Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1903-04-16
MORTUARY.

at Yonkers, N. Y, Agnes Hyde
Bangs, wife of John Kendrick Bangs,
died suddenly of heart disease.
At Worcester, Mass, John D..
Washburn, United States minister to
Switzerland under President Harri-
son from 1889 to 1892, is dead.
President Ramsay of the Wabash
railroad left Alexandria, Egypt, with
the remains of his daughter, who died
at Cairo, and will arrive in New York
April 25.
Captain George w. Bever, a capt
talist of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, died at
Ocean Beach, Cal. from paralysis. He
was captain of Battery, A. Iowa light
artillery, during the Spanish-American
war.
Margaret Neve, King Edwards old
est subject, died at her home in Ger
many. For ITO years she preserved
her health, strength and even her eye
sight, and was known throughout
the United Kingdom.
The will of Gustavus H. Swift the
great Chicago packer, was filed for
probate. 1t disposes of S12 100000
estate. Some $25O,OO0 is to be dis
tributed by the widow to charities.
The balance is left to her and chill
dren.
DR.. Labordi, one of the most
eminent Paris physicians and mem
Der of the Academy of Medicine, died.
Probably his most notable achieve
ment was the invention of the
method of rythmical traction of the
tongue.
William P. Beldan, aged AZ years,
for twenty years one of the leading
journalists and republican politicians
of the Mohawk valley, died suddenly
of apoplexy at Albany, where he was
deputy senate clerk. He graduated
from Yale and was one of the found
ers of the Yale News.
Ole Brauder Olson, aged AZ years,
editor of the Norwegian prohibition
list newspaper Reform, formerly a
member of the national committee of
the prohibitionist party, several times
a nominee for congressman and lieu
tenant governor in Wisconsin and a
lecturer of note, died at his home in
Eau Claire
]. B. Atherton, one Of the richest
and most influential men in the
Hawaiian islands, died at Honolulu
after long illness. He was Sc years
old and largey interested in the de-
velopment of the sugar industry. His
son arrived in Honolulu from Boston
a few hours after Atherton's death
The decendent went from Boston to
Honolulu in 1855
Henry Van Brunt, well known as an
architect and as the designer of the
electricity building at the worlds
fair in Chicago, is dead at the resi-
dence of his brothers widow in Mil
ton, Mass. He entered Harvard and
was graduated with the class of 1854.
He was member of the firm of Ware
& Van Brunt in Boston and designed
Memorial hall at Harvard university,
the Nudge Memorial church at Lynn
and the First Unitarian church of
Boston. During the civil war he was
secretary to the admiral of the north
Atlantic squadron. In 1888 Mr.. Van
Brunt took up his residence in Kan
sas City. He is survived by a widow,
five sons and two daughters.
Waldo Abner Western, for many
years a resident and prominent bust
ness man of Chicago, died Monday at
Libertyville, Ill. Mr.. Weston was
born in Randolph, VT, Jan. 8, 1880.
In 1855 he removed to Wisconsin,
where he lived until 1864 when he en-
listed in the first Wisconsin heavy
artillery that served in the defense of
Washington After the war he came
to Chicago and from 1871 to 1886 he
was in the lumber business. In 1886
he removed to Libertyville He leaves
widow, and four children-Mrs. Will.
liam Martin, Mrs. Charles Galbraith.
Mrs. Homer A. Squire and Albro w.
Weston.