Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-02-15
ENTER BANKRUPTCY
Three ottumwa People File Petit
tions at Keokuk.
MATTERS IN THE DISTRICT COURT.
Defendant in the Divorce Case of John
w. Stephens VS. Rachel stephens
Gets $40 Temporary All.
lnony Pending Trial.
From thursdays Daily.

From Thursdays Daily.
Calvin L. Hartman and wife, Clara
+. Hartman, of South Ottumwa, today
filed petitions in the United States dis
trict court at Keolsuk, asking that they
be adjudged bankrupts and that they
be discharged from the payment of
their obligations after eXhausting their
assets. G. L. Hartman says in his PEI
tition that he is in debt to the amount
of $6,263.13 and has property to
the value of $6,236 with which to pay
his debts. Mrs. Hartman says that she
is liable for $2,134.37 of debts and that
her assets amount to 1898.
Samuel Birney, of No. 179 East Ma
pie avenue, has also filed petition in
bankruptcy in the same court and
schedules liabilities to the amount OF
$3,744 with $500. assets, and asks thae
he be discharged from the payment of
his debts after exhausting his property
not including the exemption.
District Court.
In district court yesterday afternoon
the case of the incorporated town OF
Eddyville VS.. Charles G. Palmer and
abouD fifty others, residents of Eddy
vile, was finished and submitted to
the court who took the matter under
advisement and will render his decision
in the future.
In the divorce case of John w. Ste
phens VS.. Rachel Stephens, yesterday
afternoon the defendant filed motion
asking the court to make an order re-
curing the defendant to pay her the
sum OF $40 alimony. The court made
the order in accordance with the mo-
ton and also ordered that the money
be paid on or before April 10, either
to her or to the clerk.
A petition was filed today by T.. E..
McElroy attorney for Joseph Notaw
who asks judgment against /. ID. and
g. NJ. Mowrey in the sum of $3S1.15,
interest, attorneys fees and costs, and
for cause of action therefore says:
That this plaintiff together with the
defendants executed certain promis-
sorry note to the Oskaloosa Savings
bank, of Oskaloosa, Iowa, for the sum
of $3.50; that this plaintiff was merely
a surety on said note and that the de-
PENDANTS received the consideration on
said note. He further says that he as
| surety paid said note together with in
terest and costs and had the same as
signed to himself. He now asks judy
ment for the amount of the note, in
| terest and costs.
From Tuesdays Daily
Two petitions in bankruptcy We're
filed today in the United States dis
trict court at Keolluk by Ottumwa
parties. Isadora NJ. Boheg asks to be
adjudged a hankrupt and for cause
therefor says that she owes $3,969.53
and has only $50 with which to pay
the same. John Il. Bohe says that he
is financially involved in the sum OF
$S95.62 and has assets amounting to
$3.50. Neither of the petitions have
reached Referee Lewis.
| In district court today the defendant
in the case of Bridget Barber VS.. E,l-
i gene Riordan, suit on bond which
/ the defendant gave in order that me.
chanic lien might be lifted, offered to
i confess Judgment for the sum of So
and costs which was accepted by the
i plaintiff.
The case of Tracy B. Schmidt VS.
A John Graham, which has been on the
docket for several years.. was yesterday
settled and dismissed.
The will of Maggie A. Belknap was
admitted 10 probate yesterday and Ire
Belknap was appointed executor with
out bonds.
The matter of probating the wills o.
Manus Gallagher, Robert Thompson
and Margaret A. Dickens were set fol
hearing Monday, Feb. &c, while tina
| of w. S. Coen was set for the 2sth.
| In the estate of Albert l.. johnson
the final report of the administrator
was approved, the administrator dis
charged and the sureties on his bono
4 were exonerated.
From Wednesdays Daily.
4 A petition for divorce was filed il
the CLERKS Office today in which Mar
guerite B. Hines seeks legal separa
ton from her husband, John NJ. Hines
and for cause therefor, says: That sh
and the defendant were married a
Rutland, ILL.,, July %, 1885, and live
together as husband and wife unit
January J., 1892, when they separated
on account OF defendants non-suppor
) of this plaintiff and her children. Tha
they again began living together ii
1898, and on February 10. 1900, the.
again separated She alleges that TO
the past ten years he has failed t
; support her and the children and ha
; also been guilty OF cruel and inhumal
treatment, such as to impair he
health and endanger her life. Where
fore she prays that she may be di
vorced from the defendant and tina
she may have the custody of thei
: children, Bessie, aged IA; Myrtle, age
~. and Herbert H., aged 10. w. "
Epps is plaintiffs attorney.