Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1896-03-26
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| ed by Iquor. caused the shooting. As
soon ss his wound permits Cooper will be
taken to jail.
Luzerne county liquor dealers have paid
the sum of s2lO, 900 tor license to sell the
ardent during the coming year.
DIR. Daniel Henry, a prominent and well
known farmer of Sugsrcresk township,
| Armstrong county, met his death In
peculiar manner on Wednesday evenin G
| of last week He had driven TO Kittan-
ming and loaded his wagon with shingles
and when within few hundred feet of his
home the wagon upset and he fell to the
ground with several bundles of shingles on
top of him. When he was discovered some
hours after he was found With his face al
most buried in the mud which had frozen
| so stiff that he had TO be cut out. 1t Is
supposed the force of the fall rendered him
| unconscious and the mud smothered him.
Thomas Mckee, Esq, of Clintonville,
| ex-County Commissioner and one OF the
best known men in Vensngo county, has
been confined to his bed for some time
| with the grip. Last Friday he was strick-
en- with blindness and his physicians have
no hope that he viii ever recover his
| sight.
The proposal to expend s60, 900 for sewer
| extension at Sharon Pa, was lost at
special election.
Hugh McGoyerp, aged 100 years and 9
months, died at Wilkesbarre, Saturday.
He is survived by his third wife, aged Sc,
and three daugt ters By his second wife.
Weary of the cares of life, John Nc
Bride, aged 80 years, committed suicide
by hanging himself at his home, n Wash
ington street, Pittsburg; Saturday. He
had worked for Booth g. Finn tor years.
but had to quit all kinds of labor two years
| ago. he had tied rope around his neck
| and around the banaster at the head of the
stairs, and then jumped over. When
found he was dead. His wife died Christ
mas and his daughter followed her to the
grave. Dependency caused the deed.
L
his life, Peter Young, aged 35, of the
Southside, Pittsburg attempted to commit
suicide by hanging himself with a strap,
but was cut down in time to save his life.
The agent of the War Department has
purchased site at Kane, Pa, for . home
which will be used for consumptives who
| contractad the disaasa in aotiva s.rYiea n
the army and navy. However, privs te
citizens who are able to pay for their care
and attention may be admitted. The in
stitution, when finished, will be one of the
finest in the state.
| The council of Erie are about TO pass an
ordinance submitting to the taxpayers
| proposition to bond the city for $l75,000
to pave State street, build engine houses,
| improve parks etc. The present debt of
the city is about $500. 900, created by the
| construction of water works. They claim
that the water works could be sold to day
| for 81, 500, 600.
Fire broke out at 8 o'clock, Saturday
evening in the works of the Pennsylvania
| salt manufacturing company, at Natrons,
| and for a time threatened the destruction
| of the entire plant. The prompt action of
the cOmpany's fire department confined
the flames to the smelling and silver e1-
| tracing portions of the works This de-
psrtment consists of large number of
| frame buildings, covering an area of three
acres, and which contained blast furnaces,
smelling furnaces and lead lined tanks Tor
| storing the gold and silver solutions. The
works possessed fine electrical apparatus
aud chemical appliances, and were the
finest in the United States. The invest
ment in this alone amounts to $9i0,0
and the company took special pride in its
completeness in every respect. Nearly six
hundred men we're employed, and it was
being run double turn. The flames spread
with such rapidity that it was with diff
c1lty that the men escaped although only
two men were slightly injured. The
greatest loss is sustained through the melt
ing of the tanks in which the gold and
silver solutions were stored and their es
Gaping into che ri7er. Some idea of this
may be gained when it is said that 1000
ounces of silver and 5000, 900 pounds of
copper were produced monthly. The loss
is estimated at $780, 900
This week corps of civil engineers are
stopping at the Mansion House, who are
| engaged locating Telephone Line which
will, wren completed. connect Pittsburg
with Kane, together with all the inter-
mediate towns. Its route is via: Gallery
Junction, Renfrew, Butler, Millerstown,
Karns City, PetrolIs, Bruin, Parker City,
Foxburg, St. Petersburg, Edinburg, Clari-
on, Franklin and Oil City. The work of
! erecting the line will soon commence, and
| will be pushed with vigor to completion.
The engineers are, with great accuracy,
measuring the distance and locating The
places for the poles We will, therefore,
soon be blessed with every known facility
for communication. The time is not far
distant when we Will be talking acro0s the
wide rooliug trackless ocean.-Iarker
PhOeRir.
Saturday night man and woman re-
gstered at the Hotel Adams, Pittsburg a s
L. b. Johnston and wife, and about 8
O'Clock Sunday morning the man awoke
and founu his companion dead. The Coro-
ner held an inquest and pronounced the
cause of death, heart disease. The
woman's name was Ellen S. Clifford, a
stenogrspher and type writer and lived in
the East End, Pittsburg. The man WAS
al employe of the city and his right name
is David Brown.
Mayor Samuel W. Smith, of New Castle
instructed the police to enforce an order
against street losfng on Sunday, and as
result the principal streets were free from
loafers for the first Sunday IN many years.
Ministers of the city have prepared an or
dinance fashioned something after the
ssyie of the old Blue laws, which was read
in the churches, and which they hope to
get passed by Councils.
Charles Chambers, of Hickory township,
Lawrence county shot u sea gu II and three
wild geese in flock OF wild fowl that be-
came bewlldered near Eastbrook, last Sat
urday. This is the only sea gull ever
known to have been killed in that county