Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 June 1894 — THE CIRCUIT COURT. [ARTICLE]

THE CIRCUIT COURT.

The jury was discharged for the term, last Friday, after being in attendance only five days, and trying only two cases. One of these was that of the State vs. Henry Granger, already noted. The other was also a Keener township case; Henry Bloes vs. David D. Gleason. Gleason bought a horse of Bloes, and paid him SSO and gave his note for $45. The horse was guaranteeed all right, but proved to be very balky, and Gleason refused to pay the $45 note. Bloes sued in justice court and got beat. He appealed and the case was tried last Thursday. The jury got the case about 6 p.m. and wrestled with it until near noon the next day, when tbey brought in a verdict for Gleason. Which had the effect of releasing him from paying the note. Monday afternoon Judge Wiley heard the evidence and granted the plaintiff a decree, in the divorce case of Minnie Cleaver vs. Jasper Cleaver. They were married in April, 1891, and separated for the last time in March, 1894. Failure to provide was the chief cause of complaint. The defendant was a big lazy lout, who loved to lounge around and devour the provisions earned by the plaintiff. Mrs. Lambert, of Fair Oaks, sister of the plaintiff, related that when the plaintiff was sick and unable to work, she had known the defendant, the “ornery son-of-a-gun” as she called him, to get up in the night and devour the provisions that she, the witness, had carried to the plaintiff. This is the third time this plaintiff has obtained relief from matrimonial misfits through the divorce court.