Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1915-03-18
HAPPENINGS
THE sOeek
IN o


]. F. Baldwin and Norman F. Her
ring, attendants at State Hospital No
2 in st. Joseph, were found guilty Of
the killing of Joshua Wallace, Fehru-
airy Z, an insane patient, the jury re-
turning a verdict of guilty Of a
slaughter in the fourth degree. Judge
Ryan sentenced Herring to two years
Imprisonment in the penitentiary and
fined Baldwin $500.
Announcement was made at Bonnie
Terre that all the lead mines in st.
Francois County would resume opera
tions on full time at once. Forgive
hundred employees will be affected.
Mary Williams, 4-year-old daughter
Of Mrs. Grif Williams, was burned to
death at Bevier while she and her lit
tie brother were playing near the
stove with kerosene.
Capt. Aaron B. Hall, SO years old,
for more than so years in charge of
steamboats, on the Mississippi river
and an intimate friend Of Mark Twain,
died recently in st. Louis.
At an informal meeting of the Com
mercial Club it was decided Windsor
would make an effort to get the legis-
lature to move the state normal
school site from Warrensburg to
Windsor. As an inducement, the
Commercial Club decided to offer the
state a building site of forty acres and
$150,000 in cash for building purposes.
Windsor is in Henry county and has
about 5000 inhabitants.
Senator Reed has notified the Uni
versity of Missouri that a claim of
$5,075 against the United States gov
eminent for damages to the univer-
sity grounds during the Civil war has
been granted by congress.
Sister Mary Ann Dean, 81 years old,
who had been a nun in the Convent
of the Sacred Heart at St. Joseph for
sixty years, is dead. She was a ma
tive of Ireland and took the veil in
st. Louis in 1852.
Congress, at its recent session, ap-
p%ropriated $4,000 to pay for damages
done to the Fulton state hospital dur
ing the Civil war. The Fulton hospi-
tai was taken by the Union soldiers
and used as a prison and garrison.
A 50-year p~astorate was celebrated
at st. Louis when Rev. DR.. Samuel
J.. Nicolls observed his golden jubilee
as pastor of the Second Presbyterian
church.
Traffic policemen were ordered, at
the instigation of Miss Charlotte Rum
bold, playground commissioner who
has been sought by New York this
year, to prevent traffic on certain
streets in the congested district Of St.
Louis from $3.50 to 4:30 o'clock each
afternoon so that children of the poor
may play in the streets. If the expert
ment proves successful some of the
cross streets will be closed to traffic
entirely after school hours and on
school holidays, except in winter
months.
Colonel Elijah Gates, former state
treasurer of Missouri, died at his
home in st. Joseph, age SO years.
During the Civil war Colonel Gates
commanded a Missouri cavalry com
pany. He was elected state treasurer
in 1878 and served four years. Presi-
dent Cleveland appointed him United
States marshal for the Western dis
trict of Missouri in 1884 and he held
that office four years.
= The recent heavy rains at the head
! of White river have sent the stream
! on a rampage at Branson. The stage
of the water is the highest in a mum
\ Der of years.
With the embers Of four of the
buildings of the Warrensburg normal
still smoking the board of regents
met in obedience to an emergency call
s at the gymnasium and decided to re
build the training school building
within NINETY days. This building was
the most recently built Of all the
buildings destroyed, having been
erected in 1907.
n Mrs. James F1intham How, daugh
v ter Of the late James B. Eads, and
h the principal heir to his estate of sew
/ eral million dollars, is dead in st
e Louis. Her father built the first
bridge to span the Mississippi river
at st. Louis. Mrs. How is survived
y by two sons, James Eads How
known as the millionaire habo," and
Louis How, capitalist.
The old Quarles mansion at Colum
vt bia, built seventy years ago, at which
o Senator William Joel Stone Of Mis-
souri, and Judge H. Guice Of the Louis
h lana superior court boarded when they
d were students at the University o.
1, Missouri, is being RACED to make way
for a modern building.
Mrs. Christine B. Graham, widow o.
y Benjamin B. Graham, paper manufac
y turer, and heiress to an estate wortl
s one and a quarter million dollars, Il
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