Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 January 1908 — SON-IN-LAWS FOR $50,000. [ARTICLE]

SON-IN-LAWS FOR $50,000.

Hold* t.osa of Wife's Love and Whipping Received of Same Value. Roy M. Smith, recently of Chicago, has begun action in the Superior Court of Marin county, Cal., to secure $50,000 damages from his father-in-law. Alfred Morgan, a wealthy clothier, and tW' latter’s wife. Here is the bill Smith asks tirecourt to uphold: For loss of wife’s affections. $25,000: recompense for one thrashing, administered by Father-in-Law Morgan, $25,000. Drowns When Ice Breaks. o An unknown man, who is believed to have been insane, has frightened wom°n and children in Orange township, near Cleveland, Ohio, during the past fe.v days. The other day a posse of farmers was formed to capture him. He el air'd his pursuers, but in attempting to cross the Chagrin River broke through the ice and was. drowned._ His body was recovered. East of IrotiMla ( Judge Windes of Chicago has quashed the indictment against George Williams, former building commissioner, indicted in connection with the Iroquois theater fire. The action was entirely on technical grounds. Judge Windes’ decision disposes; of the last of the cases growing out of the Iroquois fire. Not one of the persons indicted in connection with the fire was ever convicted. i .. Fears Insanity) Ends Else. Charles Krail, who graduated from high school last June, commit ted suicide in Cleveland because he feared ■he was going insane. Krall, who has been in poor health lately, placet! the barrel of a revolver in his mouth and fired. He died Instantly.. Says Dukes Get Famine Fund. Ralph Cattrall, history professor at Cornell University, who spent last summet in Russia, in a late interview dedates that American money for the famine sufferers aent to the Russian Red Craas, Lfoca.into the pockets of the grand dukes and the bureaucracy. Safe Blower, Get *N,OOO. Robbers wrecked the safe in the State Bank of Quenemo at Quenemo, Kan., with dynamite and escaped with SB,OOO. Bandits Raid Minnesota Hotel. * A daring hold-up rook place at Inver Crave, Minn., the other night, when •ml of the guests at J. E. O’Leary’s ho tel wore robbed of considerable money Olid valuables by four bandits with drawn revolvers, who escaped. Manar Millians <v Family. MemlH-rs of bis family are the cnly beneficiaries under the will of the late Henry 0. Havemeyor. bead of tire American Hagar Relining Company. Mr. Haveraryer's estate is variously estimated at tram >15,000,000 to >25,000,000.