Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 November 1908 — THE COURT HOUSE [ARTICLE]

THE COURT HOUSE

Items Picked Up About the County Capitol. The White circuit court will convene Monday. \ The official vote for Senator and Representative as canvassed here on Monday of last week gave Abraham Halleck a plurality of 101 for Senator, and John G. Brown a majority of 300 for Representative.—Montlcello Herald. N6t very much of importance has been going on in the circuit court this week. The Bowers vs*. Eppler case was on Thursday and yesterday. The Jury is called for next week and several cases of minor Importance are set for trial. "Afflie old case of Alexander Hamilfon of Goodland vs. C. & E. I. Ry., Co., wherein plaintiff secured a judgment for $1,600 damages for injuries sustained in falling from a freight train on defendant’s road, of Which he was a brakeman, was reversed by the Appellate court Thursday. Attorney W. H. Parkison of Rensselaer was Hamilton’s leading attorney in the case, which has been in the courts some three or four years. 4W. H. Dague of Fowler, jointly indicted with D. P. Baldwin of Logansport on a charge of embezzling the funds of the Goodland bank, was 1n Kentland last week, acknowledged service and gave bond for SSOO. Judge Baldwin, Mike Duffy and Charles Hickman are his sureties. The recent grand jury returned counts against Mr. Baldwin and Mr. Dague and the cases wiU probably be set for trial at the next term of court.—Kentland Enterprise.

The papers were served on Eraatus 'Peacock this week on the charge of indirect contempt of court in failing to pay $7 per week to the support of his wife, as ordered by the court to do last April,, mention of which was made in Saturday’s Democrat, and the case waa set for hearing before Judge Hanley yesterday afternoon. It was originally set for last Friday afternoon, but Mr. Peacock was out of town and service was not had until this week. —e — New suits filed: No. 7379. Lowell H. Kenyon vs. Daisy D. Kenyon; suit for divorce. The complaint states that the parties were married May 17, 1899, and separated Sept. 8, 1908, when defendant left plaintiff’s home and has not since returned; that plaintiff has,- no property of his own and that they lived with his parents, who are old and feeble, on a farm owned by his mother; that defendant refused to live with plaintiff unless he sends hiß mother away, and has later refused to live with him in any event. He is their only child, he states, and they are unable to care for themselves; that defendant treated them in a manner that was humiliating to plaintiff and make his life miserable, etc., etc. The plaintiff resides near Qemotte, we understand, and the defendant Is in Porter county.