Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1917-06-28
AAPPENINGS
Of fhe tveek
IN MISSOURI

D0iou "Acu q AsutOt Car AZ WHICH Tue
were returning to Orient, Ia. from st.
Joseph. went off a bridge neal Mary.
willie. Cozad was taken TO q hospital
in Maryviile.
While playing In the Missouri Pa
cific yards at Lamar the l2-year-old
son Of Mrs. Wesley Knapp was struck
and killed by an engine.
Worry over not having registered for
uilitary service caused William Mike.
man. p years old, to shoot himself to-
death at his home. twenty miles east
Of Cassville.
While he was out for a walk, Father
lanes Kearfut. an aged retired Cath
>lic priest of st. Joseph. was attacked
oy a robber, and when he resisted,
he footpad shot him three times and
escaped. Father Kearfut is not ex-
pected to recover from the wounds.
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with a parade and addresses. Bust.
Vess houses and dwellings were deco
rated.
Judge Fred Lamb of Salisbury, sit.
ing as special judge in the Livingston
County circuit court, recently fined
he Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul
Railway Company $1,000 for violating
he state quarantine laws.
When the preliminary hearing OF
Roy TODD, charged with the murder
If his supposed wife on May 80, was
oegun at Springfield, Mrs. Soprano.
Food, named in the states affidavit
against Todd as having been slain by
him, entered the court oom and IN
aounced she really was Todd's wife.
1t developed that the woman Todd Is
charged with Staying was Mrs. Lizzie
Iudnell, with whom he lived.
Dick Carter, wanted at Springfield
where he is charged with the murder
IF the kidnapped baby, Lloyd keet. is
lnder arrest at Hutchinson, Kan. :
Frank r. Rice, a wealthy st. Louis
aigar manufacturer, died of heart his
Ease at his summer home near Port
Huron, Mich. the other morning. Rice
vas about IS years old.
DR.. Guy B. Mitchell, member OF the
| state legislator from fancy county,
las issued a statement through a st.
louis newspaper telling that he was
approached by a Jefferson City law
yer one night at the last session Of the
Legislature with an offer of $1,000 to
withdraw his opposition to the bill to
license chiropractors in Missouri. DR..
Mitchell said he rejected the offer and
continued vigorous opposition to the
pill, which was opposed by the State
Medical Society. The bill was defeat
cd for engrossment in the house.
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Arch A. Johnson. criminal judge at
Springfield advocates the raising Of
a substantial reward to offer for infor
nation leading to the arrest and con
vietion or the murderer OF Baby Lloyd
Keet. This followed the receipt Of a
letter from a Kansas Citian whose
name was withheld. offering to start
a fund with a 500 check. Friends Of
J. Holland Keet have discussed rails.
ing a fund of from $4,000 to $4,000
to be used in running down the kid
napers and to offer a reward of 5000
with a. promise of immunity to any
member OF the band, except the actual
murderer, who will peach" on the
gang.
Miss Nancy Johnson, art student
granddaughter Of former Lieutenant
Governor Charles p. johnson. was
killed in st. Louis recently when she
was thrown from an automobile.
Twenty-Five University OF Missouri
students and instructors who are mem
bers of the Missouri ambulance uni
departed for New York recently from
which place they will sail for France
the latter part Of June.
The Lathrop House, Lathrop's onl,
hotel building, was destroyed by fir
the other day. The structure was a 2
story brick and the loss is abou
$4,000.
Flag Day was observed at Rich Hill
BY a municipal flag raising when Oh
Glory was swung to the breeze from
y 60.foot steel pole In Central Park
The flag, 10x24. together with tn
pole. was purchased by popular sub
scription.
A settlement Of the strike Of motor
men and conductors of the Springfield,
Traction Company, in progress sine
October 3. 1916. was announced recent
ly by Il. H. S%anders0n, president Of tn
Springfield Traction Company. Con
cessions were made by both sides, h
said. The terms Of the settlement II
detail were withheld.
John Mount, u years old. died sud
denly of heart disease at his home 4
Braymer recently. He was a widel
known citizen. He served three year
in the Civfl War and was an Andei
sonville prisoner. NJ.
The annual reunion services at Ceda