Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1896-02-27
NEIGARoREoOD NOTES.

and w estmoreland counties nave decided
to build q joint county bridge over the
Allegheny river at FreepOrt, and work on
it VIII commence in tie spring.
A church congregation at Indiana was
dismissed most suumaTily under unpleas-
ant circumstances two Sundays since.
Right in the middle of the preachers dis
course there bOlted into the church through
the half opened door what appeared to Ee
a black and white est, closely followed by
a yellow dog. Cat and dog ran swiftly
down the middle isle 10 the platform,
The preacher, taken uuawares, did the
natural thing kicked at the cat, hit it,
and landed 1t squarely in u e middle of the
congregation. Then il turned out that
the cat Wa "a skunk
TIE most destructive fire that Emlenton
has had in ten years occurred last Monday
about noon. 1t began in the Taylor block
which was destroyed, As was also the
Richardson block adjoining and a part of
the HcGara block The damage Is esti-
mated AZ ten Thousand dollars. oI which
there is but three Thousand dollars !usur
enc.. The heroic work of the tremen eu-
abled the uccUp3uts of the burned blildIug
To save the most of The contents and pre-
vented q much larger destruction ol pro-
porty.
Not long since an old lawyer of this
place was in a reminiscent mood. He was
telling how an attorney vent from one
county seat To anotheT-''tr travelled the cir
cuit"-to practice their profession IN the
early days. Some very peculiar ideas and
customs obtained in those times, said the
lawyer. zone of the strangest, l think,
he continued, prevailed at BroOkville,
jefferson county, Fresh meat wasn't 70
be had in markets in these days like now.
Accordingly. at Brookville, when fresh
meat was on sale, the inhabitants of the
to and vicinity were always notified OF
the fact by ringing the court house bell"
W estmorland Democrat.
A deed was recorded in the office of the
recorder Of deeds at Wilkesbarre Thursday
from Wm. Stuart, a lineal defendant OF
william Penn. Stuart S now resident
of England. 1t conveys to his son, Wm.
Dugold Stuart, all the remaining Penn eS-
tate in Pennsylvania.
1t is said that number of Kittanning
lady bicycle riders have decided to wear
bloOmers next summer.
Thieves broke into the residence of John
CLARK, al BILL Mercer county, and got
away with $500 in cash and a diamond pin
worth 800.
VIM II. Iams, the Pennsylvania militia
man who was drummed out of camp at
Homestead, was fatally shot in a quarrel
at Baltimore, Md, last week.
Mrs. Samuel Welty, of Greensburg lost |
both her hands last Friday by an explo- |
sion of dynamite, and was otherwise badly |
injured. Her husband had placed some |
sticks of dynamite on the stove to thaw. |
Mrs. Welty tried TO remove the dynamite |
when it exploded. Her injury is said to |
be fatal.
peculiar theft is reported from Potts |
town, where a hotel license was stolen as |
an act of revenge on the part of a dis |
charged employe. The thief was placed |
under arrest, but Mrs. Ganger, the pro-
prietor of the inn, had to apply TO court |
for new license.
An exchange states that last week |
while William VALLEY and A. p. Brothers, |
of Pennington township, Clarion county, |
were out hunting wild cats they encoun- |
tere lyax and brought him down to the |
ground. He is a splendid specimen of a |
lynx, and the only one captured in Penn
sylvanis. in the last twenty-five years. go |
rare is the lynx that no bounty is offered. |
The people are flOcking in to see the anil
mails. There are only few travelling ami
NAL shows that exhibit speciments OF the |
lynx.
In Clearfeld and Elk counties, princi-
pallv in the former, is located the most
valuable timber estate in the State of
1t is known as the William
E. Dodge estate and consists of some 90,
300 acres, from off OF which is cut over
II 600, 900 feet of lumber annually. Will
liam Dodge died in New York in 1895, and
The property is now owned jointly by his
eight sons, each one of whom is estimated
to be worth at least $4,000, 900. 1t is
twenty eight years since this property was
bought by the senior Dodge, and during
that time there has been paid from it
about $1,000 annually in taxes into the
Clearfield county treasury.
Paul Osman resides at Hickory Ridge,
Pa and when on his way home from
last Thursday he was stopped
by masked robbers. The highway men
seized and ran him to pipe close by,
which empties steam and boiling water
from the mine. They told him that unless
he gave up 500 which he had when he
lett Shamokin. they would boil him over
the pipe. 0sman begged his tormentors
10 release him, maintaining that he had
no money. TIE robbers then he'd HIM
ov er the escaping steam to torture him in
10 submission. Osman was not over the |
steam a minute before large strips of skin
came off his pack. He shrieked in agony,
Tor help, but his cries were unheard. He
tainted from pain, and the wretches think
ing him to be dying laid him on pile OF
planks and fled. Miners discoyered the
unfortunate man, seuseless, an hour later.
Tie was removed to his home. and the
physicians found that one side had been
. 10. thal lyr1na tn ha |
leck He cannot possibly recover. The
police are looking for the robbers.
Three murders haYe ACQUIRED in Duryea,
A small town near Wilkesbarre, in less
than week.
The commissioner statement Of Clarion
county, shows tnat they have balance OF
s10, 745. rs in the treasury and no debts.
The grocers of Pittsburg aud Allegheny
have organized Ind are to select chemist
10 protect themselves IN the pure food mat
ter
Byron Brunson farmer in Mercer Co.,
las been arrested fer selling diseased pork.
Bailey's foundry in Sharpsville, Mercer
in which was q lot of patterns, was
destroyed by fire Monday. Loss estimat-
sd at $500. The fire is thought to have
been of incendiary organ.
The editor of thee Journal, "a weekly pa
per published at Phillipsburg, Centre Co.,
announces that hereafter he will practice
what he breaches. Being an officer of the
Epworth League, he will in the future de- /
cline to print notices and advertisements
of theatrical companies, ball room events
etc.
Fire at Millerstown.