Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1898-06-16
LOCAL AND GENERAL,
-Conneaut Lake July 2s

-Conneaut Lake July 2S.
Have you noticed Buffalo Bill.
new bills
Flag raising at Catholic school
near w. P. depot, this evening.
- "A great fire ragged in Grove City
this morning and our department was
wired for aid
The rose-bugs are not here this
year, but the worms and lice have rid
died the rose leaves
The electric lights are still on =
some of the Light Committee must have
changed their minds.
On Thursday last an effort was
made to arrest Old Sol for scorching
and since that he has kept little sha-
dy
Five derricks were blown over by a
storm at Buena Vista last Saturday
evening; ana bull-wheel $50 It's said
was blown mp on walking beam.
About twenty young men have ap-
piled for membership of Co. E, now at
Fort Washington; and they will be
examined at Armory Hall, Saturday
During the storms Of last Sunday
evening the house of Ii. G. Bricker on
Mercer ST. and tree in 5. z. Bowser's
lot on Msin st. were struck by light
ming.
There was great furry in wheat
circles" last Monday The market
broke about 20 cents, and young Lei
ter of Chicago was caught" for a
heavy loss.
1t is daylight now shortly after a
a. m and dayligh. continues till to-
wards p. IN. fast time.) The next
two or three weeks will witness our
longest days.
The Fifteenth regiment left Mt.
Gretna last Saturday evening, passed
through Washington early next morn
ing, and had their tents up at Fort
Washington by noon.
"A little girl near Buttercup was
fatally injured by target rifle last Fri
day Target rifles are the most danger
GUS things you can have about the
house, and there are hundreds Of them
in Butler
The 1ecoil of a gun that will throw
thousand pounds of metal ten miles
must be something tremendous The
article entitled "Our New 13-inch
Guns, on our I'd page, tells how it is
controlled
"A very severe wind storm passed
over a small section of country west OF
Mt. Chestnut last Saturday evening,
blowing down fences, fruit and other
trees. The wind was accompanied
with heavy rain and bail
"A young man in neighboring town
shot 30 meadow larks the other day.
and the local paper calls attention tc
the law which imposes a penalty Of SIC
each for killing such birds. Therefore,
that young man is in debt $500, al
though he may not be prosecuted.
Pittsburg's new Zoo in Highland
Park was transferred from the donors
to the city with appropriate ceremonies
and in the presence Of ten thousand
people, Tuesday. The Zoo was estab-
lished by c. L. Magee, VIM. Finn and
Joshua Rhoads. and cost them $125, 900
The Finance Com of the Patriotic
League had meeting last evening, al
which the following Soliciting Com
was appointed: w. c. Thompson, w.
G.. Douthett, w. A. Stein and G. O
Christie. who will call upon the citizen!
for aid for those dependant upon
soldiers in the field. Everybody should
give something.
A vein of gas, considered strong
enough to run four boilers, was strucl
in a water well 1iS feet deap on the 10
OF Amos Steelsmith, on Bluff street
The well was drilled over five years
ago and the gas in it always interferet
with the pumping Of the water, ant
this week Mr. Steelsmith had new cas-
ing and a packer put in and the gas from
the well lighted that part Of town.
Strawberries and cherries from tn
surrounding country are now selling In
Butler at reasonable prices, and being
fresher they are Of better flavor THAI
those shipped in from other points
Some sections make big money in ber
ries,every year. For instance one da.
(about two weeks ago. the value of tn,
strawberries, at wholesale, shipped
from Marietta, Ohio, aggregated S5,
900.
Tho 1fh