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Newspaper
Madison Weekly Herald
Location
Madison, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1913
Page
5
A Massachusetts court awarded a man damages for losing a $15 weekly job, a novel measure in jurisprudence. The piece argues employment defines dignity, sustains families, and anchors civilization, contending fifty dollars undervalues a job and stressing labor as a sacred right.
Mary Kulasa, 24, rose from bed in a southern Philadelphia home and fatally slashed her two infant daughters with a long butcher knife while her husband slept. She later suffered a hysterical breakdown at the police station and claimed religious motives for the killings.
A well dressed woman, Eleanore Muchmore, sat in the Cincinnati hospital asking to sell her body to some doctor after death to buy fine clothes. Clerk Mr. Walsh explained the idea could not be entertained, and the woman appeared disappointed by the rejection.
Columbus Indiana May 9 jury finds Jufus Clark guilty of murdering the aged McQuaid brothers last October in Jennings county and sentences him to life imprisonment. The prisoner showed no emotion at the verdict.
Washington May 9 officials state examiners dispute the Friedmann tuberculosis cure citing lack of justified confidence. The board delivered its formal assessment amid public attention and professional scrutiny from surgeons and physicians.
The Senate today received the Underwood tariff bill passed by the House. Various schedules were referred to subcommittees for consideration amid closed-door talks. Three weeks are set for committee deliberations followed by six weeks of floor discussion.
Five former police inspectors Dennia Sweeney John Murth James F Thompson and James Hussey were found guilty of obstructing justice and given maximum sentences of one year and five hundred dollars each They accepted punishment without appeal District Attorney Whitman will drop remaining indictments charging extortion and bribery
National guardsmen raided the Star newspaper plant in Huntington West Virginia and arrested editors W J Thompson W H Gillespie and filmer Rumble for publishing an attack on Governor Hatfield regarding his coal strike actions.
Sixty automobiles owned by fashionable South Side residents were destroyed in a morning garage fire. The total loss is placed at a quarter of a million dollars.
Maude Carpenter sixteen accuses August Bessler of Brooklyn New York of kidnapping after luring her from Hoopes ton Illinois to Indianapolis under threats of death and keeping her for a week on North Capitol Avenue. Federal authorities may pursue under the white slave law after Bessler was arrested at Newcastle and brought here. He says he intended to marry her and did not threaten her life.
Fifty thousand dollars loss reported as the unoccupied Oak Lea mansion at Barrow was burned by suffragists. Earlier plots to attack Premier Asquith and Ford Winston Churchill were halted by police soldiers and detectives. An inner circle of militants called young hot bloods, composed of unmarried women, is said to be willing to die for the cause and to use hunger strikes.
Evelyn Nesbit Thaw arrived on the steamship Olympic and declared with emphasis that Harry Thaw is the father of her baby and that the child resembles him and will be treated justly by Thaw’s relatives. Thaw denies paternity.
Indiana National Guard units will compete in tugs of war wall scaling baseball and track events during the annual Ft Benjamin Harrison encampment. Briga dier-General George W McCoy announced the ten day event set for July 21 to July 30 at Indianapolis.
Adrian Moore a Columbus blacksmith broke local horseshoeing records by nailing and dressing sixteen shoes in sixteen minutes on a five dollar wager Wednesday afternoon.
New York based Stefansson announces a four year Arctic expedition to study blond Eskimos and gather data on the vast uncharted region between Bering Strait and the North Pole. The crew of fourteen to fifteen will include Dr Ro Mo Anderson and Captain CLT Pedersen with base on Victoria Island. The Teddy Bear may aid in establishing a base and studying metals and tribes.
Sir Cecil Arthur Spring-Rice the new British ambassador to the United States arrives in New York aboard the Carmania accompanied by secretary D G Osborne. He is greeted by British and American officials and plans to bring his family to Washington later. The ambassador, Irish by descent and born 1859, is described as approachable and democratic with linguistic fluency in several languages. He was best man at Theodore Roosevelt and Edith Carow's London wedding in 1886.
The undersigned appointed by the Circuit Court of Jefferson County Indiana as Administratrix of the estate of Henry G Martch deceased. Naid estate presumed conver t Mamie R B Martch April 21 0 Administratrix Curtis Marshall Atty Maytw3t
Clerk of the Circuit Court announces administration of the estate of James H Burton late of Jefferson County deceased. The estate is sole vent. Claude A Burton is named Administrator of Madison Indiana with attorney P F Bear. Date May 6 1913.
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