Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1902-03-20
LOCAL AND GENERAL,

Blessings on thee, little man,
With thine old tomato can
Filled with aDgleworms and earth,
And heart replete with mirth.
Go thou to the fishing hole
With thy two-cent line-and pole,-Ex.
But be careful or you'll fall in.
A small wreck occurred on the Bes-
semer in the southwestern part of town
Sunday.
Our Town Council has been passing
some new ordinances and changing
some old ones.
"A little New Castle girl set fire to
houses just to see the blaze, and will
finish her education at Morganza.
The .tail-end" of the Dakota bliz-
zard reached us, Monday, and sent the
mercury down to wardsthe zero mark.
Smallpox comes high in big cities.
The councils of Philadelphia have been
compelled to appropriate 1886, 900 to
check the rayages of the disease.
An Ohio boy smuggled skunk into
schoolroom, and the next day there
came q holiday. There is no limit to
the business of holiday making.
-Thequickest way to find gas leak
is with match A Beaver county man
fonud one in his cellar. Tuesday, that
way-explosion. fire, badly hurt man.
Did it ever strike you that every
dollar taken out of town for trade never
comes back Every dollar left at home
with home merchants, helps to build up
our town.
Mrs. Smiths old and marked gold
piece, is said to have been taken in over
the bar Of hotel at Natrona. but the
bar keeper could not remember from
whom he received it.
An old well near Campbeli's foun-
dry, which had been covered and built
over by the P. & w. caved in a few
days ago, almost precipitating some
italian section men into its depths.
The Court of Lawrence county, yes
terday, began the hearing of 33 applica-
tions for hotel license, also applications
for restaurant license, II for wholesale
license and three for, bre wer's license.
This is the time of year when the
Sun on the backs OF the horses and
cows causes the larvae of the gadfy to
crawl out Of the warbles on their backs,
and there is a large bird-though we
do not know its name, or whether or not
it is warbler-that follows the ami
mails and feasts on these same larvae.
bot alum water is the best insect
destroyer known. Put the alum into
hot water and let it boil until it is all
dissolved; then apply the solution hot
with brush to all cracks. closets, bed
steads and wherever insects are found.
Ants. bedbugs and cock reaches are kill
ed by it, while it has no danger of poi
soning.
Tuesday the Slipperyrock Normal
closed its winter term and sent 500 boys
and girls home for a weeks vacation be-
fore commencing the spring term next
. Tuesday. About 100 students. nine
tenths of whom were girls, took the
southbound passenger train at Keister
Station, Tuesday evening. One hack
man on one trip hauled fifteen girls
with their packages from the school to
the station and one of the dear creatures
wanted to know if the hack was built
weak"
-Fos. Wick had $1,000 insurance on
his hotel at W. Sunbury, and Rhodes
& Russell had $1,000 The fire originat-
cd about 8 q. m. in the store, but its orr
gin is mystery, and incendiarlsm is
suspected. A doctor and an oil man
who passed at 2 o'clock saw nothing
wrong, and they and others heard
strange whistlings which indicated
collusion. and besides this ladder, tax
en- from neighboring lot was found
leaning against the back part of the
store-building.
"A great legal battle will follow the
attempt Of the city of New Castle to
collect from the bondsmen of John
Blevins. the murdered city treasurer,
the shortage of that official, $s7, 900. On
Monday the bondsmen fled their an
swer to the suits entered by City Solici-
tor Gardner in the six cases against
them for the recovery of the city funds
alleged to have been misappropriated
The amount involved is $40. 9S4. So This
II in addition to the suits against the
bondsmen of Blevins in his capacity as
custodian of the school funds, where a
shortage Of more than $32, 900 exists.
Much comment has been caused in
New York among the wearers of dress
clothes by the action of Cornelius Van
derbilt in appearing at the dinner which
he gave to Prince Henry in swallow
tailed coat adorned with gold buttons.
This was departure from the prevail
ing custom that was looked upon with
surprise, and it was thought that it was
the intention Of the wearer to take ad-
vantage of his prominence upon that
occasion to introduce a new fashion,
Ex.
New fashion indeedl Barber Hughes
OF Butler wore gold dollars for buttons
on his velvet vest fifty years ago.
A remarkable story of crime comes
from Texas. In the vicinity of Beau
mont, since the oil craze began. the
bodies of five murdered men have been
found in the Neches river, and dozens
have been drugged and robbed. Matte
Bennett, a negress. has confessed that
she was the head of an organized band
OF negro women and white men who
bave done this work. She says the vic
tim was lured to her shanty and drug
ged, and If that was not sufficient one
OF the white men would beat him into
complete unconsciousness, If after he
had been robbed he was found to be
dead, he was carried to the river and
thrown into it. If only unconscious.
ne was dragged to secluded part Of
the street and left there for passers-by
10 pick up.
SEED OATS!