Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1906-05-24
LEGAL NEWS.
NEW SUITS.

NEW SUITS.
| Lucinda Hutchison VS. Alexander
Kerr. .trespass for $4,000, for breach of
promise and other injuries. Bail in
$1,000 was required The parties live at
Annandale, Kerr being widower and
the plaintiff formerly was his house
keeper.
Mrs Hutchison also entered charges
of f&b and attempting to procure an
abortion, on which Kerr has been held
on bail for trial at the June Court.
NOTES.
A charge of a&b with intent to COM
nit rape has been made against James
English OF Muddycreek by Meade Law
renee.
! The will of Absalom Shearer. decd,
I of Fairview twp. has been probat9d,
/ letters to his wife. Susan E. Shearer
and son, w. c. Shea-er. He directs
/ his property to be turned into cash, the
interest to be used for his wifes main
| tenance, and at her death to be divided
among the children.
In the estate of Jos P. Thompson.
decd, of Cherry twp. citation has
been issued on the heirs-at-law TO show
cause why an issue devistavit vel nor
should not be awarded.
Alexander Berkman the anarchist
who, during the Homestead steel strike,
murderously attacked II. c. Frick and
was sentenced to serve % years in the
Western Penitentiary and six months
in the Allegheny county workhouse was
released from the latter institution last
Friday Berkman earned a commuta-
ton of sentence for good behavior
which reduced his term to about IA
years.
The news, welcome to the County |
Commissioners and the people, came
Tuesday that the Supreme Court sitting |
in Philadelphia, on Monday affirmed the !
decree of Judge Criswell in the case of |
the County of Venango VS. the Penn |
Bridge Co., involving the proposed |
bridge across the Allegheny river at |
Kennerdell. This is most welcome It'd |
ings to the people of the county, for it |
means that steps will at once be taken |
to proceed with the erection of the Ken
nerdell bridge The Commissioners |
will now be ready and free to go ahead. |
The decree in favor of the county is |
based on the fact that the former con-
tract had never been approved by the |
court. Thereby Gingularly enough, the
taxpayers are to profit by the oversight
of their own servants, the Board of
Commissioners.-Venango Spectator.
Six of the Shenandoah, Pa, school di
rectors who have been serving terms of
one year for accepting bribes from the |
teachers haye been released from pris- |
on.
At Washington, Monday, the U. S.
Supreme Court affirmed the Kansas |
Court in it's judgment tining Senator |
Burton $500, and sentencing him to |
nine months in Jail Senator Burton
was convicted under the law which pro-
kibits any Senator or Representative to |
practice before the executive depart
ments. Many legal experts have held
that the law acts automatically and
that when all legal recourse had been
exhausted and Mr.. Burton actually be-
came a convict, he would cease to be a /
Senator, as the statute declares that no
one convicted of its violation can ever
hold office under the United States |
Government
A charge of larceny and receiving |
stolen goods has been made against b.
Levy by railroad detective F. Nj. Grier. |
The Butler Savings and Trust Co,
guardian of Frances and Robert, minor |
sons of Thomas Hindman, decd. has |
petitioned for partition of his real |
estate in Franklin twp.
Charges of disorderly conduct, mali |
cious mischief and surety of the peace
have been made against Thos. Pisor by |
Oliver Bowser.
The Supreme Court of Missouri has |
affirmed the conviction for murder of |
Mrs Agnes Ny ers and Frank Hoffman. |
They will be ha nged June 20 unless the |
Governor interf eres Hoffman will be |
executed in the Jail at Kansas City. |
while Mrs. Myers will meet death in /
her cell in the Court House at Liberty. |
Clay county. If Mrs. Myers is hanged
she will be the first width woman hang
ed in the State of Missouri.
The crime for which the two were |
convicted was the killing Of Clarence
Myres. husband of Agnes Myers.
Mrs. Samuel G. Elliott. weighing
almost 400 pounds, Of near Huntington,
W. Va, was arrested. Friday, on a
warrant charging her with inhuman
treatment of a stepdaughter
''Well, / will not go to court, said
Mrs Elliott to the constable, unless
you take me by force"
AS Mrs. Elliott is practically unable
to walk, owing to her portliness, the |
officer is baffled 1t is next to impossi
BILE to move her, hence the situation is
puzzliug.
PROPERTY TRANSFERS.
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lot in Petrolia for 81.
Geo W Amy to Angelo Pillicicne lot |
IN Butler for $4,000
Alex Bard to Tina Bard lot in Slip |
perprock for 81.
Martha C. Bard to Roy A Watson lot |
in Slipperyrock for $4,000
John Frazier to A G Brown 101 acres |
in Clinton for 5000.
VIM. Walker to W f kumberger, lot |
in Butler for $1,000.
Elmer w Schenck to Charles Wagner |
lot in Butler for 81.
w J Burke to M Garmon, farm in |
Adams for $780,
M Garmon to Ella Burke, same for |
$3500
Ell Anderson 10 H G Bricker, lot in
Butler for $4,000.
Adam Eudres to Jacob Endres, acres
in Jackson for $1,000
W l Cress to a L Eindiey, lot in
Butler for $500.
Mary Brown to VIM. J Borell, so |
acres in Mercer for $2S00.
James Bredin to Samuel W Greer, lot |
in Butler 81
Samuel II Morrison TO Russell Van |
Dyke, lot in Harrisville for 5000.
Samuel r Walker to same, lot in
Harrisville for $400
w A Slower to Elizabeth Low, lot