Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1912-09-12

of his arrival in New York on
September 2. He says he is going
to Coney Island and down on the
aboard WALK at Atlantic City and
then he will come home.-PopIar
Bluff Citizen Democrat.
Michael Costello, an old resi-
dent, died at his home, near Ho-
gan, Sunday afternoon at five
o'clock, after an illness of several
months. The deceased was a ma
tive of Galway County, Ireland,
and was aged 70 years and 5
months. In his early days he was
quite a rover and visited many diff
ferent parts of the world. Nearly
forty years he had lived in Iron
county. The funeral occurred
from the Convent Chapel, Area
dia, Tuesday morning and inter-
ment was made in the Catholic
cemetery at Pilot Knob. Genial,
jovial, entertaining Mike! He was
a character, and philosopher, too.
Peace to his ashesl
While on the Heights a few days
ago | had the pleasure of meeting
Mr.. and Mrs. James A. London.
They occupy a bungalow which is
a model for structures of that
kind-roomy, airy and made at
tractive by porches of comfortable
proportions. No glazed. windows
shut out the pure air of the mount
ain, though they are screened
against insect intruders. Mr.. Lon
don told me that though they slept
where the air currents had free
play, he nor Mrs. London had con-
tracted a "cold." A daughter, an
invalid who had tried the climates
of New Mexico and Colorado, is
with them, and has received more
benefit from our Ozark ozone than
from her sojourns in the States
above named. The family will re-
main on the Heights until toward
the end of October.
Many readers of this paper will
be interested in the following,
which is taken from the Stevens
Vile, Montana Register of August
20: SIT was with real pleasure
that local members of the South
ern Methodist church heard that
the Rev. p. D. Hartman was to be
returned to the Stevensville charge
for another year. His manly, un-
assuming Christianity has made
him one or the most popular min
listers who ever labored in Stevens
Vile, and his able sermons have
increased to a large extent the at
tendance of his church. In one
years time the Rev. Mr.. Hartman
and his estimable wife have done
much for the cause which they
profess. 1t goes without saying
that they>will be even more sue
cessful in the future than they
have been in the past"
The motion for a new trial in the
case of James Shrum, who was
found guilty of murder in the first
degree for the killing of mont Hall
at Iron Mountain lake On June IA
and whose punishment was fixed
at death by a jury week before
last, was denied by Judge Huck
on last Saturday and the death
sentence shortly afterward was
pronounced. The date of execu-
ton was fixed at Oct. 18th. An
appeal motion was Immediately
afterward filed and granted to the
Supreme Court and a stay of execu-
ton granted pending the action of
the higher court which will likely
be at least a year. In the mean
time Shrum will be doing time
on the lifetime sentence in the
penitentiary imposed upon him a
few days before the sentence for
the murder of Gentry Gibson, also
at Iron Mountain Lake on June
IA. Shrum was taken to Jefferson
City on Tuesday along with a
number. of other prisoners. In the
appeal, a reversal was asked on a
number of grounds, the principal
ones of which were the refusal Of
an instruction for murder in the
second degree and the admission
of testimony about both murders
in the trial of each charge. The
attorneys for the defense now ad-
nit that if a reversal of the trial is
granted or executive clemency ex-
tended that the death punishment
will supersede the life sentence,
although no similar case has been
determined by the courts .-Fdrm-
ington NeaUs.
The REGISTER told last week of
the burglarizing OF the Lopez store
on the night of August Goth. An
other attempt was made to bur-
glarize the place early Saturday
morning last. About one o'clock
in the morning Louis Schach and
Fred Erbe, who sleep in the store,
we're aroused by a noise that they
at first thought was the gnawing
of rats. They listened for a min
ute or two and then became con-
vinced it was some one trying to
get in the store. The noise came
from the back part of the house
and quietly they made their way
to q window in the rear of the Sec
i ond story into the building. Peer
: ing into the darkness they could
} not discern anything, but could
i plainly hear the noise Of some one
boring a hole in one Of the doors
below. MI. Schach fred a revolv'
: er and the would-b burglars-it
I is thought there were two of them
hurried away. An investigation
h afterwards revealed that holes had
: first been bored in the door on the
+ first door-the same door through