The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-01-06
Suit Against the Fire.Ladder and
Stand-Pipe Company for $4,000.
The Grand Jury-The County
Board.

ChIdn a. lewis has nlSu SUN Dc
Thomas Tevis for divorce. They were mar
ried in July, 1888. in Decatur County.
The County B ,srd Yesterday appointed r.
F. Bence, John H. Vsjen and w II. Or ut
trustees OF tue county library for the ensu-
ing year.
The Grand Jury assembled yesterday and
were charged by Judge Nortoa 20 make dill
gent inquiry after the mao who stole the
ballots.
The Sherif's bill for December, amounting
to S 1O93. was allowed yesterday. This is for
about twenty days, the County Board hav-
ing allowed to Sheriff Hess pay ment for the
first ten days of the month.
Charles F. Davis and others. of Auburn,
n. Y, have begun suit against Norris q
Brother, of Rushville, in the United States
Court, to eDjoin the use OF q patent improve.
meDt on q grain drill, and to recover dam
ages.
Judge Taylor yesterday granted a divorce
to EveIine Glenn from Liberty Glenn on
proof of failure to provids and cruel trest-
ment. This is the case OF the colored couple
which was married IN North Carolina when
they were slaves, and which was taken
under adjustment Saturday.
Bertha r. Fishinger wants a divorce from
Joseph 81. FishiDgeT, whom she married In
June, 1888. she charges Joseph with failure
to provide ever since the marriage; with
D6luR - CQIQU1Ou QTuUkAIu lOI GlknItt
months, and with having been convicted in
Springfield, o., last March, OF grand Larceny,
and is now serving n thirty-mopths' term IN
the Ohio State Prison.
The County Board devoted yesterday to
the examination OF county bills. They al
lowed the election bill for Center Township,
amounting to S2,663; the Gas Company's
bill for 81 ,002, and other bills amounting to
about So 500. The petition of II. H.. Hes
song, trustee of Washington Township, to
be allowed TO borrow 5000 TO pay OFF the
note for that amount heretofore borrowed
for the use of the township, was granted.
The health report for the last half of De-
cember shows 20 deaths. There were 80
males and 80 females; 50 whites. There were
u burials from public institutions and 8
burials gpon certificates from the Coroner.
Fifty-nine were natives of the United States,
Z from Germany. 3 from Ireland, and l from
England. Fifteen were under one year o.
age, and three over eighty years old. Their
were 1873 deaths for the entire month.
An advertising sheet found fault with tn
County Board recently. charging that win
was kept at the Poor-house for the use OF the
board and the Grand Jury when visits were
made to the County Asylum. che County
Commissioners were puzzled over the matter
all the more because 1t was intimated that
TIE Grand Jury were thus influenced in its
work of preparing Tor suppressing) indics-
ments. Yesterday a bill by a drug hrm was
presented which contained, among other
thinge, one item for sixty cents worth of port
wine. But this was purchased on an order
of the physician for a sick patient.
John A. Hsrter has filed suit against W
T. Covert, T.. E. Somerville, Deloss Root,
John Caven and others, proprietors OF the
Covert ~Fire-Ladder and Stand-Pipe Com
psDy, for $l5, 900, alleging a promise by Gov
ert to pay plaintiff $50. and give him 100
shares of stock in the company, If he would
secure men of means to form a stock COM
paDy for the manufacture of the apparatus.
This he claims to have done. Covert, b
was the originator of the patent, assigned
his interest. and was given 800 shares, of
which this plaintiff received 100 shares. The
company was then recognized. under the
present name. and plaintiff claims he was
by this arrangement frozen out. He wants
q restoration of his rights In the company,
or the stock, which he puts at SIS. 900.