took place recently near Burbank, o.,
when Vernon r. Stair and Vertal R. Stair,
twins, were married TO Irene V. Repp and
Idona V. Repp. twins.
On "Wednesday night, in the Oil City
| Derrick composing room, Will F. Boyle
! broke the worlds record for fast type
setting on the linotype. He set and cor
rected "a, 500 ems Of nonpareil in "a hours,
! or a. the rate of l62 ems a minute, and
taking the manuscript from the copy HOOK
Just as it ran. TIE performer of the phe-
nomenal feat is son of P. @. Boyle,
editor of the Derrick.
The results attending the examination
of the Economy herd of blooded Holst tein
cattle for tuberculosis, within the last few
days, have aroused the people Of Pittsbu-g
on the question of the purity of their milk
supply. The city health authorities have
been engaged in perfecting a test for milk
which will. it is claimed, give speedy in
dication of the presence of the tubercle
bacillus Experiments are still in pro-
gress with the view of arriving at this
teGt.
The recent sale OF Samuel Grifith's law
library in Mercer netted about g, 900,
Meadvllle man who is operating in
the West Virginia oil field was married
the other day and almost paralyzed the
officiating minister, from Parkersburg, by
handing him $50 note. The usual fee
down there is from bashel of potatoes to
dollar note,
The Council of Jamestown, n. Y, have
passed curfew ordinance. It provides
th at the fire bell shall be rung each even
ing a. 9 o'clock; hat it shall be lawful fo-
any children under 16, unless attende by
parent. guardian or some suitable person,
te be or the streets after the ringing of
the bell, and directs the police to arrest
any such running au large after the hour
named.
Workmeu employed at making some
excavations on the line Of the Altoona,
Clearfeld and Northern railroad, near AL
toona found a perfectly petrifed rattle |
snake. 1t was embedded in solid rock ana |
in being taken out was broken into several |
pieces. L. was 2l inches in length and |
cl5uL luCubS III circumference. 4
Two miles south of Dunlow, on the |
Norfolk and Western railroad, three child |
ren of Sheridan Moore, a well-to-do farmer |
were burned to death in barn near their |
home Tuesday. One was a boy aged s, |
and the other two were girls, aged and |
10. They lefG the house and went to the |
harm with Soma hrokap nooL;p1 ros,oI, - |
play. Soon afterward the mother looked |
from the door and saw flames leaping from
the roof OF the barn, which was filled with |
hay. She heard the dying screams of her
children inside, but all entrance was cut |
off. With an axe she knocked board |
from the side of the burning building, only |
to be driven back by the flames in their |
wild career. No one lived near, and the |
poor woman had to bow to the inevitable. |
Mrs. MartE Burt, an aged woman. who |
acts as housekeeper tor Mrs. Susan Shaeffer |
near Shelisville, Lawrence Co., shot and |
killed an unknown Arabian peddler Tues |
day. The man called at the Shaeffer house |
and finding the women alcne, proceeded !!
20 insult them, and was in the act of COM
mitting an assault when Mrs. Burt produc-
ed revolver and shot him. The man
walked a short distance and then dropped
over dead. An inquest was held
anG verdict rendered that the man
had come to his death at the hands of Mrs.
Burt, but no arrest was made.
On Penn Aye, Pittsburg, was closed by
the Sheriff, Tuesday.