Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1905-03-13
OBITUARY RECORD.

E. K. Sweet, prominent resident of
Quincy, H., died in Dupont, Fla.
Louis Teucher, aged SO, the Oldest
Mason in Iowa, died in Burlington, Ia.
Colonel Jackson M. Sheets, one of
the best known newspaper men in III
inois. died at Paris, III. He served in
the civil war in the Twenty-first I'LL
nois, originally commanded by U. S.
Grant
William Wander, aged 81, formerly
noted tenor singer, died in Hartford,
Conn.
Thomas Ranford of Bloomington,
aged 72, is dead He was one of the
best known mine superintendent in
Illinois
F. F. Palms, the millionaire banker
and manufacturer of Detroit, died In
New Orleans, where he was spending
the winter.
F. G. A. Denkman, a pioneer lumber
man with large timber interests in the
northwest, is dead at his home in Rock
Island. He was SO years old.
Judge H. L. Muldrow, aged 68, who
served as first assistant secretary of
the interior during Grover Cleveland's
second term, is dead at Starkville,
Miss.
Mrs. T. B. Needles, cousin of the late
President Garfield and wife of T. B.
Needles, a well-known figure in ma
tional and state politics, is dead at
Nashville, Ill.
Judge John H Reagan, aged sc,
former United States senator and the
last surviving member Of the confede-
rate cabinet, died in Palestine, Texas,
from pneumonia.
Baron Lambzermont, secretary gen
eral of the foreign Office at Brussels,
died following a stroke of paralysis.
For half a century the baron had much
to do with directing the foreign policy
of Belgium.
Roland c. Luther, second vice presi-
dent of the Philadelphia and Reading
Coal and Iron company, died in Potts
vile, Pa. Mr.. Luther, who was SO
years of age, was stricken with apo
plexy in Philadelphia ten days ago.
F. A. La Roche, the well-known auto
mobilist, died in New York from a
complication of diseases, after an i'll
ness of six weeks. Mr.. La Roche be-
came well known through nonstop
run from New York to st. Louis and
return. He was 43 years old.
Captain R. B. Pegram, widely
known railroad official, died in Mem
phis. Captain Pegram was for a num-
Der. of years assistant general manager
of the Southern railway and resigned
to assume the presidency of the Vera
Cruz and Pacific railroad.
Anthony Defrees, a prominent In
diana newspaper publisher, died at his
home in Goshen, Ind, aged "a years.
In 1882, with the late Schuyler Col
fax, he established the st. Joseph Val
ley Register at South Bend. Later he
founded the Goshen Express and be-
came part owner of the Indianapolis
Journal.
The funeral of former United States
Senator Edward o. Wolcott, who died
at Monte Carlo March 1, took place at
the mortuary chapel of Pere Lachaise
cemetery, Paris, in the presence of
Ambassador Porter, Henry WOlcott
and some intimate friends. Rev. Dr.
Goodrich officiated The body subse-
quently was cremated. The ashes
will be taken to the United States.
Rev. Mother Agnes died at Hayes,
Kan, where she had been since last
October in hopes of recovering from
disease to which she had been subject
for years. The body will be taken to
Fond du Lac, Wis. Mother Agnes was
born in Buffalo, N Y, in 1847, and en-
tered st. Agnes convent, Barton, Wis,
in 1863. She went to Fond du Lac in
1870 and purchased the site on which
is now ST. Agnes. convent and hospital
Richard Somers Hayes, the railroad
capitalist, is dead after lingering i'll
ness at his home in New York. He
was So years old and had been i'll more
than two years. For over thirty years
Mr. Hayes was prominent in the rail-
road affairs of this country In the
course of that time he was president
of the st. Paul and Duluth Railroad
company, vice president of the Mis-
souri, Pacific, president of the New
York and Northern and managing di-
rector of the Atchison, Topeka and