Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1906-08-30
LEGAL n EWS.
NEW SUITS.

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Lewis Hazlett VS. Thos. w. Phillips,
assumpsit for claim of $400. In 1896
Hazlett took up leases covering 2oOC
acres in Butler, Armstrong and Ale
gheny counties, and sold them to
Phillips on an agreement by which he
claims he was to receive 5000 at the
| transfer, and S400 additional if paying
oil or gas wells were drilled on any OF
the leases. He claims paying gas wells
were struck on the Anthony Nof and
! other farms and that he never received
the $400.
Charles ONeal VS. J. Fl. Tebay, def t.
and Butler County National Bank,
garnishee, attachment on deposits of
deft. for debt of $500
w. L. Campbell for use of Butler
| Savings 81 Trust Co. VS. Tobias Dietrich.
deft., and Spang & Co. garnishee, exc
cution attachment on judgment of
5000
NOTES.
A charge of surety of the peace has
been made against NJ. Halemain by l..
Kooser, both West End foreigners.
Charges off agg. aScb have been enter
ed against G. S. Rodgers and VIM.
Kretchen by Annie Waytnvitz.
John McCorry has been held for trial
on charges of a&b and desertion, made
against him by his wife.
John Burdauvick is in Jail on a charge
of rape and Frank Kobelzler on charge
of a&b with intent TO commit rape.
Both live in Lyndora and the COM
plainant is young Slavish girl. The
defts. allege she was dreaming.
Every cell in the Allegheny county
Jail is occupied and almost every male
prisoner is Just now heaving sighs of re-
lief because of the near approach of that
time when he will not have to look all
day upon a guard armed with one of
those terrible riot guns. The new jail
is fast approaching completion, but
until the last stone is laid Warden
Edward Lewis will maintain the un-
usual guard he has had over the
prisoners during the construction OF the
annex.
1t will probably surprise even the all
knowing prisoners to learn that the
dreadful riot gun, whose n,uzzle points
their way, was the famous weapon
which dealt death to the Biddles near
Butler The gun is really a repeating
rifle carrying four shells, each shell
being loaded with eight buckshot any
one of which is sufficient to kill. In
Africa and India they call them ele-
phant guns because of their ability to
destroy the largest game. -Ex.
At Chicago, Monday, in the longest
indictment known to the history of the
Al
charged by two Federal grand Juries
with accepting rebates from seven rail
way companies. The charges are con-
tanned in ten indictments, comprising
,42S separate offenses.
The charges are brought under the in
terstate commerce law and the compa
nv is liable to be fined from So 42S, 900
to 1928, 500, 900 if convicted of all the of
fenses. The statute fixes the punish
ment for each offense at fine of from
81 600 to $50, 900. Added to the indict-
ments returned at Jamestown, n. Y,
the oil trust faces the possibility of pay
ing the United States the vast sum of
S131, ,0S0, 900, as punishment for the Of
fense of monopolizing the oil industry,
by means of rebates secured from rail
road companies
Whenever two trains crash into each
other the way those two did on the
Bessemer & Lake Erie, Saturday, some
one is responsible" declared Coroner
Joseph G. Armstrong, of Pittsburg,
Monday, ''and we propose to find out
who it is Following the coroner's
firm stand on the question
Deputies Harry Lowe, Ambos and
Kennedy, of Allegheny, who investigat
ed the wreck on Saturday III which
Fireman Brady E. Cole and o. A.
Deemer were killed, reported Monday
that it was due without doubt to the
of tramp operator EN-
ployed as towerman near the scene of
the wreck. This man has disappeared
!. Il,s inquest wit probably be deferred
located The coroner will also make a
thorough inquiry into the employment
Of transient operators in such re-
sponsible positions.
PROPERTY TRANSFERS.
Jos B Bredin to VIM Koslowsky lot in |
Butler twp for $500.
Geo and Louise Brown to Theo l.
lot on Mifiin st for $4,000
Geo Helfrick TO VIM Arnold lot in |
Parker for $3.50.
Fred K Croft heirs to John Murray 110 |
acres in Cranberry for $4,000.
r o Sterritt to Maria Miller lot in |
Valencia for 1915.
Theo L Schenck TO Warren Weisen-
stein lot on Miffiin st for $500.
Theo L Schenck to Anna l. Lowman |
lot on Race ST for $500.
IL Schenck to Earl D Clinton lot on |
Race and Pillow SITS for $5200
P Hepler to W d Byers 81 acres in
Oakland for $500.
9 W Steele to Ida M Stafey lot in Pc
trolia for $780,
John Murrin to Thos Croft SO acres in |
Cranberry for $1650.
Int S & T Co to w F Metzger lot on
Wayne st and McCool ave for $4,000; also
to H Doutt lots on same for $4,000.
Florence Chalfant to G F Hartung lot
III Harmony for SIS.
w Arnold, Dom Mcintosh and Lock
enmeyer to Clarion Nat Bank lease and
wells on the Kelly farm, Butler twp,
for $1,000.
Margaret L Brown to Philip w Ruff,
lot on w. Clay for $500.
Fred Goettler 10 Ed. Guthrie, lot on
S. Main ST. for $4,000.
Theo Schenck to James Z Marshall,
lot on Miffiin st. for $500.
Henry Wagner to Theo. l. Schenck,
lots on Chestnut for $2465.
l. q McElhaney to Bertha NJ Purvis,
lot in Butler for 81.