Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1915-03-25
HAPPENINGS
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At a conference of citizens, mem
bers Of the city council and stockhold-
ers of the haywood Hospital Associa-
ton. the latter submitted a proposition
to provide a charity hospital for Sc
dalia by offering the haywood, valued
at $4,000, as a gift to the city as a
memorial to Mrs. A. D. Jaynes, widow
Of a Sedalia man who was treasurer
of the Missouri, Kansas & Texas
Railway Company. The gift is made
provisional that citizens subscribe
$4,000 for an annex. John Homer
Boutwell, offered $4,000 to carry out
the plans proposed.
Miss Bette Huston, SO years old, a
member of a wealthy pioneer family
of Saline County, was drowned in a
bathtub at her home in Marshall. She
is thought to have been taken i'll in
the bathroom and fallen into the tub.
Mrs. Mary Huston, her mother, found
her body in the tub.
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Eli Penter, so years old, a pioneer
citizen of Boone County, died recently
in a hospital at Columbia. He vas an
editor, lawyer, politician and educator,
and held three degrees from the Uni
versity of Missouri.
r. M. Bresnehen, postmaster at
Brookfield, and his office force moved
into the new federal building the other
day. The building cost $4,000 and
has every modern convenience for the
rapid handling Of the mails.
Jilson P. Harrison, 81 years old, for
many years a stockman of Galloway
county, is dead at his home near Col
wood. Among those who survive is
a son, Harry Harrison of Kansas City.
Mrs. John d. Crawford, widow of ex-
Mayor Crawford of Sedalia, has sold
the Green Springs farm of four hun
dred acres, three miles from Sedalia,
to j. A. Stamper of st. Joseph, for
$36, 900.
F. M. Douglas, a farmer, convicted
at his first trial and sentenced to ten
years in the p~enitentiary, was acquit-
ted of a charge Of murder by a jury
in the circuit court at Alton recently.
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The bodies of Albert Beeks and wife,
with bullet holes in their heads, were
recently found in their apartments at.
Marysville. The couple was known to
have quarreled and it is supposed
Beeks murdered his wife and commit
ted suicide.
The State Historical Society Of Mis-
souri, has come to the aid of the War
rensburg Normal School by sending a
shipment Of official documents and
historical works on Missouri to take
the. place of those destroyed in the
recent fire.
The City Hotel and two other build
ings at Bunceton were destroyed by
fire recently. Guests at the hotel
escaped. A defective fiue is believed
to have caused the fire. The loss is.
SIS 900.
A warrant was issued recently for
the arrest Of Fred wilkins in connec-
ton with the death of Allen M. Walk
err, former mayor and a colonel on the
staff Of Governor Major Of Missouri.
Mrs. Emmett Hickman, wife Of a.
farmer near Pineville, is the mother
of triplets, all boys, born a few days
ago. The mother is doing well and the
babies are thriving.
Announcement was made at Bonnie
Terre that all the lead mines in st.
Francois County would resume opera
tions on full time at once. Forty-ive
hundred employees will be affected.
J.. F. Baldwin and Norman F. Her
ring, attendants at State Hospital No.
2 in st. Joseph, were found guilty of
the killing of Joshua Wallace, Febru-
airy Z, an insane patient, the jury re-
turning a verdict of guilty Of man
slaughter in the fourth degree. Judge
Ryan sentenced Herring to two years
Imprisonment in the penitentiary and
fined Baldwin $500.
Mary Williams, 4-year-old daughter
Of Mrs. Griff Williams, was burned to
death at Bevier while she and her lit
tie brother were playing near the
stove with kerosene.
Capt. Aaron B. Hall, SO years old,
for more than 60 years in charge OF
steamboats, on the Mississippi river
, and an intimate friend Of Mark Twain,
, died recently in st. Louis.
Elmer Lowe, 20, was killed at Car
thage when he slipped while working
at the mouth Of a mining shaft and
: fell ninety feet to the bottom.
Q William Nichols, 81 years old, who
a lived in Boone County all his life, ia
|, dead at his home, six miles northwest
of Columbia.
The old QuarIes mansion at Colum'
bia, built seventy years ago, at which
a Senator William Joel Stone Of Mis-
g souri, and Judge H. Guice Of the Louis
. lana superior court boarded when they
9 we're students at the University o.
Missouri, is being razed to make way
for a modern building.
\ Casper s. Yost has been appointed