Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1905-10-12

twp. by the railroad building across IL.
jos. Cooper, John Aiken, J. E. Stoops,
Hiram Gill. John Christley, Bracken
Reed and VIM. N. Humphrey were ap-
pointed.
Jerome J. Smith VS. Samuel Logan,
capias in trespass, bail required in the
sum of $500. Smith states that on oct
7 he bought horse from Logan for
800, Logan guaranteeing that the ami
NAL was sound and would work in any
way. Smith says when he hitched the
horse mp it would not work, but ran
backwards" He returned the animal to
Logan, and now wants his 300.
NOTES.
Geo. W. Huselton, owner of the farm
purchased by the Butler Country Club
in Penn twp, has petitioned Court to
have an old mortgage for $500 given by
Stephen Luse in 1888 to T. Russell, Jas.
Skey, ct al, marked satisfied on the
records.
Ross Starr has filed mechanics lien
for $97 for labor as driller on the Nc
Connell well west of town.
P.F. McCool has added a paragraph
to mis- bill in equity asking for receiver
Of the National Coal Co. at North But
Ter in which he states there are disputes
and disagreements among the officers
which cannot be settled, and charges
gross mismanagement on the part OF A.
r. Mcdowell and W. A. Maines.
The School Board has filed demurrer
to the bill in equity of Mart Wright,
w. J. limerick, and other citizens re-
siding at the top of Centre ave, asking
that the bill be dismissed.
Judge Galbreath has filed an opinion
tors report in the estate OF Loyal M.
Brackney.
J. j. Hesselgesser, III Fl. Freehling,
II. Fl. Bricker, Henry Grim and c. A
Smith have been appointed viewers on
petition to assess damages done the
property of Grant Schuster in Buffalo
twp.
Mrs. Elizabeth Irvine has withdrawn
from the list of exceptants to the award
Of viewers on the opening Of Water st.
in Evansburg
An order has been granted on the su-
pervIsors of Butler twp. to open a road
recor nended by viewers.
John Ferguson, Sr., has been appoint
ed trustee to make sale of 65 acres be-
longing to John Cooper, decd, in
Adams twp.
The polling place of I'd precinct. 9Th
ward. has been changed from the Mil
Ter barn TO the house of Mrs Myrtle
Canning. 205 West d. ST.
Hugh J. Forquer and others have en-
tered an appeal to the Supreme Court
in the William A. Forquer estate, in
which the Court refused to grant jury
trial 10 determine the validity of the
will
The following Butler County cases
go before the Supreme Court at Pitts
burg: Davidson, appellant, vs. Miller
Heirs; Purvis VS. Carpenters Union, ap-
pellant; Campbell, appellant, vs Camp
bell Mrs. Masseth will case); Milleman,
appellant. VS. Kavanaugh Little vs Bell
Telephone Co., appellant, and the Ben
Masseth Estate.
Application has been made for char
ther for the Italian Fraternal and Bene-
fetal Society of Butler.
The title to an East End Pittsburg
property was lately perfected by the in
scriptions on the tombstones Of two
brothers buried in the Allegheny ceme
terry. One of the brothers had died In
japan and the other in South America
but the bodies were brought home fol
burial.
The decision Of the Pennsylvania
Superior court, Monday. affirming thu
decision of the lower court Of Lawrence
county, that Mrs Charles johnson dice
before her husband, recalls a tragedy II
Crawford county year or so ago. Th'
young couple were married in New
Castle and Mrs. johnson, who was Mis-
Viola Cousins, owned an estate. The,
separated, the wife going to Crawford
county to live with an uncle. johnson
sought and shot his wife and walked in
| to the woods and shot himself, both dy
ing a few minutes apart. The heirs o
both are contending for the estate, AM
by the decision of the higher court tn
husbands relatives get the estate, tn
court having declared that the womal
died first
Some years ago fuss was made II
this county over the expenses OF unnec
essary Coroner's inquests, and in cas-,
lately appealed from Cambria Co. tn
Seperior Court says: IL the Coroner ha
no ground to suspect that the death re
suited from criminal misconduct, Ii
not his duty to act. Whore ii ia appar
ent that death was caused by disease o
by negligence of the deceased, or wa
purely accidental, the Coroner has u,
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The same Court also declares the lat
wild cat, fox and mink law to be de
fective and void
The appeal from probate Of the viii
of the late Lucius FL. Beaumont WIN
died Nov. 20. 1904. is being heard be
fore Judge w. G. Patton OF Kittannine
| specially presiding. Judge Patton hell
that the will should not have been Gu
from the ledger in which it was writer
but that the whole book should kay
been keat intact bF the Register.
The Clark Coal and Coke Co, hay
fled an answer to the bill in equity oi
Edward r. Stratman ct al, brought {.
stop Sheriff's sale of the companys pro
lperty in Buffalo twp, and to secure I
receiver; in which the jurisdiction o
the Courts Of Butler county Is denied OF
the claim that the company's principa
Office is in Allegheny county, Oths
dsfenses are also set up.
Justices Stewart and Elkin sat on the
Supreme bench In Pittsburg, Monday
for the first time; and q number Of opin
ions were filed, bat none in Butler coun
ty cases But two opinions of genera
interest affirming the constitution
ality Of the Juvenile Court act. and tbt
other affirming the right of a theatr,
manager to refuse seat after sale O
ticket-were filed. The argument lie
for Allegheny county WAS taken up
Butler county cases will be heard weel
after next.
The Superior Court sitting in Phila
delphia made some decisions that day
but none in cases from this county.
| John M. Bursner, Of Pittsbura. ha
filed bill In equity against the Nation
al liquid gas company, of Zelienople
and s. 8. Robertson, w. 9. Lynne
Emil Swenson and j. A. Frauenheim
directors of the company all of Pitts
burg, in which he asks for receiver
Bursner says the compay was chartere'
in Delaware in 1894 with a capital o
$3.50. 600 and that knowing a secret fol
mula for making liquid gas to charg
soda fountains, be sold his secret to tn
company for 81 500 worth OF stock an
the position of manager at 81 800 salary
He was ousted last September. He nc
cuses the defendants Of gobbling up tn
stock and of having given q mortgag