Ligonier Valley Rail Road Newspaper Articles
We have compiled over 1,400 newspaper articles that mention the Ligonier Valley Railroad, or related subjects. The articles were originally published starting in 1873 and our collection runs through 1995. Enjoy!
Daily Courier
Friday, November 27, 1896
A Much-Wanted Man
The Ligonier Valley Rioters Pistol Shot Heard in Many Places
The trial in the Westmoreland courts of John W. Huston, and his father, Dixon Huston, for felonious assault and battery and shooting with intent to kill, has resulted in many demands being made for the younger Huston. He and his father resisted the workmen of the Ligonier Valley railroad, who wanted to lay a track on land claimed by Huston. They shot Superintendent Senft in the legs. The trail ended in a verdict of acquittal for the father, and the conviction of the son for assault and battery and aggravated assault and battery.
The shooting was unfortunate for John W. Huston. The shot was, figuratively speaking, heard all over the country, and the report was followed quickly by the appearance of no less than half a dozen officers with warrants for the arrest of Huston on charges of a swindling nature. District Attorney J. M. Christley of Butler says Huston has been swindling Butler county farmers with bogus checks. The representative of a Kansas bank is hoping to get him extradited for overdrawing his account $2,200 and skipping out. It is said he carried on gigantic oil operations in Kansas. James W. Duty, a deputy Sheriff from Ritchie county, W. Va., is still waiting to get a chance to arrest Huston on charges of forgery. He says similar charges have been made by Wood county people who had dealings with Huston, who went under the name of DeWitt while there. A representative of the National Detective Agency of Pittsburg came with a warrant for Huston on a charge of embezzlement.
When Huston has served his time for the Ligonier affair, he will have to answer these other charges, and it looks as though he will get free board without freedom for some time yet.