Omaha daily bee., 1896-03-21
SEVERAL SORTS OF TROUBLE
ID, A, Hills Details a Job Lot of Woes in a
Petition for Divorce.
REGRETS THAT HE EVER WAS MARRIED
believes He IN In Danger of Bodily
Injury from the wife He Was
Joined with Only Inst
September.

M. A. Hills has a premonition That ne u
In dire danger Of being hurt and he wants
the protecting arm Of the court thrown
around him good and tight.
The trouble is of a domestic nature. His
asserts that he came here from Des Moine'
down in the wildg Of Polk county, in Aug
ust, 1895, and has lived in the city eyel
since that date. He says his residence
was not taken up in Council Bluffs for the
purpose Of getting a divorce. He came here
to get married, and wishes now the train
had been wrecked or that someone had
stolen his bride before he got in town.
The burden of MIR. Hills song is that
he was married in September, 1895, on oil
about some date that he has since been
trying to forget, and he insists that he has
been a model boy ever since. But his wife
apparently don't look at it that way. She
has called him vile names, he says, and
has made remarks rejecting upon the purity
Of his moral conduct. All this is tough as
the action of a bride OF less than a year,
but there is more than that to it. He says
that his wife has threatened to do him
bodily hahn and such threats have been
coupled with the ability and the DISPOSE
tion to carry them into execution"
And even that is not all. Hills Gays his
wife has for months past refused to make
his bed. She has allowed him to wallow
around in his couch all by his lonesome and
has left last mmer linen on the bed.
He could stand abusive epithets and threats
of bodily injury, but he draws the line at
sleeping in the bed from year to year with
out a change of linen or a shaking up of
feathers and mattresses. He says his health
is getting poor and he expects it will get
worse unless something is done for him.
He wants a divorce and such other relief
as the court may deem just and equitable
in a case of his kind.
The case of Jim Coyne against his brother
John was on trial in the district court, be-
fore Judge Thornell yesterday afternoon. 1t
was a case Of ground and lofty swearing
over the ownership of some accreted lands
grounds TO John and claimed John was to
deed them back. John says there was moth
ing said about deciding back, and the stories
of the two men were told with all sorts of
variations by them and their friends. The
case was taken under advlsement.
Judge Thornell decided the case of Wise
against the Omaha Merchants Express and
Transfer company, giving Wise a verdict for
1925. This was a litigation over the sale
of some horses.
The case of L. Douglas against the Union
Transfer company has been decided in favor
of the company by Judge Thornell. Action
was brought by Douglas restraining the COM
pany from collecting a judgment obtained in
a Justice court. Judge Thornell held that
the judgment was good and that the levy
made by the transfer company under the
Judgment should stand.
Judgment for the plaintiff has been rem
dered in the case of Rice against Wyant.
The suit of Fisher against Rasmussen, both
of Nicola, was continued.
The case of Rice against Badollet was set
tied and dismissed.
The Valley bank of Harrison county has
commenced foreclosure proceedings against
Robert Kirkland ct al for $500.
Martin Kingman, assignee of the Marseilles
Manufacturing company, has replevined the
goods attached by Sheriff Morgan the other
day on Mr.. Campbell's claim for rent.
The National Building and Savings ~associa-
ton of Boone has commenced suit against
e. Maloney and others on shareholders loan
for $46S.
Spitz, Landauer & Co. have commenced at
tachment proceedings against A. Kochman for
$40 for goods sold and delivered.
The Portsmouth Savings bank has COM
menced an action to quiet title in the prop
erty formerly owned by w. Fl. Foster, the
florist, who disappeared some time ago. The
Union National bank of Omaha and a mum
Der Of Council Bluffs parties have certain
claims to the property in question.
Trial notices have been filed in all the cases
growing out of the litigation between John
Paul and the Union Land and Improvement
IOillpdIy' III aot - I ti ~ b
on the first day of the next term of court.
Judge Thornell will adjourn court today for
the term. The next term will be called one
week from next Monday.
Charles G. George has SUED to f~oreclose
mortgages of $125 against Catherine Dick
and 500 against Henry Mohr.
Simeon It. Perry has brought suit to en-
join j. p. Greensbields and others from en-
forcing the collection of a judgment for S120
and costs. Greensbields was assignee In
the case.
The Howard institute, under the direction
of an association of Women Friends in Phil
adelphia, has sued to f~oreclose a mortgage
against A. j. Crittenden, r. f. Young and
Lizzie Young, his wife, for 81, 800.
John Under has brought suit to foreclose
a mortgage of 81, 400 against Lizzie b. Smith
and others.
close a mortgage Of $67 against August and
Lizzie Ehlers.
In the Federal Court.
Judge Woolson put in the entire day
yesterday hearing the evidence in some of
the many bootlegger cases that have gone
through the hands of the grand jury. A
large part Of the forenoon was consumed
in trying a colored irregular whisky seller
named John Jackson from Creston. jack
son pleaded not guilty when arraigned yes
terday morning, and District Attorney Full
len and his assistants proceeded to build
around the stubborn darkey a imass of in
controvertible testimony. But still Jackson
did not think he was a very bad man until
the attorneys for the government began to
argue the case to the jury. The review
of the testimony appealed very forcibly to
the mind of Jackson, and when the attorney
INDUCED in a s~cathing denunciation Of the
crimes of bootleggers in general, and Jack
son in particular. he grew FESTIVE, and
finally became convinced that he was really
a bad man. He did not want to hear him
self denounced any more, and before the
arguments were half finished he announced
his desire to withdraw his plea OF not guilty
and substitute one of guilty. The argu-
ments were cut short and the jury returned
a verdict of guilty without retiring.
The grand jury reported an Indictment
against Max Frieburg OF Dexter, Ia, upon
the charge Of sending obscene matter through
the mails. Indictments were also returned
against a lot more bootleggers, George
Rankin, Andrew Peterson, George Byrd,
George Baskin and Henry Emerson. Baskin
is an old offender, and will probably get a
double dose of punishment this time.
G. d. Brooklander. indicted In Des Moines,
was brought here for arraignment, He Ia
charged with sending unavailable matter.
While serving a term in Jail he conceived
the idea that another man was enjoying the
smiles and favors OF his wife, and he wrote
a postal card to the other man, telling him
several things that should not be told In
that public manner.
The subpoena that was served upon