Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1905-09-07

license court. Hereafter license Court
will be held on the last Monday of
February each year. Applications and
supplemental petitions must be on file
at least three weeks before the day fixed
for hearing, notice of application are
to be published in the Butler CITIZEN
and Butler Times and remonstrances
and objections are to be on file one
week before license court convenes.
The licenses granted next February
shall run for nine months commencing g
July 1, 1906.
On petition of Mrs. John B. Dickey
the Guaranty S. D. & T. Co. was ap-
pointed guardian of William E. NJ.
Dickey, minor.
The Capt Shearer farm, 106 acres,
near Whitestown, was sold Friday at
public sale to Nelson Shearer for $3.50.
In the case of Jacob Rowley VS. FL. B.
Bowser, on petition of defendant, a rule
was granted to show cause why judg-
ment entered by Rowley for 1904, should
not be entered.
In the divorce case of Matthew ].
Taylor vs. Myrtle Taylor, the defendant
has withdrawn her demand for jury
trial
In the case of the Etna Mfg. Co. vs.
W. B. Enos, the Court filed an opinion
holding that the verdict previously di-
rected for the defendant was error. and
awarded a new trial. The plaintiff sold
the defendant gas engine, who in turn
sold it to the Mcclure Casket Co. The
engine was levied on as the property of
the Casket Co. and the Etna Co. put in
claim that title had never passed from
them to Enos.
In the case of Harmony boro vs. Mrs.
E. V. Latshaw, the Court has refused
to take off the compulsory non suit
granted against the borough. for the
reason that negligence on the part of
Mrs. Latshaw was not shown.
G. D. Bankdale is in Jail on charge
of defrauding boarding house keeper.
s. W. Galbreath has been appointed
assistant assessor of Winfield twp, I'd
precinct.
In the case of Q. G. McQuistion vs. W.
w. McQuistion Judge Galbreath filed
an opinion opening the judgments in
question and granting a jury trial to
determine whether the notes were sign
ed by w. w. McQuistion and whether
or not they had ever been paid. The
notes, amounting to $500 and $1O6, were
entered 81 years ago.
The Guarantee s. D. & T. Co. guar
dian of Caroline M. Steck, minor, has
been granted leave to make private sale
of several lots in Oakland Place.
G. G. Pillow, H. Fl Boyd, Robert D.
Stevenson, R. c. McAboy, John N.
Muntz and Milton R. Shanor were ap
pointed viewers on petition of Thomas
and Hugh Lochrie for leave to build a
lateral railroad over lands of FL. K.
Wick, d. G. Mcfarland and Hamilton
Bros to connect up new mines at Ar
gentine.
Gilbert Zehner has registered as a
law student.
Application has been made by Rev.
Edmund Belfour, William Steinmeyer
and others for a charter for the Old
Peoples Home of the Pittsburg Synod
of the Evangelical Lutheran church, to
be located at Zelienople. Oct IA. was
fixed for bearing.
Orman Fisher, of Prospect plead
/
was sentenced to pay costs, $100, fine,
and undergo Imprisonment in Jail for
six months.
John Caspar of Lyndora, who has
been figuring numerously in local police
counts Monday, plead guiltyito a mis-
demeanor.
W. M. Scott, the Jefferson township
pumper, who was charged with eloping
with an Evans City girl, plead guilty
to charges of adultery and desertion.
The case against John H. Bortmas Of
Millerstown has been continued until
December
The sentence of ex-Captain Wilson of
the Allegheny police on the two graft
charges of which he was convicted will
| strike the ordinary observer as extreme
| ly mild. Considering that the offense
involved fragrant breach of public
trust the penalty of 5000 fine and six
months in the workhouse-if the con-
viction is sustained by the courts above
appears out of proportion 20 the pun
ishments inflicted on more ordinary Of
| tenders.
Frank Houff, foreign laborer living
on the plank road, went home in an in
toxicated condition, Saturday, seized
his wife by the hair, threw her across
the bed, and plunged pocket knife
into her abdomen. During their strug-
giles Mrs. Houff held her little baby in
her arms. Her screams attracted neigh
bors, and as they rushed in Houff es-
capped to the woods, where he was after
wards captured by Sheriff Gibson. An
artery was severed and the woman al
most bled to death before physician
arrived.
G. c. Pillow. J. II, Timblin and F. B.
Dodds have been made commissioners
to partition the estate of the late Porter
Kelly of Bruin