Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1903-09-10
OBITUARY..

The Turkish consul general at Mar
settles, M. Gaetanaki, died suddenly.
Dr.. Barkhausen, president Of the
Prussian Evangelical church, is dead
at Berlin
Judge John S. Carson, alderman and
county Judge of Belleville, H., for sew
eral terms, died of Brights disease.
Joseph Haworth, the well known
actor, died suddenly in hotel at Will
lOughby, o., of heart disease.
William Sedgwick, president of the
Peninsula bank, is dead at his home in
lshpeming, Mich, after an illness Of
twenty months.
Frederick Law Olmstead, landscape
architect of the Chicago worlds fair
ard many well known parks, died in
Waverly, Mass, aged 81 years.
Rev. Thomas F. Howard, aged AZ
years, Roman Catholic priest OF
Peoria, died at the home of his father,
Thomas Howard, St. Paul of paralysis.
Ingram Fletcher of Indianapolis died
at Orlando, Fla. He was for many
years a partner in the clearinghouse
Of Fletcher e Sharpe He was born
in Indianapolis in 1885.
Colonel Frank A. Pickett, one of
the best known citizens of southern
Illinois, dropped dead at his home in
Carbonate, aged 81 years. He was
for several years mayor of Carbon
dale.
David l.. Murdoch died at Kansas
City, aged 67 years. He was born in
Illinois and served as district judge Of
San Diego county, Cal. He leaves two
brothers, DR.. e. P. Murdoch of Chi
cago and j. T. Murdoch of Streator,
III.
Rev. James M. Hagan, pastor of st.
Francis Xavier's Catholic church, La
Grange, H., died. Father Hagan was
born Nov IL, 1858, in Missouri and
received his education at Georgetown
college, Washington, and at the Uni
versity of Innsbruck, Tyrol, Austria
John p. Runkle, wealthy farmer
and prominent democratic politician,
died at his home in Wheatland, Wis.,
as result of weakness caused by adj
vanced age. He was born Oct. Z, 1927,
and went to Kenosha with his parents
in 1910 and settled in Wheatland,
where he had lived ever since.
Rev. j. s. j. Mcconnell ID. d.. re.
cOrding secretary of the board of
church extension of the Methodist
church, died at Philadelphia !
DR.. Mcconnell was until recently sec
rotary for the Philadelphia confer
ence of the twentieth century fund, in !
which capacity he was instrumental IN
raising $1,710,000. He was GA years
Old
Miss Sarah F. Gardner, the mission
airy, who returned month ago from
India, where she represented the
Woman's Union Missionary society fer
twentyfour years, is dead in the
Catskills, where she had gone to recu-
perate. Miss Gardner took leading
part in the missionary work and
headed the great Hoyt Memorial hos
pttal for the women of India.
DR.. Philip Woolf, formerly editor OF
the Boston Saturday Evening Gazette
and also connected with the Boston
Leader, but a resident of New YORK
city for the past two years, died of
aged SIS years. He was the
author of several novels, including
Who Is Guilty?, Trail of the Serpent,
Satans Mirror, Three Women and al
Dead Man and Goldenrod and Aster
Lester l.. Burlington superintendent
of schools at Peabody. Ma, s., died
after a long illness. He wal born i'll
Burke, W.T. March "a, 1898. de was
of Goddard seminary, IN
Barre. VT, from 1866 to 1878, head
master of the high school department
OF the Illinois state normal school IN
Bloomington, ILL.,, from 1874 to 1879
and principal of Dean academy, at
Franklin, Mass, from 1879 to 1896.
John Carlisle. one of the most prom
inent and formerly one of the wealth
lest men in Cincinnati, died, aged 67
years. He constructed part of the
Ohio and Mississippi railway, was for
merly vice president of the Cincinnati
Hamilton and Dayton railway and
trustee of the Southern railway. He
built the Chattero railway from Ash.
land to Richardson, Ky, to develop his
coal lands and was largely interested
in buildings and business in Cincin-
natl
General Giovaninelli Is dead iu
Sedan after an illness lasting two
days The general distinguished MIN.
self during the French campaign in
Mexico in 1868 as n lieutenant, He
went through the entire siege of Metz
in 1870, commanded regiment ia
Tonkin in 1854 and was promoted a
general before the end OF The cam.
paign. He later served with oi>uEc.
ton in Tunis, Algeria and Madaga
lie was born at Rostino, Corsica. in
1897.
Or George b. Russell. one of the Old