Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1897-11-25
NEIGHBoRHoOD NOTES.

I. L. Russell. of the well-known
Russell farm. brought a curiosity TO
this Office, last week, in the shape of a
mammoth tooth, which he found on
the bar of the river above his farm,
The tooth is an inch square and two
inches long and no doubt, belonged to Il
mastodon. 1t can be seen al the office
-Emlenton News.
Bear hunters need not go TO the wilds
of Huntingdon county for big game
Two of these animals were discovered
in a Brushvelle township corn field one
day last week by a couple of young
men. They were not hunting bears,
and by the time they secured their
guns the game was gone.
Beaver Falls Pa, has three physi-
clans named Grim, Ague and Coffin If
the town could draw TO that hand and
catch preacher named Hope, and an
undertaken named Planter. it would al
most be pleasure to get sick and die
there
The f crest Republican says that the
run of fiat boats and barges this week
will probably be the largest ever made
at one time from the mouth of the Tic
nesta. There are 40 blrges and % fiat
boats, and the amount of money invol-
we'd is about $50 900.
a Franklin dispatch says that Mer
eer county hunting party killed a deer
that has been hunted in Venango coun-
ty for more than five years and was
known as "Old Go!iah" by local hun
ters The animal had pair of antlers
with eight prongs and was the largest
deer killed since the country was set
tied. Four deer were killed by
hunting parties from Franklin and
Oil City.
Last week Miss Emma Lavigne, an
16-year- old girl, residing at Shoholo,
Pike county, while travelling along a
mountain road, was shot twice by hun
tiers, who in the bush mistook the feath-
ers on the girls hat for a partridge.
Sixteen shots struck the young lady,
but only a few pellets penetrated her
corsets, the most of the shot sticking
fast in the garments
The towns of Leechburg and Hyde
Park are on opposite sides of the kiski
minetas River Hyde Park has license
and Leechburg has none, Leechburg
people go to Hyde Park to drink, and
some of them get drunk. In walking
across the bridge on their return home
the bibulous Leechberger sometimes
falls over, and is thus compelled TO
take water intemperately. Three or
four have already perished in this way.
Last Saturday night a man named Dick
Murphy fell into the Kiskiminetas
from the bridge, and when his friends
got him out he was dead. Now there
is warm controversy going on down
there between the temperance people
and the advocates of license. The for
lner maintain that it was whiskey that
caused the death OF these men, and
the latter claim that it was water.
One man dead, three men wounded
and four men robbed was the result of
payday among the colored work
men on the new Plttsburg
Bessimer d Lake Erie rail
road on Saturday. The shooting
about the bloody little camp of Unity
lasted from noon Saturday until early
Sunday morning.
The street-cars of New Castle were
tied up by a strike this week.
y dozen tramps arrested in oil City,
who announced after being locked up
that they "were making a play for
comfortable winter quarters in the
county jail, are to be fed entirely on
dry bread and water, and their term of
confinement will be made other wise
unpleasant.
The Armstrong Co. Teachers Insti
tute begins at Kitanning next Monday,
-22 nd.
An advance in ways that will bene-
fit 1000 workmen goes into effect in
New Castle December /. At every fur
mace last Saturday was posted a notice
which states that on and after Decem-
Der |. there would be an increase in wa
ges which would be based on SLIGO for
bottle filters 1t is the bottle
filters wages that regulate the
price of labor around the furnace, and
the filters helpers will each receive 81
80 per ton, while the laboring men will
receive $l.25 for day of ten hours. it
is understood that the same announce
ment vii be made in all the furnaces
in the Shenango and Mahoning valley.
The manufacture of self-measuring
oil tanks Is a new industry that is doing
a lively business in Warren.
Over 1000 car loads of grapes have
been shipped from the different ship
pers throughout the Chautauqua belt.
A Westield schoolma'am exhibited
unexampled nerve a few days ago when
a mouse climbed up nnder her skirts
She did not faint nor even scream, but
went out of the school-room and re-
leased the prisoner. Then she went
back to her scholars and resumed teach
ing as though nothing unusual had
h1ppened.
AT Beaver Falls, Pa, Clyde Beaner
ald Arthur Bair have been held for
trial for the murder of Don Sullivan.
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