Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-20
MATTERS IN THE DISTRICT COURT
Wabash Road Asks Damages for Re-
fusal TO Pay Freight Charges.

Wabash Road Asks Damages for Re-
fusal TO Pay Freight Charges.
Thu cause for action In a suit brought
by the Wabash railroad company yesterday
In the district court against the Monarch
Manufacturing company of this city is
rather an unusual one. In fourteen separ-
ate counts involving as many shipments
OF lubricatlng oil from Ironville, o., the
claim is made that the Monarch Manufac-
turing company refused to pay the whole
amount of freight charged by the railroad,
leaving a balance Of about S12 on each
shipment unpaid although the charge is
claimed by the railroad company to have
been fair and reasonable. For the refusal
Of the defendant company to pay the full
freight rate the railroad asks $50 damages
IN each of the fourteen counts making a
total Of 500 sued for.
Mrs. Cathrine Carlin is plaintiff in suits
brought yesterday against G. Jesen and
August Boysen, sa~loonkeepers Of this city
In each suit Mrs. Carlin asks IS, 900 DANA
ges for the alleged sale of nquor' to her
husband, James Carlin, who on June 1 of
this year was committed to the state hos
pital for chronic inebriates at Knoxville.
Mrs. Carlin charges that the defendants
sold her husband liquor after he escaped
from the institution and returned to this
city. Carlin was taken back to Knoxville
about a week ago. In each suit the Title
Guaranty &c Surety company as bondsmen
of the defendants are. made party defend
ants, as are the owners of the buildings in
which the saloons are located.
Bessie Blanche Edwards filed suit for
divorce from Roy d. Edwards to whom she
was married February q, 1904. She says
her husband left March Is, 1905 and went to
Canada and that she has not heard from
him since November Of that year.
Emma Robortham asks a divorce from
william Rowbotham TO whom she was
married in this city January 10, 1907. She
charges her husband with treating her In
a cruel and inhuman manner and asks the
court to issue an order restraining him
from going on the homestead property or
molesting their garden.
Mary Jackson sues for a divorce from w.
H. jackson, to whom she was married Octo-
Der l, 1906. in sthis city, on the grounds of
cruel and inhuman treatment. On account
Of his treatment she was forced, she alleges,
to leave him December l Of last year. In
addition to the divorce she asks to be
awarded the custody of their minor child.
Emma ]. Hummer has filed suit for di-
vorce from William Hummer, to whom she
was married November 30, 1886, in Des
MONIES, alleging cruel ana lEnuman treat
ment. Mrs. Hummer charges her husband,
who Is line foreman for the Citizens Gas
and Electric company, with attacking her
with a razor. In addition to a decree of
divorce Mrs. Hummer asks for $50 a north
alimony, the household furniture and the
custody of their two minor children.
In a petition filed yesterday in the district
court Mrs. Sarah A. Wareham asks tempo.
rary appointment as guardian OF her hus.
band, Philip Wareham, who, she alleges
has been of unsound mind since May /, 1905
She also asks that upon hearing the ap.
pointment be made permanent. Her hus
band, she states. WINS real estate yielding
annual rents and profits of about $400. Mr.
Wareham. who was formerly a well-knowr
resident of Council Bluffs, is said to be ir
a sanltarium in Lincoln, Neb.
William c. Children in a suit filed yester
day asks SIS damages from Frank Whitsett
proprietor OF a feed stable, because, as the
plaintiff alleges, Whitsett, contrary to or
ders, fed hay to a mare belonging to the
plaintiff while the animal was afflicted will
the heaves, with the result that 1t died.
These jurors were drawn for the su.
perior court for the September term:
Martin Christensen, NJ. ]. Lee, William
Barghausen, c.. w. Boyer. Sven Carlson
j. f. Hunt, William kinzel, 3. j. Lund
J. Deubeck. G. o.. Martenson, Jens c. Jcn'
sen, Gus Brourleit, c. G. Ouren, G.. Whit
ton and A. Turk.