The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-09-06

| Leavenworth, Kan, Sept. 5.-Josepn
/ Bowen. a farmer of Sherman township,
began suit in the district court yester-
| day for a divorce from his wife, Jennie
| Bowen. His petition is a long one and
makes some rather sensational charges
He says ne was widower with eight
| children when he married the defend
ant, who was an "old maid" and had
nothing but funk and few old
dresses That he gave her $25 to pur-
chase a wedding trousseau. He says
she married him for his money and has
| told neighbors since that she would not
have done SO, if she had known he did
not have more that he has.
He says that during the first four
months of their married life she con-
| Quoted herself very decently, and SEEM
| ed to think great deal of the children
and a great deal more of the plaintiff,
but she soon became jealous of his at
| tentions to the children and turned
against him and made his home per-
| feet hell.
One of the first things she did was to
neglect her household duties: to keep
the beds of the children By his former
wife in such shape that they became in
tested with bed bugs" that the chill
dren had to leave the house and sleep
in the barn and other houses on the
place.
For a further cause for divorce the
defendant has been guilty Of extreme
cruelty, as she has often cursed and
abused the plaintiff by calling him a
liar, son and other vile epit-
bets, and saying that he was no bet
ter than the chickens and dogs run
ring in the yard.
He saws the defendant would fire.
quently get mad and sulky and leave
his home for days and weeks at time:
that she usually did so during harvest
and threshing times or in the busy sea-
son; that she left his home on the 10th
of August and is now away.
He said that he had to lose 100 acres
OF land owing to her actions and that
he still has so acres, with a mortgage
on, that he earned and asks TO be award
ed to him absolutely.
PRISONERS IN THE PEN.
A recent report of the librarian OF
the state penitentiary at Lansing show
that there are $40 prisoners in the in
stitution. OF this number 5S7 are state
court white prisoners, 203 negroes, three
Indians and two Mexicans. There are
two United States military prisoners in
the penitentiary. oklahoma mas 50
white prisoners, 16 negroes and one
Mexican in the institution.
On the LIST Of August there were $40
prisoners in the penitentiary. Five
were received during the month and
seventy-five discharged. The inmates
are now divided as follows: CO. white
males and three white females; 2l1
male and seven female negroes; four
Indians and two MeXicans.
OF the whole number of prisoners 649
whites. IT'S negroes and the four Indians
and two MeXicanS are able to read.
There are but forty-six prisoners who
can not read. OF these six are white,
the remainder negroes.
Wyandotte county has the largest
number of prisoners in the penitentiary,
eighty-three being there from that
county. Shawnee and Cowley counties
are next on the list with thirty-eight
each. The following list of counties
have no convicts within the walls of
the institution: Anderson, Decatur, Gar
field, Cove, Grant, Greeley, Hamilton,
Hodgeman, Kearney, Wichita, Wallace,
Stevens, Stanton. Sheridan, Sherman,
Smith. Seward, Scott, Morton, Morris,
and Mitchell.