Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1901-08-01
LEGAL NEWS.
NEW SUITS.

Owen McKivrigau VS. Ida McKivrigan
petition for divorce.
Henry C. Welsh VS. Ad B. Hamel.
sum mons in replevin for 500 dozen of
wheat in the sheaf. valued at $500, taken
from the plaintiffs farm in Penn town
ship by the deft. Hamel had worked
the land for Welsh on half shares.
Welsh furnishing the seed. The grain
was to be threshed on Welsh's land and
he was to haye the straw After the gra IN
was cut Hamel hauled it away and the
suit resulted.
Henry V Winterstien Of Third street
VS. Butler Passenger Railway Co, sum-
mons in trespass over $1,000 damages
for personal injuries. Mr. Winterstien
states that on March 13, last. he was
thrown from a car by its sudden start
ing while he was dismounting from it
at the corner of jefferson and Mexican
streets He was thrown in the dirt and
had his best suit of clothes ruined and
was laid up by the bruises received for
several days.
Adam B. Hamel VS. Henry c. Welsh
summons in assumpsit for S5O6.3O,
claimed to be due for fertilizer and
labor furnished by the plf and % tons
of hay, etc taken by the deft. This is
a cross suit to Welsh's replevin suit.
NOTES.
Spurgeon Mcknight was sentenced to
two years to the penitentiary, with
fine of 800 and costs, Saturday. He
had plead guilty to beating and rob-
bing Guam Joe, a Chinese laundryman,
and to pointing revolver at Jake All
man. a negro. Sentence was made on
the first charge and suspended on that
of pointing fire arms. Before sentence
was passed Attorney A. T. Scott for the
Commonwealth said that Mcknight had
tried to induce another man to join him
before the robbery, saying he knew a
all they needed to do was to knock him
down and take it. Mcknight got only
80. He is but twenty years of age.
The Park Hotel license was transfer
rred, Saturday, to T. B. Humes.
Attorneys Wise and Henninger pre-.
sented petition of several prominent
in behalf of the public, to be
Joined as defendants in the matter of
the appeal of Overseers Miller and Nc
Clure from the last Borough Auditors
report.
The Superior Court, sitting at Phila-
delphia. handed down" a number OF
decisions, last Thursday, including three
in Butler county cases:
Stepp VS. Croft, affirmed; Adams VS.
Stage, affirmed; Halstead VS. American
Natural Gas Co., affirmed.
In the matter of the application of
citizens of Bruin for incorporation of
their town as borough, motion has
been made to change the borough line,
reducing its size.
On petition of Supervisors Milligan |
and Gable a rule has been granted on |
Overseers of the Poor James Coyle and |
Miles Daugherty of Clearfeld twp. to
show cause why they should not pay |
over to the Supervisors for the use of |
the township $454, which the petition |
states is in possession of the Overseers.
The money was paid over the same day.
N. G. Mccullough was appointed |
guardian of Oliver and Bessie, minor |
childred of Mamie Ramsey, decd, of
Butler.
On petition of Louisa NJ. E. Mcbride, |
widow of Nj. b.. Mcbride a rule has been |
granted on John Dolan and Elizabeth |
and Catherine Rieley to show cause |
why they should not bring an action of |
ejectment for property in Millerstown |
within six months.
William Campbell Jr.. was ap-
poininted guardian ad litem of Mary ",
infant daughter of the late V. K.
Phillips
John H Wilson, Esq has been com
missioned as Notary Public.
The will of Mrs Mary d. Walker,
late of Butler, has been probated.
The application of citizens of Bruin
for incorporation as borough will be |
heard at special Court to be held Sat
urday, Aug. II.
g. r. De- Iaven has been re-commit- |
ted to Polk to be kept there at the |
Courts pleasure, and to be sentenced to |
the penitei- tiarY unless he behaves |
properly.
Saturday Justice Keck rendered judg |
ment in favor of the plaintiff for $51 in |
the case of Jas. Wilson VS. Jos. Brown.
The Fosburg trial at Pittsfield, Mass
was ended last Friday by the Courts
to the jury to render a YER
dict of acquittal The result was not a
The only remarkable thing |
about it was that the case proceeded 80
far or, indeed that it ever began.
While the Court took occasion in \
instructing the jury to say that the
Chief of Police had done his duty the |
external view must be that few men |
have been accused of murder on such |
trivial grounds. A respectable and
eminent family stated that their house |
had been entered by burglars, and |
that in the melee the daughter had |
been shot But the Chief of Police. |
evidently fired with the ambition to |
display extraordinary perspicacity. |
chose to believe that some of the minor |
did not agree with the |
unanimous statement Of the family. |
On account Of these alleged discrepan- !
cies, the most important of which were !,
proved to be imaginary, he constructed |
a theory that the father and son had
a violent quarrel and that the daughter |
was shot in the struggle. He had alb
solutely no evidence to support his
theory either of family enmity or of the
supposed struggle. But because he
NhOSC W bHc
fendant was charged with an awful
crime held in prison and subjected to
trial.
Very few persons know that pay
ment on account of a bite from a dog
may be obtained from the dog tax fund
in manner similar TO the one in which
sheep are paid for that are injured by
dogs, but such is the case, and it is well
TO keep this in mind Better still, than
to recover such damages, would be to
kill all dogs that haye tendency TO
bite without provocation.-Ex.
w. l.. Derrimore of the First Ward
has been arrested on charges of adultery
and a&b preferred against him by his