Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1915-07-22

young Douglas county farmer, in g
hospital at Springfield. His condi
ton Is serious. Fairbanks was shot
from ambush when he went to his
barn to investigate a noise.
A Chicago & Alton fast freight from
Kansas City to Chicago, went into d
ditch one mile west of Marshall, pill
ing up thirty-one cars of oil and three
cars of cattle. Several cars of oil
were burst open and many cattle were
killed and injured.
Frank T. Doan, SO years old, a
pioneer resident of Liberty and a
storekeeper and gauger in the employ
Of the government, is dead at his
home there. The funeral was held at
the residence.
Philip B. Marshall, 40 years old,
said to be the oldest rural mail carrier
in the United States in point of serv.
ice, died suddenly at his home in Lex.
ington, recently. He entered the
service July IA, 1899.
While driving a herd Of cattle from
D~unksburg to Emma, a small town
four miles east Of Concordia, in a
thunder storm, lightning struck down
Louis Porter, son of D. S. Porter, A.
Beir and Ernest Lee, who were in
charge of the herd. Porter and Beir
were killed, while Lee was revived
by a physician. The horses the men
rode when they were struck were also
killed.
The body of Leonard North, so
years old, a farmer living neal Nash
vile, Mo-. was found in a shallow pool
of water on the North farm recently.
The water was only six inches deep.
Apparently he was stricken by apo
plexy and drowned.
The breaking of a dixie, which pro-
tected the town from the Tarkio river
and rain almost reaching the proper
lions of a ~cloudburst, recently forced
many of the inhabitants of Corning to
flee to the hills for safety.
A strike of nearly 5000 miners
which began at Joplin two weeks ago
ended the other day when every mine
in the district resumed operations.
There was no settlement, the men SIM
ply went back to the mines and asked
for their places at the old wage scale.
Fire which started in a confection-
cry store at Stockton destroyed the
south half of the west side of the
public square, causing a loss estimat-
ed at $4,000. The Cedar county sur
veyor's records, including valuable re-
ports Of the county court, we're de-
stroyed.
Two men we're killed and two others
seriously injured when an automobile
plunged headon into a street car at
st. Louis. The dead are Monte Chris
to Thorning, a wealthy real estate
dealer, and Edwin Raband.
The new Excelsior Springs motor
fire truck, purchased recently for
$4,000, was given a reception on it's
arrival in the city. The town band
acted as escort in a parade through
the business section.
The resignation of O'Neill Ryan as
dean of the law school of st. Louis
University and the appointment Of
Paul Blackwell as his successor were
announced in st. Louis recently.
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By a vote of 1853 to 40 the striking
miners of Webb City voted to resume
work under conditions prevailing at
the time the strike vas called, two
weeks ago. Mines in that district
have opened on full time.
Frank Brown, who lives eight miles
southwest of Rich Hill, has an old
mother cat who is raising a litter OF
kittens in the forks of a tree fifteen
feet from the ground. The cat took
to the tree in the high water last
month and as yet has shown no in
clination to bring her family to the
ground.
The sixth victim Of pellagra, in the
last sixty days died at Springfield the
other night. The latest victim of the
dreaded disease was Andrew B. Kirk,
"a years old. Five Of the six victims
Of the disease were white men and one
was a negro woman.
The Duroc-Jersey hog is coming
into his own in Missouri and the man
agement of the Missouri State Fair
and the Duroc-Jersey Breeders Asso-
citation have joined in arranging a
Duroc futurity that will open with $405
as the purse offered.
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During an electrical storm near
Rich Hill, leila, the ~14-yearold daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. William Watson,
living four miles south of that city
was killed by a bolt of lightning.
The Henry County Court has award
ed the contract for a 15O-foot bridge
over Grand River neal Clinton to the
Canton Bridge Company. This bridge
is on the Usage Valley Highway now
being built from Kansas City to
Springfield. The bridge must be COM
pleted by November next.
In attempting to- learn something of
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