Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1915-12-02

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old motherless girl, who was attacked,
starved. whipped and worked almost
to death on a farm neal Netherlands,
is lowering between life and death
at her home in st. Louis, but physi-
clans said that even should she live
her mind probably would be impaired
permanently as a result Of the fortunes
to which she was subjected during the
past few months.
The headquarters Of the Baptist
church in Missouri will be moved
from st. Louis to Kansas City Janu-
airy /. From there all the mission
airy, educational and p~hilanthropic
work Of the church in the state VIII
be carried on under the direction or
Rev. Joseph P. Jacobs, who has been.
given the title Of general secretary.
Utah capitalists have purchased the
Lucky Tiger and Black Hawk mines
in the Neck City camp, eight miles
west of Carthage, for s150,Oeo. The
new owners have taken possession
and are working the ground. There
is a 250-ton mill at each mine.
A marriage license was issued at
Sedalia recently to James Proator OF
Sedalia, II, and Martha E. Burchfield
of Kansas City. SO years old.
James Sheridan, 70 years old, o
farmer living near Amazonia, was In
stantly killed, and his wife, sc years
old, suffered the fracture of both legs
when their team ran away at st. 10
seph. The woman is not expected to-
live.
Two sons, 8 and A years old, or
Oscar Dudley, a negro. were burned
to death recently at Aux Vase when
the Dudley home was destroyed by
fire. The parents had put the chill
dren to bed and gone to a revival
meeting.
The year old son Of Mr.. and Mrs.
j. C. Brumwell Of Golden Grove, near
Lamar, was burned to death the other
morning. The parents and two other
children were some distance from the
house burning brush when the trag--
edy occurred.
Henry T. Smith, 80 years old, fore
man at the quarry where stone for
the new capitol is being obtained, was
killed the other day when a Cotton
slab toppled over, crushing him to-
death.
C. R. Morris, former publisher Of
the Houstonian at Houstonia, reports
that Leslie Gray, living near there,
raised an average of 100 bushels or
corn to the acre on eight acres of
Heath's creek bottom land.
Walter H. Askew, right tackle on
the football team of the Rolla School
of mines, met instantaneous death
when an automobile in which he was.
riding with friends at st. Louis ca
reened and his head struck a tree
Approximately a quarter million gal
Ions OF crude petroleum which had
leaked out Of a pipeline running from
Oklahoma to the Standard Oil COM
pany refinery in Wood River, ILL.,, were
burned in Machens, Mo-, near st.
Louis. A spark from a passing rail-
|, road engine is believed to have set
fire to the oil.
Anderson Sherman, a negro, said to
be 106 years old, died at Plattsburg
the other day. Sherman was brought
: to P%lattsburg as a slave before the
: Civil war. He had lived there ever
since.
More than 20 per cent of the hogs
, In the vicinity Of Lincoln, Benton
. county, have died the past few weeks
N of cholera.
William Stamper, living north OF
Platte City, grew 300 bushels of corn
. On 2.S9 acres. This averages nearly
!. I04 bushels to the acre and is perhaps
3 record for that county.
James Sherman Botsford, for thirty
six years an attorney in Kansas City
and United States district attorney
for Western Missouri under appoint
9 ment from President Grant, is deat
n at his home in Kansas City.
William R. Reynolds, So years old
is dead at his hume in Bevier. MI
e Reynolds was an officer Of the Law
there for twenty-five years, constable
l. deputy sheriff and policeman.
a. President Wright, for ten years 81
pervisor of the Missouri School 70
the Deaf. committed suicide by shooi
ing himself at Fulton recently. Mi
Wright was 80 years old and we
known in Masonic circles.
4 A 5-year-old son Of George Cam
= bell, a farmer living northeast Of p
q don, while playing In the yard tn
: other day, fell into a tub Of water an
was drowned.
The Missouri Conference for Socii
Welfare held its sixteenth annual col
ference at Marshall recently. Officer
elected were: w. N. Wilson, Marshal
president; ]. L. Wagner, Columbi'
= secretary. The next meeting will !
. in Columbia in November. 1916.
Fielding J. Graham of Albany,
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