Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1903-06-29

NOR has it that he again meditates
matrimony.
Maj. James b. Pond lecture mana
ger. died at Jersey City IN. j. fol-
lowing amputatiOn of leg. He was 60
years old and his boyhood was spent
in Wisconsin.
Rev. William + T. Spruill, Evans
ton. died He was for twenty-five
years one OF the best know, members
of the Illinois conference of the
Methodist Episcopal l..urch.
William A. Koch. aged SO years, a
native of Germany, who went to
Waukesha, from Columbus, o., twelve
years ago, died from heart failure.
He was a furniture dealer and under
taker.
At Mayville, KY, Sanders, a negro,
pleaded guilty to assaulting members
of the Farrow family and was given
five years in the penitentiary. Man
and Morris, his companions, were
found guilty and Jared likewise.
At st. Joseph, Mich, Mrs. Isabella
then stretched herself out in a bath
tub. When found she was dead
Two years ago her husband killed
himself in a precisely identical man.
lner.
Louis Hammerslough, pioneer dry
goods merchant of Kansas City. died.
aged 6S years. He was born at
Hanover Germany, and came to this
country in 1854. He was in the dry
goods business at Baltimore and
later at Springfield, H., moving to
Kansas City in 1858.
Mrs. Jockey Perry. 101 years old.
died at Waverly, la. She was born on
May s, 1902. at Georg, VT. Until the
day before her death she was in ex-
cellent health, receiving visitors and
talking of her girlhood days The
events of the war of 1912 were vivid
in her memory.
Judge Rauseldon Cooper, aged 5S
years. of Henderson county, H., died.
He has been county Judge since 1890
and was states attorney ten years
previous to that time. He was born
in Henderson county and was educat-
ed at Lombard college, Galesburg, and
Ann Arbor law school.
Samuel Vernon Steele, for forty
years a newspaper man OF Chicago
died. He came to Chicago from Lon
don, where he was born sixty years
ago. In 1860 he began work with the
Chicago Times and remained with
that paper until its consolidation with
the Herald. A widow survives.
The death of Major General Frank
Wheaton, L. s. A., retired. occurred
in Washington General Wheaton
was 20 years old. He had an active
military career, and in the civil war
participated in many battles, notably
those in the various Virginia. Mary
land, Pennsylvania and Washington
campaigns.
Grant ions. a former Evanstonian
AM Chicago newspaper man. died of
heart failure at Grand Encampment.
Wyo He was founder and editor OF
the Dillon (Wyo) Doubleack. Mr..
Jones was 80 years old and a native
| of Kentucky. He was educated al
Northwestern university. and after
| his graduation became a newspaper
reporter in Chicago.
Maj. Stephen johnson. aged 81
years, died at his home in Piqua. o.,
/ of paralysis. He drafted the cnarter
of the Columbus. Piqua. and Indiana
railway. now the Pennsylvania line to
Chicago aud St. Louis, and was for a
quarter of a century its counsel He
had been a member of the legislature
and served i'm the Eleventh Ohio dur
| ing the civil war. He was a presi-
Dental elector on the Lincoln ticket
and was the greenback candidate for
governor of Ohio in 1877.
VIII c. Van Benthuysen of the
editorial staff of the World died in
| New York He was about AZ years OF
age and leaves a widow, three sons
and two daughters. Mr.. Benthuysen
Joined the forces of the World in 1898.
going from the Chicago Tribune. He
was born in Iowa. near Bloomfield.
were he first entered the newspaper
business. Later he was employed by
the Leavenworth (Kan.) Times and in
1888 came TO Chicago. On the
Tribune he advanced rapidly from
reporter to chief telegraph editor,
then to night editor, and in 1890 was
appointed managing editor, which
post he held until he went to New
York.