Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1905-10-19
LEGAL NEWS.
NEW SUITS.

NEW SUITS.
Emil Urban VS. Butler Passenger Rail
way Co., trespass for $500, damages fer
injury received by being knocked off
car by a telephone pole Feb. 5th, last,
while riding from the car works to his
home on Institute Hill. Urban is a
chemist
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania at
suggestion of and to use of Butler Coun-
ty Poor District VS. JAS. NJ. Maxwell.
collector, J. V. Ritts, L. P. Hazlett and
w. c. McCandless, petition for sci ia
on defts to show cause why collection
should not be made on defts bond for
balance of $529.S3.
David A. McIiyain VS. Evans City Coal
Co., VIM. Bishop, receiver, trespass, for
$2425 9S claimed to be due as royalty ON
is, 300 tons of screened coal mined from
under his land. for which he was to re
ceive Is cents ton. A rental of SlOO
a year for the right to mine is also in
cluded in the amonnt claimed. Nell
vain has also filed exceptions tn the
final account IF Receiver Bishop, claim
ing the latter has failed to pay bim $40
rental which was due.
Patrick Duffy and Annie Muldoon.
trustees of the estate of Patrick Duffy
decd, VS. Henry Lerner, trespass for
$4,000 damages for closing lane lead
ing from the Duffy farm through the
Lerner farm to the public road In Buffa-
10 twp The plffs claim the lane exist
ed at the time Duffy bought the farm
in 1858 A bill in equity was COM
menced some time ago about the mat
ter. Lerner claims the land and the
the Duffys have filed petition asking
for rule on him to bring his action in
ejectment for it within six months or
be forever barred.
J. Rainey Hoon, admir- of estate or
Thomas r. Hoon vs J. N Hoon, attach
ment execution on funds due deft from
Robt. Gerard, admir- of 81. Nelson
Hoon, decd, for debt of SlS3.
Annie Chelsky VS. Joe Tourchine,
capias in trespass for SANDER. The deft
is in jail.
NOTES.
Sale of the Ed Fleming property in
Buffalo twp. has been adJoured to oct.
26 at the Court House.
Joe Angel. an Italian coal miner of
Kaylor was arrested in Butler, last
Thursday, on charge of highway rob-
berry.
Saturday a charter was granted to the
Old Peoples Home of the Pittsburg Syn
cd of the Evangelical Lutheran church
(G. c., to be located with the Passavant
Orphans Home in Zelienople.
F.W. Mckee Of Pittsbu-g has petit
toned for satisfaction of two old mort
cages given by the Winfield Coal and
Iron Co. in 1878 on his property IN
Winfield twp. One is for $15,54O to
VIM. Campbell and the other for $50
900 to Amos Briggs. In 1859 the prop
erty was sold at Sheriff's sale and the
mortgages were never satisfied OF rec
ord. Tuesday, Dec. has been liked
for the hearing.
Louisa F. Walkee, owner of the Pythian
home farm at Harmony. has petltioned
for satisfaction of an old mortgage CIV
en- in 1888 for $4,000
The U. S. District Court is in session
in Pittsburg. Circuit Court opens Nov
13. The case Of the Standard Lumber
Co. vs. the Butler Ice Co, is on the Cir
cult Courts list.
The hearing of the equity case IN
which P. F. McCool seeks to have re-
ceiver appointed for the National Coal
Co.. owning the old Daubenspeck and
Turner mine on the Duffy place north
Of Karnes crossing, was heard before
Judge Galbreath. Tuesday. w. I.
Mains and W. A. Mcdowell, from
whom McCool bought $50 shares of the
stock, opposed his efforts for receiver
They allege that he owes about $2OOO
for the stock he bought and if he paid
this the company would haye enough
money to pay all its Indebtedness. Nc
Cool claims he was deceived in not be-
ing gived correct list of the company
debts when he bought into it.
The appearance of prisoner who, on
committing suicide in the Illinois peni-
tentiary, leaves letter declaring that
he with companions murdered Thomas
D. Kahney, on the s. s. Pittsburg, is an
interesting curiosity. 1t was for Kah-
uey's death that Dorman and the two
Biddles were convicted, and the asser-
ton of the departed Illinois convict is
that these men were condemned for a
crime they did not commit. Inasmuch
as the only man legally punished for
the crime was Dorman. who Is IN the
penitentiary, convicted on his own con-
fession, this posthumous assertion is
important mainly as curiosity. 1t is
more likely that criminal prior to his
suicide became subject to delusion than
that Dorman in court testified to his
participation in a crime that neither he
nor his accomplices were engaged In.
John Newton Williamson, Congress
man from the Second Oregon district,
convicted of subornation of perjury in
connection with land frauds in Oregon.
was sentenced by Judge Hunt in the
United States court at Portland, Satur-
day, to serve 10 months imprisonment
and to pay fine of $500. He was also
reprimanded by the court for his fail
ure to set a good example in his exalted
public position.
Walter Wompler is in Jail on charge
of trying to defraud board bill.
George A. Loveioy, an Elk who was
selected to furnish cuticle to save fell
low Elk's wife. suffering from severe
burns. brought suit against Q. p.
Thomas for $40. at Spokane, Wash,
last Saturday. the value of 80 inches OF
skin which, he says, the doctor peeled
off his legs while under chloroform, and
took more than he agreed to.
S, Shamberger was released. from
Jail. Monday afternoon, Samuel Lando
of Pittsburg going his bail, which had
been reduced by the Court from $4,000
to $1,000 He and his party left for
Pittsburg that evening. When asked
to open the safe in the burned storeroom
he replied that he would have to see his
attorney about that On Tuesday he
was back in Butler and again refused
to open the safe. and the insurance peo-
pie threatened to bring an expert here
and open it. In the meantime it is be-
ing guarded, day and night.
That Allegheny Co. man, who drank
four quarts of whisky, and then killed
his mother-in law was convicted of
murder in the first degree.
County Detective Collier, of Arm
strong Co., has landed in Jail four
Italians-Tony, Mary and John Derosa
and Jim Augeletta-to answer charges
of conspiracy, highway robbery and
carrying concealed weapons. More
serious charges will follow as it is be-
lieved the prisoners are members of q