Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1903-02-12
LOCAL AND GENERAL,


The Woodmen of the World lead in
the piano contest.
Local elections next Tuesday, every
voter should turn out
There are said to be 108 cases of
small pcx in Sharpsburg.
1t is wise barber who never illus
trates his business with cuts.
To-day. Feb. 12, is Lincoln's birth
day and legal holiday in this State.
One of Newtons pianos was arrest
ed, last week. and put in jail for three
years
u. S. G. Geiger has opened a thirty
roomed boarding house at No. 212 Neg
ley Ave.
Somebody says that eating an on
ion once day is a preventative of
small pox.
"A Greenville firm announces its re-
tirement from business owing to "exor
bitant rent"
Every good citizen has an interest
in the borough election and should
manifest it properly.
st. Louis, Louisville, Cairo, ILL.,,
and other cities experienced slight
earthquake shocks, Sunday evening.
The midnight-mechanics Of this
town seem to think that all the wealth
of the P. r. r. is locked up in the But
Ter station.
Two men lately visited house on
Quarry St, where an assistant paymas-
ter rooms. obtained permission TO visit
his room and then ransacked it.
I'm New Castle, last Friday, the con-
crete roof of a new 7-story building col
lapsed, killing one carpenter and injur-
ing two others, working in the room be-
low.
"A 81 900 business block is being
erected at the corner of Bluff and West
streets, while opposite it on West street
Mrs. Mary Davis Vogan has broken
ground for 50, 900 dwelling.
A certificate of incorporation was
fled in Dover, the capital Of Delaware,
Monday, for the Butler Builders Supply
Company, of Butler, Pa, to manufac-
ture and sell cement, etc. Capital stock
100000
"A deal was closed in Pittsburg'
Monday, by which the Standard Oil
Company interests secured control Of
, the Peoples Gas Co. of that city. The
transaction is one of considerable inter
est to all consumers Of natural gas in
the city. c. N. Payne of Titusville act
ed for the principals in the deal, and
will shortly become the official head of
the Peoples company.
Indianapolis. Ind. is the scene of re-
markable trial, which began last week
and continues this Dr. Anderson of
that city was the apparent head of
grave-robbing gang; and one of his as
sistants was an unmarried colored man,
whose sweetheart died The negro went
to his girls funeral. and shortly after
his return found her body in the doc
tors possession. That angered him and
he "peached" on the whole gang.
The board OF directors OF the Farm
ers Deposit National Bank Of Pittsburg
have instructed their agents not to rent
rooms in their new ''sky-scraper," to
women, physicians, dentists, manicur-
ists. dressmakers or others having a
large female clientele Stenographers
and clerks employed by occupants will
be the only females accorded the right
to occupy rooms in the building.
The city Of Pittsburg is now in the
throes OF its periodical regeneration and
publication movement. Reform in the
Smoky City is becoming chronic Pitts
burg Is really not as bad as 1t thinks it
is. Father Pitt appears to be sort Of
moral hypochondriac. He tries to per-
suade himself that he is very wicked,
and IL constantly confessing his sins,
when the probability is that Pittsburg,
In proportion to population, is not a
very great deal worse-perhaps not
more than ten times worse-than But
Ter.
In lonely telegraph tower at Wal
ton, on the Pittsburg, Virginia 81
Charleston railroad, Mrs. George Will
son Of Monongahela City, the operator,
midnight Sunday was struck down for
revenge by ruffians blow her body
dragged to the gaping door Of coal
stove, where her head was thrust III,
and as the flames caught her disheveled
tresses the murderer tripped upon le-
yer, which threw red block ON an ap.
preaching train and warned its crew of
danger. A whistle from the engine
caused the assailant to desist, and az
the trainmen bounded mp the tower
stairs the unknown leaped from the
second story window to liberty. The
operator was found unconscious, and nj
0 o'clock was taken to her home in
Monongahela City, where she is in Q
precarious condition.
The other day man rushed into q
hardware store in great hurry, as h,
wanted to catch street car, and said
Give me porn copper"
You mean pop-corner," said tn,
clerk.
Yes, said cop-porner. Hurry
up"
"All right-you want porn-corper.
II said cob-poiner, didn't II"
No. you said porp-corner'
II did not. said corb-ponnor."
Get out You said prop-conner.
mo. sirl said croppornerp
Didn't"
'Didw
We'll. you might as well take you
time now" said the clerk, ms he ar
preached the excited be-purchas
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