Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1901-11-14
LOCAL AND GENERAL,


time table next Sunday.
A number of Evans City people wer
poisoned, last week. by eating 'head
cheese"
The Butler High School football
team was defeated to 0 at Kittanning
Saturday.
A prominent Evans City Democra
worked so hard at the polls that he for
got to vote himself.
Farmers Institutes next month
jefferson Centre 4th and 5th: W. Sun
bnry 6 and Z, and Slipperyrock 9 and 10
The P. q w. R. R. Co. has LEASED
its line from Foxburg to Mt. Jewett t.
the Bradford. Bordell and Kinzua R R
Co.
Several hundred people attended
the Elks' benefit recital by the Pittsburt
Concert Co in the Park Theatre, Mon
day evening.
A B. r & p train made up 81 min
utes between Punxsutawney and Butle
the other morning -sixty-two mile
with four stops.
Wagons will call on all streets
about 10 o'clock for hospital donations
Thursday. November 81. Please have
haskets m front nOrch
The rail road men of the country are
making an effort to SO improve the
digestion of their roads as to prevent
further freight congestion.
The first installment of literature
advertising the Louisiana Purchase
Exposition" to be held in st Louis, dur
ing the summer of 1908, has reached US
Finance Keeper Thompson of the
Supreme tent of the Maccabees, in q
letter to Supreme Commander Markley
has confessed the embezzlement of $57,-
900
Bradford had a 100000 fire last
Friday night The City Hall, large
livery stable and SO horses were burn
ed. The City Hall was comparatively
new and cost $4,000
The best thing the National Gov
ernment could do with that hundred
million year surplus would be to ac-
quire its own postoffice property in all
the we'll established towns.
A team OF football players gathered
together, Saturday afternoon and went
to Zeliencple where they were defeated
by score of 30 to. A return game will
be played on Thanksgiving.
Forty thousand people saw the
''mums" in the Phipps conservatory and
the new pictures in the Carnegie libra
ry, last Sunday. A new mum" of a
delicate yellow shade is called the Ad-
lniral Dewy.
The Bessemer intends making a
new cut off for through freight from
Kremis to Osgood. leaving Greenville
about three miles to the west, shorten
ing their route several miles and i'm
proving the grade.
The Penn'a r. r. Co. is reported to
have purchased the property between
Liberty and Penn Aves from 18th to
2Sth street for ami immense freight depot
The aggregate values of the properties
Is said to be $4,000
On the P. & w train coming up
from Allegheny, a few days ago, there
were one hundred and eight bird dogs
and rabbit hounds in the baggage car
all of which came to Butler and were
dropped off at the stations between here
and Kane.
-Kavanaugh of Zelienople is to open
machine shop on the Ezra Campbell
farm in the Speechley district A big
run of work is predicted for the new in
dustry The next embellishments of
Campbell Hollow will be a store, no
ell and barber shop
Saturday last was the last day fol
the reception of bids for floor space fol
for the Bntler P. o aud we understand
that proposal was put in for the frs
floor and basement of the Koonce stor,
building on S. Main St, with the addi
tion of 25 feet off the rear end of tht
Newton Music Store.
Judging from the number tina
spend their time in the three "bucke
shops" of Butler, doing the stock ex
change hours of 10 a. m. to p. m. a
least q hundred thousand men of thi
nation spend considerable of their tim
in gambling in st6cks.
-Wmr Walker has purchased the Ea
gle building, now occupied by the print
ing Office and Douglass book store. Th
Office will be removed to the Cunning
ham Hotel property on the 1st of Apri
next. and Mr.. Douglass does not we
know where he will go.
AT the meeting of Councils of New
Castle, Monday night. a resolution Offer
ing $4,000 reward for the arrest of tn
murderer of John Blevins, was adopted
and the whole town was talking abou
it next day. 1t is generally believe
that the murderer or murderers ar,
prominent men of the town.
A Committee of railroad men me
in Plttsburg, Monday, to deyise mean
and methods of relieving what is calle
the freight congestion, or freight jan
caused. it is said, by car famine
though from the large lines of freigh
cars standing on the tracks about Pitt
burg and Allegheny, and other centre
of industry, one would suppose that be
ter terminal facilities, more men an
more engines were needed worse tina
more cars.
One of the most unique seizure
ever made in the history Of the Sheriff
Office of Erie Co. N. Y. was made las
Friday when Deputy Sheriff Howar
went to the infant incubator buildin
on the Exposition Midway and elaine
possession in the ma me of the law of il
contents. This included several of tt
incubators, five of them including livin
infants. The deputy did not care
take the responsibility of keeping ii
breath Of life in the infants SO aske
that the infants he removed desnite RI