Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1903-02-19
LOCAL AND GENERAL,

LOCAL AND uENEKAL,
The anthracite miners are trying tC
raise $75, 900 for Mitchell
The Spring term of Cabot Institute
begins April 7th. See card.
The mercury was 10 degrees below
zero in Butler, tEis morning.
An unsuccessful attempt was made
to rob the First National Bank oi
Parker, 1ast Sunday.
Some of the rural route carriers
had to return to town, Monday and
Tuesday The feet of their horses
"balled.
j. V. Ritts, Al Reiber, J. Fl. Trout
man and other local capitalists are said
to have formed a wholesale grocery
company.
Important property transfers in
Butler indicate the strenuousness of the
Building Boom that will prevail in But
ler,thi year.
The ''rag-time millionaire" is the
name Of a new waltz that some of the
boys of this town have learned to their
cost and sorrow.
AS Venezuela has refused his Offer
of a loan. it might be well for Mr.. Car
negie TO start library in Caracas, and
stock it with books on political econo-
my.
Susan B. Anthony says that Har-
ward graduates do not make the best
fathers. 1t would be interesting to
know what brand Of education, in her
rent.
james Meeks a coal-miner living
near Hilliard, left his house Satur-
day night after saying Goodbye to
/. his wife. He wore only pair of gum
shoes on his feet at the time. On Mon
day he ate dinner at Branchton and has
not been seen since.
The residence Of D. J. Craig in
Tarentum was destroyed by fire early
last Saturday morning. One son, Ray,
aged IL years, was burned to death. Mr..
Craig and young daughter were seri-
ously burned, and all more or less hurt
by jumping from the second-story win
dows.
"A Tennessee Legislator introduced
bill making it illegal for a man to
kiss women between sixteen and sixty
unless the female party was his wife.
The Legislature passed the bill with an
amendment making it applicable only
to the man who introduced it. That
was Justice swift and sure.-Ex.
One of our physicians remarked the
other day that Buffers dirty streets
needed the attention of the Board OF
Health worse than the few isolated
cases of smallpox, and that the filthy
condition of the business streets is far
more threatening and dangerous to the
public health than are any cases of dis
ease in the town.
The intensly cold weather in the
western states snapped the wires, and
for time. Tuesday, Chicago was cut of
from communication with the rest of
the world. The mercury ranged from
degree above zero at Louisville to "a
below in Wisconsin. In some towns q
shortage of fuel caused great suffering
The 'soldest citizen of this world
according to the Russian papers, is in
the hospital at Tomac in that country
He is 200 years old They say this
statement is supported by documents.
The man has been a widower for 12S
years He had son, who died in 1924
aged 80 years. He remembers seeing
Peter the Great. He is bed-ridden, but
mentally sound.
The dilemma of the people of Pitts
burg over the Recordership, reminded
Dispatch's editor of that of the man VIII
s'was on his way to visit for the frs
time town in this region then in tn
primal stages of its transition from vii
lage to an industrial city. Asking q
fellow-passenger on the train what
hotel he had better stop at, he received
this reply: 1T don't make any differ
ence. Whatever hotel you go to, you'll
wish you had gone to the otherl''
The most important property trans
fer in Butler, during the past few day
was that of the Pape heirs to DAME
Younkins Of 30 TT. front on N. Main 81
corner of North-for $12, 900, or $40
per foot front; aud next after that wa
Will Rumbergers transfer of the oil
Miller property at S. Mexican and Z
Wayne to one of the Abrams for 5000
or $40 per foot front. The J. T. Lowr
residence on w. Pearl changed hand
for 1900 and the J. M. Miller resldenc
on Mercer for $1,000.