Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1904-10-06
MORTUARY.

MoRTuARY.
Senator G. F. Hoar of Massachusetts
is dead, aged rs.
Lafcadio Hearn, the famous descrip-
tive writer. died in Japan.
Count Ernst regent of the principal
ity of Lippe. is dead. He was born in
1881.
Judge G.. II. Lewis of Sioux City died
after lingering illness. For twenty
one years he served as district attorney
and district judge.
Mrs. NJ. Alexander author of sew
eral books, Is dead at Mount Vernon,
Ind. Her husband was the founder
of the Mount Vernon library.
Gordon Dewey, the S-year-old son of
Professor John Dewey, formerly of the
University of Chicago, died Sept. II
at Ballinasloe, County Galway, ireland,
of typhoid fever
Stricken with paralysis in the pulpit,
Rev. jacob Steinhaeuser, professor of
Hebrew in Muhlenburg Lutheran Col
lege, died few hours later. He was
formerly president of Wayne College
at Rochester, n. Y.
G. w. Roby, postmaster at Portland,
Oregon, under President Cleveland, is
dead. He was 81 years old and had been
in i'll health for some time. He was a
native of Dane county, Wis. Mr.
Roby at one time was superintendent
of the Portland schools.
Peter Wildt, formerly assistant sec
rotary of state of Minnesota, is dead
/ in Copenhagen, Denmark. He was a
native of Denmark, but resided thirty
years in America. Recently Mr..
Wildt represented an American export
ing firm in Copenhagen.
Milt G. Barlow, the original Black
Joe of the minstrel stage, for many
years widely known as Uncle Tom and
later with the Texas Steer company, is
dead at a private hospital in New York
city from cancer. He was 65 years
old
| Manuel Iturbe, Mexican minister to
Spain, died yesterday at Madrid. Min
lister Iturbe was one of the most prom.
inent members of the Mexican colony
in Europe. He had resided there many
years, and particularly at Paris. He
belonged to one of the richest families
in Mexico.
At New York Rear Admiral Fernan.
do p. Gilmore died of Brights disease
contracted while he was campaigning
in the Philippines, and because of
which he was retired from active
duty two years ago. He was born Aug
15 1917 During the Spanish-Ameri-
can war he commanded the monitor
Monadnock.
John F. Stairs, banker and capital
st of Halifax, and one of the wealth.
est men in eastern Canada, died of
pneumonia. Mr.. Stairs was Sc years
old. Fifteen years ago he attained
prominence as a politician and was
elected to the house of commons as a
supporter of Sir John A. Macdonald,
conservative premier of Canada at that
time
At Stockbridge. Mass, Frederick
William Rhinelander, president of the
Metropolitan Museum of Art of New
York. died of heart disease. Mr..
his active interest in the affairs of the
Metropolitan Museum of Art. He be-
came a trustee of the institution in
1871 and continued as such for thirty
years.
Miss Estele Mortimer an actress in
the Bird Center company, died sudden
ly in Kansas City, Mo, of comolica-
ton of Bright's disease and diabetes.
Miss Mortimer was 80 years olo and
her home was at PA West Forty
third street New York. She began her
stage career in the company of Nine
Janauschek and later was with Booth
and Barrett and also John Mccullough.
Her later engagements were with Nat
Goodwin. with whom she played sew
eral seasons,
Count Sergius. Tolstoi, the brother
of Count Leo, is dead at Moscow. He
was the very antithesis of Count Leo.
residing on his estate in lordly style
and living the life of veritable self
indulgent epicure, while his brother,
clad in homespun, leads the life of an
ascetic. Count Sergius had two daugh-
tiers. who are passionate admirers of
their uncle and whose ideas they
adopted in refusing to marry, one of
them selecting a coachman as her
mate.