Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-08-07

records In Indiana. but he lays claim
to the largest family in the State. His
family numbers forty-nine children.
the result of six marriages. Twenty
nine of them are stepchildren, but they
are all claimed by him as his family.
Probably the largest family in In
diana, the result of one marriage, is
that of Mr.. and Mrs Carter MANS, of
Madison county. Their twenty ninth
child has just been born. Several OF
the children are twins. The mother is
only AZ years of age.
Riley Shepard, of Hamilton county,
is said to have the second largest fam
lily in Indiana. He has been married
three times, and has twenty-seven
children of his own, whose ages range
from so down to years. He had
hard time to keep up with the rush in
providing names, and as consequence
he had to use john three times. one
is known as plain John, the next John,
Jr., and the next Johnnie.
A combined marriage and family re-
cord which probably stands without a
parallel in the Mississippi valley, is
that of John Griggsby, and Dyela
Clark, of Anderson. He is CT and she
is just ten years his junior. 1t is his
sixth and her fifth matrimonial ven
ture. Both have large families. Their
various children number ninety mine,
all told. There are fifteen different
family names.
Some new matrimonial age limits
have been recorded in the last month.
Pearl Gates, age II, married Louis
Gates at Hadley Station, Hendricks
county. Conrad White, aged 76, and
Margaret J. Sheetz, of Morris, Ill.,.
aged Sc, eloped to Valparaiso recently
and were married.
ODD CASES IN DIVORCE COURTS.
Indiana courts have made four novel
rulings recently upon matrimonial
matters. In a suit taken up from Put
nam county the court decided that
there was no cause for divorce in the
discovery that the wife had a glass
eye which she had passed off as the
real thing. The court stated that if
the husband had not discovered the
fact during the several months he had
gazeG into her dreamy eyes, it was
surely a good thing and would not in
terfere with domestic happiness. The
groom claimed false pretense." The
Supreme Court has just decided that
if a man marries who is indebted to
him the marriages discharge the debt.
This ruling was made in a suit taken
through the courts by William r. Cos
nell against his wife. He had loaned
her $4,000, and then, getting better ac-
quainted, he married her. In the
Clark county Circuit Court a novel
case has just been stricken from the
books.,It was entitled Smith VS.. Stu
dl L, duu wac OlOuSohI LIZ eilC POSh'So
sion of an engagement ring after the
engagement had been broken by the
young woman. Albert Smith was jilt-
ed by Nellie Stuart. She refused to
return his ring. He instituted suit
Mrs. Stuart's mother presented as an
Offset a bill for gas and coal used in
the counting. A trial resulted in a de-
cision in favor of the defendant.
Smith took an appeal, but later recon-
sidered, and abandoned the suit. Mrs.
Clarence Peterman, of Montgomery
county, has just been held to an anti
nuptial contract, which provided that
she should cut her husbands hair, and
furnish him with hot bread every
meal. She became negligent on her
contract and sued for a divorce. In
the suit which followed the contract
was brought in and divorce was de-
MED her.