People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 August 1893 — PREY FOR SPECULATORS. [ARTICLE]

PREY FOR SPECULATORS.

Mr*. Martha Mitchell** Complaint Against Her Son, the Wisconsin Senator. Milwaukee, Aug. 15. —1 n her petition filed in the probate court asking for an accounting of the estate of her husband, the late Alexander Mitchell, Miss Martha Mitchell charges her son. United States Senater John L. Mitchell, as executor of the estate, with a lack of business experience, and alleges that he has become “the victim of iron mine adventures and stock jobbing speculators.” Senator Mitchell is required to appear in the probate court the first Tuesday in September and show cause on various matters pertaining to the estate of his father, among them why he slrtmld not file an inventory of the estate, and why he should not be removed as executor of the estate and a receiver appointed in his place to provide and out the trusts and provisions of his father's will. Pending the hearing on the petition Senator Mitchell is enjoined from incumbering any of the estate to such an extent as to injure or destroy the rights of Mrs. Martha Mitchell, his mother, and David Ferguson Mitchell, her son.