Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1916-01-13
HAPPENNGS
of the tOeek
IN MISSOURI

ney when a fire starting from b fur.
mace threatened the building. but they
were marched out without injury to
anyone. The fire was extinguished
without much damage.
The Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
Railroad. seeking a shorter and faster
route between Chicago and Kansas
City, is believed to be making plans
to build a line from Monroe City to
Moberly, thus affording a more direct
route.
Harrison Webster, a negro who
died recently at Hannibal, is said by
relatives to have been 10 years old
at the time of his death. He was a
slave in Kentucky when negroes OBJ
tanned their freedom.
Henry Marquette, 6S years old, was
burned to death recently in a fire that
destroyed his home near Fulton. Mar
quette was a bachelor and lived alone.
Circumstances indicated that Mar
quette had got out of bed but had been
overcome while trying to find his way
out of the house.
Eight hundred employees in the To-
connective department of the Missouri
Pacific shops at Sedalia, who are
working eight hours a day, will work
only seven hours a day, beginning
January 8.
The county court at Bowling Green
ordered a special election to vote IN
two court houses, one at Louisiana
and one at Bowling Green, February 4.
Frank M. Brown of Jefferson City,
former clerk of the Missouri supreme
court, died at the state hospital at
Fulton recently.
William c. Ross, So years old, is
dead at his home in Pilot Grove. He
had served as city councilman and as
mayor.
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st. Joseph had it's first fatal coast
ing accident Of the winter the other
afternoon when Johnny Davis, IA
years old, coasted into a motor car.
Ephraim Craig, 60, died recently at
Carthage of injuries received twenty
eight years ago, when a handful Of
printing caps which had been placed
in kindling paper exploded as he was
building a fire. A charge of copper
and coke entered his right side, pene-
trating his lungs, and causing wounds
which, after many years, are blamed
for his death.
In the old plant of the Stafford Mo
tor Company at Kansas City, a NUM-
tons factory will start soon, to make
shrapnel and cartridges for the allies.
The plant was leased in October by
L. A. Sherman, vice president OF the
S~portsmen's Cartridge Company, but
the plans for the use of the property
were kept secret.
Mr.. and Mrs. Nichlons Mayer cele-
brated their golden wedding anniver-
sary at their home in Rich Hill re.
Gently. Their seven surviving chill
dren were among the guests. They
were married in Rock Island, Ill. Mr.,
Mayer is a Union veteran of the Civil
war.
Mrs. Marie Refine Tschaen Fusz cele-
brated her Tooth birthday in st. Louis
recently by an after dinner speech to
fifty of her descendants and near rela'
tiVes.
Impressive ceremonies marked the
dedication of the new $4,000 Odd Eel
lows Home at Hannibal. James P.
Boyd of Paris, grand master for Mis-.
souri,, presided.
John Edison, a fireman of Hannibal,
was killed, E. G. Roby, an engineer,
was dangerously scalded and another
member of the crew was injured when
train No. s on the Missouri, Kansas
& Texas railway, bound for st. Louis
from Oklahoma and Texas points, col.
lided with a switch engine near New
Franklin.
Mrs. Henry ". White is dead at her
home in Montgomery at the age of
about so years. She is survived by
her husband and one brother.
Thirty men employed in the city
hall at st. Louis, were showered by
broken glass and snow recently when
a skylight gave way under the weight
of a foot of snow. None of the men
were injured severely, though several
suffered cuts and bruises.
e. D. Seamans, formerly president
of the Blain-Seamans Grocery Com
pany of Springfield, received a frac-
ture of the skull which resulted in in
slant death when he slipped and fell
on an Recovered sidewalk in the bus
mess district. He was 60 years old.
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Missouri, outside Of metropolitan
cities, has given $25O,OOO toward the
men and millions movement, it was
unofficially stated recently at a meet
ing in st. Louis OF leading churchmen
Of the Disciples of Christ. 1t was also
announced that one Missourian gave
$4,000. No clew to his identity was
given, but he is believed to live in Kan
sas City.
Mrs. Emma A. Eaton, a widow. So
years old, died in a hospital at Spring