The Mena weekly star., 1897-12-01
A DAMAGE SUIT.
P. L. Wood Sues s. ". Drwns for Alien-
 ating He Wtfc's Affections.
MOORE GIVEN EIGHT YEARS.
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OrgUnwA. Ia. Dee. A--A sensational anit was filed In the Keokuk county court ct Sioosrncy yestsrdsy. Tho suit was one for e5o.ooo damagcs. brought against 8. ". Brunt, cashier of the Kcokuk county state bank. by P. l.. Wood, charging Brunt with alien ating his wife's affections. The suit created an immense sensation. Wood is leading citizen, his wife being . prominent worker in church and chari- ty circles. Gossip about the banker and Mrs. Wood recently eliminated in Wood suing his wife for divorce. The judge granted the divorce, but before the decree was signed Mir. and Mrs. Wood were reconciled and again began living together. Then followed the suit against Brnnt, and it is understood that Mrs Wood will be a conspicuous witness for her husband in the trial.
 More Given Eight Years.
 LINCOLN, Neb., Dec. t-Eugene Moore, ex-auditor of state, who was convicted yesterday of the embezzle ment of S23, 900 of public money, was sentenced by Judge Cornish to-day to the penitentiary for eight years. The trial lasted many weeks. Moore's lawyers admitted the shortage, but contended that the offense was not the money, which consisted of insur- ance fees, should by law have been paid to the treasurer, and that, there fore Moore was accountable only to the insurance companies. Jndge Cor nish overruled the defense on the ground that it was wholly technical, and his action left Moore without a mainstay.
 Is Hartley Legally Dead9
 OMAHA, Neb., Dec L-Joseph Bart ley, treasurer. now under 20 years sentence for footing the treasury of $500. 1000, in answer to the states suit in which he is made co-defendant with his bondsmen, in a suit to recover the amount stolen, declares that he cannot be sued since he is dead, having been sentenced to the penitentiary. His at torneys declare that under the state law no convict can be sued. If this contention is held good the suit against the bondsmen cannot be maintained, since the principal must be sued with or before sureties are sued in Nebraska
 Hanged for Shooting a Man.
 PITTSBURGH, Pa, Dec. 1.-George Douglass, the negro who accidentally killed Albert Grayer at Snowden, Pa, i, mining hamlet near here, last spring, in attempting to murder another man with whom he had quarreled over a game of craps, was hanged in the county jail yard here this morning. The accused expressed sorrow for his crime.
 Crazed by the Luetgert Trial.
 DENVER, Col, Dec. 1.-John H.. Dame, until recently runner for the Western hotel, was locked up yester- day on charge of insanity. He read the testimony in the Luetgert murder trial at Chicago and becamed possessed of frenzy to kill his wife and two children and to burn their bodies in the old garbage crematory.
 4 Report Denied.
 WILMINGTON, N C., Dec. 1.-The re- port that Nathan Willis, colored, the murderer of young white man named Stephens, was burned at the stake by lynchers was not correct. He is safely lodged in the Horny county, $, C., jail at Conway.