1876 jan - June

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A man named Robert MOOR, working in the Copper Fall mine, near Hancock, while engaged 240 feet deep, and was instantly killed.

Friday January 7, 1876

At Grand Rapids, last week after an exciting trail lasting ten days, Gustave CHRIST, charged with killing Martin HARRIGAN in May last, was found guilty of murder in the second degree.

Friday January 7, 1876

A deep gloom was cast over the community at Schoolcraft last week by the announcement of the sudden death of Miss Nellie BARNUM, daughter of Dr. BARNUM, of this place. Miss BARNUM was a young lady of unusual promise, and general favorite with all, and her lose will be deeply mourned by a very large circle of friends.

Friday January 7, 1876

While some boys were skating on White Lake in the district of the New York Mill at Whitehall, lately, a boy, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles FOLBROOK, broke through the ice and his brother in attempting to help him out, slipped in also. They were both drowned.

Friday January 14, 1876

Wm. McPHERSON, an able physician and an old resident of Bay City, died recently, of paralysis, age 61 years.

Friday January 14, 1876

Mr. John SWARTOUT, of Clay Township, St. Clair County, died Monday last, in the 90th year of his age. He settled on the farm where he died in 1836.

Friday January 14, 1876

Dudley HINSDALE, a lad 15 years old, son of Henry W. HINSDALE, of Grand Rapids, formerly of Chicago, was fatally shot in the neck by a stray ball from a revolver, last Friday morning. A Neighboring lad named George MILLS, it is now reported with apparent truthfulness, was trying to shoot a dog, when the bullet passed beyond the intended mark and caused HINSDALE’S death within fifteen minutes.

Friday January 14, 1876

Dr. Daniel B. KELLOGG, the celebrated clairvoyant physician of Ann Arbor, died in that city a short time since. He had not been well since his wife died some two months ago, and was suddenly attacked with inflammation of the bowels, with which he finally died. Dr. KELLOGG was born in 1834 in the town of Pittsfield Washtenaw County. At about the age of 19 powers of clairvoyance began to be developed. In 1865 he moved to Ann Arbor, where he remained until January, 1873, when he built up a considerable practice, establishing a printing office to do the great amount of printing required by his rapidly increasing business. He removed to Detroit in 1873, but the climate was so unsuitable to him and his health being so much shattered by the death of his wife, a year or so afterward, that he was obliged to return to Ann Arbor, which he did about two months ago.

Friday January 14, 1876

Henry STILES, one of the oldest men in this State, died at the residence of his daughter, Mrs. DOWNS, at Acme, on Tuesday of last week. Mr. STILES’ father was one of the first settlers of Cincinnati, and it is claimed that the deceased, whose birth occurred in the fort which had been erected as a protection against the Indians, was the first white child born in the territory now embraced in the limits of that great city. When only 18 years of age he enlisted in the military service: marched with a body of troops through the country from Cincinnati to Lake Erie, cutting their road through the forest and building several forts on the route. He was present at Detroit at HULL’S surrender and became a prisoner to the British. After the war he settled near Cincinnati: cleared up and sold his farm: bought another farther from the city: cleared that and sold it: and after several removals, reached Traverse Bay eighteen years ago. Mr. STILES was four times married and the father of sixteen children. He was 82 years of age.

Friday January 21, 1876

A terrible accident occurred at the Ypsilanti Paper Company’s lower mill at noon, on Friday last. The main boiler exploded with terrific force, instantly killing two men, Charles OTTO, a wood-drawer from Mooreville, and John MAX, the fireman, who were literally blown to atoms. Two other men were seriously injured by the flying debris. The building was badly damaged, and the loss will probably not fall short of $20,000. If the accident had occurred at any other hour, the loss of life would have been appalling. The cause of the explosion is not known. The Concussion was felt throughout the city.

Friday January 21, 1876

At Grand Rapids, on Tuesday of last week, an explosion of a small steam engine employed in sawing wood, instantly killed William FRARY, engineer, throwing him about fifty feet. He was dead when picked up. James BALLON and another man (the latter had been repairing the boiler) were badly hurt. BALLON being severely bruised, and the other scalded.

Three brothers, Robert, William and John LONDON were out hunting together near Port Huron last week with a shot gun, when as they were getting over a fence, the gun, which was in the hands of William, the next to the oldest, went off lodging the charge of shot in the breast of the youngest, John. Nothing could be done by the doctors to relieve the boy, and he died the same night.

Friday January 28, 1876

Peter FANNON, a well-known saloon-keeper, was fatally stabbed at Ludington the other day by a drunken mill hand who had just been ejected from his saloon. FANNON has a large family. The murder was arrested and is now in jail awaiting trial. His name was not learned.

Friday January 28, 1876

Judge GIDDINGS, of Grand Rapids, has sentenced Gustav CHRIST to four years imprisonment at Jackson. CHRIST was convicted of murder in the second degree for the killing of Martin MORRIGAN last summer. This ends the most exciting criminal trial ever had in Grand Rapids.

Friday January 28, 1876

It is thought by East Saginaw people that the dead body which was recently discovered in An Gres swamp, Bay County, was that of Jeremiah DAY, who, in company with another man started two years ago to hunt in the An Gres region. Neither of the men was ever seen afterward. DAY carried an elegant gold watch and a valuable pin, but neither of those was found on the body, and murder is suspected. There is also a belief among other people that the body is that of Thomas FEETO, a lumberman, who two years ago, wandered away from camp while in the delirium tremens, and was never seen afterward. DAY was noted as being one of the best shots in Michigan.

Teresa MONAGHAN, once a respected and educated young girl of Kalamazoo, but who conceived a strong taste for liquor, recently died in a den of infamy at Hudson, N. Y.

Friday February 11, 1876

The trial of Adolphus ROBERTSON, charged with the murder of James FOURNIER just after their return from an excursion to Bay View, on Sunday Nov. 7, terminated at Bay City, last Saturday night. The jury after being absent an hour and a half, returned a verdict of not guilty.

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Friday February 11, 1876

A brakeman named Charles COLLINS, employed on the Grand Trunk Railroad, while coupling cars at Mount Clemens, one day last week, was caught between the "drawheads" and so badly crushed that he died within a few minutes. He is the fourth person who has been killed at that station in a period of about 18 months.

Friday February 11, 1876

C. C. STODDARD, Clerk of Tuscola County, died at his residence at Caro recently. Mr. STODDARD was an old resident and highly-esteemed citizen; was at the time of his death and had been for many years Secretary of the County Agricultural Society: was serving his second term as County Clerk, and had represented the county in the Legislature.

Friday February 11, 1876

Mrs. Hannah HORTON, a highly respectable lady living in East Saginaw, arose about 5 o’clock last Wednesday morning, and going into the kitchen took a revolver from the pocket of her son-in-laws coat and shot herself through the heart, dying almost instantly. The deceased was 46 years old, and leaves a husband and two children. She has been deranged at times since last summer.

Friday February 18, 1876

George CARSON, a young mechanic of Ypsilanti, committed suicide last Tuesday night by taking laudanum. Cause, pecuniary troubles.

Friday February 18, 1876

Anslen BURBANK was fatally crushed the other night by the falling of a boiler which he was aiding to set up in Cornwell’s new mill at Ypsilanti.

Friday February 18, 1876

Mrs. Abby O’ROURKE, mother of a well-known citizen of Ann Arbor, died at that place on the 8th. Mrs. O’ROURKE was born in Kerry County, Ireland, in 1776, and would have celebrated her one hundredth birthday on the 14th of this month. She retained full possession of her faculties until the last.

Friday February 18, 1876

The Mineral Springs House, at Lansing was burned a few nights since. It was unoccupied except by the family left in charge of the premises. It caught from a defective chimney. The loss will be $100,000. which is fully insured. It was owned by D. Edwards & Co. A boy named SHATTUCK fell into the burning ruins, and was burned to death.

One of the oldest settlers of Holland City named John DENNEKANT, aged 65, died of brain fever a few days since. He removed to that place in the spring of 1847, was one of the thirteen who took conspicuous part of the twenty-fifth celebration of Holland settlement a few years ago, being the remaining member of the original settlers. He had been Township Treasurer for many years before the city and town separated and was also a prominent member of the School Board.

Friday February 18, 1876

Capt. John CLARK one of the old pioneers of St. Clair County, died recently at his residence in East China, aged 78. He lived on the same farm for over forty years. He was a prominent Mason, he having held some of the highest offices in that order in the State: had been a member of both houses of the Legislature of this State, and also a member of the first and second Constitutional Conventions held in this State. He was a prominent member of the Baptist Church, and a regular attendant of the same. He will be missed by a large circle of friends and acquaintances.

Friday February 18, 1876

Early last Sunday morning, J. D. CHATTERTON, a farmer, living about one mile west of Ypsilanti, went out to the barn to milk, taking with him a kerosene lantern. Shortly after he went out the barn was discovered to be on fire. People that saw the fire rushed to the place, but when they got there the barn was nearly all burned down, and Mr. CHATTERTON’s remains were found with his head and feet terribly burned. He had been dead some time. The suppositions is that Mr. CHATTERTON had a fit, as he was subject to them, and knocked over the lamp which set the barn on fire. One horse, three cows and a calf also were burned, besides a lot of grain. The accident has cast a gloom over the entire town, as Mr. CHATTERTON was one of its best citizens and highly esteemed by all.

Friday February 25, 1876

Mr. Charles SLCCUM, a farmer living three miles west of Lansing, on the Battle Creek road, has lost three children within eight days, all by that fearful scourge, scarlet fever.

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Friday February 25, 1876

A special to the Detroit Tribune from Bay City gives an account of a fatal affray at a lumber camp on the Rifle River. A man named John HAYES all winter had been accustomed to teasing William LIBBEY, a half-witted fellow. The other day LIBBEY became exasperated, grasped an ax and buried it to the halve in HAYES’ side. He then in Greenwood, St. Clair County, last Sunday week struck him on the head, inflicting fatal wounds, from which HAYES cannot recover.

Friday February 25, 1876

A sad accident occurred. C. B. FARR, an old resident of that township, was out riding with his wife and a small babe two months old. A little after dark Mr. FARR dropped his whip accidentally and he got out of the buggy, leaving his wife in when the horse became frightened and ran away, the wheel striking a stump and breaking the axle. The mother let the babe down to the ground to save it if possible, but the axle struck the little one’s foot and crushed it, tearing off two of its toes. After running some distance further the horse shied out of the road and threw Mrs. FARR out onto an old shiftway. Mr. FARR procured help and removed Mrs. FARR to a neighbor’s house, where she lingered until Wednesday, when she died. The little babe will probably be a cripple for life. Mrs. FARR leaves a family of twelve children.

Friday March 3, 1876

W. H. STORMS, employed in the lumber camp of Colwell & Gram, in Algona County, was killed a day or two since by a falling tree striking him on the head.

Friday March 3, 1876

Nine years ago Henry SHOREY and a man named SHERMAN got into a quarrel in a saloon in the lower town at Ann Arbor. During the trouble SHOREY struck SHERMAN with a heavy stone, from the effects of which blow SHERMAN died. SHOREY was tried in the Washtenaw Circuit Court, convicted of murder and sentenced to twenty years’ imprisonment in the State Prison at Jackson. Now facts have recently come to light tending to show that there were many extenuating circumstances, and that the murder was not premeditated. In view of these facts, and believing that the sentence was unnecessarily serve, SHOREY’S friends at Ann Arbor have lately been making efforts to secure his pardon. At the time of his conviction SHOREY was about thirty years of age and a single man. During the nine years that he has been confined he conduct has been unexceptionably good.

Friday March 10, 1876

As-que-a-saw, the old Pottawatomie who died near Hastings, recently, aged 60 years, was grandson of Po-mob-a-koo, one of the celebrated chiefs that fought under Tecumsch in the war of 1812. His father, Peo-to-ack, was long a resident of Hastings, and he died some years since in Oceana County, where As-que-a-saw has one brother living.

Friday March 10, 1876

A special from Traverse City announces the death at East Bay, Grand Traverse County, of Henry STILES, an old pioneer, who was the first white person born in Cincinnati and was a resident of Detroit at the time of Hall’s surrender.

Charles HERSEY, a boy of eleven years, whose parents reside in Cedar Springs, was instantly killed on Saturday by a freight train on the Grand Rapids and Indiana road.

Friday March 24, 1876

Hon. Warner WING, of Monroe, is dead.

Friday March 24, 1876

The wife of Bishop GILLESPIE, of the Western Diocese of Michigan, died recently in Minneapolis. Her remains were brought to Ann Arbor for interment. Bishop GILLESPIE was rector of St. Andrew’s Church, that city, many years before his promotion. His wife was very highly respected.

Friday March 24, 1876

Last Friday evening while two little girls aged about 14 and 11 years, children of Wm. WELLS, who lives a few miles above Midland, near the Tittsbawassee river, were playing on the ice, the older broke through, and in trying to help her out, the younger one also broke through and was carried under the ice and drowned.

Friday March 24, 1876

Mrs. Ezra COGSWELL, of Brant township, near East Saginaw, was found dead in bed one morning last week. It was the 50th anniversary of her wedding, and was to have been celebrated by a gathering of relatives and friends. She was the mother of Mrs. Limathy JEROME, of Saginaw City, and sister of Wm. H. TAYLOR, of St. Louis.

Friday March 31, 1876

Laura WAGOR, of Dowagiac, who was kept so long under the supposition that she was in a trance, has been buried. Her body was warm still, but the doctors declared that she was dead.

Friday March 31, 1876

Peter TROSSEL, an employe of the Great Western railroad, was killed in the Michigan Central yards at Detroit one night last week by being crushed between the platform of two passenger cars.

Friday March 31, 1876

A German named L. H. WILHELM, an old resident of Saginaw City, and a man worth considerable property, shot himself through the heart last Saturday, and expired instantly. He had placed the muzzle of the barrel of an old shot-gun against his side, and discharged it with a hammer.

Friday March 31, 1876

A dispatch from McMinville, Tenn., announces the death at that place of Murdock FRAZER, brother of the late James FRAZER and a pioneer of the Saginaw valley. Deceased was sixty years of age and went south last fall in hopes that his health might be restored. The remains were brought to

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Friday March 31, 1876

Lansing papers chronicle the deaths of Mrs. S. FOSTER, aged seventy-two years. Her husband, now many years deceased, was for seven years editor of the Signal of Liberty, published at Ann Arbor, and for many years editor of the Lansing Republican, and originated the State Reform School, of which he was Superintendent till his death.

Bastian MORRIS was ran over by a train of cars at Grand Rapids a few days since. Both his legs were terribly mutilated, and his injuries proved fatal.

Friday April 14, 1876

The body of young KRONBACH, drowned in the river at Monroe, a few days since, was recovered last Wednesday near the place where his boat was picked up, some three or four miles from the scene of the accident.

Friday April 14, 1876

Mr. Thaddeus SMITH died last Monday week at the residence of his son, Henry P. SMITH, in Schoolcraft. Mr. SMITH was one of the oldest residents of Kalamazoo county, having moved there in 1830. He was universally respected.

Friday April 14, 1876

B. B. FROST, an old resident of Eaton Rapids, fell dead at his residence on Knight street, last Sunday. Mr. FROST was well known throughout the State as the original proprietor of "Frost Magnetic Mineral Spring," the first Eaton Rapids famous healing well. The cause of his death is supposed to be apoplexy.

Friday April 14, 1876

A young man named A. LORANGER, a mill owner at Swan Creek, Saginaw county, was badly cut up a few days since by a circular saw on which he accidentally fell, mangling one foot and ankle and nipping along his back it cut a swath of flesh the entire length. The injuries are fatal.

Friday April 14, 1876

Thos. W. JORDAN, a member of the Detroit’ Light Guard, and formerly employed as a draughtsman by E. E. MYERS, an architect of that city, committed suicide in Buffalo last Friday by taking prussic acid. His self-destruction was deliberate and premeditated. He made a will, and also wrote farewell letters to friends.

Miss Altheda WILLIAMS committed suicide at Quincy, one morning last week, by taking digitalis. She had been sick for several weeks, was slightly deranged at times, and for two or three nights was unable to sleep. She told her friends what she had done: said she did not want to live longer: refused to take antidotes and died within an hour after taking the fatal poison. The family have lived in town only about a year during which time Mrs. WILLIAMS made many friends by her amiable qualities.

John GERNER, the Ann Arbor merchant, who was killed by falling down stairs, left his wife and children a policy of $8,000. on his life.

Friday April 21, 1876

The death is announced of the late owner of the Morton house, at Grand Rapids, Mr. George E. MORTON.

Friday April 21, 1876

Miss Josephine ENOS, sister of the late Mrs. Rix ROBINSON, sitting in her chair at her residence in Ada, one night last week, died very suddenly of supposed apoplexy.

Friday April 21, 1876

At Ypsilanti on Sunday night of last week a small house belonging to a woman named LOGAN was burned to the ground. While running to the fire with the steamer, James SMITH stumbled and fell under the wheels, the engine running across his body. He died in a few moments, SMITH was the son of John R. SMITH, an old resident. The house was uninsured and empty. There is no doubt but that it was a case of inceudisrism, suspicion resting upon a negro who had been turned out not long ago for non-payment of rent.

Friday April 21, 1876

John GERNER, a well-known German business man of Ann Arbor, fall down stairs at his place of business one day last week, and received injuries from which he died the same evening.

Friday April 21, 1876

At Grand Rapids, on Sunday of last week, Thomas HOVEY, a young lad aged ten years, while playing on the G. R. and I. railroad track with a number of other boys, missed his footing, and falling a distance of sixteen feet, struck on his head, the fall producing terrible injuries, from which he died next night.

Mrs. J. Libbie LAWRENCE died at Coldwater a few nights since from an overdose of medicine, taken to produce sleep. She was discovered in a stupor at 11 o’clock, from which she could not be aroused, and died at 2 o’clock. She had been a teacher in the public schools for the past eleven years, and was very highly esteemed.

Friday April 21, 1876

The widow of Rix ROBINSON, a noted character of early times in this State, died a day or two since in the town of Ada, Kent county, where she had lived nearly all her life. She was a full-blood Ottawa squaw. ROBINSON married her about fifty years ago, when he was a pioneer in that region. Her age was not exactly known, but was about eighty.

Friday April 21, 1876

Hiram PICKARD, who was supposed to have something to do with the murder of Richard FLANNERY some two years ago in a saloon row, for which Jethro MAYBEE is now in the State prison, died at Ann Arbor about a week ago. He ran away at the time of the occurrence referred to above and spent his time in Wisconsin up to the 19th of January, when he returned home doomed to die with consumption. Because of his sickness he was never arrested.

Friday April 28, 1876

In the course of a quarrel between Joseph NEITSCH, a saloon keeper, of Detroit, and his wife, the latter struck him upon the head with a stick of wood, inflicting injuries from which he died next day. The woman claimed to have acted in self-defense.

Friday April 28, 1876

Mr. Isaac BRABB, one of the oldest settlers of Romeo, died recently. Mr. BRABB was born in Yorkshire, England, in 1794. He came to this country in 1830, and settled on the south line of the township of Shelby, Macomb county, where he lived for four years. In 1834 he bought a farm three miles southwest of the village of Romeo, where acquired a handsome property. The latter years of his life have been spent in Romeo.

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Friday May 5, 1876

Mrs. McKENZIE, aged eighty-two, was burned to death at Leroy, her clothing taking fire from some burning brush.

Friday May 5, 1876

James STEVENSON, better known as "Scotty, and for years past a noted character in Bay City as a leader of the roughs, died a few days ago.

Friday May 5, 1876

Recent deaths: John STANLEY, at his home in Grand Ledge; he was a pioneer of that town, having settled there forty years ago; his age was seventy-nine. Lawrence RYAN, a pioneer of Ingham county, at Mason, aged eight-two; he came to the State in 1839.

The body of Mrs. Lina MARTIN, who committed suicide April 9 by drowning herself in the Kalamazoo river, was discovered by two men fishing at the Lake Shore railroad bridge, two miles west of Kalamazoo, last Tuesday morning. There were marks on the body showing that she had been speared several times, which was resorted to in the search.

Friday May 5, 1876

At Bay City, one afternoon last week a family named SMART missed a five-year-old daughter. She had not been out of her mother’s sight five minutes when search was instituted, but no traces of her was obtained until late in the evening, when the parents thought of a well with no covering but a curb-stone, and looking in, found the dead body floating in the water. Bruises on the corpse indicate that the child had been looking in the well and fell in head foremost. Had the parents looked in the well when the child was first missing she could probably have been rescued alive.

Friday May 5, 1876

One morning last week a daughter of Silas WEMPLE, about eleven years old, living in Union township, Branch county, was killed by a window sash falling upon her and breaking her neck while she was attempting to climb into a school house where she was attending school. It is supposed that her death was instantaneous, as no evidence of life was visible when she was found.

Friday May 12, 1876

A three-year-old of son of Mr. OLMSTEAD, of Bay City, was accidentally drowned last week by falling head foremost into a post-hole.

Friday May 12, 1876

At Port Crescent on Tuesday of last week, Jacob HOSCHMEDER, a Polander, while engaged in pilling lumber on a dock, fell into the lake, and was drowned.

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John H. CATTEN suicided in Centerville jail last week. He was imprisoned for theft, and had been sentenced to Jackson for stealing a buffalo robe, and shame made him kill himself.

Friday May 12, 1876

Last winter, George NELSON, of Chesaning, got into a row with a man, shot him in the body, and thinking he had killed him, fled. The other day his body was found in the woods. He had shot himself.

About three weeks ago, Mr. J. G. LELAND, of Ann Arbor, had an encounter with a rat, and while attempting to kill the animal with a pitchfork, it made a charge upon the handle and fastened its teeth in Mr. L’s wrist. At the time the wound was not regarded as serious, but a week ago erysipelas set in, and Mr. LELAND died from its effects.

Friday May 12, 1876

A young girl named Minnie QUAY, about fifteen years of age, committed suicide by throwing herself into the lake from Smith’s dock, at Forester, one afternoon last week. She was seen in the act of jumping by her little brother, who was on shore. A quick alarm was given, and men commenced at once to grapple for the body, but it was an hour before it was discovered. Her father is a mechanic in Smith’s mill, and is highly respected. No cause is assigned for the rash act.

Friday May, 12, 1876

Dowagiac Republican; The body of John BIELBY was found Saturday morning in Indian lake, and the facts of the case seem to be these. He was subject to fits and had been in an insane asylum for some time and upon being discharged he came to his brother-in-law’s Anderson SHAUL, near the lake and had been there visiting about a week. Friday afternoon he started out to take a walk, and it is supposed be was taken with a fit and fell in the water, as the strained condition of the limbs and muscles indicated it, and also the fact that the water was only about one foot in death where he was found.

Friday May 26, 1876

A girl named MANNING, sixteen years old, was burned to death one day last week at Sweetlander’s mill. Allegan county. She was assisting her father in the woods burning brush when her clothing took fire and she was burned fatally before assistance could reach her, and died a few hours after.

Friday May 26, 1876

Houghton Gazette: Last week a Scandinavian named Paul SIMOUSON, who was at work in a shaft-house at the Allouez, was unfortunate enough to permit a large piece of rock to fall on him, which killed him almost instantly. He was informed of his danger by his fellow workmen, but did not get out of the way of the unloading skip in time.

Friday June 2, 1876

Wm. BAYER was drowned a few days since, while boating on the Detroit River.

Friday June 2, 1876

The appointment of Charles L. YOUNG, of Boston, as one of the trustees of the Detroit, Lansing and Lake Michigan Railroad Company, vice Stephen V. R. THAYER, is deceased, is announced.

Friday June 2, 1876

Joseph KINNEY, a respected farmer of Porter township, Midland county, while standing near his windmill during a recent thunderstorm was struck and instantly killed by lighting.

Miss Eugenie RAYMOND, a dressmaker from Toronto, jumped overboard from the Windsor ferry-boat at Detroit one night last week, and was drowned. She was about twenty years old, and had lived in Detroit about one year, during which she made three previous attempts at suicide. Religious mania is the cause assigned.

Friday June 2, 1876

William HARTWIG, aged fifty-one, a resident of Williamston since 1855, while riding into the saw mill of Mead & Fleming, Thursday of last week, upon the log car, came in contact with the circular saws (one being place above the other), and had both legs severed close to the body, his abdomen frightfully cut to pieces, and of course, died instantly. Verdict of accidental death.

Friday June 2, 1876

Miss Hettie SYKES, of Bellevue, a beautiful and accomplished young lady, who attempted suicide by shooting herself with a pistol while attending the University at Ann Arbor nearly two years ago, died at the Insane Asylum in Kalamazoo one night last week, from the effects of the pistol shot, the ball never having been extracted. The remains were taken to Bellevue for interment.

Friday June 2, 1876

The dead body of a man was found on the shore of Saginaw Bay, one-half mile south of Equatum creek, one day last week. The body was badly decomposed, it having evidently been in the water since last winter. Identitlcation was impossible, but from clothing it is supposed to be the body of Frank LALONE, a fisherman, who was carried away on drifting ice

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 last winter, and while walking over broken pieces of ice fell through and was drowned.

Friday June 9, 1876

James DUNN, a lad of thirteen years, was drowned at Grand Rapids, one afternoon last week, while bathing in the river. He was learning to swim.

Friday June 9, 1876

William TINDALL, a sailor on the barge Wyandotte, fell into the river from a yawl boat at Bay City the other night and before assistance reached him was drowned. The body was recovered next morning. He was unmarried, aged twenty-five. His mother and sister reside on Grand River street, Detroit.

Friday June 9, 1876

Another pioneer of the Saginaw valley, Dr. Luke WELLINGTON, who resided about six miles from Saginaw City, died a few days since, aged seventy-five years. For some years he was supervisor of his township; he served one term as judge of probate, having been elected to that office in 1860.

Friday June 9, 1876

Hon. Henry FISH, of Port Huron, died a few days since, after a protracted illness of several weeks. Mr. FISH was one of the leading members of the Methodist church and had twice been a candidate for Governor on the Prohibition ticket. He was extensively engaged in the lumber trade, a genial and accomplished gentleman who exerted much influence in the direction of good works and a man highly respected by all.

Friday June 9, 1876

Albert L. QUINN, editor and one of the proprietors of the Caseville Advertiser, died at the residence of his father at Sand Beach, on Saturday of last week. His disease was consumption, which ran its course speedily, it being only three months since any serious trouble was apprehended. He was a young man of good promise, being only twenty-six or twenty-eight years of age, and had been married only last January. Being known and much esteemed in several villages along the shore his decease has occasioned a very general regret and sorrow.

Friday June 16, 1876

Last Saturday night George HENNESAY shot a man named LINGOR during a saloon bawl at Monroe. The murderer was arrested.

Friday June 16, 1876

Lorenzo LUTX, foreman of a dredge in Hamtramck, a suburb of Detroit, was assaulted the other day by several roughs, one of whom, named Martin O’CONOR, he shot dead with a pistol. He then gave himself up to police.

Friday June 16, 1876

The body of John COLLIER was found hanging to a tree in the outskirts of Grand Rapids a few days since. The Coroner decided that an inquest was unnecessary, as it was plain to see that he committed suicide. He left a wife and eleven children. Deceased was out of work for a long time, which is supposed to be the cause of this rash act.

Friday June 16, 1876

The Grand Rapids Eagle had the following obituary notice: "Last Saturday, Capt. Jededish GRAY, of this city, died, aged seventy-six. Capt. GRAY was in the service of the Government for twenty-five years, and served with distinction in the Florida war. He was also in the Watervliet and Pensacola arsenals several years. He at one time was keeper of the lighthouse at Grand Haven. He located in this thirty-four years ago, and had a large acquaintance here, being one of the most honored though quiet and unpretending, of our citizens. He leaves a wife, son and two daughters.

Friday June 23, 1876

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Friday June 30, 1876

A German lad, named William POTTER, was burned to death by the destruction of his father’s building by fire, in Saginaw City, last Sunday. He slept in the upper portion of the building, and was not aroused in time to escape.

Friday June 30, 1876

A fire at Port Santlac, Saturday night, destroyed the dwelling-house of Levi FRENCH, and his wife and two children perished in the flames before assistance could be rendered. Mr. FRENCH was absent, and knew nothing of the sad event until it was over.

Friday June 30, 1876

At Flint, on Thursday last, a boy named Jerome B. BLAKE, a deaf mute from Ionia, attending the Deaf and Blind Institute, was ran over and killed by a switch engine. Thomas BEGGS a switchman was killed by the cars at Grand Trunk Junction, near Detroit, on the same day.