DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA - VITALS - Deaths, Feb 1890 --------------¤¤¤¤¤¤-------------- This file is part of the DCGenWeb Archives Project: http://www.usgwarchives.net/dc/dcfiles.htm ********************************************* http://www.usgwarchives.net/dc/dcfiles.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ********************************************* Contributed to The USGenWeb Archives Project by: Bonnie McDonald (bonniemcd@sbcglobal.net) The Washington Post, February 24, 1890 Pages 2, 6 DIED DUNN—On February 23, 1890, Ellen M. Dunn, wife of the late Col. David M. Dunn, aged fifty-eight years. Funeral on Tuesday, February 25, from her late residence, 935 P street northwest. CARRIER—On Feb. 22, 1890, Mrs. Nevilley Carrier, wife of Asa L. Carrier, aged 52 years. Funeral will take place from Flectcher M.E. Chapel, corner Fourth street and New York avenue, Tuesday, 25, at 2 p.m. At Rest. BALLANTYNE—On Friday, February 21, 1890, Christina Cairns, wife of William Ballantyne. Funeral on Monday, February 24, at 3 p.m., from the residence, 1328 Vermont avenue. No flowers. MITKIEWICZ—At Hadley, Mass., of diptheria, Dora, daughter of Count E. de Mitkiewicz, aged nine years. O’DELL—On Saturday, February 22, 1890, at Brown’s Mansion, Seventh street road, T.T. O’Dell, aged eighty-four years. Funeral Monday afternoon at 2 o’clock. Relatives and friends invited. Death of Miss Laura Sunderland. Mr. James L. Norris last night received a telegram from Rev. Byron Sunderland, dated at Catskill, N.Y., saying that Doctor Sunderland’s daughter, Miss Laura, “died at 7:30 p.m. this evening.” Miss Sunderland was attacked by the grip some time ago, the disease seriously impairing her health. She went to the home of her sister, Mrs. Orrin Day, at Catskill, in the hope of recuperating, but she continued to decline. About two weeks ago Doctor Sunderland went to her bedside and remained until her death. The funeral arrangements will not be decided upon until to-day. Miss Sunderland was one of the best known ladies in the city. She was particularly prominent in charitable works, and the memory of her good deeds will remain long after her body has been consigned to earth. Alexandria. Edward Beenton, an old colored man, who for some time past has been in the employ of Garrett & Monroe, dropped dead yesterday of heart disease, in Whiting’s store in the Fourth ward. Anacostia. The funeral of the late Frank Kelly took place from his residence, on Washington street, yesterday, and was largely attended. Yost Schloesser, a German Hostler in the Washington and Georgetown Car Stables, Takes His Life—He Had Been Crazy on the Subject of Suicide for Sometime. The last chapter of the life-history of Yost Schloesser, an aged German, was written yesterday when the jury impaneled by Coroner Patterson decided that he came to his death by suicide by drowning on February 5. For two days the horribly decomposed corpse of the man rested in the morgue at the New Jersey avenue station, unidentified and unclaimed. The discovery of his body in the open sewer at the foot of Seventeenth street, on Friday, served to excite the wild imaginings of many who thought it was another mysterious murder to be added to the annals of crime, and it was only yesterday morning, when relatives of the deceased identified him and told their pitiful story of his life before the coroner that the mystery was dissolved. The dead man was Yost Schloesser, a German, who for the past fifteen years has been employed as a hostler at the stables of the Washington and Georgetown Railroad, near the Capitol. He was somewhat eccentric, and for the past several months his eccentricity developed into a species of suicidal mania. He made repeated attempts as self destruction, and according to the testimony of the witnesses, talked constantly of being pursued by soldiers who wanted to kill him, but he declared he would defeat their object by killing himself. The inquest was held at 11 o’clock, and just before that hour two young men, William H. Schloesser and Henry W. Schloesser, went to the station. Their uncle had been missing since February 5, and they thought the unidentified body in the morgue might be his. They were not wrong in their surmise, and quickly identified him by a peculiarly cramped thumb, which some time ago was twisted in a halter chain, and by his clothes. The chain of identification was completed when Christian Anderson and Henry Becker, of 303 First street southwest, at whose house Schloesser lived, saw the body. Thomas Loveless, who found the body, and Officers Hanley and Holmes, who assisted in removing it to the station, testified to the facts as already published in The Post. After hearing the testimony of the two nephews and Anderson and Becker, regarding the identification of the man and his mental condition, a verdict was rendered as above stated. Deputy Coroner Shaeffer also gave testimony regarding the autopsy, which showed that the death was caused by drowning. Coroner Patterson gave a certificate of burial, and the body will be interred by the relatives of the deceased.