Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1914-07-16


Happenings of Interest
throughout
MISSOURI
HANklBALs-Lucy Yung is the sec
ond Chinese baby to be born in Han
nibal. Her little sister Mary, now 10
months old, was the first child of ORR
entail ~parentage to be born in this city,
Her father, Yung Suey, is connected
with a Chinese laundry.
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cENTRALIA.--Rev. Charles Merry
Swift and Miss Doris Srews, both Of
Centralia, were married in Columbia
at the home of Rev. M. A. Hart, who
performed the ceremony. The bride
is a former student at the University
of Missouri.
observation-disclosures Luke Jones,
one of the oldest men on the Wabash
in train service, was killed at Renick,
six miles southeast of Moberly, when
the front cylinder head on engine
256, pulling passenger train 10, blew
out.
JEFFERSON clTY.--As a reward
for saving the life of a baby, Gov.
Major pardoned William Schultz, SEN
fenced in st. Louis in 1910 to serve 10
years in the penitentiary for murder.
Schultz saved an infant from a burn
ing house.
JEFFERSON CITY. - Citizenship
has been restored to the Rev. Clyde
Cow by Gov. Major. In 1911 he was
sentenced to four years in the peni.
Tertiary for the death of a girl at Els
berry, Mo-, who died, it was said, as
the result of an operation.
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WASHINGTON, D. c.-Congress
has favored several Missouri towns
with appropriations for public bHlild-
ings for postoffices. The list follows:
Butler, $4,000; Lebanon, $500; Lib
erty, $500; Mountain Grove, $500;
Unionville, $4,000.
SPRlNGFiELD Petitions signed
by several hundred Springfield citi-
zens were forwarded to the president
and Congressman Hamilton in Wash
ington asking for an extension of the
mail delivery service to the outlying
districts.
SPRlNGFiELD.-E. Y. Mitchell, a
widely known politician, who was de-
feated for Democratic national COM
mitteeman from Missouri, filed suit.
for $4,000 damages against o. T.
Hamilton, an attorney, and Robert
Eckberg, alleging libel.
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SPRlNGFIELD.-The Missouri code
commission met today to hear argu-
ments by judges and attorneys Of
southwest Missouri on the proposed
amendment to the state constitution
to merge the appellate courts with
the supreme court.
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PERTLE SPRINGs.-Rey. H. M.
Hobbs of Kansas City, in an address
to the Epworth Leaguers here,
claimed that that organization had
materially aided in keeping up the
works of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, South.
MONTGOMERY CITY. - Albert
Vogt, "A years old, jeweier, was over
come by heat and died. Vogt had
been a jeweler in this city more than
SO years, coming here from Switzer-
land. He left a wife and seven chill
dren.
SPRlNGFlELD.-Several hundred
letters have been stolen from lock
boxes at the South Size postal sta
ton. Three hundred charred letters
were found in an alley near the sta
ton, presumably those stolen from
the boxes.
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ST. JoSEPH.-An entire family Of
seven persons was chloroformed by
burglars who later ransacked the
house and escaped with small loot.
The enterprising gentry overlooked
$500 hidden in a mattress.
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JEFFERSON clTY.-O. A. Tucker.
a st. Louis roofing contractor, was
held up by two men and robbed Of
$35. The robbery occurred within d
block and a half of the business sec
ton. The robber left no clue for the
authorities to work on.
JEFFERSON cITY.-A new fea-
ture Of Missouri's good roads DAYS
this year will be an invitation to the
tier of counties in Kansas bordering
on this state to take part, that the
benefits may be mutual.
CENTRAL!A.-Elder Charless H.
Swift, pastor of the First Congrega-
tional Church of Centralia, had 500
pounds of ice put into the baptistry Of
the ediice and set half a dozen cleo
trio fans to work to cool the room.
The result was satisfactory.
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ST. LouIs.-Fifty-eight thousand
little fishes, Matched in Sylvan Lake,
Forest park, were taken on a railroad
excursion personally conducted by
Phillip Kopplin and dumped into the