Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1915-02-04

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tered the office, pointed a revolver at
the head Of the young woman cashier.
seized a box containing seyenty.iVe
pay envelopes and escaped in a rig
ne had left at the curb. He obtained
more than $1,000. Several suspects
have been arrested by the police.
George and Noah Trusty, aged is
and Z. years, were instantly killed and
their father, Joseph Trusty, was per
haps fatally injured when the boiler
in a sawmill operated by Trusty at
Beverly, blew up. The force Of the
explosion was so great that the
bodies of the two boys were literally
blown to pieces.
Miss Martha Cole, a young teacher
of Montgomery, died and was buried
there recently. Her death was the
third in the Cole family within a short
time. First the mother, then the
father, James Cole, died.
ANlut DCIbOuS WGIO lnJu4Ch lAANS
critically, in a head-on collision Of
two motor cars. The most severely
injured are Harry w. Alverson. st.
James, Mo-; Nolan v. Turner, so, and
Vernon Turner, his son, 10 years old.
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On account Of the illness of Pit
man Smith, the Wabash attorney, the
rate cases filed at Montgomery by
c. W. White against the Wabash rail-
road were continued until February.
The collapse of a two-story luilding,
on the second floor of which a carload
of -four had been stored, started one
of the worst fires Warrensburg has
ing. The building was occupied by A.
Spiess, grocer, and, the flames break
ing out in it, spread quickly to Doc
Inns grocery, Hickman's clothing
store and Montgomery & Golay's drug
store, in the same block on West Pine
street, The loss on buildings and mer-
~chandise is estimated at 100000. The
work cf the firemen was hindered by
the intense cold and the water thrown
On the Buildings froze in sheets as 1t
fell.
At a special meeting Of the city
council at Lees Summit, for the pur-
pose of acting on three city dramshop
licenses the council refused and de
ferred further action, awaiting the de-
eision of the supreme court.
The circuit court of appeals for the
Eighth district has no power, the fed
eral supreme court, decided recently,
to establish a ~receivership in Dallas
county, to levy and collect special
taxes to meet a Judgment Of $235,00O
against the county in favor of David
Yost on a county bond issue for rail
road building in 1871. Yost alleged
in the lower court that county officials
had refused to make the levy and the
supreme court was asked to deter
mines6e power uf the cfrcrit co
Mrs. H. s. Potter of Palmyra died
recently. She was the wife of H. S.
Potter, formerly judge of the county
court,
Jitney auto bus service has been
i~naugurated in Joplin. Routes trav-
eled by street cars are followed by
most of the automobiles. One com
pany plans to operate bus lines be-
tween Joplin and nearby towns that
are not connected with the city by
trolley.
An unsuccessful attempt was made
recently to rob the Miners bank at
CRANKY, a small town in Newton coun-
ty. Two robbers, while preparing to
blow the safe, were frightened away.
They abandoned a kit Of burglars
tools.
During the past week many horses
in Bates county have been stricken
with an epidemic which closely re-
sembles blind staggers. Several farm
ers have suffered heavy losses.
Charles Goode, west OF Amsterdam,
having lost seven in the past few
days. AS yet no cause has been de-
termined and only a very few cases
have been cured. Before dying the
horse becomes mad, as with hydro
! phobia, and it is very dangerous to
be around the stricken animal. Bates
county has been n OF the heaviest
losers in hog cholera.
B. w. Specie is dead at Carthage.
He was IS years old and came here
shortly after the war, He formerly
was a merchant and was active in
politics.
The hull Of a hazel nut caused the
death recently Of John Stillwell, 10
years old, the son Of James Stillwell,
a farmer who lives between Oak
Grove and Grain Valley in Jackson
county. The boy died Of pneumonia
caused by a hull that went to Of
his lungs when he was eating nuts.
Something went wrong with the
plans of the -drys' at Excelsior
Springs. Everything went right for
the ewets." When the votes were
counted in the local option election
after the polls closed it was found
that Excelsior Springs had voted
wet. by thirty-six ballots out Of APP
proximately a thousand.
John NJ. Blanchard, aged 81 years.
is dead at his home in Centralia after
a weeks illness with pneumonia. He
had resided there about thirty-iy0