Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1903-03-12
LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Diplomacy and the Easter Bonne
are having their innings.
An r. +. d. route from Freepor
will be established, April 1st.
The date for the opening of Cabo
Institute has been changed to April IA
See card
The Board of Trustees of Thiel Col
lege have determined upon its remoya
to the site near Greensburg.
Rep. Blumle in framing his bill tt
pension large families should not for
get the case of Pennsylvania woman
who is grandmother at 80.
A stable on the lot of J. C. Taylor
fronting on Lincoln Way in the Fiftl
ward, caught fire from burning rubbish
and was burned, last Friday afternoon.
The American Window Glass Co
of Pittsburg, will close its factories
Saturday, for the purpose Of installing
the newly perfected blowing machines
The teams of some of the r. +. ID
carriers have become afflicted with mud
fever. which cause their legs to swell
Washing the legs is the only known
remedy.
This sample of March weather is
commended and its continuance prayed
for. but as last week was the anniversa
~ Of the blizzard of 1888, the prayer
may not be answered.
-Greenville was flooded, yesterday,
and the Bessie trains were run around
it. The p. u w. station in Allegheny
was flooded, and the trains ran to the
Pittsburg station.
The P. o. Inspector has ordered the
Carriers of Butler not to deliver mail to
a house which has no sidewalk. and
there are quite number Of new houses
in Butler, at present, that have no side
walks.
The Steel Car Co. completed fifty
eight cars last Thursday, which is the
largest number yet completed in one
day. The company makes several kinds
Of cars and the average price is about
$1,000.
The County Auditors finished their
work, last week, and their report has
been filed in the Prothonotary's office.
It cost $84, 900 to run the county last
year and $11,OO0 to run the County
Home.
After the mud and dirt has been
hauled from the paved streets they will
be given thorough washing with wa
ter from the fire plugs, and after that
all persons coming to town in vehicles
are requested to stop at the beginning
of the paving and scrape Of their wagon
wheels and their horses feet
ITO complain, says an old philoso-
pher. "that life has no joys while there
is single creature whom we can re-
ieve by our bounty, assist by our coun-
sells, or enliven by our presence, is to la
ment the loss Of that which we possess,
and is just as rational as to die of thirst
with the cup in our hands,
1t is sixty-two years since the dro-
yer who stopped at the hotel in Zelieno-
pie disappeared; and, wesare informed,
that John Randolf was proprietor of the
hotel, and that the hostler's name was
Jos. Hunter The skeleton was found
under the hallway, where there was no
excavation, and it had been buried from
two to three feet deep.
BY an accident on the Erie R. r. at
Olean, Tuesday, some tank cars, full Of
oil. were wrecked and fire started.
People focked to the scene; an explosion
followed, the spectators were covered
with burning oil, and fourteen Of them
were burned to death. and many others
injured. The disaster resembled that
at Sheridan, some week ago.
Some eighty houses, including q
store-house. have been built in new
town on the McFate and Patterson
farms in Slipperyrock twp, mile
north of Slipperyrock town The open
ing Of the new coal mines on those
farms is what is building up the new
town. which as yet is nameless. The
Penn'a r. r. is said to be back of the
Coal Co and also Of the company which
has opened the new limestone quarry
near Branchton.
Friday night, Feb. 81. the Brush
Greek school house in Cranberry twp.
was burned. That evening rehearsal
was held in the building, Of part Of the
program for local institute which was
to have been held next day. An organ
belonging to Director Cyrus Harper, Jr
had been brought in for the occasion.
There was no fire in the building during
the evening. A few hours later it was
burned, and it is generally believed some
incandiary started it. The total loss is
$1,000.
During the coming summer the
Butler Water Co. will build new dam
in Oakland twp on Neyman's run; and
has purchased parts of the BARLEY,
Henry, Christy, Love, Flanagan and
Crafty properties for reservoir or lake
that is expected to be mile long, and
fifteen hundred feet wide; with a wal
dividing 1t into two parts, and road
around it, The company also expects
to extend its lines to Cottage Hill, and
all the other new suburbs of Butler. just
as it did to Lyndora. and thus nearly
double its twenty-five miles of pipe al
present in the town.
Up near Branchton month or two
since camp of italian laborers, after {
plentious use of that well known mix
ture. beer and whisky, proceeded tc
shs OF each other up. Three or four wer,
hit and one of them died of his wound
few days later. He was taken t.
Murrinsville and buried in the Catholi,
cemetery and that was all there was o
It. Shortly before that on the railroad
from Sharon to the Slipperyrock mine
q negro laborer shot his white boss ant
fled. The white man luckily recovered
also two negroes quarreled, and on,
killed the other. The dead mans com
panions dug trench. laid him in with
ont shroud, pail coffin or service an,
cnvcrad hin, mn Hiu yorrdarox aa5 =