Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1905-10-19
OBITUARY..

OBITUARY.
! Helen Peabody, founder and for
/ thirty-six years president OF the West
( ern College for Women at Oxford,
| Ohia, is dead at Los ngeles, Cal.
Mrs. Eleanor Wheeler McClurg, who
died at her summer residence in Con-
necticut, was buried in Chicago. She
was the widow of Gen. A. G. McClurg.
Elias S. Hall of Jamestown, N. Y,
died at New York of Pneumonia, aged
7S. He WAS one of the charter menu
bers of the Civil Service Reform as
sociation.
! Sir Henry Irving, greatest of living
actors, expired suddenly after finish
ing powerful presentation of Lord
| Tennyson's Beckett at Bradford, Eng
| land. Ell was born in 1888.
Rusiness was suspended at BlufftOn,
! Ind, to allow all classes to pay their
| last respects to the late Judge joseph
is. Daley. Six members of the In
diana supreme court and 100 att0r-
neys from surrounding cities were at
the funeral
Mrs. Jean HI. Leslie, widow OF
George Leslie, merchant of Chicago
from 1853 to 1887, is dead at the home
of her daughter in Oak Park. She was
born Nov. u, 1926, in Brechin, Scot
land, and came to Chicago ttty-two
years ago.
! Miss Cornelia NJ. Dow, a well-Ilnown
vnfl-sa in, no oil Of fha ri nh: l.
anthrcpy and reform, died at Portland,
! Me-, aged 6% years. She had held
various Offices in The state and nation
al w. C. T. u. She was the daughter
of the late General Neal Dow.
/ DR.. John Arvid Ouchterlony died at
Louisville, Ky. He was an author of
note, his work on angina pectoris be-
ing considered an authority. He was
knighted by Pope Leo XIII. and by
King Oscar of Sweden. He was born
in Smaland, Sweden, June "a, 1888.
His early medical education was re,
ceived at the University of the City OF
New York.
! Lady Isabel Wilson, sister of the
duke cf RoXburghe, who married Miss
! May Goelet, died at Warter priory,
4 Yorkshire, England. Lady Wilson
gave birth to q still-born daughter Der.
49, She was bridesmaid at the we'd
ding of her brother in 1908 and was
married in 1904, to Guy Greville Will
son, formerly of the eleventh hus-
sars
General William T. Clark of Wash
ington, d. C., died in st. Luke's hos
rital, New York city, of cancer CT the
throat He was "A years old and was
horn in Norwalk. Conn. General
Clark was q member Of congress from
Galveston, Tex, from 1868 to 1873.
He was the last surviving adJutanT
and chief of staff of General Grants
army of the Tennessee
William H. Hawkins of Indianapolis,
former secretary of the democratic
state committee and superintendent or
the American Detective association,
died in Anderson, Ind, from the effects
of an overdose of headache powder.
During the great railway strike in
! 1894 Hawkins, then United States mar
shall braved a mob of strikers at Ham,
mand, Ind, to serve a federal injunc-
| ton.
S. Fred Nixon, speaker of the New
York assembly, is dead at his home at
Westfield. He was taken i'll short
time ago with appendicitis and an
operation was perfo- ed. The wound
failed to heal, however, and second
operation was performed. From this
he did not rally. Mr.. Nixon was born
in Westfield, Chautauqua county, in
1860. He was elected to the assembly
in 1887, and was reelected fourteen
times. For seven terms he was speaker.
Former Chief Justice Edward NJ.
Paxson of the Pennsylvania supreme
court is dead at his home in Bycot.
Pa Ju lge Paxson was admitted To
the bar in 1850 In 1874 he was elect
ed to the supreme court. Judge Pax
son in 1898 was appointed one CT the
receivers of the Philadelphia and
Reading Railroad company, at which
time he resigned his position as chief
Justice. The home for aged and in
firm members of the Society Of
Friends at Newton. Pa, was founded
lty Judge Paxson.
LATER.