Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1915-06-24

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IN MISSOURI
Richard Bartholdt Of st. Louis, for
twenty-five years representative in
congress from the Tenth Missouri dis
trict, may become a candidate for the
Republican nomination for United
States senator. w. S. Dickey and for.
mer Gov. Herbert S. Hadley probably
will be candidates also.
H. R. Deighton, SO years old, super.
intendent of the quarry from which
the stone for the new Missouri capt'
told is being taken at Carthage, was
e~lectrocuted while working with a mo
tor which had grounded.
The 1,000th student has enrolled
for the summer session of the Uni
versity of Missouri. She is Miss NeL
lie Martin of Odessa, a former stu
dent of Vanderbilt university. The
total for the session now is 1904, the
largest in its history.
The Gravois bank of st. Louis coun-
ty outside the st. Louis city limits
was robbed of $4,000 after the cash.
Ter had been locked in a vault. The
robbers put the telephone service of
the bank out Of commission and es-
capped.
Rev. Robert Graham Frank, pastor
Of the Christian church in Liberty,
has declined the call to the presi-
dency of William Woods college of
Fulton.
What is said to be the largest Unit.
ed States flag in America was pre-
sented to the city of St. Louis during
the flag day celebration. The flag
is 150x7S feet and weighs 400 pounds.
1t was given to the city by the Mil
lion Population club.
After being imprisoned for five
days in a mine at Neck City, as a re-
suit of a eave-in four of the six men
entombed were rescued alive only
slightly injured. 1t is believed the
other two, which were swept down
with the flood of water and mud, per-
at work in an effort to save them ii
alive, or recover their bodies,
A. D. Hatten, vice president of the
closed Mineral Belt bank, has become
! personally responsible for the pay
ment of all funds to depositors By
the purchase of all the property Of
the bank.
Joseph A. Ward, rs years old, a
! pioneer resident of Springfield, is
: dead. Mr.. Ward had been night
: merchant policeman there for many
years. He was a Civil var veteran.
Accused Of the embezzlement Of
!. more than 100000 from clients, Os-
: car Smith, a lawyer of Chillicothe,
Mo-, was arrested in a Philadelphia
hotel by the manager of a detective
agency in that city, assisted by local
= officers.
g The Tahoma lead and zinc mine,
!: six miles south of Cole Camp, Benton
county, which has been idle for sew
; eral years, is to resume operations at
once. F. C. Bryant Of Joplin is to be
G the superintendent.
Thomas McClintock, a farmer, rode
a horse into a flooded pasture near
Pleasant Hill and was drowned when
q his horse stepped into water fifteen
L feet deep. McClintock could not
swim. The body was recovered.
The summer season of the Univer-
sity Of Missouri opened with an en-
e rollment indicating a record attend
n ance. The total enrolment last year
n was 935. Probably more than 1000
I will enter this year.
e By a vote of is to l Drexel, a town
g Of $50 inhabitants, signified its will
II ingness to issue bonds for its own
electric light plant. The plant will be
constructed at once.
d The golden wedding anniversary OF
Judge and Mrs. C. E. Elliott at Oro-
x nogo was celebrated recently. Judge
is Elliott was one of the men who laid
out the original townsite of Joplin.
Frank X. Kidd, IA years old, a wide
lie ly known farmer and ex-Confederate
u soldier under Morgan, was found dead
rs at his home near Sedalia the other
e. morning.
Alice, the 3-year-old child of Mr.
and Mrs. Walter Cragg, living twelve
al miles northeast of Rich Hill, neal
Spruce, fell into a well recently ant
was drowned.
James r. Major, 80 years old, faith
err of the governor Of Missouri, under
X. went a surgical operation for the re
ar moval of his left arm at Sedalia. HI
had been suffering from a malignan
re growth. Physicians said his condi
ton is favorable.
The Mineral Belt Bank of Webb
n City, capitalized at $4,000, failed Il
Is. open its doors the other day. The di
is. rectors have pledged $4,000 which
Sc with assets on hand, they say viii