Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-01-24
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Bette Walker, an unsophisticated
girl of Reeves Station, Tenn, came to
st. Louis in response to an adver-
tisement. She met a man who said
that he was connected with an emu
ployment agency and who promised
to obtain for her a permanent posi-
ton that would pay her $40 a week.
She intrusted her money, amounting
to SIS, to him and he disappeared. At
ter she had been turned put of the
cheap clearinghouse to which he
had directed her, she made her way
across the river. Mayor Stephens of
East ST. Louis gave her tr~ansporta-
ton to Cairo and a note to the off,
Gals there asking them to help heK
ON her way home.
EntangIed On the Skating.
One of the most shocking accidents
that ever occurred in the Joplin min
ing district resulted in the death of
Edward Ping, a jig man at b Silent
Friend mine, near Galena, Kas. He
was up and above the crusher oiling
the shafting when his coat got caught
in the machinery and he was hurled
around with great froce, and before
the machinery could be stopped his
body was terribly mangled, his skull
crushed and nearly every bone in his
body was boken. Ping was 25 years
old and leaves a young wife residing
at Galena.
Sued the Pullman Palace Car Co.
Eluro-l n Do-,oro- o-l IS1 ~-saa
Frances S. Cameron, filed suit at ST.
Louis through their attorney, Arthur
B. Shepley, against the Pullman Pal
ace Car Co, for $500 each because
they were forced to vacate a state
room in one of the company's cars,
leaving San Francisco for st. Louis,
by a conductor of the train, who
claimed that another passenger had
tickets for the apartment.
Annual ticket to BE Abolished.
At a meeting of the st. Louis As.
ISOLATION OF General Passenger Agents
it was decided to abolish the sale of
annual Communication tickets over the
st. Louis bridge and through the tun-
mel. The Terminal association will be
notified of this action on the part of
the lines using the bridge and tun.
mel.
Death of Cashier Lewis Chapman.
Lewis A. Chapman, cashier of the
National Bank of Pierce City, died
of stomach trouble, aged so years. He
had been cashier of the bank since it's
organization, in 1895. He was a prom
s-a.& Noe0D a.J will ha h,1rSal 1nlar
the auspices of that order.
Death of DIR. n. Nj. BOnham.
DR.. N. NJ. Bonham, a pioneer ply
sician of Missouri, is dead at New
Franklin. DR.. Bonham was an or
dained minister, preaching gratuitous-
ly more or less all his life. He had a
wide circle of friends and relatives
in the west and southwest.
Suicide of William Ruth.
VIII Ruth, 10 years old, committed
suicide by shooting himself in the
breast with a shotgun at Arnica. He
and Jim Tennis had trouble over a
horse and Tennis had him arrested,
but before the trial was called he
took his life.
Child ScaIded to Death.
The 11-months-old Sol of Mr.. and
Mrs. John Vaughn, of ST. Louis, died
from the effects of burns sustained by
accidentally upsetting a kettle Of
scalding water upon itself, frightfully
burning its head and body.
Smallpox at Canton.
Seven families have been quaran-
tined at Canton on account of small
pox. All the public schools and
churches are closed, and every pre-
caution is being taken to keep the
disease from spreading.
Stabbing ARRAY at Butler.
George Delp and John Copeland,
| two well-to-do citizens of Butler, be-
came involved in a dispute. Cope
land stabbed Delp in the back with
a knife several times, and the latter
is in a critical condition.
wu Ting Fang in ST. Louis.
WI Ting Fang, Chinese minister to
the United States, visited st. Louis
and addressed the Commercial club
on Commercial Relations With Chi
ma He remained in the city three
days.
Killed By q Policeman.
Frank Kester, aged 40 years, was
shot and killed at his home in Kansas
City by Policeman Silas Shumate,
whom he attempted 20 assault. He
left a wife and three children.
Cattle Man Missing.
Andrew Clark, a cattle man of
Wheaton, Kas., came to Kansas City
last November with a shipment of
hogs and cattle, and has not been
seen ince.
ecure $1,000.
Three men robbed A. n. Goodman's
store at Ardeala of $1,000 in cash and
papers. Frank Foster, the village
Waterman, was shot by the robbers.
Recent Deaths
Judge Daniel P. Stratton, an old
pioneer of Cedar county, aged 81.
Preacher Charged With Theft.
Rev. R.. F. Solden, a travelling
preacher, was arrested at Boston,
near Lamar, on the charge of theft Of