Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 94, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 August 1899 — Justice For All. [ARTICLE]

Justice For All.

Walter Daywitt is a star boarder at the jail now, doesn’t miss a meal nor pay a cent, and all because be furnished foaming lager for the delectation of some of his minor friends. He was brought before Squire Burnham Saturday and publicly admitted that the charge was false and accordingly proof was not lacking that he was plead “not guilty.” However, mistaken and His Honor accordingly assessed a fine of twenty dollars and costs.

Jerry Shea and Louis Worland played at fisticuffs and failing to derive sufficient satisfaction transferred their troubles to Squire Burnham’s court. The trouble is one of long standing between the men, and while threshing on the Churchill place Saturday they engaged in an alteroation that fractured the existing truce and a pitch fork handle. The blow of physical force soon supplanted the blow of atmospheric effervesence and then there was merry war, a la Jeffries with pitch forks on the side. Shea cams tcj town and after the clinic had darned the rip in his scalp, swore out a warrent, and constable Vick brought Worland in to face a charge of assault and battery- It cost him $11.65. He then had Shea arrested for provoke, and Jerry donated $10.60 of his lucbre. And the end is not yet.