Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 June 1883 — Jasper Circuit Court. [ARTICLE]

Jasper Circuit Court.

State Cases. 445 , State vs. Dennis P. O’Connor. Giving liquor to a minor, Indictment quashed. 446 Same vs. Same, Same charge. Mottion for a change of venue. Cause ooninued until October term, and defendant released on baU, 447 , Same vs. Same, Unlawful sale of intoxicating Uquor. Motion for change of venue. Cause continued until October term. 448 , State vs. Frank O’Connor. Giving away liquor to a minor. Cause continued to October. 487—, State vs. Michael Halloran. Selling liquor without a license. In the June term of the Commissioners court for last year, as readers of The Republican will remember, Michael HaUoran, the defendant in this case, made application for license to keep a saloon, and was refused by the commissioners. In the September term, of the same year, one Robert Dickson obtained a license to keep a saloon in HaUoran’s building. The saloon has been running since the granting of this license* The prosecution claim that Dickson has really nothing to do with the business, byt that Michael HaUoran is the real proprietor and keeper of the saloon. The case was tried by a jury and the verdict brought in of guilty, and the penalty fixed at a fine of S3O, and costs of the suit. The (defense applied for, and were granted, a new trial on the grounds of error in the instructions of the court.

This case, should it ultimately be decided against Mr. Halloran, will open the way for a vast number of similar prosecutions, sufficient, if pressed, to utterly ruin him, financially. Civil Cases. 3064—, O. C. Link vs. The Western Union Telegraph Company. Early in the Spring of this year Dr. Link received information to the effect that some one was trying to “jump” his homestead in Dakota. He sent a dispatch, inquiring about the circumstance, to Geo. Havens at Huron. The telegraph operators made a botch of Haven’s name and reported that the person addressed in the dispatch could not be found in Huron. Link went to Dakota and there found that had the dispatch been properly delivered, he would have been saved the trouble and expense of his journey. He has accordingly brought suit against the telegraph company. By agreement of the parties tne cause was continued. 3068—, John Kohler vs. Joshua L. Fatout and The School Town of Rensselaer. This case has grown out of a disagreement between Kohler and Fatout as to the number of bricks furnished by the former for the new school house. The cause was continued. 3072—, Samuel Phillips vs. Joseph Atkinson. Jacob Benedict, Straight & Wiley, and Thompson & Bro., for Plaintiff. Daniel Frazier, Walker & Phares, R. S. & Z. Dwiggins for Defendant.

This case came from Benton county on a change of venue. About foul* years agb the plaintiff, Phillips, closed a term of ten years service with the defendant, Atkinson. He now brought his suit, claiming that his labor for the ten years was worth a gross sum of $2400; or at the rate of S2O. per month, and conceding that he had received SIOO a year for the ten years, he asked the court for a judgement for the balance of SI4OO. Atkinson claimed that he had paidthe defendant all that his services were Worth and all that he had a right to expect. No book accounts had been kept by either party. The jury had hard work to agree un a verdict, but finally decided to award the plaintiff one hundred dollars, and assess the costs of the suit upon the defendant As will be seen from a notice elsewhere published, an adjourned session of the court will be held next month. None but civil cases will be tried.

U. B. Quarterly Meeting.— The members of the United Bretheien church will hold a quarterly meeting at Cosy Palace school house, Barkley tp., on Saturday July 7th, and a Basket Meeting on the Sunday following. Everybody is invited to bring their lunch baskets and take a part in the meetings.

Bloodless Bravery.—Acting in accordance with the customs of that community, a man stole a horse, last week, in Pulaski county, near Medaryville. A party of four pursued and captured man and horse near the Illinois state line. As the party was passing through Keener ip., in this county, last Wednesday, on their way home, the thief watched his chance, jumped from his horse and took to the brush and. swamps ata favorable point His captors opened fire upon him with a whole battery of shooting irons, and had their ammunition held out they would, undoubtedly, have lost so much time in firing that he would have got away altogether. As it was, however, after they could no longer get their guns to go, one of the longest legged and best winded of the lot, took after the fleeing thief and fairly run him down. It is in no way to the credit of these valorous marksmen to say that one of them treated the prisoner roughly after his recapture and even tried to strike him. The thief was taken to Winamac and lodged in jail, to await the course of what little justice they have in that neck of woods.