Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1904-12-19
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Mrs. Lucy Bush, a negress, aged
los, died in Posey county, Indiana.
She was a former slave in Kentucky.
Father William Kroeger, the noted
priest healer of Epiphany, Hanson
county, S. D., died of dropsy after
brief illness
Arson H. Wood, aged 70, formerly
superintendent of the Chicago
division of the Wabash railway, died
in Pasadena, Cal.
Rev. R. F. Sweet, for a long time
pastor of Trinity Episcopal church in
Rock Island, ILL.,, is dead in that city.
He was 70 years old.
Louis Heilprin, 81 years old, for
years the head of one of Chicago's
largest wholesale cloak manufactures,
L. Heilprin & Co., died of apoplexy
in his office.
Rev. John w. Chadwick, aged 65,
one of the oldes clergymen in point
of service in the Unitarian church
and widely known as writer, died at
his home in Brooklyn.
James N. Tyner, former assistant
attorney general, was buried from his
late residence in Washington, D. c.,
the remains being placed in a vault al
Oak Hill cemetery temporarily.
D. E. Mckinley, United States con-
sui at Athens Greece, died. The re,
mains will be brought to Cedarburg,
Wis, his former home. The inter
ment will be in the family lot at
Saukville.
Ex-Mayor James McCord, of La
Crosse, one of the best known whole
sale druggists Of the northwest, died
from liver trouble. He was born at
New Bedford, Pa, in 1871, coming to
Wisconsin in 1857.
Robert E. Lewis, aged rs, capitalist
and philanthropist, died at Water
town. He donated handsome drink
ing fountain and soldiers monument
to the city and endowed a home fol-
the aged at Glens Falls, N. Y.
DR.. S. S. Purmer of Washington, D..
c., died on a Northern Pacific train
west of Fargo, N. D., while en- route
from Fort Columbia to Fort Smelling.
DIR. Purmer was 70 years of age and
had been resident Of Davenport Ia.
since 1861.
Former Judge Theodore D. Eagal,
pioneer of Iowa, died at the rest
dence of his daughter, Mrs. Fremont
Graham, in Blue Island, aged 81
years. Until the last few years he
had been an army contract surgeon
going there from Pittsburg in the
early sos.
William Blake Of New York, aged
/ 81, well-known lawyer, author and
athlete and advocate of physical Gull
ture, was stricken with apoplexy, and
died. He had been in the best or
health. Mr.. Blaikie held the long
distance outdoor walking record for
ten years, and was founder of the in,
tercollegiate games of America in
1873.
Captain Joseph W. Collins, chair,
man of the Massachusetts fish and
| game commission, died of pneumonia,
i at the age of 60 years. In 1880 Cap,
| tain Collins was one of the commits,
| sion appointed by the United States
! to attend the fishery exhibition at
Berlin, and three years later he went
! to London in a similar capacity
| President Mckinley in 1896 appointed
him to prepare the American exhibit
at an international exhibition at Ber-
| gen, Norway.
Mrs. George Henry Gilbert the
veteran actress who died in Chicago,
was buried in New York. Services
were held in the Bloomingdale Re,
formed church, and hundreds were I'm
able to gain admittance because Oh
! the CROWDS. Many of the best-knOwn
members of the theatrical profession
were present A floral piece from her
own company bore the name Of her
! last character, Granny. The honorary
bearers were Francis Wilson, Clyde
Fitch, John Drew, Nat Goodwin,
! George Gould, Sir Charles Wyndham,
A. M. Palmer, Daniel Frohman, for,
mer Justice Joseph F. Daily, Frank E
Aiken, William Bispham and James
Van Amringe.