Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1902-05-15

Filipino woman who was a spy ana
scout for the Americans, is dead.
] j. T. Bellows, prominent quaker,
who received the honorary degree OF
master of arts from Harvard univer-
sity, is dead in London.
John Critchell, who was prominent
in Chicago insurance circles for
twenty five years, died at Glenwood
Fla, where he had been for four
mounths on account OF poor health
Jonathan Sprague, the oldest Odd
Fellow in Michigan, died at Ann Arbor
of pneumonia. He was made an Did
Fellow in 1916 and had held all the
Offices in the grand lodge and grand
encampmeni.
President Ruthrauff of Wittenberg
college died from supposed worry over
an insult by the students in inviting
another member of the faculty to pre-
side at commencement. Congestion Of
the brain was the direct cause Of
death.
Stephen B. Bowles, for several
years familiar figure on the Chicago
board of trade. died at the residence
of his daughter Mrs. C. W. Arthur
Mr.. Bowels was born in Bangor. Me-.
in 1880 and came to Chicago shortly
after the civil war.
It FL Paso, Texas, A. II. Schofield,
half brother of former Lieutenant
General Schofield, committed suicida
by shooting himself. Schofield was a
man OF family, secretary of the
! Baptist church and bookkeeper for
Jumper company.
Theodore Lattan, ST. 81 years old
d Chicago pioneer, died OF pneumonia
Mr.. Lattan, then painting con-
I tractor, came to Chicago in 1851 from
/ Wisconsin. He conducted a prosper
GUS business until 1874. when he re
tired from active life.
In New York Paul Leicester Ford
the novelist and historian. was shot
and killed by his brother, Malcolm W.
Ford, the noted athlete The latter
was disinherited by his father for in
attention to business, and blamed his
brother for the failure at a family
reconciliation.
At Huntington. w. Va, Mrs. Sarah
Pelot of Louisville. who was on a
visit to her son, is dead. She was
with the treasury department of the
southern confederacy during the civil
war, and all the confederate money
bore the signature written by her hus-
band. She was 20 years old.
William c. Snyder. a prominent
business man and republican leader,
died at his home in Fulton, III. He
was so years of age and had resided il
! Illinois since 1847. He was post
master for twenty years, resigning in
1888, after having been elected to the
state senate, in which he served one
term. He was prominent in tenn
perance and Masonic circles.
John Shorten, editor of the Cripple
Creek Herald, and one of the best
known newspaper men in Colorado,
died while sitting in his chair in the
lobby of hotel Mr.. Shorten was IS
years old and was born in England.
He saw service in the confederate
army and was on board the Trent al
the time of the capture of the con
! federate agents, Mason and Slidell.
Mother Agatha of ,he Sisters OF
Charity died in Chicago after an H.
Iess of three months. she was IS
years old. Mother Agatha began her
religious work Dec. Is 1874. She was
born in Ireland Sept. 8. 1926, and
came to this country with her parents
in 1885. Elenor Hurley was her name
in the world. The family lived seven
years in New York. then rer,Oved to
Dubuque, Iowa.
Major William Wagner is dead at
his home at Short Hills, N. j. Major
| Wagner was secretary of the Denver
and Rio Grande railway. He was
born at Philadelphia. and in 1870 went
to Colorado. where he became in
terested in the pioneer railroad of
that state. He was one of the found
ers of Colorado Springs, and remained
for years one of it's foremost citizens,
being the first mayor of the city.
At Wabash, Ind. Wesley Lyttie,
father of the famous leila Nicolaus,
alleged to have held up the Gould
family for 100000 ten years ago, died.
| He was a soldier and unostentatious
in his personal relations and very
different from the dasning Zella. Mr..
Lyttle until a few months ago ran a
small grocery, and was in straitened
| circumstances. He took pride in his
hayward daughter and defended her
against newspaper aspersions.
| DR.. Thomas Wilson. curator OF
prehistoric archaeology in the Smith
sonian institution and the National
museum for years. died in Washington
in the seventeen year of his age. DIR.
! Wilson was born in Pennsylvania, but
at an early age moved to Iowa and
studied law. During the civil was ne
was captain of a company in the
Secony Iowa cavalry, After the war
he went TO Washington and practiced
law, and later served for years in the
consular service.
| Former Judge George w. Ambrose
of Omaha and afterward of Chicago
| n narcppal friend of William / PryaD