Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1916-10-05
HAPPENINGS
of the sOeek
IN MISSOURI


motor car ran off a bridge into a deep
ditch on the Charlton and Linn High
way about twelve miles north OF
Keytesville.
l. Newton Evrard of Marshall has
been nominated for state su~perintend-
ent of schools by the Republican state
committee. The nomination is to fill
a vacancy caused by the death Of SUI
perintendent Gass, whose term would
not have expired until 1919.
Mrs. Andrew Roberts was shot and
severely wounded by her son, Ernest
Roberts, at Moberly the other morn
ing when she reprimanded him for
drinking.
With appropriate ceremonies the
cornerstone of the new Carnegie libra
ry building at Nevada was laid re-
Gently. The Third regiment band led
procession of the Masonic order and
many hundreds of school children to
the scene Of the exercises. The lay
ing Of the stone vas conducted by
Rev. C. H. Briggs of Sedalia.
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M. S. baltimore of Ferguson, an en-
cheering freshman, Missouri %universi-
ty, is in the hospital with an injured
spine after falling headlong down a
cliff near Columbia while on a hike.
He was unconscious for hours after
being brought to the hospital.
John Dunn, At years old, a former
newspaper nan of Fulton, and at n
time connected with Mexico and Col
umbia newspapers, died at Fulton the
other morning after a long illness.
An early June apple tree in the yard
Of Judge Irving Gordon in Nevada is
filled with blossoms for the second
time this year. The tree bore a large
yield of fruit earlier in the year..
John Helms, SO years old, is dead
at Pilot Grove. His neck vas broken
in a runaway several days before.
A bungstarter, found in a vacant lot
trash pile just north of the Mcdaniel
home in St. Joseph, may be an i'm
portant clew in the case of the state
to determine the murderer Of Mrs.
Oscar Mcdaniel, for whose death her
husband, prosecuting attorney, is be-
ing held. This instrument, shaped
somewhat like a mallet, is heavy
enough to have been the weapon with
which Mrs. Mcdaniel was killed.
A. F. Russell, so years old, a
wealthy farmer and stockman living
six miles west of Savannah is dead
of heart disease. He was seated at
the supper table with his wife when
stricken. -,
Registration for the fall election
closed in st. Louis with 172, 264 on the
books. 1t is thought that about 1900
will be eliminated in revision, but this
will be offset in part by the later reg
~istration of persons absent from the
city during the four regular days Of
registration. The registration this
year is the highest in the history Of
the city.
The case of a st. Louis beggar who
assumed the appearance of a cripple
making himself the object of pity and
collecting enough money from char
liable persons at Lindell Boulevard
and Grand venue to purchase his
wife an electric coupe, is cited by the
Civic League in its renewed efforts
to eliminate street begging by Grip
pies and blind. The league did not
reveal how they obtained the inform
alton that the beggar had bought the
car.
Judge Thomas A. Rowland, ex
mayor Of Bevier, is dead, aged 4S
For many years Judge Rowland was
the correspondent for the Kansas City
Star and other city papers. At the
time of his death he was justice O.
the peace for Bevier township. Hc
was an active Republican.
The top basis price of zinc ore re
manned at $65 a ton when last weeks
market opened. Few buyers of higl
grade ores were bidding, but the de
mand for second grade was good.
James Williams, rs years old, fel
down a stairway at a hotel in st
Joseph. His neck was broken anC
death was momentarily expected at
hospital.
Purdy, q town eight miles south o
Monet, was practically wiped out b!
a fire which started at / o'clock tn
other morning. The loss is $4,000.
Fulton was selected as the place o
the next meeting of the Missouri Pres
bytery, which has been in session a
Fulton.
In a collision Of motor cars east 0
st. Joseph Mrs. w. G. Draper 0
Rochester, N. ", who, with her hus
band and a party from Rochester ant
Detroit, are on a tour to the Pacifi,
Coast, suffered a broken rib and in
ternal injuries. She is now at a hote
in st. Joseph.
An oil survey of Ray county is t
be made Immediately by the stat,
g~eologist, H. A. Buehler of Rolla, Nc
If sufficient indications of oil ar
found a stock company will be OF
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