Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1897-09-23
NEIGHBORHOOD NOTES.

Matthew Birch has caused the arrest
Of Simon Shade, of near Leechburg, for
circulating stories regarding the sup
posed murder of John McWhinny, who
disappeared some years ago.
: The Commissioners of Schuylkill
county, their Chief Clerk and the
County Controller were arres ted on
Tuesday on a charge of conspiring to
defraud the county of $4,000.
A church festival was advertised at
kittanning, and it was announced that
the young ladies waiting on the tables
would all wear boomers. Every bald
headed old sinner in the town went.
out 10 their infinite disgust the bloom
ers were full blown roses which the
dear girls wore in their hair
Crossing wires, iron columns and an
iron cellar door, were combination tn 1t
made some trouble on Federal St ALE
Gheny last Sunday night. The door
because charged with electricity, sew
eral people on their way home from
church stepped on it and were severely
shocked
Clearfeld county has a curiosity III
toe shape of a township within whose
borders there is not school, church,
saloon, store. minister, justice, school
teacher, doctor. lawyer, carpenter,
blacksmith shop, post Office or even a
two story house.
Five young women have enrolled
heir names as students in the New
FORK College of Veterinary Surgeons,
and will begin their course in the fall.
Those girls may some day be authori-
ties on how to shoe a horse. but
we'd rather take their Judgment on
snooing hen.
The Tooth anniversary of the set
clement OF the Crawford family in this
section was celebrated last Friday by
reunion at the VIM. T. Crawford heirs,
farm, near Kensington, the identical
spot on which John and Isabella Parker
Crawford, the pioneers, made their
home in the fall of 1871 At this
gathering the family Bible, consider
in the possession of w. A. Crawford,
of near Mariasyille, was on exhibition.
A Farmer named John Miller, living
near Matinsburg, W. Va, has an orch
ard covering about 81 acres of mountain
land. This year it has a crop of apples
estimated at 5000 barrels, and he has
sold the crop at SO. SO a barrel, thus real
iZing $50 480. He also netted over $3, 900
on his peaches this season. There's a
Nondike for you on cheap mountain
land without the toll of digging or the
miseries Of scurvy and starvation.
Overwork caused Rev. o. b. Patter-
son, of Venango Co. to be violently in
sane. Tuesday, and he was taken to
Warren.
There's the old story about the woman
who proved to her husband that a gun
is a dangerous thing even when without
lock, stock, or barrel, by beating him
with the ramrod. w j. Shuler, Of
Franklin. recently experienced test
of the treachery Of gun when nobody
is touching it. He was driving to town
from Plaingrove and stopped at a
ing over, a revolver fell from his inside
pocket to the ground. The jar dis.
charged the weapon, and the ball enter
ed the right shin of the owner, plowing
upward and lodging near the knee.
The wound, a painful one, was dressed
by physician, and the injured man is
getting along nicely.
William j. Williams. aged 90 years
died at the residence of his father.
David Williams, ut Ginger hill, Ale
gheny Co. Monday. He went to work
in the Homestead mills during the
great strike of 1892 and was victim of
the poisoning. He has suffered contin-
uously ever since.
A tramp attacked the wife ofC L.
lteagle, an oil producer between Sandy |
Lake and Reynoldton. recently. She |
secured revolver and drove the hobo |
at the point Of the weapon to her near
l5t neighbor's house quarter of mile |
distant, where the vagrant was secured. |
lie was locked up at Reynoldton. He |
refused to give his name.