Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1903-11-19
LOCAL AND GENERAL.

their note books
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
-Springdale has the best water.
The school kids are drinking boiled
water
Typhoid fever is spreading In
Butler
Crazy as loon"-See Douglass
show window.
The paving of Ziegler ave. was
completed this week.
The burglar and the street robber
are again on evidence.
1t is not the hens that have corner
ed" the eggs-they make them all
round.
Porter J. White will be the Thanks
giving attraction at the Park Theatre,
matinee and night.
"A child was burned to death Coop
erstown. last Saturday, but we have
not learned the name
-Ssxonburg used to be famous for
beer. now it is famous for water, and
they send some Of it up TO Butler. G.
a Kennedy has it.
The Judge and the Jury Commits
sioners fill the Jury Wheel. next month,
and people who want on the jury should
send in their names.
Since the Patterson Bros. of Butler
have taken the agency for the F. w.
D,voe Il Go paints, they have sold five
thousand gallons of it.
w r. Eastman, secretary of the
Postal Board, will hold an examination
for clerks and carriers IN Butler, on
Saturday, the 28tb inst
On account of the number of
typhoid cases in town. the ladies of the
Hospital Association have postponed
Donation Day, indefinitely.
1--iBntler now has eight mail carriers
all stout, hearty fellows-and all
complaining of being over-worked. At
least two more carriers are needed i'm
nediately.
r. L. Kirkpatrick's new Diebold
safe Is not only beauty. but, also air
tight and burRlar-proof r. L. began
business In Butler few years ago, with
one safe, and now needs three
The late deaths Of two members of
the Select Council of Pittsburg, gives
the Citizens Party there the control of
that body, and may affect some Of the
the railroad ordinances now pending
Fire destroyed the Bleakley block
in Franklin few days ago, causing an
; estimated loss Of $4,000. Several bus
inezs firms, including the Western
Union Telegraph Company are without
homes.
The late rains were doubly well (
come. They were needed from an agri- |
cultural point Of view, and they proba-
bly, started billions OF typhoid germs on |
their way to sure death In the salt-wa-
tsr Of the Gulf.
An odd case isreported from Zanes- |
vile, Ohio. A veterinary there deeided |
that fine horse. afflicted with lockjaw,
could not be cured, and must be killed. |
80 he put enough Prussic acid in its
windpipe to kill twenty horses-and the
horse got we'll
Whoever ig appointed Justice Of
the Peace TO succeed Reuben McEIvain,
decd, will hold the Office, by the a2-
pointment, until the first Monday Of
May next; and whoever are elected, next
February. to succeed him and ESQ. Nc
Aboy. will hold the offices Cd. O. for five
years.
--Bloodshed. rioting and disorderly
scenes followed an attempt Of the Chi [
cago City Railway 10 move cars last
Thursday, after q strike OF its en-
ployees was declared. Fifty men were
injured. many seriously. bat none fatal
ly. Non-union trainmen were driven
on the cars and compelled to seek salty
IN fight.
Andrew Fl. Green. aged "a years,
and one Of the most useful and respect
Cd citizens Of Now York city, was shot
and killed at the door OF his residence,
Last Friday evening. by an insane negro.
He was former partner of Tilden. and
he started the movement to consolidate
New York and Brooklyn under one city
government
An analysis by Pittsburg expert
OF q drawing Of water from q Butler
spicket, disclosed no fever germs, but
o. the Water Co. has been securing Its
supply for different days from different
sources. and AZ one sample Of water
may and another may not contain the
germs, the Board Of Health renews Its
sdmonition to boil all water intended
for drinking
The paving OF w. Perm st., from
Washington to Mercer. total distance
OF $500 feet. was completed few days
ago, and the work has since been meas
ured. The total cost was $40, ,000-of
whicE the Street Car Co. pays $500,
and the borough about $500, leaving
about $4,000 to be assessed TO the lot
owners, and making the cost per foot
front little over 1910
I'm a secluded spot at the mouth OF
. cave In Alpeppo twp, Allegheny
county. Adolph Bengele, well.known
farmer, was murdered and robbed last
Wednesday evening He was attacked
while working ut cider mill. about SO
feet from his house. He was shot down
In his tracks. his pockets were rifed
And the home was ransacked. through
the murderers got little reward. Ben.
gele was widower and lived alone.
The most lasting short poem reads
thusly--
Thirty days hath September,
April, Jnne and dull November,
All the rest have thirty one
Save February. TO which
We twenty-eight assign,
TIL Ieap-year gives 1t twenty nine.
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