Twenty-two Divorce Cases

Twenty-two Divorce Cases

Have Recently Been Started in Washtenaw County

The divorce fever is raging in Washtenaw county. In the last three months 22 new divorce cases have been commenced in the circuit court. The two latest cases were commenced this week. Mrs. Mary Ann Marken, of Lodi, asks for a divorce from her husband William Marken on the ground of extreme cruelty. They were married June 17, 1881, in York. She charges that he once struck her with a broom handle and that be attended the state fair at Grand Rapids and when be came home abused her for the way she had conducted the farm in his absence and turned her out.

Engene May, of Lyndon, asks for a divorce from his wife Rose Eva May. They were married Sept. 2, 1888, and have one little girl of eight years. After two years in Lyndon they went to Tennessee, returning to Lyndon in 1896 and lived together until Oct. 4, 1897, when the wife took the little girl and went to Birmingham, Ala., and has since refused to return. The ground on which the divorce is asked is desertion.

In the divoroe case of Theodore J. Walker vs. Ermna B. Walker, the complainant has been ordered to pay $25 solicitors' fee and $5 witness' fees and $1.50 a week alimony pending a hearing of the case.

Mrs. Addie M. Wheaton, of Ypsilant, was on Monday granted a divorce from Amada C. Wheaton on the ground of desertion and was given the custody of her three children from six to eleven years of age. They were married Feb. 8, 1885, at Stookhridge and she was deserted Dec. 20, 1895.