Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 January 1906 — THE COURT HOUSE [ARTICLE]

THE COURT HOUSE

Items Picked Up About The County Capitol. Frank Mulden of Wheatfield was lodged in jail Thursday to lay out a eleven days fine for a plain drunk. —o — The case of Frank M. Hart vs. Chas. T. Otis, taken from this county on change of venue, was dismissed by argeement in the Newton circuit court this week. —o — Thomas Price of Parr, who was released from the insane asylum in April last, was brought here Thursday and lodged in jail to be again returned to Longcliff, having become insane once more. —o — Marriage licenses this week: Jan. 25, Ed Oliver of Milroy tp., aged 43, to Bell Raymond of Jasper county, age 29. Second Carriage for each, both having been divorced in 1905. New suits filed: No. 6990. Lawrence A. Wiles, trustee of the estate of Fred D. Gilman, bankrupt, vs. George W. Gilman; suit on notes. Demand $5,000. No. 6991. Elmira Monnett vs. Fletcher Monnett; suit for an accounting of rents and profits and for partition of real eatate. No. 6992. Jesse G. Grant vs. Garland Grant; suit for divorce. The parties to this suit reside in Marion township, and were marj ried Sept. 23, 1904; seperated Sept. 12,1905. The complaint alleges cruel and inhuman treatment. Plaintiff’s maiden name was Jessie Makeever. Just a plain divorce without any trimmings is asked for.

—o- - The G. E. Murray Company, capital SB,OOO, divided into 160 shares of SSO each, has filed articles of association with the Seoretary of State and with the recorder Jasper county. The directors are George E. Murray, Lottie H. Murray, Walter R. Lee, Joseph Jeffries aud Charles Simpson. The stock is owned as follows: George E. Murray, 134 shares; Lottie H. Murray, 1 share; Walter R. Lee, 12 shares; Joseph Jeffries, 8 shares, and Charles E. Simpson, 5 shares. The company is incorporated for the purpose of carrying on a general merchandise business in Rensselaer, and unless sooner terminated is to ran fifty years. Geo. E. Murray is president of the company, Joseph Jeffries, secretary andtreasurer. The stock is fully subscribed and paid in. ~ . Q ~.... The Hammond Tribune states that “Referee Bowers is issuing notices in the McCoy caseß for the declaration of a second dividend of 10 per cent which with the former dividend of 40 per cent gives the creditors just half of the funds they lost in the wrecked bank. The trustee has on hands more income from the estates and it is not unlikely that further dividends will be declared. Additional claims have been filed since the first dividend, but they amount to less than a thousand dollars and will be included in the 50 per cent dividends.”

The Tribune is hereby informed that the dividend heretofore declared was 20 per cent, not 40, and this 10 per cent now declared makes a total of only 30 per oent. Probablv there will be some other dividends to the creditors in tbe coarse of time, but it i 8 not at all likely the total will exceed 40 per cent, and the chances are that it will hardly equal that. —o — The disbarment proceedings against Lemuel Darrow, who is now serving his fourth term as mayor of Laporte, City Attorney Worden of Laporte, and John W. Talbot of South Bend, resulted in a verdiot of guilty at Goshen this week for Darrow and Talbot, and the defendants are forever barred from the practice of law in this state unless the higher courts, to 'whioh an appeal will be taken, reverse the decision or grant a new trial. Worden was acquitted. Both the convioted men have been held in high esteem and enjoyed a good lawpraotioe. Their friends had looked for an easy acquittal of the charges against them. They were oharged with inducing Mrs.

Rose Duck of Chicago to give perjured testimony in the trial of Mrs. Stella Lula of Michigan City that resulted in her acquittal. Mr. Talbot, it will be remembered, was the attorney for the plaintiffs in the damage case of Reed vs. the Panhandle railroad company, tried here nearly two years ago, and he created a most favorable impression here. It is hoped that the gentlemen will yet be able to establish their innocense of the charges against them. ■ —o The Democrat this week publishes the annual reports of the trustees of Jordan and Milroy townships, making nine reports in all published by this paper—eight, or all, of the democratic trustees and of one republican trustee. The law says that these reports and numerous other notices affecting township and county affairs, must be published in the two leading newspapers representing the two leading political parties casting the greatest number of votes at the last preceding election, and to the republican officers who want to do what is right and obey the spirit as well as the letter of the law we wish to state that The Jasper County Democrat is the only democratic paper published in Jasper qounty, as recognized by the democrats of such county. This fact ia farther evidenced by the fact that during the past six or seven years, although the county has had a number of democratic officials, such as county clerk, six to eight of the thirteen township trustees, etc., during this time not a solitary notice required to be published in a democratic paper has ever been given out by such democratic officers tp any other paper than The Jasper County Democrat. Therefore, we repeat, there is no excuse for the republican officer who really wants to obey the law to go wrong in this regard.