The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-11-02
Before Dibell.

Mr.. Blake will close the case for the
people.
Before Dibell.
The motion of Robt. Cannon, OF OF
tawa, for new trial in the suit
brought by the Union Coal Co., OF La
Sale, was denied and Judgment af-
firmed. The suit was for coal pur-
chased.
The suit of Kund A. Rogers V. Da-
yid Evans was dismissed by Rogers.
On motion, Allen Stevenson was ap-
pointed receiver in the David Doug
lass assignment matter, in which Sim
con Cleal and Others are interested as
creditors.
The old Carter partition case, which
created considerable comment in legal
circles at the time of it's trial, is fin
ished, the masters report of diStribu-
tiOn having been filed and approved
yesterday.
j. William Thurston, party defen-
dant in the ThurstOn divorce suit, is
again before the court for neglect to
nay alimOny. William was ordered to
pay his wife one hundred dollars per
year, and having neglected to do so,
the court now gives him the alterna-
tive of paying or going to jail.
TheHaSkins-Quinn case came up on
a motion for an injunction to issue.
Maria Haskins owns large amount
of real estate in the city of La Sale,
and has been in the court time and
again in it's defense. In this suit she
claims that John II. Quinn has fraud
ulently secured deeds to certain OF her
lots and asks for an injunction re-
straining him from dispOsing of them
until the manner of his acquiring
them may be more fully inquired into.
DR.. Lewis, indicted by the grand
Jury on Thursday for selling liquor
without license at Grand Ridge, came
into court yesterday and plead guilty.
He was fined one hundred dollars and
costs, which he paid.
The case of Slingsby the Commits
siOners of Highways of the Town of
Wallace is still in hearing. Surveyor
Wilson and a dozen Others have testi-
fed orally and by deposition that the
ditch should run southwest, while
Surveyor Hill and twenty Others have
sworn that the proper course of the
ditch should be northeast. All of the
testimony is in excepting rebuttal by
the plaintiff, who will attempt to
break down the evidence of the de-
fence to-day. 1t is also probable that
arguments will be heard and finished
Friday before evening.
The plaintiffs in the Cleave case,
now under adviSement, have entered a
motion to file further amendment to
the bill now presented.
New Suits.
Seth G. Ballard appeals from the de-
ciSiOn of Justice Grant, of Marseilles,
before whom he was fined thirty dol
lars and costs for driving traction
engine through the streets of Mar
settles on Sept. II and Is.
The only suit filed in the Circuit
Clerks Office yesterday was that of
David and Mary Hayden VS.. Thomas
and John Hayden to partition lots 9
and 10, block 113, Las allie, the estate
of the late David Hayden. John is
supposed to be dead, and the other
heirs desire the estate settled.
County Court.
In the county court yesterday
Michael Murphy, of StreatOr, was
declared dependant boy, and T. G..
Gibson was appointed guardian. The
Court ordered that he be committed
and sent to the training school for
boys at Norwood Park.
The motion for a new trial in the
case of StraWn VS.. George w. Arm
strong was denied. Lester II. Strawn,
suing as surviving partner of the firm
of Bull & Strawn, secured judgment
of one hundred and fifty dollars against
George w. Armstrong for attorneys
fees, and Armstrong being dissatisfied
with the verdict, had applied for a
rehearing.
In the County Court yesterday Mary
f. Hackshaw, age 81, living in Otter
Creek, was declared insane. Some two
years ago she was adjudged insane and
sent to Kankakee for treatment. She
was discharged from there as entirely
cured, but for the past six weeks she
has been violent and threatened the
life Of her mother on several occasions.
She will be returned to Kankakee.
The court ordered letters of adop-
tion to issue upon the application of
Charles H. and Mare j. Wolfsberger,
petitiOning for the right to adopt
Mary Sophia WOlfsberger, aged SIX
teen years.
Inc Judgment IN tne case or Drew
V. White, was, upon motion of the
complainant, set aside, and the case
remanded for trial.
Probate Court.
The hearing upon the citation issued
out of the Probate Court calling upon
John Funk to show cause why he
should not deliver over half of the es-
tate of his sister, Elizabeth B. f. Red
tick, to the heirs of Margaret Moore,
another sister in Germany, will be
had to-day at half past one
O'Clock. Judge Gilbert, of Chicago
and H. N. Ryon, of Steator, will ap-
pear for Funk and Mayo and Widmer
for the other heirs.
In the estate of Emma Kirchberg
petition for order of further allowance
Of board was granted.
In the matter Of Alex. Rowe, an Or
der of final settlement set for Novem-
Der term.
In the estate of Jacob Mason, intes-
tate, inventory approved and ordered
recorded.