Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-17
in debt for some COWS and cannot reduce the
Indebtedness even though she drive the
milk wagon herself


! Indebtedness even though she drive the
milk wagon herself
Trying to Stop Divorce.
The Schultz case from Ivanho was again
called and D. D. Bruce appeared for Mrs.
Schultz. Mr.. Bruce said the divorce pro-
| ceedings had been discontinued, but Pro-
thonotary Bradley refused to certify to il
without an order from Court showing the
discontinuance. T. H. Davis held that the
case had not been discontinued as he had
| been notified by the Commissioner that II
was still running. To this Mr.. Bruce re-
piled that an application made in 1888, had
been rendered void by the parties having
lived together since that time, the
! charge of desertion showing that
| they had been living together since
last March Mr.. Davis asked with some
| asperity if Mrs. Schultz intended to employ
all the bar in her case, and enumerated the
number of lawyers he had come in conflict
with since 1885, Mr. Bruce being the last.
To this Mr.. Bruce replied that the last
named had been in his Office, and had rep
resented him, and that he, Bruce. was not
really an addition. Mr.. Davis insisted that
the court record should be produced, and
the matter went over again until next Satur-
day.
Lizzie Coates wanted Henry Coates to
support her. They make fine looking
couple in middle life. He is motorman
and says he works seven DAYS week, when
he does work, and gets 81 SO per day. l..
& o. A. Mcclure will not, however, get a
chance for whack at Mr.. Coates, for when
he was told that he must pay Mrs. Coates 81
week, he settled back in his chair and said
he'd go to Jail rather than support a woman
who had ordered him out of the house.
What Mrs. Coates emotions were could not
be ascertained. She left the Court House
bathed in tears.
GoIored Men at War.
The perennial trouble between Charles
Mason and George Johnston came up. They
are colored men, and Mr.. Randolph, who
enjoys the distinction of being the first col
ored man to make an appearance as an ad-
vocate in our court, defended Mr.. Johnston,
and he handled the case with the ease of a
veteran and acquitted his man. The charge
was surety of tho peace. There was no
doubt that Mr.. Johnston had been very vio-
lent toward Mr.. Mason, threatening to cut
his bowels out and drink his hearts blood.
Mr.. Randolph succeeded in showing that
the trouble was an old one and caused by
Mr. Mason's attentions to Mrs. Johnston,
and Mr.. Randolph said it was not only
malicious prosecution, but persecution as
we'll. This Mr.. Johnston supplemented by
stating that "Mason had no right to speak
to my property"
The Purcells case was up again and Judge
Kennedy again dismissed it for another
week, advising the attorneys to make set
tlement. His Honor thought it would not
be right to compel septuagenarian to give
up all his ready cash to a woman confessedly
better able to take care of her husband than
he was OF her.
Both in a Bad Way.
George Elskonovitch had been in Jail %
days, and Assistant District Attorney Goeh-
ring had some remarks to make about a con-
stable in the case. The man is Pole out of
work and cannot get any relief, and his wife
is lying in bed and cannot appear against
him. He is in for costs on an old charge as
well as on the present, and it begun to look
as though he would be forgotten, like the
doctor in the ''Tale of Two Cities" He was
let out on his own recognizance.
Louisa Kellerman, in green-velvet bon
net and basque and silk gown, appeared as
bride of 10 minutes. The change was so
sudden and unexpected that she forgot her
new name and said her name was Louisa
Weigle. She and George Kellerman came
in to have to have the Court ratify mar
riage ceremony first performed by Alder
man Black, Deputy Sheriff Bob Johnston
being best man and Mr.. Pender witness.
1t was case of ''must" with Mr. Keller
man, but he seemed to accept the situation
phiIosophically if not over-lovingly.
There were several other moths whose
wings had been singed in the matrimonial
candle, but they were not prepared for trial
and their cases went over.