The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-05-19
HAPPENINGS
Of The sOeek
IN MISSOURI

United States District Attorney Oil
yer revealed recently that six Ger
mans arrested in the last few days for
the Federal authorities, are confined
in the city Jail. Six other st. Louis
enemy aliens were arrested the other
night at New Orleans, where, it is
said, they were preparing to flee into
Mexico.
Two cars of western fed lambs sold
on the st. Joseph market the other
day for $19 per cwt., the highest price
of record ever paid in this country.
The shipment was from Las Animas,
Colo.
A new trial has been denied to Mil
lard Rowden, convicted of perjury be-
fore the grand jury in connection with
the dynamiting of a street car. An
appeal to the supreme court was
granted.
w. A. Morrill,, paymaster for the
NJ, X. e T. at Sedalia forty years ago,
who disappeared from Sedalia in 1880,
died May 4 at Trinidad, Col, under
the name of William Littlefield. j..
West Goodwin received the news here
the other day.
Another chapter was added to the
st. Clair county bond case when a jury
in the United States district court at
Kansas City gave a verdict in favor of
Cornelius c. Peery, John ]. Masteries
and Willard f. Mckinley, who were
sued for $4,000 damages by Mrs. Cla-
risse NJ. Harrison of Syracuse, N. Y,
widow of William H. Harrison. The
defendants were members of the st.
Clair county court from 1912 to 1914
and were sued for their failure to as
sess a levy to pay an injunction OBJ
tanned by Mr.. Harrison against the
county in 1885.
A mysterious explosion in the Ath-
letic zinc mine near Webb City the
other morning killed A. Mcfarland Of
Webb City and Sam Whitlock of Porto
Rico.
The Sedalia Journal, a weekly Ger
man newspaper, suspended publication
on it's fortieth birthday. Charles Bobe,
sr., has been editor for the past thirty
five years.
Robert S. Catron, one of Buffers
oldest and best known citizens, died
there recently of paralysis. He served
in the Confederate army as a member
of Gordon's regiment. He is survived
by a widow and -four children.
The women of the w. c. T. U. have
| c~anvassed the merchants of Centralis
and secured their signatures to a prom
Use hat they will discontinue the salt
OF cigarettes and cigarette papers.
: The case against Robert j. Fine
former excise commissioner Of st
Louis county, charged with soliciting
: a bride to withdraw his opposition t
| the issuance of a saloon license, was
5 dismissed in the circuit court at Clay
} ton recently.
=. Roy Smith, a farm hand 35 years
old and unmarried, is thought to be
dying in a st. Joseph hospital from {
! gunshot wound inflicted by his EN-
< ployer, John McClaskey, at Nicolas
keys home, near Fillmore. Smith haC
| beer away for the day and when hi:
employer heard him putting up hii
horse upon his return McClaske!
thought Smith was a chicken THE
and fired at him, the load striking
Smiths abdomen.
A big patriotic demonstration wa
staged at Nevada the other day, a pa
rade of six blocks long being a fes
ture including the machine gun con
pany, a local military organization.
3
s At a big meeting of farmers an
Z business men at Macon a r~esolutio
9 was adopted to urge Congressman n
A. Romjue to use his vote and infl'
z ence to prohibit the employment {
grain for the manufacture of intox
eating liquors during the war.
u y
:, Edward Chesser, nephew OF Judg
q Duvall of Mountain Grove, was kille
e in an auto accident at Newark, Arb
: the other afternoon.
Ie .
Mrs. Mary Z. Roberts, IS years oil
4 who lived to see the fifth generate
II in two branches of her children,
dead at her home in Montgomery. Mr.
Roberts recently became a great-grea
. grandmother for the fifty-fourth tim
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Typographical Union No. so OF Ka
y sas City, at a meeting in the Lab,