Arizona republican., 1898-09-27
NEWS
 OF THE
 TOWN

! the late I. H. Hay were issued yester-
 day to Lawrence A. Lowell
 1 FORECLOSURE SUIT.- A fore
 closure suit was begun in district cour;
 yesterday by Henry Bolin vs. James Baillee, John A. Webb and Francis $ Baillie.
 WANTS A DIVORCE.- Grace Longley yesterday filed suit in district court for divorce from her husband,
 Abner H. Longley. The defendant is
 a resident of Los Angeles. The ground of action is desertion and failure to support.
 A SPECIAL TRAIN. In order to
 accommodate persons coming to Phoe- nix from Tempe and Mesa tonight to attend the Brodie ratification meeting, ithe Nj & P. will run a special train to those places at the conclusion of the exercises. The regular Mesa train will be held a half hour later than usual on it's trip to Phoenix to bring the ratifiers into Phoenix.
 MINNIE POWERS WILL The
 will of Rose R. Gregory, better known
 as Minnie Powers, was presented for probate yesterday. Her nephew, G. A. Johnson, of Oakland, Cal, is named in the will as executor and chief bene- flciary. A clause in the will provides for the burial of the testator's remains at Oakland. At the time the will was
 made she was possessed of a great deal
 of property, but it has dwindled until the estate now is not worth more than $500, hardly enough to dispose u the body according to the wiEi.
 DnADn OEt CITDEDyTCODC Tho
 board of supervsors was in session
 advertise for bids for taking care of
 the poor at the poor farm and for the
 indigent sick Of the county. The con
 tracts are to run for two or three
 years. A petition was received from
 the republican and democratic com
 mitteemen of Cave Creek for change
 Cave Creek station. The most of the
 day was taken up in hearing contests
 in school land lease cases.
 ANOTHER PAPER.- A new demo-
 cratic daily is said to be impending,
 and the blow may fall at any moment A gentleman foreign to this community
 has $12,000 in local bank. He be-
 lieves it would be sinful waste to
 actually and literally burn it up, so that he has chosen what he believes to
 be the next shortest route to relief democratic journalism in an already superheated democratic field. He is engaged in negotiations almost con- cluded with some local talent and it is given out that the newspaper may be precipitated within a week. The Sunday issue will be devoted to pie lures of men and things.
 NO WAR FOP HIM-Guiseppe Micca, native CT Italy, died in Phoe- nix in August, 1892. His family moved away, a part returning to Italy and another part removing to Colorado. A letter was received yesterday by Alex Barsanti from Italy, asking for a certified statement regarding the residence and death Of Micca in Phoe- nix. The object of the inquiry is to prevent the operation against the son of Micca of the Italian military law requiring persons between certain ages to serve a certain period of time in King Humbert's army. The son of Micca is devoid of military aspirations and having lived so long in America he is not burning with patriotic zeal for Italy.
 SENT TO THE ASYLUM Mrs. Jennie A. Spooner was yesterday exam ined for insanity by Probate Judge Grouse and committed to the insane asylum. She is the wife of George D. Spooner of Tempe. She is 40 years of age and has one daughter living in Utah and married. Her ailment was first manifested when she was 15 years of age and continued until she was IS. There was TO serious recurrence until about SIX years ago. The duration Of this attack was also about three years. Eighteen months ago she was seized again. At first there were long Of lucid intervals. The at tacks always came on in the morning and lasted until noon, when they be- gan to pass away. She slept well at night, but was always seized again in the morning. The periods of insanity gradually heightened until there ceased to be any lucid intervals and the patient required constant watching.
 THE END OF A SUIT.-There was a civil suit with funny ending in Jus tice Kincaid's court yesterday. James Bailey and John LamaZou, under the title of Bailey & LamazOu, partners, brought an action against Martin Gould for $50 damages for corn and consumed by the defend ants invading hogs. The complaint alleged the partnership of the plain tiffs and that all this destruction was wrought on a certain section, No. 15. The plaintiffs evidence failed to dis close that Bailey was yet born. There wat not a word about him. It was also shown that the corn and water melons whose career had been cut short were raised on section 13. At the close of the plaintiffs testimony Attorney Bullard, for the defendant, moved a dismissal of the case. The plaintiffs thad previously taken the case from Justice JohnstOne's court on a change of venue. Their attorney threatened an appeal. The only les son to be drawn from this episode IS that a complaint should be drawn in