The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1900-08-04

vile house, for, strange as it may
seem, the choicest comedy is often en-
acted in the courts and pathos is an
almost invariable accompaniment of
the story told BY those seeking salts
faction at the bar Of Justice. I'M
agination cannot con jure up more ludi-
crous absurdities than are brought
every day in plain, straightforward
accounts of family jars. One woman
asks release from her husband because
he belongs to too many clubs. An
other demands separation because her
husband won't take her places" and
buy ice cream for her, as he did when
he came courting.IsaA husband sues
his wife fer whipping him, and sec
ond objects to his spouse's sleeping
with a razor under her pillow. -.
The funniest divorce case of the past
few weeks occurred in Kansas City the
other day, when Mrs. Emma Murphy
sought separation from her husband,
j. r. Murphy. BY the testimony of
two young lady friends of the family
it was shown that Mr.. Murphy refused
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on the family washday. Mrs. Murphy
was fastidious. and life with an I'M
washed husband became unbearable. =
Because his first horn was girl in
stead Of boy, Charles P. Stevenson of
Pittsburg changed from a kind and
and quarrelsome that divorce was the
only way to secure peace, according to
the story told by his wife,. He said he
didn't care for girls and didn't want
to raise any, and he considered his wife
a failure. ,#..E l,.~ ~ u-
His wife, Emma, always slept with a
razor under her, pillow, and Henry
Schwakopf of Washington, D. c.,
wanted the ties that bound them cut in
twain. She never made threats to use
the razor and, indeed, refused to say
what it was for, but the mere fact OF
, its being there Jared Henry's nerves
to such an extent that he was driven
to- the courts for relief.
The dreadful moving habit lost g.
husband for Mary c.. Webster of Cleve-
land Every once in while she
would be afflicted with the. desire to
indulge in this destructive vice, ac-
4 cording to the statements of her hus-
with sell some Of the furniture and
move. When Frank came home of
evenings he often had to inquire of all
the neighbors to find out where he
lived, and he got tired Of it, so one day
he sold the rest of the furniture and
bought a divorce. s.a-
HorseWhipping her husband at regu-
lar intervals in the presence of an in
terested crowd Of spectators at Allan
ia, Ga. was the diversion that cost
Ida May Brown the affections" of her
husband, Robert She also, he said
clawed, bit and struck him at home,
and he was by disposition peacable
man, therefore, he prayed for release
from the silken bonds of matrimony,
with permission to tie himself up
again to a smaller woman.
Laziness was the charge upon which
Mabel Primm of Cleveland secured a
divorce from her husband, DR.. Henry
Primm. He refused to answer calls at
night under any circumstances, she
alleged, and often would not respond
to calls in the daytime, because he was
busy lying on the lounge reading now
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i His propensity for, whiting, while
ehis wife did the work, caused Pearl H.
Hines a well-to-do farmer living near
Bel1efontaine, Ohio, to be sued for di-
vorce and alimony. That's all he did,
:. she claimed, just whitfield, morning,
noon and night, and his wife, Lena,
grew weary OF doing all the farm work
herself. ~ d j..
Because her husband threw her false
teeth into the fire and hid her false
hair in the pig sty, to keep her from
being beautiful enough to shine at the
social functions in the neighborhood,
Mary S. Kremlin filed a petition for
I divorce at Napoleon, Ohio, and public
sympathy was with her. # r.
Thomas Tremper Of Evansville, Ind,
stayed at home with his wife Of even
ings, and his wife, who was once the
belle Of Boonville, could not break him
Of it, SO she sued for divorce. He
cared for nothing but home after their
marriage, she complained, and she
wanted him to take her places as
he did IN the happy days Of their court4
ship. y ,5z
Happy couples in sensational and ro-
mantle marriages nearly always find
their way to the divorce courts event
ually. 5s.2 &. s h. Z. ..=5 /
Ten years ago Mrs. Clara M. Butts,
then "a handsome young girl, went to
Nebraska with her parents, and soon
afterward married a noble red man
who worked ON her fathers farm.
John Butts, the mobile red man, proved
to be several shades more abusive than
a white man could possibly have been,
and when he grew tired OF her wound
up with the civilized trick Of desertion.
She told the story of her folly to the
courts Of Akron, Chic, her old home
and got a divorce in record time.
skip. OF
Mrs. Philip Scul1y. once Miss Jessie
Barnard OF Fall River, Mass, ran away
with her fathers coachn1an and paid
the penalty Of her act by being de-