Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1906-01-04

: petition for divorce, cruel and bsrbarcl
treatment alleged.
. W. H. Fleming VS. A L. Vensel, sun
mons in trespass for $4,000 for slande
Fleming states that while he was &C
ing as foreman for Charles Goerman o
some carpenter work at the Thomi
Mcclure house at st. Joe he discnarE
ed Vensel at Goerman's request an
Vensel then called Fleming sewers
. things that were not nice. A capla
was issued for Fleming and bail rt
quired.
NOTES.
Reports of viewers in the case of Mr.:
Ellen Elliott VS. d. & o. R. r. awardin
her 1915 damages for land taken i
Fairview twp and in the case of Katt
crime Pfeifer, against the same railroad
awarding her 800, have been approve
by the court.
Eighteen of the bridge building CON
panies of Ohio have been indicted b
the grand jury of Henry county TO
combining to keep up prices, contrar.
to the anti thrust law OF that state.
| Judge Shafer of Allegheny count.
lately sentenced two negroes TO sixteer
years each in the penitentiary for high
way robbery, and shooting with lnten
to kill.
A prisoner in Missouri penitentlary
tasted from Thanksgiving to Xmas be
cause he was given no turkey on Thanks
giving.
! Geo. Crumm, said to be from Col
| umbus. Ohio, spent the holidays in a
| padded cell in the Butler jail-supp osed
to be bad case of jimjams. Hes
better now.
The following presented petitions for
naturalization and were sworn IL as
citizens of the United States last week:
Julian Krunicke, Salvatore POLAND,
Guiseple POLAND, John Bungar, Eugene
Piquard and Dominica Nevalo.
The equity case of Thos. Painter. E.
H. Painter, ct al vs Peter Painter. Dr.
]. L. NJ. Halstead, Miss NJ. L. Buckley
ct al was continued until March term,
Henderson Surrena of Mercer twp.
was arrested by County Detective Hoon,
Saturday after chase across Venango
Marion and Washington twps. Several
days ago Mrs Violet Farnen of Venango
twp, whose house was burglarized some
time ago. made information before
SQUIRE Keck charging Surrena with the
crime. Surrena had evidently been
warned of the approach of the officer,
which accounts for the flight. 1t is al
legged that Surrena was the perpetrator
of a number Of robberies which have
occurred in the northern part Of the
county.
Surrena was held for Court by Justice
Keck after a hearing, Monday, and bail
fixed at $1,000. A neighbor of Surrena
went on the bond, showing bank GER
fiticate of deposit for $1,000 Later Dis
trict Attorney Walker learned the
bondsman lived in Venango county and
owned no real estate. Then there was
a race to get out another warrant and
arrest Surrena again before he got out
of town, but District Attorney Walker
and County Detective Hoon got their
man after run as he was boarding
Bessem er train.
The case of Mrs Annie Maloney VS.
Noble Montgomery, stated for the
opinion of the Court to determine If
Montgomery was liable for the payment
of rentals under certain clause in the
Heydrick oil lease, was argued before
Judge Galbreath, Saturday.
The equity case of E. F. Stratman.
John Berry and others, minority stock
holders of the Clark Coal and Coke Co.,
asking for receiver, was called Friday
and continued after some of the wit
nesses had been heard on account Of
Clark taking sick during the hearing.
The equity case of J. Fl. Negley vs.
Butler Street Railway Co. was heard
last week. Fraud on the part OF the
defendants was alleged in G. j. Gibson
securing right of way covering diff
erent ground than that previously
agreed upon by the parties.
County Treasurer Dixon paid Treas
urer j. w. Hutchison of the Bar AsSo-
citation $469 %, being one half of the
fines paid for violations of the liquor
laws during the past nine months.
The money goes to the Court library.
Sheriff Gibson received $1749.97 from
the County Commissioners in their final
sediment Saturday for taking care OF
prisoners, transportation OF prisoners,
ETC., during the last quarter of 1908.
Sheriff Campbell on Monday receipt
ed Sheriff Gibson for the Jail and Office
equipment and fixtures, and nine pris-
oners, as follows: John B. Mclaughlin,
Paul Milovitz, Tillie Snyder, J. j. Sny-
der, Hypolite Burgeoise, Henderson
Surrena, Emil Fisher, George Richard
son and John Mininger.
Gov. Herrick of Ohio pardoned two
life-sentence prisoners, for Christmas
gift.
The Hamilton VS. W. S. Wick equity
case, to prevent the closing of a drive
way from Monroe st to the bottle
works. was argued Monday.
The hearing Of the equity proceedings
of j. Nj. BursDer vs the directors of the
National Liquid Gas Co. of Zelienople
was continued before Judge Galbreath,
Tuesday. One of the disclosures of the
hearing was that the Indebtedness of
the firm increased from S4650 in Sept.
to $27, 200 in November. After hearing
all the evidence Judge Galbreath
refused to appoint a receiver and open
ed the injunction, and dismissed the
case at Bursners cost The case is to
be appealed.
The equity case of the Iron City Mfg.
Co. asking for an injunction on % of
it's former employees, members of the
Iron Molders Union, was heard yester-
day.
G. c, Pillow, Fl. H. Boyd, Robert
d. Stevenson, r. G. McAboy. j. N.
Muntz and Milton Shanor were appoint
ed viewers to assess damages on petit
ton of Lochrie Bros, who are building
lateral railroad to their coal mines in
Washington twp, to assess damages
done by their lines.
The will of the late Mrs. Elizabeth
Pisor of Hooker has been probated,
Robert Adams executor. The real es-
tate goes to her son Henderson. and the
personal estate is divided equally among
her children.
Harry Atkinson of Claytonia was
placed in Jail yesterday on charge of
surety of the peace made before JUS
tice Christie.
Joe Keppo is in Jail on charge of
willfully and maliciously destroying
mail lifted from the post Office.
w. L. Bowser was arrested al the B.
g. o. station on Tuesday evening on a
charge of a&b made against him by
| his wife.
At the meeting of the Supreme Court
| in Phila., Tuesday, Justice Stewart
| took the oath of Office for the regular
term, twenty-one years. The Court
| affirms the lower court in the Massetl
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