Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 December 1884 — Two big Suits ended and Three bigger ones begun. [ARTICLE]

Two big Suits ended and Three bigger ones begun.

Most of our readers will remember the arrest and trial, about txvo years ago, of tlie Bergman boys, William and Emmet, charged with assisting youifg Jack Hallovan with making away with his father’s money. The Bergmans were triumphantly aaquitted* on the criminal charge, but Mr. Halloran immediately began civil action against them, for money which he claimed his son had placed in their charge. One of the Bergmans was sued for $195, the other for sf>o. The case was taken to White county, on charge of venue, and was just concluded last Tuesday, —the Bergmans gaining a complete victory. But the end |is not yet, nor anything near it. The Bergmans intend how to give Mr. Halloran a goodly dose of his own medicine. Immediately upon the conclusion of the. case against them, at Montieello, they each began suits in the Jasper circuit court, by their attorneys, Thompson & Bro., against Mr. ITallorau for Malicious Prosecution, each laying their damages at 810,000. At the same time Mr. L. Clemens, by the same attorneys, began suit against Halloran for libel, asking for damages to the amount of 85,000. [Vis rather seldom , that suits to the amount of 825,000 are begun against a resident of Jasper county, in one day.

Hog Cholera. — A number of farmers iu Carpenter township have lost a greater or less nmber of hogs by the hog cholera. Mr. O. M. Vickery, the township trustee, we understand to have suffered heavy loss from this cause. His neighbors, O. P. Tabor, the commissioner elect, and E. A. Bartoo, have also lost some hogs by the disease. The disease isverj T liable to make considerable havoc in a neighborhood when once it gets started, and it is likely that many others, whose names we have not learned, have suffered loss from the disease. In this connection we take the liberty to call the attention of our farmer readers to the advertisement of Dr. Joseph Haas’ Hog and Poultry Remedy, which appears in the present issue of this paper for the last time. We believe Dr. Haas to be a responsible man, and tjiat lie is prepared to make good his statements. Mr. F. B. Meyer, the agent at this place for the sale of the remedy, we know to be a man of the strictest integrity, and he assures us that he has sold considerable quantities of the remedy, and that it has proved to be excellent for the purposes for Yvhieli it is sold. * With thanks to my numerous friends and patrons for past favors, I will state that I am now to be found at my old place Emmet Kannal's drug store, where I will be pleased to see them and sell them anything in the line as cheap as the cheapest.

F. B. Learning.