Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1905-02-01


state board of health, died, aged 76
years.
Milwaukee heal a report that the
attorney general 'as held that the
new primary law applies to the coming
spring election.
Colonel Theodore A. Barton, former
ly senior vice commander in Chief of
the Grand Army of the Republic, died
| at his home in Providence, r. /. He
| was 62 years Of age.
The Wisconsin Civil Service Reform
Association is organized in Milwau-
kee for the purpose of establishing a
system of appointment 10 public of
fees on merit.
Professor John II. Petrie, formerly
instructor of mathematics in North
western University, is dead, after a
lingering illness. Mr.. Petrie was a
graduate of the University of Michi-
gan.
r. Darlington Semple, ap rominent
Wall street lawyer, is dead from
heart disease. He went - New York
ten years ago from Montgomery. Ala,
where his father was 2 prominent
lawyer.
Frederick l.. Ellsworth, treasurer Of
the Chicago Brass Company OF Ke-
nosha. and secretary of the Benedict &
Burnham Brass Company of Torring-
ton. Conn, died in Kenosha of paral-
ysis of the heart.
John Randolph Bull, a veteran Of
two wars and for many years a whole.
sale produce dealer in Louisville, Ky,
Is dead at his home in Bayonne. n ].
He served through the Mexican war
with the Louisville legion and com
manded union regiment during the
civil war Colonel Bull was an inti-
mate friend of General Lafayette and
Henry Clay.
At Berlin, Professor Rudolph Sic
mering. the sculptor and member OF
the senate of the Academy of Art,
died following an operation Among
his bestknown works are the eques-
iriac statue of Washington at Phila-
delphia, the statue of Frederick the
Great at Marienburg and the statue Of
William l. in the Alice of Victory at
Berlin
Edward Fletcher, for many years
identified with the financial side of the
theatrical business, is dead at his
home in New York from a complica-
ton of diseases. He founded and
was acting secretary of the Treas,
urers' Association of America, an or
ganization numbering several thous-
and members.
John Kenneth Macenzie, one of the
foremost mining engineers in the
country, and his companion. Dr. Rob
ert Coy, both of Chicago, were muir
dered by Yaqui Indians in the noun
tains of Sonora, Mexico, whose family
Mrs Mackenzie is visiting, took
prompt action to have their bodies
found and they were returned TO Chi
cage.
In the death Of David Adler Milwau-
kee loses one Of its foremost citizens.
The head of one of the largest CLOTH
ing firms in the country. he had lived
All AAllWuAhtt over my ) ears anu was
closely identified with its progress. He
was intimately connected with all the
charitable work Of the city and was a
charter member of the Jewish congre-
cation of Temple Emanuel and a
leader in the work Of aid for Jewish
refugees.
Monsignor George Hobart Doane
rector Of ST. Payrick's Roman Catholic
cathedral of Newark, n. j., son of the
late George Washington Doane, Epis-
copal bishop OF Albany. died of heart
failure in o.. seyenty-ffth year Mon
signor Doane. who was a native of
Boston, studied medicine at jefferson
Medical college, Philadelphia, but after
graduating as a doctor of medicine in
1850 decided to enter the ministry of
the Protestant Episcopal church. In
1855 he was baptized into the Catho-
lie church and was ordained to the
priesthood in 1857