Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1897-08-26
NElGHBoRHOoD NOTES.

1t is estimated that one township in
| Westmorland county will derive reven-
ne of Sl4, 600 per year from the new alien
| tax law.
The custom of holding annual family
reunions Is more prevalent than IN
| former years but we are still far behind
some of our neighbors in this respect.
| In Mercer county for example,
where reunion time has about set In,
| the published announcements give the
various dates for the reunions of the
Nelson. Satterfield, Morford, Bortz, Nc
| Mahan, Corey. Uber, Burnett, Richard,
Long, Rose, Homer. Peirsol, Slater and
Swogger families
Nearly 5000 Smiths and their rela-
tives attended the first annual reunion
| of the Blair county branch of the family
at Lakemont park last friday. All
| were decorated with blue ribbon badges,
| bearing a portrait of their ancestor,
Capt. John Smith, and the Indian
maiden Pocahontas. The Henrietta
band. every member of which Is a
Smith. and the Smith Bros. orchestra,
made the woods ring with music, and
under the shade of the trees Smiths
walked and talked with and wooed
other Smiths
Upward of 200 tons Of arms and am
munitian intended for the Cuban in
surgents have been sent from the Allan
tic City neighborheod and safely land
ed among the patriot forces. Ihey
were conveyed on four separate expedl.
tions under the very noses OF a band OF
Pinkertons, and not single hltch mas
occurred, the nearest approach to DIS
covery occurred, far away in New YORK
harbor. Scattered along the lnlets and
thoroughfares of this coast in the vlcln-
ity of this city on Summers Point, Cor
sons Inlet and Brigantine Beach are the
dynamite supply cabins, formerly the
property of the Townsend Wreck Com
pany. This Co. disbanded in the spring
and to their cabins the supply of dyna-
mite and other explosives on hand We're
quietly bought by agents of the Cuban
Junta. To these points at intervals
were also bought case after case OF am
munition and stored.
1t is said that within radius OF elev-
en- miles in Clearfeld county, there are
one hundred familses without Bible.
This looks as if home missions were
badly needed.
William Mercer, of Wilmington
twp. Mercer Co. met with terrible
accident Wednesday afternoon. He and
his wife were hauling in oats, and both
were on opof the load, when one OF the
wheels of the wagon brokde causing
both to fall off A three pronged fork
fell from the load in way that the end
of the handle stuck in the ground and
Mr. Mercer struck the prongs which
entered his body and held him fast un
til he was released. Mrs Mercer was
not injured by the fall. Mr.. Mercer, $
Injuries are very severe, and the physi-
clan who was summoned remained with
him during Wednesday night.
A man near Mahaffey, Pa, is culti-
waiting a new kind Of corn. 1t bears
common Indian corn about two feet
from the ground, and on the top where
the tassle grows on ordinary corn stalks
there is a prolific growth of pop corn,
and the roots develep into large ruta-
bagas.
A gold mine has been disc overed in
the Allegheny mountains, near the
point where the counties of Blair,
Bedford and Huntingdon join. News
paper reports say that there is abundant
quartz, which will assay $500 to the ton.
Of corse newspaper reports will lie
little occasionally when gold is the
theme, hence this may not be absolute
ly reliable.
Frank Weber, of Buffalo; Warn Bush,
of Chicago, former employe of the
United States Express company, and
Charles Glasner, of Chicago, employed
by the United States Express company,
who have deem camping on the banks OF
the Niagra river, for a week, with
several companions, hired small boat
at La Sale last Saturday and started to
row across the Niagra river to the Ca
madam shore In the heavy current
their boat became unmanageable and
upset The men were seen by num-
Der of people on shore struggling in the
water, but before assistance could reach
them all three were carried over the
| falls on the Canadian side
A posse of farmers chased gang OF
horse thieves, who had stolen two horses
near New Galilee, Lawrence county,
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