Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 September 1905 — THE COURT HOUSE [ARTICLE]

THE COURT HOUSE

Items Picked Up About The County Capitol. court convenes Monda y. —o — A special session of the county coffimissioners was held Saturday and contract let to the Pan-Amer-ican Bridge Co., for a new bridge in Newton tp., at $1,273. No other business was transacted as shown of record. —6— Marriage licenses issued: Sept. 27, Grajit J. Shipley, of Bisbee, Arizona (formerly of near Remington), aged 40 years, to Jessie Pearl Clark, of near Remington, aged 25. Second marriage for groom, wife hkving died in 1903; first marriage for bride. r Jr-Sept. 29, George E. Salrin of Walker tp., aged 21, to Maude Peterson, also of Walker, aged 16. First marriage for each. —o — New suits filed: No. 6933. Benjamin F. Fendig vs. Hugh L. Gamble; suit on accout. Demand SIOO. No. 6934. Ed Oliver vs. Chas. F. Lyons; action in attachment on chattel mortgage. No. 6935. Joseph J. Schuh vs. John Karr and Joseph Deveraux; suit on note. —o — Land-owners along the Monon ditch in Pulaski county are agitating the enlargement of the ditch, making it 100 feet wide and providing for a new ditch leading from Salem township southeasterly to the Tippecanoe river in White county, forming a double outlet for the big ditch. The new ditch is to be 80 feet wide on the bottom. — o . Oxford Tribune: The eleven indictments found against Alfred and Tom McCoy last April, were sustained last Saturday by Judge Hanley, of the Jasper county court. The cases were venued to White county. If Alf and Tom live long enough they will go free for bank wrecking, and probably get judgment against the people they robbed for persecution. —o — Trustee Chapman and Judge Thompson were in Indianapolis a few days the first of the week on matters pertaining to "the McCay cases. The matter of discharging them from bankruptcy |was again continued. Tbe court held that the Lafayette and Delphi bank creditors must share the same as other creditors, and that their claims could not come in ahead of others. The overdrafts of the two McCoys must also be paid to the bank out of their individual property, which will increase tbe assets to the bank creditors. —o— John W. Swan, who died at his home in Fulton couuty last week and was buried at Fowler, was for many years a prominent figure in Benton county and northwestern Indiana. He was a man of high honor and superior intelligence and was very active in the political reform waves that have swept over the county at different periods. Mr; Swan settled in Benton county in 1856 and resided there continuously up to about a year ago when he moved to Fulton county. He was 78 years of age at tbe time of his death.