Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1905-03-02
LEGAL NEWS.
NEW SUITS.

Robert ID. McClelland VS. National
Transit Co., trespass for $4,000 damages.
The plaintiffs claim the Transit Co. en-
tered upon their land in Middlesex tp.,
cut trees and laid a pipeline over the
place without leave, doing great
damage.
The Index Co. VS. w. II. Kearfott, j.
P. Lindsay and Chas. Hosford, doing
business as Kearfott, Lindsay q Co..
assumpsit for 1928 claimed to be due for
advertising in the Pittsburg Index.
| l. B. Brown VS. J. NJ. Gallagher, re-
plevin for black horse valued at 1928.
w. P. Gormley VS. B. r. & P. R. R,
Co. trespass for $500 damages for kill
ing his horse at the Centre ave. crossing
some time ago. Gormley claims the
| incoming train was running at the rate
| of nearly IS miles an hour instead of
six as required by the Borough Ordi-
| nance.
W. Frank Book and Millie Humphrey
VS. W A. r. r. Co. bond of deft Co. In
$1,000 for taking acres in Worth
W. Frank Book VS. same, bond of deft
Co. in $500 for taking 1 acre in Worth
National Supply Co. VS. S. E. Wilson,
| J G.. Weidmen, R. E. Reed, D A.
Slater, McCurdy Blicker and A. E.
Butler, mechanics lien for $1034 on
lease and well on l. n. Maharg farm.
Charles W. Pearce VS. NJ. H. John
ston, agt. and W. P Brown, constable,
trespass for $1,000 damages. Pearce
lives on the Dutilh estate in Cranberry
twp. and his property which he claims
was worth $500 was levied on by the
defts, on a landlords warrant when he
claims he did not owe mote than $50
rent.
j. H. Gormley VS. G. S. VanderliD,
assumpsit for $3.50.
NOTES.
On petition of Charles Ralph, agent
of the National Supply Co., of this
place, a writ of habeas corpus was
granted on Sheriff Josiah Neal. of
Indiana county, who arrested Ralph on
Saturday.
The will of Mrs Matilda Mckay,
decd, of Middlesex twp has been pro-
bated. The bulk of the estate goes to
Mrs Bell Criner, daughter.
John R. Kierra, native of Germany.
has applied for naturalization.
DR.. L. H. Stepp, A. L. Bowser, Esq,
and John l.. Burton were appointed
commission in lunacy on Edward
Knoch of Middlesex township.
On Saturday Elmer E. Young asked
for letters of administration on the
estate of his father, the late Simon P.
Young, and as he was doing so his
sister, Mrs Mary Forsythe, appeared
and filed a caveat against his admins
tering, stating that older brothers were
first entitled. She also filed paper
claiming that Elmer and his brother
Barton had induced their father to deed
them his farm at Bonnybrook without
compensation.
P. D. Lucas has been charged with a
misdemeanor.
Monday morning Hunky drove off
with s. Grams delivery horse and
wagon, left standing in front Of Grams
store on Playground ave. A clerk tried
to prevent him but received knockout
blow. Dram telephoned to the police
and sheriff, and as the daring highway
horse thief drove up Jefferson street
Deputy Sheriff Hepler and Chief Schultz
pounced upon him and dragged him
from his seat and had him in Jail with
in fifteen minutes after the first act of
the drama.
sAfter being placed in Jail the mans
actions indicated he was insane and on
the report of commission composed of
w. H. Martin, DIR. John V. Cowden and
w. Ell. Ritter he was committed to
Warren. His name was given as Alex
ander Pozrock.
The County Home Is sheltering a man
said to be second cousin of President
William Mckinley. The man is Will
liam Anderson, who with his wife, nee
Surrena, were brought to the Home
from Washington township: Anderson
was born and raised near Plain Grove
He served in Hemp's Company DEPART
mental Corps, Pa. Vols, Infantry in
1864. He is very feeble and crippled
with rheumatism and chronic diseases.
At Pittsburg, Thursday, Jonathan
Steele of Chicora was acquitted of false
pretense.
Constable Pacoe, VIM. Marshall and
others brought Ed Knoch to Butler
last Saturday and put him in Jail. Ed.
had gone daffy again; the Commission
decided against him; and they fooled
him TO Butler; but when they reached
the Jail Ed. caught on and put up
fight. On the way to Butler the crowd
was upset by snow-drift. He has
been committed to Dixmont.
On petition of A. R. Wahl, stock
holder in the Evans City Coal Co. rep
resenting that the company is insolvent
and asking for receiver, VIM. Bishop
of Evans City, was appointed receiver.
The company has 356 acres in fee at
Wahlville, mine in operation and a
number of houses. Its capital stock is
800, 900. of which $40, 900 has been paid
| in. The Citizens Bank of Evans City
has first mortgage for $4,000 and
John Liese a second mortSage for $5,-
900. The unsecured debts are consider
| able.
A charge of a&b has been entere d
against Wassel Supiro.
| The will of J. G.. Weigel at Evans
| City has been probated, Estella Weigel,
| exr.
| The will of John A Kirkpatrick of
Butler has been probated.
| An old letters patent bearing date of
| 1854 by which the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania granted to Nathan Slater
179 acres in Middlesex for $35, has been
placed on record.
Louis Nordi, Bredinville Italian,
was placed in Jail, Tuesday, on four
charges of obtaining money by false
pretense. The complainants are four
other Italians who allege Nordi borrow
ed sums ranging from $50 to $125 from
them on the representation that he did
not want to break in on his bank ac-
count. Yesterday the case was settled.
Tuesday night Wilson Kennedy of
Renfrew found a man in his orchard
hunting for table full of beer. The
man gave his name as Thomas Joyce.
Yesterday morning he was brought to
Butler and a commission in lunacy
composed of G L. McQuistion, DIR.
Robert Lowry and Col. o. c. Redic ad
judged him insane.
w. D. Park of Adams twp. aged 76 is
lying seriously i'll in shanty near Va.
lencia, and the County Commissioner
have been asked to aid in keeping him
One of the most peculiar cases of of
fetal malfeasance in the history of Fa
yette county has just come to light
having occurred in 1902 under the ad
ministration of the former board o1
commissioners. 1t involves Owen X
Brownfeld, ex-clerk to the commission
ers. who was accused of appropriatinl
IL 81 900 court house bonds that haC
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