Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1913-10-02
Domestic Items.

D0meSt1c Items.
Two robbers with drawn revolvers
entered jewelry store at Grand Rap
ids, Mich, commanding the clerks to
throw up their hands and when they
refused, opening fire. John A.
Thompson and Ed Smith fell dead
. and Paul Townsend was probably ia
tally wiunded. The bandits escaped.
AS the last section of the big mill
tary parade of the Perry Centennial
celebration at Cleveland, O., was pass
ing, an improvised balcony outside a
Chinese restaurant collapsed and fell
on the crowd ON the sidewalk below.
killing one man and severely injur-
ing three other men and two little
: girls.
Inspector Fauret of New York, who
arrested Hans Schmidt, priest, who
later confessed to having murdered
Anna Aumuller and cast her body
piece by piece into the Hudson river.
arrived at police headquarters. hav-
ing in custody DR.. A. E. Muret, den
ltist of 301 st. Nicholas avenue, and
his housekeeper, Bertha zeck. Doctor
Muret is being held on technical
charge of counterfeiting, and the
woman as material witness.
Max Lille, aviator, was killed in a
flight at the Galesburg district fair.
Lilies biplane was overturned by a
gust Of wind when several hundred
feet in the air and the aviator hurled
10 the ground with the machine af-
ter him. He died within a few sec
onds after spectators reached him.
The accident occurred before several
thousand persons.
Gentleman" Roger Thompson, the
chauffeur who, drove Harry K Thaw
away from Matteawan, has been set
at liberty at Sherbrooke, Can The
crown authorities said they had no
evidence to offer against him.
With the arrest at New York OF
the Rev. Hans Schmidt, assistant rec
tor of St. Joseph's Roman Catholic
church, charged with the murder OF
Anna Aumuller, domestic, the mys.
terry surrounding the finding, twelve
days ago Of parts ofsthe dismembered
body Of girl in the Hudson river
was solved. Schmidt. according to the
police reports, has confessed.
A stumble, with his pockets filled
with dynamite, is believed to have
caused the death of Eric Hanson, IS
years old, near Lester Park, Mimi
Fragments of his body were recovered
from among the stumps which he had
been blasting.
While an amusement park at Horse
shoe Lake, near East st. Louis, Ill.
was being destroyed by fire, a crowd
OF belated Sunday night jewellers
moved about from one building to an
other and danced in the glare of the
flames from the pavilion they had just
deserted.
A quarter million dollar corporation
is being formed in St. Louis, 1t is said
to take over practically all the under
taking and livery establishments In
the city.
The United States army transpor
Logan, which has just arrived at SaI
francisco from Manila, reports en-
countering a hurricane September 2
three days before arriving at Homo
lulu. In the storm officers and mem
bers of the crew were dashed to thei
posts.
In hand-to-hand combat with
crazed negro AIMED with an ak, which
occurred in the garage of his resi-
dence in Baltimore, Charles G. Guth
president of the Guth Chocolate com
pany, shot and mortallY wounded hi
assailant.
The trial Of Governor sulzer Of Ne,
York, charged with ehigh crimes an
misdemeanors'' has begun in Alban
before the high court of Impeachment
composed of a majority of the stat
senate and q majority Of the court O
appeals.
Senator Brady of Idaho, presiden
OF the Trans Mississippi Commerce.
Congress, announces that the twent,
fourth annual session of the congres
which was to have been held at Wicl
itaa Kan, October Fl, has been pos
Doned until next year.