Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-07-02
Sensation Al OSlY
Mahaska County Social Circles
Startled by the Ben Buxton
Divorce Case.
Wife Of Prominent Society Nan.
Charged With Infidelity and
Divorce is Granted,
Buxton is Wealthy and Prominent
and the Proceedings Are q
Great Surprise.
Special to Times Republican.

special SIlmeS-R Ollcan
Oskaloosa, July 2.Oskaloosa social
circles We're shocked beyond measure
today when it leaked out, in a small
way, that at an adjourned session of
the Mahaska county district court, con-
vened by Judge Dewey late Saturday
afternoon, Mr.. Ben Buxton, manager
of the Consolidated Coal Company's in
terests at Muchak!nock, had applied
for and had been granted divorce
terry.
No more sensational bit of news
could have been sprung in the city than
this, as Mr.. and Mrs. Buxton have been
quite prominent here socially, having
many friends among the more fashion,
able element of the city. Mr.. Buxton is
well known turnout the state and thru
out the county in coal circles. He has
accumulated a great deal of wealth, as
did his father, who also managed tho
l3coaling properties of the Chicago &
Northwestern Railway Company, be-
| fore him.
Mr.. and Mrs. Buxton We're married at
Middletown Springs, VI. Oct. 90, 1890,
land have lived together, apparently
VERY happily, until last January, when
Mrs. Buxton went to California to
spend the winter. 1t was there that the
lcrime, for which the divorce was
lgranted, is alleged to have been COM
United. The petition alleges that in
March, 1900. and at divers times since
4 that date, the exact day and date of
which the plaintiff is unable to state.
4 the defendant, in violation of her mar
riage vows did commit adultery with
one Charles Gray, and other persons,
4 the names of whom this plaintiff is un-
able to state, and that she has con-
4 ducted herself toward the plaintiff in a
cruel and inhuman manner, and has
otherwise conducted herself in an im-
proper in violation of her MARI
tai VOWS
The petition was filed without the
#least bit of warning to the public late
saturday afternoon. Judge Dewey was
ready and received the testimony of the
4 OF Smith & Caswell, Chicago. was pres
/ ent for the defendant, and waived APP
pearance, setting forth no counter
Il cldlIIl1 OIL tIlS- part " liz
cree was granted by the court and
4 the stipulations of the settlement We're
ANNOUNCED. Mr.. Buxton is to support
his two daughters, Mae. aged s years.
land Corinne. aged 9. who are to be
given into the custody of the mother.
Mr.. Buxton is to provide for their sup
sliport, as long as their mother will keep
4 them, s1,S00 per year, payable at once
a sor in installments of $3.50 per month.
las an alternative he can pay to a
Trustee the sum of 100000, to be used
lin the care of the children until they
|tare 81 years of age. If either should die
I3before she reaches the age of 214 years,
a 1.-The other is to receive the entire s30.00O,
land in case both are alive. each will be
5|5paid $4,000. 1t is the idea Of the court
4 to support the girls, in the meantime,
4 with the interest of the principal, $780,
4 900. Judge Blanchard conducted the
4 case for the plaintiff.
4 Mrs. Buxton is at present in the east,
4 presumably Chicago, where she visits
4 quite frequently She has been in Cali
fornia, however, during the greater
4 part of the winter.