Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-09-18
LESTER A. ROSE, DEAD.

Last Wednesday evening, September
18th, 1900, the startling information of
the death of Lester A. Rose was dis
patched to his family in this city from
Milwaukee, in which city he had died
at $50 o'clock. 1t was a severe shock
to Mrs. Rose, as it certainly was to his
son, Henry, who was visiting in Illinois
at the time, The sad news spread rap
idly throughout the city and express
sions of sorrow were heard on every
hand. The death of Mr.. Rose came
suddenly while he was sitting at meal
in a restaurant, and fifteen minutes
after he was taken sick he breathed his
last, the cause being heart trouble.
Very few knew that he had been
ailing at all, for, though his appearance
indicated that he was far from well,
still he was accomplishing and his
thoughts seemed to be for the welfare
of others than for himself. Only a
week previous he said that he was
going cut to write series of articles
for the Milwaukee Sentinel, commenc-
ing with the Soldiers Home at Wau-
paca, but that Mrs. Rose was too sick
for him to go at that time. Since, we
have been informed that Mr.. Rose had
had several spells of heart trouble with
in fortnight of his death, and it was
thought that he could not survive one
of those attacks. With reference to the
illness and death of Mr.. Rose, the P,1oT
copies the following from the Milwau-
kee Sentinel
the best known men in the Wisconsin
River Valley, and until recently, Secre-
tary OF the Wisconsin Valley Advance
ment Association, died suddenly of
heart failure in private dining room
above the Weber & Mclaughlin res
taurant on East Water street, at $50
o'clock yesterday Wednesday, after
noon.
Mr.. Rose was taken suddenly i'll
while sitting in the restaurant and was
taken up stairs to the private dining
ROOM He was alone when he became
i'll and as he grew rapidly worse a
physician was summoned at once
Within fifteen minutes after being
taken with his fit of sickness Mr.. Rose
was dead, in spite of prompt medical
aid
There was no one at the restaurant
when Mr. Rose was taken i'll who knew
him, and not until the body had been at
the Peacock undelta king room for
some time was his identity known
Mir. Rose came to Milwaukee on Mon
day to attend the state fair and regis
tered at the st. Charles hotel Yester-
day morning he left the hotel, but re-
turned at about 8 o'clock. That was
the last time he was seen alive by any
one who knew him.
As nearly 2s is known. Mr.. Rose
went from the hotel to Weber d
McLaughlin's and when sitting at a
table was taken sick. He told the head
waiter that he felt badly and was adj
vised to go to private dining room on
the second floor. Mr. Rose was becom-
ing worse and after he lay on sofa in
the dining room DIR. F. T. Riley, the
nearest physician, was summoned. He
had not been attending Mr.. Rose five
minutes before death came
Mr.. Rose leaves wife and one son.
His home was at Wausau. where he
was associated for couple of years
with Edgar Wheelock in publication Of
the Daily Record. He had not been in
good health for some time, saying on
the occasion of his last visit here that
he intended taking good rest before
going into active work again.
Mr.. Rose was hard worker and a
vigorous and f0rcibIe writer. As Sec
rotary Of the Valley Advancement
Association he conceived it one of the
foremost purposes of the organization
to give the widest possible publicity to
the resources of the Wisconsin Valley
and along this line furnished very
large amount Of matter to the leading