Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1916-01-27

chants, MANUFACTURED anu lduu ONu~
ers in those towns we're frustrated by
the arrest of sixty-seven members OF
the secret band several months ago
was told on the witness stand in th6V
circuit court at New Madrid recently
by confessed night riders who are be-
ing tried on charges of assault with
intent to kilP' and '~conspiring with I
intent to kill"
James W. Devereaux. fifty years a
compositor in the office of the Pal
myra Spectator, died recently. He
was e. years old. He entered the
Spectator as an office boy when IL
years old and had been foreman Of
the plant forty years. He never
worked a day at his trade outside the
Spectator office.
The publication of Moberly's third
daily newspaper will begin on Febru-
airy 1, it was announced recently. II
will be a morning paper. A. L.. Pres
ton, editor Of the Marshall Democrat
News, will be the editor. 1t is under
stood the anti-saloon forces are back
ing the paper.
st. Louis voters registered recently
to vote in the February 30 leap year
election" to decide whether st. Louis
negroes shall be excluded from resiA
dence in certain parts Of the city;
also whether whites shall be excluded
from negro sections.
The Menace Publishing Company Of
Aurora and four Of its officials were
found not guilty by a jury at the cons
clusion of their trial in the federal
court at Joplin on charges of the mis-
use of the mails.
H. G. Irish Of st. Louis, formerly
vice president of the Missouri State
Horticultural Society, was elected
president of the society at the clos
ing session of its second annual con-
v~ention at st. Louis.
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Frank Stionsky, who escaped from
the state reformatory at Boonyille,
was picked up by the police at Sc
dalia with his feet, hands and ears
badly frozen.
Excelsior Springs will be the scene
of the Republican state convention, the
date will be April s, and the basis Of
representation in the convention will
be on the vote of 1908, when the full
vote of the party was cast and not
on the 1912 basis, when the full party
vote was not cast, it was decided at
the meeting of the Republican state
committee at st. Louis.
Arrangements are being made for
a debate between the University of
Wisconsin and the University of Mis-
souri,, to be held at Madison next
spring. A return debate between the
two universities will be held in Co.
lumbia next year.
Thomas Scott, laborer, 35, was found
frozen to death within a half block of
his home at Springfield. He is be-
lieved to have become numb from
cold and fallen asleep in the street.
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A proclamation by Mayor Sam J..
K~leinschmidt of Higginsville sets Feb
ruary / as the date of a special cleo
ton to vote on a proposal to issue
bonds for the purpose of SO enlarging
the electric light plant there that the.
rates may be lowered to all consum-
ers and particularly to factories and
other large consumers.
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John H. Walker, a resident of Jop-
lin for forty years and one of the
wealthiest men of the district, died
there the other night.
The will of Charles W. Knapp, for
mer president Of the st. Louis Repub-
lie and at the time of his death treas
urer of the New York Times, was filed
at st. Louis. All the estate is left to-
the widow, except 81 bequeathed to a
daughter, Mrs. Guthrie Mcconnell, Of
Waterloo, la.
Mrs. A. q. Shields Of Waldron
poured gasoline on a smoldering fro
in the kitchen range, thinking she wax
using kerosene. The gasoline explod-
ed, inflicting burns from which she
may die.
M~onopolistic control of the sisal
production of the state of Yucatan,
Mexico, has been brought to the atten-
tion Of Washington authorities by tho
Western Retail Implement, Vehicle
and Hardware Dealers Association,
recently in convention at Kansas City.
Resolutions adopted we're sent to the
department of justice and the federal
trade commission.
John Crook, GO years old, was found
in a snowdrift at St. Joseph. fatally
frozen. He left his home on an err
rand and became exhausted.
By a deal made recently Philip
Gansz, business manager OF the Ma
con Daily Chronicle, acquires tho Ma
con Daily Herald and will consolidate
the two papers. The Herald has been
published there more than two years
by Charles Howard, formerly editor
and publisher Of the Columbia Times
Judge Walter w. Gath. So yeaIb old.
n Of the Oldest Of C~olumbia's native
born citizens, died there the Iother
night. He had filled a number ol pub
lie Offices and many high officeN In.