Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1906-05-03
LEGAL NEWS.
NEW SUITS.


A. P. Tannehill VS. Plum Pettigrew
trespass for $1,000, damages for slander
Geo L. Knox, by his next friend an(
father, A. L. Knox VS. James NJ. Knox
trespass for $4,000 damages for slander
The plaintiff AYERS that the defendan
said ''Geo. l.. Knox stole $3.50 off 6
man named Shaffer, a Swede, living IL
Perry twp. Armstrong county, Pa.
and is adamned thief.
w. G. Thompson VS. K. W. Elliott
deft and ]. Berg &Co., a. W. Christley
and Warren Aggas, garnishees, execu
ton attachment on judgment against
the deft for $130.
Eta K. Slower VS. Willis P. Stover
petition for divorce. They were
married in 1882 and the husband is al
legged to have deserted the libellant II
1899.
NOTES.
Jesse Madison, Red Row colored boy
who has been in trouble several times,
is in Jail for ABB for hitting a Slav wo-
man with a poker. Monday he was
sent to Morganza.
Letters of administration on the es-
tate of Mrs. Nancy c. Kelly of Butler
twp. haYe been granted to John K. Hen
ninger.
In the estate of Joseph P Thompson,
late of Cherry twp, Geo. w. Thompson
and J. S. Campbell have fled answers
to the appeal from admission of the
will to probate, in which they aver the
,~-o- &c g1,nI mind ord xrns
not unduly Influenced.
There are twentyfour criminal cases
now on the list for trial at the June
Quarter Sessions.
Mike Kouchac is in Jail on a charge
of agg a&b tor humping another ltal-
ian with beer bottle.
Alleging that the Standard Oil and II
affiliated companies have secret trade
agreement by which they control pro-
duction and transportation of oil and
gas Prosecutor L. W. Wachenheime of
Lucas county. on behalf of Attorney
General Ellis of Ohio, filed suit in the
Circuit Codrt, last Saturday, asking re-
vocation of their charters and dissolu-
ton of the Illegal agreement.
There was surprised woman in
Court in Youngstown, o., last Satur-
day, when Judge Rogers, after granting
a divorce to Mrs. Anna Clark from
Walter J. Clark, said: Il would advise
You, Mrs Clark, not to get married
again until you have consulted an at
torney. The United States Supreme
Court has decided that marriages which
follow divorce on the ground of will
full absence when the defendant is out
of the jurisdiction of the court are big
amous outside the state. l would ad-
wise you to look into this matter.
Floyd Goodrich was placed il jail
Tuesday on charge of larceny for
stealing some shoes.
Joseph Eskovitz, Lyndora merchant,
was held for Court by Squire Mexwell,
Friday on a charge of false pretense
made against him by Slavish woman.
who alleges Eskovitz induced her to
give him So to got her husband out of
Jail, which she alleges be did not do,
nor try TO do.
An Italian named Ayries, arrested at
Washington, Pa, Friday, as the sup
posed assailant of Rocco Terlizzi, was
released from jail Terlizzi, on seeing
him, saying he was not the right man.
The Mclaughlin case will be with
drawn from the Supreme Court, and he
will probably be taken to the peniten-
tiary this week.
Two hundred pounds of brass ingots
were stolen one night last week from
warehouse of the carwheel works
Policeman Schultz managed TO get
track of the guilty parties, two en-
ployes, and half the brass Was returned
and the other half paid for. The stolen
goods had been sold to a West End
junk dealer.
Pete Oppart, the demented man from
Mars. skipped out from the jail-garden,
Monday.
Mrs. Russell was granted a divorce
from Rev. G. T. Russell, by an Allie
gheny county jury, Monday, though
there seemed to be nothing in her case,
and the Judge charged" strongly
against it.
Arthur Adams was placed in Jail last
night on a charge Of assault and battery
made against him by VIM. Shay. Dur
ing fight the men fell and Shay had
his arm broken.
PROPERTY TRANSFERS.
JE& W II Say to W n Hoffman As
acre lease and well in Penn for S1450.
Katharine Kutsch to w S McCrea lot
on Cottage Hill for $115.
W E Holmes to McCrea 81 Findley
lot on Sloppy st for $4,000.
Susan 7 Pifer to Chas Hilliard lot at
Hilliard for $3.50.
Cath Reilly to Millerstown Boro lot
for $780,
JE Russell to W G Russell 60 acres
in Clay for $1351.
w & Russell to II g Pryor 2s acres
in Clay for 5000.
Caroline Thompson to Frank Stro-
hecker lot in Harmony for $130.
Oliver Thompson to John w McCand-
less Is acres in Cherry for $500.
Albertus T Walker to jenkins d
Royle lot in Butler for $500.
Samuel Sparks to Lewis E Ruby lot
in Butler for $575.
Geo. H Householder to A W House
holder, lot in Zelienople for $l20.
Urias Conrad to John M Randall, lot
in Slipperyrock for $125.
227 feet on w. Clay st. for $4,000.
Mary 3 Fair to Adeline Patrick, LOT
and mineral spring in Renfrew fol-
$1,000.
81 A Blymiller to Chas. G Courson, O.
acres in Allegheny for S1125.
John A Douthett to Harry Cooper, 4
acres in Adams for $475.
Jennie E Pollock to Foster Pollock,
I int. in 110 acres in Centre for $536.
Z E Abrams to Ntl. Transit Co. lease
and lot at Karns City for years at So
per year.
Anna Dennison to Elliott Stoughton
/ int. in SO acres in Clay for $3.50.
Jas. B Vance to A M Christley, ] int
in lots ON Pearl st. for $3100.
Elmer E Young, exr., to Fl Cumber
land, lot on Fourth ST. for $1675.
R d McMurry to Blanche Il Kelly
lot on White Ave. for $1825.
Marriage Licenses.
j. f. Gordon. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Emlentor