Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 191, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 August 1910 — Three Times as Many Men as Women are Divorce Defendants. [ARTICLE]

Three Times as Many Men as Women are Divorce Defendants.

Records of the circuit and superior courts of Indiana show that 3,169 divorces were granted to wives in 1909, as compared to 3,136 in 1908. To husbands 1,025 were granted in 1909 and 1,117 in 1908. There were 346 convictions for liquor law violations in 1909, as compared to 627 in 1908. Marriage licenses show an increase of 1,555 last year. The compilations of the reports of the circuit and superior courts have just been made by the Bureau of Statistics. The divorce reports show the following causes alleged in the complaints for which divorces were granted: Abandonment, 1,082;“ adultry, 390; criminal convictions, 35; cruel treatment, 1,242; drunkenness, 425, failure to provide, 552; other causes, 124. . Thirty-one thousand, four hundred and twenty civil cases were filed in 1909, as compared to 30,096 in 1908. There were 931 sheriffs’ sales in 1909 and 708 in 1908. Naturalizations in-1909 outnumbered those of 1908 by 23, there being 174 in 1909 and 151 in 1908. But 1,987 persons declared their intentions of becoming citizens of the United States in 1909, against 5,785 in 1908. Germany was first in 1909 in number of natives naturalized and Russia and Holland were tied for second place. The criminal statistics for 1909 are reported as follows: Number of cases filed, 7,136; number of cases dismissed, 2,008; number venued to othei&counties, 43; convictions for felonies, 1,177; convicted for felonies and released on probation, 310; convictions for misdemeanors, 1,395; convicted for misdemeanors and released on probation, 197; cases of liquor law violations, 1,139; convictions for liquor law violations, 346.