Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1906-10-04
LEGAL NEWS.
NEW SUITS.

roster. dppelISes ceEIlOrdrl On JOHH L
Shannon, J. P. OF Gallery on judg
ment rendered in favor of Mrs. Foster
c. L. Dindinger, Chas. S. Passayant
: Rev. Hugh Leith. Rev. E S. Littel
and N r. Dindinger. stockholders il
the Marion Coal and Coke Co. hav
commenced equity proceedings 20 hav
a receiver appointed for the company
They allege that the company has baer
mismanaged. that the property anc
mines. near Boyers station, have beer
lying idle for a year past. and is de
prccatIng in value The debts are saiC
TO amount to $12 000 The company
was organized in June, 1904. with 9
capital stock Of $50, 900. divided intC
1900 shares Of $50 each. There ha:
been friction in the company for some
time past
/ Harlan Book VS. C. A. Bredin. tres
pass for $500 damages. A short time
ago Mr. Book horse frightened at the
defts. automobile and Mr.. Book WAS
thrown out and injured.
NOTES.
Mr. and Mrs George p. Lambert
were granted leave TO adopt an infant
| girl left on their doorstep few weeks
ago.
The will of William Forquer, decd,
of Oakland twp has been probated. J.
L. Reed, executor. The estate is left
to his wife for life and at her death to
| be divided among his brother, sister
and the children Of a deceased brother
! Martha Gott. a sixteen yearold
Italian girl of Ellwood who eloped and
was married and living with her hush
and on Coal street, was arrested last
week on a charge of larceny made
against her by her father.
District Attorney Walker went to
Pittsburg last Thursday and entered the
bond of Contractor Henry P. Butz,
given when he gave bail for Samuel
Sham berger.
Or petition of citizens Of Winfield
twp. rule was granted on the School
Board of the township to show cause
why they should not repair the West
Winfield school house
j. Harvey Bell. J. f. Harper. w. E
Mahood. Robert Hays, Charles Norris,
George W. Meals and Rainey Camp
bell were appointed viewers on petition
of George w. Cranmer to have damages
assessed against the Allegheny and
Western railroad for entering upon his
property in Clay twp.
A charge of agg. a&b has been made
against Elliott z. Hays of Chicora. by
his wife who alleges he tried 70 carve
her up with big knife.
George G. Stewart, guardian of May
Barrickman, aged sixteen years, pc
titioned for a writ Of habeas corpus on
J. ". Barrickman of Cranberry twp,
brother Of the girl. whom he alleges il
beeping her at his home against her
will The case was made returnable
Tuesday and the girl was produced at
the hearing.
The Argentine and Eau Claire rail
road has petitioned for approval of a
number of grade crossings in Washing
twp.
Joseph Wellner aged twelve years
was called in Court, Monday, for SEN
tence, but after consultation with |
District Attorney Walker sentence was
suspended until Oct. 10Th.
Walter Hazeltine has been appointed |
guardian of Minerva and James Hazel |
tine, minor children of Mrs Katie |
IlhLClLlbt ucG IL VI DullrIs anu
ed leave to make sale Of real estate TO
E. u. Negley.
Sale by Receiver John ". Wilson of |
the National Coal Co.'S. property at |
North Butler to w. A. Mains, one of
for $l475, was confirmed,
Monday.
A new trial was refused in the case
Of Commonwealth vs Samuel TyUauer.
convicted Of selling liquor without
license.
Charles Angert, Of the island was
placed in Jail, Monday, on charge of
larceny.
The case of James Ephriam Kelly VS.
Mrs Eddie Kelly, executrix Of the will
OF husband, Abner Kelly, deceased, was
heard last Friday. Nineteen years ago
Abner Kelly OF Parker twp. died
leaving will in which he directed that
a gray mare, saddle and bride and 500
be given to Mary Jane Wykes illegiti
mate son. whom che laid TO me by
oath. The mother of the boy after
ward married man named Wilson and
moved to Bradford. and the boy was
known by the names Of Kelly, Wyke
and Wilson. When fourteen years Of
age abuse by his step-father caused him
10 leave home. Thirteen years he re-
turned to Parker twp. and was recog
1ized and learned of his legacy. He
disappeared again without making any
Effort to collect it, and has since mar
red and been living in Ohio. The gray
mare. etc. was Dld fer about 1925 and
Kelly entered suit for this amount and
he $500 and interest for nineteen years.
sa he Lu. |
)een settled for the face Of the claim,
,ut this was refused and it is now in
Judge GalbreatL's hands for decision.
Sheriff G. r. Bowman of Clarion
county was in Butler last week col
ecting $50 and mileage allowed by an
I'D law for the capture Of Jerry Hall !
lfter stealing the Slater horse in Done
gal twp. After the late escape OF Hall
and Campbell, Sheriff Bowman follow
ID them from Clarion county across the
northern part Of Butler county as far &C
where trace was lost. He
believes Hall has hiding place in a
great pinewoods near Clintonville.
Daniel MEG inley, aged about sixty
years, Monday took in 30 much bad
that he did not know what he
was doing and when picked up by the
police was standing at the entrance to
the Butler Business College insulting
the girl students. Burgess Bell fined
him $25 and sent him to Jail for 30 days.
Within nine days of the eighth ami
versary of her crime, Bertha Beils.ein,
the young Allegheny woman who
murdered her mother In October. 1893.
and attempted TO take ber own life. and
whose act prompted two suicides. e.
capped from the Western Pennsylvania
Asylum for the Insane. at Dixmont.
where che spent seven and one half
years. last week and bas not yet been
apprehended. Bertha Beilstein was ~
years old August 20 last, and was II
years old when she shot and killed her
mother and shot herself October .. 1893, |
at the family homestead Allegheny,
The crime was one of the sensations of
this vicinity and followed, or was the
forerunner Of series OF strange fatal
tiles in the Beilsrein household
Mary NJ Smith has been appointed
guardian OF Jennie Swain, minor child
OF Rececca Swain, decd.
At hearing before Esq. Sutton,
yesterday, DIR. Kenneth McAlpi-c wa4
held for trial on charges Of deberticn
and non-snpport made against him by
his wife. DIR. McAlpine gave bail. He
has filed an answer to his wife's libel in
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