Iron County register., 1915-03-04
HAPPENINGS
of fbe sOeek
IN MISSOURI

| IN MISSOURI /
The Rev. Michael ]. Martin, S. j.,
professor Of moral philosophy at ST.
Louis university. is dead of heart dis
ease. He was born in 1876 in Ireland,
where he was educated for the priest
hood. He was a bishop coadjutor
when he left Ireland to come to Amer
lea. In this country he entered the
Jesuit order.
The first fatal baseball accident of
the year occurred at st. Louis when
Harry Gosz, II years old, was struck
in the side by pitched ball and died
a minute later The boys were play
ing on a corner lot, Gosz at first base.
By way of practice the catcher threw
the ball to Gosz and caught him off
guard.
More than six hundred men will be
put back to work on the governments
improvement of the Missouri river
within the next few days. Bids will be
advertised for early in March for ed
ditional revetment construction that
will mean jobs for a thousand more
men.
One hundred and fifty miners en-
ployed in the Oronogo camp, six miles
west of Carthage, went on strike
after being refused raise in wages.
They demanded a bonus of rs cents
a shift instead of 81 for six shifts. The
strike is the second since the price Of
jack advanced to $78 ton.
DR.. Thomas G. Doolin, 2S years old,
of Ash Grove, was killed when he at
tempted to catch a Kansas City
Southern passenger train at Ash
Grove. He missed the step on the
rear coach as the train was leaving
the station. His neck was broken in
the fall
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Resolutions have been adopted by
the Neosho Ad Club expressing the
clubs belief in the need of a state
league of ad clubs and asking the
other clubs of the state to meet in
Columbia during journalism week, the
first week in May, to further consider
the matter.
Mrs. Louisa Shackelford, 98 years
near Marshall recently. Mrs. Shackel-
ford was a pioneer of Saline county.
The suit brought by st. Joseph a
year ago to have the franchise of the
St. Joseph Gas Company annulled, has
been decided against the city by Cir.
cult Judge Mayer. The city contend
ed that the gas company forfeited its
franchise when it undertook the dis
tribution of natural gas. The object
was to force the company into new
contract whereby the rate for such
manufactured gas as might be sup
piled would be less than one dollar a
thousand feet, the price permitted un-
der the existing franchise.
When Harry Craig, Ia years old,
left the home of his uncle, Isaac Gle
ment, in Maco, west of Carthage, to
become wanderer, he left fortune
of 100000 behind him. A short time
after the boy disappeared word came
that he was one of FIVE benefciaries
named in the will of his grandfather,
who died in Pennsylvania, and left
property worth 100000
H. r. Sinclair, president of the Sin
clair Coal Company of Springfield,
Aurora, Webb City and Joplin, was
found dead in his bed at Aurora the
other morning. Apoplexy was the
cause of death. Mr.. Sinclair was AZ
years old.
The Missouri Equal suffrage Associ-
alton is to start the publication March
Ia of paper devoted to the interest
of woman suffrage. Mrs. Emily New
ell Blair of Carthage will be the editor.
An explosion in the Atlas coal mine,
nine miles northwest of Rich Hill, re-
suited in the death of five miners.
The dead are: Thomas r. Watson, 50
years old; Fred Schultz, 80 years old;
William Breen, % years old; Frank
Rhody, "A years old; George Cart
wright, 25 years old
Three men, who recently held up
the cashier and robbed bank at
Duenweg, q mining town four miles
east of Joplin, obtaining s1,S00, within
four hours had confessed according
to officials, waived preliminary trial
and were held for trial in the circuit
court.
Frank James died at the old Sam
uels home, three miles from Kearney,
the other day, following final stroke
Of apoplexy, He was 70 years old. He
had been i'll all winter, suffering a
first stroke last November.
Harry, the 10-year-old son of e. w
Kelly, living ten miles west of Rich
Hill, accidentally shot and killed his
brother Earl, 13 years old, while the
two boys we're hunting the other day,