Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1915-08-26

a charge of perjury. Miss Sharp, who
is now Mrs. Naef, claimed title to the
land through a deed which it vas
alleged, had been executed in her
favor by a Miss Ginther, the sole heir
of Adam Ginther, who entered the
land in controversy in 1853. The bomb
exploded when the notary, a young
woman of Cairo, before whom the
deed vas executed, was called as q
witness. She identified Mrs. Naef as
the person representing herself as
Miss GiLther who made the deed to
Maggie Sharp. 1t was at this juncture
that the Court ordered Mrs. Naef's
arrest. Failing to fill a $500 bond she
was taken to the Poplar Bluff jail to
await a preliminary hearing which is
set August 24.-Greenville Sun.
Mr.. E. II. Amelung, Mrs. Amelung,
their SONS Carl, Edward, Jr., and
Richard, Arthur Hamilton, and Mrs.
Amelung's sister, Miss Ocie Cook,
arrived at Pilot Knob from Indianapo-
lis, Indiana, Tuesday evening of last
week, having made the trip in Mr..
Amelung's fine car, a Cole. Mr..
Amelung tells us that in Indiana the
roads are fine but through Illinois
bad. They left Indianapolis Sunday
morning, spent that night at Filing
ham, Illinois, and the second night at
st. Louis. Ed. Amelung is one of the
Pilot Knob boys who have made good.
He is now Superintendent of the
Prudential Life Insurance Agency at
Indianapolis, one of the most i'm
portant districts in the country and
has about fifty men under him. He
has been with the Prudential eighteen
years and stands high in the estima-
ton of his employers. They will
probably start on the return trip
Saturday, going to st. Louis by auto
mobile, then load on a boat for Cairo
and up the Ohio river to Louisville,
thence by motor home. Mr.. Anne
lungs mother will accompany them
as far as Festus, Mo, where she will
spend the winter with her daughter.
Our Annapolis correspondent, "Bul-
%letin,n writes of the heavy rains last
week as follows: "After two nights
and days of steady rain Big Greek was
some higher last week fhan it was in
1902, and much damage has resulted.
1t is said that fifteen miles of the rail-
road track between Mill Springs and
Poplar Bluff is gone. Sam Moss, Yes
ter Hackworth and Ed Rumberg and
families had to wade out from their
quarters early Friday morning; but
luckily the water did not quite get in
to their houses, but was from knee to
waist deep in their yards. Gardens
we're much damaged. The water got
into w. III. Dunn's blacksmith shop
and washed away about sixteen feet
from the north side. His anvil and
some wagon material were foated
outside; his gasoline engine was dam
aged. Mrs. Lou T. Pennington was
heavy loser of fencing and hay anc
sugar cane. Gus Funk's corn and
other crops are damaged about $500,
and it will take 5000 to replace his
fencing. Chas. E. Bolch's loss is, al
least, 81, 000-Tdamage to crops anc
fences. 1t swept his Black river farm
clean and he has a crew of men over
there to-day building fence; he alst
has a crew at work on the John Grow
ley farm, near Des Arc, in which hi
has controlling interest. The rail
! road was not washed out here, bu'
the riprap was taken away and some
of the block system poles WASHED
down. Our roads are ruined and thu
ford at the mouth of Richland CreeE
is twelve feet deep"