Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-07-11

s17. 500 in Glasgow, $50, 900 in Hanni
bal, $4,000 in Joplin, $55, 900 in Jefer
Sol City, $54,27O in Kirkwood, S42,o0t
In Louisiana, $4,000 in Mexico, S11,
300 in Marshall, $4,000 in in Mexico
$4,000 in Moberly, $2S,500 in Poplar
Bluff, $4,000 in Sedalia, $14,1S6 il
Slater, S12,400 in Springfield and $3.50,
BOO in ST. Joseph. The largest SUI.
paid on the life of one individual dur
ing the year was $115,45S upon the
life of Mr.. Charles Hodgman, of St
Louis. The sum of S14,23s was pait
on the life of Mr.. John A. Gallagher
late state g%eologist.
Trouble in a MiIIiOnaire's Family
Mrs. Ida o. Helm has been granted
millionaire brewer and park proprie
tor of Kansas City. She was awarded
$4,000 cash alimony, and $3.50 {
month for five years. Mabel, thu
oldest child, aged 16, was allowed tx
make her own choice of parents, anG
Joseph, aged ten, was given into thu
custody of his mother until he is 10
when he goes under the control Of
his father.
Maniac's Crime.
Edward McKonkey, a young farmer
Of athletic build and good education
heat, while at farm work, in Gentry
county, and, armed with a club. as
saulted the first persons he met, Johr
Bryant, a neighbor, and his son, /;
youth of IS years. He beat them &c
death. When the lives of both were
extinct, the mailman drew a revolver
and blew out his own brains.
Hanged for Wife Murder.
Ernest Reid was hanged at Carthage
for wife murder. Twice he had n re
prieve granted, and an effort was
made to secure Communication of the
sentence to life Imprisonment, but
Gov. Dockery refused to grant it.
Mad Means, but Lived in squaIOr.
Mrs. Messine McMurray died at the
city hospital in st. Louis. She was
found sick in a squalid room. WheI
her room was examined 1856 in bills
some jewelry and a trunk full of rich
attire was found.
Old Man Found Dead.
Andrew Barnes, aged 81, was found
dead on his form in the Grand river
bottoms, near Chillicothe. 1t is sup
posed he dropped dead of heart fail.
ure, while fighting a fire, which Mas
burning his hay.
scaToId Gave Way.
While watching a fireworks display
at Braymer, Caldwell county, a dozen
people, sitting on a scaffold, were pre-.
cipitated to the ground, and C. ID
Owen, a merchant, was perhaps fatal
iy injured.
Methodist Corner stone Laid.
The cornerstone of the new Ohio
street NJ. E. church, at Butler, was
laid by Rev. w. A. Quayle, D. D., Oh
indianapolis, Ind. 1t will be a line
structure.
Suicide By Fire.
Mrs. Josie Grehan, separted from
her husband, committed suicide.a St.
Louis, by saturating her clothes with
gasoline and then setting fire to
them.
Fell On q Picket.
Forrest Riffenberg, six years old
while playing on IL roof, at ST. Jo'
seph, fell and was impaled on q
picket. He was partly disemboweled
Fire at Hannibal.
The dry goods stock of Wilson &
Son and the millinery stock or Hart
& Mcclure, at Hannibal, were dam
aged by fire. Loss, SIP 900; insured.
Shot by a Hfghwayman.
A. H. Prize, secretary and treasurer
of a ST. Lonis manufacturing com
pany, was held Ii pand fatally shot
at Ferguson. st. Louis county.
Preacher In a Shirt Waist.
Rev. James n. Crutcher. of the
Compton Heights Christian church
st. Louis. preached to his congrega
ton, attired in a shirt waist.
Drowned at q summer Resort.
Harry a. Dawes, of St. Louis, was
drowned while bathing in the Mis-
sissippi near Piasa Bluffs, ILL.,, a sum
mer resort north of ST. Louis.
Married aT seventy-Two.
Kenny Vest and Mary Mossman, o.
Bolton, Cass county, were married a
Kansas City. Both the contracting
parties are 72 years of age.
Died On q Train.
way with his family to a summer re
sort in Virginia. died from heat on /,
train near Mattoon, Ill.
Fire at Polo.
The business part of Polo, Caldwell
county, was almost completely wipet
out by fire; loss, about. $4,000.