Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 September 1894 — OKLAHOMA’S DIVORCES. [ARTICLE]

OKLAHOMA’S DIVORCES.

A decision pf the Supreme Court of the Territory handed down at Guthre, Oklahoma, Sept. 8, nullified all divorces granted by Probate Judges in Oklahoma since March. 1893. Fully 400 divorces have been granted, and, as a very large percentage of the persons so divorced have been married since, th<w are guilty of bigamy. The persons« affected are in every State of the Union, having gone there to take advantage of the liberal divorce laws of the Territory, which allow divorce for any of thirteen causes after a residence of ninety days. Muley Mohammed, the eldest son of the late Sultan of Morocco, has been proclaimed Emperor by the rebel tribes of tho South.