Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1897-10-07
SElGHBORHOOD NOTES.

New Castle is TO have new tin plate
mill. the largest in the world. It VIII
cost nearly $1,000, 900, employ 2,0o
men. consume 900 tons of steel day,
have an output of 1000 boxes OF TIN
plate daily. The main building will be
l00x1 $50 feet.
In the West Virginia oil countries
they now bring in as many as one hun
dred indictments against one man Tor
illegal liquor selling.
A dispatch from Sandy Lake, dated
Monday. stated that Sheriff T. I.
Burns of Jefferson county, ONO, WIN
Deputies Van Burton and Shaefter az
rived here to-day with a warrant for
the arrest of Bill" Huffman of the
neighborhood of Mechanicsville, Pa
charged with being member OF a no
torious gang of horse thieves who nave
been operating in the vicinity OF Hen
derson. Pa, and Howe Postothce, y.
Huffman drove a stolen buggy that was
| identified by the owner. a resident OF
| Howe. A horse that had been stolen
from J. E. Shaffer of the same place
was found in the livery barn at Harlans-
burg. Butler county. More than
dozen horses have been stolen in Mercer
| and Butler counties and it is believed
the gangs work together.
| Five prisoners dug out of the Mercer
| iail last Wednesday night; and five got
out of the Meadville Jail Friday night.
James Heeter, track walker on the
Dotter Section of the Allegheny Val
ley Railway, has killed II copperhead
snakes the past summer; while IN the
discharge of his duties.
Enas RuH--=Qmirant farn}er II
I near Greensburg,i Pa, had Valuable
COW killed recently in peculiar man
ner. He is the owner of large boar
weighing probably 400 pounds While
eating at pile of pomace near cider
mill. two cows came along when the
boar rushed at them ripping their sides
open with his tusks The animal was
worth $50
: Judson Porter, who lives near Shade
a land. was driving near that town the
other day when large swarm of bees
2 attacked him and the horse with terrible
ferocitv. The horses were killed by th'
y | insects and Porter was SO badly stunG
: that. if he lives at all, he will be GRIP
!; pied for life.
. At one of the recent Italian lows a
| Clarion Mines an Italian was shot. Dr
t Quinn was called and before proceed
ing to dress the wound he placed
b otle of carboiic acid on a table nea
him. While ne was engaged anothe
8 Italian, thinking the bottle contalne'
whisky, sneaked up, and before tn
Doctor noticed what he was about
t took a big drink of it. DR.. Quin i'll
, mediately admipistered antidotes, AM
!, did everything possible for the man
but he died in twenty minutes. Th
i moral of this distressing incident
e plain Don,t drink out of another man
d bottle without an invitation
A unique strike is on at the tin mi
in New Castle The number of me
inbolved is nearly 200. and this means
shutting down of greater part OF tn
plant. The facts of the case are yer
f strange. Dick Kissinger, of the I'll
is ming department, was discharged la'
Friday for alleged improper condut
J. in the mill toward Swedish girl, ais
employed there. The foreman declare
-e that Kissinger put his arms arc und tn
girl and kissed her
r The employees of the thinning depar
ment few weeks ago organized III
ion under the protection of the Anne
lean Federation. A committee of tn
union Was .apBointed- to iavsssi@st@s.v-~
ager to reinstate Kissinger, at the sam
time saying the young man would al
ologize for any wrong he did, Thi
4 state of affairs was reported to tn
d head of the company, who said he coul
not reinstate Kissenger. The men the
T. stuck.