Iron County register., 1900-02-08
A St. Louis Letter.

Ed. Register-Died. on January 2S,
1900, at S:22 P. NJ, Mr.. R. j. Fitzpat-
rick, aged so years, l. months, and 8
days. Deceased was born and reared
in Iron county in which county he had
resided continuously with the excep-
tion of about s months when. he with
his family went east, settling in Wes-
terley, r. I. Not satisfied, however.
with the surroundings and customs of
to Missouri in January 1898, locating
in ST. Louis, in which city they have
since lived. Mr.. Fitzpatrick was a
lifelong Democrat, ever espousing the
cause of Democracy, a staunch sup
porter of his parties ticket, National,
State, County and Municipal, having
filled positions OF honor both in con-
gressional and county affairs. Mr..
Fitzpatrick was a granite cutter by
trade but his trade has had very little
| inducements for men in that line in
Missouri during the past few years, so,
in order to supply his family with the
necessaries of life, obtained employ
ment at Granite City, Ills, with the
St. Louis Steel Works, and as this COM
pany are working an immense force
running day and night, Mr.. Fitzpat-
rick was employed in the night gang.
On Monday and Tuesday nights he
went to his work as usual, feeling all
right, as he stated to his family when
starting out Tuesday evening. Wednes-
day morning January oath, at about
| four o'clock in the morning he went
aud got drink of water and in a few
minutes began chilling, growing steadi-
| ly worse and started home feeling very
| bad. He arrived home about z A. NJ.
and went directly to bed. DR.. West
brook was summoned and administered
medical aid, but despite all medical
assistance, no relief seemed to come
suffering intense pains constantly from
Wednesday until death came and called
him from farther suffering at the hour
of 1929 Sunday evening. Deceased was
member of Mosaic Lodge, A. F. &
A. NJ, No. 351, Belleview, Mo-, a
member of the M. E. church, good
citizen, kind neighbor, a loving hus-
band an affectionate father; kind and
indulgent in all walks of life. Rev.
DR.. John Young, of Centenary M. E.
church, South, conducted the funeral
services at their residence at 2 P. NJ.
Thursday, after which all that was
mortal was conveyed to Bellefontaine
cemetery and laid at rest in the Mason
ic lot under the rites and ceremonies of
Anchor Lodge, No. 443., A. F. & A. NJ,
followed by a cortege of mourning
friends. just little while before his
death he called his family to his bed
side and told them he was going to die
and that he was prepared to meet his
God. Bidding them all good by he
then says to me, "Charlie am going" !"
conscious until within two minutes of
the summons of the Great Ruler.
Deceased leaves loving wife and three
grown daughters. Lizzie, Vida. Nobia
and one son, Clifton, aged 16 years, to
mourn the loss of a departed husband
and father.
Cheer up dear friends. for while
your loss is his eternal gain you have
the blessed assurance that happy are
they that die in the Lord.
Mrs. John ID. Webb of Belleview
came up to attend the burial OF her
brother, r. j. Fitzpatrick, last week.
St. Louis is having her share OF very
destructive fires the past few sdays.
The record is about 21 disastrous fires
inside of six days. involving hundreds
of thousands of dollars worth of prop
erty and loss of human lives, whose
value cannot be replaced or restored.
A few weeks ago we took the occa-
sion to offer comment upon an edi-
torial of the Globe Democrat anent the
election of Mr.. William Goebel to the
Governorship of Kentucky. We said
then that if the votes were honestly
counted and not hampered by the tao
tics of the MALTA. backed up by the
l.. & N. r. r. corporation, that Mr..
Goebel would have had a clean ma
jority from Alpha to Omega. Subse-
Quent actions of the special election
commissioners have proven our asser-
tions beyond reasonable doubt. An
old biblical saying is, "What doth it
profit man to gain the whole world
and lose his own soul?" This, in one
sense, is applicable to the case of the
late Mr.. Goebel while, through an
honest recodnt of the ballot, achieved
the honor of his aspirations for short
| time only, but lost his own life, which
is directly chargeable to the dastardly
and damnable tactics of the L. & N.
e. E. Co. and its cohorts. We doubt
If there's a decent or respectable
man living in the country to-day, be
he Democrat or Republican, but what
deplores the actions OF Mr.. Taylor in
his present attitude in the great COM
monwealth of Kentucky. This state
of affairs calls TO ones memory
Samuel ]. Tilden's election of 1876,