Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1906-05-14

America.
OBITUARY..
David Fish, head of the L. Fish
Furniture company of Chicago, is
dead.
Capt J. J. Snouffer, a pioneer of
eastern Iowa, died at Cedar Rapids,
aged 81 years.
Max Judd, of national reputation as
a chess player, died in st. Louis from
angina pectoris.
C. V. Carpenter, assistant general
manager of the Burlington railroad,
died in Peoria, III.
At Terre Haute, Ind, Mrs. Mar
garet Broderick, aged 101, born in
County Kerry, Ireland, is dead.
Daniel E. Murphy, we'll known in
life insurance circles, died at Milwau-
kee. He was 63 years of age.
Captain P. A. Lindquist, a veteran
lake mariner, is dead of pneumonia at
Menominee, Wis, at the age of 65
years.
Captain J. J. Shouffer, one of the
most prominent pioneers Of eastern
Iowa, died at Cedar Rapids, aged
81 years.
James Mills, for more than thirty
years an editorial writer on the Pitts
burg Post, died at Washington, Pa,
of paralysis.
George Newell Archibald, 80 years
old and a prominent member of the
Chicago board of trade twenty years
ago, died in Chicago.
At Brunswick, Ga, Elizabeth Gates,
ia years of age, said to be the Oldest
person in the state, died. She had
been married three times.
James J. Tunnicliff, ex-mayor Of
Galesburg, ILL.,, and for twenty years
states attorney of Knox county, died
of paralysis, aged IS years.
Thomas B. Cannon died at Shelby
vile, Tenn, aged 81 years. He was
nephew of Newton Cannon, a
pioneer governor of that state.
Judge Henry G. Hyde, a promi-
nent lawyer of Freeport, Ill, was
found dead in his bed. He was 70
years old He was the father of Henry
w. Hyde, author and journalist.
At Maysville, KY, w. W. Baldwin
widely known throughout Ohio; Ken
lucky and Tennessee as the Turn
pike King died Years ago he was
the object Of persecution by the turn
pike raiders.
Dr. R. R. Thompson, examining
surgeon for the relief department Of
the Pennsylvania Railroad in Chicago,
died at the Gault House yesterday
morning of acute Bright's disease. He
was 81 years old.
William F. Owen, a Shakespearian
comedian, who had appeared in com
panies with Booth, Mccullough
Forrest, and Mrs. Fiske, died in New
York. He was 60 years old and had
been on the stage forty years.
Prince Charles Poniatowski died
at the Hotel st. Regis, in New York
City of pneumonia. His home was
| in the City of Mexicco He was in
New York for the purpose of forming
a company to build new railroad in
Rear Admiral Aaron Kronkle
| HUGHES, retired, died in Washington
/ aged 50 years He entered the ser
vice in 1888 and attained the rank of
rear admiral in 1882 and was retired
in 1884. Interment will be at Airing
| ton.
Lafayette Crane, a hardware mer
chant for forty-eight years at La
Porte, Ind, died, aged 50 years. Dur
ing the civil war he was a member
of the sanitary commission of the
army of the Cumberland and was the
first superintendent of the soldiers
home at Nashville. Tenn.
Major General J. G. Parkhurst, well
known as an officer in the army of
the Cumberland during the civil war,
who served for two years as provost
marshal general under General
Thomas and who was United States
minister to Belgium under Presi-
dent Cleveland, died at Coldwater,
| Mich.