Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1906-09-20
DEATHS.

PFLUGH-September IL. 1906. infant
daughter of Chas. Pfugh of Franklin
township.
JOYCE-At her home in Butler, Sept.
IA. 1906, Mrs. Cecilia Joyce, widow of
Michael Joyce, aged 81 years.
GALLAGHER Vandergrift, Sept
5. 1906. Fl. Gallagher. formerly of
Glade Run. aged = years.
STEELE AT her home in Mt Pleasant,
Pa, Sept. II. 1906, Mrs. Lyman Steele,
N~nee Byers, aged so years.
BCNNEY-At her home in Worthing
ton. Sept II. 1906, Miss Ida NJ,
daughter of w. w Bonney. in her
32d year.
Miss Bonpey was graduate of Slip
perry Rock NORMAL. and was a success
full teacher.
BANCROFT September Is. 1906, AL
fred, infant son of Earl Bancroft, of
Clearfeld township.
SCHMIDT-At Saxonburg, September
IA. 1906, Robert E.. son of Philip
Schmidt of Allegheny, aged 5 years.
BIRCH-Septembe1 16 1906, Mary,
infant daughter of David Birch of
Centre twp.
SCOTT-At Green Springs, Ohio, Sept.
1S, 1906, George Scott of billiards.
PISOR-At her home in Worth twp,
September IS, 1906, Mrs. Elizabeth,
widow of James Pisor, aged about 76
years.
Her husband died about months
ago. and she is survived by two sons,
Orin and Albert.
Obituary.
Daniel O'Day, said to be Rockefeller 8
right-hand man in the management of
Standard Oil Co.. died suddenly in
Rouen, France, from the rupture of an
artery in his stomach, last Thursday.
He had been travelling in Europe, for
his health He is said to have origi-
mated the pipeline system.
Gen Dmitri Trepoff. called 1.-The iron
man" and the dictator of Russia" died
at St Petersburg, last Saturday, aged
81 years. He escaped several attempts
at his assassination, but the constant
strain shattered his nerves.
Edward Worthington, a celebrated
mining expert, died at his home in
Pittsburg, Tuesday. aged 90 years. He
was a former resident of Brady's Bend,
and was buried there.
Mrs Groom, mother of Harry GrooIa
of Mars, died at Imperial, Sunday.
SINCE the death of Trepoff. the Rus
sian Grand Dukes have been leaving
that country-like rats leaving a sink
ing ship.
HONG KONG, the English port on the
coast of China was wrecked by a
storm, Tuesday morning. Three hun
dred people were reported killed, and a
million dollars damage done to shipping
and buildings
The steamship Manchuria, on which
some Butler Co. people were passengers
and which struck a reef of the Haw-
allan islands has been foated; but her
sister ship, the Mongolia. also mail
ship, struck reef nearby, last week.
Something seems to be the matter with
the compass needles in that part of the
world
A WELL authenticated story comes
from the far North to the effect that an
island has very recently been created in
the Bering Sea. This new island has
evidently been thrown up by sub
marine eruption. Advices have been
received from Seward, Alaska, which
state that the new land is located not
far from the island of Boroslow, which
was upheaved in the same manner
about century ago.
NEW ZEALAND's opposition to great
landed estates has produced new meas
ures, whose radical character warrants
more than one deduction. The measure
proposed by the Government prohibits
owners of more than 1000 acres of first
class land, or 1000 acres Of second class.
to increase their landed estates, by
either purchase or lease. Further, pro-
prietors of land exceeding $4,000 OF
unimproved value are required to sell
the excess within ten years