Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-05-23
MISSOURI STATE NEWS
Recent Deaths.


Rails county, at his home IN Centre,
aged IS.
Mrs. Agnes Elliott, of ST. Louis,
aged 70. She was noted for her char
table work.
William A. Fisher, aged 48, n of
the best-known business men of Full
ton.
Mrs. Mary Louisa Miller, at he
home of her son, Mr.. Phil T. Miller,
in jefferson City, of an injury re-
ceived several weeks ago. Mrs. Miller
was born in 1917, and in 1S41 was mar
ried to Mr.. p. 7. Miller, who was well
known in politics for many years.
Samuel c. Graham. aged IS, lat his
home near Centerview, Johnson
ty. He was one of the pioneers of
johnson county, and came from Vir-
ginia in 1888. He was the largest land
owner in the county. The Graham
wheat SO extensively grown in Mis-
souri, took it's name from this family.
William Duncan, a business man OF
Edgerton, Platte county, n a broth
er of Representative A. B. Duncan, of
st. Joseph, in an ambulance at st.
Joseph, from consumption, just after
alighting from a train. He had just
arrived from Natchez, Miss.
Capt. Charles B. Tilden, politician,
steamboatman and ex-confederate
soldier, at the home of his daughter,
Mrs. F. l.. Young, 143OA ST. Ange av-
enue, ST. Louis, of infiammatory
rheumatism.
Mrs. Isaac Gross, a pioneer of Ma
con county. who would have reached
the advanced age of 101 years on the
18th of next June, at her daughters
home near Cottage, Macon county.
She was born in North Carolina in
1900, and came to Missouri in 1929, To-
eating at Huntsville. She was married
in 1882 to Isaac Gross, who, although
ten years her junior, preceded her to
the grave by Is years. One of Mrs.
Gross p~eculiarities for the past ten
years, was her great desire to attend
funerals, and it is said she was present
at every enc that occurred in her
~neighborhood unless the roads were
so bad a team could lot get to the
obsequies. She had shrunk so that
she only weighed 40 pounds.
Mrs. Catherine Murray, neal Brook
field, aged rs. She had lived in Linn
county since it's first inhabitants came
from Howard county, Mo-, or from
Kentucky or Virginia.
John P. LOOMS, president of Con.
vention hall, and a prominent bust
ness man of Kansas City. He was
born in Neenah, Wis, in 1854.
Lead and Zinc in the Ozarks.
SAYS a Washington special: The re
port on the lead and zinc deposits il
the Ozarks has been completed anC
will be sent to the printer shortly
The report will go quite extensively
into the geological problem of leac
and zinc. 1t will show the condition!
surrounding Gre deposits, and take VI
extensively the geological formation!
as a guide to future prospectors IL
showing the indications of ore. In
cluded in the report will be a valua
BILE map, which has been prepared a
great pains and expense, and which
will show every detail of the lead ant
zinc fields in the Ozark mountains
each section being a tenth of an incl
square on the map. The map will in
clude all of the territory from st
Louis and Kansas City down to For
Smith, Ark. 1t will take in a larg'
part of Missouri, the northern part o
Arkansas, and the northeastern par
of Indian territory. The investiga
ton is one of the most eXhaustiv,
ever attempted by the survey and /
expected to be a handbook for thos
interested in the development of tn
mineral of the section.
Pay of Presidential POstmasters.
Changes in the ~sa1aries of presiden
tial postmasters in Missouri r an
nounced as follows: Pennington, 81.
500 to $1,000; fredericksburg, $1,40
to 81, 800: Excelsior Springs, $1,000 t.
1850; Gallatin, 81 800 to $1,000; Gran
City, $1,000 to S1.4o0; Harrisonvile
$1,000 to 81 1900; Higginsville, $1,700 t.
$1,000: Huntsville, $1,400 to $1,000
Ironton, 81, 200 to $1,10O.
Young Wife Kills Herself.
Mrs. Ethel Maxwell, aged 20, too
carbolic acid, at her home, in 81
Louis. and was found by her hus
band, dying, with their two-year-ol
girl clasping the mother around tn
neck. Mrs. Maxwell nae been ill, an
grew Respondent.
They Don't Like 1t.
Kansas City saloonmen declare tina
if their places are closed on Sunday
newspapers, baseball, theaters, meat
shops, etc. must cease doing bushes:
Fair Grounds Sold.
The St. Francois county fai
grounds were sold at public aution.
few days ago, to Thomas Lang, tn
consideration being $500.
: Killed by a Train.
Ben J. Douglass was killed at RAJ
dolph Springs, Randolph county, b
a Wabash excursion train. His HON
, was in st. Louis county.
Dies on Way to Funeral.
; A. D. Taylor, aged Sc, fell dead a
Nevada while on his way to take
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