Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-08-22
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DIVORCE GASES.
August TERMS Docket Contains
Unusually Large Per Centage
of Actions for Divorce
NEW CASES TOTAL 1os
CASES TOTAL
Almost 80 Per Cent Are Suits Brought
for Divorce-W. |. Denton Sues Iowa
Central for $1,000 for Personal In.
jury and Damage to Property-oth-
or Cases.

been filed during the summer for the
August term, which opens September
IA. The docket for the coming term
Will contain thirty-one new divorce
cases, to say nothing of large NUM-
Der that We're carried over from prev
ious terms.
Friday was the last day for fling
petitions for the coming term, and the
total of new cases that had been filed
when the clerks office closed Friday
evening was 10S. This number is
larger than the average. A number Of
additional new cases We're filed on
Friday afternoon, including three di-
vorce cases.
Trio Wants Divorce.
Three wives are the plaintiffs in the
divorce cases filed during the after
noon. Mrs. Minnie B. Wegelin, of no
North Fourth street, alleges in her
petition that her husband, Charles
Magnus Wegelin, became a habitual
drunkard after their marriage in this
city on May 10, 1908. and that he
threatened, while drunk, to kill her
with revolver. The petition says
Mrs. Wegelin was obliged to LEAVE her
husband. Mrs. Wegelin, before her
marriage to Wegelin, which was her
third matrimonial venture, was Mrs.
Minnie b. Legg. os
Mrs. Ave Rosine Burley alleges in
her petition against Willie Booth Bur-
ley, that he is addicted to the habituaI
use Of liquor. and that in spite of the
fact that he took the jag, cure six
times, that it proved Intellectual, and
he began drinking again after each
cure" Mrs. Burley lives in this
city. The couple was married in Mar
engo, April 21t 1854
Mrs Florence Bell Robinson charges
her husband. George E. Robinson, with
cruel and inhuman treatment. She
desires that her maiden name, Florence
Bell Hull, be returned to her. The
couple was married here on Oct. 16,
1905
Denton Sues Iowa Central.
w. I. Denton, a fish peddler of this
city, whose team and wagon was
struck by an Iowa Central train on
the South Third street crossing ON
July 80, has filed suit against the
railroad company for $1,000. The Pc
tition says the judgment is asked for
personal injuries to Denton and for
the killing of one horse, the disabling
Of the other, and damage to the ve-
.hicle. The petition alleges that Dem
ton was injured on the right side so.
that he was disabled for weeks, and
that the horse that was not killed
was so injured that it is valueless.
Negligence on the part of the railroad
company is charged because, 1t is al
legged, that proper warning was not
given by blowing the whistle or ring
ing the bell, and also because the train
was running at a speed greater than
allowed by the city ordinances.
Bank Litigation Bobs Up. q
More litigation as result of the
failure of the old Green Mountain
Savings bank has been filed for the
August term. The Blackhawk Nation
al bank is plaintiff in one action against
the Farmers Elevator Company, OF
Green Mountain, in which it seeks to
recover on a note for $3.50. together
with s per cent interest. The Water
loo bank claims that the elevator COM
pany gave to the Green Mountain bank
its note for $1,250, which was. in turn
taken over by the Waterloo bank to
secure it as one of the defunct banks
creditors.
F. F. McElhinney, president of the
III 7, hyn1 I<rl1f
suit against Donald A. Johnson, cash
Ter of the Green Mountain Savings
pank at the time it failed, and the
Eadie-W Ward Piano Company. Johnson
is alleged to have given the piano
company a note for $3.50, which later
came into possession of the Black
hawk bank. Judgment for the sum OF
$3.50 is asked.
Other Cases.
j. M. Carmean has brought an ac-
ton against H. A. Fuller, asking $50
commission for selling property for
the defendant. In justice court JUS
tice Peek found for Fuller, and Car
mean appealed to the district court.
F. 2. Winery, of Union, is plaintiff
in an action brought against r. w.
SHELLS, LII WlllCA wv lllilSAy cs-'iAo
Judgment for $500, as commission for
finding a purchaser in 1904, for the
old Stanley's mill property near AL
bion, which Sheets at that time owned.
Francis v. Mech vs.. George Mech,
ct al, is the title of an action brought
to confirm shares of the heirs of Mary
A. Mech, in real property situated in
Timber Creek township.
Another similar action is brought by
Eva Erect against Exa Hill, ct al, in
which it is sought to establish the
shares of heirs of, Lavina Edwards,
whose estate is largely land in Tim
Der Creek township.
Benjamin H. Phillips VS.. Mary Ann
Phillips is the title Of an action to
recover on a note for $377.04, secured
by mortgage on property in Marion
township.
Because he alleges the Chicago, Mil
waukee & St Paul Railway Company
was negligent in the transmission of
freight from Hastings, Mimi, to Des
Moines, S. Freedman has brought suit
against the railroad company. The
plaintiff claims that he shipped car
of potatoes from the Minnesota point,
and that they We're loaded in a refrig-
orator car. He opened the ventilators