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Show IN ALL THE COURTS. Scranton Makes Serious Counter Charges Against , ' His Wife. j A Woman From Chicago Re- lates a Tale of Woe. She Says Her Husband Best amdl StajrTed Her and Then Sent Her j Oat of the Country Preceedln k t of the County and Probate Courts I L reeal Xotes. I There is a prospect for a very lively con test in the courts when the divorce case oi Myra N. Scranton vs. Charles E. Scrantoa comes up for trial in the court. Mr. Scranton proposes to make a fight, and it looks as though be would make it interesting in-teresting for the plaintiff. He ha filed aa amended answer and cross-complaint, la which he admits .that he married the plaintiff plain-tiff on May 17, 1877, at Baldwinaville, N. T.t and that the issue of the marriage i a child, Minnie E aged 11 years. At this point Mr. Scranton stops admitting; and does some alleging on his own account. He denies ever having treated her cruelly or used vile or abusive language toward her. He denies that Mrs. Scranton has at all times since her marriage been a good, virtuous and agreeable wife. The defendant states that in June last his wife willfully and without with-out cause deserted hira, taking the child Minnie, certain household furniture and all of the defendant's money, amounting to $100; that she is not a proper or suitable person to have the care an custody of the minor children above referred to, and that since filing the original answer and croaa complaint he has learned that the defendant defend-ant has frequently violated the seventh commandment com-mandment with aeveral persons here and in, New York state. The names of the co-respondents and the dates when such offenses were committed are given. Mr. Scranton also includes in bis complaint a letter purporting pur-porting to have been written to one of these parties. Mr. Scranton has given notice that on September Sep-tember , 10, at 10 a.m.. he will call up a motion mo-tion for an order awarding him the temporary tempor-ary custody of the child, upon the ground that the plaintiff is an unfit person to have the castody of it. ' E- W. Taylor i the plaintiffs attorney, i ,1 Another Divorce Case. j 'I -wonder what the people eat to cause so . many, divorce oases in - this city T asked 4 young limb of the law of another this mora bag. - t v- - - . r '-v.-. "As & rule," replied the se ootid disciple at f Blackstone, "it appears to be not so much. 1 what. they eat as what they don't get to eat f that causes the trouble." J Whether this is generally true or not, it ia ? true in , the case of Harriet Cook, if the statements set up in her complaint are correct. She brought suit for divorce against Jesse W. Cook this afternoon, and it appears that the parties were married ia 1887. at Crown Point, Lake County. Indiana. Mrs. Cook alleges that while ill in February, 1889, the defendant left her and her babe in small and unwholesome unwhole-some rooms in an undesirable part o Chicago in a starving and dying condition. He even refused to pay rent for the rooms, i and she has been repeatedly thrust into the streets, the defendant all the while living in luxury and squandering his money and. property in riotous living and the gratifioa- i tion of his profligate habits. Mrs. Cook says that bet husband not only starved, her, but treated her in a brutal manner, frequently threatening to kill her or send her to an insane asylum. As an instance of -i this conduct, she recites that in July, 1889, j he struck her a savage blow with his fi6t, I knocking her down, and then repeatedly 4 kicked her while she was lying in a. I prostrate .aud semi-unconscious condition.; i he threw a heavy valise on her; that dnring her long illness he failed to provide her with, medicines or proper care, and finally, believing be-lieving she would die, sent her and her child., to his slater in the state of Maine, making-no making-no provision whatever for their subsistence. In July, 189L, he compelled the plaintiff to, take her babe and come to friends in Sala Lake City, aince which time he has wilfully-abandoned wilfully-abandoned her. J She asks for an absolute decree of divorce f and for the custody of her child. King & Houtz of Provo are the plaintiff j attorneys. Probate Court. j Judga G. W. Barton transacted the follow-. - ing business In probate court this mornIng In the matter of the estate of F. H. Dyer. deceased; petition for order to sell personal property came on regularly. Proof of post. 1 ing notice was approved. Mart McKim-mons McKim-mons was sworn and examined, and order oC ' sale made. j The will of the late Mary Ann Maxwell j was admitted to probate this morning, and ' an order was made appointing appraisers. The court also ordered the publication of i notice to creditors. This ia tbe will the probate of which wae contested by the mother of the deceased, Mrs, Lindsay Sprague. After everal days hearing, in which the contestants endeavored endeav-ored to prove that ' undue lnfiuenc had been used when Mrs. Maxwell disposed, by will of her worldly effects, the contest was dismissed by the contestants. In the matter of the estate of Samuel Green, deceased; an order was made, fixing1 September 20tb, to beer petition for partial distribution. ' In the matter of the estate of William Jamison, deceased; petition for probate of will came on regularly; proof of publication of application for probate was made. Mrs. Georgian a Jamison, Isabella Jamison and P. J. Cahoon were sworn and, examined. Order was made admitting will to probate. Georgiana Jamison wa appointed executrix under condition of will, without bonds. In the matter of the estate of Ezeklel Lee, deceased; order was made fixing September 20 to hear report re-port of commissioners in partition. In the matter of the estate of William W. Taylor, deceased; .order made fixing Sep tember 20 to hear petition for settlement of administrator. - In the matter of tbe estate of J. ii. rics-nell, rics-nell, deceased; continued to September 8. , . . County Canst. The county court met this morning and1 transacted the following business: ! Minute of .August 17- and September ware read and approved. The application of Ellen Leonard for ail was referred to the probate jndge. Messrs. Hardy and Butter were appointed a committee on insurance. The petition of Thomas Alston and other that Twelfth 8outh street be sprinkled waa granted. The petition of Eliaa Shafer for reeonvey, nee was reported back with the opinion, that tho court has no power to grant. b . |