Iron County register., 1915-04-01
HAPPENINGS
of the sOeek
IN MISSOURI

cabees, was UNANIMOUSLY re-eieCeeu a.
the state encampment in Columbia
w A. Hail of st. Louis was elected
lieutenant commander; S. S. McMas- =
ters of St. Louis, grand record keep
ar. ] F. sanderson, Huntsville, grand
chaplain, and DR.. o. S. Whitley, Weon
City. grand medical examiner,
After he had been mourned as dead
for fifty.two years, John Wesley
Franse, Civil war veteran, has been
found living in small town near Los
Angeles, Calf, according to letter
received by relatives in st. Louis
Mr.. Franse was found by his sister,
Mrs. William H. Marvin, of KirkWood,
local suburb.
Ten men, arrested at Sikeston at ths
organization meeting of a. night rlo-
ers' association, were bound over to
the grand jury and were placed in
Jail at Benton to await the action OIL
the jury. Two other prisoners we're
released on bond.
The effort to merge five Pettis coun-
ty rural school school districts at
Hughesville and surrounding vicinity
into one high school district, was de-
feated recently, the vote being l47 TO
80. This is the second defeat for the
proposition.
Earl Ray, while hunting on a farm
/ two and one-half miles south OF k1ch-
mond the other afternoon, killed an
eagle.
Loving Mitchell, negro, was ar
rested at St. Louis on a warrant
charging him with the murder OF w
e. Dawson, a sexton, his wife, and
their daughter, Georgia, 13 years old,
at Monmouth, Ill, the night OF sep
4 tember 80, 1911. The three were slain
in their beds by blows from an ak
e. T. Hodges who recently sold the
\ Cole Camp Courier, Benton county,
has purchased of Houston Harte, the
Knobnoster Gem, Johnson county, and
is now in charge.
The first fatal motor accident in
Sedalia occurred when John Shafer,
head of the Shafer Transfer and Stor-
age Company, was crushed to death.
Shafer occupied seven-passenger car
with Fred Ross. At jog in the street
he lost control Of his machine, which
crashed into telegraph pole. Ross
Jumped from the machine and re-
ceived only slight bruises.
! Fred d. wilkins, charged with the
I murder of Col Alien M. Walker, for
mer mayor of Louisiana was bound
over to the circuit court for trial by
Justice of the Peace w. ]. Hufty OF
Bowling Green, before whom he was
given preliminary. hearing. His
( bond was fixed at $4,000.
:. Edward Christy, "a years old, a
: switchman employed by the Wabash
!. railroad, was killed in the railroad
n yards at Mobefly recently. He fell
b under an engine, His widow and a
son survive him.
o The coughing Of dentists patient
e while the dentist is bending over the
:. patient to perform his work is purely
an accident. and If germs are commu'
nicated from the patient to the dentlst
by the cough and the dentist becomes
j infected and dies, then the beneficiary
= Of the dentists accident insurance pol
q icy may collect the insurance. jury
a in Judge Seehorn's division of the cir
v cult court of Jackson county made TINS
+ deduction in awarding Mrs. Ollie p
r Merrick of Kansas City, 6,742 against
r the Travellers Insurance Company.
: Joy Listrom of Park College wor
the first prize of $40 in the state intet
collegiate prohibition oratorical con
test. G. v. Price of William Jewel
won second prize, $40; Allison Reppy
Missouri University, third, S10
-
p A consolidation of the Peoples Banl
= Of Springfield and the Bank of Spring
- field has been effected at meeting
- of the boards of directors Of the tw'
- banks The merged institution re
tains the name of the Peoples Banl
Of Springfield. The Bank Of Spring
field was organized in 1882 and wa
one of the Oldest in Green county.
10
Wy William H. Swift, who was secre
CT tary Of the Democratic state commit
VI tee of Missouri from 1868 to 1876 an
Il. who was owner of the St. Louis Stat
al Journal, which discontinued publicf
tion in 1861, is dead at his home i
St Louis. He was SO years old. Sine
1871 he had been in the contractin
a. business.
" Captain Henry King, who recentl
y retired as managing editor of the s
" Louis Globe-Democrat, is dead at th
~ home of his daughter in that city.
An old fashioned class scrap frol
which score emerged with blooq
W noses and discolored eyes enlivent
~ ~ the annual st. Patrick's Day celebr
" tion of the engineering students OF u
sp- University of Missouri. The fight WI
W between the traditional campus en-
mics the law students and the e
gineers.
q
In John F. Johnson, for many yea
ep- prominent in politics at st. Joseph
ew dead. He was So years old. He serv'
lde two terms as city comptroller and ol