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


GRAND jury PRE~ENTNENT
Tho final preseutment of the grand
iury. made last Thursday. stated they
acted on l6 inf0rmau0ns finding l3 true
bills and ignoring B They recon-
meudrd q county bridge over Armstrong
run iu Slipperyrock twp. ON the road
from Centreyllle "a Grove City. They
visited the County pour farm and found
the building 20 be Of the best material
and the work apparently well and sub
stautialy done
Some had ceilings We're reported IN
the Court House and thanks for cour-
fe0us treatment expressed 10 the Court,
officers and District Attorney
CRIMINAL COURT
samuel jackson IT the south side
who got too much liquor inside nm
at the French drinking club last week
went home raised biz disturbance and
then blacked Constable Ensninger
eye when the latter tried 10 arrest hun;
plead guilty o. assault and battery and
has been sentenced % pay costs. fine Of
$50 and undergo Imprisonment Ia the
Western Psntenuary for one year.
Monday morning Gustav Marshael
and Alphonse Very were both put on
trial for assault and battery Marshael
8. boss in the grinding nall al tine
Plate Glass works and Very worked
under him He was discharged and
when he asked for his job again ne and
Mar-hael got into fight and Very
right thumb was very badly chewed mp.
Notwithstanding the thumb both We're
found not guilty bat pay the costs.
The case Of Com. vs. Chas. Venting
has been settled. That against
Lafavette Douglass was continued
That against Isaac McCord was settled
also
The assault and battery cases against
Perry and James Kelly with A. w
Patterson rs complainant have been
settled
The Frank Stalker larceny case was
continued and the T.. Pagin Illegal
liquor selling case settled
II !. Vaudyke. the Renfrew black
smith. was acquitted Of a. charge of
assault and the costs pat ON the
prosecutor Rev MattisOn of tbs Gospel
Prohibition Church. Nandyke had
threatened 10 strike Mattison if the
preacher tried - get into the Renfrew
church An eleclment suit 10 Try the
title Of the church property IN pending.
Oliver Thompson. the liyeryman tried
70 collect q small bill from \ W. Root
The men almost came 10 blows about II
Oh the street. The case was aired IN
Court Tuesday when Root was acquitted
Of assault. catching two-thirds Of he
costs and Thompson one-tnlrd.
Charles Henry has plead guilty TO a
charge OF disturbing "A religions meeting
made for raising n fracas in the Sal
walton Army barracks He was sent 10
Jail for 80 days and is TO pay costs and
$40 fine.
NEW SUITS
o. +. Keister has filed bill in equity
against Ianthe l. Richardson which
states that keister and y. NJ Richard
SOD. husband Of the deft, entered into
the drygoOds business in Prospect as
partners in 1892 under the firm name Of
% f. keister a. Go Mrs Richardson
purchased her husband : interest in 1898
he had put - $50, in the business aud
Keister y G2y. and each was 10 bear
half the losses aud get half the profits
The partnership was dissolved in June
'-sH anu tine lll ~AdAF- tidN Tue hAtAA
viii not settle the partnership accounts |
and frsudently took possession of the
store aud accounts. wherefore the plf
asks that a receiver be appointed, an
account Of the business be taken and the
stock sold OF divided.
NOTES.
Evans City borough has filed three
bonds with - J. Irvine and l.. y. BURY
as sureties ia favor Of Mrs. Sophia Ore
bert for 500 James Sutton for 800
Fred Mathay for II 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 70 Court asking hat
the name Of that borough be changed
from Centreville to Slipperyrock aud
their charter SO amended. The borough
was incorporated in 1871 The reasons
assigned for the change are that there
are other Centrevilles in the State caus-
ing trouble in receiving mail, that their
post office is named Slipperyrock and
that the normal school is called slippery
rock. The petition viii be laid before
the May grand jury and heard May %.
Milton J. Garyin has been appointed
Oyerseer 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 WIN 4. For
quer.
Chas f. Goehring has been appointed
burgess Of Zeli.nople on petition Of
citizens no burgess having been elected
by them.
Edward Oliver has been appointed
auditor Of Muddycreek twp. vice X. H.
Oliver, resigned
Ethan McMichael has been appointed
auditor of Clay twp. vice Thomas Nc
Candless. resigned
Oakland twp. citizens have petitioned
for "a new road 10 run from the Butler
Fmrview road AT NJ J McCiinley's place
10 the Oakland Buena Vista road at J.
Y. ODonnel's place. Isaiah Meals L. =.
Brown and James Smith were appointed
viewers.
The County Auditors of Beaver Co.
suscharged their Commissioners with
s. 22O. 10, the principal item of which is
- 100 paid to Lewis Graham, the eX-
sheriff for two years salary Tailor or
keeper of the county jail A salary Of
- go per annum has been attached 10
the Office for several years, the amount
being fixed by the court AT the beginning
of Sheriff Grahams 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 10
labor. and, second, that sentence 10
labor hard labor" or separate ana
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. Gouchcr Esq. and John c.
| Clark
Four acres Of land Of Marion twp,
the estate Of Jane Dunlap, deceased.
was sold al administrators sale TO Mul-
vain Dunlap, the administrator. for
Sl2J
a petition for partition Of the real