Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1902-01-30

while working in his Office and died
as result He had been connected
with the department ten years. His
home was at Des Moines. Iowa.
Judge William H. Dewitt a distin-
guished member of the Montana bar,
is dead of acute heart trouble, at
Butte City He was associate justice
OF the state supreme court for several
years, and in 1900 was a member of
the national committee from Montana.
Welcome Wells. aged 81 years.
pioneer of Ohio and Kansas and
California forty-niner, died at his
home in Manhattan, Kan. He was
born at Danville. VT. He had been
mayor of Troy. N. Y. and a member
of both branches of the Kansas legis-
lature.
Rufus NAPLES, aged rs years, a for
mer district judge in Louisiana and
the author of several well-known law
textbooks. among them NAPLES on At
tachments. died of heart disease at
Ann Arbor. He was born in Dele
ware, moved to New Orleans in 1S49,
where be studied law, and went to
Ann Arbor In 1878.
Captain John H. Lee died at his
home near Benton Harbor, Mich,
after ten days illness with pneumonia.
He was one of the Oldest fruit grow,
ers in that section, having settled
near st. Joseph in 1866. He was born
in Croton Falls, Westchester county.
N. T., in lS43., He was captain of a
colored regiment in the civil war.
lisa s. Richards, who emigrated to
Victor, Iowa, nearly fifty years ago
and who for forty years has been an
extensive operator in western real
estate, died at Victor. His only son,
H. V. Richards of Washington. d. c.,
general land and Industrial agent of
the Southern railway and the Mobile
and Ohio railroad. and six daughters,
who reside in the west, survive him.
Stephen B. Culver. a great-grand.
son OF Colonel Stephen Lee, who was
a member of the Crown Point expedi-
ton of Queen AIMS war in 1906. died
at his home in Mount Vernon. N Y.
AFTER brief illness. He was a cousin
of the countess of Waldersee. wife of
the prime minister of Germany. He
was graduate of Union college and
OF the Columbia school of mines. For
the past twenty years he had been
connected with the custom. house in
New York
Rev. DIR. H. X. Hines is dead. at
portland, Oregon, aged "a DR.. Hines
came to Oregon fifty years ago from
Herkfmer county, N. Y, and during
that time he was connected with the
affairs of the Methodist Episcopal
church in the northwest. AS presid.
ing elder of the states of Oregon.
Washington and Idaho ne became
widely known throughout the north
west. DR.. Hines was president of
the territorial council of Washington
and member of the legislature dur
ing the session of 1S64-1S66. He was
delegate to the national republican
convention in Cincinnati, in 1876.
q. X. Bennett. senior member of
the coal firm of Bennett Brothers and
a prominent business man of Balti-
more, died of Inflammation of the
lungs. Mr.. Bennett was well known
In coal trade circles in the east He
had been in that business for so
years. Mr.. Bennett was descended on
his maternal side from the prominent
Taylor family of Maryland, and on his
paternal side was direct descendant
of Richard Bennett, first governor of
Virginia. He married Miss Lilly
Morrison-Heaf1eich, eldest daughter
of the late>J. d. and Agnes Morrison
Heafieich. of Tuscaloosa, Ala, who
survives him with two daughters.
Professor Emil Seheffer, aged 70
years, one of the best-known chemists
in the country, died at his home in
Louisville. KY, of the infirmities of
old age. In 1870 Professor Scheffer
first discovered the formula for max
ing liquid pepsin and the announce
ment created great sensation in all
medical and chemical circles of the
world. Two years after he discovered
the formula for making the dry, or
powdered, form of pepsin. and he and
his son continued the manufacture of
the article in both forms until 1897.
when Professor Scheffer retired from
business. He was born in Stuttgart,
Wurtemburg, Germany, and came to
this country in 1S49.