Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1915-08-19
HAPPENINGS
of fbe sOeek
IN MISSOURI

Under the terms of the will Of John
Schmidt. of Springfield, a permanent
fund for the inmates OF the
Greene County almshouse is to be
established. Schmidt directed that
his estate, valued at 5000, be con-
verted into cash, the money deposited
In a bank and the interest used In
providing cheer for the paupers at
Christmas.
The proposition to vote on q 10
cent tax levy for the maintenance OF
electric lights in Mexico lacked forty
four votes at the recent special cleo
ton necessary to receive the two
thirds majority. There were 352 votes
polled for the levy and 244 against.
Isaac Markward, one of the wealth
lest men in Johnson County, was
found dead in bed the other morning.
Mr.. Markward was born in Shippens-
burg, Pa, in 1848. He came to War
rensburg in 1867 and until ten years
ago was engaged in the milling bust
ness.
A hospital at Springfield was dam
aged by a fire that completely de-
troyed the plant of the Greene Coun-
ty Lumber Company. The loss was
$4,000. A panic in the hospital was
prevented. A two-story brick build
ing occupied by a grocery store was
partly burned.
Coylgne, 12-year-old son Of G. W.
Long, a farmer near Altamont, died in
a hospital at st. Joseph from a rifle
wound. The boy was driving
mower and had the gun with him te
kill rabbits. The rifle fell and was
discharged.
Lee Doze, a ~17-year.old boy living
near Rich Hill was drowned while at
tempting to ford Mission Branch, Mint
miles east of Rich Hill. Young Doz'
was acting as substitute on a rura
route for his father, Frank Doze.
Mrs. Mel F. Henderson, Sc year
old, wife of an ex-sheriff OF Petit
County, Is dead at Sedalia after
long illness. She is survived by ne
husband and two sons.
Fount Goode, a wealthy farmer an
) bank director, was found dead I'd
; other morning in the barnyard OF n
I home, ten miles north of Cabool, wit
!, a bullet wound in his breast. II
son confessed at the coroners !
5 quest to having fired at his fathe
after having taken the part OF n
+ mother in a quarrel between u
, parents.
s Walter Burns, the 1~2-year-old 81
of Joseph Burns, a farmer near hi
ginsville, was found dead near b
home the other night. He had be-
i shot in the forehead. The boys p'
9 ents said the boy probably took
If rifle from the house and killed hi
= self. The rifle was found beside t
lg body.
i
" A. d. Huser, 83 years old, form
le market master and overseer n ii;
y nibal, was burned to death when
ne destroyed his home, four miles VIZ
p of Hannibal the other day. He We
il into the house to a v househt
goods. Huser had lived in that
cinity seventy years.
Lake Smith Of Kansas City, cond
tor on a switch train, was killed
Webb City when he fell through
b oe trap door of a gravel car under a m
s. ing train.
John ]. Kioeppel, SO years old.
Civil war veteran, is dead at LII
MS The funeral was held in st. Geors
Catholic church.
Mrs. Susan Struble, 50 years
is dead at Carthage, following a
%, in which her hip was broken. :
ar shock proved too much for her
TEN, weakened by old age.
=,
Ill Daniel Flemming and Roscoe
nings are dead and Claude Hender
badly hurt as a result of accidents
Gil other day in the Neck City mines 7
Carthage.
One hundred thousand walnut
stocks at the saw mill Of Frederick
Hayden in West Plains, burned
other night. The material was sa
into gun stock lengths and was
to a munition manufacturer at Bri
h port, Conn. The origin Of the fir
a mystery.
Col. D. G. Allen of Liberty. an
lne Confederate soldier, n of the oil
citizens Of Clay county, recently
'ys dressed the Old Mems Brotherhoo
Montgomery and the old settlers
'ei' union at New Florence.
ack r. 49, uooor+ loo, ont;on eIa,
6oI K~annatt remained dry nv n mat