The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-09-25
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c6urtship of him within two weeks
after the death of his first wife. and
that her love turned to hate soon af-
ter their marriage, Adolph H. Role
today filed suit in the district court
asking a divorce from Nellie Role,
304 Leland street. Role says that be-
fore their marriage the woman would
come to the Rock Island news stand,
where he was employed, almost every
night and remain until midnight, and
that she used every art and cunning
device known to her sex, to get him
to marry her. He said she was very
kind and eonsiderate following the
wedding ceremony until she induced
him to purchase the property at 3o4
Leland, after which she pursued a
course of studied insult toward him,
remaining away from home without
explanation and compelling him to
wait on his meals. He asks that she
be restored TO her maiden name, Nellie
Simons, that his title to his property
be confirmed and that she be given
the household goods.
Charging that he had been dis
charged without cause and without
hearing, Dan w. Richmond. late. Sat
urday flied a petition in the federal
court asking sA0,250 damages from
the Brotherhood of Railway & Steam
ship Clerks. Freight Handlers. Ex-
press s. Station Employees, by whom
he was formerly employed as an or
ganizer. Richmond, himself mem
Der of Albuquerque local. said he be-
gan work September Is, 1918, on
salary of $3.50 month and expenses
and that he was discharged May 10.
1919, without explanation. He as
serts that by reason of his discharge
his health has been impaired, that he
has been unable to find his usual line
of employment and that he has suf-
fered disgrace, He asks for 10.250
which he says is the amount of wages
he would have received to the present
time, and also $4,000 punitive dam
ages, Thomas "A. Horn, financial see=
rotary of Wilson lodge No. e2s, Fe-
peka, also is made a defendant in tAa
suit.
A suit to collect $4,000 from the s.
e. Lux Jr., Mercantile company. of
Topeka, was filed in the district court
today by the Columbia Fruit Canning
company of Astoria. Ore. The amount
is claimed due for 1900 cases eff
blaekberries shipped to Topeka Janu-
airy 81, 1922, The Lux company re-
fused payment on the ground that the
price was wrong, it was said.
Mrs. Amelia Neal Burns, 122 West
Sixth avenue, was granted a divorce
iN the district court Saturday from
JAMES Henry Neal. of 0skaloesa, and
=
daughter. The three boys, all minors,
Were given into the custody of their
father, Mrs. Burns charged her hus-
band with extreme cruelty and failure
to support her. -v..s
Mrs. Lulu Traynor was granted a
divorce in the district court Saturday
afternoon from Lee Traynar, and
awarded the custody of their minor
child,
A, L, Rodgers, 1894 Quincy street,
reported to the police the theft of his
Nash touring car Sunday night,
The report that a man. half drunk,
was holding a crowd or people at the
point Of a Revolver outside the Metros
pelitan pool hall, 4es Kansas avenue,
sent car load of policemen to the
scene Sunday afternoon. They had no
trouble in, finding their man. Taking
his gun away from him, they put him
in the car and started for the police
station. When we'll away from the
scene of the excitement, the man ex-
planned that he was Horace Adams
deputixed to catch a man who had
burglarized his home recently He
said he had the man cornered in the
crowd and was holding him there at
the point of his revolver while some
one went to telephone the police. The
back to look for the alleged burglar
but he had escaped.
A suit asking an injunction to pre-
vent the Topeka Dessicating works
near Thornton and North Jefferson
streets, from operating under present
conditions, was filed IN the district
court late Saturday by the Topeka
Flour Mills company and several res
idents of that section of town. They
a hn font -feavla nx,j
which the dessicating works are being
operated is a violation OF the city or
dinance,. which makes it unlawful to
allow offensive smoke, gas or doors to
escape from the plant.
A narrow escape from serious in
jury was experienced Sunday after
noon by five persons when a Ford
sedan, driven by Mrs. Charles Kilmer,
went over 20-foot embankment on
mile south of the Calhoun bluffs in
the vicinity of the Granville road 1t
was said that not a glass in the car
was broken and that outside of a
shaking up, no one was injured. In
the car with Mrs. Kilmer were her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. w. r. Lott,
and her two children. Ben and Lott
Kilmer.
RACK johnson, negro, was in a
serious cOnOlllOn To-Day as the result
of injuries he received when the Paige
car in which he was riding, driven
by James Kennedy, negro, crashed
into bridge on the East Sixth ave-
nue. road about two and one-half miles
east of Topeka. The bridge was be-
ing repaired. The car sideswiped the
railing of the bridge. which crushed
in the side of the car. johnson was
sitting on that side of the rear seat
and was struck by the railing and the
side of the car as it was crushed in, it |
was said. There were five other negro
men and women in the car. but all |
escaped with minor bruises, it was
said. Kennedy is reported to have
been driving at high speed.
GREGORY To MANAGE IZZIES
Frank Isbell Names New Pilot To Sue
coed Joe Berger.