Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 April 1907 — THE COURT HOUSE [ARTICLE]

THE COURT HOUSE

Items Picked Up About the County Capitol.

Seven marriage licenses were issued last month, against 11 for the month previous and 10 for March 1906.

County Treasurer-elect J. D. Allman and Lyman Zea attended the funeral of James Parks at Remington Tuesday. Deceased was a brother-in-law of Mr? Zea’s.

ICounty Assessor Lewis and Township Assessor Hordeman and assistants L? Strong and Jas. Donnelly, and Green Thornton of Newton attended the district meeting of assessor at Lafayette last Friday.

a part qf the trustees were irf Monday to the board of education meeting, and nothing of importance was done. Those in attendance took out their enutneration blanks for the annual school enumeration.

said that an increase of sipne 20 per cent will be made in the assessment of real estate in Indiana this year. Compared with other property real estate has been assessed too low, the state tax board claims, and it is practically sure to be raised by this board.

Trustee Huston of Milroy tp., was over from Perrysburg, Monday, to attend the county board of and look after township matters. ~7He has a couple of deals in consideration for his store and property at Perrysburg, and as soon as he gets rid of same will return to Milroy.

'VClerk Warner received his allotment of copies of the new Acts Monday morning. As soon as the secretary of state receives receipts from all the 92 clerfe the proclamation of the governor will be issued, putting into effect the new laws that contained no -emergency clause. This ought to be in a very few days.

The libel cases of E. T. Jones of the Monon News against the editor of this paper which were set for trial in the Newton circuit court Thursday, were continued to the May term. The prosecuting witness left Monon, we are told, some four weeks ago, and his family left there last week. They are reported to have gone to Momence, 111.

August Schreiber of Roselawn, formerly of Jasper county, was denied a liquor license by the commissioners of Newton county this week because the location of the room was not in accordance with the law. An appeal was taken to the circuit court. No remonstrance for that township was filed, and it is presumed that the anti-ealoon people were not sucsessful in their efforts to make Roselawn and Thayer dry.

Charles Gallagher of south of town, was arrested Saturday evening for intoxication, being only the third-arrest made here on this charge since Rensselaer went dry last fall. He was lodged in jail until Sunday morning when he was arraigned before Spuire Irwin and fined $5 and costs, $12.50 in all, which he paid. It is alleged that he got his liquor at the drug stores on prescriptions procured through misrepresentations to two different physicians.

The case of Eric Lund, the contractor on Newton county’s new court house, vs. the commissioners of said county, wherein Mr. Lund claims a balance due him of $3,000 on the first contract for said building, has been sent to this county on change of venue. The first contract, it will be remembered, was knocked out by a' supreme court decision stopping the work, and, as we understand, this suit is brought to recover a balance for work done on the first contract,

The Sorenson shooting affray at Roselawn recently, is to be aired in court here, the oafs having been sent here from Newton county on change of venue. Sorenson has

had Guy Givens, the young man wounded in the shooting, arrested on surety of the peace proceedings and in default of bond he is now confined in jail here at Newton county’s expense. Givens is a half brother to Ben Baker, who died at a hospital Sunday as the result of a horse’s kick, as told in our Fair Oaks correspondence, and he was allowed to attend the funeral at Roselawn Tuesday, accompanied by Deputy Sheriff Joe O’Connor.

New* suits filed:, No. 7143. James H. ‘ Chapman • va. Mack Sullivan and William P. Michael; suit on note. Demand S6O. No. 7144. Horace Marble vs. Andrew Grube et al; road case from Wheatfield tp., appealed from commissioners’ court. No. 7145. Jamffl H. Chapman, trustee of A. McCoy & Co., bankrupts, vs. Orlando A. Yeoman; suit on account. Demand $l5O. No. 7146. The First National Bank of Rensselaer vs Thomas 0. Cain and David M. Worland; suit on note. Demand SBO. No. 7147. Oliphant Hall vs. The C. I. & L. Ry. Co.; suit for damages. The complaint alleges that plaintiff was injured Oct. 27,1906, at Francesville, while employed as section hand, in throwing off coal from an engine tender for use in the depot at said place, which work he was directed to do by the section foreman, in being thrown violently from the rear end of said tender to a flat car in the rear thereof by reason of the engineer starting up the engine very suddenly and without signal or warning of any kind to said plaintiff; that he was thrown from said flat car to the gronnd and hiaright foot mashed and injured and ligaments torn loose, etc., and made a permanent cripple, and will never be able to perform ordinary physical labor. Damages in the sum of SIO,OOO is asked. ■ Transcripts in the following cases have been received here from Newton county: State vs, Sorensen; George Troupe vs. Mary Francis; Adolph J. Roy vs. Mary Francis; John R. Gray vs. C. Rider et al; Erick Lund vs. the Board of Commissioners of Newton county; Mary C. McConnahy vs. George W. Dearduff et al. No. 7153. Simon P. Thompson vs. Samuel M. Laßue et al; suit on notes and foreclosure of mortgage. Demand $3,000.

The April term of the Jasper circuit court will convene Monday. The grand jury has not been called. The petit jury is called for tne third Monday of the term, the docket being very light. Following are the names of the grand and petit jurors and their places of residence: GBAND JUBY. J A Tilton...Wheatfield Blias Arn01d..... Barkley Shelby Grant Marion W S DeArmond....Kankakee Andrew Grube Wheatfield Warren Robinsonßensselaer PBTIT JUBOB6. Amos Alter.. Union Loliis ZickWalker Geo P KetchumMarlon George Besse.... Remington Jaoob A Rentier.... . ..Carpenter Frank Weber. ........Newton WmA Dunn ...Jordan J M Snedeker.... Barkley CC Hammond .........Newton Frank I> Hoover ~«....Marion Wm HGratner .... ...... ..Barkley RW Burris ...Gillam Milton A Jones .... Kankakee WmE Culp.....Hanging GroVe Ernest MorlanNewton John W No wel s.Newton