Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 July 1912 — COURT HOUSE NEWS IN BRIEF [ARTICLE]

COURT HOUSE NEWS IN BRIEF

Interesting Paragraphs from tha Various Departments OF JASPER COUNTY CAPITOL The Legal News Epitomized—Together with Other Notes Gathered from the Severs! County Offices. ■ , . Prosecutor Long well was- over from Brook on business yesterday.

County Treasurer Fell- visited iu Remington Sunday and reports that J. M. Ott of that place was limping aroynd . pit crutches. Mr. Ott tailed to get out of the way In time of a big -tone that was being used on the foundations for a bridge ho was working on, and one of his limbs was caught and bruised tip somewhat.

The match factory people are again trying to secure their position with the people of the city by paying up a portion of the indebtedness incurred in putting up their factory, having, it is said, paid Several of the .smaller claims infull, and a substantial portion on some of the larger claims. The claim of the J. C. Gwin Lumber Co., was reduced by SI,OOO by a check'given on a Chicago bank, and likewise the claim of the Rensselaer Lumber Co., amounting to something like SBOO, was reduced .to SSOO.

The application for taking James W, McE wen to Lon gel iff was accepted Thursday and the clerk has issued the proper papers for taking him away, but his wife and daughter now say that they can take care of him; that he is getting better, and they do not want him taken to the asylum. The general impression that the family had asked for the inquest seems to be erroneous. The affidavit for the inquest was made by L N. Hemphill, and the hearing was held before Squire Bruner, ipstead of Squire Irwin, as erroneously stated in a recent issue of The Democrat. He is suffering from senile dementhia in an aggravated form, the doctors say. His ago is 80 years. Just when he will be taken to the asylum or whether the family will get out a writ of habeas corpus to prevent his being taken at all, we are unable to state. ■