The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1899-10-03

fred Raber, as administrator of the
estate of Leopold Gross, in which the
plaintiff sues to recover for services
rendered Leopold Gross before his
death, Seeman& Seemann, represent
ing the defendant have filed an answer
and cross petition in common pleas
court. The claim is set up that the
Leopold Gross and that of the charity
he kept her all her life and that the
services alleged to have been rendered at
all events were given more than six
years prior to filing Of, suit.
SUIT FOR DIVORCE.
Jacob Schlott, Jr., today began suit
for divorce from his wife, Ida May
Schlott. He declares they were married
i'm 1898 and have two children. They
lived on farm in Nimishillen township
and he alleges his better half was both
cruel and neglectful. He says she beat
him and the children, that she would not
sweep the house, cook the food nor
mend the family clothes. To cap the
climax, in 1897 she deserted him and his
children. w. S. Earseman filed the
petition.
INSURANCE MONEY.
ceedings in common pleas court this
morning against John A. Logan Council
No. o. u. A. M. to collect 5000. She
AYERS that her husband, A. w. Bomber
ger, was a member in good standing in
the order and that one of the laws of
the lodge provides for the payment of q
5000 death benefit to the family Of de-
ceased members. Her husband died,
hut la 1ai h. -.
her the $780, ]. A. Bowman and Wann
& Bow represent the petitioner.
POINT OF LAW.
Rather an interesting point of law
came up this morning in the case of ia
cob II. Kaufman, as administrator of
DR.. Charles II. Evans, VS. the Northern
Central Life Insurance Co. Evans car
ried a $4,000 policy. In the policy was a
clause stating that should the insured
commit suicide by any means or shorten
his life by drugs or whisky it would
make no differnce, as the policy would
be paid After the death, however, the
insurance company refused to pay on
the ground that the clause in the poll
Cy made it void. The administrator
sued. The insurance company filed a
demurrer to the petition, admitting,
however, that Evans died by accident.
Judge McCarty overruled the demurrer.
In his dcision he stated that thus was
done because the Insurance company
admitted death was not due to any of
the causes enumerated in the offensive
clause of the policy. He said the clause
was bad in itself and was an incentive
to suicide and against good morals.
DISTRIBUTING FUND.
County Treasurer Smith is today
making the monthly distribution of cash
from the soldiers relief fund. There
was distributed to the INDECENT soldiers
families $344.
TO CLEAR TITLE.
Welty & Albaugh for p. L. Manly en-
tered suit this morning in common pleas
court with Joseph Purcell and Adeline
Manly as defendants. Manly sold a lot
to Purcell, and his wife cannot unite
with him in the deal. He therefore asks |
the court to clear the title of the dover
interest and let him pay her in cash |
what it is Worth.
FIRST SENTENCE.
The first man out of those indicted |
by the recent grand jury to receive pun
shment is Charles Hoffman of Louis |
Vile. A lad named Hughes, in riding |
along in front of Hoffman's place on |
bicycle collided with the latters child. |
Hoffman rushed out, grabbed the bicy-
2le and smashed it to pieces. He was |
D6ipta6 for alioinIIc of '