Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 78, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 January 1912 — COURT HOUSE NEWS IN BRIEF [ARTICLE]

COURT HOUSE NEWS IN BRIEF

Interesting Paragraphs from the Various Departments OF JASPER COUNTY CAPITOL The Legal News Epitomized—Together with Other Notes Gathered from the Several County Offices.

J'he Benton circuit court 1 convened Monday. ■ —-6 Jan.' S, John Anthony Nagel, son of George Nagel, of Plymouth, aged 25, occupation farmer, to Eda Saraphine Gangloff of Rensselaer, aged 2L occupation housekeeper. marriage for each. —■ New suits filed: No. 7814. John D. Thomson, executor of will of C, J. Thomson, vs. Frank L. Smith; action in review of judgment. No: 7815. Irving Shuman vs. Robert E. VanGundy, et ah; action in attachment. It is hoped that our county commissioners at their next meeting will take some action in the forfieted bqjids of check-swindler Purtelle, the electric railroad promotor. If these bonds are any good they should be collected and the money turned over to the people they were supposed to protect; if no good, let’s know it and have done with the matter.

Marriage licenses issued: Jan. 8, William Albert Bell of Chicago, Occupation porter, hr , barber j»hop, aged 34, to Minnie L. Smltlb also of Chicago, aged 31, occupation domestic. Second marriage for each, first wife of male having died in June, 1904, and first' husband of female died July 15, 1909. Married by Squire Irwin at his residence. Both these parties are colored, the male having been born in Washington, I). G\, and the female in Jonesboro, Georgia.

As an aftermath to a lawsuit before Squire Irwin • Friday afternoon in which John Wqlls of Union tp., had sued his neighbor. Joseph A. Lucas, for damages alleged to have resulted to a horse of plaintiff’s which defendant’s stallion is aL leged to have bitten and practiaclly ruined, a free-for-all iight took place in front of the court house after the parties came down from the trial, where Well 6 lost out-. Lucas, it seems, laid for Wells as he came out of the door, and struck him once or twice, when Mrs. Wells Mrs. Lucas and Mrs. Oscar Atwood, Mr. Atwood, Ed Myers and one or two others of the participants or witnesses in the case, who were also coming out close behind Wells, all got mixed up and ■for a few brief moments there was a lively time. A 1 Robinson, who had no interest in t»he scrap, also waded in and got after Myet-fr who took leg bail and hiked for home. Deputy Sheriff Gusp Grant, “Bill” Ervin and Lyman Zea, finally succeeded in restoring order and a few arrests resulted before Squire Bruner. Lucas was fined $5 and costs, $13.55 in all, for assaulting Myers, and was fined $5 and trimmings \or having pushed Mrs. Myers to one side. He paid the former but appealed the latter chargq. Myers was arrested Monday and was given a like dose. The whole affair was most disgraceful, and it is to be hoped ' there will never ,be another such mix-up in Rensselaer. <