Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1900-07-10
LOCAL AND GENERAL,
Are YOU a Boxer
Now enlist for China.

frame school building
Delaware has announced four
million basket peach crop.
There is some talk Of the P O. at
Rattigan being knocked ont.
"A favorite son bonnet beats any
kind of a nat such weather as this
Are you old enough to remember
the Native American" movement Of 81.
Regarding the Boer war the British
continue 10 have some trouble in the
Mex
The Japs jumped at the chance to
enter China; they have their eyes cooked
in that direction.
The chimney swallows are utilizing
the smoke stack Of the county boiler
house this summer.
-Thirty-one tickets were sold in But
Ter, last Saturday, for toe B. R. q P.
excursion to Niagara.
The flowers of speech used at nom
ination notifications throw ordinary
boquets into the shade.
Some telegraph poles near Greece
City were struck by lightning during
tho storm, Monday night.
We never did know much about
China, and the Chinese aeem determined
that we should know less.
Both hay and wheat viii be fair
crops in this county this year, and the
corn and oats are looking well.
The sausage makers OF New York
have formed trust and everybody
hopes that it VIII go to the dogs.
The hottest man in Pittsburg is the
Wooden Indian. His snake story III
yesterday Times was immense.
News from PeHin is in great demand
with scant supply You can't peek in
to that place as easily as of yore.
Beyond this lies the Washtub and
Sawbuck' was the motto of the class re-
Gently graduated at Concordia, Kansas.
The case of smallpox in Butler
township is rapidly improving. The
patient is W and about and viii soon
be we'll
On Saturday last Messrs Curry and
Goodwin sold two thousand Centennial
Souveniers to the Butler County
Notional Bank
a festival and free musical enter
tainment will be held in Lincoln Hall,
at Bruin, Tuesday evening, July 24th,
for the benefit of the NJ L. church.
This whole Chinese war started
right here in Butler Those fellows
who Boxed the Chinamau's ears some
weeks ago little W1 Ting Fang what
would follow.
is. this Chinese war on this earth
or some other earthl" In the barber
shops, Tuesday morning there was
more prize fight talk than war talk
Some engineers III the employ of
the q. s. are making geological
survey of the country to the east of
Millerstown. They figured out Fenel-
ton to be 1868 feet above the sea-level.
Eight car loads Of Masons from
Butler attended the picnic at Cascade
Park last Thursday, and one of our
citizens W. A Stein, captured the Vice
Presidency Of the Outing Association
One Of our meat market men esti-
mates that about Sf50,000 goes out Of
Butler county every year for smoked
meats. We cannot see why our farmers
do not raise, kill and cure more pigs.
The cara ordered for the street rail
way here are said to be of larger pat
tern than any used in Pittsburg. The
track up jefferson street will probably
be completed to the crossing of Bluff st
this week
Very light crops Of wheat and rye
are being harvested in the southern part
Of the county. Hay has grown nicely
but is not heavy on the ground, the re-
cent rains are doing a great deal of good
to the oats, corn and berries.
Il. s.. McJunkin Insurance Agent
lately settled with Jacob Tinker Of
Cherry; Dir Beachem of Euclid; Mr.
Hines and Mrs. Martin of West Liberty
aud T. S. Fletcher of North Washing
ton for damages done by lightning.
The Street Car Co. excavates strip
about eight feet wide and eighteen
inches deep in the paved street into
which they place the ties and rails and
then replace the gravel and brick as
nearly as possible. The rails for the
paved street are about inches high
and four inches broad on top.
The First Ward and Rescue running
teams expect to compete in the hose
races of the Western Penna Firemens,
Association at New Kensington,
Aug. Is, at Phiilipsburg Aug. 81, at
Titusville Sept 12. first money is $3.50 J
and at the the New Castle State tourna-
ment in October $500 in prizes are to
be offered at New Castle.
"A Mars man and his wife who are
grandparents, attended the Centennial
and while here met an an old acauaint-
ance Of the lady who had been in the
west for many years She and the O A.
talked on the street for several minutes
and the husband grew jealous, sent O..
A about his business sent his wife
home, then left his family for several
days At her solicition he returned bnt
later there was more trouble he turned
his family out Of doors, killed the pet
dog and cat, buried them in the back
yard, and marked their graves with
broomsticks, saying he would soon have
several more there. A week or TO ago
he locked his wife in a room and threat.
ened to kill her, but was arrested and
put IN the town cooler. Later he was
released on promising to be GOOD, but
again whipped his wife then jumped on
horse, rode away and has not been seen
since.