Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1897-09-09
LEGAL NEWIts.

GRASD JURY FINDINGS.
VIM. and b. A McCune. keeping
disorderly house true bill
Peter Bastian, selling liquor without
license and to men of known intemper
ate habits, true bills.
John Hare, larceny, true bill.
W. L. Book, ABB with intent to
| commit rape, true bill.
| Edward Wicks, larceny, not a true
bill.
Andrew Kirk, dissuading witness
not true bill.
w p Brown, a&b., true bill.
Oliver w Reep, a&h., true bill.
H C. Double, agg. a&d., 3 counts, a
true bill.
| w. A Kelly, a&b., not true bill
Victor Monier, selling liquor W ithout
license, true bill.
Miles Gold, larceny, not true bill.
| Fred Marsk. a&b, true bill
Daniel Double, agg. and b., true
bill
| Mrs Jennie Duprey selling liquor
without license and on Sunday, true
] bills.
VIM. Brown, open lewdness, true
bill
| VIM Condor, a6b, not true bill,
and county to pay costs.
| Andrew Kirk, felonius rape, true
| bill.
John Sheridan, breaking into and
entering dwelling house, not true bill.
VIII Adams, f&b, q true bill.
Sam1 Mong, agg. and a. b, a true bill.
SHERIFF SALES.
| Last week the sheriff sold all the
right, title, interest and claim of
Richard A. Beatty to 40 acres in Me rcer
| twp to E. McJunkin for $50; of j. w.
and E. Stewart to property in Millers-
| town to c. H. Johnston for $40: of Geo
j. and Mary c. G. Smith to property in
Butler to Geo. Schenck for 81 200; of
| Frank Markwell to 26 acres in Concord
| twp. to Stephen Markwell, Sr. for S25;
of Mary Newton ct. al. to property in
Portersville to Newton Black for so; OF
Henry Thompson to property in Butler
| to Keystone State B. q l.. Assn. for
$50; of Geo. l.. Barr to 81 acres in JET
| ferson twp. to Z. Y. Kohler for $3.50; of
| w. A. and Carrie N. Martin to 81 acres
in Parker twp. to E. A. Totten for
81, 200; and of Rudolph Bortmas to rs
acres in Oakland to Peter A Barnhart
and j. p F. Mckinley for S1145.
On Monday Sheriff Dodds sold all the
| right, title, interest and claim of D. A
Haggerty to GA acres in Clearfield twp.
| TO Mates 81 Young atty's. for $40; of 5.
S. Gill to property in Butler to Jessie
Gill for 1920; of John Held to 125 acres |
in Forward twp. to w. D. Brandon for
S400; also of same to 10 acres in For |
ward twp. to same for S155.
The writs against Lawson +. Brack- |
ney on property in Clay twp; and
against II. A. Rhinelander on property |
in Butler were returned.
NOTES.
Letters of administration on the es
| tate of Elizabeth Ritzert, late of Done |
gal twp. were granted to Conrad |
Ritzert
Peter Bastian, Victor Monier and |
VIM. Duster of the Southside were
given hearing before Esq Gilghrist |
on Friday and held for court on |
charges of selling liquor without
| license.
VIM. L. Hooks was taken before Esq. |
w. A. Sloan, of Adams twp, and held |
for court on three charges of forgery |
and false pretense.
Sheriff Dodds has seventeen boarders |
in the county Jail.
In the Scanlon and Truby VS. Berg |
bigler case tried before Judge Reyburn |
| here some time ago. and in which a |
motion for new trial was made, |
Judge Reyburn has filed an opinion |
saying that he will grant new trial |
| unless the verdict is reduced to 1915
The secretary of the commonwealth |
has directed that certificates of nomina |
| ton and nomination papers be modified |
| to conform to requirements OF recent |
| legislation Certificates of nominations
for state officers and judges must be
filed in the Office of the secretary of the
commonwealth AZ days before the elec-
| tion, and of county officers % days.
Nominations for state officers and judges
by nomination papers must be filed 30
days before election and of county Off |
GERS 21 days.
The Supreme Court has laid down two
| rules which make it difficult for bicy
| clists to recover damages from railroad
| Company Tor accidents at crossings.
| The first is that no recovery of damages
| can be had if there is any contibutory
negligence on the part of the persons
| injured, and again, everybody must
| stop, look and listen" before crossing
the track Some time ago bicyclist at
| Philadelphia was killed on crossing and
his widow sued for damages. Although
| it was shown that the company was
| negligent in not giving any warning of
an approaching train, and although
| the bicyclist looked and listened and
made a circle with his wheel before
crossing the tracks, the Supreme Court
decided against the widow because the
man did not dismount. The case was
| that of Robertons VS. the Pennsylvania
Railroad, which is reported in 100 Pen
nsylvania reports, page 4S, in which the
Supreme Court held that the bicycle
stop-circling about-is not the legal
stop, but the bicyclist must dismount,
''look and listen" before crossing rail
road tracks.
The new law requires the County
Commissioners to have the books ready
| for the assessors by the second Monday
of September, and our Commissioners
will have them all ready by that time
next Monday a week, the Goth inst
when those Assessors who are ready
| to go to work ON the TRIBUNAL Assess
ment can secure them, and they need
not return them until the usual time,
January 1st.
Laurel E. Christley and C. c. Magee
have entered their names as law stu
dents.
The p B. & l.. E. R. R. has petition
ed to have bond of 50, ,000 for benefit
of Mrs. p p Curtis filed to pay her
damages for passing through her land
in Centre twp.
On Monday Sheriff Dodds sold at
Auction lot of dry goods and clothing
stolen by VIM Wilson, the Portersville
burglar and unidentified.
l. N. Meals, f. Winner and Solomon
Thompson were appointed viewers to
view road petitioned for in Centre twp.
Petitions for viewers to assess DANA
ges in Penn twp, for construction of
new road in said twp, were filed.
On petition the time for the making
of the report of the viewers for the
widening of Penn st. was extended to
any time before next term.