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Death Notices Jan - Dec 1888

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Death Notices Jan - Dec 1888

Saturday, January 7, 1888 Page 2
Gen. John S. Marmaduke, governor of Missouri, died at Jefferson City last week. He was a dashing rebel officer during the rebellion.

Saturday, January 7, 1888 Page 2
While two miners, James Knuckey and George Jane, were drilling a hole in the Jackson mine at Negaunee, Saturday, the drill struck an old unexploded charge that had been abandoned some time before, and it went off with terrific force, killing them both instantly. The bodies were frightfully mangled and Knuckey's head was torn from his body. Both were married.

Saturday, January 7, 1888 Page 2
Benjamin H. Hague, of Dalley, was suddenly killed, by slipping off a log, while holding the muzzle of a double-barrelled shot gun. The hammers struck the log and fired both barrels into him.

Saturday, January 7, 1888 Page 2
Barber Perkins, former resident of Quiney died at Mishawaka, Ind. His remains were interred at Quiney. Deceased contributed generously to Hillsdale College when it was financially embarrassed.

Saturday, January 7, 1888 Page 7
Detour
The infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Anges McDonald was buried on Friday last.

Saturday, Janurary 14, 1888 Page 3
Wm. Le Barron, an old resident of Newaygo county, was instantly killed by a falling tree, which split and kicking backward disemboweled him.

Saturday, January 14, 1888 Page 3
Mrs. A. Miller, of Luther, gave her little child a dose of creosite, recently by mistake, causing the little one's death.

Saturday, January 14, 1888 Page 3
Mr. Ammi Baldwin, late cashier of the broken Fidelity National bank of Cincinatti, died suddenly of paralysis at his residence on Walnut Hills. Mr. Baldwin was indicted with the other officers of the Fidelity bank but for some reason his bond was placed at $10,000 and he was able to secure bondsmen and has not been in jail.

Saturday, January 14, 1888 Page 3
Emory Ormsby, who died a poor man at Deep River recently, was at one time worth $75,000, and was a soldier in the Crimean and Mexican wars, as well as in the late rebellion. His death was the direct result of late severe exposure.

Saturday, January 14, 1888 Page 3
William H. Hunter, piano tuner, frozen to death near Oscoda, hailed from Alpena, not Detroit, as stated in telegrams. He was terribly frozen, his tongue clinging to roof of his mouth and his extremities being like sticks.

Saturday, January 14, 1888 Page 3
R. Picket, the Cheboygan saloonkeeper who jumped from a window and performed other capers in decollette attire while delirious recently, went to Otsego Lake a few days ago and died.

Saturday, January 14, 1888 Page 3
T. J. Pack of Marquette, was fatally scalded in a railroad collision near Cambridge, O.

Saturday, January 14, 1888 Page 5
From Detour The sad event was the death of one of our fellow citizens, Mr. Vrisneaux, which occurred on Thursday of last week.

Saturday, January 14, 1888 Page 8
The sad intelligence is received by friends at the Soo of the death of Mrs. Geo. B.K. Pease, wife of the brother of C. H. Pease, at 431 West Fifty-four street, New York. Mrs. Pease visited in the Soo a few years ago where she formed many pleasant attachments. Her friends here receive the sad news with much sorrow.

Saturday, January 28, 1888 Page 2
The coroner's jury in the case of Mrs. Federman, the Manistee woman who was found dead, rendered a verdict recently to the effect that she drank herself into the happy hunting grounds. This entirely clears the young man who was arrested.

Saturday, January 28, 1888 Page 2
Uriah Ryan, formerly of Hanover, was frozen to death recently in Dakota. Remains will be brought to Hanover for burial.

Saturday,January 28, 1888 Page 2
Rev. M. J. Hall, who was found dead in the woods in Alpena county, is thought to have died from heart disease.

Saturday, January 28, 1888 Page 2
Two boys, orphan sons of W. Weatherbee, aged 9 and 11 years suffered a horrible death at Benona, Oceana County, Wednesday. They were digging a well when the earth caved in upon them, smothering the lads long before help reached them.

Saturday, Janaury 28, 1888 Page 3
Mrs. Eliza Ballou Garfield, mother of the late lamented President Garfield, died at Mentor, Ohio, last Saturday. She was born at the foot of Mount Monadnock, N. H., Sept 25, 1802, married Abraham Garfield in 1827, and moved to Orange, Cayahoga County, O., seven years after. The husband died when Tom, the oldest boy, now of Grand Rapids, Mich., was ten years old. She was left with four children and a cabin in the woods." How faithfully and well she performed her hard task of bringing up the little family history will tell.

Saturday, January 28, 1888 Page 8
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Bertram have the sympathy of the entire community in the bereavement occasioned by the death of their three year old daughter which occurred last Saturday.

Saturday, February 4, 1888 Page 2
Frank Conant, a well digger, was buried alive in a well at Albion the other day, fifteen feet of earth caving in upon him. Life was extinct when he was dug out.

Saturday, February 4, 1888 Page 2
From Detour
Died of diphtheria on the 13th inst., Anna, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Sims. She was six years of age and was a sweet and pleasant child.

Saturday, February 4, 1888 Page 2
News Odds & Ends
Lemuel J. Curtis a millionaire, who died the other day at Meriden, Conn., bequeathed $750,000 to the Curtis Home for old women and orphans, an institution built and maintained by himself. Several Episcopal Charities also get $20,000 each.

Saturday, February 11, 1888 Page 5
Henry F. Harman, uncle of Mrs. Cleveland, died at Charlestown, Mass., Friday the 3d, aged 39.

Saturday, February 11, 1888 Page 8
Willard Crooks the brakeman who was injured about the head while coupling cars at Eckerman last week died Tuesday at the hospital. His skull was fractured. The funeral took place yesterday afternoon from the Gabriel undertaking establishment. The South Shore officials kindly defrayed all expense connected with the funeral, and arranged the details which were complete in every particular. The remains were interred in the cemetery here.

Saturday, February 18, 1888 Page 1
The little child of a family named Boor, formerly of Detroit, was burned to death at their home, near Clyde, Wednesday. The remains were brought to Detroit for burial.

Saturday, February 11, 1888 Page 8
Evening Press Bay City
The announcement in last evening's Press of the death of Miss Rose Payment, was received with the utmost sadness by a large circle of friends, as well as her relatives. Miss Payment was 71 years of age, went to Sugar Island ten miles from the Soo, 38 years ago, to her brother and has since been a mother to his children, caring for them as tenderly as if they had been her own. She removed with her brother to Detroit eighteen years ago, and thence to Bay City. She has always been a consistent Christian lady and notable in all works of charity, being an especial friend to the poor and distressed, who will sadly miss her kindly and gentle ministrations. Her remains will be taken to Sugar Island for interment beside her mother, brother and uncle.

Saturday, February 18, 1888 Page 1
Morris Mendelshon, of the Union Clothing company, left Thursday morning for Chicago, whither he was called by the sudden death of his aged mother, who was in her eighty-fifth year.

Saturday, February 18, 1888 Page 2
The inquest on the body of Mrs. Eliza M. Palmer, of Alma, whose remains were found boxed up and buried in a stable, has ended in a verdict that she was strangled to death by her husband, Edward Palmer. Palmer is still in jail at Ithaca and is keeping very still.

Saturday, February 18, 1888 Page 2
C. A. Wing of Howell has investigated rumor that remains of his sister, Mrs. Helen Wing, had been disinterred and sent to Ann Arbor for dissection and pronounces it grossly false.

Saturday, February 18, 1888 Page 2
Michael Marony, a brakeman on the Detroit, Grand Haven & Milwaukee railroad, was killed at Vernon recently by being run over by the cars of a freight train. His home was at Owosso.

Saturday, February 25, 1888 Page 1
A Sad Death
The death of George A. Dean, which occurred last Tuesday was one which came with startling effect upon his many school mates and friends. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Dean. He was at play as usual last Saturday, and Sunday started to Sunday school but feeling unwell returned home. His condition grew rapidly worse and he died Tuesdaay morning with congestion of the brain. He was a bright warm hearted boy and highly thought of by all who knew him. He was fifteen years and two months old at the time of his death, and a member of the fifth grade in the high school. The funeral occurred Thursday afternoon at the Methodist church, the Rev. Cassler conducting the services.

Saturday, February 25, 1888 Page 6
Rev. Jas. Schofield, father of Gen. Schofield, U.S.A, is dead at Chicago

Saturday, February 25, 1888 Page 1
Capt. Joseph Soulier who formerly lived at the Soo and was well known here died at Mackinaw Island on Feb. 11. He was about 90 years of age. He was one of the early sailors at the Soo, and sailed for some time for American Fur company.

Saturday, February 25, 1888 Page 3
Herschel Adkins, who shot and killed Henry Overheiser in Casco, Allegan county, during a fight, was tried at Allegan and acquitted.

Saturday, March 3, 1888 Page 6
Friends of Roy Tetet, who was killed on the Coldwater fair grounds last fall by a slab thrown from a sawing machine, sued for $10,000 damages and settled for $500.

Saturday, March 10, 1888 Page 1
Kaiser Wilhelm Dead
The Great German Emperor Passes away Thursday at the Royal Palace Last Thursday night at 6:45 o'clock the death of Emperor William of the German empire, occurred at the Royal Palace in Berlin [a large write up ]

Saturday, March 17, 1888 Page 4
Sylvanus McDaniels, who murdered Jerry White near Flushing, was sentenced to serve a life sentence at Jackson. As he boarded the train at Flint to be taken to Jackson he carried in his hand a bible. Daniels will have plenty of time to study the work, but a very limited field in which to practice its precepts, but society will be the better off for it.

Saturday, March 17, 1888 Page 6
George W. McCrary's 5-year old George drank boiling water from the spout of a tea kettle at East Saginaw and died.

Saturday, March 24, 1888 Page 1
Mr. J. Sawyer, of Lake View farm, West Gwillimbury, Ont., has written Mrs. L. Ausman a touching poem, replete with pathos, upon the death of her little flower Lillian, who entered the angels realm on Jan. 28, last.

Saturday, March 24, 1888 Page 1
Willie Fleming, son of John Fleming, is lying very near death from compression of the brain, caused by a horse stepping on his head last Saturday. Dr. Rundle is attending him and everything possible is being done to relieve the unfortunate little sufferer.

Saturday, March 24, 1888 Page 2
Randall McDonald, a school teacher from a back woods district, laid down on the track of the Detroit, Bay City & Alpena railroad to sleep off the effects of liquor. He was struck by a train and mangled so that he died soon after.

Saturday, March 24, 1888 Page 2
A four year old son of Patrick Dulin of Niles fell into a cistern and was drowned.

Saturday, March 24, 1888 Page 2
Clare Falls, aged 11 years, son of a well-known business man of Tecumseh, while playing with an "unloaded" revolver in company with some other boys, playfully pointed it at his head and fired, killing himself instantly.

Saturday, March 24, 1888 Page 7
Previous to the death of Mrs. Esther Potter, of Burlington, Me., she prayed that her 17-months old baby might die with her. The child, who but an hour or two before was as well as usual, playing about the room, immediately after receiving a kiss from its dying mother, closed its eyes, and in five minutes or less was dead.

Saturday, March 24, 1888 Page 7
Over four months ago a mass of molten iron was forced by an explosion into the mouth and throat of Jacob Halemberger, of Reading, Pa. The result was that the passage to the stomach was completely closed, and the man died of starvation.

Saturday, March 31, 1888 Page 1
Little Johnny Fleming died Sunday.

Saturday, March 31, 1888 Page 1
Died Suddenly at Bay Mills
The sudden and deplorable death of Mrs. W. K. Parsille, at Bay Mills on Monday last, March 26th, at 4 p.m., has filled the hearts of her many many friends in this community with the deepest sorrow and grief. The bright and sunny friend and companion whom so many knew as Julia Chisolm, and whom all who knew her loved, for her kind and noble heart, her cheerful and open spirit her brave, generous and loyal friendship has entered into her rest in the very May of her life. She was born at Bruce Mines, Algoma, in 1864, and was at the time of her death but 24 years of age. There she lived with her father and brothers and sisters until the sad drowning of her father and little brother about nine years ago, which caused the breaking up of her home, and since then, with a little interval, she has resided in Sault Ste. Marie and its immediate neighborhood. Vividly does the writer remember then her young life and lovely charater .... On July 4th, 1887 she was united in marriage to Mr. W. K. Parsille, of Bay Mills, and in the sad loss of his young wife he has the deepest sympathy. Though sick for a few days no serious danger was anticipated until Saturday and suddenly death was seen to be ready to claim her as his own. Her funeral was held in the Episcopal Church on Wednesday last. ....

Saturday, March 31, 1888 Page 3
Mrs. Carpenter mother of Alfred Carpenter, who was recently killed in Frank Boos' saloon at Battle Creek, by Conductor McCarty, and who was about to institute proceedings against Saloon-keeper Boos, has compromised the matter for $100.

Saturday, March 31, 1888 Page 3
William Dalrymple who lives near Buchanan, lost five children by diphtheria.

Saturday, April 7, 1888 Page 1
Killed by the Cars
Thomas F. Hurley, a brother-in-law of L. F. Bedford, was run over and instantly killed, about two miles from the city, on the Soo road, Thursday night. He was teaching school at Jones' Cut and was on his way thither. N. V. Gabriel cared for the remains until yesterday, when Mr. Bedford left with them for Wallaceburg, Ont., where the unfortunate Hurley had a wife and two children. The body was frightfully mangled.

Saturday, April 7, 1888 Page 1
City News
Sisters of the late John Fletcher, drowned, have received $1,000 insurance on his life, had in the Knights of Pythias endowment rank.

Saturday, April 7, 1888 Page 6
Captain Daniel Bannatyne died the other day at Toledo of rheumatism, Capt. Rannatyne located in Toledo in 1850 and sailed the lakes from then until confined by sickness. His last vessel was the H. S. Walbridge, which he commanded seven years.

Saturday, April 14, 1888 Page 1
Louis Schimmel received a telegram from Milwaukee yesterday, announcing that his brother George is dying.

Saturday, April 14, 1888 Page 2
J. R. Wright, an old resident of Sodus, Berrien County, was instantly killed in a runaway accident.

Saturday, April 14, 1888 Page 2
Effie Hanks, aged 8 years, was burned to death at Quincy while burning brush in the door yard.

Saturday, April 14, 1888 Page 2
Mrs. Sarah Holbrook, who was one of the pioneers of Portland in this state, died at East Tawas.

Saturday, April 14, 1888 Page 2
Dr. Howard Simonds, of Allegan, died yesterday of apoplexy.

Saturday, April 14, 1888 Page 2
Miss Metta Fordham, of Bronson, a music teacher and exceedingly bright young lady, died with measles. When the disease first seized her she told her friends she would never get well.

Saturday, April 14, 1888 Page 2
John D. Ross, banker, of Buchanan, is dead.

Saturday, April 14, 1888 Page 2
John Tear, aged 65 years, was found dead at Trenton. He was apparently as well as usual half an hour before.

Saturday, April 14, 1888 Page 2
Horace Howe, of Buchanan, temporarily insane, blew his brains out. He was a young married man.

Saturday, April 14, 1888 Page 3
Hudson, Wis. Star and News
Died—In this city, on the 20th of March, Mrs.Louis Massy, aged about 90 years.

Saturday, April 14, 1888 Page 3
Hudson, Wis. Star and News
A Soo Romance
Mrs. Massy and her husband were the first settlers in this city and county, having located here in 1840, both living to an advanced age and dying within a few months of each other.... This was the case with Mr. Massy, but those who knew him best have data and circumstances to show that he was over 100 years old at the time of his death.

Saturday, April 14, 1888 Page
In Memoriam—Willie Fleming.

Saturday, April 21, 1888 Page 3
Ex Senator Roscoe Conkling died in New York city at 2:07 o'clock Wednesday morning last, after a painful illness of ten days or more. He was born Oct. 30, 1829, and was in his fifty-ninth year.... However, in his death the county loses one of its leading lawyers and ablest men, in fact, one equalled by but few.

Saturday, April 21, 1888 Page 6
Mr. Matthew Arnold, the noted poet, scholar, critic and theologian, whose recent sharply critical on "Civilization in the United States" attracted marked attention, died suddenly Monday in Liverpool from heart disease.... Mr. Arnold was born in 1822, and was in his sixty-sixth year.

Saturday, April 21, 1888 Page 6
Robert Mills is dead at Galveston, Texas. Before the war Mills was the wealthiest planter in the south, his property being valued at $3,000,000. The emancipation proclamation "robbed" him of 1,000 choice slaves and resulted in his ruin.

Saturday, April 21, 1888 Page 7
Cornelius Austin died at Walled Lake, aged 97. He was in good health until few weeks ago, when he fell and received severe injuries. He drew pension for services in war of 1812, and spent most of his life at hard labor. He has lived in Oakland since early in '30s.

Saturday, April 21, 1888 Page 7
Patrick Wade of Waudecah, who shot Mrs. Burke, of Norway, a few days ago, has been convicted of murder in the first degree by a circuit court jury at Menominee.

Saturday, April 28, 1888 Page 3
Prof. C. W. Heywood, who has been connected with several Michigan academies, was once professor in Hiram college, Garfield's alma mater, and for a time occupied in newspaper work in Kalamazoo and Battle Creek, died at Battle Creek Wednesday night of heart disease. He was 67 years old.

Saturday, May 5, 1888 Page 1
By the death of W. B. Dinsmore president of the Adams Express company which occurred in New York on April 24, a Sooite is left a legacy. Mr. Dinsmore's wealth has been estimated at from $15,000,000 to $20,000,000. The person who is thus remembered by the deceased millionaire is E. H. Bowers who is proprietor of the confectionery stand located at the corner of Gurnoe alley and Portage avenue just west of the Michigan Exchange.....

Saturday, May 5, 1888 Page 1
A letter has been received here from John Richardson of Chippewa Station, Oscola county, Mich., on the Flint & Pere Marquette railroad stating that a James Stuart died there about three weeks ago. He claimed to have relatives at Sault Ste. Marie, but refused to give their names or address..... He was a Scotchman about fifty years of age said he left the Soo last October.....

Saturday, May 12, 1888 Page 5
John Winter, who died recently at Grand Rapids, is alleged to have said with his dying breath that his wife poisoned him. The woman and her neighbors agree that he died of dissolute habits.

Saturday, May 19, 1888 Page 5
Zysh Davis,the colored Chicago murderer was hanged Saturday night.

Saturday, May 19, 1888 Page 5
The boiler in the Caro wooden works exploded Monday, killing Henry Howland and severely injuring Joseph Randall, Frank Riddle, Albert Riddle and T. W. Wisner. The explosion was caused by low-water in the boiler, which was old and patched.

Saturday, May 19, 1888 Page 5
Last fall two trappers, McMillan and Golden, left Edmonton, N.W.T. for the Athabasca and Pembina Rivers. They lost their provisions, severe weather made hunting impossible. They boiled their furs and ate them and waited for death. Golden died April 20. Ice soon began to move and McMillan drifted down in his canoe, reaching Athabasca Landing in a most pitiable condition.

Saturday, May 26, 1888 Page 4
Josie Mansfield, whose name was familiar with the Fisk-Stokes tragedy died at Beverly, N. J.

Saturday, May 26, 1888 Page 6
Fred Marsden, the well-known playwright, committed suicide in New York last week by turning on the gas in his room. He became despondent because of the reckless conduct of his daughter whom he was unable to control, and who left her house to enter upon a shameful career. Mr. Marsden was the author of a number of very successful plays. The life which he devoted to writing comedies ended in tragedy.

Saturday, June 2, 1888 Page 1
Mr. and Mrs. Duncan McGregor's little girl, twenty-two months old, died yesterday morning at five o'clock. The funeral will take place from the Presbyterian church at the usual hour for morning service to-morrow.

Saturday, June 9, 1888 Page 2
Lysander K. Shaw, who was found dead in a swamp near Romeo last winter, left a widow and a divorced wife. Now the children of the first wife come into the probate court and charge the widow with secreting certain of Mr. Shaw's papers.

Saturday, June 9, 1888 Page 2
Charley Maiden, resident of Duncan City, who is supposed to have last his head over a love affair, committed suicide Saturday night by jumping from the Third street bridge into the river.

Saturday, June 9, 1888 Page 2
Mrs Frank Carmichael was arrested at Lansing on a charge of murdering her husband, Anderson Carmichael, in Hillsdale county last January by putting poison in his pie.

Saturday, June 9, 1888 Page 5
Edward Fritzell, about whom very little can be learned, dropped dead in a chair in Clark's "Hub" saloon on Water street, Saturday evening. Fritzell had been drinking heavily. He is said to have been a watchman at Cascade mine. Dr. O'Neil was called, but too late. Supposed heart disease.

Saturday, June 9, 1888 Page 7
Joseph Ketcham, the baggagemaster who was shot by robbers in his car on the Cincinnati, Indianapolis, St. Louis & Chicago railroad near Delhi, died of his injuries the following day. A reward of $1,000 is offered for the capture of the robbers.

Saturday, June 9, 1888 Page 8
The funeral of little Allie Danskin, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Danskin, occurred Monday morning. The services were held in the Presbyterian church.

Saturday, June 9, 1888 Page 8
Dr. Richardson was called to Lower Canada on Sunday last, by the sudden death of his father.

Saturday, June 16, 1888 Page 2
Henry Muenchthaler killed his wife and then himself with a revolver on Monday night in Detroit. Muenchthaler was a dissipated and shiftless fellow, and committed the deed in a fit of rage.

Saturday, June 16, 1888 Page 4
A Telegram received yesterday morning announced the death of Emporer Frederick William of Germany. He fought a valiant fight for many months, but no human and could stem the tide of the dread disease.

Saturday, June 16, 1888 Page 7
Thomas McElrath, the old business partner of Horace Greeley, in the days when the New York Tribune was at the zenith of its influence, died in New York on Wednesday last. He was in the 82d year of his age.

Saturday, June 16, 1888 Page 7
The body of T. Harrison Garrett, who drowned on Thursday night last by the sinking of his yacht, the Gleam, near Baltimore, has been recovered. It was found a mile distant from the spot where the accident accurred.

Saturday, June 16, 1888 Page 7
Thomas Walsh, the Irishman who was said to be implicated in a plot similar to that which resulted in the murder of Lord Cavenish and Secretary Burke in Phoenix Park, Dublin, in 1881, has arrived in New York. He came in the La Normandie, of the French line, under the assumed name M. Walters.

Saturday, June16, 1888 Page 8
Fred Miller, presdent and chief owner of the Miller Brewing company of Milwaukee, which has a big agency at the Soo, died of cancer at his home on Monday.

Saturday, June 23, 1888 Page 1
A little son of Charles Ripley died yesterday morning.

June 23, 1888 Page 3
Ex-State Senator Charles C. Conger of California, who died recently, was son of Judge Thomas Conger and first white child born in what is now Benton Harbor. Deceased's mother was sister of Henry C. Morton, now living at Benton Harbor, and his grandfather, E. Morton, was first white settler in that vicinity.

June 23, 1888 Page 4
A Coincidence
Last week Norway, Mich., was destroyed by fire and at about the same time, its founder, Carl L. Wendell, died at Ishpeming.

June 23, 1888 Page 8
Died—Harry K., son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Ripley, on Friday morning, aged 11 months. Funeral Sunday from the residence. Friends are invited.

Saturday, June 30, 1888 Page 1
Mrs. Rhoda Olmstead, who formerly resided at the Soo, died at Detour last Sunday.

June 30, 1888 Page 2
Around Munising
Across Munising Bay .... At old Munising I was sheltered at the log house hotel kept by Mrs. Anthony O'Donnell and her daughters, .... Mrs. O'Donnell's husband, while fishing near Miner's Castle, a portion of the celebrated Pictured Rocks, was drowned a year ago in a very sad manner. They formerly lived on St. Joseph's Island, ....

Saturday, June 30, 1888 Page 8
William Sutherland, steward on the steambarge Waldo A. Avery, received a telegram on his arrival here last Saturday noon, anouncing the death of his boy by drowning, at Bay City, on the 22nd inst. He immediately took the train for that city.

Saturday, June 30, 1888 Page 8
A child of Mr. LaMond, who resides on the corner of Court street and Easterday avenue, died of diphtheria Thursday, and Dr. Floyd says no report of the same was made to the health office. There have been several such deaths concealed, says the health officer, and he warns physicians that there is a fine of $100 for such an offense.

Saturday, July 7, 1888 Page 1
Burned to Death.
Four People Lose Their Lives On the Canada Side.
THE DEADLY SMUDGE
It is Responsible for Another Horrible Death.
A farm house owned and occupied by George Dobbs and located in Tarentorus township about six miles east of the Canadian Soo, was destroyed by fire yesterday morning at two o'clock, causing the death of George Dobbs, aged seventy- two years: David Merryfield, aged 21 years: Alice Say Thompson, aged nine years and Margaret Melissa Thompson aged four years. It is the common theory that the fire originated in a smudge, which was burning lazily on the front stoop when the family retired to rest. Mrs. Dobbs, an old lady seventy years of age, who escaped almost miraculously from the burning building, thinks that the children must have thrown a few chips upon the smudge before they went to bed. At all events, she was awakened about two o'clock by the dread crackling of the flames, and realizing the impending danger she quickly awoke her husband and Merryfield, who was sleeping in an adjoining room. The smoke was so dense and stifling that they could scarcely breathe, but they managed to grope their way down stairs to a rear room. Mrs. Dobbs attempted to open the back door, but was stopped by her husband who thought that it would cause a draught which would aid the flames in their deadly work. At this moment she stumbled, her foot striking the ring of a trap door which opened into the cellar. By an almost superhuman effort she managed to raise the door, when overcome by the heat and smoke she fell through. Recovering from the effects of her fall she called to her husband and Merryfield to save the children, who were in a room in the upper part of the house. She then succeeded in crawling out through a ventilator in the cellar which afforded the only means of escape. She managed to work her way slowly to a safe distance from the house, when she sank exhausted to the ground, unable to move or cry out. Here she remained until long after daylight, exposed to the chill night and with no clothing on save a night dress, which in her terrible struggle to escape had been nearly torn from her body. After remaining unconscious until the sun had climbed well up above the horizon she recovered sufficiently to cry aloud. A passing farmer was attracted to the spot by her pitiful wails for help, and conveyed her to a neighboring farm house, where she was tenderly cared for by sumpathetic neighbours. Later in the day she was taken to the Canadian Soo and placed in the care of Dr. Reed. She is badly burned and this together with her enfeebled condition, and advanced age make her recovery doubtful. She is laboring under great mental excitement and can scarely talk rationally. She thinks that her husband and Merryfield tried, in obedience to her call, when she was precipitated into the cellar, to save the children. They probably reached the upper floor and were then either suffocated or quickly burned to death by the greedy flames. No cries were heard from the children by Mrs. Dobbs and it is therefore reasonable to assume that they were suffocated before being burned.
The house was a frame building and the flames spread with great rapidity, completely destroying it. Merryfield was employed on the new steamer Soo City as fireman and had obtained leave of absence for a couple of days to visit the old couple. He came from near Mitchell, Ont., and was unmarried. The children were daughters of James Thompson, whose farm is near the Dobbs farm. Their mother died two years ago, since then they have lived with their grandparents. Mr. Thompson has been employed in the Canadian Soo during the summer. He received the first news of the sad catastrophe yesterday morning.
The bodies which were burned to a crisp were recovered from the ruins yesterday afternoon. The funeral occurred this morning and the last sad rites were performed by the Rev. J. McClung, of the Canada Soo. Mr. Dobbs was born in Ireland but lived many years in Tarentorous where he was highly esteemed. He was in comfortable circumstances.

July 7, 1888 Page 1
A 23-years-old son of contractor R. Dickson was drowned Thursday at Selkirk, Manitoba.

July 7, 1888 Page 1
William Lesk, son of late Capt. Lesk of Sugar Island, was drowned while attempting to get a tow from the barge Germania, yesterday afternoon about six miles down the river. The body was recovered. Funeral tomorrow at Sugar Island.

July 7, 1888 Page 2
Profs. Palmer, Cheever and Dunster, of the Ann Arbor university, have died this year.

July 7, 1888 Page 2
Miss Aileen Harrington, of Grand Rapids is a daughter of Lieut. Harrington, who died with Custer at the battle of Little Big Horn....

July 7, 1888 Page 7
The Very Rev. Patrick Joseph Conway, vicar-general and rector of the Holy Name Cathedral, Chicago, died at the parochial residence Monday at 1:40 a.m. For two weeks he has been suffering from congestion of the stomach and lungs, and his death was not a surprise.

Saturday, July 7, 1888 Page 1
MRS. CHARLES PAINE CREMATED
The boarding camp of Charles Paine, situated a few rods from the Duluth & South Shore depot, was destroyed by fire on the evening of the Fourth of July, and Mrs. Mary Paine, wife of the owner of the place, was burned to death. The camp was a rude looking building, built partly of wood and partly of canvas, and at the time of the fire was occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Paine and three boarders named Samuel Winfield, Samuel Twelves and Richard Campbell, laborers employed on railroad work by Drew, Lewis & Co. After starting a smudge to drive away the mosquitoes, Mr. Paine and his wife retired. The smudge was built in a tin basin covered with a damp sack soaked with kerosene, and then placed beside the bed. The sack soon becoming dry and inflammable, took fire and in a few moments the whole front part of the building was enveloped in flames. Paine was aroused and after making an ineffectual effort to save his wife, who, he claims was either stupified or suffocated by the smoke, staggered to the door, where he was seen and pulled out by James Mackin. A crowd soon gathered and an unsuccessful attempt was made to subdue the flames by throwing buckets of water upon the burning shanty, but the thin boards were dry as tinder and the entire building was quickly consumed. Meanwhile Paine was rushing about almost bereft of his senses, crying wildly and talking incoherently. It is currently reported that both were under the influence of liquor at the time of the fire, but this charge is strenuously denied by Paine and his friends. At an examination conducted by prosecuting attorney Goff at the coroner's inquest, Paine acknowledged that both he and his wife were in the habit of drinking, but he would not admit that they had taken more than a couple of drinks during the afternoon and evening of the Fourth. He testified that he tried to escape through the window, but could not get it open. Then grasping his wife he staggered to the door of their sleeping apartment, where he dropped her. He claims that then he became unconscious.
The coroner's jury consisted of C.L. Newell, Francis Lessard, H. G. Wait, P. Bertram, Wm. Ireland and John A. McDougall, aided by Mr. Goff. It was his first night in the house examined a number of witnesses. There had been some whispers of foul play, but there was nothing in the evidence to support the charge and the examination was sharply and searchingly conducted by Mr. Goff. The jury therefore brought in a verdict that the woman came to her death by suffocation. The charred and blackened remains, wholly unrecognizable, were removed to Gabriel's undertaking rooms Thursday, where they were prepared for burial. The funeral took place yesterday from the St. Mary's Church and the body was interred in the Catholic cemetery. Paine was an Englishman and was married to the late Mrs. Paine about fourteen years ago in England. Paine came to this country about five years ago and established a boarding camp near Bruce Mines. He came to this side and put up a camp on the line of the Duluth & South Shore road, settling finally at the Soo. His wife did the cooking for the camp boarders, and he acted as cook at the West End saloon. An only child thirteen years old is in a convent in England.

July 7, 1888 Page 2
Frank Merchant, employee of Chicago & Northwestern railroad, had both legs smashed, both arms broken and head crushed into unrecognizable mass by cars at Norway. He lived at Quinnesec with parents.

July 7, 1888 Page 2
David Holliday fell into a mill pond at Mayfield, in the Grand Travese region Thursday, and was drowned.

July 14, 1888 Page 3
Mrs. John W. Sanders, aged 35 years, and wife of a farmer near Horton in Jackson County, suicided by hanging herself with a clothes line from a beam in the cellar. Deceased has for two years been considered mildly insane and had threatened to take her life. She leaves two young sons besides her husband.

July 14, 1888 Page 3
James Etsey and his 16-year-old stepson were killed by a Detroit, Lansin & Northern train at Meridian. Their horses became frightened and dashed into the train which was going at full speed.

July 14, 1888 Page 3

August Nearlson, 22 years of age, stepped into the shaft at the Winthrop Mine, Ishpeming, fell 300 feet and was bruised into a unrecognizable mass.

July 21, 1888 Page 9
Some light is thrown upon the mysterious suicide of G. H. Spencer, who ended his life June 16, at a hotel in Marquette, by taking carbolic acid. Copies of the two letters which he left for his wife and which the Coroner refused to open at the inquest have been received by your correspondent. In them he begged forgiveness for the trouble he had made her and said his brain was turned and that he killed himself to keep out of the mad house. It is understood that there was a woman in the case, who has always borne an unspotted reputation.

July 28, 1888 Page 2
Emil Schandein, one of Milwukee's millionaire brewers, died at Bremen, Germany, last Sunday, where he had gone for a brief visit. For fifteen years Mr. Schandein had been vice-president of the Best Brewing Company. The remains will be brought to this country for interment, at Milwaukee.

July 21, 1888 Page 9
Thomas Hayes, a hotel proprietor at Seney and a highly respected citizen, had some words with a man named McCleary and a companion. Blows followed and the two men were punishing Hayes severely, when George Everett also jumped in to do Hayes up. At this Mr. Hayes lost his self-control and pulling a revolver shot Everett three times in the breast, inflicting fatal injuries, and McCleary once through the shoulder.

July 28, 1888 Page 1
Miss Jennie Cline, sister of Mrs. Geo. A. Cady, died of consumption at the latter's residence in this city Tuesday. The remains were taken to Rochester, Mich. for interment.

July 28, 1888 Page 7
Mrs. James Crisp, wife of Capt. James Crisp of Live Saving Station No. 10, died in this city Tuesday. The funeral occurred Thursday, the Rev. P. T. Rowe of St. James Episcopal church officiating.

August 4, 1888 Page 1
Eliza, the bright little daughter of David Burnett, died of diphtheria and a private funeral from the home was held last Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Burnett have the sympathy of all their friends in their sorrow.

August 4, 1888 Page 1
Last Wednesday afternoon, Richard Clough committed suicide at the Pacific Hotel by taking laudanum. Mr. Clough was well known in the city. He was engaged for the year past until three weeks ago with Carkin Stickney & Cram who have the contract for government work here. About three weeks ago he quit the firm and has since resided in the Canadian Soo. He came over Wednesday morning to take the Minnie M. for St. Ignace where he had secured employment. He missed the boat and was waiting to take the Soo City. His wife visited him in the afternoon at his room in the Pacific House and found him badly under the influence of the drug. She immediately hastened for doctor Ennis, but death arrived before the physician did. A post mortem examination was made by Dr. Ennis who found many evidences of disease about his organization, to relieve himself from the pains of which, he probably took poison.

August 4, 1888 Page 1
The wife of Dennis Ryan of Ashmun street died yesterday morning. Mrs. Ryan has been ailing for some time. The funeral will occur tomorrow at 8 o'clock.

August 4, 1888 Page 4
The sudden death of J. R. Clark, general superintendent of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railway, directs attention to the mortality list of this great corporation. Within a very few years the road has lost President Alexander Mitchell, Vice- President Julius Wadsworth, General Manager S. S. Merrill, Treasurer R. D. Jennings, General Superintendent James T. Clark, Assistant General Superintendent H. C. Atkins, Superintendent of Freight Traffic W. G. Swan, and Division Superintendent L. B. Rock. These men died in harness. They made the St. Paul road what it is to-day—the biggest railroad in the world under one management. In accomplishing this task they sacrificed their lives. Railroading today is not play. It wears men out before their time. T. J. Potter's death resulted from overtaxing the system. Is the game worth the candle?

August 11, 1888 Page 1
P. J. Byron, the well known and exeedingly popular real estate man, died Monday evening after a brief illness. He was buried at Garden River. The chamber of commerce adopted resolutions of regret.

August 11, 1888 Page 1
The young son of W. F. Ferris, who was injured by a fall last week, lingered in great agony until Sunday, when he died.

August 11, 1888 Page 1
William Burdick, son of S. Burdick, died at three o'clock yesterday morning from the effects of injuries received Thursday morning while attempting to leap aboard the steambarge Pringle at the Union dock. Burdick was employed Osborn Bros. Ice and milk dealers, and in his eagerness to secure the boat's trade he jumped from the dock to the boat while she was moving toward the wharf. Miscalculating the distance he fell and was caught between the dock and the side of the boat and severely crushed in the region of the abdomen. He was a young man highly esteemed by all who knew him. Funeral will take place tomorrow at half past one from the house.....

August 11, 1888 Page 1
Frank Bertram, the well known liveryman died Friday morning from a complications of disorders, chief among which was inflammation of the bowels. Mr. Bertram had been ill about ten days. He had not been in perfect health, his physicians say for many years.... The funeral will occur this afternoon at 2 o'clock.

August 11, 1888 Page 4
General Sheridan died Sunday night at Nonquitt, Mass. He made a strong fight for life, but was of last compelled to yield. The immediate cause of his death was heart failure.....

August 18, 1888 Page 5
Ella H. Nash, a niece of G. E. Dexter of Charles City, Iowa, died of consumption Monday at the Canadian Soo. The deceased came here early in the season with Mr. Dexter and remained for a time on this side of the river. Failing to improve she was taken to the other side. The remains were embalmed by N. V. Garbiel the undertaker, and shipped to Goshen, Ind., Tuesday afternoon.

August 18, 1888 Page 7
Two young men named Morey and Bell, formerly reporters on the Minneapolis Evening Journal, were drowned at Petoskey. Wednesday they left Minneapolis for the Crooked lake country equipped for camping. They left Oden for Burt lake in the early afternoon and were caught in the furious storm of that day, and their boat and contents were found on the shore of Burt lake. Their provisions were scattered along the shore. They had written their names on the bottom of the boat, and beyond doubt were lost in the storm.

August 25, 1888 Page 1
Capt. Geo. Hammer, whose name appears in the list of cabin passengers who lost their lives by the sinking of the steamship Geiser, is well known on the lakes having formerly owned and sailed the schooner Ashtabula.... He has resided at Highland Park, a Chicago suburb, for some time past.... [On page 6 an account is given of the sinking of the Geiser on August 14, 1888].

August 25, 1888 Page 1
An infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L. J. Barr died on Wednesday and was buried on Friday. The child was twenty days old.

August 25, 1888 Page 5
Prof. Elisha Jones, of the Michigan university, died last week in Denver Colorado. Prof. Jones graduated at the university in the class of 1859.....

September 1, 1888 Page 2
Arthur Edwards fell off Pope's wharf in Houghton and was drowned. He was 24 years old, was unmarried and was waiter on the steamer Fremont.

September 1, 1888 Page 8
Blanche Endress, the six year old child of Mrs. Charles Endress, was buried yesterday afternoon. The little one died from diptheria. Undertaker Gabriel attended to the funeral arrangements.

September 1, 1888 Page 8
Lieut. James R. Cranston, of the tenth U. S. Infantry, who was stationed at Fort Brady from 1879 till 1884, died in camp near Amargo, New Mexico, August 23. Lieut. Cranston was engaged in removing settlers from the Jicerilla Indian reservation. He was very popular here and his death will be regretted by a large cirle of old-time Sooites.

September 29, 1888 Page 8
Iroqouis
The wife of Mr. Sutton passed suddenly away to the world of eternity on the night of the 16th inst., Mr. Sutton has the sympathy of the surrounding neighborhood.

September 8, 1888 Page 8
Mrs. Mary Bennett died suddenly in Collingwood on her way to her home in the Canadian Soo. Her body will arrive to- day and the funeral will take place to-morrow afternoon at 1 o'clock from the residence of her son, Arthur Bennett. N. V. Gabriel has charge of the funeral arrangements.

September 8, 1888 Page 1
Undertakers Vanderhook and Cook, of the Dunning Furniture Co., were called at 1 o'clock Tuesday night to care for the mangled remains of Joseph Elliot, son of George S. Elliot, the baker, who was accidentally killed in a lumber camp near Bruce Mines, Ontario. The remains of the unfortunate Elliot, were interred at the Canada Soo Cemetery on Wednesday.

September 8, 1888 Page 1
Peter Biron, who died a few weeks ago, had his life quite largely insured. Some of the policies had lapsed on account of the premium not having been kept up. However a policy for $5,000 in the Western Union Mutual, of Detroit has been found to be in effect and the company announces that it will pay the sum promptly. The lamented Biron's friends will be glad to learn this.

September 15, 1888 Page 1
John W. W. Hamley, the three-year-old son of Samuel W. Hamley, Ridge street, died on Wednesday of diptheria. The funeral was not public.

September 22, 1888 Page 1
John Tate's little three-months-old boy babe died Tuesday, and was buried Wednesday from their residence, by Undertaker Garbriel.

September 29, 1888 Page 1
Fractured His Skull
Last Monday Norman McLeod, who has been employed by D. McKenzie, the contractor and house mover, was fatally injured, while moving a barn off of the waterpower canal property near Ashmun street. He was at the capstan when it was suddenly broken from its fastening and Mr. McLeod was hit on the head. The blow fractured his skull and he died from the results on Tuesday. His remains were taken to Ripley, Ont., for burial yesterday. He leaves a wife and seven children.

October 6, 1888 Page 1
Frank P. Jones was called to Wisconsin suddenly last Sunday, by the death of his sister-in-law. Mr. Jones will remain at Clintonville, Wis., for some time.

October 13, 1888 Page 3
Yellow fever is still making life dismal in Florida. Among the deaths at Jacksonville this week were Edwin Martin, editor of the daily Times Union and Chas. L. Forest the Detroit telegraph operator who went there to help out the force in the telegraph ffice.

October 6, 1888 Page 8
Marine Matters
The barge St. Clair, went to pieces at Sand Beach. The life-saving crew went to the St. Clair and offered to take off her crew, but they refused, though they agreed to signal for help if they required it. At 11 p.m. she showed her signal and the life-savers went out to her.... The life-boat had succeeded in taking of the barge's crew, but could not face the heavy sea, .... In attempting landing at Port Sanilac, the boat was capsized, and four men and the woman cook of the St. Clair crew were drowned. The life-saving crew are all safe. The names of the lost are: Capt. C. H. Janes, of Bay City; sailors Henry Anderson of Australia; George McFarlane, of Cleveland; Louis Fertaw, of Bay City, and the cook, Julia Greawreath of Sebewaing. The rescued men were Maurice McKenna, of Bay City and John Rose, of Detroit.

October 13, 1888 Page 8
Chief Mitchell received a telegram yesterday announcing the death of his brother, who was killed suddenly by the cars Thursday in Harford county, Md. The deceased was forty years of age and was a prosperous farmer.

October 13, 1888 Page 8
A young son of C. T. Merrifield, died on Tuesday morning of croup.....

October 27, 1888 Page 2
Peter H. Potter, drowned from a fish boat while attempting to cross the straits. He was trying to take in the jib when a sea washed him overboard. His partner, Bob Oleson, who was with him, tried to save him, but the sea was too heavy....

October 27, 1888 Page 7
Francisco Iata, Natale Sabatano and Guisseppe Canizzaro, who have been occupying cells in the Tombs in New York on suspicion of being concerned in the murder of Antonio Flaccimio, whose dead body was found on the street near Cooper union a week ago, have all made confessions to Inspector Byrnes about the murder.... Flaccimio had done both and knew he was to die. He arranged with his son to carry on his business in case of his sudden disappearance.

October 27, 1888 Page 7
Wright Sanford, the well known club man and broker, died in the Gilsey House, New York, where he had been ill for some time.

October 27, 1888 Page 7
Col. R. M. Pulsifer, for many years one of the proprietors of the Boston Herald, is dead.

November 3, 1888 Page 2
Patrick McCormick, who was tipped over and killed while riding along a dark road near Clio, lived with his brother-in- law, Joseph Belill, of Thetford.

November 3, 1888 Page 2
Alexander Brown, of Jackson, a fireman on Northern Pacific engine, was killed Saturday by accident at Crow Wing River, Dakota.

November 3, 1888 Page 5
The famous bandit, Victor Flagoso, has been killed and some of his companions wounded by the civil guard of Cuba.

November 10, 1888 Page 7
James Bell, Ben Russell and George F. Grifin were killed in Van Zand County, Texas, Wednesday night. Russell was accused of a misdemeanor, and W. L. Hayes, Sam Stanford, Claude Stanford and Will James went to arrest him. The three negroes were met together and ordered to throw up their hands. Before they could comply they were shot down. Friends of the dead men claim they were killed as the result of a political quarrel. An investigation is being made.

November 10, 1888 Page 1
Serious Marine Accident
A serious accident, resulting in the death of one man and the scalding of three others occurred on board the steambarge Baldwin, off Point au Sable, Lake Superior, on Tuesday night at 11 o'clock.... The escaping steam scalded Jerry Renney the second engineer, and he died shortly afterward in great agony.... The remains of the unfortunate man were brought to the Soo and prepared by Gabriel for transportation to Ogdensburg, the home of the Renney family.... He was on his way home to get married....

November 10, 1888 Page 1
The body of Bill Waiskai, who fell into the canal near the light house Saturday and was drowned, was recovered Monday afternoon by a diver.

November 17, 1888 Page 1
Louis Helmchrist, a Swede employed as a deck-hand on the barge Ben Brink, fell overboard into the canal Thursday night above the railroad bridge and was drowned despite the efforts made to save him. He lived at Pequaming. The body was recovered yesterday forenoon.

November 17,1888 Page 3
Judge Cooley made the burial address at the funeral of Judge C. A. Stacy, at Tecumseh. The funeral was attended by the Lenawee county bar, and by a large share of the people of Tecumseh and vicinity.

November 17, 1888 Page 3
Mrs. Charles Kimball, of Kalamazoo, aged only 25, and as handsome a brunette as you would find in a day's travel, committed suicide by taking morphine.... Although she had been married twice her domestic relations were supposed to be very happy, and her death is entirely unexplained.

November 17, 1888 Page 6
The death of Dr. Hostetter leaves the control of the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie road in the hands of the Vanderbilts. ....

November 24, 1888 Page 1
A son of Edward Stanley found the dead body of a man in the gutter on East Portage avenue, nearly opposite the residence of J. W. Sutton, at 6 o'clock yesterday morning..... It was discovered to be the body of an umnarried Italian, about thirty years of age, who is employed on the water power canal and who figures on the books of the company, as William Rose. Rose was one of fifteen Italians who "batch" in a shanty near the works. He received his pay a few days ago and had been drinking freely since.

November 24, 1888 Page 3
George Woodward, of East Saginaw, is said to have struck Thomas Howe on the head with an axe cutting a hole that may cause his death. Woodward was the bartender in Tom Kern's gin mill and Howe was a carpenter who went there and got into a fuss.

November 24, 1888 Page 3
A sailor named Wm. Hensburg was instantly killed off Sand Beach by a fall from the cross-trees of the schooner Kensky to her deck. He had no money or friends that any one knew of, and was buried in the potter's field at Port Huron.

November 24, 1888 Page 3
Isaac H. Hill, an old and prominent resident of Bay City, is dead. He was president of Michigan Pipe works and was 74 years old. He leaves widow, daughter and two sons. Remains will be buried in Schuyler county, New York State.

November 24, 1888 Page 6
Rear Admiral Baldwin is dead. He was born September 3, 1822, and on April 24, 1839, was appointed a midshipman on the frigate Brandywine, where he experienced his first sea service.....

November 24, 1888 Page 1
John Shine Killed While Pursing William Leighton Friday
Wm. Shine, of Lindsay, Ont., brother of the deceased, arrived in the Soo early in the week to attend the funeral services and look after the business affairs of the dead man. The funeral occurred Thursday afternoon, the body being interred in the Catholic cemetery..... Shine had a number of cousins living in this city. [2 columns of story on the shooting incident]

November 24, 1888 Page 6
John Mahoney, was shot in a saloon brawl, in Ashland a few days ago and died from the wounds received. Mr. Mahoney was proprietor of two of the largest of the establishments known all over the country as "dens of Northern Wisconsin."....

December 1, 1888 Page 1
John Barrie, of Hay Lake, an old Canadian Frenchman, well known in these parts, died early last week.

December 1, 1888 Page 2
Capt. J. B. Muir, who for many years commanded the F. & P. M. steamer No. 1, died at his home in East Saginaw. He was buried on Monday at Buffalo, N. Y., that having been his former home. Capt. Muir made his living afloat from the time he was 10 years old.

December 1, 1888 Page 2
While 12,000 people were looking on recently, Prof. Vandegrift went up in a balloon at Exposition park. While in mid air his balloon burst, and he fell into the Chattahoochee river. He was completely enmeshed in the balloon ropes, and drowned in spite of efforts to save him.

December 8, 1888 Page 1
Louis Cadair who moved from Bay Mills to Newberry mourns the death of his child.

December 8, 1888 Page 8
Sanford Randolph, well known here, was accidently killed in the woods, near Newberry, on Tuesday.

December 8, 1888 Page 8
Geo. Thomas, who will be remembered as the man of work about the "Elk", died suddenly in his room on the third floor of the First National bank, Thursday afternoon.....

December 8, 1888 Page 8
Little Leslie Metzger, the unusually bright little son of Mr. and Mrs. Lewis L. Metzger, died from a throat trouble on Sunday evening. Tracheotomy was performed as a last resort by Drs. Ennis and Lang but to no purpose. Drs Floyd and Campbell pronounced it diptheria but Drs. Ennis and Lang disagreed with them. The funeral occurred from the residence at 2 o'clock on Monday afternoon and was well attended.

December 15, 1888 Page 8
Death of Mrs. John F. Moloney
Mrs. John F. Moloney died on Wednesday morning 11 o'clock after a brief illness. The funeral occurred Friday morning and was largely attended, the members of the Ancient Order of Hibernians and Catholic Mutual Benefit Association turning out in full force. The remains were interred in the Catholic cemetery.....

December 22, 1888 Page 1
Alonysius Moloney, the 2-year-old son of Patrick Moloney of this city died Sunday morning of a complication of diseases. The remains were taken to Cheboygan for interment and were accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. James F. Moloney, the father of the dead child being unable to leave owing to the illness of Mrs. Moloney.

December 22, 1888 Page 7
Alex. B. Davis, formerly largely interested in silver mines in Colorado, and at one time attorney-general for Minnesota, died suddenly at his residence in Brooklyn. Heart disease is supposed to have been the cause of his death.

December 29, 1888 Page 7
The body of S. J. Hughes of the United States coast survey, who fell overboard from a steamer at Puget Sound, two weeks ago, was found today 30 miles from the scene of the accident. An immense octopus or devil fish was fastened to one leg, and is thought to have been the cause of death. Five thousand dollars was found in the pockets of the dead man.

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