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DEATHS
1875
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Mr. Burt ETHRIDGE, an old and respected citizen of Cold Water, died last Monday.
Friday July 9, 1875 Miss Mary CLARK, proprietor of a large boarding-school at Ann Arbor, fell dead a few days ago, of apoplexy. Miss CLARK, with her sisters, established this school forty years ago, and has run it ever since with great success at times. She was sixty years old and leaves two maiden sisters.
Friday July 16, 1875 J. W. CARR, an old and prominent resident and heavy lumber dealer, of Grand Rapids, is dead. Death was caused by a rupture received some days ago while up North.
Friday July 16, 1875 A son of George ALEXANDER, living in the township of Watson, died recently from the effects of chloroform, which was administered previous to a projected surgical operation.
Friday July 23, 1875 A man named John SHERNANSKI was literally sawed in two at Stafford’s Mill, at Port Hope, last week.
Friday July 23, 1875 A girl named Minnie BUSH died at Lansing, last Tuesday, from the effects of swallowing a pin two weeks previous.
Friday July 23, 1875 Minnie, a daughter of Byron BUSH, of Flint, died a few days since, from the effects of a pin which she swallowed about three weeks previously.
Friday July 23, 1875 Alderman HENDRICKS, of Port Huron, was killed last week, and his son badly injured, by the bursting of an ale vat in the Alderman’s brewery.
Friday July 23, 1875 A pauper named James FITZGERALD died suddenly at the Cass County, Poor House, at Cassopolis, one day last week. He claimed to be half brother of Gov. GASTON, of Massachusetts, and was formerly a well to-do Lieutenant in a Massachusetts regiment during the war.
Friday July 30, 1875 A. A. BRAMER, in attempting to jump on a moving freight train at Glenwood, was thrown under the cars and run over. He died in a few hours.
Friday July 30, 1875 After a trial at Grand Rapids, lasting five days, Joseph STREET was acquitted of the murder of Martin HARRIGAN the night of May 1. Gustave CHRIST will now be tried for the offense, and the witnesses for the defense of STREET will be used for the prosecution of CHRIST.
Friday August 6, 1875 Julia, young daughter of Mrs. A. L. HARRINGTON, was drowned at Detroit the other day by falling through Grummond’s dock, which was in process of repairing.
Friday August 6, 1875 A fearful boiler explosion occurred in the sawmill of Samuel GILMAN, in Kalamazoo county, last week. Mr. GILMAN’S head was severed from his body as if by a knife, an employee, Francis BARR, was torn into shreds and blown into the lake some fifteen rods distant, and the engineer was also so severely injured that he is not expected to live.
Friday August 6, 1875 On Wednesday of last week a strange accident, resulting in the death of a lady named Mrs. FALEY occurred on the Mackinaw Division of the Central road, near Sterling. It appears that Mrs. FALEY, in company with two neighbors named Mrs. HORRSBARRY and Mrs. JAY, was returning from a berry-picking excursion on a hand-car. All three were seated on the front of the car, Mrs. HORRSBARRY and Mrs. JAY on the outer side and Mrs. FALEY in the middle. Mrs. HORRSBARRY was seized with a fainting fit, and Mrs. FALEY attempted to grasp her, where upon both fell to the track in front of the car, which passed over the women, the cog-wheel beneath the car striking Mrs. FALEY and killing her instantly. Mrs. HORRSBARRY was more fortunate, however, as her body lay in such a position as to come between the cog-wheel and track-wheel, and thus she escaped death, although receiving several injuries.
Friday August 13, 1875 Mrs. Polly WHITE, of Fairfield, died last week at the venerable age of 94. She came to Michigan with her husband in 1840, and was generally loved by her many friends and descendants.
Friday August 13, 1875 A horrible case of filicide is reported from Plymouth, Wayne county, Emma, daughter of Joseph TESSMAN,
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neglected to obey her father’s order to stop playing croquet, when he became enraged, threw her down, kicked her in the stomach, and inflicted such injuries that she died shortly after.
Friday September 10, 1875 Mrs. Dorothea VANSYKE was recently found in the well of her brother’s house, in Springwells, a suburb of Detroit, dead; supposed to be a case of suicide, although some believe that her death was the result of an accident, and others account it murder.
Friday September 10, 1875 Mr. PICKARD, one of the proprietors of the Everett House, at Lansing, was killed last week. He was crossing the track of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern railroad, when the horse became frightened and jumped into the cattle guard. Horse and driver were killed, and the buggy knocked into a thousand pieces.
Friday September 24, 1875 While playing near an ash barrel at Byron Center, the other day, the little son of George THOMPSON was killed by having the barrel topple over on him, a sliver being driven in his head.
Friday September 24, 1875 Lyman G. BURKHARDT, the boy-murderer, was arraigned before Judge CRANE, in the Circuit Court, at Ann Arbor last Wednesday, and pleaded guilty to the charge of murdering Ludwig C. MILLER, his foster father. When asked by the Judge if he was aware of the enormity of the crime he had committed, he very coolly replied with the same indifference he has exhibited since the murder took place. "I am." The Judge then remanded him to prison.
Friday October 1, 1875 Cornelius VAUNERS, an old and prominent dry goods merchant of Coldwater, is dead.
Friday October 1, 1875 John BROCK, a nine-year-old boy, while playing in the City Elevator at Ypsilanti, jumped into a bin of oats, from which the men were loading cars. A little girl with whom he was playing attempted to rescue him, but the suction of the escaping oats drew him away from her, and he disappeared from sight. His body was recovered in half an hour, but life was extinct.
Friday October 1, 1875 A shocking accident occurred at the fair grounds at East Saginaw. Mrs. Philo STARK, a lady about 50 years old, living in Birch Run, attempted to get on a train in motion, when she was thrown off and the wheels passed over her left leg and right arm, severing them from her body. She lived only fifteen minutes. Her niece was the only relative in attendance at the fair with her.
Friday November 12, 1875 By the capsizing of a fish boat at Osceola, last Sunday morning, James D. KERR was drowned. Two others clung to the boat and were rescued.
Friday November 12, 1875 A German named PFEIFFER, while out shooting in the fields back of his residence at Salzburg, Bay county, the other day, accidentally shot himself. He died shortly after from loss of blood.
Friday November 12, 1875 Mr. John BROWN, one of the oldest of the pioneers of Kalamazoo county, died at the residence of his daughter near Schoolcraft, recently, aged 84 years. He removed to that township in 1830, and was a general favorite with all.
Friday November 12, 1875 Edward ACKER was drowned at Jackson on the night of the 1st inst. He was crossing the railroad bridge, and, meeting a train, stepped one side, missing his footing, and falling into the water. He was 21 years old, a drug clerk, but had been clerking in a grocery there. He was going to Chicago. His parents live in Monroe.
Friday November 12, 1875 The body of Charles SMITH, keeper of a fruit stand in the Seventh Ward, of Bay City, was found floating in the river near Third street, one day last week. Three severe cuts in the body would indicate that the man was murdered. The appearance of the body showed that it had been in the water over forty-eight hours.
Friday November 12, 1875 Tuesday night of last week O. S. PRATT and a little 5-year-old daughter of John BOTSFORD were burned to death. The parties lived at King & Rust’s mill, between Saginaw City and St. Louis. BOTSFORD and wife put two children to bed, and went to PRATT’S to spend the evening. During their absence BOTSFORD’S house took fire, and, in attempting to save the children, PRATT was burned to death. The little boy escaped.
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Friday November 19, 1875 E. BLOOD, an old resident and prominent merchant of Ann Arbor, died last Friday morning of pleurisy. His wife died about two weeks ago, to whom he was warmly attended.
Friday November 19, 1875 Joe FOURNIER, a Frenchman, of Bay City, went on an excursion to Bay View the other day, and had a fight with three men whose names have not been published. On the arrival of the excursion steamer at Bay City Tournier was stuck on the head with a carpenter’s maul and killed. No arrests.
Friday November 19, 1875 George OLIVER, a woodsman, was drowned while crossing Saginaw river, at East Saginaw, by the upsetting of a boat early Monday morning. His companion swam ashore. Deceased was 28 years old. His father and sister live near St. Thomas, Ont. The jury returned a verdict of accidental death.
Friday November 26, 1875 Chas. RATHBUN, one of the pioneer residents of Kent county, and owner of the Rathbun House, at Grand Rapids, died in that city last week, aged 80 years.
Friday November 26, 1875 A woman named BRIDGES committed suicide in the village of St. Louis, Gratiot county, the other day, by cutting her throat with a razor while temporarily insane.
Friday December 17, 1875 One of the rescued crew of the burned propeller Phil. Sheridan, named WHEELAHAN, was describing some of the incidents of that catastrophe in a saloon at Detroit the other night, when he was approached from behind by another sailor named CAMPBELL, who, without any warning, assaulted him with great violence, knocking him senseless, and then kicking him so fatally that he died in less than half an hour. The bystanders were so appalled by the unexpected and murderous character of the attack, that they made no attempt to detain the murderer, who fled at once, and who has not thus far been arrested. No cause for the crime is known yet.
Friday December 17, 1875 A very curious suicide occurred at Flint last week. For some days John K. PIERSON had been on trial charged with committing an outrage on the wife of a German named Louis MILLER, a rather weak-minded man. The latter was told by some of the spectators that PIERSON was certain to be acquitted, in which case he (MILLER) would become liable for a large amount of costs, and might also be tried for perjury. This talk alarmed him very greatly, and he soon disappeared. Late in the day his body was found in a large mill-pond, and in one pocket was found a letter addressed "to whom it may concern," in which Mr. MILLER set forth that he had gone to meet his Maker, and that the testimony he had given in the case was true.
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