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Weekly Wisconsin

Location

Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States of America

Date

Dec 12, 1885

Page

8

Vanderbilts Death Shocks New York as William H Dies

New York dec 9 William h Vanderbilt died after a brief apoplectic stroke in his Fifth Avenue library. He conversed with Robert Garrett and planned a drive with his son George before collapsing. Doctors arrived, but he died within minutes. The report traces his wealth, railroad empire, family, and plans for Staten Island real estate. Funeral set for Friday at St Bartholomew's with simple rites.

New York William H. Vanderbilt Fifth Avenue Robert Garrett Baltimore & Ohio Railway New York Central Louis College of Physicians and Maude Mr. Vanderbilt Mr. Ward George Mr. Twombley Ward’s Chauncey M. Depew West Shore Mr. Depew Robert Garratt Baltimore & Ohio Line Mr. Garrett George Vanderbilt Staten Island Baltimore & Ohio Vanderbilt Garrett Mr. Twombler Dr. McLane Bre. Vanderbilt Commodore William H Lake Shore Nickel Plate Michigan Central Canada Southern Harlem North Western St. Paul Omaha Mr. Vanderpilt Duke of North-Western Chicago & Rock Island Delaware & Lackawanna Ita Abfa Mele Bin Cornelius Mixa Quinn Cincinnati William XK Lake Shore Board Miss Smith Savannah Frederick Anthony Margaret Elliot T. Shepard Emily William D. Sloan Florence Hamilton McK. Twombley Liza Lelia Seward Webb James Watson Webb Central Hudson River Dr. Webb Wagner Palace Car Company Richmond Cona Helm Vanage Wall Street St. Bartholomew's Episcopal Church Madison Avenue Forty- Fourth Street Samuel Cooke Episcopal Church New Dorp Cemetery Vanderbilt Mausoleum

President's First Message to Congress Summary

The Week of Wisconsin abridges the President's initial address to Congress, listing major topics from Foreign Affairs to Civil Service Reform. Highlights include nominations and treaties, naval and army plans, fiscal statements, tariff changes, and presidential succession amendments. Also reports local Wisconsin items: a child’s death from trichinae, counterfeit arrests, a La Crosse shooting, fires in Sparta, and a note from Fulton Wait, Elk Rapids, Michigan.

Hendricke Keiley Austria Eads Senate Diva Congo House National Bureau of Record Naturalization Spain Cuba San Domingo Ps. Treasury NAVY Secretary of Navy Navy Department ARMY Post-Office Prathiordter Fulton Wait Elk Rapids Michigan

Packed World News Roundup From Europe to U S

Briefer items report Michigan Grange with 552 lodges and 15 000 members Berlin census shows population over 1 316 000 Spurgeon allegedly collapses from heart disease in London Kansas City gas works explosion injures engineer power cut leaves city in darkness Akron sewer collapse buries men four dead two critically ill Kearney Neb post office clerk arrested Prescott Ariz for robbing letters Texas Central train mangles Rev H T Wilcox and two daughters Republicans nominate Logan for president pro tempore but he declines Anglican? Lineage remains unclear. Lima updates say Iglesias and Cacerca renounce executive power Harvard librarian Joan Lanapos dies Connop Seipp building fire in Chicago damages 250 000 Tunouca caucus supports Logan for president pro tempore. he declines East River cable train accident injures five Canonsburg Pa gas explosion destroys dwelling. family injured but baby unharmed Epcar L Waxestan seeks divorce from Antoinette Wakeman after 1868 marriage and desertion Great Britain faces four-party system. Salisbury uncertain about office tenure with parliament unlikely to last the year.

Tar Michigan Grange Berlin London Spurgeon Kansas City Akron Kearney Neb Prescott A. T H. T. Wilcox Texas Central Bryan Sir Henry J.P. Mills & Co Indianapolis Ind Tunex Richard S. Hatherly Baltimore Bis Lima Iglesias Cacerca Joan Lanapos Harvard University Union Harvard Coxnap Seipr Franklin Street Chicago C. M. Henderson & Co Morris Anderson & Butchart Iirsin James Armsworth Monticello Tunouca East River Bridge Brooklyn Fr. E. Meyers Canonsburg Epcar L. Waxestan The Current Antoinette V. Wakeman Minneapolis Minn von Hoesen St. Paul Wakeman Europe Great Britain United Kingdom Lord Salisbury Gladstone Salisbury Churchill Parnell

Drowning at AprLeron cistern and local crime notes

Mrs. F. Rockstroh was found drowned in a cistern at AprLeron Wisconsin after rising at 4 am to fetch water. It is believed she slipped through the floor opening in the woodshed and fractured her skull. A second item reports a jewelry store burglary in Carcaco Illinois with losses between six and ten thousand dollars.

la Crosse Wis Mollie Adolf Bagnio John Hart Stillwater Hart Adolf AprLeron F. Rockstroh

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