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Show from Poverty to Klches In a Minute. One minute with poverty staring hiin 5 'the face; the next a rich man, for life, jnat was the actual exigence of S. P. Armstrong, who died the other day of aeart disease at Butler, Pa. He had in-thStnd in-thStnd 311 !lia fund in sinking a well in "is l hum Creek oil region of Pennsyl- anw. It was thought to be dry, and as sort of farewell protest against his ill ;"c t!le explorer fired a torpedo in its fpth. Immediately after the explo-n explo-n the well began to flow at a tremen-"ns tremen-"ns rate, a volume of oil being lifted into f10 a height of at least one hun- red. feet ot having expected a big d no connections had been made to e tanks, and the oil flowed on the. rund, completely deluging the entire wghborhoofl. After several hours the '' turned into tanks with great per-,B&1 per-,B&1 risk to the workmen, and the first la t' Portion was 10,000 barrels, the Sest vceli ever opened in the'oil cotin- - It was a mine of wealth to Mr. - nastronj, and developed a large scope f rich territory. |