Copyright USGenNet Inc., 2016 All Rights Reserved USGenNet Data Repository Please read USGenNet Copyright Statement on this page: Transcribed and submitted by Linda Talbott for the USGenNet Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ =========================================================================== Formatted by USGenNet Data Repository Chief Archivist, Linda Talbott All of the above information must remain when copied or downloaded. =========================================================================== The Indianapolis Daily Sentinel January 6, 1885 COURT-HOUSE LOCALS Suit Against the Fire-Ladder and Stand Pipe Company for $15,000 A Number of Small Suits in the Courts -The Grand Jury - The County Board SARAH A. TEVIS has filed suit against THOMAS TEVIS for divorce. They were married in July, 1883, in Decatur County. The County Board yesterday appointed R. F. BENCE, JOHN H. VAJEN and W. H. CRAFT trustees of the county library for the ensuing year. The Grand Jury assembled yesterday and were charged by Judge NORTON to make diligent inquiry after the man who stole ballots. The Sheriff's bill for December, amounting to $1,093, was allowed yesterday. This is for about twenty days, the County Board having allowed to Sheriff HESS payment for the first ten days of the month. CHARLES F. DAVIS and others, of Auburn, N.Y., have begun suit against NORRIS & Brother, of Rushville, in the United States Court, to enjoin the use of a patent improvement on a grain drill, and to recover damages. Judge TAYLOR yesterday granted a divorce to EVELINE GLENN from LIBERTY GLENN on proof of failure to pro- vide and cruel treatment. This the case of the colored couple which was married in North Carolina when they were slaves, which was taken under advisement Saturday. BERTHA R. FISHINGER wants a divorce from JOSEPH H. FISHINGER, whom she married in June, 1883. She charges JOSEPH with failure to provide ever since the marriage; with being a common drunkard for eighteen months, and with having been convicted in Springfield, O., last March of grand larceny, and is now serving a thirty- months' term in the Ohio State Prison. The County Board devoted yesterday to the examination of county bills. They allowed the election bill for Center Township, amounting to $2,663; the Gas Company's bill for $1,002, and other bills amounting to about $3,500. The petition of H. H. HESONG, trustee of Washing- ton Township, to be allowed to borrow $5,009 to pay off the note for that amount heretofore borrowed for the use of the township, was granted. The health report for the last half of December shows 70 deaths. There were 32 males and 38 females; 59 whites. There were 12 burials from public institutions and 6 burials upon certificates from the Coroner. Fifty-nine were natives of the United States, 7 from Germany, 3 from Ireland, and 1 from England. Fifteen were under 1 year of age, and three over eighty years old. There were 133 deaths for the entire month. An advertising sheet found fault with the County Board recently, charging that wine was kept at the Poor-house for the use of the board and the Grand Jury when visits were made to the County Asylum. The County Commissioners were puzzled over the matter all the more because it was intimated that the Grand Jury were thus influenced in its work of preparing (or suppressing) indictments. Yesterday a bill by a drug firm was presented which contained, among other things, one item for sixty cents worth of port wine. But this was purchased on an order of the physician for a sick patient. JOHN A. HARTER has filed suit against W. T. COVERT, T. E. SOMERVILLE, DELOSS ROOT, JOHN CAVEN and others, proprietors of the COVERT Fire-Ladder and Stand-Pipe Company, for $15,000, alleging a promise by COVERT to pay plaintiff $150, and give him 100 shares of stock in the company, if he would secure men of means to form a stock company for the manufacture of the apparatus. This he claims to have done. COVERT, who was the originator of the patent, assigned his interest, and was given 500 shares, of which the plain- tiff received 100 shares. The company was then reorganized, under the present name, and plaintiff claims he was by this arrangement frozen out. He wants a restoration of his rights in the company, or the stock, which he puts at $15,000. ==========================================================================