Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-02-21

Quo GfaSSmee. president or the Grass
nee Printing Company, st. LOUIS, was
| .Ound hanging to the shafting in the press
DOM, on the second floor of the printing
| shop, few mornings since, and it was
evident that he had ended his life to es-
cape the worry of financial embarrass-
nent. Grassmee was a married man,
I ifty-five years of age and lived with his
wife and six children.
Joseph Davis, one of st. Joseph's pion-
GERS, died few nights ago, aged eighty
eight years. He located in St. Joseph in
1871. Five children and his wife survive
| aim. He at one time owned the north half
| If st. Joseph, buying it from Joseph Robi-
loux, the founder of the city. He was
worth about Il, 000.00).
The new st. Joseph city directory just
issued, gives st. Joseph a population Of
1928, using the multiple 81.
Thomas \. Carson died at st. Joseph,
recently, aged thirty eight years, with
Uphold fever. He had been deputy sheriff
Of Buchanan County.
Mrs. Charles W. Lyon died at Sedalia
recently, of blood poisoning. Deceased
was thirty eight years of age and was held
IN high esteem.
Patrick Whelan. q teamster at Kansas
City, and his team of mules were killed by
freight train few days since. He was
.orty-seven years old and leaves a wife
ami seven children in poor circumstances.
The Jury III the case of Henry Ammel,
indicted for the murder of his mother-in-
law, Mrs. Wilhelmine Smith, at st. Louis,
rendered q Yer 1ict acquitting the defend
ant on the sole ground of insanity. He
las been placed in the asylum
Mr.. Charles Parsons, president of the
Slate Bank of st. Louis, met with double
bereavement, recently, in the loss of mis-
wife, Mrs. Martha Parson, and her vener-
able mother, Mrs. Caroline Il. Pettus,
both dying within a few hours of each
other.
Henry Smith, twenty eight years of
age, a cigar-maker, fell dead in a saloon
in st. Louis few days ago. He had been
suffering from paralysis for some time.
a new postal law has just gone into
effect. At any letter-carrier office, when
mail matter is addressed to a person
whose street and number are known, or
readily ascertained by the postmaster,
and upon which the postage is wholly or
partly unpaid, the sender being unknown,
the notice of detention will not be sent as
heretofore, but the matter will be pre-
sented by the carrier and deficient post
age collected.
Captain Francis NJ. Postgate, of ST. Jo-
seph, was nominated without balloting
by the Republicans of the Fourth district,
to fill the vacancy in the Fiftieth and
Fifty first Congresses, caused by the death
OF the late James n Burnes
st. Louis is reveling in dust.
Two colored boys, charged with murder,
We're sentenced to the penitentiary at ST.
Louis, few days ago. They were Robert
Alexander, indicted for the murder in the
fire II ,,,l d
the second degree. Both pleaded guilty
to the latter offense and were each SEN
fenced to ten years in the penitentiary by
Judge Nornile.
The annual State tournament of the Mis-.
sourl State Sportsmen's Association will
take place in Kansas City early in June,
Governor Francis granted a respite in
the cases OF William Walker and John
Matthews, the BALD Knobbers" sentenced
to be hanged on the 18th, until April 10.
Hon. Norman J. Colman has the homo,
OF being the first Secretary of Agriculture
Rachel Willis, wife of VIM. A Willis,
traveller for the W. A. Woods Mower and
Reaper Company. committed suicide in
st. Louis, few days since, by shooting
herself through the heart the wound caus-
ing instant death. No cause is known for
the deed. She leaves husban and four
year-old daughter.
The proposed st. Louis militia trip to
Washington next month has been aban.
doned.
Mrs. o. H. Perry, of Savannah, wife oil
leading merchant dropped dead with
heart disease at her home, a few DAYS
ago, while attending to her household du.
ties.
Mrs. Grace Vale January. of st. Louis
Is reputed to be worth $1,000, 600.