Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1915-12-23
HAPPENINGS
of fbe sOesk
IN MISSOURI


Francis Marion Coekrell, thirty
years a United States senator from
Missouri, died recently in Washington
of heart trouble. The body was taken
to Warrensburg. No, the old Cock
rell home. About two years ago Sen
ator Cockrell suffered a eve at
tack of Indigestion, from which he
apparently was recovering, although
he was extremely weak. The other
morning he was propped up in his
big chair at the Buckingham hotel
He had read the morning papers and
was eating a light breakfast when he
fell back in the chair dead. Senator
Cockrell was 81 years old october l.
He was elected to the senate in 1875
and retired in 1905, when the Re-
publican landslide for Roosevelt swept
the state.
Clifford Burfield, 8 years old, was
crushed to death when his clothes
caught in a driven shaft in the flour
mill at Blodgett. He went to the
mill to go home with his father, A..
Burfield, fireman at the mill. While
playing around the machinery his
clothes caught in the shaft.
Washington county, which has not
sheltered a saloon the last ten years.
voted to continue in a local option
election the other day. The election
was occasioned by the umor that a
saloon was to be established near
Irondale. The vote was approximate
ly $50 for prohibition and $50 against,
w. G.. Rathbone, an officer of the
Missouri grand lodge of the Knights
of Pythias, announced that st. Louis
had been chosen for the sessions of
the grand lodge in 1916. The meet
ing will convene on the third Tues
day in May and continue for three
days.
William Cash, a farmer ten miles
northeast of Brookfield, was run
down and killed on a railroad cross
ing in Brookfield early the other
morning.
Drury College will receive $12,500
for its endowment fund from the es-
tate of the late David M. Noe, who
died in Springfield recently
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Lafayette county voted on local op-
ton recently outside of Lexington and
HigginsYille. Five thousand votes
were cast. The drys cast 2,4S3 and
the vets 2,517, giving the county to-
the vets by ~thirty-four votes. The,
drys probably will contest the cleo
ton. They assert that forty men EN-
ployed on government work or the
river e Waverly voted illegally and
that nearly one hundred votes cast in
Lexington precinct are in question.
Winfield Scott, 68, a farmer living.
near Burdett, in the northwest sec
ton of Bates county, wal found dead
after a search by his children. Scott
left home early in the day to attend
a sick neighbor, and in going through
a hog lot he was stricken with heart
disease.
Judge Nathan M. Shelton, who has.
occupied the bench Of the second III
dicial circuit since 1898, announced
his retirement at the conclusion of hiF
term in 1916.
A steam shovel, being used to loa4
a wagon at st. Louis, was opened to%
soon and dumped half a ton of clay
on John Medley, a teamster. When
workmen dug Medley out they found
he had been smothered to death.
David M. Noe, II years old, a pio-
neer Of Springfield, died in a hospitaE
there recently. He was a stockhold-
er in the McGregor-Noe Hardware,
Company and was wealthy.
Soon after he had returned from
q visit to his brother in a hospital in
st. Joseph, Richard Gerard, IS years
old, fell on a stick at his home in Ma
10y, Ia, and was killed.
G. Pitman Smith, 81 years old, at
torney for the Wabash Railway Com
lpany for many year and a promi-
nent lawyer of Northeast Missouri, is
dead at his home in Montgomery. Mr..
Smith was an active Democrat and
a personal friend OF Speaker Champ
Clark. He represented st. Louis
county in the legislature in 1877, but.
had been a resident of that city for
about thirty years.
At a banquet given by the minis
terial alliance at st. Joseph the an
nouncement was made that two or
CARNATIONS of the Methodist Episco-
pal and Southern Methodist ministers
Of the city had been merged under
the name Of Methodist Alliance.
The women OF the University OF
Missouri have started a movement to-
induce the next Legislature to appro-
pirate funds for the erection Of a wom-
EMS building at the university.
Thirty-three men accused Of partici-
patton in the so-called night rider dep
relations were bound over to the
grand jury following their preliminary