Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1915-05-20

Because he did not visit the stein
room every two hours and because
he was said to have performed a Ger
tain part Of his work in less than the
allotted time, Max Lehman, a brew
cry worker of st. Louis, was fined by
the Brewery Workers Union and on
refusing to pay the fine was suspend
ed from the union and subsequently
lost his job.
Frank H. Werries, a mining promo
ter of Kansas City, who shot and
killed Andrew Wilson. his brother-in-
law, on the depot platform at Lexing-
ton Junction February 9, has been &C
quilted by a jury at Richmond. The
jury found that Werries shot in self.
defense.
Cecil A. Webster, an instructor in
the Missouri college of agriculture
left recently for his home at Dundas
Ontario, Canada, where he will enlist
in a company of Canadian university
graduates for service in the European
war.
The jitney business in Columbia
started two months ago, has increased
to such an extent that the promoters
announced they would put a fourth
car in operation.
Lorenzo Volente, 10-year-old son OF
an Italian grocer, was kidnapped at
st. Louis and is being held for $5,0Oe
ransom. A letter sent to the boys
parents by his captors said they were
on the way 10 Chicago with the boy,
and warned the parents that the boy
would be killed if the police were put
on their trail.
Word was received at Springfield re
Gently of the death at Olvey, Ark, Of
Col. Daniel N, Fulbright, who was the
first white child born in Green coun-
ty, Mo. He was IS years old.
The Liberia peach district of south
ern Missouri will produce the biggest
crop in years this season, according to
Paul Evans, director of the missouri
fruit experiment station at Mountain
Grove. He has made a careful investi-
cation Of the orchards on the state
farm and those in the adjoining 0
ties, and finds that the young peaches
are clinging to the trees in greater
proportion than in many years.
-
Preceded by a float bearing banners
with the words 80 long, Martin, hurry
back" more than a hundred students
Of the School OF Journalism of the Uni
versity OF Missouri escorted Prot.
Frank l. Martin to the train recently
as he departed for Toxic, Japan, to
become editor Of the Japan Advertiser
County officials of Howell and Ozark
counties have refused to recommend a
parole for Ben Richardson, who lie
serving a life term in the Missouri
p~enitentiary for the murder Of JaileI
Alfred Henry in West Plains on Janus
!. AIRY IT, 1900.
Oliver s.. Miller, county clerk Of
Texas county, is dead at his home
|, in Houston. He was a school teacher
!. for several years.
Miners working in properties pro
ducing high grade ores have received
a raise Of rs cents a day as a result
t Of the high price of jack. The raise
affects 1000 men employed in the
Webb City and Carterville camps. and
If ore continues to sell at a SITS basis
the Increase in wages will be made
general over the entire Joplin district,
:, which means that several thousand
e miners will get more pay.
8 Henry Kune, for many years a bust.
" ness man of Montgomery county, ia
! dead at his home in Wellsville. He
r was rs years old.
Prof. Samuel A. Gregg, a widely
n known musician Of Sedalia, is dead
$ at San Francisco, where he and his
6 wife had been visiting several months.
9 He was about 60 years old.
q ]. Frank Ottofy, attorney for the
II relatives Of James Campbell, who lost
r their suit to set aside the Campbell
will, said he will not ask for a new
trial or file an appeal.
Y A motor bus, carrying twenty-one
2 passengers, has begun making regu
!, lar runs between Carthage and Jas
!. per, a distance Of fifteen miles. The
= car, besides carrying passengers. con
= tains space for considerable freight.
7 Company A Of the University o.
~ Missouri Cadet corps won a loving
cup offered for the best drilled com
Z pany. Reed Bailey Of Oregon is cap
: tain. Major Andrew Moses OF thu
!. regular army inspected the cadets.
I. w. H. Paris, for many years a cal
= penter and contractor of Sedalia, VIII
= was at workias usual, is dead Of hear
~ trouble. He was 70 years old. HI
is survived by a widow and daughter
.
y s. J.. Fenton, vice president and ser
~ rotary OF the Panama Mining Com
- pany, caught his clothes in a flywhee
y in the engine room at the company
concentrating plant neal Joplin twl
- weeks ago and was injured. Late
- he was caught by the same flywhee
and killed. Mr.. Fenton's home wa
!. in Kansas City, where he has a wifi