Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 May 1916 — GENERAL AND STATE NEWS [ARTICLE]

GENERAL AND STATE NEWS

Telegraphic Reports From Many Parts of the Country. SNORT BITS OF THE UNUSUAL Happenings in the Nearby Cities and Towns—Matters of Minor Mention From Many Places. CALDWELL mi. CASK Plaintiffs in Suit to Break Will Receive Tlicir Pay. Walter Ball and Roy McQueen, representatives of the Lafayette Loan & Trust company, were here Saturday concluding negotiations with the trustees of the Caldwell estate for the loan of $260,000 to pay off indebtedness against the estate. The loan will be for two years at 5 per cent interest and some 3,000 acres of land was mortgaged to secure the loan. Saturday $170,282.32 was paid into the county clerk’s hands and Monday the plaintiffs in the original suit to break the will of the late Jennie E. Caldwell were paid their shares of the first two installments of the $250,000 as per the famous compromise of October last. The l'olowing persons received $18,840.93 each: Edward C. Sumner, Aaron T. Sumner, Reynolds Sumner, Abigail li. Hart, Elizabeth 11. Bond, Minerva H. Ditton and Martha J. Jewell. Kumler & Gaylord, attorneys for the plaintiffs, were paid the sum of $20,340 and Joe Chancellor was given $1 5,255 as his tee lor engineering the compromise. The total court costs up to October last when Excellsen, the Chicago lawyer, got into the case, including $1,255.95 supreme court costs, which reached the huge sum of $28,000, was also paid. The court costs in the contest ot the compromise was $77.05. All the plaintiffs, their attorneys and Mr. Chancellor were paid interest from the date of making the compromise until Saturday.—Benton Review.