, 1874-04-10

BlocK ~, IN l!yInatii L9fnod E Wo0dbrIdEe'B
Subdivision Of 10 scrcs In tho l.. Il Of N. =. II
500. II, 88, ID, In tho Townahlp Of Hyde Park.
LOCAL MISCELLANY.
THE JOLIET IRON AND STEEL COM
PANY.
Tllon,as DlaRoy, who represents himsott to DO
creditor Of tho Joliet Iron and Stool Company,
nlod petition ngainat it Into Tuesday evening"
as mentioned in yoatordays TRIBUNE, but tho
particulars could not thou bo ascortainod.
Blakey. in Ills petition, alleges that the Com
pany has boon doing businoss for six months
and as 9%da h'u . Tit IT, prnoipa
notes . @ for Ell, oas2e eeeh is aeo|d l. one for
frat, thon due four months, after
SEPT m 19 It, T. nmdtr md 20 ,9ss9%stiyoy %ax
These notes woro tndorscd BY potor Wright y
Sons, to whom tl,oy wore originally issued, and
transferred to Dlaksy. who Is now the legal
holder. Suspension Of paymeMt. and profor-
Pittsburgh and preferential assignments to
othor Pittsburgh parties, arc alleged NJ acta Of
bankruptcy. a rulo to show cause on tho 18th
Of April was made.
Ameoting Of majority Of tho unsecured
creditors of tho Company Was bold yeAtorday
afternooa in Mngsbury Block. for tho purpose Of
considering eecoud proposition from tho stock
holders looking to tho settlement Of tho claims
hold against thom tho trat rrop97taition Of the
basis Of part oaeh md part stock having boon
refused. Tho proposition presented yesterday
afternoon was an ouer Of Rottlomont on tho
basia Of half stock aud half bonds, but it was
proceedings Immediately mot with favor, though
1t IL probable that further timo will be given tho
Company to satisfy it's creditors without the as-
sistarco Of tho courts. Tho committee ap-
pointed to look nftor tic crodors' interests wits
continued In powor, aud tho ,nooting adjourned.
THE VICTIM OF APPEARANCES.
Yesterday morning, whom tho Clerk Mt tho
Wost Side Police Court callcd out tho sonoroua
aud gontlcman1y name "Jones," man came
slowly out Of tho prisoners compartment, walk
ing with great apparent difficulty, holding on 10
chairs, railings, and policemen, and groaning
| Whenever bis left foot touched tho ground. He
had look Of injured Innocence upon his face.
and seemed unable to understand how 1t wns
| that ho, q JoneB, ahould tud himself IN such
place.
The Clerk, reading from his record, informed
md md diHorderly. Was 10 guilty.
| II expected as much, replied Mr.. Jone. u
| nm not guilty. Tho trouble. Judge, ia with APP
| pearanccR. They are always aEalnHt mo-. II !
soaid sfai only get them gu my siao should b0 al
/
Tho Justice replied that llo had noticed that
| peculinrity In other cases. Appearances wero
gonorally agatnst individuals who turned up iu
| his Court. He had mado up lis mind TINT mp
perance movements and alwaye took ksdes against
correctly, "appearsnces had appeared and
testified against Mr. Jones' about month boforo.
| Tint waH tho case, Mr.. Jones submitted, but it
WIS due to fatal combination OF circumstances,
which latter we're alOno against him.
Officer Cleary informed tho Court that while
walking his beat on Latlin street, between Mon
| roo and Adams, tho night before, he had come
across the prisoner, who was sitting on the ado-
| wak grooming, and occasionally romarling that
| lo llad y olear case tint tno. Tho officer said
| ho aBkod him what WAS tho mattor, and tho man
otliorod to help him home, but Jones positively
declined, stating that if ho left that place before
Bomo respectable citizen oamo along. ho would
| not bo ablo to prove whero lo got big injury,
that Ind tripped him, and he could
DO deprived Of oil his witnesses in the suit he
intended bringing against the city for damages.
Tho officer argued with him, but all il vain !;
and finally, getting llsgustod. lugged him to the
station-k -kecpr, no that instead OF "Joliy frank
| liu Jones ho became "Drunk and Disorderly :"
| Jones.
Tho prisoner beamed npon tho Justtce, and
had boon played upon him twice before. Ii 1873,
on St. Patrick'a day, while walking homo at
night-not drunk, but absorbed in .thought-ho
hud stepped in d holo in the sidewalk and injured
himself. Whom ho awoke from Ills swooi, he
found himsolf in tho police Station. After his
escape tho following day. he tried to tind tho
place whore he hurt himself, but in valn.
Somebody had removed tho holo, aud con-
Bequcntly he Ind no foundation for Q suit. On
tho atla Of July tho same thing had happened to
him, and he had agaiu searched for tho scono OF
ls misfortunes. Ho had found place where
tho clasm which tripped him ought to have
@ Which ho folI, whilo wrapped III il moi momories " OK.
as But eSdontS Ss as ess1 es safS6s
tics, informed by tho policeman, had
S n1es t re p on hi sa9 @s c ScIasn a1
nally fell until morning broke, or ho could got
some good ci.izon to guard tho place for. him.
| 1t WIS low businoBR for municipality to deal
thus with its component parts:
celebrated temperance lecture, tho pororatiou
boing - fined IS md costa." Hi. Jonea paid this
sum. aud hobblea of up Madison stroot in
search of tla defective sldowalk, sadly confident,
however, thpt it would b8 out OF his power ia
find what he waa in Scarcll Of
| A. DIVORCE IN DRAMATIC CIRCLES,
Mrs. Ootayia ". Allen filed bill yesterday,
against hor faithleas husband, David II. Allen.
gho states that she was married In April, 1866
at Mobile, Ala., and lived with her husband TN.
til about four years ago, whom abe was Obliged
to leavo him. Ho las not only beon guilty Of
repeated cruelty, often threatening to kill her,
and also Of habitual drunkenness, but abe
charges Lo has been unfaithf.l to bis mar
riago VOWS otherwise, with Eta or Nettie Hlcks,
mud has hold hor out to the world as his wife.
Moreover aho has been obliged TO support her.
solt aud hor three children, and sometimes even
hor husband. In Wow Of all these circumstances
sho not unroasonably asks that Bho may 10 d.
yorcod and allowed to pursuo hor own path
through the remainder OF, her life alone:
Tnis case is Of more than ordinary interest,
In view Of tho fact TINT tue parties have been
beforo tho public for long tino aud arc well
known. Mrs. Allen las boom engaged for three
yoara at MoVicAogs Thoatro, where sho las won
reputation as an acceptable mud panstalting &C.
trcss. Mr. Allen ID known for Ills enterprise IN
building tho Globe Thoatro without capital oi
hls own, having borrowed 1ittlo, aud run great'
ly in debt to mechanics, but especially to- au
! entAuaQstio Young laWYar WhQ WlR to llaYe do