Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1901-04-18
NEIGHBORHOOD NOTES.

The public schools of North Believer
non, Westmoreland county, have been
closed on account of a strange disease
that has appeared. The sick people
have spasms, their skins turn yellow,
and they lie in a comatose state for sew
eral hours before death
Westmoreland county has "a plague
of thieves.
In Lawrence county last Saturday A
( C. HYDE secured the Republican nomi-
nation for Register and Recorder.
George Welshons, aged years,
nephew of the deceased Pittsburg news
paper man of that name and a cousin OF
! VIM. Welshons, of Boyd's drug store,
tagged a train on the Ligonier Valley
/ railroad Monday, saving it from being
wrecked in an open switch.
Four tramps who made a school house
/ their sleeping room at Anandale, Pa.
I introduced so many vermin that the
/ school has been closed although there
are still four months of the term.
/ Frank Major, alias Daniel j. Kehoe
alias Joseph Kennedy, was hanged in
Meadville, Tuesday, for the murder of
! Chief of Police McGrath, of Titusville
| The drop fell at 2:06 O'Clock and six
minutes later Major was pronounced
| dead by the attending physicians.
Proceedings in equity have been filed
| in Common Pleas of Mercer Co. by
citizens of Grove City against that
| borough, A. E. Graham, the borough
treasurer. and Grove City college. The
suit asks to have set aside an ordinance
| passed year ago by the council OF
| Grove City, composed of H. B. McKin-
ney, Samuel Barnes, J. p Locke, P. f.
Say, w. w. Shorts, D. w Styers, E.
/ B. Harshaw and S. A. Hughes, burgess,
accepting gift of $50, 900 from Andrew
| Carnegie to establish a free public Ii
| brary in that town with the condition
that the borough pay $500 yearly for
maintenance. The assessed valuation
of Grove City then was $414, 900. Coun-
Gil, wishing to accept Mr.. Carnegies Of
fer, entered into co-partnership with
Grove City college, giving to the college
control of the library by appointing
library commission of five members,
three of whom are trustees of the col
lege. including j. n. Pew, of Pittsburg.
president of the board of trustees, and
Isaac c. Keller, president of the college.
years the borough has levied the highest
tax allowed by law and the income has
not been adequate to meet expenses. 1t
is claimed that the contract, if legal.
creates debt in excess of the constitu-
tional limit For this reason they ask
that the agreement be declared void and
that the borough and college be restrain
ed from carrying out their contract
The rural delivery system is now in
operation all over Washington county.
There are 96 routes.
Final papers were drawn few days
ago for the erection of another sky
scraper, in Pittsburg. The building will
be erected at the northeast corner of
Wood street and Fourth avenue. by the
Peoples Savings bank, now located at
241 Fourth avenue. The structure will
be 10 stories or 215 feet high The
George A Fuller company, of New
York, was awarded the contract to put
up the building This company is erect
ing the Frick building. The new bank
building itself, when completed and
fully equipped, will have cost about
$500, 000 The site cost S2S0.000 By
the terms of the contract the building
is to be ready for occupancy by March
next.
Mrs Mary Scanlcn, charged with
highway robbery. was arrested at Wam-
pun lately and taken to Jail in
New Castle 1t is alleged she
held up A v Perry, boss of one of the
Wampum coal mines, and with the
assistance of her husband relieved him
of $12 They met Perry on the railroad
tracks near Wampum. it is said, and at
first pretended to be.peddlers. The man
SAID he was formerly miner and So
gained Perry's confidence. After the
alleged robbery the woman and her hus-
band hurried along the railroad toward
Beaver Falls, while Perry returned to
| Wampum, and secured officers to jim III
| the search.
Constable Didinger and two Others
started ont and came upon the woman
and her accomplice about two miles
! from the place of the robbery. The
woman made desperate fight for
| liberty but was overpowered. She
was arraigned before Judge Brady, and
was held for the June term of Criminal
| Court She was remanded to jail.
but her husband was permitted to go
free. N c. Elk