Omaha daily bee., 1896-03-22
LOVES BRIGHT DREAM ENDED
0upid's Hurts Cured by the Application Of
Stern Real Life.
MEN WHO REGRET THEIR MARRIAGES
Five Come into Court and Charge
Their Wives with Cruel and In
human Treatment and Ask
for Legal Relief.

Next to desertion, the charge Of cruelty
and inhuman treatment is the most fire.
quently given ground for divorce in applica.
tions filed by unhappy wives. The condi
tions seem to have been reversed in this
county, however. and within the past weel
I'VE men have applied for divorces from
women who have either abused them and
treated them cruelty or have threatened them
with bodily harm.
II. S. Johns has asked the dispenser Of
equity to free him from the legal obl!ga.
tons which REQUIRE him to acknowledge
Alice NJ. Johns as his lawfully welded wife.
They were married a long time ago. and
Johns don't tell where. After twenty-five
years of a more or less miserable married
life, he is living apart from Mrs. Johns now.
He says that she abused him and made him
a plaything for her fits of bad temper. He
| stood that, and even swallowed his chagrin
when he convinced himself that his wife had
been guilty Of adultery. But the last straw
came when Mrs. Johns Just got up and
left the home OF her lord and master. and
refused to return. Then Johns decided tc
try 1t alone and wants a legal separation.
William p. Jensen has had no pleasure in
life since the summer of 1898, when he
took a partner of his Joys and sorrows.
Ho has filed a petition in court in which he
says that trouble commenced before the
preacher was paid for performing the mar
riage He discovered that his wife
had q temper. not one OF those ordinary.
everyday, up and down, hot and cold tenn
pers. This was a peculiar one. 1t was not
susceptible of change. 1t was blasting hot
all the time, and Mrs. Jensen had no control
over 1t. There would be a little blaze of Q
spat In the evening, and VIII am ?. would
pretend to be asleep and hope that 1t would
be all right in the morning. Nit. The tenn
per seemed to gan strength and fury dur
Ing the night, and life became too much
of a burden for Mr.. Jensen. He tried all
means at his command. but Mrs. Jensen
kept her temper on exhibition until the house
would hold two Jensens no longer, and then
w. p. left and wants the court to z We him
permission to trot single hereafter.
Lizzie Strong has sued for a divorce from
Joseph Strong. They were married in Onawa,
Ia, in July, 1880, and lived together until
1893, when plaintiff alleges her husband de-
serted her without cause. They have sew
eral children. and she alleges that the de-
PENDANT is a worthless, shiftless fellow, unit
to care for them.
The Anheuser-Busch Brewing company has
brought suit against ]. j.. Grove on a note
for $3.50.
Mrs. Emily Heine has brought suit against
Council Bluffs lodge No. SO, Independent
Order of the Treubund, and S. Boysen, treas
| Z dlu ItltT ASDlus, vi tias
order. The petitioner alleges that her hus-
band was insured in the order, and that at
his death an assessment of SITS was made
against the Council Bluffs lodge. TIL grand
lodge of Nebraska then went out of existence
and the officers of the local lodge refuse to
| pay her the money derived from the assess
ment.
a.. NJ. Emig has commenced foreclosure
suit against Louisa Swan and others on a
mortgage for $40
no,, p IIeyS rttc cd yviIoop nrnnon tho
material to fence and improve his patch Of
land. They want a judgment and lien ON
the property now for $21 so.
Samuel Roger has commenced suit in
foreclosure against e. d. Pratt on a mort
| gage for $515.
NJ. p. Goodell has started foreclosure pro-
ceedings against A. B. MAR ct al on claims
aggregating $1,052.
Judge Thornell yesterday granted fore
closure DEGREES in the cases of Squires
against II. J. Adams, and Squires against
Baldwin ct al.
John H. Dollen has brought suit against
John L.. Dow & Co., grain buyers of Minden,
for $3.50. Plaintiff alleges that he rented a
piece of land to William Thede, who mort
gagged the crop of 1895 to Dollen to secure
the rent. Rhode sold the crop to Dow &
Co., and Dollen sues them for the price.
D.. j. smith has brought suit to restrain
the city, the county treasurer and the county
auditor from collecting city taxes on agri-
cultural land owned by the plaintiff and To-
Gated within the city limits.
Charles Johnson has brought suit against
Nels S~orenson for 500 damages. He alleges
that he bought a COW from the defendant,
which the latter knew to be diseased, but
concealed the fact. When the animal was
killed the diseased condition was discovered,
and Johnson refused to accept the animal.
Sorenson caused Johnson to be arrested for
leaving the carcass. johnson was dismissed.
He sues for damages for false arrest and for
the selling to him of a diseased animal.
John Under has brought suit to f~oreclose
a mortgage for s ,009 against Mollie Lee
Burhorn.