Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1903-12-03

his Tooth birthday.
Charles Dupee Blake, author OF
Rock a Bye Baby and otner songs
died at his home in Boston, aged &C
years.
Mrs. Edwin Reynolds of Milwaukee
wife of the engineering head OF the
Allis-Chalmers company, died in
Mansfield, Conn
At Pittsburg Former Postmaste-
Colonel Nathaniel P Sawyer. age
IA, banker, manufacturer, politician
and friend OF President Andrew Jehn-
son, died.
General " D. Groner died il Ncr-
folk, Va. He carried to General
Beauregard from the confederate war
department the message ordering the
attack on Fort Sumter.
Samuel p Huston, former city
counsellor of st. Joseph, Mo, and for
years attorney for the Burlington
railroad, died in St. Joseph after a
brief illness, aged 62 years
Joseph P. Hickey's death in a
Williamsburg IN. Y) hospital makes
an end of a family of six who died
of pneumonia or typhoid in two
weeks
Augustus H. Burley, we'll known in
Chicago life for more than sixty
years, is dead. He was prominent in
business and served the city and
state in many public offices.
Attorney James Albert Briggs died
in l. -
failure. He was born in Courtlandt
county, New York. and in 1855 moved
to Illinois. A widow and two children
survive.
Mrs. J. Edgar Thomson, widow of a
former president of the Pennsylvania
railroad, is dead at Philadelphia. aged
70. By her death the orphan daugh-
tiers of Pennsylvania railroad en-
ployes will secure building capable
of accommodating 300 girls.
t. N. Hooper, president of the
Colfax Northern railroad and formerly
superintendent of the Des Moines
division of the Chicago Great Western
railway, died in Des Moines, of
malarial fever. aged SO years.
Harriet Hubbard Aver, newspaper
writer died in New York City. She
was the former wife of Herbert C.
Aver of Chicago. Over 100000 were
acquired by her as cosmetic maker
The report that the Japanese have
occupied Win, on the YaIu river, is
not given credence
Julian Walbridge Rix, painter of
Californian mountain scenery, died
in New York after an operation He
was b2 years of age and was born in
Peacham, VT His father was Judge
Alfred Rix, a prominent lawyer of
San Francisco. The artist went west
in early life and in 1875 had won a
reputation as a painter.
Rev. Dr. William Charles Roberts,
president of Central university, at
Danville, KY, died from a stroke of
paralysis. 1t was principally through
his efforts that Central university and
Center college were consolidated four
years ago. He was a leader in the
Presbyterian denomination, II years
old and one of the most learned
Welshmen in the world.
Major John Newton of the sixteenth
infantry died at the general hospital
at Washington barracks, Chicago,
aged SO years. Major Newton had
been stationed at Fort Mcpherson,
Ga, and was on leave. visiting his
son, a student at the University of
Virginia, when stricken. He leaves a
widow and several children. He was
a native of New York and was ap-
pointed to the military academy from
Kansas.
William c. Wyman of Baltimore,
died there, aged 70 years. He was a
well known philanthropist, who two
years ago donated sixty acres of land
to the Johns Hopkins university for
its future home and to Baltimore city
for a park, and thus started the move
ment which resulted in the city and
the university acquiring between
them 200 acres of land. and the latter
, institution an addition to its endow-
ment fund of s1,000,000.
Rev. Jonathan S. Willis, former
representative in congress from Della
ware, died near Tilford, Del, OF
cancer of the stomach. aged 70 years
George A. Pratt. one of the Oldest
citizens of Fort Atkinson. Wis.
dropped dead of heart disease. He
/ was 10 years old and the North
western Railway company's station
agent for nearly fifty years. He was
stakeholder in the Cornish, Curtis
& Greene Manufacturing company.
John NJ. Ewing, aged SO years, dice
at the residence of his sister, Mrs. ]
II. Mead, in Sheboygan, Wis, after 6
long Illness. He was once a deputy
auditor of the treasury department al
Washington and formerly secretary
of the republican state central com
! mittee of wisconsin He was promi
nent in politics in Wisconsin for over
twenty years, A widow and daughter
survive him.
Sir John Blundell Maple. Bart, M
| F., is dead in London. He was borr
in 1S45. Sir John for a long time hat
been suffering from Bright's disease
and heart trouble. He was with equa
success a business man race harSs