Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1903-07-09
LOCAL AND GENERAL.


LOCAL AND GENERAL.
An ice-cream-s soda now costs
dime
Mt Chestnut wants a new school
house.
Midnight providers continue to get
In their work.
Mine thousand people went to the
Park last Saturday.
The bridge on ". Penn st. is to be
rebuilt and enlarged.
Half a million tons of iron ore
passed through Butler last month
The fire at the New Castle tin plant
threw two Thousand men out of work
The June fresh started twenty
million bushels Of coal down the river
from Pittsburg.
Co. L. boys tested their new Krags
for the first time at the rifle range
northwest Of town Saturday.
The Council has employed Chief
Burkhalter at 50 per day to disconnect
the water spnuts from the sewers.
The burglar who found and took
400. between the mattresses OF Mrs.
Browns bed. while she slept and with
ont awakening her. was an expert.
The executors of the late Christie
pher L. Maeee last week paid Ss4. 600 to
DR.. Browning (ths physician who
claimed $19O, 900 for services) thus end
Ing the case.
The Butler County National Bank
On July 1st, declared their regular
ssmi- annual four per cent dividend. the
twenty fourth made since the bank
started in business.
The hell over application of Geo,
81 Kurtz OF Petrolia. for a hotel
license was granted, last Monday. and
the application Of A. Allen for de-
tective license was also granted
The inquest on the death OF the. late
J. o. Brown, Recorder of Pittsburg.
win be continued tomorrow. There
seems to be little doubt but that he
committed suicide by taking poison.
I'D. b. Sutton. representing Butler
capitalists Las bought the Robert
Stevenson farm at Bonnie Brook for
go 900 and the NJ N. Heinzer for
o12, 900, and the Johnston for $4,000.
The old Street Car Co intends
Duilding line to the proposed new
town at Bonnie Brook. and the Cottage
Hill CO. has asked Council for route
from the Pittsburg bridge to the east
orn boundary line of the town.
AS some Butler men have already
& invested about sixty thousand dollars in
property near and at Bonnie Brook
n station on the B & o and B r & P
- roads that is fair to presume that a
manufacturing plant of some kind is
contemplated for that vicinity.
There have been some sad funeral
scenes at Jeanette this week, due to
Sundays calamity, and the food has
been followed by an epidemic of pneu-
monia- Twenty persons are known to
have been drowned, twenty more are
missing and four were injured
s The Post Office employees Tuesday
6yanine Of last week rendered E. A.
Emrick and John Ayres, their newly
married brethren, and their brides,
ssrsnades Of their own particular brand
and incidently presented them with
rocking chairs. John Graham with his
Mighty, umbrella and tin horn was the
feature Of the Ayres reception.
"A few days ago all the heirs of
Thomas Stehle, decd. signed an agree
ment to sell to j. D. Marshall and T. L.
Schenck the five-acre triangular piecs
Of ground, fronting on Race and Willow
sts and known to the younger genera
ton as the bali grounds and to thu
older as the Old Fair Grounds. fol
90. 900. or at the rate of $4,000 per acre
and 1t will be laid of into lots and solo
for bnilding purposes.
Sunday evening June 2Sth wit
messed ono Of the most severe rail-
storms Of the summer. The lowe
parts Of the town werc flooded TIL,
water came down Fairview avenu,
curb deep. On this street the houses O
\ 81 Collins and T. Lyon were struck BY
lightning. Collins was stunned. Tht
lightning followed gas pipe from
Lyons house to that of his father How,
Lyon. 400 yards distant exploding on
the stove.
AN unknown man, 6 feet 2 in. il
height weighing about 250 pounds art
about s5 years of age, died. Saturday, ,ol
the Curtis McCandless farm. nea
Hickory School. four miles north o
Mt Chestnut, supposedly from tn
combined effects Of heat, liquor ant
epilepsy. Neighbors noticed him walk
ing on the road acting wildly a shor
time before his death He was evident
ly demented and could not give hi
natna an hour later he died in convul
sions. Nothing on his person establishe,
his identity, S5 cents in change bein
al his pockets contained.
Sheriff Gibson thinks he has discoy
cred some sort OF a central home or pre-
tective agency among the Hobos Seve
recently put in Jail on short sentence
for railroad trespassing received post
Office money orders for IS each The OF
ders were made at Freeport, Pa. Sey
eral others received express orders fo
larger amounts. These were from CHI
0seo- A hobo can always get money
Two recently arrested had $S5 on thei
persons. Two others. one with a han
bandaged In a black handkerchief, an
the other with an arm and leg sppal
emily paralized or crippled. who wer
bsxging last week. using cards wit
long-faced rhymes were seen to discar
their canes and walk as sound, health
men when outside Of town.
Well, sayl II Ritter & Rockenstei
aren't cutting prices we never saw thel
cut sale begins today.