Death Notices May - Dec 1887
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Death Notices May - Dec 1887
Thursday, May 12, 1887 Page 2
Mr. Mason of the firm of Dowling &
Mason, real estate and insurance agents, went below some time before the opening
of navigation, intending to return by first boat. Sickness and death, however
have visited his family and delayed his return. He has been called upon to
follow a beloved sister to the grave and at last accounts was hourly expecting
his father's death. His many friends in the Sault tender their heartfelt
sympathy in his bereavement.
Saturday March 12th 1898
Page 3
Tone (Special Correspondence)
The funeral of Mr. Blair of Pickford,
occurred Friday. Interment was made in Bethel cemetery.
Thursday, May 12, 1887 Page
4
Ex-sheriff Brennah, of Bay City, died of consumption of the 4th.
Thursday, May 12, 1887 Page
4
Col. Thos. S. Spragge, a well known
patent attorney of Detroit, died on Monday, age 64.
Thursday, May 12, 1887 Page
4
D. J. Spragge, the oldest G.A.R. man in
the state, died at Bronson Saturday, aged 83 years.
Thursday, May 12, 1887 Page
4
John Snyder, of Bushnell township,
Montcalm county, while insane, on the 1st, crushed his wife's head with an axe,
killing her instantly.
Thursday, May 12, 1887 Page
4
Mrs. Chas. Martin, wife of a farmer
living near Grand Rapids, poisoned herself and two of her children on the 3d,
with "rough on rats."
Thursday, May 12, 1887 Page
4
Upper Peninsula News
John Nester, of Baraga, brother of
Thomas and Timothy, died at his home on Sunday last.
Thursday, May 12, 1887 Page
4
A terrible accident occurred in the
rolling mill of the Hubbard Iron company, at Hubbard,, Ohio, shortly after 2
o'clock on the morning of the 6th. Engineer Griffith Phillipps, aged 29 years
in passing around the ore crusher oiling the bearings, was caught in the wheels
and dragged into the crusher. He was mangled out of all semblance of humanity,
the flesh adhering to the clogs. He leaves a wife and 3 children.
Thursday, May 12, 1887 Page
4
George B. Peck, whose mother lives in
Onondaga county, N,Y, committed suicide in front of the residence of W. H.
Dodge, a well-to-do farmer, two miles north of Elkhorn, Wis., on the 5th. It
seems that Peck married Dodge's daughter a year ago while she was teaching
school at Wyoming, N.Y., against the wishes of the young lady's parents. A
separation was brought about and Peck went to Michigan. He appeared at Dodge's
house and after an unsatisfactory interview with his wife took his life
in....
Thursday, May 12, 1887 Page
4
John Fromer was shot and killed at
Greensburg, Ind. On the 7th by his wife, in his brother Charles' bakery. They
had separated a short time ago and John was living with his brother. The cause
of their separation was Mrs. Fromer's violent aversion to her husband's two
little children by a former wife. Since the separation she has asked him to
return and put the children in a boarding house, which he refused to do. On the
day of the shooting she talked to him in the bakery a while and was heard to say
several times: "Won't you come, John?" As he said "No" and turned to go she
drew a revolver and fired. Just then she was caught and disarmed. She said she
intended to kill herself also. She talked insanely, saying God's spirit told
her to kill her husband.
Thursday, May 12, 1887 Page
7
Jean P. Soquet was found guilty on the
4th at Green Bay, Wis., of murder in the first degree. The crime was committed
fourteen years ago and the victim was his wife. At the time of the occurrence
Soquet and August Mainsart's wife were on very intimate terms. Mrs. Soquet and
Mr. Mainsart died within a short time of each other and the widow and widower at
once married. Mrs. Mainsart was tried for the murder of her husband, but the
case was not proved. A short time ago Mrs. Minsart, now Mrs. Soquet, sued for a
divorce and suceeding development caused Soquet's arest for the murder of his
first wife. Mrs. Soquet No. 2 mysteriously disappeared when the case came to
trial.
Thursday, May 19, 1887 Page
3
Justice Woods, of the United States
supreme court, died at Washington on the 14th inst.
Thursday, May 19, 1887 Page
3
At North Branch on the 11th, Alexander
Hoy's little son spilled a bottle of carbolic acid over his body. The stuff
burned the child from his head to his feet, and he will probably die.
Thursday, May 19, 1887 Page
3
Smith J. Tooker, a pioneer, died on the
11th, at Lansing, of paralysis, aged 68 years. Tooker was a member of the first
party that located in Lansing, and his wife was the first white woman there. He
was one of the 15 original members of the state pioneers society.
Thursday, May 19, 1887 Page
3
Mrs. Dean Mix, of Kalmo, Eaton count,
was thrown from a buggy recently and probably fatally hurt, one limb being broken
and other severe injuries sustained. Her father named Slater, was killed by the
cars several years ago, her brother Kit was drowned two years ago while fishing,
and her mother is at present almost helpless from a stroke of paralysis.
Thursday, May 19, 1887 Page
3
John Huster dropped dead in a Neugaunce saloon on the 12th.
Thursday, May 19, 1887 Page
3
Judge George Woodruff died at Marshall on the 13th, aged 80 yrs.
Thursday, May 19, 1887 Page
3
Nahum N. Wilson, pioneer of Genesse county, is dead at Flint, aged 82 years.
Thursday, May 19, 1887 Page
3
George Smith's two year old child at
William's, Bay county, died last week in great agony after eating heartly of
canned peaches.
Thursday, May 19, 1887 Page
4
Mrs. George W. Stevenson, of Jackson,
died on the 13th, from the effects of injuries received by the explosion of a
gasoline stove last week.
Thursday, May 19, 1887 Page
4
Lewis Roberts' and wife, of Galien,
Berrien county, ate some berries which had been canned two years or more. Both
were taken ill, but Roberts soon recovered; Mrs. Roberts died.
Thursday, May 19, 1887 Page
8
John McLain, who had been working in a
cedar camp near St. Ignace the past winter, began choking at the dinner table at
the Snyder house, St. Ignace, on the 11th, and died a half hour later. He is
supposed to have a sister at Cheboygan.
Thursday, May 26, 1887 Page
4
Charles E. Stuart, of Kalamazoo, died
on the 19th inst. at his home having been an invalid for twenty years. He was a
member of congress two terms and senator one term 1853 to 1856. Thirty years
ago, Mr. Stuart was one of the most prominent Democratic leaders in this state.
Michigan owes Mr. Stuart the passage of the Act appropiating the land which
constructed the Sault Ste. Marie Canal.
Thursday, May 26, 1887 Page
4
Wm. Bedford died at Dollarville recently, aged 60 years.
Thursday, May 26, 1887 Page
4
Mrs. Geo. H. Carey, wife of the the
station agent at Dollarville, died on the 12th inst.
Thursday, May 26, 1887 Page
8
On Monday last, 23d inst., Peter
Olmstead, of Detour, started from that place for the Sault in a sailboat loaded
with potatoes. When near the Encampment a passing barge was hailed for a tow up.
A line was thrown from the barge, which struck one of the spars of the sailboat
and precipitated Olmstead into the water. He immediately sank and was drowned.
His son was on board the boat at the time and witnessed the sad affair.
The deceased was about 45 years of age
and had resided at Detour for upwards of 25 years. Several brothers still reside
there. He leaves a widow, a daughter of Capt. Stiles, of this place.
Thursday, June 2, 1887 Page 1
Death of Mrs. W. H. Smith Died-
At her late residence, Ferris Street, on Monday, May 30, at 11:00 a.m., Mrs.
William H. Smith, in the 43d year of her age. Mrs. Smith was born in Yarmouth,
Ontario, and had been a resident of Sault Ste. Marie since 1871, during which
time she had made a wide circle of friends and acquaintances. The most of these
friendships were formed by the bed of sickness and were warm and lasting. Mrs.
S. was a practical nurse, and understood the whims and caprices of the sick
perfectly. She had charge of the Marine Hospital here for some years, and many
a poor mariner tossing upon a bed of sickness, a stranger in a strange land, had
cause to be thankful for many acts of kindness and attention received at her
hands. Her work in that direction was not confined to the hospital, however.
Wherever there was sickness and she thought she could be of service, there she
was to be found. Night after night she has sat at the bedside of the suffering,
comforting them in her sympathising way. These kindly traits of character won
for her the love and esteem of the community, and she will always be remembered
lovingly by those to whom she ministered.
Mrs. Smith leaves a husband and five
children, one of them an infant a week old, to mourn the loss of an affectionate
wife and kind mother. The funeral took place yesterday at 2:30 p.m. from the
M. E. Church and was very largely attended.
Thursday, June 2, 1887 Page 4
Louis Mickelson was shot and instantly
killed on the 25th by Amos Rhodes at a logging camp four miles south of
Manistee. During the past four months Mickelson had employed Rhodes and wife as
housekeepers on his farm, a few miles south of that city, and during the spring
Mickelson has been engaged, in addition to his farming duties, in logging about
one mile from his farm. During that afternoon Rhodes came to Jark's store in
the Village of Oak Hill, and bought some small buckshot, and after he had put
the same in his pocket remarked that he was going to shoot Mickelson. Returning
to the farm Rhodes learned that Mickelson had gone to his logging camp to load
logs. Rhodes took a gun, loaded it, and said he would hunt up and kill
Mickelson. The son of Mickelson hearing the remark, ran to his father and
apprised him of his danger but his father treated it as a scare. Soon after
Rhodes appeared where Mickelson was at work with a half dozen men and getting
within twenty feet of Mickelson called out to him, "if you have anything to say,
say it, as I am going to shoot you" Mickelson said, "Go away and don't molest me
in my work" whereupon Rhodes aimed the gun and fired, over 100 shots striking
Mickelson in the left breast, some penetrating to the heart, causing instant
death. Rhodes returned to his home and went to bed, where he was afterwards
arrested and placed in jail. The friends of Rhodes claim that Mickelson had
been intimate with Mrs. Rhodes and that Rhodes is crazy. Mickelson was 45 years
of age, has always been a hardworking quiet person, had a wife and several
children who reside in the city, where the children can enjoy better educational
advantages. Rhodes is 26 years old, of German descent and a few years ago came
from the eastern part of Ohio. He has a wife and one child.
Thursday, June 2, 1887 Page
4
Eleazer Moister, one of Bay City's
oldest Jewish citizens, died there on the 23d ult., aged 63.
Thursday, June 2, 1887 Page
4
A polish boy five years old was struck
in the stomach by a base ball while watching a game at Grand Rapids last week
and instantly killed.
Thursday, June 2, 1887 Page
4
At Canton, Ohio, last week, Charles
Danseizen, a bricklayer, went home drunk and, picking up a butcher-knife six
inches long, murdered his wife by stabbing her in the throat. He says she drove
him to the deed because she joined the salvation army.
Thursday, June 2, 1887 Page
4
A letter from Fulton County, Ark., says
James Smith and John Howell, who were passing through that couty last week were
attacked by a pack of wolves. Two leaped upon the horse and seized Howell by
the neck, wounding him so seriously that he died. Smith was dangerously
wounded, but succeeded in escaping to the house of Jack Arnette, closely
followed by the wolves. From there they went to a creek near by and attacked
James Thompson, one of a fishing party, fatally wounding him and seriously
injuring a companion. A party started out to hunt them down and succeeded in
killing one, but the others are still in the neighbourhood.
Thursday, June 2, 1887 Page
5
Rose Coleman, a domestic in C. L.
Newell's family died on Thursday night last of paralysis after an illness of
only two days. Mrs. Newell was very kind to the girl during her brief illness,
doing all she possibly could for her. The funeral took place on Friday
afternoon. The deceased belonged to Manitoulin Island, Ontario.
Thursday, June 2, 1887 Page
5
Frank Gardner, a seaman on the schooner
Wagstaff, while reefing, in a recent gale on Lake Huron, fell on a coil of rope,
receiving fatal injuries. He is from Cleveland.
Thursday, June 2, 1887 Page
8
St. Ignace Notes
Mrs. Hulbert, wife of William C.
Hulbert, died at Erie, Pa., on May 23. The family had been residents of
Mackinac Island for 20 years, but removed to Erie 15 years ago.
Thursday, June 2, 1887 Page
8
Patrick Hoban, died at Mackinac Island
on the 24th, in the 85th year of his age. He had been a resident of the Island
for 38 years.
Thursday, June 9, 1887 Page
2
The death is announced of Thomas
Spencer Bayes, the well-known professor of logic, and one of the editors of the
Encyclopedia Britannica.
Thursday, June 9, 1887
Page 4
Elijah Daker, foreman of the Detroit
Steel and Spring Works, dropped dead about 11 o'clock on the morning of the 2d.
He stepped into an outhouse. A moment later he was heard to cry "Oh!" and seen to
fall. He died before a physician could arrive. It is supposed he died of heart
disease. Daker was about 40 years of age and brother of the superintendent of
the works. He had just built a new house on twenty-fourth street, and was in
good circumstances. He moved to Detroit with his wife and three children from
Pittsburgh about three years ago.
Thursday, June 9, 1887 Page
5
A prisoner in the Ionia house of
correction, named Joseph Descario while attempting to escape from that
institution recently, was shot dead by a keeper. He was a Canadian Frenchman
from St. Ignace and was sent to prison February 21, for three years for perjury.
He was 24 years old.
Thursday, June 16, 1887
Page 4
John Byron, aged 72, living in West Bay
City, was discovered dead last week. Appoplexy was the cause.
Thursday, June 16, 1887
Page 5
Word was received here on the morning
of the 10th of the death of C. W. Endress, a former resident of this place,
which occurred at his late residence, Two Rivers, Wis. Mr. Endress was engaged
in the drug business here, but ill health compelled him to sell out and remove
to a warmer climate. About six years ago he left the Sault and had been
gradually growing worse, the past two years being almost entirely confined to
his bed. He had been a great sufferer and his friends, while mourning his
death, cannot help feeling thankful that his sufferings are at an end. The
remains were brought here by steamer on Sunday morning and the funeral took
place the afternoon of the same day. The masons of which he was an old member
paid the last tribute of respect to their deceased brother by taking charge of
the funeral and performing their beautiful burial service over the grave.
Thursday, June 16, 1887
Page 5
James Campbell, of Pickford, being
troubled for some-time past with a sore neck, left his home and came to the city
for treatment. Dr. Rundle was attending him, and apparently he was improving.
On Saturday morning, at 6 o'clock after arising from bed and getting ready for
his breakfast he dropped dead. The body was sent to Pickford for burial.
Thursday, June 16, 1887
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Cheboygan Notes
Jacob Sammons, a native of Cheboygan,
and for some time bookkeeper for the Northwestern Hospital Co., died at the
hospital last Sunday and was buried Tuesday afternoon by the Masons.
Thursday, June 23, 1887
Page 4
John Brooks, an old man, dropped dead at Sturgis recently.
Thursday, June 16, 1887
Page 7
At Brownsville, Texas, recently a
thunderbolt struck a house at Chatone's ranch, killing two people and stunning
four others. Manuel Portales and his wife were killed outright. Eugenio Rincones
and his wife were stunned and when brought to, were each blind of the right eye.
Two boys, sons of Rincones, were stunned. The entire party lay senseless for
about an hour. The lightning glanced from the mesquite trees near by, entered
through the roof of the jacal and struck them all down as they stood around a
table. The suspicion has always existed among their neighbours that Portales and
his wife killed her first husband, and they claim that Heaven's vengeance has
been executed on Portales and his wife and a warning given to others.
Thursday, June 16, 1887
Page 7
At Washington, recently, while workmen
were engaged in the construction of a stone warehouse in the southeastern part
of the city, the scaffolding, which was covered with several tons of stone, gave
way and precipitated the contractor, James McKnight, and five masons to the
ground, a distance of thirteen feet. John Clark, aged 60 years had his skull
crushed by a falling stone and died almost instantly. Thomas Chapman, a stone
mason, and James Murray, a laborer, who were beneath the scaffolding, sustained
serious injuries, and John Hogan, Wm. Lannon, sr., and Wm. Lannon, jr., and
McKnight were also injured, but, it is believed, not seriously.
Thursday, June 23, 1887
Page 5
-A Dakota Tornado-
On the 17th, Grand Forks, Dakota, was
visited with a destructive tornado. The storm came from the west and travelled
due east. Twenty-five or more buildings, including the Catholic Church and the
University of North Dakota, were blown to the ground. The laboratory and museum
in the university were almost totally destroyed, besides hundreds of smaller
dwellings, storehouses and sheds.
The following were killed outright:
Mrs. Follett and her mother Mrs. Davis; Cora Starbird, 12 years old: a man named
Gummerson, in East Grand Forks.
The seriously injured were: Mrs. A.
Starbird and child. Mrs. Ed Tierney and two children, Mrs. J. Andrew and two
children, Mrs. Taltao and two children, Mrs. Guyot and daughter, at the
University of North Dakota.
In East Grand Forks fourteen business
building were destroyed. Both bridges across the river were swept away. The
total loss is estimated at $100,000. The storm was local. The train from the
North was blown from the track about four miles out, and rolled over a couple of
tiimes. No one was killed, but many were seriously injured. During the storm
Halver Leland, of Walle Township, was killed. The storm was reported quite
severe at Manvel and Ardock, where buildings were blown away. The Andrew family
had their house torn to pieces and carried 100 feet. Ed Tierney's house was
overturned and his wife injured. The children were carried 150 feet and not
hurt. One of them 6 years old, was carried across the railroad track and lay
there during the whole storm. C. A. Myerstorm was dangerously hurt.
Thursday, June 23, 1887
Page 5
The steamer Champlain, of the Northern
Transportation Line, plying between Chicago and St. Ignace, burned at midnight
on the 16th, half-way between Norwood and Charlevoix. She had fifty-seven
persons on board, passengers, officers and crew, and a large amount of freight,
with some horses.
The Lost
Mrs. Ella Smith, of Charlevoix; drowned; body recovered.
Geo. Wrisley, Charlevoix; drowned; not recovered.
Robert Welch, Charlevoix; burned.
Capt. G. G. Lucas, Petoskey; drowned; body recovered.
Russell Jackson, agent of the Corset
Company; died of exhaustion after reaching shore.
Henry Burhan, clerk, also died of
exhaustion.
Mr. and Mrs. Keogh, Chicago; drowned;
bodies not recovered.
Two children of Martin Bange, steward;
drowned, bodies not recovered.
Jack Hoxtley, second cook, drowned;
body recovered.
Mrs. Mary Fall and daughter, Lulu
Williard, residence unknown, missing.
Unknown man and little boy, who took
passage at Milwaukee for Mackinac Island both drowned. The body of the father
was found, but not that of the boy.
Four whites and four Indians, from Elk
Rapids, of the boat's crew and Eddie Wilkins, cabin boy, of Chicago, drowned.
The latter's body was found.
The following gives the identity of the
"unknown-man and little boy" referred to above:
"Upon the body of one of the dead was
found a piece of paper on which were these words." If anything happens to me,
write my wife, Mrs. J. J. Rogers, Fort Mackinac. J. J. Rogers, Hospital
Steward, U. S. Army." His little boy with him, is missing."
-The Captains's Statement-
Capt. Casey states that the first he
knew of the fire the first engineer rushed up on the upper deck with his clothes
all ablaze. He shouted to him to jump into the water tank and with the
assistance of the first mate threw him in and extinguished the flames. The
engine room was all on fire, and after seeing that there was no chance to quench
the flames, the Captain headed the boat for Fisherman's Island and gave orders
to lower the boats. But the boat, was rushing along at full speed, and before
they could be launched the fire drove all hands upon the bow of the boat. Here
all were provided with life preservers. The boat grounded about a mile from
shore. The flames had been kept back by the speed of the boat and the wind, but
now they came rapidly nearer and the people were forced to take to the water.
Many were let down with lines, while others jumped overboard.
The captain says it was not more than
ten minutes from the time the fire broke out before the boat was wrapped in
flames.
The books were lost, and as the clerk
died from exhaustion after being picked up, it is possible that a complete list
of the lost will never be secured. The engineer and firemen who were saved,
are at Smithson's camp, six miles from Charlevoix, and they were so badly burned
that he made no effort to learn from them the manner in which the fire
originated.
Thursday, June 23, 1887
Page 4
Frank Monogan, an ex-soldier of the 3d
Mich, calvary, was horribly mutilated by a log train on the F. & P. M. road,
near Bay City recently. It is believed that he was murdered for his pension
money, which he had just drawn, and afterwards placed on the track to cover up
the crime.
Thursday, June 23, 1887
Page 5
On Thursday last the body of a man was
found floating in the canal, above the upper gate. It was taken from the water
and identified as the remains of Thomas Wigwaus, an Indian belonging to Sugar
Island, who had been missing for some time. A inquest was held in the afternoon.
Medical testimony was to the effect that the deceased's brain was affected, and
that he had probably walked over the pier in a fit of temporary insanity. The
jury returned a verdict in accordance with the evidence.
Thursday, June 23, 1887
Page 5
Capt. Henry E. Brooks, of Green Bay
perhaps the oldest vessel master on the lakes, is dead. He was born in 1807,
and had been on the water ever since he was ten years of age. He assisted in
hauling the steamer Independents from Lake Huron to Lake Superior in 1843. He
retired in 1882, the last vessel he sailed being the steamer M. C. Hawley.
Thursday, June 23, 1887
Page 7
Saturday morning John Doran, of Baraga
while measuring lumber, was suddenly taken with a fit and fell into the lake and
was drowned.
Thursday, June 23, 1887
Page 7
A brakeman, named Kippen, was killed
while coming through the Rock cut on the Antoine branch near Norway last
Saturday night. Sixty ore cars ran over him and the unfortunate man was cut to
pieces -Escanaba Mirror.
Thursday, June 23, 1887
Page 7
On the 15th inst. while J. C. Ryan and
Harry Treloar were drilling out a blast which had missed fire in the Paint River
Mine at Crystal Falls, the blast went off, blowing off the heads and arms of
both men and horribly mangling their bodies.
Thursday, June 30, 1887
Page 3
Giles Daubany, of Cheltenham, England
committed suicide at Cheboygan on the 23d, by shooting, himself. He was
discouraged, having no employment or means.
Thursday, June 30, 1887
Page 4
Silas Holt, while in a drunken frenzy,
fell or jumped from the second story of the house where he was boarding at
Houghton and fractured his skull, besides receiving serious injuries. He cannot
recover.
Thursday, June 30, 1887
Page 4
Barney Drake hung himself by the neck
to the ladder in his barn at Springfield, recently. Drake was 74 years old and
had resided in Springfield thirty-five years.
Thursday, June 30, 1887
Page 4
John Norman, of Escanaba, was killed at
Ishpeming on the 23d, by being thrown from a buggy.
Thursday, June 30, 1887
Page 4
The Florence, Wis., NEWS says the
mystery which has surrounded the fate of Willie Dickenson, the 6-year-old son of
Capt. William E. Dickenson of Commonwealth, who mysteriously disappeared while
returning home from school on the afternoon of November l, 1881, has at last, it
is thought, been cleared up. It is believed that the boy was kidnapped and
murdered by certain disreputable parties who infested Florence and Commonwealth
some six or seven years ago. The motive for the crime is thought to have been
revenge, the supposed kidnappers having become incensed against Captain
Dickinson because he had thwarted them in some of their acts of villainy.
Recently a letter was found in Milwaukee giving a clue to the whole mystery, and
the father is there engaged with the police in investigating the affair.
Thursday, June 30, 1887
Page 4
On the 26th, Gen. James Speed died at
Louisville, Ky. He was attorney general under president Lincoln.
Thursday, June 30, 1887
Page 5
A man named Lightheart, belonging to
Mudge Bay, Ontario was drowned at Garden River on Monday last, while swimming
his horses across the river at that point he was in some manner thrown from the
back of one of the animals and carried down stream by the current, drowning
before assistance could reach him. His body was recovered.
Thursday, July 7, 1887 Page
4
Wm. F. Smith, general passenger agent
of the Grand Trunk railway, died suddenly while sitting at his desk in New York,
on the 27th ult.
Thursday, July 7, 1887 Page
4
At Kingston, Ontario at the jubilee
celebration, a sad accident occurred on the cricket field in connection with
the fireworks display. A printer named Jos. Thompson was hit by a rocket which
swept down upon him and instantly killed him. His head was almost severed from
his body.
Thursday, July 14, 1887
Page 4
At Leitchfield, Ky., on the night of
the 6th, W. R. May, distiller and whiskey seller, was called from bed by some
one who pretended to want a quart of whiskey. May obtained the key of his
grocery and went with the man. The assassin was stationed in front of the
building, and as soon as the light fell upon May's face, discharged a load of
buckshot into his head, killing him instantly.
Thursday, July 14, 1887
Page 4
An 8 year old son of Conductor Hubbard,
of Port Huron, was hit on the nose by a batted ball, Friday and gradually bled
to death dying Monday.
Thursday, July 14, 1887
Page 4
A young man named Stal Neusman, of
Muskegon, is in jail charged with killing his father aged 60 years.
Thursday, July 14, 1887
Page 4
James Crotty of Oakland county, is dead
at the age of 82; also David Turrell, an old hotel man and among the first
settlers of Genessee county aged 68.
Thursday, July 14, 1887
Page 4
Maud Blye, of Charlotte, was fatally
injured by the cars on the 4th, and Jos. Gibbons of the same place, was killed
by the bursting of an anvil used in celebrating.
Thursday, July 14, 1887
Page 4
John Anderson, an employee of the S. N.
Wilcox Lumber Company's mill at Whitehall, was cut in two on the 6th, his body
falling in two pieces on each side of the edger saw.
Thursday, July 14, 1887
Page 4
Ben D. House, adjutant general of the
Indiana G. A. R., and known a poet and journalist throughout the state, died at
Indianapolis on the 4th.
Thursday, July 14, 1887
Page 4
Private Thomas N. Bateman, troop of the
Second United States Cavalry, shot and killed First Sergt. Samuel M. Sopher, of
the same troop, at the Presidio Barracks, San Francisco on, the 5th, for a
reprimand.
Thursday, July 14, 1887
Page 5
Hebert, infant son of Mr. and Mrs. John
A. France, died on Wednesday morning of cholera infantum, after a few hours
illness.
Thursday, July 14, 1887
Page 5
E. J. Nickerson was drowned at the
mouth of Cheboygan river Sunday while rafting cedar.
Thursday, July 14, 1887
Page 5
Mrs. Gleason, of Jonesville, Hillsdale
Co., daughter of W. C. Knox of this place, arrived here on the 2d, with her
three children on a visit to her parents. That evening her baby aged three
month was taken ill and on Sunday the little one died. On Thursday last her
little two year old son died, and at this writing the remaining child is very
low. The death of the little boy was the eight that has occurred in Mr. Knox's
family since September last. Mrs. Gleason's visit has been a very sad one to
her.
Thursday, July 14, 1887
Page 8
A five year old son of Mr. F. Fleming,
manager of the Sault Brick & Tile company, died suddenly this week.
Thursday, July 21, 1887
Page 4
Sergeant Clark, who fired the fatal
shot at Private Arthur Stone at Fort Wayne, Detroit, will be held for trial on a
charge of murder in the U.S. circuit court.
Thursday, July 21, 1887
Page 2
Near, Logansport, Ind., at an early
hour on the morning of the 12th, W. A. Garner was awakened by some one groping
around the room. Seeing a form at the window, he thought it was a burglar, and
he fired at it. The body fell. When he got a light he found he had shot his
wife and she was dead.
Thursday, July 21, 1887
Page 2
Benjamin West second cook on the
streamer Winslow, died suddenly on Saturday about 11 o'clock, while the steamer
was between Port Huron and this place. On her arrival here the authorities were
notified and coroner Cota at once summoned a jury and held an inquest. Dr.
Marks, attending physician after an examination of the remains, and the
testimony of two witnesses, stated that death resulted from inflamation of the
bowels, superinduced by an attack of cholera morbus. The jury returned a
verdict of death from natural causes. The remains were then turned over to
Thompson Bros., undertakers, for burial. West had sailed on the lakes for a
number of years but this was his first trip on the Winslow.
Thursday, July 21, 1887
Page 2
A sensational murder occurred in
Washington on the 13th. Joseph C. Kennedy, a very prominent lawyer and old
resident of the capital, was fatally stabbed by a laborer named Joseph Dailey,
without apparent provocation.
Thursday, July 21, 1887
Page 2
The Supreme Court of Missouri has
overruled the motion for a new trial in the case of Brooks, better known by his
alias, Maxwell, who was tried last fall for the murder of Preller, found guilty
and sentenced to be hanged on the 12th of August.
Thursday, July 21, 1887
Page 4
Wm. Carl, for 22 years conductor on the
Lake Shore & Michigan Southern railroad was killed Monday near Hillsdale,
while in charge of a gravel train. He slipped and fell between the wheels.
Thursday, July 21, 1887
Page 4
Mrs. Cole, of Marshall, fell out of the
second story window of her house Monday and was killed. Whether the fall was
accidental or intentional is not known.
Thursday, July 21, 1887
Page 4
Harry Bell, a former resident of and
well known in Pontiac, died at Windsor, Ontario, recently.
Thursday, July 21, 1887
Page 5
Rev. Dr. Thomson received the sad
intelligence yesterday morning that his boy was fatally injured at St. Paul.
Mr. and Mrs. Thomson and son returned home to-day. No particulars.
Thursday, August 11, 1887
Page 2
Thos. Black, who was driven out of
Bessemer with a load of shot in his body, was killed by a negro in his employ,
last week. Black kept a floating den on Lake Goegebic.
Thursday, July 21, 1887
Page 5
Mrs. Thos. Fahey died at her late
residence, Spruce avenue, on Tuesday evening, 19th inst. The funeral will be
held this morning at 10 o'clock. The deceased leaves a husband and two
children, one an infant, to mourn her loss.
Thursday, July 28, 1887
Page 2
George C. Rels, manager of the Iron
River Furnace Company, of Iron River, was killed at that place by the cars. Mr.
Rels was walking down the track when the train was set in motion by being struck
by a switch engine. He was knocked down and dragged about a hundred feet. His
legs and arms were broken and his body frightful mangled.
Thursday, July 28, 1887
Page 2
Frank E. Heminway, of Bay City, a young
attorney, died at Quannicassee last Monday.
Thursday, July 28, 1887
Page 2
Geo. Harrington, aged 17 was fatally
shot in the forehead.
Thursday, July 28, 1887
Page 2
David Aldrick, a baker, aged 65 years,
who had been a resident of Battle Creek 35 years dropped dead on the 19th.
Thursday, July 28, 1887
Page 2
Mrs. W. A. Lambertson was fatally shot
in the left breast, just above the heart.
Thursday, July 28, 1887
Page 3
Freddie, infant son of Fred W. and Lulu
Roach, died of cholera infantum on Sunday evening last, the 24th inst., at 5:30
o'clock, aged nearly four months. He was born on Sunday April 4 at 5:30 p.m.,
and his death occurring on a Sunday at the same hour, was deemed not a little
remarkable by his parents and their friends. The funeral took place from the
residence of Mr. A. B. Roach on Monday last, the Rev. Mr. Cory officiating. The
parents have the warm sympathy of a large circle of friends in their affliction,
particularly as the young mother was just convalescing from nearly fatal illness
and it was feared that the loss of the child might cause a relapse. However, no
danger is now apprehended, as Mrs. Roach is in a fair way of recovery, which is a
matter of rejoicing to her family and friends.
Thursday, July 28, 1887
Page 8
St. Ignace Notes
The 7-year old daughter of Ignatius Reagan died on Sunday.
Thursday, August 4, 1887
Page 2
Capt. Wm. A. Owen, one of Detroit
prominent citizen was killed last week Tuesday by being thrown from a buggy. He
was one of the most prominent Democratic leader in Detroit.
Thursday, August 4, 1887
Page 2
Franklin Elmer, an Eaton county
pioneer, who recently died in his 84th year, abstained from any nourishment
whatever for more than 50 days previous to his death.
Thursday, August 4, 1887
Page 2
Peter W. Bursha, a locomotive engineer
on the Bay City division of the Michigan Central Railroad, was shot and almost
instantly killed July 27th, at Detroit. The assassin was a young man who Bursha
had befriended and who had alienated his wife's affection. Bursha was an
industrious hardworking man and a favorite with those who knew him.
Thursday, August 4, 1887
Page 8
The infant son of William and Anna
Sparling, died Friday morning last, aged 13 months. It was their only child and
an exceedingly bright and interesting boy, who was the idol of its parents.
There friends will unite in sympathy in their bereavement.
Thursday, August 11, 1887
Page 2
Homer last week was the scene of a
triple tragedy. Geo. Burton shot his wife, his mother-in-law and himself.
Burton and his wife are dead, but the mother-in-law will survive. Domestic
bickerings was the cause. Two children are orphaned by this sad affair.
Thursday, August 11, 1887
Page 2
Dr. Upjohn, one of Hasting's most
distinguished citizens died last Wednesday. He was one of the first regents of
the university.
Thursday, August 11, 1887
Page 2
Capt. Thos. Ball, of the Youngtown
mine, at Crystal Falls, was killed last week by falling down the shaft of the
mine.
Thursday, August 11, 1887
Page 2
Joseph Korniecny, a Polack, employed at
"Camp 4," two miles north of Gladstone on the line of the Soo road, having spent
the Friday night of last week with some companions, among the saloons at the
head of the bay, was returning at about 5 a.m. of Saturday to camp, when he fell
overboard from the skiff, in which the trip had been made and was drowned in
about three feet of water, being too drunk to stand erect and his companions too
drunk to assist him.
Thursday, August 11, 1887
Page 4
One of the deck hands on the steamer
Mackinac fell overboard on Thursday night at the Island, while the boat was
lying in dock. His body was recovered. On his right arm was pricked in Indian
Ink an American eagle and the initials "J. L." On his left arm was the image of
a child and underneath the stars and stripes, a cannon, etc. He was buried at
the Island.
Thursday, August 11, 1887
Page 4
Died: At Mackinac Island, Aug. 1st,
'87, Louis Cadotte, aged about 74 years. Funeral from St. Ann's Church on
Wednesday. Mr. Cadotte was born at Mackinac Island, and had lived here his life
time. He was well known as an intelligent, honest and courteous man. He was
often employed by the Government as an interpreter of Indian tongues, and he was
a proficient in the different dialects of the tribes of this part of the
northwest.
Thursday, August 11, 1887
Page 6
Jas. Barklay, the pioneer settler of
Bay City, is dead. He settled at Bay City in 1849, and built the first hotel.
He ran the first stage and traded with the Indians forty years ago. He was
quite wealthy and generally respected.
Thursday, August 11, 1887
Page 6
Geo. H. Cary lost his little child last
week. His wife has just died, and he had only returned from Charlotte where he
buried her.
Thursday, August 11, 1887
Page 6
Mrs. Walter Lyon, died last week at the
home of her parents in Cheboygan, she had left the village but a few days before
and the first knowledge her husband had of her illness was the word of her
death.
Thursday, August 18, 1887
Page 4
Archie, the ten-year old son of Dr.
Newkirk, of Bay City, was thrown from a horse and killed last Wednesday. The
horse stumbled and fell on the boy, crushing him to death.
Thursday, August 18, 1887
Page 7
John Maloney, a private at Fort Wayne,
committed suicide last week. Maloney had been troubled with rheumatics, and been
in the hospital for some time and being accused of feigning sickness to escape
duty, he killed himself.
Thursday, August 18, 1887
Page 8
The infant son of Mrs. John Knox died
on Monday last of cholera infantum. This is the sixth child she has lost and
her husband died less than a year ago. She has the sympathy of the entire
community in this, her sad bereavement.
Thursday, August 25, 1887
Page 2
Sheriff Lynch, of Alpena, is dead. He
was shot by "Blinky" Morgan one of the Cleveland fur robbers, who was arrested
for the murder of Detective Hulligan and the rescue of the gang at Ravanuo,
Ohio.
Thursday, August 25, 1887
Page 3
Arthur, the four year-old son of
William Ogle died last week Saturday of scarlet fever.
Thursday, August 25, 1888
Page 3
Claudie, the seven-year-old son of W.
H. O'Brien, who has been suffering from an affliction of the spine for some
time, died last Thursday. The remains were taken to Grayling for burial.
Thursday, September 1, 1887
Page 4
Prof. Spencer F. Baird, secretary of
the Smithsonian Institute, died at Woods Hall, Mass., last Friday. He was a
scientist of great ability.
Thursday, September 1, 1887
Page 8
William Guard, a popular young man of
Baraga died last week Friday of Typhoid fever.
Thursday, August 25, 1887
Page 6
A telegram came Sunday for Lou Veeder,
in care of Frank McGough, saying that his little boy was dead. Lou went to
Cheboygan from here, but has left there, and no one seems to know where he is.
Lou's many friends here will be sorry to hear of his misfortune.
Thursday, August 25, 1887
Page 6
Wm. McMahon of White Fish Point desires
in our columns to thank Captain McIntire for his kindness in delivering mail to
him during his unfortunate bereavement, the loss of his youngest child.
Thursday, September 1, 1887
Page 3
Judge Daniel Goodwin, died at Detroit,
last week Wednesday. He was the Nestor of the Michigan Bench, having been first
appointed in 1843. His death was not unexpected as he had been sick for several
months.
Thursday, September 1, 1887
Page 9
Tuesday morning about six o'clock Capt.
Peter Mondor died at the residence of his brother Capt. James Mondor. The Capt.
has been an invalid for nearly ten years, and totally blind. Before his
affliction he was one of the best pilots and captains on the lakes and popular
with all who knew him. The past few years he has received the best of care from
his brother and his family, at whose residence he has lived, and all that a
brother's love could do has been done for him. He was not thought to be worse
than usual until about four o'clock Tuesday morning when it was seen by those
attending him that he was gradually sinking and the end was near. He passed
away quietly without suffering and was conscious almost to the last. ....The
funeral took place this morning from the Catholic Church.
Thursday, September 8, 1887
Page 2
John Shalerd was killed by a fall of
ground in the Youngstown mine, Crystal Falls, Saturday last.
Thursday, September 8, 1887
Page 6
Daniel Kennedy, a brakeman, had his
head crushed and died instantly, while coupling cars on the Thayer Lumber
Company's logging road Friday. He was a young man, unmarried, and his parents
reside in Canada.
Thursday, September 8, 1887
Page 6
Jessie Pomeroy, the boy murderer doing
life sentence in Massachusetts, has confessed to the killing of Horace Miller,
of South Boston, making his seventh victim.
Thursday, September 8, 1887
Page 10
From the Marquette "Mining Jounal" we
clip the following: "Rev. Father Jacker died at the bishop's residence Sunday
afternoon at about 5 o'clock. After mass Sunday morning he was stricken with
paralysis, and failed to rally, passing peacefully into his rest. Father Jacker
was one of the best known priests on the upper peninsula as well as one of the
oldest in point of service....."
Thursday, September 15, 1887
Page 2
Prof. O. S. Fowler, the phrenologist
and lecturer, died after a brief illness yesterday near Sharon station,
Conn.
Thursday, September 15, 1887
Page 8
OBITUARY--Died -On Saturday the 10th
inst., of consumption, George Osmun, in the 47th year of his age.
Mr. Osmun was born in Dempsey township,
Ontario, and resided there a number of years. Afterwards removing to other
parts of that Province. In 1880, he with his family removed to this country,
settling in Donaldson, where he continued to reside until last fall. He then
came to the city and resided here until his death. During his residence in
Donaldson he made a host of warm personal friends who were much grieved to hear
of his death. Shortly after becoming a resident of this city he was attacked by
that dread disease, consumption. He was able to be around and do light work
until about eight weeks before his death when he was compelled to take to his
bed. He leaves a wife and family to mourn his death. The funeral took place on
Sunday afternoon from the M. E. church of which society the deceased was always
a zealous and consistent member. The Knights of Labor paid a last tribute of
respect to the memory of a departed by taking charge of the funeral arrangements
and attending in a body.
Thursday, September 15, 1887
Page 10
Canadian Sault
A man named Goodall was drowned in the Root River last week.
Thursday, September 22, 1887
Page 5
Gen. Edward Clark died last week,
Wednesday. He was born in Connecticut and came to Ann Arbor in 1872. He was a
general in the Black Hawk war, and for the past 20 years a justice of the peace.
He was also the first register of deeds in Washtenaw county.
Thursday, September 22, 1887
Page 5
Edmund H. McQuigg, one of Flint's leading citizens, is dead.
Thursday, September 22, 1887
Page 8
Ex. Gov. Luke P. Blackburn, who has
been lying at the point of death at Frankford, Ky., for weeks past, died there
at 2:35 p.m. last Wednesday. His last intelligible words were spoken last
Sunday, and were "Oh, the beauty of religion". Ex- Gov. Blackburn was born June
16, 1816 in Woodford county, Ky. He was governor of Kentucky during the term
which preceded that of the lately retired Govenor J. Prescott Know. He was a
half brother of Senator J. S. C. Blackburn.
Thursday, September 22, 1887
Page 11
Geo. Walker, a young man of about 26
years of age, an employee of Irwin's camp, suicided last Thursday. No cause is
known except that he has been drinking heavily.
Thursday, September 22, 1887
Page 11
Gov. Bartlett, of California, is dead
and his successor, Lieut. Gov. Waterman, is a republican, although elected the
same year.
Thursday, September 22, 1887
Page 11
"Blinky Morgan", who shot Sheriff
Lynch, of Alpena, has been arraigned at Ravenna, Ohio, for the murder of
Detective Mulligan.
Thursday, September 22, 1887
Page 12
A little niece of Geo. Wheatley died
yesterday morning of Diptheria. His little boy is also sick with the same
complaint.
Thursday, September 29, 1887
Page 7
Gen. Wm. Preston died last week at
Lexington, Ky., aged 81 years. He was prominent in the confederate army and was
confederate ambassador to England and France.
Thursday, September 29, 1887
Page 7
The fund at Ashtabula Harbor for the
widow and children of the late Capt. Clements of the ill-fated Niagara has
reached over $200.
Thursday, September 29, 1887
Page 10
Capt. Geo. Beringer died at Norway last
Thursday of pneumonia. The remains were to be brought to Negaunee for burial on
Saturday. He was one of the oldest and most experienced mining men in this
peninsula, and had long been prominent in this county before removing to the
Menominee range. He leaves a son and two daughters, and a host of friends all
over the peninsula.
Thursday, October 6, 1887
Page 5
Gilbert Carmichael, one of Negaunee's most prominent citizens, died last week.
Thursday, October 6, 1887
Page 6
Will Mahon, conductor on an ore train,
met an untimely death by an accident to his train Monday. The train while going
down the grade between Bancroft and Marquette, got beyond control so that the
engine had to let go and run for safety to side track, while the train of ore
cars came thundering in its rear, running into another string of loaded cars at
Marquette, smashing things in fearful shape. Cars were piled four high, and
Mahon's body was found under the wreck when it was cleared away.
Thursday, October 6, 1887
Page 11
Milan had a case of cheese poisoning
last week, in the family of S. H. Evans. The entire family partook of milk
freely Friday and with one exception all were taken suddenly ill. Physicians
were summoned and suspician turned toward the milk. Prof. Vaughan, of the
University, was sent for and pronounced it a sure case of the effects of
tyrotoxican. A boy of 12 or 14 years of age died Saturday; Mrs. Evans on
Sunday, and it is feared one daughter may not recover. Mr. Evans is now
believed to be out of danger.
Thursday, October 6, 1887
Page 11
J. T. Littress, a travelling man,
suicided last week at the Russell House, Detroit. He said the world did not
reward merit and left a letter explaining that this was the cause of his death,
together with lack of funds.
Thursday, October 13, 1887
Page 4
The Minister to Mexico, Judge Thomas
Manning, died in New York on the 11th inst.
Thursday, October 13, 1887
Page 9
George Reidy a son of Maurice Reidy,
one of the oldest and a well known citizen of the Sault, died yesterday morning.
He was around and playing about until Tuesday, when he was taken sick. From
that time he sunk until death released his suffering. The many friends of Mr.
and Mrs. Reidy will condone with them on this unexpected loss of their bright
and promising son.
Thursday, October 13, 1887 Page 9
Died- On Thursday, the 6th inst., of
diphtheria, Harry T. Fitch, only son of Mr. and Mrs. James E. Fitch, after an
illness, of only a few days. From the first of his illness he seemed to
anticipate approaching death and although only seven years old, he talked of his
going away as of going home, and tried to comfort his mother and sister, and
urged them not to weep for him.
Thursday, October 20, 1887
Page 4
Sudden Death —A Carpenter Drops
Dead at the Superior House-Norman J. Scott is a carpenter who came to the Sault
on or about the 9th day of July last, and has been employed for some time past
on the round house. Since his arrival he has been stopping at the Superior
House. Last Saturday evening, Scott quit his work, saying he was not feeling
well and would rest for a few days. Until Tuesday he was feeling miserable, but
did not consider himself sick, but on Tuesday he felt much better, and so
expressed himself to his friends. Tuesday evening he was sitting around the
hotel, reading and chatting with his friends. A little before eight o'clock he
sat reading, when the guests who happened to be sitting in the office, noticed
him settle back in his chair, his head drop and sway as if nodding. Once or
twice this occurred, when someone walking over to where he was seated to see if
he felt badly, when it was discovered that the man was dead. Without a struggle
or a gasp, he dropped into the silent sleep of death as quietly as a child to
repose. A doctor was hastily summoned, but too late to be of any service, save
to take care of the body. It was not thought necessary to hold an inquest, as
death was undoubtedly caused by heart disease. Mr. Scott was a man much liked by
all who knew him, quiet in his manners, industrious and hard working. Such an
unexpected death will come hard upon his wife and two children, who were not
with him at his death, but at their home in Verona, Huron Co., Mich. The remains
were cared for by Mr. Kennedy, who has done everything that could be done. His
wife has been informed of the sad occurrence, but up to the time we go to press,
no answer had been received from her.
Thursday, October 20, 1887
Page 2
The funeral of George Reidy took place
last Saturday. A large number of Mr. and Mrs. Reidy's sympathizing friends
attended the funeral of their little son.
Thursday, October 20, 1887
Page 7
John B. Finch, the well known
temperance advocate, died very suddenly last week.
Thursday, October 20, 1887
Page 10
Charles DeGroat, the colored man, who
was convicted of perjury at Pontiac, committed suicide, and his body was sent to
Ann Arbor, for the students to hew.
Thursday, October 20, 1887
Page 11
Newberry Notes
Wm. Woods, while sitting in the office
of the Clifton House, last Wednesday evening, was found to be dead. He had been
talking but a few minutes before with several men and at the time complained of
not feeling well, and the next noticed of him he was found to have fallen over
on the chair in which he was sitting. Dr. Kelso was at once summoned but it was
too late for medical aid. The doctor pronounced the direct cause of his death to
be heart trouble. The deceased was born in Galashiels, Scotland, where he had
relatives living. He came to Newberry when the railroad was building and has
spent his time since at Newberry, Naubinway and St. Ignace. He has received
several remittances from Scotland said to be the interest of a large estate of
which he was one of the heirs. The funeral takes place this afternoon at 3
o'clock.
Thursday, October 20, 1887
Page 11
Minnie Demorse, adopted daughter of
James Henderson, was arrested last week Tuesday at Manistee for larceny
committed several months ago, but the real sensation in the case has just come
to light. This spring Mr. Henderson's cow died, and her milk just previous to
her death killed nine pigs. The girl confesses she poisoned the cow because she
did not want to milk it. Mr. Henderson's house was set on fire five times in one
day a few weeks ago, and the girl confesses she did that, too. Mr. Henderson's
baby died suddenly, and the girl confesses she smothered it because it cried and
she did not want the trouble to care for it. She is 18 years old, and was
adopted 15 years ago.
Thursday, October 20, 1887
Page 14
Upper Peninsula Notes
The eldest son of Lieut.-Gov.
Macdonald, died last week, at Escanaba, of consumption.
Thursday, October 20, 1887
Page 16
Catherine Dorgan, the sixteen year old
daughter of Michael Dorgan, of Waiskai Bay, died the first of the week.
Thursday, October 27, 1887
Page 9
The funeral of the late Chas.
Londraville took place last week, Saturday.
Thursday, October 27, 1887
Page 5
The typhoid fever at Iron Mountain and
examination of the wells from which the waters supply is obtained show that the
water is very bad .... In all four deaths have been reported. Among the
victims were M. S. Thibault a newsdealer and jeweler, and Miss Minnie Trenholm,
a young lady who was soon to have been married.
Thursday, October 27, 1887
Page 9
Last week Sunday occurred a sad
accident down in Waverly township, whereby Edward Spencer lost his life by the
accidental discharge of a gun in the hands of Jas. E. Hill. It seems that a
party of men working in a camp down there went out in the woods to see what game
they could get, and while walking along, Hill in the lead, the gun accidentally
went off, the full charge entering Spencer's head, killing him instantly. The
affair was a very sad one, the two men being warm friends. Justice Ward held an
inquest over the body and a verdict was returned exonerating Hill. The body was
brought here on Monday, and on Tuesday was buried in Pine Hill cemetery. Spencer
had only been in the county but a short time, coming here from Fremont, this
state.
Thursday, October 27, 1887
Page 10
Local
John Fletcher Drowned
Last Wednesday night, a party of young
people chartered the Flora Holden, for a trip down the river, to McMahon's dock,
where there was to be a dance. Among the party was John Fletcher, a young man of
about thirty years, well known to the people of the Sault, and the son of
Landlord Fletcher of the Fletcher house, situated on Ashmun street nearly across
from the DEMOCRAT office.
Every one of the party was bound for a
good time and fun reigned supreme. Jack Fletcher, as he is more commonly known,
was in his usual good spirits, and in coming from the cabin, he ran up the
steps, on to the deck, jumped on the railing to seat himself, lost his
equilibrium and fell into the water. The people on the deck saw him fall over,
and quickly the cry "man overboard" was given, and the steamer stopped. The
man's cries for help were distinctly heard but owing to the darkness of the
night he could not be seen. Life preservers were thrown overboard but none
reached him, so the young man, unable to receive assistance from the friends and
unable to swim, sunk into an untimely grave in the raging waters of the St.
Mary's. The people on the boat did everything that could be done, and for over
an hour a search was made for the missing man but without avail. Such a death
always creates the utmost sadness in a community and it is visibly felt in this.
A young man with ability and promising prospects, so suddenly taken away from
earthly existence, when in the midst of pleasure, is certainly appalling to
those who little think when the time for their departure from this world may
come. John Fletcher had a large number of personal friends with whom he was
always popular and well liked. He was a member in the best of standing in both
the Knights of Pythias and the Workingmen's Union.
Thursday, October 27, 1887
Page 10
A Young Girl Cremated
The first young girl to be cremated in
America was 9 year-old Alida Weissleder, the daughter of the superintendent of
the Brush Electric Light company in Cincinati. Her body was burned last week
at the crematory in that city.
Thursday, October 27, 1887
Page 10
Bridge Workman Drowned
Last Thursday afternoon, about four
o'clock, just about the time the heavy gale blew down upon the Sault from Lake
Superior, a sad accident occurred at the bridge. One of the workman named Peter
DeLisle, a half-breed,was employed on the outer edge of the span just completed.
[large write-up explains his heroic fight for life ]
Thursday, October 27, 1887
Page 12
The remains of Norman Scott, the
carpenter who died so suddenly at the superior House, were sent to his old home
last week, in answer to a telegram from his wife, asking that it be done.
Thursday, October 27, 1887
Page 13
Otter Belt, one of the greatest of
Comanche chiefs, died in Indian Territory a few days ago. Five minutes before
his death they held him erect and rigged him out in his best war costume. They
painted him red, set his war bonnet on his head, tied up his hair in beaver
skins, and laid him down just as he died. Then his five wives took sharp butcher
knives, slashed their faces with long, deep cuts, cut themselves in other
places, and beat their bleeding bodies and pulled their hair. They also burned
everything they had, tepees, furniture, and even most of the clothing they had
on. A big crowd of bucks looked on and killed ten horses, including a favorite
team of Fress Addington, on whose ranch Otter Belt lived.
Thursday, October 27, 1887
Page 13
There died in the Old Gentlemen's home
at Boston, a few days ago, a man who was identified with the leading mechanical
inventions of the past fifty years. His name was D. H. Chamberlin, and he was a
cousin to ex-Governor D. H. Chamberlin. Some of the devices in the inventions of
which he was interested were the repeating rifle, the hand and power planer, the
spring roll for window curtains, the hook and eye machine, the kerosene lamp
burner and the lettered wheel hand stamp.
Thursday, October 27, 1887
Page 13
It is said that Jack Fletcher, who was
drowned last week Thursday, had in his possession a large sum of money. His
life was insured for two thousand dollars, one thousand in the Knights of
Pythias endowment rank, and another, in the Foresters. The policy for this last
amount only arrived Monday last; several days after his death.
Thursday, November 24, 1887
Page 10
J. H. Hill, the millionaire lumberman
of East Saginaw, died suddenly last week.
Thursday, November 3, 1887
Page 1
Mike McLenten, a man about middle age,
and quite well known around town, died at the hospital Friday, from the effects
of a prolonged spree. He was a very fine penman, and for some time had worked
for Moiles Bros., at Detour, but more lately he had been employed by Dave
Ranson, in the woods. [first pages missing ]
Thursday, November 10, 1887
Page 3
News was received by telegraph Monday
from Chicago of the death of Miss Mary Schweitzer. She has been at the
Presbyterian Hospital in Chicago for some time, receiving medical treatment, her
death resulting from a surgical operation which was recently performed. She was
a sister of Mr. J. T. Schweitzer, formerly of the Falls City Laundry, who was at
her bedside when she died; also a sister of Mrs. Jos. Brown of this place, upon
whom the sudden news falls very heavily. The remains will probably be interred
at Marquette.
Thursday, November 10, 1887
Page 8
Jenny Lind, the singer, died on the 2nd
inst., at Wiesbaden. She has been growing weaker for two weeks past, and her
death was the result of sheer exhaustion, her last hours having been unattended
by pain.
Thursday, November 10, 1887
Page 10
Upper Peninsula Notes
Erick Wickstrom, a miner employed at
the Barnum iron mine, met a horrible death last week. He was taken sick in the
mine late in the evening and started to go to the surface. Being unable to
climb the ladder, he got into the cage used for hoisting ore and started for the
surface. Three hundred feet from the bottom of the shaft he was seized with
vertigo and fell from the cage, going to the bottom of the shaft. His body was
crushed to an unrecognizable mass.
Thursday, November 10, 1887
Page 10
Dr. W. W. Waite of Brighton, who was
convicted of causing the death of Ida May Lee, a pretty dressmaker of that
village in January last, by an attempt to produce an abortion, has been sent to
Jackson for five years.
Thursday, November 17, 1887
Page 1
Capt. Soper Drowned
The steam barge Alcona and consort
Alta, arrived here on Nov. 11th. The captain of the Alta reports that abreast of
Thunder Bay light, her first mate, Capt. Soper, while stowing away stay sail at
5 o'clock in the evening, lost his grip and fell overboard. Before assistance
could reach him, the vessel having passed on in her tow, he disappeared beneath
the waves. The captain says Soper hailed from Detroit.
Thursday, November 17, 1887
Page 16
Mrs. Emery, the wife of Peter Emery,
was found dead in her bed at his home some few miles out in the country on
Saturday last. The cause being heart disease.
Thursday, November 24, 1887
Page 8
The funeral of Mrs. Margaret Taillon,
who died last week, took place last Saturday. The services were conducted at St.
Mary's Church.
Thursday, November 24, 1887
Page 8
It is said on the street that Miss Ida
Carew, who mashed the patrons of the variety theatre by her song, "You can't do
it, you know", died at New Orleans lately.
Thursday, November 24, 1887
Page 15
Upper Peninsula Notes
John Fortier, aged 30, a single man, in
the employ of the lumber firm of F. W. Reed & Co., at Eagle Mills, three
miles east of Negaunee, was instantly killed by a falling tree last
Thursday.
Thursday, November 24, 1887
Page 15
Upper Peninsula Notes
Charles Birchies, a German, unmarried,
and 24 years old, was caught on the skids by a heavy log last week, while
decking lumber at Paint River camp No. 5, of Ludington, Wells & Van Schaack.
He was crushed to death before assistance could be given.
Thursday, December 8, 1887
Page 2
Some time ago an article in our columns
announced the death of one of the patients at the Sault Hospital. His name, we
discover, was given wrong, it should have been Alfred McClinton. He had wealthy
relatives in Birmingham, Eng., who have been communicated with, as they had long
since lost track of the unfortunate man.
Thursday, December 8, 1887
Page 4
Canadian Sault
Emile Rose, a painter who had been
working for some time past in this town, was frozen to death on the outskirts of
the town on Wednesday night of last week. His body was found on Saturday and
taken to the police station. No inquest was held as it was evident the
unfortunate man, who was a native of France, had imbibed too much alcohol and
laid down to rest. His son, who arrived here on Monday thinks he died of heart
disease, but the presence of a black bottle near the remains containing some
whiskey would seem to indicate that liquor had something to do with it. The
body was taken to Mattawa for interment.
Thursday, December 8, 1887
Page 4
Marquette
Lawrence Finn, a dissipated loafer,
attacked his wife last week Saturday night with a heavy iron tea kettle he
snatched from the stove. He knocked her down, beat her brains out and smashed
the kettle in pounding her. The woman's eldest boy witnessed the assault and ran
from the house screaming murder. A police officer was found who arrested Finn
after he had horribly mutilated his wife's body.
Thursday, December 8, 1887
Page 4
During a drunken row in a low dive at
Negaunee on Monday, Oscar Field, the proprietor, struck Jacob Terrman a blow on
the head with a club, badly fracturing his skull, and from the effects of the
blow he died. Field is a Finn.
Thursday, December 8, 1887
Page 4
John Hamm, of Owen Sound, who has been
working all summer in the town, was found dead in his bed at McMullen's boarding
house on Monday morning. Mr. Hamm was 67 years old and a carpenter by trade.
The mayor telegraphed the sad news to Owen Sound, but no reply was received, and
the deceased was buried by the town. Sufficient money was found on his person
to defray all expenses. He has a son in some part of Northern Michigan.
Thursday, December 8, 1887
Page 4
As August Gunther, an employee of the
Hancock chemical works, was driving a nail into a scantling saturated with
nitro-glycerine, last week, an explosion occurred, injuring him beyond
recovery.
Thursday, December 8, 1887
Page 6
Sad Death - A sad death occurred last
Sunday, when the wife of Lieut. Nichols died after a short illness. Mrs.
Nichols had been a marvelously well woman until she was taken sick soon after
the removal of Lieut. Nichols to the post. Two little children are left with
their father, to mourn this loss. Lieut. Nichols is confined to his room by
inflammatory rheumatism. Col Halier, a retired army officer, the father of the
deceased, has started from Seattle, W. T., for the Sault, and the remains will
be taken there for burial.
Thursday, December 8, 1887
Page 15
Geo. Watson, a young man about 25 years
of age, died at the Sault Hospital Tuesday, of typhoid fever, after a short
illness. He was a young man of excellent habits, and formerly worked for Dave
Ranson. We understand he has, relative living in the country.
Thursday, December 8, 1887
Page 15
Mr. Golden, foreman on the Edison
Canal, returned home on Saturday from Thorold, Ontario, where he had been to
attend the funeral of his father.
Thursday, December 15, 1887
Page 4
Obituary
The very sad intelligence reached here
Monday, of the death of the mother of Bartley and Patrick McEvoy two well known
and influential citizens of the Sault. Mrs. McEvoy, aged sixty years, died at
Stayner, Ont., where she had been ill for some time, yet this blow came
unexpected. By some mistake in telegraphing the message was received here only
on Monday and as the deceased was buried that day, it was impossible for the two
brothers to be present at the funeral. The many friends of the two brothers will
unite with the Democrat in extending all the consolation that sympathy can
bestow.
Thursday, December 8, 1887
Page 16
The little child of Mr and Mrs Lemond,
living on the corner of Easterday avenue and Court street died last week of
inflamation of the lungs and was buried Sunday.
Thursday, December 15, 1887
Page 4
The Rev. J. S. Kalloch, who was wounded
by Editor De Young in San Francisco in 1879, and whose son subsequently killed
the editor, died in Washington Territory recently.
Thursday, December 15, 1887
Page 6
Geo. McCarron, engaged at Jas F.
Moloney, and Bro.'s will have many sympathizers here in his bereavement over the
death of his sister, Mrs. Gayner, which occurred at Lucknow, Ont., on Sunday
last.
Thursday, December 15, 1887
Page 10
Newberry Notes
A young man named James Gallagher of
Beaver Island died suddenly at Naubinway last Sunday.
Thursday, December 15, 1887
Page 11
Upper Peninsula Notes
A distressing accident occurred at the
Pilgrim mine on last week Tuesday. A young German and brother were assisting in
landing at the mouth of the shaft. In grasping hold of the rope to descend he
lost his hold and dropped to the bottom of the shaft, 225 feet deep. He was
instantly killed, being much mangled by the fall. His body was brought to
Bessemer the same evening and shipped via the Wisconsin Central to his home at
Colby, Wis. His name is Chas. Weimann.
Thursday, December 22, 1887
Page 14
At Holly last week Tuesday, F. A.
Baker, Sen., father of the well known Detroit attorney, was passing over the F.
and P. M. track at the depot, when he was instantly killed by being knocked down
and run over by an engine that was backing up .... Mr. Baker recently
celebrated his 83d birthday says the "Advertiser" and had been a resident of
Holly for nearly fifty years.
Thursday, December 22, 1887
Page 14
State News
Flushing has had a first-class mystery.
A farmer named Jerry White disappeared and his body was found in the woods badly
mangled. Suspicion at once fell on a laborer named Daniels, who has been
arrested for the murder.
Thursday, December 22, 1887
Page 19
News Notes
Mrs. John Jacob Astor died in New York
recently. She had always given largely to charity and was greatly esteemed for
her good deeds.
Thursday, December 22, 1887
Page 19
A man named Caroll died at the poor
house Sunday. He was a middle-aged person, who had been at work on the railroad
and lumber camps, Consumption was the cause of his death.
Thursday, December 22, 1887
Page 19
A young man 22 years of age named Dan.
McGregor, died at John Navin's hotel early Monday morning. The young man had
been employed by Messrs. Endress at White Fish Point for the past five years,
engaged in the fisheries, .... His brother came down from Port Findlay, Canada
and took the body home with him on Monday.
Thursday, December 22, 1887
Page 20
The remains of Mr.Albert McCoy,
brother-in-law of Mr. Miller of the Pacific Hotel, Canada, arrived here
yesterday from Wisconsin. He met his death by the limb of a tree falling upon
him. Mr. Gabriel interred him in the protestant cemetery.
Thursday, December 29, 1887
Page 1
Resume of the Year 1887
January 2—John Brohman froze to
death near Pine River.
January 17—Capt. John Spalding
died.
February 3—Mrs. P. J. Sullivan
dies of lung troubles.
February 25—Dollie Blank died
after a long illness.
March 20—Nelson Nault died of
consumption.
Thursday, December 29, 1887
Page 2
Daniel Manning, ex-secretary of the
treasury, died at Albany last Saturday, in the 57th year of his age......
Cleveland owed much of his success to him, and to show his appreciation he
appointed him secretary of the treasury, which he held until ill-health
compelled his retirement. Since that time he has gradually sunk, until death
finally released him from suffering
Thursday, December 29, 1887
Page 2
Obituary
On Christmas morning at the residence
of his parents, occurred the death of Willie, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. W. P.
Danskin. The young man had been sick for a number of weeks and latterly he
seemed to be gaining, but it proved to be only a temporary rally and hopes
doomed to disappointment.... The funeral took place yesterday afternoon from
the Presbyterian church and was very largely attended.
Thursday, December 29, 1887
Page 2
Virgina Lyon The death of this
young lady occurred on the 22 inst, at Los Angeles, Cal.,whither she had gone in
order to escape the severe winter climate of the Saul.t .... The body was not
brought to the Sault for burial as was expected but was interred in Los
Angeles.
Thursday, December 29, 1887
Page 4
In the loss of Daniel Manning, whose
death occurred at Albany, N. Y. last Saturday, the Democratic party loses an
able leader....
Thursday, December 29, 1887
Page 4
Hon. Seth C. Moffatt congressman from
this district, died at Washington last week, Thursday.....(considerable
elaboration in this article)
Thursday, December 29, 1887
Page 12
A terrible story comes from Lake
Nipissing, in the Upper Peninsula, John Benoit in returning to his home,
recently, found the lake partially covered with ice .... he died just as his
wife had pulled him to shore.
Thursday, December 29, 1887
Page 12
A three story hotel, the Baraga House,
at Baraga, was destroyed by fire last week.... John Bennick's charred body
was found in the ashes.
Thusday, December 29, 1887
Page 12
Wilbur H. Hill member of the firm of J.
H. Hill and Sons, the Michigan lumber king, died very suddenly at his residence
in Saginaw City, recently, aged 46. He leaves a widow. He was an extensive
traveler and has but recently returned from California. Heart disease is
supposed to have been the cause of death. His father died suddenly about four
weeks ago.
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