Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 February 1905 — COURT HOUSE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

COURT HOUSE NEWS.

Items of Interest Gathered In the Offices of the County Capitol. Marriage licenses issued: Feb. 13, Henry Wagner to Maude Wandfer. The annual meeting of the township assessors will be held at the office of the county assessor on Friday, Feb. 24. —o — The expensive automatic dumps in the court house water-closets have recently been replaced with the cheaper and perhaps more satisfactory hand or chain dumps Under the old system some of them were out of order most of the time. —o — The eleven criminal cases pending against the McCoys in the White circuit court were continued this week for the term; also the old case of J. F. Heinzman vs. the Board of Commissioners of Jasper county for the balance alleged to be due him on the building of the new court bouse here seven years ago. o The grand jury has been in session all week, but up to yesterday morning no indictments had been returned in court, although we understand some three or four have been found. Owing to bad roads it has been difficult for witness to get in, and the jury will hardly finish up its work this week. —o —

Several citizens of Kankakee township have been before the grand jury this week, and it is rumored that people up there are responsible for the grand jury being called it bis term. It is said that a “blind tiger” in Dunnvill e has been causing the good people up there considerable vexation. To oust this place they wanted a grand jury called. —o — Appellate court action: “5073 Engle vs. Johnson et al. Jasper C. C. Affirmed. Black J. A real estate broker who was employed to find a purchase for land at a certain price, 1300 down and the balance all cash by March 1, and who brought his employer an offer at that price, S3OO down and the balance all cash by March 1, except for a mortgage of SSOO, which he offered to assume, and which offer the the employer refused to accept, is not entitled to recover his commissions for a sale.” Not much has been doing in the circuit court this week but routine business. Some few defaults have been entered up and

some matters on the probate docket disposed of. Mrs. Mary Galbraith was given a divorce from her husband Sylvester Galbraith, on the grounds named in her conplaint, and the custody of the two minor children. Jasper Guy was granted leave to amend his blank complaint for damages filed some time ago against his wife, Josephine Guy, and defendant is ruled to answer March 10.

—o— New suits filed: No. 6818. Bertha Vos vs. John Mueller and August Vos; action to cancel mortgage and to restrain sale of real esiate. No. 6819 State of Indiana vs. John Moritz, Charles E. Kersey, John Greve and Milo Michaels; suit on bond. No. 6820. Mary E. Peck vs, Geo. A. Peck, action for divorce and alimony. The parties to this case reside at Demotte; were married some twenty years ago, and have one child, a daughter, now a young lady. The charge is cruel and inhuman treatment, failure to provide and habitual drunkeness. —o — The delinqment tax sale Monday was attended by about the usual number of bidders and all the property advertised was sold except the old laundry site near the river and some lots belonging to T. J. McCoy, on which there were no bids.

The K. of P. building was bid off by the Dickenson Trust Co., of Richmond, Ind , who hold a $12,000 first mortgage on the property. The 537 acres of land in Hanging Grove, owned by Mattie J. Rinehart, against which there was $1,217,23 delinquent tax, was bid off by E. L. Hollingsworth, who took 40 acres and pays the delinquencey