The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-05-06


TO Escape GUARDIANS Restraint,
Marries Supposedly Dying Man.
Hut Later Asks for Freedom.
From the New York Mail and Express,
The case of the nervous. frail woman
who recently applied for divorce because
her husband vert whistling about the
house in the morning VIXEN the plaintiff
wanted TO sleep has found many parallels
IN the courts which make a spec. atty of
undoing that which has been done.
There have been innumerable instances OF
the purposes of a fryingpan and nat-iron
as sequence 10 the que ton of response
bility for kindling the kitchen range. an
men have been known 10 wipe dishes when
they should have been driving a horse car
or ehopping wood. These, however, so
under the head of Objectionable family
rows and are not strictly refined in the
more elaborate idea of divorce causes.
Out in Topeka, Kan, where ANYTHING
under the sun might be expected 10 hap
pen there was an unusual case the other
day. Elizabeth Haberman, 70 wears OLD
obtained a divorce from her husband who
is 81, in the District Court The couple
mad been married two years, and in her
petition Mrs. Haberman declared that It
was impossible for her 10 live happily wi h
A j. Hagerman because "he chews to-
pacco. Both were very feeble, and were
assisted to the court room by relatives
Ihcre is an old-tim belief that a divorce
will be granted in Chicago on any old ex-
cusei but without Offering any delens for
Chlcago, II may be said that for frivolous
divorce causes certain citeis near the me-
tropolis are entitled to great deal of uu-
favorable attention. 1t is not long since a
court in Trenton allowed a decree because
the defendant cut the plaintiffs bangs of
by force"
In Baltimore last December the pc ition-
er, who was twenty years older than her
husband, obtained a divorce because "the
defendant would not let the plaintiff go 10
church."
An Ohio court gave divorce to a new
ly married pair because the husband con
stantly BIT his nails thereby affecting
PLAINTIFFS happiness and health"
Objected to Live Husband.
Former Congressman George F. White
of Illinois. last week received a decree
separating him from his wife, Minnie A.,
the well-known Christian Scientist. The
plaintiff declared that his wife was so
devoted to her beliefs that she frequently
declared she would give up homo and
family fer them.
IteGeHl OHlted states records show that
nearly 10000 divorces were granted by
the courts of he country within the last
twenty-five years. While a majority of
these were decided en- the strength of
charges Of whose serious character there
could be no question, hundreds of divorces
were granted on eeningly trivial charges
One of the most interesting cases to be
found in the records is that of wealthy
young wcman's who suffered restraint at
the hands of guardian. Believing that
as a widow she could have more control
over her estate and actions she drove one
day o a hospital where her most ardent
admirer was supposedly dying. She start
ted him back to life by proposing that he
marry her, and whether it was the nov
city of the situation or the tonic that the
clergyman impaired, the bid sgroom grew
well from that time and the bride grew
disguised. When the hero of the affair
was able to get around and boss things
Madame Heiress found the yoke of hus-
band more burdensome than that of a
guardian and the courts gave her de-
cree on the grounds of cruelty and fraud
A Milwaukee woman in her petition for
separation alleges that the defendant
married her simply to make a mental of
her ard that he forced her to blacken his
bco.S. A
Some of the Causes.
Some of the remarkable causes for