Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1903-04-30

Harry V. Lester, senior member CT
Lester Kneeland & Co., Chicago,
stockbrokers, died at his New York
home of pneumonia.
Mrs. Judith Nash Burke, the oldest
person in Waukegan, died at the age
of "a at the home of her son, Edmund
Burke, a Chicago lawyer
| Stewart l.. Moore, aged so years,
general freight agent of the Northern
Pacific railway. died suddenly OF
pleurisy at his home in st. Paul.
Professor e. H. Nourse, for many
years professor of music in the Chi
cago public schools, died at his home
in Downer's Grove from typhoid
fever
Arlowe Kingsbury Miller, Chicago,
son of Charles X. Miller, died at Bos-
ton of acute Emphatic lenkaemia,
of which, physicians say, no cure is
known. He was a member of the
| Harvard freshman class and was the
only freshman to make the Harvard
fencing team. He was FL years old
Francis M. Scala, aged "a, first
director of the marine band, died at
Washington. He was born in Naples.
He inaugurated the popular concerts
in the white house grounds, and led
the marine band in every administra-
ton from Tyler's to Grants. He was
the author of a number of musical
compositions.
Colonel John T. Crisp, aged IS
years, one of the most prominent
men in Missouri, died at his home at
Independence, Mo. Colonel Crisp
served through the civil war in the
confederate army, was a prominent
member of the state legislature, and
at the time of his death was state
fish commissioner.
Mrs. John Kruttschnitt, aged 70,
mother of e. B. Kruttschnitt, chair
man of the democratic state central
committee and of Julius Kruttschnitt,
vice-president of the Southern Pacific
railway, died at New Orleans. Mrs.
Kruttschnitt was a sister of the late
Judah P. Benjamin, secretary of state
in the confederate cabinet.
Miss Elizabeth w. hampton, who
for twenty-eight years had been
teacher in ST. Louis schools, is dead
of pneumonia. Miss hampton, who
was well known as a writer of chill
dren's stories, was cousin of
Samuel L. Clemens and of Colonel
Henry Watterson and a niece of DR..
Frederick Pentecost a noted divine.
William r. Arthur a prominent
citizen of Champaign. ILL.,, died at his
home in that city April 20 at the age
of so years after an illness of two
and half months. Mr.. Arthur's
name is closely connected with west
ern railroad history, he having been
general superintendent of the Illinois
Central railway during the early COS.
Later he was connected with the
Missouri Pacific railway in the same
capacity.
Lyman J. Carlock of Peoria, who
was appointed judge of the court of
first instance for the island of Luzon
by President Taft, is dead at Cebu.
Congressman Graft, his former law
partner received word though the
war department that death was due
to cholera. He was born near Bloom
ington thirty-eight years ago and
went to Peoria ten years ago. He
leaves widow and two children,
who are at Cebu.
John N. Crawford, literary editor
of the Chicago Evening Journal, died.
Mr. Crawford came to Chicago in
1875 and entered journalism. He was
first connected with the Tribune AMI
later was an editorial writer on the
Herald. He remained with that
paper fifteen years, retaining his con-
nection when it became the Times
Herald He had been with the Even
ing Journal three years. He was
born in 1884 in Washington county,
Pennsylvania. He went to Daven-
pert, Iowa, in 1857 and practiced law
there nearly twenty years. His
widow and daughter survive.