Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1897-09-30
NElGHBORHOOD NOTES.

Fourteen ladies' married and single
of Lebanon, congregated at the home of
Jonas Houser, at Fairland, last week,
where they rendered a genuine surprise
to Mrs. Houser, who reached the s0th
| milestone in life. After lunch was
served the women went to the woodpile
and sawed lot of wood for the old
couple which was immensely enjoyed.
The schools of the State Institution
for Feeble Minded of Western Pennsyl-
vania at Polk were formerly opened by
special exercises last Thursday The
attendance was about 1000, and nearly
and nearly every country IN the State
was represented Special trains were
run from Titusville, Oil City Franklin,
New Castle, Mercer and Sharon. The
26 large buildings, all connected by a
corridor, were inspected by the guests
between the hours of l and 8 o'clock.
The exercises in Kerlin hall consisted of
prayer by Rev. DR.. T. Edwin Brown,
pastor of the First Baptist, church
of Franklin, and singing of America"
by special choir. Addresses were made
by Judge c. Heydrick, of Franklin, pres
ident of the building commission; S NJ.
Jackson, of Apollo, president of the
board of trustees and Maholon H.
Dickinson of Philadelphia, president of
the board of charities
On Saturday last judgements were
entered in Franklin against Senator w.
HI. Andrews. of Titusville, to the
amount of nearly $40, 900. The largest
single claim was in favor of attorney
Julius Byles, of Titusville, who is said
to be doing business for the w. B.
Roberts estate Mr.. Andrews owns an
extensive stock farm in Cherrytree town
ship, with some oil production, and al
so has land in Crawford county.
John j. Sullivan, of Allegheny,
secured work at the Vulcan foundry, in
New Castle, and boarded Pittsbur G
and Western freight tIain to save fare.
Near Ellwood City he noticed that
someth ing was wrong with one of
the axles of the car. The train stopped
on the grade and Sulliv an jumped
bown. The train had stopped on a
trestle, and he fell 60 feet to the rocks.
He screamed as he fell and a brake
man found him unconcious. He re-
vived sufficiently to tell about the axle,
and probably saved the tram. He had
both arms broken and was otherwise
injured. and now lies at the hospital in
a critical condition.
At the Cambridge fair, last Friday
Miss Minnie Lamont. the aeronaut,
had a narrow escape from death. She
made a balloon ascent, and when about
half mile high she cut loose from the
balloon and made the parachute drop.
She struck in French Creek, just
below the iron bridge, where the water
is ten feet deep. Her husbrnd, Prof.
Bassett, plunged in and kept her afioat
until boat rescued them. 1t required
the services of physicians to restore the
L Iduy 10 COHSClOuSucSS.
The Martinsburg W. Va. Improve
ment. Loan and Building association
has failed with loss to stockholders
| of $50, 600 The only hope Of the stock
holders is that the association will rea-
| lize on its loans to the Brooklyn Brass
works and the Auburn Wagon COM
pany, aggregating $4,000. These in
| dustries are now being operated by re-
| ceivers. The ASSOCIATION was organized
| to boom the town in 1892, and since
| then $780, 900 has been sunk and dozen
wealthy men broken. The towns bust
ness is severely shocked and more fail
ures are expected. Many poor people
lose their sayings in the failure.
Two prisoners escaped from Jail at
Welsh, w. Va Monday night, by dig
ging through brick wall. One had
| been convicted of murder.
The big pot glass works at Bellefonte
Pa. started up yesterday, after recently
doubling its capacity.
Monday night burglars tortured and
robbed Mrs Mershimer and her son
| Adam. who is cripple living in Law
renee county.
One day last week Eli Campbell, of
| Westmoreland Co. went out hunting.
In the woods he met two men with
guns. They made inquiries about a
good place to find squirrels. Campbell
went with them to place where they
found some squirrels. His friends
did not get shot, but Campbell shot
three. His companions proved to be
detectives who arrested him and took
him to Latrobe where he was fined $40
for each squirrel killed and IS costs
s35 in all. He will be pretty careful
with whom he hunts game out of sea