Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 July 1904 — COURT HOUSE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

COURT HOUSE NEWS.

Items of Interest Gathered In the Offices of the County Capitol. Commissioners’ court convenes Monday. —o — There was SI,OOO in unloaned sohool funds on hand July, 1. —o — Marriage licenses issued: June 28, Frank C. Leek to Farrie E. Loughridge. —o — The Iroquois ditch matter will be taken up again next Tuesday by the commissioners at their July meeting. —o — Mrs. Eliza Philippi has been appointed administratrix of the estate of Frank Philippi, deceased, late of Carpenter township. —o — Four more -mortgages, by Mattie M. Rhinehart to A. T. Bowen & Co , each for $1,600, a total of $6,400, given on the Hanging Grove land, were filed for record Saturday. —o — The marriage license business which took quite a boom the third week of June, took a relapse, and only one license has been issued since the 16th. The total for the month was but 7, against 7 for the preceding month and 7 for June, 1903. —o — New suits filed: No. 6686. Edward F. Mitchell et al vs. Isiah H. Mitchell et al; action in partition. No. 6687. RenaKrasney vs. Victor Kraeney; action for divorce. The complaint alleges that the parties were married Nov. 27,1900, in Illinois, and that on Feb. 13, 1901, defendant without cause and against her will and consent, wholly abandoned plaintiff and has since lived apart from her, and that his present whereabouts are unknown. Plaintiff asks for a divorce and that her name be changed to Rena Bierly. No. 6679. Salome. Wuerthner and. Mary Christina Wuerthner vs. Christian Nathan Wuerthner; action in partition. • —o — Deputy Sheriff White brought three prisoners over from Newton county Tuesday and placed them in jail here. One is Wm, O’Connell, who is laying out a plain drunk fine, and the other tWo are D. S. Payne and Ralph Bonebrake, who are alleged to have broken into the smokehouse of Geotge Long, a farmer residing south of Kentland, and stole nineteen gallons of lard, which they disposed of at Earl Park, Wadena and Fowler. Payne lived on a farm near Wadena, and has a wife and two children. Bonebrake is a single man, and his home is somewhere in southern Indiana. The latter was arrested near Foresman. They will be tried at the next term of the Newton circuit court. / -o/>The first hearing in the McCoy bankruptcy petition will be heard by Judge Anderson at Indianapolis, next Tuesday, July 5, at which the sufficiency of the petition will be next step is the referring of the matter to Referee John O. Bowers of Hammond, who will set a time for a meeting of creditors. This meeting will be held here, Mr. Bowers states, and the creditors select a trustee to take charge of the assets. The majority of the creditors who also represent a majority of the amount of claims have thepower to elect this trustee. Inthe event there is no combination of a majority of the creditors agreeing upon a trustee, then the referee appoints. The trustee may be a resident or non-resident of Rensselaer. A great many creditors seem to think that it should be a non-resident, who would be free from local influences.