Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1902-08-07


Russian ambassador to France. died
yesterday at Paris.
John w. Ross, for u years a MEM
Der of the board of commissioners OF
the District of Columbia, died.
Mrs. E. B. Kipp, wife of the we'll
known lumberman at Evanston, died
at the Pennoyer Sanitarium in Ken
osha.
George l.. McCahan, for seventeen
years actuary-of the Maryland Institute
of Art, died at Baltimore as &. result
of strokes of apoplexy and paralysis.
Van r. Patterson, ex-jud3e of the
supreme court. of California, is dead
at his home in San Francisco, aged
"a years He was a native of New
York.
Rev. DIR. Stephen l.. Baldwin, re-
cording secretary of the Missionary
Society of the Methodist Episcopal
church, is dead in Brooklyn, N. Y,
aged 81 years.
Paul Van der WORT, aged IS years.
past commander in chief of the Grand
Army of the Republic, died at Puerto
Principe. Cuba, of paralysis of the
heart. Mr.. Van der WORT was born
in Ohio.
| Word has been received of the death
| of Henry j Taylor of Sioux City,
Iowa, leading member of the Iowa
! bar, at Auckland, New Zealand. He
was on tour taken for the benefit of
his health. He graduated from the
Wisconsin university in 1878.
The funeral of Abraham M. Roths-
child, who committed suicide in Chica-
go, was held from the residence, 3725
! Michigan ave. The department store of
which Mr.. Rothschild was until re-
Gently the head, was closed all day.
1t is said that Mr.. Rothschild left an
estate worth 81 ZOO, 900.
| Rogers Porter, assistant manager of
the German-American Insurance COM
pany, died of heart failure in Chi
! cago. He leaves a widow and one
> son. During a business career of
thirty-five years in Chicago Mr.. Por-
ter had made large circle of friends
! and acquaintance.
Major Josiah Pierce, Jr., we'll
known civil engineer, died at Garfield
I hospital, Washington, of typhoid fever,
aged Al years. Deceased was born
in Russia. Since 1882 he had been
| istructor and professor of engineer
ing at the Columbian and the Catho-
lie universities. He was major of
engineers during the Spanish war
| Captain Matthias Knable, aged rs
years, for more than half a century a
steamboat captain in the Missouri and
Mississippi rivers, died at the home of
relatives in st. Joseph. The first
large steamer that ever carried a car
| go north of st. Joseph, the Onaga, was
commanded by him, and was sunk
near the present site of Nebraska
City early in the SOS.
Orrin Sherman Cook, one of the
old settlers of Chicago, died suddenly
from heart trouble at his residence
169 Thirty-sixth street. He was born
in New Haven, N. Y, April 4, 1881
and came to Wisconsin in 1858, where
he was connected with the public
schools, and to Chicago in 1867, where
after twelve years he became super.
intendent of the public schools of the
towns of Lake and Hyde Park In
1887 he accepted the Chicago agency
for Boston publishers.
J. R. Beardsley, aged 70 years, one
: of the wealthiest pioneers of Indiana
died at Elkhart, after an illness ex-
/ tending over three years. The inn
mediate cause of his death was paral
ysis. He was the second mayor OF
Elkhart and served twice as state
, senator. He was the chief pro
prietor of the st. Joseph River Water
Power Company and large owner in
various industries; also director and
former manager of the First National
bank. His wealth is estimated at
1,25O, 900.