Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 October 1903 — FOR SEPARATE MAINTERNANCE. [ARTICLE]

FOR SEPARATE MAINTERNANCE.

The Chicago Journal in a recent issue makes mention of the following action for maintenance, whichis of interest to a great many of our readers, the defendant, Eugene Parks, having formerly resided in Jordan tp., and later for several years was a resident of Goodland: “Although her husband, to whom she was married over 34 years ago, is worth, as she alleges, $75,000, Mrs. Margeret Parks filed a suit as a pauper in the circuit court this morning, asking for a decree of separate maintenance from him. They were married Jan. 4, 1869, in Missiouri, and lived together, it is averred, until Sept. 30th last. The complainant charges her husband with cruelty and sets forth that he struck her with a stick Sept. 15 last and on many occasions has addressed opporbrious epithets to her. On account of his conduct, Mrs. Parks declares, she was obliged to seperate from her husband. Eugene Park, the defendant, has an income of $5,000 a year, his wife says, and is engaged in the furniture business. The complaint declares that he now threatens to transfer his property to their children. She asks for an injunction to restrain him from doing so.