Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 89, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 February 1915 — COURT news [ARTICLE]

COURT news

Circuit Court Notes. ■Judge Wasson of the CarrollWhite circuit came over Wednesday to take up and complete the hearing ol' the remonstrances in the Boyleditch case. He will probably not render his decision until the April term of court. The following cases have been set down for trial at this writing: Feb. 1 r>—Gifford vs. Gifford Gun (Tub et al. • Feb. 17—Ward vs. Vernon et al. Feb. 2 2—State vs. Fox. ~ State vs. McColly. . Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. vs. Granger. Feb. 24 White vs. Miller. Feb. 25—Mclllwrath vs. KonovSkv. Gilbert vs. Bartoo. Feb. 26—Gwin et al vs. Medlana Boyer. March I—Lane vs. Lane. March '2 —-Wolcott Brick & Tile Co. vs. Thompson et al.

Gaines vs. Johnson. March 3—Norris vs. Warren. Linton vs. Eichelberger. Binford vs. Eichelberger. March 4—McConnell vs. Herr. Judy vs. Brown. March “5-—Calligan vs. Burkhart. Progress Grocery Co. vs. Granger et al. v Other proceedings in the circuit court were as follows: State vs/ Isaac Knapp: plea of guilty entered and defendant fined $5 and costs. • State vs. Henry McColly; bond fixed at SIOO, with A. S. Keen as surety, and cause'continued to April term of court. Folsom Manufacturing Co. vs. Rodgers; dismissed," Erickson vs. Oliver; motion for new trial overruled. Hatton vs. Monon Railroad Co.; dismissed. Port Huron Engine Co, vs. Wolfe et al; judgment for $5.0 and costs. H. W. Gilbert vs. Luce Bartoo; C. A, Bonner, receiver, files inventory. Bush vs. Hoskins; judgment reduced to sl7. Gruver vs. Thornton et al; title quieted. State Bank of Rensselaer vs. A. C. Pancoast and B. B. Miller; judgment for $367.25. Court finds that Miller was surety on notes. Hopkins Harris; examination of for Feb. 15, at 10 a. m. York vs. Estate of Fannie O. Rhoades; Fannie Gwin, Harry Wood and Lorinda Bartoo, heirs, asked to

be permitted to defend against claim of plaintiff. Josiah Gaines vs. Margaret Johnston et al; examination of defendants ordered for Feb. 15,11 a. m. Monrick vs. Bowman; judgment for SB4. Myers, vs. Myers; plaintiff ordered to make complaint more specific and time until March 1.

tAifopean War News Details of a desperate fight in ttie Carpathian mountains with ferocious bayonet charges, described as without precedent in history, have reached Petrograd. According to these reports, repeated German attacks were finally repulsed by the Russians. The losses are described as enormous. * * * Czernowitz, capital of Bukowina, has been evacuated by 109,000 Russians. The retreating troops, it is asserted in Berlin, were saved from annihilation only by the arrival of fresb forces. * * * - . The British foreign office at London decided cargo of American steamship Wilhelmina must go through prize court. Ship may depart from Falmouth as soon as the cargo is discharged. * * * After t>vo days the house of commons at London passed without division army estimates for 3,000,000 men, exclusive of India’s. By “a token” vote it aiso provided for the pay of the officers and men. Government will receive a blank check for war purposes. * * * Passengers on the Cunard line British steamship Orduna, which arrived in New York from England, said steamer flew- American flag while passing through the Irish sea. German submarines were reported. . * * '♦ ■ " The former German cruiser Breslau shelled Yalta, in the Crimea, in the Russian government of Taurida. No one was killed. In retaliation the Russian fleet bombarded Trebizond. Eight Turkish steamers, full laden, were sunk. ♦ * * Fresh particulars from the frontiers of Bukowina to Bucharest are to the effect that the Russians are commencing the evacuation of that province for strategic reasons.

* * * T • 0 V _ In submitting the budget to the Prussian diet, August Lentze, minister of finance, declared that economically Germany was able to cope with the war a long time. Herr Hirsch, a Socialist deputy, created a scene by asserting the Socialist party refused further to support government and demanded termination of the war. The budget was sent to committee. * * * American steamship Wilhelmina, with grain aboard, for Hamburg, arrived at Falmouth. British government has announced its intention of preventing her from proceeding to Germany and of submitting the question of her cargo to a prize court. ' * * The Cologne Gazette says regarding Great Britain’s plan to cut off food supplies from Germany: “Prisoners of war must starve first. We have 600,000 prisoners and the parts of Belgium and France we occupy contain 11,000,000 people. If it comes to starving the subjects of hostile countries will suffer first.” * * * The introduction of the largest military budget in the history of Great Britain shared the stage in the house of commons at London with a discussion of the activities of the official press bureau. It was the first time in 200 years that the government has invited the commons to give it a blank check: for army purposes. * * * Premier Asquith in the house in London said that British casualties in all ranks from the beginning of hostilities to February 4 amounted to approximately 104,000 men. This includes killed, wounded and missing. * * *

German submarines and warships will endeavor by every means in their power toavoid sinking American or other netttlral ships, and will take every precaution to avoid a mistake, says a dispatch from Berlin * . * * * Domestic The senate of the legislature of South Dakota passed the house bill abolishing capital punishment. * * * One man is dead and another is dying as the result of an explosion in the mine of the Collier Cpal company at South Bartonville, 111. Cause of explosion is not known. * * * Wandering the streets of New York at night are 815 homeless women, unable to pay for a night’s lodging, a police census showed. To this army of wanderers are added 22,849 men who sleep in doorways or over warm gratings. * * * C. H. Raine, who pleaded guilty to misuse of the mails while president of the Mercantile bank at Memphis, Tenn., now defunct, was sentenced to five years’ imprisonment in the Atlanta federal prison. * * * Mrs. Norma Ennis, ,twenty-seven years old, obtained decree of annulment of marriage to Alfred Ennis, seventy years old, in New York supreme court. Ennis is former judge of the supreme coure of Indiana. Sale bills printed while you wall at The Democrat office.

Adolph Schmidt, twenty-four years old, wigs arrested at Detroit, Mich., on a charge of defrauding the Fort Dearborn National bank of Chicago to the amount of $7,590 -on a forged cashier’s check last May. *•*,-- The packing firms of Armour & Co., Swift & Co., the St. Louis Dressed, Beef and Provision conjpany, the Hammond Packing company and Morris & Co. were found guilty of violating the state antitrust law by the Missouri supreme court at Jefferson City, Mo. An order of ouster was issued, but the companies are allowed, to Temain in the state on payment of fines of $25,000 each. * * * Max Kleist, who married Julier, daughter of Edward N, Breitung, banker and owner of steamer Dacia, told a jury in the federal district court at New York of his courtship and marriage. Kleist is suing Mr. and Mrs. Breitung for $250,000 for alienation of the affections of his wife. * * * On hehalf of the 1,500 members of the Master Baker’s association of Chicago B. H. Dahlheimer sent a resolution to President Wilson at Washington asking that a rigid embargo be declared upon the exportation of wheat and flour for a period, of at least ninety days. * * * Foreign Rulers of three Scandinavian kingdoms will hold another conference on questions of floating mines, Germany’s declaration of a sea war zone and British admiralty’s views as to use of neutral flags. * * * Mauna islands were .swept by a hurricane. Not a house is standing. No deaths have been reported. Populace lost everything. The food situation serious and help is needed.

* * * rrtl. I . The Chinese government has pardoned Dr. Sun Yat Sen, father of the revolution which resulted in making China a republic, and other rebel leaders. * * * Princess Zita of Parma, wife of Arqhduke Charles Francis, heir apparent to the Austrian throne, gave birth to a sorf at Vienna. They were married in 1911 and have two other children, a son and a daughter. * * * A royal decree issued at Rome orders that the soldiers of the second category classes of 1893 and 1894, who should have returned home, shall now be retained under the colors until May 31, 1915. * * • Washington The longest filibuster in the United States senate at Washington, inaugurated against the president’s ship purchase bill, achieved a signal victory when an adjournment was ordered by a vote of 48 to 46. For 64 hours and ten minutes the opposition to the bill held the floor. The end came when Senators Norris of Nebraska and Kenyon of lowa announced their intention to return to the Republican fold. ,• * * United States sent’ Great Britain a note making friendly observations on the use by British ships of neutral flags. Also dispatched to Germany a communication inquiring what steps would be taken to verify identity of ships flying neutral flags in “zones of war” ground England and Ireland. * * * President Wilson nominated at Washington David A. Wilson for postmaster at Hartford, Conn.; George F. at Toledo, O.; Aldaman. P. Elder at Ottawa, £an.; B. G. Costerbaan at Muskegon, Mich., and H. B. Snyder, editor of the News, at Gary, Ind.

* * * A death rate in 1913 of 14.1 per 1,000 of the estimated population- in the 'registration area of the United States, compared with 13.9 per I,OOC> in 1912, si shown in a report by thecensus bureau at Washington. * * * Wilson has made clear at. Washington that before sending to. Germany the note he has prepared on, the general subject of neutral rights,, as raised by the German decree, heis awaiting a final memorandum from the Berlin government which Ambassador Gerard has cabled will be submitted to him. Sporting Freedie Welsh, the lightweight champion, was held to an even break in ten hot rounds by Joe Shugrue at the Garden in New York. * * * Jack Callaghan, the widely known automobile racing driver, died in a hospital at Los Angeles, Cal., as a result of injuries sustained during races at Ascot park. • • • Personal Will L. Shafer, manager of the Auditorium hotel of Chicago, one of the oldest and best-known hotel men- in the West, died of pneumonia. /* * * Edward F. Kearney, first vice-presi-dent of the Texlts & Pacific railroad, is to become president of the Wabash on February 15, acording to a message received at New Orleans. • * • * Norman B. Ream of New York died in a hospital as the result of an operation. The financier and capitalist was a director of the First National bank of Chicago, the Pullman company, and other corporations. An estimate of Mr. Ream’s fortune placed it at between $50,000,000 and $75000,000.