Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1905-03-30
LEGAL NEWS.
NEW SUITS.

Clyde Gravatt VS. Alice Gravatt peti-
tion for divorce.
Myers Carriage Co. VS. H. A. Blymil-
ler, replevin for buggy valued at $40
Mary X. Muntz VS. Cottage Hill Land
Co. bill in equity asking that the de-
PENDANTS be restrained from allowing
water from a we'll drilled by them on
Cottage Hill. south of town. to flow
through the rock into the Muntz coal !
bank, and that an order be made COM
pelling them to case off the water, |
which il il stated is flowing into the |
bank at the rate of 200 barrels day.
Damages are asked for injury already
done.
Frederick W. Renno VS. Penn'a K K. |
Co. trespass for $40. ZOO damages for |
ner.onal injuries sustained in the West !
| Penn wreck between Dilks and Mar
wood on Feb 13, 1905 Renno's ear
was torn badly and his back and legs
bruised
John Bergbickler VS. South Penn Oil !,
Co., summons in assumpsit.
DIVORCES.
Monday was divorce day and DEGREES
were granted in the following cases.
| Eliza Bryan VS. Y. w. Bryan, for cru
city.
Louis J. Bastian of Butler vs. Mary |
Bastian, the libellant showed his wife |
ran away with negro porter.
| Nettie B. Dawson VS. George K Daw-
son of Butler, desertion.
Rudolph Kennedy of Butler VS. Louisa
Kennedy, desertioD.
| The Hendrickson and McNichols
| cases were continued until June
| Mrs Elizabeth Rodgers of Chlcora
| has filed an affidavit of defense IN the
divorce suit of her husband, denying in
timacy with Michael Maloney, charg-
| ing her husband with improper conduct
with Mrs. Maloney. asking the Court
| to order her husband TO pay her 500
for maintenance and expenses, and ask
ing for jury trial.
| NOTES
County Commissioners Kelly and Nc
| Candless brought young man named
Dunn from Prospect to the County
Home, last Thursday.
| The execution of W. J. Byers in the
| Pittsburg Jail, last Thursday, was
| horrible affair. The knot unco,led ana
f! he fell to the floor. The Sheriff hurried
4 q |
scaffold. and then hung him.
Judge Kooser of Somerset county
| handed down an opinion last Thursday.
| refusing the liquor license petitions OF
| IA hotel men in that county on the
ground that the petitions failed to set
| forth the names of the sureties.
August Troutwein was hanged at Kit
tanning, Tuesday He feigued insanity
but was exposed by the "chloroform
test"
Commissioner Patterson went to l
Saxon Station. last Thursday, and
brought the Luciano family to the
County Home. The parents came here
from Italy some years ago, but died
| two years ago, since which time the
eldest girl aged but 10 years, and nam
ed Maud, has been supporting herself
and the four younger children, by doing
work for the neighbors; but one OF the
younger children took sick and another
met with severe accident, which caus-
ed Maud to agree to receive the proffer=
ed help, at first, refused.
Ira S. Zeigler, A. FL. Meeder and
Alpheus Sitter OF Zelienople have appli-
ed for d charter for the National Oil
and Gas Co., capitalized at $50, ,OO0.
Nora NJ. List was appointed guardian
of her brothers and sister. George. Earl
and Margaret, minor children of Geo.
List, decd, and was given leave to en-
ter into an agreement with the Pitts
burg and Butler Street Railway Co., al
lowing them to pass over her own and
her wards land, 80 acres in Adams twp.
for the sum of 81.
John NJ. Herdman was appointed con-
stable of the First Ward, Butler.
Leo Teo and Chez Flu, Cinnamon,
vino have been relidents of Butler for
for several years, conducting a laundry
on E. Jefferson for arrested last Satur-
day, by United States secret agent on
charges of smuggling themselves into
the United States,
Leo Teo has engaged counsel and will
fight the proceedings on the grounds
that he is the SOD merchant, and there
fore privileged to enter. Deportation
is the penalty.
A rule has been granted on Register
Davis to show cause why the will of
Joseph Donahue, decd, of Chicora
should not be probated. Donahue
being "In witness whereof l, Joseph
and seal etc" No formal signature
followed, but the instrument was pro-
perly witnessed. Probate was refused
last week for lack of signature.
A hearing was held Monday in the
mechanics lien case of Butler Builders
Supply Co. vs Methodist Episcopal
church.
In the criminal court of Allegheny
| county, last Saturday, Leroy Love, the
New Castle express messenger who
stole money was sentenced to the work
| house for one year.
| At New Castle, last week, jury
mixed up some Italian names and found
| the wrong man guilty.
| Letters of administration on the es
| tate of David w. Critchlow of Reibold
have been granted to Rebecca and Mel
| lie Critchlow.
| An appraisement of the estate of the
late D. P. Kelly of Bruin shows person.
al property amounting to $1S, 1893, most
| ly in bonds and certificates of deposit.
II. P. lift and Philip Nicklas apprais
ers of the Evans City Coal Co. have re-
ported property to the value of S37, ,379.
At Cleveland, Monday, Mrs. Chad
wick was sentenced to the pen. for ten |
years, ON the seven charges on which |
she was convicted She appealed from |
the sentence, but the chances are that |
Cassie will retire from the worlds of |
finance and society for the term indi-
Gated.
At Philadelphia, Monday, the Z. S. |
Court appointed receivers for the |
Tabard Inn concerns.
The petitions for naturalization of |
Harry Anderson, John r. Kierra and
Saltore Jim Natal were heard Tuesday, |
and the oath was administered to them.
| A citation has been issued to show
cause why partition should not be made |
of the lands of James Kil6oo, decd. of |
Clay twp
| J. w. Thompson of Bradford has been
arrested on charge of larceny made
against him by Louis Bouchard. who
alleges Thompson took railroad milage
book belonging to him. The two men
had been rooming together at Lyndora.
Mike Hosenski has been held on a
charge of agg a&b for hitting another
Slav on the head with piece Of scant
ling.