The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-02-24
HAPPENINGS
of fbe sOeek
IN MISSOURI

IN MISSOURI
Frederick Kolb, salesman for the
Louis Brewing Company of st. Louis.
was robbed of $1,1O0 payroll money
just after he had drawn the funds
from the bank. The thief escaped.
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William Beck, % years old, a paint.
er, was killed and two other occupants
of a car driven by G. l.. Bageuss were
hurt when the car went over an EN-.
bankment near Joplin. Bageuss at.
tempted to pass another car when his
machine skidded.
There has been great damage done
to the wheat crop of southwest Mis-.
souri,, according to reports of farmers
in that section, who declare that the
worst drouth prevails there since 1888.
Unless relief comes soon, it is pre-.
dicted that the crop will be an entire
failure. There has been little precip.
itation in that part of the state since
last June. Hydro-electric power plants
were forced to close down several
months ago and towns supplied by
them forced to revert to their old
steam plants. Some farmers already
are planning TO TURF under their wheat
unless there is rain soon and plant
to quick,growing vegetables when the
spring rains come.
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Word was received at Marshall of
the death at Excelsior Springs of Pat
rick ]. Green, a lumber merchant of
Marshall. He was born in St. Louis
in 1864 and went to Marshall in 1912
from Girard, Kas.
DR.. John W. Withers, president OF
the Teachers college, a part of the
st. Louis school system, has been
elected superintendent of the city
schools to succeed the late Ben Blew
EFT.
The Rev. Newton Cater Epps, II
years old, a Baptist minister who had
carried on work in the Ozarks for
fifty-fve years, died suddenly at a
railway station at Springfield the
other night. He had been in i'll health
for some time and had come from
his home in Howell county to visit
a son.
William Booker, a Frisco brakeman
Of Springfield. was crushed to death
at Lebanon recently while coupling
cars. He was "A years old and mar
ried.
The worst drouth there since 1883
has caused great damage to southwest
Missouri's wheat crop, farmers say,
and unless relief comes soon it is
feared the entire crop this year will
be a failure. There has been little
precipitation in this part of the state
since last June.
Lees Summit looks like a town that
had been visited by a tornado. The
plate glass fronts of nineteen stores
were broken the other night, some of
them with small holes punched in
them and others completely shat
tered. The destruction was the work
of Noah Adams, % years old, whose
mind is said to have been unbalanced
by war scares.
AS a means for overcoming the high
cost of coal, the Sedalia Federation
of Labor has recommended to Mayor
J. L. Babcock that a municipal coal
market be established.
Attacked by a wildcat while hunt
ing opossums south of Marshall, Levy
B~ellingsly, an old fox hunter, killed
the animal with an ak. The cata-
mount was freed by the dogs and
routed two of them while the possum
hunters were attempting to dislodge
it with poles. The animal weighed
fifty pounds.
bN al u6lNNAAANAAN " - AN'
been appointed for Thomas w. Cum
ningham, aged banker, who was
brought from Chicago recently and
since has been held by the sheriff
at Joplin pending a sanity hearing,
A deed Of trust conveying all his
property to the trustee was signed
by Cunningham and agreed to by his
attorneys and the citizens who or.
ganized to prevent the dissipation OF
Cunningham's estate. The insanity
proceedings viii be withdrawn.
In awarding $4,000 damages to Will
liam Savignac. son and heir of Alber'
Savignac, who was shot and killed
while picketing the John O'Brier
Boiler Works here during a strike in
October, 1915, the circuit court laiC
down the rule that employers are
liable for any injury their employees
may inf1ict IN pickets.
Fire of an unknown origin recently
at Richmond caused a loss OF $4,000
A confectionery store and stock Of
drugs were destroyed and officeNfur
nishings in the second story OF the
building were badly damaged.
The soda water business must bs
brought to a high state Of perfection,
because it is soon to take the place
Of the saloon of Missouri, according
to delegates at the tenth annual con
vention Of the Missouri Bottlers' as
scciation In Springfield.