Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1913-12-04
Domestic Items.

Domestic Items.
When the personal damage suit of
DIR. H. H. Temple against the Union
Pacific railway and Pullman Company
was called for it's fourth trial in the
federal court, Kansas City, the at
torneys announced compromise.
Doctor Temple settled for $500. The
suit was for $4,000 Doctor Temple
was on a Union Pacific train near
Ellis, Kan, August 20, 1910, when a
fellow passenger became crazed and
began to shoot. Temple was wounded.
With no one present save himself
and his victim, DR.. w. T. Elan, a
prominent physician and surgeon of
ST. Joseph, Mo-, crazed over the al
legged attentions of the man to Mrs.
Elan, shot and killed William P.
Cramer of $500 Lake avenue, Chicago,
in Cramer's room at the Hotel Balti-
more in Kansas City. Cramer was a
travelling representative for Every
body's magazine.
Fifteen hundred Navajo Indians
allied in defense of eight comrades
and are reported In armed encamp-
ment on Beautiful Mountain, thirty
five miles southwest of the Shiprock
Agency, New Mexico, defying United
States Marshal Hudspeth to arrest
the renegades, who are wanted on
federal warrants charging horse steal
ing, assault and bigamy.
Found wandering on the streets of
New York drunk, 4-year-old Sarah
Keefe is dying at Bellevue of alco-
holism. Her mother is charged with
neglect.
Unnoticed by passersby, or by
neighbors on each side and on the
floor above, Nathan Smason, Jewish
pawnbroker, q years old, was beaten
to death with a stonemason's hammer
about noon in his store in Kansas
City, Kan. Diamonds and jewelry
worth $4,000 which had been locked
in his safe, were carried away.
A bowl of soup, served cold, started
an argument in restaurant in st.
Louis which resulted in the killing of
one man, probably fatal injury to four
others and the arrest of half dozen
uninjured participants in the general
fight which ensued.
Mrs. Ida Somerville, so years old, is
dead at Parkersburg, W. Va, as the
result of a peculiar accident. She
fell asleep with lead pencil in her
hand. Her mead dropped on the table
and the pencil pierced her throat.
The strike Of operating employees
of the Southern Pacific lines in Texas
and Louisiana was ended when the
railroad yielded to demands of the
men to meet federated committee of
the four unions in the controversy.
The men were ordered to resume
work Immediately.
The body Of woman and a man,
dangerously wounded, were found in
hotel room at Toledo, o. Both had
been shot through the head. The
couple registered as James E. Griffith
and wife of Elsberry, Mo.
Nine miners are known to have been
Killed and at least dozen others
were missing as the result of an ex-
plosion in the Alabama Fuel and Iron
Company's mine No. 2. near Acton,
Ala Five men have been taken out
of the mine alive by rescue crews.
Clement Thatcher, a postal clerk
who was hailed as hero last FeD-
ruary when he discovered a fire in an
apartment house in Chicago and awak.
ened the tenants, was arrested, sus-
pected Of having set fires in four
apartment houses.
The Supreme Court of New Jersey
has set aside the act of 1911 providing
for the sterilization of epileptics, the
feeble minded, criminals and other de-
fectives. A test case was instituted
in the court before the law was car
ried into effect.