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

Inc town OF Broad ripple, lnu., was
literally blown to pieces by a series of
gas explosions on Saturday. Seven
people were killed and thirty injured
Michael Veach, of Lawrence county.
was gored by a bun he had at the New
Castle fair last week, and was expected
TO die.
\ wonderful monster turtle was
captured in lake Ontario a few days
ago.
Franklin, Pa, now claims the biggest
sunflower, one that is 13 feet : in. high,
has 81 large fully developed flowers and
% small ones.
The Carnegie Steel Co. is adding Is
open-hearth furnaces, 32 gas producers
and large fitting shop for streetcar
rails to their Homestead plant. These
improvements cost $4,000 and will
give work to 1000 additional men.
The Pennsylvania railroad intends to
build a new Union station at Pittsburg
costing seYer;l hundred thousand
dollars, also new station at East
Liberty.
The schools of Hickory township Mer-
Ger Co. are 90 be furnished with good
pure water from drilled wells, and six
artesian wells are to be put down at
once. Another innovation will be a
teacher of vocal music, who Will visit
the different schools of the township
and give musical instruction.
In Shawnee county, Kansas, the other
dav, man presented himself in his
shirt sleeves, before the Probate Judge
to be married The Judge removed his
own coat and then performed the GER
mony. That's the acme of etiquette in
the corn State.
That's wild story that comes from
Boston in regard to Miss Alice Whiting.
1t saws that while driving home from
an excursion in the country the horse
kicked, striking her full in the mouth,
knocking out thirteen of her natural
teeth without touching her lips. Miss
Alice must have been carrying her
upper lip at a right shoulder shift.
Four hundred coal miners their
wives and children marched from
Grove City to Filler Sut.iff & Co. 5
mines at Chestnut Ridge, headed by
the Knights Golden Eagle band, where
they induced the Italians, who had been
imported, to join them. William Mckay
was arrested by one of the deputies for
intimidating the men at work, and
when he was being led away the women
set upon the deputy and dubbed him
so badly that he had to release his
prisoner and fee for safety. Two
other miners We're arrested for trespass
ing on the company's property and fined
- cents. The miners have succeeded
in closing nearly every mine in the
county. Only seven men are working
at the Chester Ridge mine. Filler, Sut
lift & Co have secured an injunction
against the mineas and trouble is
anticipated Thus far the miners have
shown no violence. About a dozen
deputies in the county are guarding
the mines.
There were at least 10000 strangers
in New Castle, Monday, at. the celebra
in honor of Labor day by the Trades
assembly, and the parade which took
place that morning was the largest of
any kind ever seen in New Castle.
There were fully 5000 men in line.
Beaver Falls alone had nearly 1000 men
in line, and Elwood City and Wampum
had 800. There were 20 bands
of music, and prominent speakers were
there from neighboring towns and cities;
including President Garland of Pitts
burg and Rankin of Cleveland. The
speaking took place at Cascade park
and fully 10000 people assembled there.
The addresses We're made by Garland
and Rankin, for the labor organizations;
William Cox Esq, of Beaver Falls Hon
Thomas w. Phillips, Hon. John Is.
Brown, Judge Wallace and Others
That night closed the day with the
finest display Of fireworks ever seen in
the city 1t is the intention of the
managers of the demonstration to next
year join with Beaver Falls in celebra
ting the day there.