PROMINENT MERCHANT DEAD.(Dubuque Times-Journal).“Anton Kramer, retired prominent business man of Elkader, Iowa, died Saturday night at the Illinois Central railway company’s Chicago hospital. Deceased was prominent in Masonic circles In Elkader, being secretary of the organization there for twenty-four years. He was a member of the Shrlner and Knights Templar orders.”Mr. Kramer was the father of Mrs. H. M. Bradley of this city, who has been with him at the hospital at Chicago for some time. Mr. Kramer visited his daughter and her husband in Manchester on numerous occasions and had formed many friendships. Mrs. Bradley has the sincere sympathy of her friends in the sorrow that has come to her because of the death of her father.