The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1894-05-11
COUNTY SEAT LETTER
Observations About Court
House Hill.
SHENANDOAH IN FORGE
The Large Number of Cases She Supplied
for This Term Made Many of Her Citizens
Attendants Mt the Courts-A Mystery
Cleared Up



PoTTsvILIE, May lO-This has been
big Shenandoah week at the court house
on the hill and ii e old saying that Shen-
andoah supports Pottsville has been well
verified. ! am informed that one of the
reporters of this city stood at the corner
of Centre and Norwegian streets, Wednes-
day morning, and counted one hundred
and fifty-seven Shenandoah people among
the pedestrians Some of the court ofIic-
ials say that the representation here this
week from the largest town in the county
has been the largest ever known, even ex-
ceeding the attendance attracted by the
famous Briggs trial.
1t is said that this influx was due to the
Szlupas cases, which arose out of the riot
attending the Lithuanian funeral in Shen-
andOah some weeks ago. The cases GER
tainly brought a number of people here
as witnesses. They came down on We'd
nesday and were told to go home, be
cause the District Attorneys assistants
had not been able to find time to draw up
the indictments for presentation to the
Grand Jury. They were told the cases
would not be ready before the June term.
Wednesday Assistant Bechtel concluded
he could get the cases ready for Thursday
for the witnesses, but when they again
presented themselves Mr.. Bechte said it
was no use, the cases would have to go
over until the June term and the wit
nesses again returned home.
Some weeks ago, when John Koniff
was arrested at Shamokln and brought to
this place to answer charges of burglaries
committed at st. Clair considerable mys-
terry was attached to the method by which
konitf secured bail and COUNSEL that is
to say great care was taken to conceal the
names of the Shenandoah people who had
interested themselves in a man who ap-
peared to be unknown in that town. The
mystery was cleared up to-day on the
trial of the case before Judge Bechtel
when Patrick Gibbons, the Shenandoah
saloOnkeeper, took the witness stand. He
testified that he employed counsel for
konitf in respect for the memory of
Konitf IS INDECENT mother, with whom
the witness was very well acquainted.
The KOniff case also brought to the
front former well known Shenandoah
character known as Becky Bayles Koniff
in one part of his testimony, referred to
the woman as my WIFE" but subse-
quently called her Rebecca and admitted
that he was not married to her, but had
been engaged to her for the past three
years. Becky occupied a seat close to and
between the prisoner and his mother
during the trial and seemed as much in
terested in the proceedings and the prob
able result to the accused as she could
have been were he her lawfully welded
husband. Every Shenandoah man in at.
tendance at the court house had to get a
look at Becky before leaving for home,
but she withstood all gazes with fortiUude
and self-possession little short of brazen-
ness.
was in "Stixey" Michaels last night
when Shenandoah man walked in and
nnRnnnTaFInD gniI
with some earnestness, "Have you heard
of Mike Doyle's scrape P'
What Mike DoyleP queried the one
addressed.
Why, Doyle of the News, at Shenan-
doah."
mo, what happened I"
"Well he used razor on Burns"
What Jim Burns-the Chief Bur-
CESS ?"
"No, his side burns"
R-rr-r-ats
County Solicitor Ulrich to day gave an
other important opinion, this time affect
ing the payment of costs 1t is as follows
Justices of the Peace are public officers
and cannot charge fees according to the
fee bill of 1893, unless elected at the spring
election of 1894. The other justices must
be paid according to the fee bill of 1858
The same law is applicable to consta bles.
policemen of borough are officers and
not public officers within the meaning of
| the Constitution. They are subordinate,
ministerial officers appointed and paid by
| the bOroughs and must execute the ordi-
! nances. They cannot collect costs in Grim
inal cases from the county the same as
constables. Neither can railroad and spec
| ial police and county detectives collect
constable fees from the county. They
| may serve subpoena and collect costs
| therefore from the county if the county is
ordered to pay all costs, meaning all the
costs of prosecution and not those of the
| defendant"
There is quite a stir in political circles
now, and the promised new public build
| ing for this place may give the Democrats
| an incentive to go to work with the
| expectations of getting many Republican
votes. 1t is an old chestnut and won't
work. Regularly every two years the
| public building ghost is brought up for a
purpose. Republicans of the county seat
are not going TO vote this year for Hon.
| James b. Reilly, or any other Democrat,
| for Congress if half dozen expensive
public buildings are TO be put up. This
is a stale Reilly bait for votes.
| Ex-deputy Sheriff Smith is being urged
| to make another effort to get into the
| Sheriff 3 Office. Ben. is a good fellow and
| would make a most satisfactory official,
| but his friends are not wise in urging him
! to come out at this late day, when the
other candidates have secured the prom
ises of nearly all the would be leaders and
| expect. t.to-be-delegates
The fight for this Office has dwindled
| down to Hon Elias Davis and Alexander
Scott. Both gentlemen are sanguine of
| the nomination.
viii Haring's candidacy for the Legis-
! lalure in this district is looking quite
healthy He is a popular young man and
would represent the district with great
credit.
Snapper soup SATURDAY. all day and even