Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-12-11
MORTUARY.


state lecturer for Iowa in Odd Fellow
ship, died in Webster City, Iowa.
Samuel B. Hall, aged SO years, for
merly editor and proprietor Of the
Carlyle Democrat, died at Carlyle, Ill.
Major P. S. Scott, aged 81 years,
one of the oldest citizens of Peters
burg, ILL.,, died at his home in thai
city.
Robert Earl, aged 70 years, formerly
judge of the New York state court of
died at his home in Herkl-
mer, N. Y, of paralysis.
Count Richard Beloredi, who was
premier at the time of the Austria
Prussian war, died at Gmunden,
Austria He was born in 1928.
John Bolens, a pioneer resident of
ManitoWoc, Wis, and in early days
prominent in political and business
circles, died yesterday at the age of
GA.
Mrs. Malinda Lowell, aged los years,
said to have been the Oldest woman in
Indiana, died at her home in Bedford.
She was born in North Carolina in
1897.
Lieutenant James R. Tyler, for
seven years an inmate of the con.
federate soldiers home at Richmond,
Va, died. He was a grandson of
President Tyler.
A cablegram received at Muscatine,
Iowa, announces the death at Dion,
France, of Rev. P. Laurens, aged 81
years. pastor of st. Mathews church
of Mus catine.
Mrs. Ellen Orbeson, aged sc years,
widow of John Harris, formerly
United States consul at Venice, and a
distinguished confederate nurse, died
at Florence, Italy.
Charles Turner Hills, aged 81 years,
died at Muskegon, Mich. He was a
pioneer lumberman. In 1900 he gave
a $4,000 Masonic home to the
Muskegon commandery.
DR.. F. G. Stone, aged 70, one of the
Oldest physicians in southeastern
Iowa, dropped dead at Burlington of
heart disease. He was born in West
port, n. Y, and went to Iowa in 1874,
Charles B. Barton, a well-known
newspaper man, died of consumption
OF San Bernardino, Cal Instructions
regarding the disposal Of the remains
are being awaited from his family in
Indiana.
Harry P. Lusk, AZ, editor of the
Parsons (Kan.) Morning Sun, died at
Parsons, after a long illness. He was
a prominent republican and was one
Of the best-knoWn newspaper men in
the southwest.
William Few Chrystie, grandson of
William Few, the first United States
senator from Georgia and after the
revolutionary war leading New York
banker, died at his home, Hastings-on-
the-HudsOn, N. Y.
Rev. John Buffin, a well-known
Roman Catholic missionary of the
Italians in the United States and
having headquarters in Providence,
r. l., died in hospital at Kalamazoo,
Mich, from consumption.
Sir Frank Green, aged 67 years, ex-
lord mayor of London, died. He was
the founder and senior member of the
firm of Frank Green & Co., paper
merchants, and for several decades
had been prominent in civic affairs.
William Allan Wildes, a widely
known publisher Of Boston, Chicago
and London, died in Boston, aged rs
years. He was at the head of the
publishing house of w. A. Wildes &
Co., which he established in 1868.
George Riddle, for thirty years a
prominent attorney and widely known
in Grand Army circles, died
in Bloomington, Ill, aged 65. He was
a member of the famous Yates
phalanx during the civil war.
Rev. DR.. Issac T. Tichenor, sec
rotary emeritus of the Home Mission
society of the Southern Baptist
church and one of the best known
clergymen in the south, died at
Mrs. Mary Jane Alexander, aged So
died at the residence of ex-Congress-
man Sharks at Carlyle, Ill. She was
the widow of Colonel Guy Carleton
who was prominently
identified with the construction Of the
Union Pacific railway.
Professor Ludwig Kumlein, holding
the chair of natural history and
in Milton college, died at
Milton, having been i'll since last
spring. He was a man of note as a
naturalist and had written several
books.
The funeral of Col. Thomas P.
Ochiltree was held in New York city.
A solemn requiem mass was celebrat-
ed at the church of the Paulist faith
ers, and the body was placed in a vault
at Calvary cemetery. Among those at
the funeral were Clarence H. Mackay,
E. Berry Wall, James r. Keene and
Foxhall Keene.
A. j. Alexander, aged rs years, one
Of the most celebrated breeders OF
running and trotting horses in
America, died Of heart trouble at his
estate, WOODBURY., in Woodford
county, Kentucky. The great trotters,
Maud S., 2:0S$4, and Jay-Eye-See,
.:10, were bred by him.
Lucus ". Conkey, prominent for
more than a score of years in re
publican politics in Cook county, died
1t his home in Evanston He was
BORN in MeSSina, Lawrence County N.