Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 70, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 April 1904 — Circuit Court Matters. [ARTICLE]

Circuit Court Matters.

Iq the circuit court last Friday, the case against those well known and wealthy people, Delos Thompson and John Lawyer, came up for action. The Newton county grand jury indicted them on the charge of obstructing a public ditch. Friday the indictment was found bad, and they were dismissed.

There is some prospect that the troubles of another busted bank will be aired in our court. It is that of Jesse J. Fry, of Rose Lawn whose previously prosperous bank went up with the suddenness of a sky rocket, one day last November. The failure was ascribed to erronious reports as to the stability of the bank, and which caused the sudden destruction of its credit with the city banks, Mr. Fry holds the American Trust and Savings Bank of Cnicago, as responsible fur circulating the alleged false reports, and has brought suit for SIOO,OOO damages. The National Bank of Rensselaer is included as a defendant, as the agent of the Cnicago bank, and as being concerned in the origin of the report of Fry’s instability, which was the reason the suit was brought in this court. The summons was originally made returnable fur the September term, but on demand of the bank for an immediate trial, the time has been changed to the 3rd of May, in the present term. The bank here claims that it will have no trouble in clearing itself of all blame for Mr. Fry’s failure.

The divorce case of Dolph Day. of Rensselaer, against bis wife, Ida Ellen Day, was tried today, and a decree granted the plaintiff, on the grounds of abondenment, though according to the allegations of the oompl tint there were plenty other grounds if they had been needed Dolph married Ida Ellen in December, at Lowell, to which place she has presumably returned,