Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 107, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 September 1899 — The Circuit Court. [ARTICLE]

The Circuit Court.

Mrs. Selina G. Tedford, of Remington was given a divorce from Joseph B. Tedford, theyfwere marAug. 16 and seperated Aug. 20th. 1896. She charged abandonment as the grounds for the divorce. The divorce will be issued on payments of the costs by the plaintiff. She will also be allowed to resume her former name of Selina’G. Snyder. A new divorce suit has been filed. It is that of Lillie M. Goodrich vs. Robert B. Goodrich. They were < married Feb. 4, 1885, and separated July 18, 1899. She charges the defendant with marital infidelity on numerous occasions and specially names Jemima Hickman and Mary Burkhalter, and also says “there are others.” They have no children. The Newton township ditch case, appealed from the Commissioner’s court, of Makeever vs. Martindale, was tried by Judge Palmer. It is a duch petitioned for by John Martindale and ordered by the Commissioners. John Makeever opposed the ditch and took an appeal to the circuit court. Judge Palmer dismissed the appeal, and the ditch will be constructed, unless further appealed to the appellate or supreme court. The two Other cases of Wm. B. Austin vs. DeMotte Canning Co., and others, were venued to White county. In the case of Swisher vs. Marble, a road case from Wheatfield, appealed from Commissioner’s court, the appeal was dismissed.