Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-01-24

suffering a great deal with the in
jury. S. A. Lee, ST., of Piedmont,
who is a brother-in-law of Cap
tain Leeper, visited him Monday,
being accompanied by DR.. j. N.
Holmes.-Piedmont Banner.
VIM. Spaugh's case is now in
the United States Supreme Court,
and it will probably be several
weeks before that body will pass
on it. Spaugh's attorneys last
week got out a writ of habeas cor
pus returnable before Judge Fink
lenberg, of st. Louis, District
Judge of the Federal Court. Judge
Finklenberg denied the writ and
the cast was appealed to the
United States Supreme Court. 1t
is not thought that Spaugh's at
torneys will accomplish anything
in the federal court-only delay.
Chas. j. Newman spent a few
days the past week with his. par
ents in Ironton. Charlie is now
with the R. G. Maxwell Advertise
ing Company, of Trenton, New
Jersey, He is travelling, and his
headquarters are anywhere from
Atlantic to the Pacific, the Lakes
to the Gulf. Charlie, we have no
doubt, is the t'best travelled" boy
that ever left our town. In the
past ten years he has travelled all
over the United States, not once,
but many times, and is more or
less familiar with every town of
any size in the Union. And he's
one of the best boys our town ever
turned out.
Last Saturday night about ii
o'clock as Prof. Mcdonald, who
has charge of the Caledonia school,
was returning to his boarding
house from a social at Thomas
Goodykoontz and while passing
the college was shot in the back
with the contents of both barrels
of a double Darrell shotgun loaded
with b. b. shot. The wounded
man was carried into the home of
Ralph Bean and a physician hur-
riedly summoned, who pronounced
his injury quite serious, probably
fatal. He was later removed to
his boarding house at Ben Sin
clair's. There is no clue as to
who did the shooting, or the cause.
-BelLeUieW Bonner.
We understand that there is on
file in the Governors Office in
Jefferson City a letter from one J..
Fl. Dunlap, Of st. Francois county,
which is by no means compli-
mentary to the people of this
county, asking the Governor to
commute the sentence of Bill
Spaugh. Dunlap is said to be the
Superintendent of the Pennington
school. We ear hardly UNDER
stand why a man occupying such
a position, and pretending to be a
good citizen, could afford to take
such a stand, and we are of the
opinion that he is laboring under
a false impression; has been i'm
posed on by some one. We shall
endeavor to get a copy of the let
ter and will refer thereto in the
future.
W. T. O'Neal and family left
last week for Frankclay, in st.
Francois county, where they will
make their future home, Mr..
O'Neal and son, Godfrey, being
engaged in the merchandise BUSH
ness at that place. In the past
twelve years we've had much to do
with Mr.. O'Neal. We've seen him
tried under all sorts of conditions,
and we want to say right here that
in all ourlife we have never known
a truer man, more loyal friend,
than Bill O'Neal. In his depart
ure Iron county loses a good citi-
zen and faithful official and the
Democratic party is deprived of
the labors of one of it's most tire
less workers. We wish Mr.. O'Neal
and his family health and pros
perity in their new home.
Last Wednesday a woman, with
a babe in her arms, got off the
midnight train here, thinking she
was at Williamsville. About the
time the train pulled out she
realized that she had made a mis-
take and began to ask questions.
1t seems that the unfortunate wo-
man had spent all her money for
railroad fare and expected to be
met at Williamsville by her
friends. Some stranger, who had
gotten off the train here, heard her
story and promptly supplied her
with funds sufficient to pay her
board here until another train
came along, as well to pay her
fare to Williamsville. That's
what we call the act OF a Christian
gentleman. We have been unable
to learn the gentleman's name, but
understand his business here was
to pay a visit to Senator Burton.
Ben R. Billings, the mail clerk,
is we'll known in Ironton. The
following, taken from a recent
issue of a Kansas City paper, tells
how MI. Billings prevented a
wreck on his train: "The pres
ence of mind of Ben Billings of st.
Louis, mail clerk in charge on
Missouri Pacific passenger train
No. 1. prevented the train from 60
ing into the Missouri river near
Bonnet's Mill, Mo-, yesterday.
The railroad tracks run near the