Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1900-03-15
LEGAL NEWS.
GRAND JURY PRESENTAlENT


The final presentment of the grand
jury, made last Thursday stated they
acted on 1G informations, finding l3 true
bills and ignoring 3. They recon-
mended a county bridge over Armstrong
run in Slipperyrock twp. on the road
: from Centreville TO Grove City They
visited the County poor farm and found
the building 10 be of the best material
and the work apparently well and sub
4 stantialy done.
/ Some bad ceilings were reported IN
I the Court House and thanks for cour-
I teous treatment expressed to the Court,
/ officers, and District Attorney
CRIMINAL COURT.
Samuel jackson of the South Side
who got too much liquor inside him
at the French drinking club last week
went home raised "A big disturbance and
then blacked Constable Ensminger's
eve when the latter tried to arrest him,
plead guilty to assault and battery and
has been sentenced to pay costs, fine Of
$50, and undergo Imprisonment III the
Western Pententiary for one year.
Monday morning Gustav Marshael
and Alphonse Very Were both put on
trial for assault and battery. Marshael
is boss in the grinding hall at the
Plate Glass works and Very worked
under him. He was discharged and
when he asked for his job again he and
Marshael got into fight and Very
right thumb was very badly chewed up.
Notwithstanding the thumb bJth We're
found not guilty but pay the costs.
The case of Com. VS. Chas. Venting
has been settled. That against
LAFAYETTE Douglass was continued.
That against Isaac McCOrd was settled
also
The assault and battery cases against
Perry and James Kelly, with A. w
Patterson as complainant have been
settled.
The Frank Stalker larceny case was
continued and the +. Pagin illegal
liquor selling case settled.
Fl J. Vaudyke, the Renfrew black
smith was acquitted of a. charge OF
assault and the costs put on the
prosecutor. Rev. Mattison of tbs Gospel
Prohibition Church. Vandyke had
threatened to strike MattisOn if the
preacher tried TO get into the Renfrew
church. An ejectment suit to try the
title of the church property III pending
Oliver Thompson. the liveryman tried
TO collect a small bill from A. w Root.
The men almost came to blows about it
on the street The case was aired in
Court Tuesday when Root was acquitted
of assault catching two-thirds of he
costs and Thompson one third
Charles Henry has plead guilty to a
charge of disturbing a religious meeting
made for raising fracas in the Sal
vation Army barracks He was sent to
Jail for 30 days and is to pay costs and
so fine.
NEW SUITS
O. f. Keister has filed Il bill in equity
against Ianthe Il. Richardson which
states that Keister and n NJ Richard |
son, husband of the deft, entered into |
the drygoOds business in Prospect as
partners in 1892 under the firm name Of |
20. T. Keister d Co p" Mrs. Richardson |
purchased her husbands interest in 1898. |
He had put 50, $50, in the business and |
Keister 81 629. and each was to bear |
half the losses aud get half the profits. |
The partnership was dissolved in June |
1899 and the bill states that the deft |
will not settle the partnership accounts |
and frsudently took possession of the |
store and accounts, wherefore the plf |
asks that A receiver be appointed, an |
account of the business be taken and the |
stock sold or divided.
NOTES.
Evans City borough has filed three
bonds with 5. J. Irvine and l.. n BURY |
as sureties in favor Of Mrs. Sophia Dire
bert for $500 James Sutton for 1900 |
Fred Mathay for 81 900, to indemnify |
them for their ground taken and used |
IN opening and widening Water st. in
that town.
On Friday petition signed by two
thirds of the taxable citizens of Cen tre
vile, WIS presented to Court asking that /
the name of that borough be change q |
from Centreville to Slipperyrock and |
their charter go amended. The borough |
was incorporated in 1s41. The reasons
for the change are that there
are other Centrevilles in the State. caus-
ng trouble in receiving mail, that their
post office is named Slipperyrock and
hat the normal school is called Slippery
rock. The petition will be laid before
the May grand jury and heard May %.
Milton J. Garvin has been appointed
)verseer of the Poor for Evans City
vice A j. Smathers, resigned
Letters of administration on the es-
tate Of Morris Norris, decd Of Oakland |
twp. have been granted to VIM A. For
Iuer.
Chas f. Goehring has been appointed |
g.f nIs 10 90
no burgess having been elected |
by them.
Edward Oliver has been appointed
auditor Of Muddycreek twp vice r. III.
Oliver, resigned.
Ethan McMichael has been appointed |
auditor of Clay twp. vice Thomas Nc
Candless, resigned.
Oakland twp. citizens have petitioned |
for new road TO run from the Butler |
Fairview road at VI. J. McGinleys place /
to the Oakland Buena Vista road at J. |
V. ODOnnels place, Isaiah Meals, Z. p |
Brown and James Smith were appointed |
viewers.
The County Auditors Of Beaver Co |
their Commissioners with |
81, 220. 10, the principal item of which is |
81, 100 paid TO Lewis Graham, the ex |
sheriff for two years salary Tailor or |
keeper Of the county Jail. A salary Of |
81 $50 per annum has been attached to |
the Office for several years, the amount |
being fixed by the court at the beginning |
Of Sheriff Graham's term. However. |
the auditors maintain that this is illegal |
and that the salary depends upon the |
existence of two things: First That |
the county Jail is not suitably built and |
equipped for the prisoners sentenced to |
labor, and, second that sentence to |
labor hard labor or separate and |
solitary confinement at labor have not !
besn passed and carried out at the |
county Jail.
On petition Of his brother Henry, a |
lunacy commission has been appointed !
on Christian Stoner, Of Parsonville, the |
commissioners being DR.. DR.. o. r. Pisor, |
II. II. Goucher, Esq. and John c. !
Clark.
Four acres of land Of Marion twp, |
the estate Of Jane Dunlap, deceased, |
was sold at administrators sale TO Mul- |
vain Dunlap, the administrator, for
1925.
A petition for partition of the real |
estate of John Anderson, deceased, Of /
Forward township. has been presented !
for his daughter Martha.