Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-21
Lines from Legal Quarters.

For $500 for false arrest on charge of fraud,
of which be was duly acquitted, Fred Huf-
nagle sues Harry c. Miller.
THE PIttsburg National Bank of Commerce
yesterday filed suit against the Grand Lake
Coal Company for S., l97 q on notes held by the
. bank.
THOMAS HARRISON of the Southside. who
has been convicted of two charges of selling
liquor without license, was sentenced yester-
day. He was fined $3.50 and sent to Jail for two
months and 20 days.
HARRIS MARKS, a tailor, living at No. 46
Seventh street, was committed to Dixmont In
sane Asylum yesterday by Judge Collier. An
inquest on Marks sanity was held on petition
of his wife and he was adjudged lunatic with
periods of violence.
THE County Treasurer's force was busy yes
terday paying off the election officers in the
county for Tuesdays election. The total paid
out to the boards was over $1,000. and the con-
stables will receive about s., 400. making the
election cost the county nearly ST., ,0C0.
THE trial of Hugh O'Donnen ("Oyster
Paddy''), as accessory after the fact to the
murder of Thomas Miller, was to have been
commenced yesterday, but, at the request of
District Attorney Porter, it was postponed
until to-day. One of the Commonwealth i'm
portant witnesses was absent.
Mrs. ANNA BURRY yesterday entered suit
against Messrs. Mccullough & Smith for
have been caused in December last by a col
lision due 10 the carelessness of the defendants
driver. c. II. BURY also entered suit against
the same parties for 5000 for the deprivation
of his wife's services.
J. II. GILLESPIE, who was elected to Select
Council from the Fifteenth ward on Tuesday,
was tried before Judge Collier in the Criminal
battery of John McKeown, last July, during a
quarrel Gillespie's defense was that Nc
Keown assaulted him, and that he struck Nc
Keown in self defense. The jury is out
A. B. FORCE. auditor of the accounts of the
Pittsburg Silverware Company which assigned
to Albert Pafenback some time ago. yesterday
made report of the balance in the hands of
the assignee for distribution among creditors,
The claims aggregate Sll, l62 IS, and the bal
ance is S3l4 a. After deducting the costs of
the audit etc.. $50 10 is left for the creditors on
the final distribution.
AN order was made in the United States
Court yesterday for the transfer of George
Folwell alias Alexander, from the Allegheny
County Jail to Tennessee. He was arrested, it
will be remembered, few days ago by United
States Deputy Marshal Chambers on informa-
tions pending against him before the United
States authorities in Tennessee. Deputy Mar
shal Chambers will start for Tennessee with
him to-day.
AN argument was had before Judge Stowe
yesterday on a rule to quash a writ and on
demurrer filed by the defendants in the case of
Umpire Decker against the National League
for wages. Mr.. j. S. Ferguson asked the Court
to grant the writ on the ground that Decker's
case did not disclose enough to identify the or
ganization known as the League, but simply
Joined President Young and Day and Roberts
as defendants. He also held that, if Decker's
allegations were true, he had not laid sufficient
grounds to maintain a suit. No decision was
made.