Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-13
HARD woops-JoBB1Ne PRIoEs.
AFTER THE BOROUGH.
Homesfead's Ordinance Authority Ques.
tioned-The Grand Jury Indicts Al.
legged Rioters-severnl SEN
tences Given - Other
Live Court News.

Live court news.
Messrs. Hampton. Scott Gordon yesterday
filed appeals in the Quarter Sessions Court in
the cases of three railroad employees who had
been fined by Squire Oeffner of Homestead.
for violating an ordinance of the borough. Two
of the men, Frank White, an engineer, and
George Young, a conductor, had run their
train above the rate of speed allowed by the
ordinance, and Patrick Collins, an engineer,
had blocked a crossing with his train. In the
appeals it was held tha the fines imposed were
illegal, as the ordinances were void, as they
were unreasonable in their terms and beyond
the power of the borough to enact.
The grand jury yesterday returned true bills
against Michael Love, Scotty, alias 2. Gordon,
Clark and Hammel, George McAllister, Charles
Homestead. The other true bills found were:
Thomas Britain, John McKeever, Martin
Lally, William Desmond, Thomas Mackweak,
]. Timothy, Elsie j. Robinson, aggravated as
sault and battery; Charles Greb Jr., John
Farley, assault and battery; George Ross
carrying concealed weapons; Elsie j. Robinson
pointing firearms; John Farley, incitlng riot;
Samuel Diley, cruelty to animals; W. M. Au-
brey, embezzlement; John Berg, Sr, false pre-
lenses; John Kestlemeyer. larceny by bailee.
In Common Pleas Courts Nos. and the
argument list will be taken up to-day, while in
the Criminal Court the trial list is as follows:
Commonwealth VS. Cyrus Dunlap, Frank Sta
wicky, James Gill ct al, Howard Williams
James A. Billeter, Jessie Harris, Harry Gal
Inns Charles Donahuc, John MorOsQuek ~,
John ]. Davis, j. G. Schriver, McClurg Don
nelly ct al, Henry Howells.
Richard Lysle was sent to the penitentiary
for two years yesterday for larceny, and Samuel
Harvey was sentenced one year and three
months to the workhouse for similar crime.
For stealing q suit of clothes, John Mccarthy
received sentence of one year to the peni-
tentiary and w. F. West was cent to the work
house for six months for cruelty to children
Robert Cunningham, aged II years, was sent to
the penitentiary for two years for burglary, of
which crime he pleaded guilty.
James Gray and Fred Kane were each given
six months TO the workhouse for larceny. Tim
DAILY and William Cassidy, on the same charge,
each received year to the penitentiary,
Miss Lizzie Nolan pleaded guilty to the
charge of abandoning an infant, and will be
sentenced on Saturday.
Suit was entered, yesterday, by the City of
Pittsburg against the Allentown Livery Com
pany, to recover two-horses carriage, some
harness etc., valued at about $500, which the
company had refused to turn over to the city
authorities at their request.
E. II. Boman, yesterday, entered suit in
ejectment in the U. 3. Court against the trust
ees of the Presbyterian Church of Franklin,
Pa, to recover a lot of ground in Franklin.
bate yesterday. He gave all his property to his
wife, and appointed her guardian of the chill
dren under age.
Hon. John C. Newmeyer, the recently ap-
pointed prothonotary of the Supreme Court,
yesterday took the oath of office. 1t was ad-
ministered by Judge Ewing. Mr.. Newmeyer
took charge of the office yesterday.
Commissioner Gamble. of the United States
Circuit Court, yesterday took testimony in the
suit of Wineland Il Lyme against the Pitts
burg Forge and Iron Company for the in
fringement of patent on draw-bar iron.