Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1902-10-23
LOCAL AND GENERAL,

LOCAL AND GENERAL,
Game bag and hunting accident
season.
j. b. Bsediu has sold several more
lots in Bredinsyille.
The Lyndora Co. sold number of
lots. last Saturday; and the Cottage
Hill Co sold six.
The Pif5sblrg Exp) CLOSET last
Saturday night The total receipts this
year were Slis,o00
-Some of our modern feats of engi-
neering and construction dwarf the
ancient seven wonders of the world.
MAN is subject to 1912 different
diseases, but is always lucky enough
not to have them all at the same time.
-Levintons new Clothing Store-Re-
ception and Souvenir tomorrow evening
Opening Saturday. Everybody invit-
ed See adv.
-Douthet. 81 Graham's new show
windows are the talk of Butler This
enterprisipg firm deserves great credit
for the appearance of their new store.
Do not miss their grand opening Thurs
dav evening, Oct 23d, from to 10.
AT the meeting of Council, Tu uesday
evening, an ordinance was adopted al
lowing the Street Car Co. the use of
awarded to Jas. Ferry at 81, 10l, 20, and
the Mercer St sewer to John Miller at
$773.75.
The great Jones & Laughlin iron
firm of Pittsburg, whose output is said
to be 725, 900 tons of finished steel bars
rails, plates, etc annually, is contem
plating building an ore road from their
mills to Elk Harbor on Lake Erie, near
Girard, at cost of fifteen millions.
Butler is full of fakirs, peddlers and
agents of all kinds travelling from door
to door, some with useful articles, but
more with film devices for which they
claim wonderful virtues in order to get
the victim to part with his or her mon
ey. It mightn't be bad idea to show
some of the grafters that peddlers m ust
have license. The home merchants are
the best people to deal with.
Two young men who gave their
names as James j. and Andrew ]. Dau
terry, and place Of residence as Butler,
Pa, were arrested at the Fifth Avenue
hotel in New York city, Monday, charg-
ed with swindling local firms by order
ing goods to be sent to their room at
their hotel, c. o. D.. receiving them at
one door, and slipping out of another
with them, which necessitated changing
names and hotels after each game
William G. Turner, formerly Presi- |
dent of the Climax Bottle Manufactur-
ing Company, shot to death Albert
Hamilton, President of the T. 81 A.
Hamilton glass factories of Butler and
Pittsburg, and W. J. Mallard of the
Climax Bottle Manufacturing Company,
of New York, and afterwards put a bull
let through his own brain in the law
offices of Cantor. Mcintyre & Adams, in
New York, last Friday. The deed was
the result of quarrel over a settle
ment.
The Keystone Improvement Co., a
promoting and speculating concern of
Pittsburg, has optioned the late Samuel
Parks farm of 170 acres at Mars and ID
very likely to succeed in inducing a large
tin plate factory to locate at that place.
This will be an immense boom for that
thriving town, which is having steady
and stable growth This year more
than thirty dwelling houses. ranging
from $4,000 to $500 in cost, have been
built, and the Lutheran Altenheim,
costing $23, 900, is being erected by con-
tractor Geo. Schenck of Butler.
The wedding of Andy Win and
Annie BinnBo was celebrated Saturday
night in the Slav colony occupying
Father Glynn's row of tenements on
the Chas Duffy lot east of Playground
Ave. and every heart beat happily
until the abundance of bad whisky
present generated bad feeling and then
one man had his nose bitten off, another
his head broken with brick, third
was cut by beer bottle etc. The police
force squelched the disturbance after %
gallant fight. Five Hunkies were
placed in Jail and two sent to the Hos.
pital. The latter were afterwards dis
charged
The people OF New Castle were
startled last Wednesday to learn of the
arrest Of painter named Frank ]
Fields at his home in E. E. Pittsburg,
charged with the murder of John Blev-
ins. The information against Fields
was made by c. NJ McClaren of New
Castle, and was based on the alleged
death-bed confession of Fields brother
to man named Peak of Gorham, Kan.
The prisoner was hurried to New Cas-
tie and jailed, and had hearing, Mon
day, when the prosecution collapsed and
Fields was discharged Rumors impli-
eating prominent men of New Castle
with completely in the murder were
again put into circulation.
The following graduates and students
of the Butler Business College have re-
Gently accepted positions as follows:
Chester Byerly. book-keeper, South
Side Hospital. Pittsburg, Pa; c. A.
Kaufold position as assistant book
keeper with Pittsburg firm; Miss
Clara Belle Cate, stenographer for
large lumber company in Bethlehem,
Pa Chas. l.. Jamison, book-keeper for
wholesale lumber company, Pittsburg;
Mary Black, stenographer, National
Tube Co., Frick Bldg, Pittsburg; Les
ter Dart, position with the Standard
Steel Car Co.. Butler.
s. b. Martincourt 81 Co. carry the
largest stock of street and stable blankets
in Western Penn'a. Call and see them
1913 E. Jefferson st.
Amusement Arcade.