Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1905-08-07
OBITUARY..

Commander Theodore Burgdorff, u
5. N, retired, died in the United States
naval hospital at Philadelphia. He was
90 years of age.
| William Anderson, for sixty years
member Of the editorial force of the
| Plttsburg Gazette, is dead at his home
| IN Williamsburg, Pa, aged 70 years.
Edward S. Taylor, the first secretary
OF the Lincoln park board, Chicago,
| ana a well-known politician, was in
! stantly killed by a fast train at Evan
ston
The funeral Of Joseph Eakins, for
| merry managing editor of the New
Ycfk Evening World, was held from
the Cathedral of the ASSUMPTION,
Louisville Ky.
Daniel S. Lamont's funeral services
were held at Hillbrook, n. Y, after
winch the body of the former secretary
OIL war was put aboard funeral train
Tor New York City. Ex-President
cleveland and wife were among those
/ present.
word has been received at Boston
by cable CT the death in Seoul. Corea
OF Arthur S. Dixey, private secretary
TO United States Minister Morgan. He
was graduated from Harvard with the
class OF 1902 and was native of Bos-
ton.
Bishop [. w. Joyce was buried from
the Hennepin avenue Methodist
church, Minneapolis The principal
addresses was by Bishop Joseph F.
Berry Of Buffalo, Stephen M. Merrill
of Chicago and John w. Walden of
Cincinnati
Ex-State Senator William E. Finck.
who REPRESENTED Perry county in the
ohio legislature in 1900-01 and the
fifteenth district in the Ohio senate
IN 1698-99 died at Somerset, O., from
injuries received in a natural gas eS;
rlosion in his home.
a telegram from Galveston an
nounces the death of Judge Louis P,
PaQuet Of New Orleans, member of the
city court bench. Judge Paquet was
past grand dictator of the Knights Of
fGcno1' in Louisiana and held the of
flee at his death OF supreme represen-
tative Of the order
john w. StebOins, for many years a
prominent resident of Rochester, N. T.,
i:Gied, aged Sc years. He served in
the assembly in 1855, aud took prom
inent part in the election of William
H. Seward as United States Senator.
in 1904 he was Lincoln presidential
elector
Hugh Roberts Parrish, treasurer of
La Capital company of Buenos AyreS
and a well-known clubman of Phila-
delphia and New York, died at Bryn
Mawr, a suburb of Philadelphia, of
angina pectoris. Mr. Parrish was
taken to a hospital at Bryn Mawr IN a
serious condition and he gradually
grew worse until death ensued.
E1nmette J. Rooney, blind pianist
and organist, died of heart failure at
his residence in Chicago. Mr.. Roney
was born in Chicago twenty-five years
ago, and was educated at the Illinois
Institute for the Blind and later at the
! Chicago Conservatory of Music. AL
though totally blind Mr.. Roney trav
eled throughout the United States
alone.
! John Carbutt, known to photograph
ers the world over, is dead at his home
| in Philadelphia, aged 70 years. He
had been a sufferer from Bright's dis
ease for more than a year. Mr.. Car
QUIT went to Philadelphia from Shef
field, England, in 1853. He was skilled
as a chemist and made scientific pho
Biography his life study The Photog
raphers' Association Of Americ;
! chose him as their first president anC
he acted as official photographer whe1
the Canadian Pacific railroad was con
structed. He made several invention.
facilitating the taking of pictures il
cCl0r, chief of which was the ortho
chr0matic plate. In 1879 he perfect
ed his widely known "Carbutt DIR!
platte which reyolutionized the trade