Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1915-10-14

Nv IN t04RAOo1Oa q AN AOAAOUB VIM
back to investigate. Just as he
reached the spot the dynamite ex-
ploded.
j. S. Bowers, 6S years old, for many
years a merchant at Moberly, is dead.
He was a member of the Moberly
board Of education for t~wenty-eight
years. He is survived by his wife and
one son.
Ban Cunningham, 80 years old, a
coal miner, who lives four miles north
of Columbia, was killed recently
while unpacking dynamite at his home.
The house in which he lived was al
most demolished.
Charles E. Bailey, Civil War veter-
an, millionaire and for half a century
one of the most successful real estate
operators in st. Louis, died at his
home there the other night.
For a second time in a month, Mrs.
W. B. Hawkins, wife of the sheriff of
Pike county, has saved the life OF
Harrison Rose, a negro prisoner,
charged with murder. She parleyed
with a mob which invaded the Pike
county Jail at / o'clock in the morning
while the sheriff formed a posse of
citizens. Fifty men, some of them
armed, led by Speaker Champ Clark
of the national house of representa-
tives and his son, Bennett, arrived at
the Jail a few minutes after the mob
had fled.
The city council has designated NO
vember 9 as the date for the local
option election to be held in Moberly.
A petition bearing 461 signatures was
presented to the council asking that
a date be set for the election. Four
years ago the "wets" carried the city
by 800 votes.
The Butler and Rich Hill telephone
system, owned by Mrs. Henry Rein
hiemer, was sold the other day to
Henry Neuschaffer of Shelbina, for
merly manager of the local system.
Oliver Shiras, president Of an cleo
trical manufacturing company, was
killed recently in st. Louis in a col
lision between his automobile and an
other machine.
Mrs. Ida NJ. Hudson Of Chillicothe,
was chosen worthy grand matron OF
the grand chapter of Missouri of the
order of the Eastern Star at the re-
cent meeting in st. Louis.
Pryor Shelby, a faithful negro OF
the old type, is mourned by all Gin
ton. Whites as well as blacks sent
flowers to his funeral, which was at
tended by most of the town.
The hardships Of a Methodist circuit
rider were brought forcefully to the
attention Of the city ministers at
tending the st. Louis conference Of
the Methodist Episcopal Church
when a country preacher reported that
in the last two months he had re
ceived half a hog and a great many
eggs, but no money. He had sem
twelve dozen eggs to the district su
perintendent, he said. Another cir
cult rider said he had received $1S
in two months, and a third said he hat
received no money, but that his par
ishioners had promised to buy hin
a horse before winter and had enter
tanned him literally in their homes.
One hundred and t~wenty-three hea'
Of Hereford cattle brought $32,595 Ii
the sale Of C. B. Smith at Fayette tn,
other day. One bull brought $1,23
and n COW $500. The buyers repre-
scented eight states.
Timothy Clifford, retired, a pionee
farmer OF Pettis county, who has bee
blind several years, is dead. He wa
, 70 years old and a widower. One so
) and one daughter survive.
In the county jail at Huntsville
Sheriff Sam Magruder has in custod
a l~4-year-old boy wha has lost hi
. identity. The boy has forgotten hi
, name, the names of his parents an
: the name Of the town in which h
: lived. He was found on a farm Yves
= Of the city several days ago.
Emmanuel Graves, SO years old, {
!, Mound City, Kas., died Of apoplexy {
;, the Missouri Pacific Railway static
I in Butler. He had been in the en-
< ploy OF the railway company for man
years as bridge foreman
Formal notice OF an appeal from III
decision of the Judge and jury in Il
? circuit court as to the validity of II
{, will Of James Campbell, railway pr
moter, and to the ~parentage Of Mr.
, Lois Campbell Burkham, declared |
" the Jury to be the daughter Of Cam
bell, has been filed in st. Louis.
Thomas A. Gee, a deputy marsh
OF Hannibal, is dead. He was
T. years old and was a passenger co
! ducter on the Burlington Railroad b
q tween Kansas City and Quincy Z
= twenty-three years.