The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-05-11
THE COURTS.
The Circuit Court.

There has been no court this week AS
Judge Blanchard has been hearing cases in
Joliet, Cases on the call ore, Hough vs..
Chapman, schufedt vs.. Fink and C., b, Il
Q r. X. vs.. Boyd.
There is a superabundance Of divorce in
circuit court atmosphere and seven addi-
tional cases of this character filed this week
add muskness to the mixture. Perhaps one
reason for filing this week is that 1t is the
last week of publication and all cases to be
heard next term must be entered on time
therefore bubbles signing for greener fields
and wives yearning for single blessedness
were somewhat hurried in their movements
30 to speak.
Most interesting among these cases is that
of James S. Dorr against his wife, Cora L.
Dorr Dorr is the horse trainer who has
been gyrating about this city and vicinity
for the past two and q half years, and pos
sesses an attractive wife. According to
Dorr and general report, unreliable though
il be, Mrs. Dorr has not been conducting
herself with that sweet Roman modesty so
charming in the domestic circle, and has
overstepped the bounds of strict propriety
in the company of certain young society
man, whom, it is said, Dorr will sue for
$4,000 damages for alternating the affections
of his wife P. J. Carey, attorney.
Emily and William Brundage were mar
ried in October, 1867. Brundage is car
penter, and his wife AYERS in her petition
for divorce that he has been guilty of ex.
treme and repeated cruelty and drunken
ness and that on the Dist of April last he
threatened her life and she was forced to
have him sent to Jail to keep the peace
Griggs & Allen, attorneys.
Theophilua Pullman and Ida Pullman were
married in 1878, and had lived together
until last March. He asks for divorce on
the ground of adultery, charging that she
has been unduly intimate with William
Quaintance and others. J. I. Buckley,
solicitor.
Martha II, Madden desires a divorce from
S. W, Madden, to whom she was married in
1887. They were married on the llth of
Of April, and on account of unknown reasons
he deserted her on the 18th. She has not
seen him since. Griggs & Allen solicitors,
Henry Townsend and Mary Dewey Town
send were married in Ohio in 1886 She
deserted him in 1887, and he demands a
divorce. Griggs & Allen, solicitors.
Lavena Wulzen and Jefferson, her hus
band, were married in 1876 She asks for
divorce on the ground Of desertion and
demands the custody of her children. j. s.
Buckley, solicitor.
Emma Detamore, of Sireator, asks for a
divorce from her husband, Rush Detamore,
whom she says deserted her after allowing
her to visit her parents at Streator, while
they were living in Colorado o. Club.
buck, solicitor.
Chas D. Gallagher VS. Calvin Brewster,
ct al; bill for partition. Hall & Haskins,
solicitors.
Lillian E, Christman brings suit thorough
her solicitors, Duncan, OConor & Gilbert,
in contest of the will of Attilla F. Christman,
which was admitted to probate in 1888.
Miss Christman represents that she is the
sole heir other mother, who, at the time of
the making of the will, May oath, 1888, was
not of sound mind and memory. The in
strument bequeathed twenty five dollars per
year to her sister, Louisa Smiley and the
remainder of her estate to the Methodist
Episcopal church of the state of Ohio, but
that the income from the estate should be
given to her daughter Lillian during the
term of her natural life, and the estate
should only be turned over to the church
after the death Of her daughter. Mrs
Christman was for many ears prominent
resident of Peru, where she died on May %,
1888.
Jones Bros, of Seneca, are made defenI j,
ants in an appeal case, in which they secured
jud gment against Phillip Schlacter before
Squire Bullock at Seneca.
County Court.