Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1916-04-27

Judge Robert G. Harris, IS years
I'D, is dead at his home in Centralia.
He was the father of State Senator
Frank G. Harris OF Columbia and Jas,
Harris of jefferson City.
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That the University of Missouri is
running on borrowed money was the
announcement made at the executive
offices of the school recently. Since
last October the state has been S75,'
900 behind in appropriations to the
state university, and had it not been
for an arrangement to borrow from
local banks, the school would be in
difficulty.
.Glendy B. Arnold, judge of the cir
cult court at st. Louis, has announced
his candidacy for Democratic nominal
ton for judge of the supreme court
to fill the unexpired term Of the late
Judge Brown.
Temporary injunctions restraining
railroads and express companies from
handling liquor into Columbia were
granted recently by Judge David H.
Harris of the Boone county circuit
court.
Sterling Price Gilpin, "a years old,
former county clerk of Galloway coun-
ty, and for years a leader in Demo-
cratic politics of that section, died the
other morning,
Missouri defeated Colorado in the
recent debate, taking the affirmative
of the question Of a material increase
in the United States army and navy.
Preparatory to the fight that will be
made by the Missouri State Bar Asso-
citation to have laws enacted at the
next legislature that will make court
procedure more simple and less eX-
pensive, judges of the state and mem-
bers of the association are making
written suggestions to Judge David II.
Harris of Fulton, the chairman of the
special committee considering the
matter.
Prosecutor Floyd e. Jacobs of jack
son county, has filed a new informa-
ton against DR.. B. G. Hyde, charging
murder in the first degree by poisoning
with ''strychnine and cyanide of potas-
sum- The former information, filed
in 1910, charged poisoning by "strych'
nine and other poisons unknown tc
the jury" This is the only difference
in the informations.
Miss Minnie Nelson, 20 years old, a
stenographer and daughter of Andrew
Nelson, a travelling salesman OF Kansas
City, was fatally injured the othel
night when a motor truck, which hac
been struck by a street car, crushed
her against a trolley pole. She was
taken to the city hospital, where she
died in half an hour. Miss Nelson wal
waiting for a street car.
Hazing was abolished at the Uni
versity of Missouri by a vote OF tn
students at a mass meeting the othe
night. All members of the junior elias
pledged themselves to see that the rul
is enforced.
Alexander D. BEDFORD, a bushes
man and a member of the city counc.
of Warrensburg, died suddenly tn
other morning. He was a native c
: Jackson county and 81 years old.
DR.. David Huddleson, 70 years old.
physician of Montgomery county fc
many years, died recently at his HON
. in Mineola,
F. C. Tucker of Central College wo
g first place in the state intercollegia'
oratorical contest held at Fayette al
Allison Rippey of Missouri Universal
y second and Guy V. Price of Villa
s Jewell third. The judges We're U.
Hall, president of Pritchett Colleg
s Glasgow; President Woods of Step
n College, Columbia, and H. A. Ga
of Jefferson City, superintendent
schools. The contest closed a 2-di
; session of the Missouri State lnterc'
legiate Prohibition Association.
n Bessie Boyles, IL years old, W
g burned to death at Carthage when b
clothing caught fire from an open g
D stove. Her mother attempted to to
4 the flaming clothes from the child q
? was dangerously burned.
The 100000 bond issue for roa
i in Jefferson county carried in the 81
cial election recently by a majori
i of more than 2 to 1. The unoffic
] vote from all except nine small p
5 cincts gave the proposition 80
!, votes, with 1877 against it.
:. James Connors, 100 years old,
" dead at his home in Brookfleld.
:. was a native of ireland and Fad liy
- there ~sixty-one years. He assisted
building the Hannibal & st. Jose
railroad. now a part of the Burl!ngt
- system.
Ia Petitions have been filed In the
i. cult court at Columbia by both
Is state and city asking that an inju
ton be granted restraining the W.
Fargo and American Express CT
panies from delivering liquor into
v. lumbia.
Mrs. Kathryn Millicent orear.
- years old, wife Of Judge d. II. Ore
~ died at her home in Sedalia the OF
night. Mrs. orear was born in H
" a~a nnuutu Miaoonrf htt had real