Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1915-01-14

Clifford Miller, 16 years old, son o.
Charles H. Miller, cashier Of a banl
at Fairyiew, accidentally killed him
self with a shotgun while climbing
through a hedge fence near town. lie
was returning from a hunting trir
with his brother.
The jewelry store Of Herman schu.
bach, near the Union station, was
robbed of jewelry worth $4,000 recent,
". The robbery apparently had been
committed by experts, as a steel door
to the basement had been forced open.
While dancing at a ball in Carthage
Miss Helen Porter, a Joplin society
girl, sustained a d~fslocated kneecap.
Physicians fear she will be perma-
nently lame. The knee, it is said, had
been weakened by a previous acct
dent.
Elmer Sutton, % years old, was
killed at a mine neal Carthage, when
q small steel drill, which fell from a
derrick. struck him on the head.
Attacked by heart disease, Elijah
M. Burgess, 81 years old, fell from a
wagon at Springfield, and was killed.
Dennis Sullivan, 70 years old, a re-
tired railroad man, is dead at Sedalia.
He is survived by a widow and thir-
teen children. q
A large bob sled was driven by an
aeroplane engine through the streets
OF Callao the other day. The con-
struction was by Victor Grove, a saw
mill and timberman of the Carlton
Valley. As the craft came into town
its engine was making more noise
than a battery, but it was covering
the roads at thirty miles an hour.
The motive power was a propeller
with 9-foot blades, up in the air like
q windmill. A 6-cylinder aeroplane
engine drove the propeller. The p er
ator had a steering wheel like that on
a motor car, which turned the forward
runners.
A masked Eandit who surprised W.
A. Welker, cashier of the Bank Of
Neelyville, at $3.50 o'clock In the morn
ing. escaped With $4,000 cash after
locking the cashier in the vault.
After he had hurled one policeman
through a window and had cut an
other with a knife, William Richard
son. a negro of giant stature, was shot
and killed by Patrolman Franklin J.
Herbert, of st. Louis, whom the
negro had thrown from the building.
The farmers living in the northeast
part OF Linn county report great num-
bers of prairie chickens in that To-
cality. They estimate as many as five
hundred in one field at one time feed
ing from the cane and corn shocks.
Immense numbers of horses and
cattle are dying over the state
at the present time. For the want of
a better o. more accurate name, the
trouble is called Forage Poisoning"
Charles Strecker, 80 years old. for
forty years a Jasper county farmer.
was gored to death by a bull the other
day. Strecker was a veteran of the
Civil war.
Policewomen for every city in Mis-
souri, of a population exceeding 5000
Will be provided in a bill to be sub
mitted to the vote of the Missouri
Legislature. The temperance workers
will foster the bill. 1t is to be placed
before the Legislature by Mrs. Nell G.
Burger Of Clark, president OF the state
organization.
A diphtheria epidemic has develop,
ed among the 175 boys at McCune
Farm at Kansas City. Three boys are
victims. DR.. Joseph Green Of Inde-
pendence, in charge of the cases. an
nounced that all the boys in the insti-
tuition would be given anti-toxin. Nc
Gune Farm is where the county sends
its incorrigible boys.
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Captain G. T. Lincoln OF Benton
Vile, Ark, vas elected president OF
the Ozark Fruit Growers Association,
which convened at Monet recently.
The session lasted two days. Bert
Johnson, an orchardist, gave an adj
dress on inspection Of orchards. Two
hundred attended.
A free employment bureau to offer
assistance to discharged United States
soldiers in that district who are out
Of employment has been opened in
Springfield. It is In charge Of local
army recruiting officers.
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The fourth trial Of Or. B. Clark
charged with the murder Of
Thomas H. Swope. has been again
continued by Judge Porterield at Kan
sas City. The next setting Is the first
Monday In April. Doctor Hyde was in
court. Mrs. Hyde was not present.
Judge Henry Lamm. who has re-
turned to Sedalia to practice law after
serving ten years on the Missouri SUI
preme bench, was the honor guest at
a banquet given by the Pettis County
Bar the other night. John Montgor.
cry, jr, was postmaster