Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 February 1908 — THE COURT HOUSE Items Picked Up About the County Capitol. [ARTICLE]

THE COURT HOUSE

Items Picked Up About the County Capitol.

Commissioners’ court convenes Monday. C —o—jrMarriage Licenses issued: Jan. 27, Albert M. Hurley of Aik, aged 18, occupation farmer, to Iva Swaim, also of Aix, aged 16, occupation housekeeper. First marriage for each. —o — New suits filed: No. 7263. Viola C. Noland vs. Richard Noland; action to replevin one horse, wagon, harness and two cows which plaintiff alleges she owns and which defendant holds possession of without right. The February term of the Jasper circuit court will convene one week from Monday. The docket will not be very heavy from present appearances, only 20 new new civil cases and one ditch case having been filed since last term, P-Bert Baker and Pat Courtney, the Newton county prisoners who have been in jail here for some time, were taken to Kentland Thursday, the former to testify against White in the hog stealing case, and the latter to be tried for larceny. Later: Courtney was acquitted. —o — The Newton county cutting scrape, in which Orren and Arch Elijah were charged with murderderously assaulting Thomas Dowling last October, was tried before a jury in the Newton circuit court this week and resulted in a verdict of guilty and a fine of $l5O each. The evidence was conflicting, the Elijah’s claiming that Dowling was the aggressor. *

—o The republican delegates recently chosen in this district will meet in Rensselaer next Tuesday to select two delegates to their national convention which meets in Chicago next June. Senator Will R. Wood of Lafayette and George Ade, the playwright, who is now back in the race after having “seen” Crumpacker, it is expected will be chosen. Austin White of Roselawn was arrested in Michigan last week and is now laying in jail here to answer the charge of grand larceny, White and Bert Baker, together with their wives, are under arrest on warrants issued upon the affidavit of Harry Baxter charging them with stealing hogs from the Otis ranch. Baker and the two women were arrested in this county at the time of the stealing, but White got a scare and fled to Michigan. White will be tried here, bis case being set for to-mor-row, but Baker has taken a change of venue and his trial will be heard at Rensselaer.—Newton County Enterprise.