Friday, 6 Feb 1914--DEATH OF AN ITALIAN--Richard Piccollotto died in the Woodland hospital at 7:30 Wednesday evening. He was born in Italy and was about 30 years of age. His only relative in the United States is a brother who lives in Texas, who could not come to the funeral, so his former associates, from Higbee, came to Moberly today and Rev. P. J. Carney conducted the funeral in St. John's Catholic church at 3 o'clock this afternoon. Burial in St. Mary's cemetery. He was employed as a coal miner at Higbee. He died of Bright's disease--Moberly Democrat, Jan 30. Friday, 6 Feb 1914--DEATH OF MISS EULA MAY REYNOLDS--The home of Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Reynolds of southeast of town was made desolate Monday, Feb 2, 1914, by the entrance of Death for the second time within a little over a year, claiming as his victim this time their daughter, Miss Eula May, who passed peacefully to the great beyond at 1:30 p.m. on the above date. She had been in poor health for a year and since the death of a sister thirteen months ago, had been gradually failing, and alarmingly so for the past few weeks. the immediate cause of her death was anemia, aggravated, no doubt, by grief for her sister, to whose death she never became reconciled. Thursday of last week she took suddenly worse and had to take to her bed. Despite all that could be done by medical skill and the love of devoted parents and a loving sister, who ministered to her every want day and night, she continued to grow worse until she passed peacefully to rest. Funeral services were held at New Hope on Tuesday by Eld. E. Y. Keiter. The large assemblage, which the church would not hold by half, spoke most eloquently of the esteem in which she was held, and measured far more than words the sympathy of friends and neighbors for the heart broken parents and sister. May He who tempers the wind to the shorn lamb bring peace to these troubled hearts, and may they find sweet consolation in the fact that she was prepared to die, and realizing that Death had called was not afraid to go. Friday, 6 Feb 1914--FOR HOWARD COUNTY CLERK--It is with a great deal of pleasure that we present this week, in our announcement column, to our Howard county readers, the name of I. T. St. Clair, who is a candidate for the office of county clerk of the "mother of counties." Mr. St. Clair is the son of Ed. S. St. Clair, and like his father, is a democrat of the old school--all wool and a yard wide. he was born near Myers, Howard county, where he has spent most of his life, and for the past eighteen years of which he has spent teaching in the schools of the county. No man, unless he be a first class teacher, could hope to go on teaching in the same schools year after year as Mr. St. Clair has done and is doing. He is looked upon as one of Howard's most progressive and thorough teachers, and there can be no doubt as to his ability to fill the office to which he aspires. He is not only known as a teacher in the county, but is as well known in the councils of his party, having been a member of the county central committee eight years, serving four years as chairman of that important body and during his incumbency rendered a good account of his stewardship, being untiring in his efforts in his party's behalf. His past efforts for party success, his wide acquaintance throughout the county and an engaging personality should make him a most formidable candidate, and those who know him best say that the man who beats him will be it. Mr. St. Clair will make a thorough canvass of the county and asks the voters to give his claims the consideration to which they are entitled and promises to abide cheerfully by the will of the majority as expressed in the August primary. Friday, 6 Feb 1914--FROM NEAR MYERS--Mrs. Jeff Dougherty who recently went to Eldorado Springs is reported no better. Geo. Dougherty and wife of Jefferson, Tex, are visiting relatives in this vicinity. C. W. Dougherty has been elected road overseer in the Baldridge district. The infant son of Lawrence Hern of Moberly died Tuesday night. Interment was made at New Hope. Friday, 6 Feb 1914--The Busy Bee Club met with Mrs. C. F. Burkhalter Thursday afternoon. When our work was finished we were treated to some sweet music by her accomplished daughters, Misses Frances, Toinette, Lucile and Evelyn. We were served delicious refreshments consisting of salads, olives, pickles, sandwiches, chocolate, cake, cherries and mints. We departed to meet with Mrs. W. D. Burke on Feb 12. A GUEST. Friday, 6 Feb 1914--W. Hall Bagby, who has been with Dinwiddie & Burkhalter for several months as prescription clerk, resigned the first of the week and is succeeded by Thos. Warford, who is fresh from a school of pharmacy in St. Louis, and who is now a registered pharmacist. We are not advised as to Mr. Bagby's intentions, but presume he will not be idle long, as he has been in the drug business for the past twenty years or more, either for himself or some one else as clerk, and does not know what it is to be idle. Mr. Bagby and family have made many friends while here, and the people of Higbee will give them up with regret if they decide to locate elsewhere. Friday, 6 Feb 1914--Born, on the 4th, to Ed Coons and wife, a daughter. Friday, 6 Feb 1914--Born on the 4th, to W. F. Cleeton and wife, daughter. Friday, 6 Feb 1914--Mrs. Hiram Hugheston, mother of Mrs. Thos. Jones of this place, died at home in Centerville, Ia, on Jan 31, after a lingering illness, aged 60 years. Mr. Jones and wife were with her when she died. Friday, 6 Feb 1914--Mildred, the baby daughter of Robert Williams and wife, aged a little over a year, died yesterday afternoon after an illness of a week or more from whooping cough and pneumonia. We could learn nothing as to the funeral arrangements. The bereft parents have the sympathy of all. Friday, 6 Feb 1914--Alton engine 606, pulling train No. 23, with engineer J. H. Julian at the throttle, blew out a stud bolt in the boiler head near the furnace door while passing Rider at 3 o'clock last Sunday morning, scalding Mr. Julian quite badly. He also had his left knee and shoulder quite badly bruised in jumping from the engine. Dr. T. H. Dinwiddie, local surgeon at this place, was called and accompanied Mr. Julian to Slater, dressing his injuries on the train. It will be several weeks before the later can resume work. D. Byers, the fireman, was not injured. Friday, 6 Feb 1914--While Henry Davis and family were at church Sunday night their house in the west part of town was discovered on fire, it being first seen by Robert Harris, who was passing, and a discovery just like it was probably never made before. The house sets quite high off the ground, and Mr. Harris noticed sparks falling from the floor to the ground quite a distance under the house. He gave the alarm and Mr. Davis was sent for, while neighbors fought the fire. They extinguished in a short time, but not until about everything in the house, including bedding and wearing apparel, was almost totally ruined. The fire was evidently caused from sparks falling from the pipe where it entered the chimney, as the floor directly underneath had a large hold burned in it. The house was so filled with smoke the fire could not be located until the smoke began to clear, and those fighting the fire dashed buckets of water into every room in the house. Results were as disastrous to Mr. Davis as if the house had burned. He carried sufficient insurance to cover the loss. The house, belonging to M. J. Embree, was not greatly damaged, and was insured. Friday, 6 Feb 1914--MRS. MARY A RENFRO DEAD--Mrs. Mary A. Renfro, whose serious illness was noted in our last issue, died at the home of her son-in-law, M. Murphy, early Friday morning January 30, 1914, of general debility after many weeks of illness. Mrs. Renfro, whose maiden name was Donohue, was born in Virginia May 29, 1825, and was therefore in her 89th year. She was an only child and was married on Jan 28, 1843, to Moses J. Renfro, who died in July, 1876, at Aubert, Mo. They were the parents of but one child, Mrs. Martha Murphy, who has been dead many years. Following the death of her husband she moved to Higbee in about 1884 and had since made her home with Mr. Murphy. And it was a home in all the word implies, for she was given every care and attention, especially in her infirmities kept her pretty much at home. She was a kind, good hearted woman and when able to be about was generally to be found at the bedside of some sick friend or acquaintance, and always had a kind word for all. She was a consecrated member of the Christian church with which she united when quite young and whose services she always attended when she was able. Funeral services were held Saturday at the Christian church by Eld. Chas. Swift of Centralia, and the large concourse of sorrowing friends present spoke most eloquently of the esteem in which she was held, and it was the common wish of all that when their time should come to go that they might be as well prepared and as willing to go. Interment was made in the city cemetery. Friday, 6 Feb 1914--John Smith, who was being held in the city jail pending the arrival of an officer from Oklahoma, thought he would test the strength of the cells Tuesday morning by trying to kick a hole in the steel lattice work, but after kicking until he was tired gave up the idea of demolishing them and in a fit of anger picked up a small stick of some kind that happened to be lying in his cell and pushed the stovepipe, which runs over the cells, out of place. Another punch and he disjointed the pipe and the room began to fill with thick smoke, well loaded with gas. But for the passing of some one a few moments later Smith would have likely been with the angels in a short time. thinking the city hall was on fire the man gave the alarm and when Mayor Guerin and Marshal Cain broke in the door at the foot of the stairs leading to the basement, they were almost overcome by the smoke, it being almost thick enough to cut with knife. They managed to get to the windows and open them and the room was clear of smoke in a few minutes. Smith made no further attempt to batter down the cells and was meek as a lamb when the officer came for him, but was taken away handcuffed, the Oklahoma officers considering him a dangerous pill. Friday, 6 Feb 1914--Through the kindness of Mrs. John Rankin her aunt, Mrs. Lizzie Lowrance, of Krebs, Ok, will read THE NEWS for a year. Friday, 6 Feb 1914--FATAL ACCIDENT AT ELLIOTT--Robert Barryman Instantly Killed Sunday by Falling Cage--An accident which resulted in the death of Robert Barryman and the serious injury of Thomas Armstrong, occurred at Elliott Sunday at 1 o'clock. Barryman, who ran the electric motor in the mine, had spent the morning repairing the electric feed wire which ran down the side of the shaft, using the north cage to do so. He finished this work at about 10:30 and as the cage on the south was to be repaired he notified the engineer, John Edwards, that he was through with the cage, and the latter placed the south cage where it would be most convenient for those at work on it, which left the north cage about fifteen feet from the bottom. In order to prevent an accident, Edwards set the brake on the engine, and as a further precaution put a block of wood under the brake. After the noon hour Barryman went down in the mine by way of the airshaft stairway to make the wire connections below, when he found the feed wire, owing to a kink in it, about four inches short. At work in the sump, an excavation some three or four feet deep under the cage landing at the bottom of the shaft, were Thos. Owens and Thos. Armstrong, who were cleaning the sump out. Remarking to them that he would climb up a shaft a short distance and pull the kink out of the wire, Barryman started up, climbing the bunting, an had gone but about ten feet when the cage directly over him fell with a crash, burying the three in the sump. Barryman was instantly killed, his head being crushed. Armstrong had his jaw broken and was otherwise injured, but not fatally. Owens was not hurt, aside from a few bruises, but that he and Armstrong were not instantly killed is almost a miracle. On the under side of the cage are heavy beams, on either side, which extend below the floor of the cage perhaps three feet. The men were in the center of the sump, the beams barely missing them as the cage struck the landing. Another workman standing near gave the alarm and the cage was raised, when Owens lifted Barryman and Armstrong out and then climbed out himself. Just what caused the accident may never be known, but it is presumed that when some timbers were taken off the south cage the north one was made so much heavier that it overcome the brake. Barryman was 25 years of age, and is survived by his wife and one child. Interment was made at Moberly Wednesday. Friday, 6 Feb 1914--MUCH GOOD ACCOMPLISHED AND 55 ADDED TO CHURCH ROLL--The meeting which had been in progress at the Christian church for the past month closed Thursday night of last week, the last night's interest being fully up to that of any preceding night, although there were but three additions at the last service. The meeting drew larger crowds and the interest was maintained better, we believe, than any meeting held here in the past ten years, and its success is not to be measured alone by the number to unite with the church, although in that respect, also, the meeting eclipsed any held here in a long time, there being a total of fifty-five. All are agreed that Rev. Kitchen preached as strong sermons as were ever heard here from any pulpit, and we are sure much good will result aside from what is already evidenced. Many who had not attended church services in a long time were there every night, and while numbers of them gave no evidence that they took the word home to themselves, we are safe in saying that many of them formed the church-going habit and will be seen at all church services from this time forth. Mrs. Kitchen with her direction of the song service, her personal work and sermon to women only, proved somewhat of an evangelist herself, and was complimented highly on her sermon, many saying that she was a better preacher than her husband. They left Friday for the north part of the state where they are engaged in a similar meeting, and reports from them are that the meeting promises to be as good as the one here. They made many friends while in Higbee, and we understand that it is the intention of the church to get them for a big meeting this fall if possible. Of the additions to the church, 30 were by confession, 20 by letter and five by reinstatement, as follows: Messrs. Emmett Rob, Ed Perkins, Arthur Perkins, Jas Marshall, Ernest Hitt, j. D. Wilson, Sam Enochs, J. N. Cleeton, T. H. Hamilton, Grand Davis, Stant Pitney, J. C. Cain, Francis Barron, I. J. Embree, Wisdom Burton, Tole Burton, Rufus Boyd, Roger Kimbrought, Y. L. Atkins, _____Richardson, Thos. Rees, Wm. Smith, Ollie Bottoms, Claude Lessly, Cromer Griffith, Thos. Spurling. Mmes. Carl Harlow, Ethel Mann, Lilly Perkins, Stant Pitney, Elsie Hitt, _______Devore, Sam Enochs, ____Parish, Grant Davis, Thos. Spurling, Orion Lessly, _____Neal, Ernest Dinwiddie, Walter Dougherty, Wisdom Burton, Pearl Bradley, Will Lee, Misses Helen Tymony, Jennie Robb, Clara Lee, Nettie Sutliff, Marguerite Enochs, Nannie Enochs, Georgia Robb, Alberta Andrews ________Greenstreet, Valley Parish, Pearl and Goldie Davis. Friday, 6 Feb 1914--ARRESTED CATTLE THIEF--John Smith Wanted in Oklahoma, Arrested Here by Constable J. H. Bagby--Saturday last Marshal W. F. Cain received a message from the authorities at Tulsa, Ok, to arrest and hold pending the arrival of an officer from that place, one John Smith, wanted there for a felony. The message stated that he would likely be found at the home of his uncle, W. G. Smith, east of town, and contained the further information that Smith was a dangerous man. The matter was turned over to Constable J. H. Bagby, who went the uncle's home where he found his man. Young Smith suspected Bagby's mission and made a break for a Winchester rifle. Mr. Bagby was prepared for just such a move, and drew an automatic gun, and but for the fact that a shell caught in it as he cocked it we would have a different story to tell. The elder Smith, seeing the intention of his nephew picked up the rifle and wouldn't let the latter have it. Mr. Bagby, when the man showed resistance, called for assistance, when several of Smith's family responded. It took six, we understand, to overcome and hog tie him, when he was brought to town and landed in the city jail. He refused to state what he was wanted for, and no one was any the wiser until the arrival, Wednesday, of F. S. Woodruff, of McAlester, of the state secret service, who stated that the prisoner, with an accomplice, had stolen several head of cattle from the county farm near Tulsa. The animals were taken one at a time and sold to a packing company, the thieves going back for another when their money ran low. Young Smith is the son of John Smith who lived here a few years ago and worked at the livery barn, and is considered a very dangerous man by Tulsa officers, according to Mr. Woodruff. Woodruff not arriving when expected Justice Elgin put a fine of $10 against Smith for resisting an office, so there would be no getting away until the arrival of the Oklahoma officer. Through the efforts of Messrs. Cain and Elgin the prisoner agreed to return without a requisition, and for their efforts along this line, as well as the courtesies shown him, Mr. Woodruff desires us to express his thanks. He left Wednesday over the Katy with his prisoner in handcuffs. Kathy Bowlin Additions, corrections, comments welcome.