Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1903-01-29
LOCAL AND GENERAL,
Will he see his shadow.

LOCAL AND GENERAL,
Will he see his shadow.
The street car rails upset sleighs.
Next Monday is Ground Hog day.
ALI the car train yards about Pitts
burg are blockaded again.
"A local Institute will be held at
Sarversyille, February 7th.
The temper cent increase in the B.
& o. wages will begin Feb 1st
"A new hotel for Butleris talked of,
to be located on East jefferson street.
Harry Seanor will be here next Fri
day and Saturday, and he wants twenty
horses
The break in the oil market, last
week, caused many producers to sell
Their oil.
The sound of the carpenters ham
mer is heard in the town-an oddity for
mid winter
An epidemic of smallpox at North
Bessemer caused the quarantining of
several trains
The people of Buffalo and Winfield
townships will note the changes in the
West Winfield R. r. time table.
The Butler Water Co. intends
building another and larger reservoir or
dam, below the one at Boydstown.
The enterprising people of Mars
have offered thirteen acres free and
also cash bonus for a manufacturing
plant.
The War Department has ordered
the raising of the old Union bridge over
the mouth of the Allegheny river, and
the owners say they will raze it.
-Thirty-one carpenters arrived in
Butler early last Friday morning, from
Rochester, N Y. and after breakfast in
town went down to the Car Works.
j. H Steen, the dairyman of Con-
noquenessing twp. has purchased the
Bole residence and machine shop on S.
Main ST., Butler, and proposes turning
the machine shop into milk and butter
depot.
Hereafter Butler man, who was
a candidate for the Republican nomi-
nation for Burgess, will take but little
stock in our ward heelers." He en-
gagged one. supposed friend, to look
after certain precinct of the town and
did not get a single vote in it.
AT Renova, Pa, mail agent on an
Erie train was startled when he got the
body of man in attempting to catch a
mail bag while the train was in motion.
Investigation showed that Moses S.
Thiercault had been struck by the
passenger engine and his body sent fly
ing in the air. 1t landed on the mail
post and when the iron arm shot out OF
the mail car the body was picked up
instead of the mail bag.
A sensation was created in New
Castle, last Friday, by the arrest of
Councilman VIM. G.. Leddy of the 4th
ward, one of the best-known young men
of that city. on charge of embezeling
funds of Lawrence Castle, No. 494,
Knights of the Golden Eagle, of which
he has been Keeper of the Exchecque1
for the past four years Leddv was
placed in Jail pending preliminary
hearing
The last three days of the week,
corresponding to this one of last yeal
were very exciting ones for the people
of this section. Early Thursday morn
ing Of that week the Biddle brothers es
capped from the Pittsburg Jail, and with
Mrs. Soffel, disappeared. Next morn
ing they appeared at Cooperston. were
followed to Butler and Mt Chestnut
and were ''shot to pieces ON the road
and hauled to Butler jail Saturday
night, the Biddle boys both lay dead
in the Butler Jail.
DIR. Edwin s. Cooper and Mrs Della
Talbitzer of New Castle and DR.. ]. R
Hahn of Edinburg were bound over fol
trial at the March criminal court under
$1,000 bail each, after preliminary
hearing last Friday on charges of crimi
nal practices upon Mabel Williams Of
Conemaugh, who died there Sept. II
>iast, at Mrs Talbtzer's home. Albert
Itell, the Pittsburg drug clerk, also ac
cused, was not present at the hearing
as he waived hearing when arrested
and gave bail for court.
On general principles it is very poo
policy for an outgoing Board of County
Commissioners to award large contract
on the eve of their retirement from of
fee for work intended to be done month
ahead. 1t is anticipating the action o
the Incoming officials and is discourte
Gus to the new Commissioners an,
makes the retiring officials subject t
severe criticism from the public if ther
is the slightest indication that ther
was an lax to grind" in the transaction
In Lycoming county the old Board o
Commissioners just before they wen
out of Office let some fat bridge con
tracts which made great row. Tn
r,opv Cnrnmis sciopars apnu1Iad tho cor
tracts and made new ones at much low
er prices, thus saving several thousaD
dollars. But that county is liable
stand the expense of law suit with tn
bridge companies holding the first col
tracts
Some queer things bob up in th
bink note redemption department c
the United States Treasury but the chic
of the division admits that even he ws
surprised when he received the stomac
of dog few weeks ago. Dear sir,
raa the letter which accompanied til
stomach, Il send you under separat
cover stomach of my dog Fritz; I W;
playing with him today. holding s;
bill up for him to jump at when he SUI
denly leaped higher than l had antic
pated, grabbed the bill between h
teeth and ran under the house where /
chewed the money up and swallowed
/ thought more of the $50 than I did
Fritz-he was always chasing CHECKER