Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1897-05-27
Nei3hbOrhood Notes

On Friday last some twenty farmers
of Westmoreland Co, drove mp to the
Freeport bridge and began tearing
down the fence. Then Mr.. Phillips
! drew a revolver and threatened 10 use
/ it. He struck Mr.. McElroy and Mr.
/ Steele, who were working at the fence,
I but d. \. Swank caught and held him.
and in less time than it takes to tell II
Z the fence was torn down and thrown
into the river and the eight or ten wag
| ons and buggies We're on their way to
town. Mr. Phillips came over and tele-
/ graphed TO Greensburg what had been
done
An East End. Pittsburg. man was
knocked down and robbed, and then
killed by being thrown from bridge
into deep ravine. last Thursday night.
The police think that some of the tough
gang on the new railroad are the crimi-
mails.
William Q. Mehl. ex-Sheriff of Erie
Co. suicided by hanging-last Saturday.
He left note saying he was tired OF
every thing in this world.
The other evening. in Meadville, 81
ladies, alumnR and students of the
college, INDUCED in an annual dinner
which figured on the program as the
annual Pan-Heavenly Banquet of the
Sororities of Allegheny College.
There's Il rush far divorces in Law
renee county. Thirty cases will be
passed upon at the coming term of
court.
During a thunder storm Fred Green,
Of Meadville, sought shelter under a
farm house porch, when lightning
struck the house. shocked and blistered
one side of Green and ripped his coat,
trousers and shoe on the left side.
\ Fredonia constable arrested man
for riding a bicycle on the sidewalk.
Later on the Constable was seen wheel
ing a paint cart up the street and his
bicycle victim got even by having him
arrested. One offense was as much Il
violation as the other.
Representatives of the independent
telephone companies of West Penn a,
Eastern Ohio and West Va, will meet
in Pittsburg. June 3rd., to talk over
the recent decision of the L. S. Supreme
Court ON the Bell patent.
People of Mercer county shipped
,, 200 bushels of shelled corn to the
starving people of India, and were to
send two more car loads this week. The
people of Fairyiew, Erie county, also
contributed car load of corn last week
for the same object.
New Castle was the scene of a terrible
explosion last Saturday.
The big Rosena furnace owned by
Mark Hanna and ex-senator Cameron
had been acting in a manner that LED
the manager, Ed Refs, to believe that
something was wrong. Refs was called
from his bed early in the morning and was
with the men who had gone to the cast
ing house to see them make a cast.
They had been there but a moment
when the furnace let go. and the next
instant a heavy volume of coke, iron ore
and coal came crashing through the
roof of the casting house. burying in
the neighborhood of thirty men under
the debris.
The coke and other matter was flying
through the air for several hundred feet
and clouds of dust arose. As soon as
possible order was restored and the
work of rescue began. Manager Refs
was taken out with the skin hanging in
shreds from his hands and arms and
his legs were terribly burned and bruis-
ed. He could not walk, and suffered
the most intense pain. He was taken
home in an ambulance and will likely
recover.
Those who saw the ruins of the cast
ing house and the large quantity of ore
coke and coal that was emitted from the
top. considered it marvellous that sew
eral men were not killed outright. The
top of the furnace was badly damaged.
The iron cage which was built for just
such accidents, and which has hereto
fore prevented them, was almost blown
to pieces. The loss of the furnace is es-
timated at something like s., 1000, and it
will be several days before the damages
can be repaired About a dozen doc
tors were called to the furnace during
the excitement and the city ambulances
We're kept busy hauling the injured to
their homes and to the hospital.