Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1914-12-24
HAPPENINGS
of tie eOeek
IN MISSOURI

When James Veach, a farmer who
lives six miles southwest Of Warrens-
burg, did not return from chopping
wood, Mrs. Veach sent two small chill
dren to the timber tract TO call him
home. They found their father crush-
ed beneath the weight of a tree he had
felled. He had been dead several
hours. He was 4S years old.
J. Major johnson, a widely known
lawyer and politician, is dead at
Brookield, after having been an in
valid nearly fourteen years.
Louis Quartee, jr., 5 years old. was
drowned while skating on the ice at
Summit pond, four miles south of
Lexington.
w. M. Cook, farm adviser of Green
county, Ohio, has Just been employed
as farm adviser for Carroll county.
Mr.. Cook will enter upon his duties
January /, 1915.
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A meeting Of the alumni was held
recently at William Jewell College to
plan a campaign to raise $150,000 for
the college. 1t is hoped $4,000 a year
may be raised the next three years.
An order for 100000 worth Of KNAPP
sacks has been placed with a large
garment factory in st. Louis by the
British government.
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Prof. Edwin G.. Beach, instructor or
violin in the Drury college conserva-
tory of music, died in a hospital at
Springfield of blood poisoning, start
ing from a slight scratch on his nose.
Prof. Beach was 80 years old. His
home was at Lincoln, Neb. He came
to Drury at the beginning of the pres
ent term.
Charles R. Luster, 81 years old, for
forty years engaged in newspaper
work in Missouri, is dead at his home
in Springfield of heart disease. He
was editor of the Brunswick MOI
News in 1870 and postmaster under
Harrison in 1891. He established the
Howell County News at West Plains
in 1895 and retired three years ago.
Judge Samuel Davis, in the Saline
County Circuit Court, has sustained
the demurrer to the second petition
in the case of the State of Missouri
ex rel. Attorney General John T., Bar
ker VS.. the Chicago & Alton Railroad
to recover excessive freight and pas
senger rates.
Matt Ford, marshal at Osborn, was
shot through the hand by a robber.
The man, who was attempting to enter
a store, was surprised by the marshal.
B~loodhounds from Chillicothe traced
the man to a ave east of town, but
lost the scent there. Marshal Ford
has killed two robbers during his serv-
ice In office.
Kansas City packing houses were
awarded the contracts for furnishing
the Fulton state hospital with meats
and kindred products for the next
year.
P. H. Murphy, a native of Kentucky,
twenty-nine years employed at the
Missouri Pacific shops in Sedalia,
died at the company hospital in st.
Louis recently. He was 76 years old.
Burns received by Raymond Darby,
two-yearold son of Professor Ray
mond Darby, principal of the Aldrich
high school, when he fell into a pail
of scalding swill, caused the child's
death the next morning.
The united training conference for
leaders in religious work was in ses-
sion at Sedalia recently under the
auspices of the Y. M. G. A.. state CONF
mittee.
Eugene Talley and Alfred Vandyke
were killed when more than 5000
pounds Of nitro-glycerin in the separa-
tor of the Hercules Powder Company.
three miles southwest of Carthage, ex-
ploded. Fred Kent, another employee,
was injured but will recover.
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o. Welsh, a miner, was fatally I'M
jured the other day by falling slate at
the Cohuila mine, southwest Of Car
thage.
Thomas B. Kilcul1on, execution
clerk in the office of the sheriff OF
st. Louis, gave bond to answer to an
indictment charging him with the en-
bezzlement of $4,000 from the sheriff's
office. Kilcu1lon is alleged to have
taken fees from certain estates ham
died by the sheriff's office.
Frisco passenger train No. 8, from
st. Louis, was wrecked two miles
north Of Joplin recently. The bag
gage and mail cars and one coach
turned over and rolled down the em-
bankment. The chair car and Sleep
ing cars and engine remained on the
track. Several persons were injured.
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The Trenton lodge Of Elks held it's
annual memorial services in the First
Baptist church recently. Four hun
dred members and friends attended.
Hugh G. Smith Of Kansas City, former
assistant United States attorney, de-
livered the memorial address.
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Ewing G. Bland, Judge of the South
Side Municipal court, at Kansas City.