Friday January 4, 1878

Ex-Congressman John F. DRIGGS died at East Saginaw Monday morning, of Bright’s disease and paralysis--aged 65.

Friday January 11, 1878

The body of Jerome PIERCE, a wealthy lumber dealer of Buffalo and founder of Pierceville, Mich., was found drowned in the harbor of Buffalo Friday.

Friday January 11, 1878

A terribly fatal accident occurred about three-fourths of a mile from Negaunee at 9:43 Wednesday morning, by which seven men lost their lives and several others were slightly injured. The Lake Shore Nitro-Glycerine Company were preparing a carload of nito-glycerine for shipment by railroad to the Republican mine, and while this was being loaded, by some means totally unknown, the entire lot of 4,800 pounds exploded with a terrific crash demolishing the car, engine and everything within a radius of 300 feet The concussion shattered the glass of nearly all the stores in Negaunee and all dwelling houses were left without a single window light unbroken.

The names of the unfortunates who have lost their lives are Will MEYERS, Esq., Wm. SPELLMAN, fireman; Chas. MILLER and Jerry FOLEY, brakemen; Ira HINCKLEY, Seneca; A. WHEELER and Walter WHEELER, employes of the Glycerine Company. The last three named were blown to atoms and their remains are scattered in all directions and are being picked up in small pieces; the largest piece thus far found will not weigh more than a pound and a half. What can be found of them will all be placed in one coffin and

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 buried together, as there is nothing by which either can be recognized or identified. Great excitement prevails and business is at a stand still. Great sorrow is manifested in all quarters, as all the parties were widely known and universally respected.

Friday January 18, 1878

The remains of Boston CUSTER and Antle REED, brother and nephew of Gen. Geo. CUSTER, who were killed with him in July, 1876, arrived in Monroe, their former home, Tuesday morning and were deposited in the cemetery with appropriate ceremonies.

Friday January 18, 1878

William PETERS, a young farmer of Colon, aged 25, thought to do an unprecedented thing, and so he went out plowing between Christmas and New Year’s day, following the plow barefooted. His funeral occurred January 4, diphtheria ending his life after two days’ confinement.

Friday January 18, 1878

A young man named John PHILPS, in the employ of Mr. P. LAWLESS, of Maple, while engaged in cutting down a straw stack, fell from the stack, upon the knife, which penetrated his side, cutting off one rib and severing his liver. Medical assistance was immediately procured, but to no purpose; death ensued during the night.

Friday January 25, 1878

W. H. MORAND, a negro, was arrested Sunday night for the murder of Thomas O’GRADY. MORAND’s story is that O’GRADY and others had been teasing him, pulling his house down, and shooting at him and that he struck O’GRADY on the head twice with an ax killing him instantly.

Mrs. Phoebe HOAG, aged about __ years of Bedford, Monroe county, was found Monday night burned to death in a house. The entire furniture of the room was consumed, but the house was saved by the timely appearance of the neighbors. Cause of the fire unknown.

Friday February 8, 1878

On Thursday night Elmer GARRISON, of Gaines, while going home with a party of friends, all of whom had been drinking freely, fell from the wagon in which he was riding, and when picked up was found to be dead.

Friday February 8, 1878

Mrs. Jane HOWARD, aged 36 years, wife of D. M. HOWARD, of Dover, near Adrain, committed suicide Thursday by jumping into an old well in a pasture field on her husband’s farm. She had been insane at different periods, and but a few weeks ago was returned cured after four week’s treatment in the Wayne County Asylum.

Friday February 15, 1878

E. ELWELL, an employe in D. WEBB’s lumbering camp, near St. Charles, was crushed to death Friday morning by a heavy log passing over his entire body.

Friday February 15, 1878

By an explosion in a mine of the Emmet Plaster Company, at Grand Rapids, on Wednesday, John COLEMAN, foreman of the work, was instantly killed and John BLADGER seriously injured. The blast had been set on fire, but an explosion not following, the men approached to relight it, when the explosion took place. COLEMAN was a bachelor, forty-five years of age. BLADGER has a wife and two children in indigent circumstances.

Friday February 15, 1878

Major C. F. TROWBRIDGE of the First Michigan volunteers and the regular army, died at his home in Ann Arbor Saturday.

Mrs. LILLY, daughter of Hon. John M. WHEELER, of Ann Arbor, who went with her husband to Japan, died in January, and her remains have been brought home for interment. She left Ann Arbor on the 20th of March last with her father for San Francisco, where she was met by Mr. LILLY, who had arrived from Japan, and was married, returning with him to Japan.

Friday March 1, 1878

The wife and child of John BARRY, of Jackson, were found dead in bed Saturday morning. Death was caused from asphyxia gas from an Empire gas-burner.

Friday March 1, 1878

Adam SCHMIDT, an old German, hung himself at East Saginaw Saturday night; cause, hard drink. He has a wife and three children in Prussia and two sons in Saginaw. He was 60 years old.

Friday March 8, 1878

Hon. A. B. COOK, member of the Legislature in 1857 and 1858, died at his residence in Marshall March 4. He leaves a large fortune, accumulated by his own industry.

Friday March 8, 1878

Major Lewis CASS died in Paris on Monday.

Friday March 8, 1878

Gen. Heber Le FAVOUR died at Pawtucket, Rhode Island, Monday night. He commanded the Twenty-second Michigan Volunteer Infantry, and during the war made a brilliant fighting record, receiving numerous wounds and winning lasting honors as a brilliant soldier.

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Friday March 8, 1878

James PHILLIPS, a Redford farmer, was killed by lightning, together with the horse on which he was riding, at Battle Creek, Saturday.

Charles HANCOCK, who settled two miles east of Albion in 1834, died the other day, aged about 75 years.

Friday March 29, 1878

T. B. EGGLESTON, a citizen of Lock, committed suicide recently by taking morphine. Domestic trouble was the cause.

Friday March 29, 1878

The wife of A. R. NEWELL committed suicide at Grand Rapids, the other day, by shooting herself through the head with a revolver.

Friday April 5, 1878

Dr. SPENCER, an old, well-known physician of Sherwood, was run over by the way-freight, at that place, the other day, and killed.

Friday April 5, 1878

In Detroit, a few days since, a man named BRENT was caught in a belt at Ladue’s tannery, and received injuries from which he died.

Friday April 5, 1878

A large coal-pit at Flint caved in the other day, burying two miners named GROOM and GINGHAM. Both were recovered alive, but GROOM is injured fatal.

Friday April 5, 1878

Alonzo B. MORLEY, a druggist of Cassopolis, and an old and well-known citizen, committed suicide the other night by taking strychnine and then hanging himself by the neck to a tree.

Friday April 5, 1878

The two men reported frozen to death north of Cheyenne were residents of Battle Creek. George P. BURRALL was a member of the grocery firm of Burrall & Wakelee. ROSE was a brother of BURRALL’s wife, formerly a farmer near that city.

Friday April 5, 1878

A dispatch from Ludington states that Robert AUDLEY and Eugene GEORGE, of that place, were capsized in a fish-boat near Point Sauble a few days ago, and before a life-boat could reach them AUDLEY washed off and drowned. GEORGE had nearly perished when rescued

Friday April 12, 1878

John COFFEE, of Alpine township, was struck on the head by a falling tree recently and fatally injured.

Friday April 12, 1878

A 3-year-old child of Henry VAN LUVIN, of Grant Center, St. Clair county, was drowned in a cistern a few days since.

Friday April 12, 1878

A young man named . W. BROWN, a saw-setter at Bradley’s mill, Bay City, fell across a circular saw recently, cutting off one of his legs. His injuries are fatal.

Friday April 12, 1878

Samuel WILLIAMS, of Marine City, recently died from excessive drinking. He had eaten nothing for a week previous to his death, and had drunk about two quarts of whisky a day.

Friday April 12, 1878

A terrible calamity has befallen an entire family residing in the township of Charleston, near Augusta, a farmer named Henry CROUCH, his wife and two children having been drowned together in a small sheet of water known as Wakefield’s pond. The family were missed by the neighbors, who at once instituted a search for them. When last seen they were in a boat fishing on the pond, where it was naturally supposed they had been drowned, and the body of one child, a little girl, was found washed upon the shore, near which was also the boat and a shawl belonging to Mrs. CROUCH. The pond was dragged for the other bodies, and those of the two parents were next recovered from the bottom. It is not known in what manner the unfortunate family met with their sad fate, but it is believed that the boat was accidentally capsized, and precipitated them into the water, which is said to be of considerable depth.

Friday April 19, 1878

John C. MERO, an old man who was embarrassed financially, committed suicide at Charlotte by taking poison the other night.

A little daughter of F. C. WILSON, of Augusta, was poisoned to death, recently, by getting possession of a bottle of poison carelessly left.

Friday April 19, 1878

Henry SACKETT, an esteemed citizen of Assyria, in Barry county, was gored by a bull which he was tending in his barn a few days since. 

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He died from the effects of the accident in about an hour.

Friday April 26, 1878

Peter BUNT, a well-known citizen, committed suicide recently by jumping in the Muskegon Lake.

Friday April 26, 1878

George McMICHAEL, a Plainwell lad 7 years of age, fell from a wagon and was run over and killed, the other day.

Friday April 26, 1878

Elder BLAKE, a man of 90, and one of the first residents of Orangeville, was buried recently. He was a man largely known and highly respected.

Friday April 26, 1878

Mrs. Mary J. ASHLEY, a young woman about 25 years of age, who was employed as a domestic at the Arnold House in Battle Creek, committed suicide the other night by taking morphine.

Friday April 26, 1878

D. ALDRICH, a highly-respected citizen living a few miles from Lansing, attempted to roll a log on a wagon , the other day. His handspike broke and the log rolled back, injuring him fatally.

Friday April 26, 1878

Mrs. S. V. SHERMAN, wife of an old resident of Cassopolis, died, the other night, from an overdose of chloroform. She had been in the habit of taking it, and it is supposed she took too large a quantity unintentionally.

Friday April 26, 1878

The litigation in regard to the Hannah DAVIS estate, of Allegan, has been amicably adjusted. Mrs. Hannah DAVIS died last fall and left on estate valued at $60, 000 which she bequeathed to various parties and institutions, leaving the heirs substantially unprovided for. The will was admitted to probate, and, after a long and exciting struggle made by dissatisfied heirs, the case was appealed, and is now settled by giving to the heirs $20, 000. Kalamazoo College gets $8, 000, the Nashville Institute $5, 000, and most of the remainder goes to the Baptist Society at Allegan.

Friday May 3, 1878

Mr. W. S. PIERSON, a resident of Genesee county since 1838, died near Flint a few days since.

Friday May 3, 1878

Margaret McCAIN, of Evart, Osceola county, was struck by lightning the other day and fatally injured.

Friday May 3, 1878

George NEWELL, of Newfield, Oceana county, aged 18, sprained himself internally while logging, so that he has died.

Friday May 3, 1878

A man named CARROLL, on his way to Lowell, to buy cattle, while crossing the track of the Detroit and Milwaukee railroad at Grand Rapids Junction, the other day, was struck by the eastern-bound train and run over. He can’t live. He is an old man, and resides in Chippewa.

Friday May 3, 1878

A small boy named MYERS, was knocked down by a backing train near Grand Rapids the other day. The train passed over him, inflicting fatal injuries.

Friday May 3, 1878

Mr. A. P. PHILLIPS died in East China, St. Clair county, a few days ago, aged 67. In 1822 he came to Michigan with his father, who settled near Marine City.

Friday May 3, 1878

David S. WARNER, an old resident of the village of Grandville, aged about 60, committed suicide the other day, cutting five terrible gashes in his throat. He was undoubtedly crazy at the time.

Friday May 3, 1878

Joseph HIRSCHMAN, a well-known saloon-keeper of Battle Creek, was found in the river drowned one morning last week. His death is supposed to be suicidal or accidental, as his watch and money were found in his pockets undisturbed.

Friday May 10, 1878

Capt. Andrew MURDOCK, for many years a lake Captain, dropped from his chair at Carrollton, and died almost instantly. He was 67 years old, and leaves a wife and five children.

Friday May 10, 1878

Intelligence has been received at Charlotte of the death of Pitt M. HIGBY, a former prominent resident of that city, at McMainsville, Tenn., whither he moved a few months ago.

Friday May 10, 1878

Jonathan WALKER, of the branded-hand notoriety, died at Black Lake last week, aged 80 years.

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Friday May 10, 1878

Henry BEAMAN fell from a barn scaffold at Sunfield the other day, and died shortly after from the effects of the fall.

Friday May 10, 1878

George ROAB, of Flint, aged 4 years, died suddenly one day last week of lock-jaw. Deceased had been complaining for a little while of his boot rubbing his left foot. Swelling commenced near the toes, running up the calf of his leg. He died in great agony.

Friday May 10, 1878

While a number of men were driving logs on the Muskegon, just above Blodgett’s dam, at Hersey, there was discovered the remains of a boy, apparently about 8 years of age. It is believed to be a Mr. WILCOX’s son, who was drowned at Evart March 14.

Friday May 10, 1878

The wife of Augustus BLISS, near Romeo, killed herself with Paris green, while insane, the other day. She leaves three children.

Friday May 17, 1878

A little son of Mr. STAFFORD was drowned in a cistern in Gilead township a day or two since. His mother is nearly crazed over the sad affair.

Friday May 17, 1878

Mr. Harmon SHERWOOD, who went to Portage, Kalamazoo county, in 1837 and lived there till 1870, died in Trowbridge, Allegan county, recently, aged 78.

Friday May 24, 1878

Mr. Wm. TUNISON, one of the first three residents in Sunfield, Eaton county, died a few days since, aged 75.

Friday May 24, 1878

In Gilead, Branch county, a child of Mr. STAFFORD fell into the cistern, and was drowned before help could reach him.

Friday May 24, 1878

A few days ago Mrs. Catherine CULLINANE died in Silver Creek at the remarkable age of 97. She came to this country in 1848 from old Erin.

Friday May 24, 1878

Luther GRAHAM, an old resident of Salem, recently died from the effects of a dose of opium which he had taken. The case is clearly a suicide. He left a roll of money with the direction that it be used for defraying his funeral expenses. He was 72 years of age, and had lived in Salem for forty-seven years. He had been in poor health for a long time.

Friday May 24, 1878

Mr. C. MILLER, whose parents came to Washington, Macomb county, in 1822, and who is supposed to be the first white child born there, lately died, at the age of 55.

Friday May 24, 1878

Charles FINCH, aged 17, and Dennis HAY, aged 21, drowned in Saginaw river the other day, were in a boat with ten others, and in attempting to seize hold of the bow line of a tug boat was capsized.

Friday May 24, 1878

At Newaygo, the other day Lewis CAMERON, engaged felling trees three miles north of that place, was instantly killed by a falling tree. He leaves a wife, whose former husband was killed in the same manner and vicinity.

Friday May 24, 1878

John ASH, of Bedford, Monroe county, 84 years old, shot himself through the head. He had suffered with cancer on his lip for some years, and it had eaten his face so badly that it was becoming difficult to take any nourishment, and, worn out by suffering, he committed the deed.

Friday May 31, 1878

Mrs. Sally WARNER, an applicant for a widow’s pension, war of 1812, died in Adrian the other day.

Friday May 31, 1878

Mr. Lawrence MAYNES, an old resident of Ash, Monroe county, was thrown from his wagon and so badly hurt that he died.

Friday May 31, 1878

During a heavy storm John CASSICK, a boy 16 years old, while hunting near Clio, was struck by a falling tree and instantly killed. His parents reside at Saginaw City.

Friday May 31, 1878

M. J. BOND, a prominent citizen of Cadillac, was engaged at the bottom of a well 100 feet deep, was fatally injured by heavy timber falling on him while being lowered by his son.

Friday May 31, 1878

John RUSH, aged 90, and a soldier of the war 1812, died not long since. He has been an inmate of the Soldiers’ Home of Wisconsin, and later of that at Dayton, Ohio. He was a pioneer of Cass county.

Friday June 7, 1878

John ROSS, of Casnovia, has an ailing wife. It was certain that she could not recover, and he thought he might as well look around for her successor. He chose the daughter of a neighbor, and so informed his wife, who told him that she would not stay long in the way.

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 That night she drowned herself. A mob tarred and feathered Mr. ROSS.

Friday June 7, 1878

John HEKHUIS, of Holland City, aged 38, who served through the war in the Thirteenth Michigan Infantry, and was wounded in the battle of Stone River, the bullet entering the right breast, which could not be found at the time, died recently, the bullet having sunk down into his lungs. He was buried the next day. He leaves a wife and two children.

Friday June 7, 1878

Johnnie KELLEY, son of Patrick KELLEY, was drowned recently at Port Huron. He was 11 years old.

Friday June 7, 1878

Delbert WESTON, a lad 10 years of age, was killed in the woods, near Saugatuck, by two saw-logs on a hillside rolling over him.

Friday June 7, 1878

Christopher HENDERSON and Max ZEIBERT, of Detroit, were out rowing, the other day, when the boat upset, and both were drowned.

Friday June 7, 1878

At Harrisville, last week, a 10-year-old son of Nathan EMERSON was struck over the right eye by a flying board and died the next day from the effects of the injuries inflicted.

Friday June 7, 1878

Fielder S. SNOW, of Clinton, died Wednesday, the 22d, at the age of 68, Mr. SNOW was one of the prominent men of Lenawee county, being one of the pioneers, and had represented the county in the Legislature, where he won considerable distinction.

Friday June 7, 1878

Harry DURKEE, the proprietor of the Durkee House in Mattawan, died the other night from the effects of a run-away accident which occurred the day before. He was driving from Schoolcraft to Mattawan, and was thrown down an embankment of the road by his run-away horse.

Friday June 14, 1878

Richard GERMAN, who accidentally shot himself in Convis, Calhoun county, May 22, has died from the wound.

Friday June 14, 1878

Fred CLOSERMAN, a German, while felling a tree at Ludington, the other day, was killed instantly by another tree falling upon him.

Friday June 14, 1878

A farmer named Wm. CLARK, of Huron county, suicided the other day by hanging himself. Cause, family troubles. He leaves a large family.

Friday June 14, 1878

Col. O. S. POPE, the first settler of Scipio, died at his residence in that township last week, aged 85. He was a veteran of 1812, and was taken across the water as a prisoner of war.

Friday June 14, 1878

The original John DOE died at the Monroe county poor house, aged 100 years. He could recall many of the stirring events of the early history of Detroit at the time when the French were about the only inhabitants.

Friday June 14, 1878

Arthur McCLURE, aged 18, of Mt. Vernon, Macomb county, died at Rochester, May 31, from the effects of a cut on his leg below the knee, received while chopping in Tuscola county about three weeks previous. Physicians advised amputation, but he would not allow it.

Friday June 14, 1878

A 9-year-old son of Mr. WESTERN, living in Manlius, Allegan county, was found dead between two logs a few days ago. He was sent into the woods to hunt up the cows, and it is supposed that he stepped upon one log, which rolled with him, and he fell between and was crushed.

Friday June 14, 1878

John B. SHEAR, of Lowell, one of the early settlers on Flat river, while returning from Florida, was prostrated by a stroke of paralysis, and died on the boat, near Memphis, Tenn. Mr. SHEAR had been with his sons in Florida for the last seven months, during which time he appeared to be steadily improving in health.

Friday June 14, 1878

A young man named John RICKARD, aged 23 years, a son of Walter RICKARD, of Keene, Ionia county, was drowned in Grand river at Saranac lately. He was engaged with a party, in the afternoon, in washing sheep and getting through with his work, he got on to a saw log to ride a short distance down the river, and, falling off, was drowned.

Mrs. M. E. BOUGHTON, President of the Ladies’ Library Association at Marshall, who was stricken with paralysis while presiding at a missionary meeting in the Presbyterian church, died recently.

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Friday June 21, 1878

Mrs. Mark WOOD, of Cascade, while fishing in Thornapple river, fell in and was drowned. Two or three men were on the banks, but as they could not swim, she had to drown. She left a husband and two children.

Friday June 21, 1878

Ex-Judge Leonard BEMENT, 75 years of age, and a resident of Grand Rapids since 1815, died last week, after a short illness. He had been a prominent civil officer for a quarter of a century. He was universally respected and admired.

Friday June 21, 1878

While James OLIVER was driving a spirited team of horses at Sand Lake, a few days since, they took fright and ran away, throwing OLIVER under their feet. His skull was crushed by the horses, and his body badly injured by the wagon passing over it. His injuries are fatal.

Friday June 21, 1878

George BETTS, 14 years old, and a playmate, of Lansing, started up the river the other day to shoot at a mark, both having loaded revolvers with them. Returning home, young BETTS in a tragic manner cried "You villain, die!" and snapped his pistol at his companion, who told him not to do it again, as some one might get hurt. BETTS then held the revolver to his own temple to show it was empty, fired, and fell dead, shot though the head. He was a son of the Rev. G. I. BETTS.

Paper unreadable and some missing.

Friday July 12, 1878

A little child of Mr. FOERSTERS, of Frankenlust, Saginaw county, was drowned in a well recently.

Friday July 12, 1878

Emery BUCKWHEAT, aged 13, was drowned in Saginaw river, at East Saginaw, while bathing the other day. The body was recovered.

At Westphalia, the other day, P. JENKINS and a friend named FENTON were thrown out of a buggy by a runaway team and both fatally injured, JENKINS being already dead.

Friday July 12, 1878

A miner named Philip NAVAN was instantly killed at the Saginaw mine, near Ishpeming, Marquette county, a few days since, by a piece of rock falling on him from a hanging wall. He leaves a wife and three children.

Friday July 12, 1878

J. W. PURSEL, President of the village of Schoolcraft, killed himself a few days ago at his residence, going down to the cellar, taking a razor and cutting his throat. The reasons that prompted this deed are not known; probably it was caused by the loss of his flouring-mill recently by fire.

Friday July 12, 1878

Evart Review: A brakeman on a logging train of the Evart and Osceola railroad, named Thomas LARKIN, was almost instantly killed a few days ago. He was on a loaded car unfastening the chain when the logs started, throwing him on the rollway just before the rolling logs, several of which passed over him. He only lived a few minutes after being picked up.

Friday July 12, 1878

Peter FLAGG, an elderly man living in Jackson, was found dead in his bed one morning recently. He was about 50 years old. He was from Oneida county, N. Y., where he was respectably connected. His grandfather’s family were among the earliest settlers of that portion of the country, in the days of the Revolution, and were engaged in that war. He was at one time worth $100,000, but lost the bulk of his fortune contracting jobs on the Erie canal.

Friday July 19, 1878

A man named Hans GILBERTSON was drowned at Manistee one day last week while bathing.

Friday July 19, 1878

Cris LANTZ, a boy of 14, was drowned while bathing at Trufants, Montcalm county, the other day.

Friday July 19, 1878

M. S. ORDWAY, a well-to-do farmer in Grass Lake, was almost instantly killed by being thrown from his buggy, his horse running away.

Friday July 19, 1878

A man named POLEY fell down a shaft in the Franklin copper mine, near Hancock, Lake Superior, and was instantly killed. His family are in England.

Friday July 19, 1878

James HENRY, alias Jack HAYES, a notorious fighting man, was shot and instantly killed at East Tawas, by an officer. HAYES interfered while the officer was trying to arrest another rough.

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Friday July 19, 1878

Mrs. BURNS, residing near Black Creek in Mason county, was so badly burned, by her clothes accidentally taking fire, that she lived but a few hours. She was alone, and when found was horribly burned and unconscious, in which condition she remained till she died.

Friday July 19, 1878

Frank NELSON, an employe in Miller’s mill, at Portsmouth, fell from the tramway the other night, struck a spike, and bounded into the river. His body was recovered soon after. It is thought he was killed before he struck the water. He was 55 years old, and leaves a large family.

Friday July 26, 1878

Frank McNEIL, a druggist and quite a prominent citizen of Bay City, fell from a sailboat at Port Lookout the other day, and was drowned. He was 23 years of age.

Friday August 2, 1878

Joseph MAILLAT, son of the head sawyer in the Ward mill at Ludington, was drowned a few days since.

Friday August 2, 1878

Rev. Chauncey W. FITCH, first President of the University of Michigan, died in Jeffersonville, Ind., aged 77 years.

Friday August 9, 1878

Policeman John TILTON was found dead on Staubin avenue, Detroit. His death was, no doubt, caused by apoplexy.

Friday August 9, 1878

William, a lad of 17, a son of H. S. MUSSELMAN, of Lake Huron county, was drowned while bathing in the bay, about Loosemore’s point, a few days ago.

Friday August 9, 1878

Mr. R. VAN KLEIK, whose family, consisting of a wife and one child, reside in Brooklyn, committed suicide by taking laudanum at Saline. He had formerly been very wealthy, but by dissipation and debauchery had squandered his property; and his conduct has been such since that he had been turned adrift to shift for himself.

The most terrific thunderstorm of the season swept over East Saginaw last week, doing considerable damage to grains, flooding the city, filling basement, cellars, etc. The water works buildings were struck and slightly damaged. Fred ENGLE, 9 years old, and two companies, Louis HAHN and Fred CLOSE, were under a tree in Saginaw City, when the lightning instantly killed ENGLE and seriously injured the others. In the vicinity of the city a large quantity of hail fell, doing some damage.

Friday August 16, 1878

Mrs. CARROTHERS, aged about 50 years, and grandchild, a little girl of 11 years, were killed by a tree falling across the wagon they were riding in, a few miles east of Stanton, Montcalm county, recently. The team stopped when the tree started, and Mrs. CARROTHERS and grandchild jumped out the back end of the wagon and were caught by the tree and instantly killed, while the two persons who jumped forward escaped unhurt.

Friday August 23, 1878

The son of E. S. HOLLAND, of Chocolay, Marquette county, aged 12, was drowned last week.

Friday August 23, 1878

John SHAY, a crippled boy of 12 years of age, was struck by a locomotive on the Flint and Pere Marquette railway at East Saginaw and killed.

Friday August 23, 1878

Two men, named BURK and O’CONNELL, were drowned in Hungerford lake, Mecosta county, lately. They, in company with two or three others, went out fishing in a boat and got to scuffling, when the boat upset.

Friday August 23, 1878

Hon. Geo. A. MITCHELL, one of the pioneers of Cadillac, died last week from concussion of the brain, caused by being thrown from a buggy on the 5th inst. He served as Paymaster during the war, was the first Mayor of that city, and was at the time of his death a member of the Republican State Central Committee. He was largely identified with all the business interests of Northern Michigan, and his loss will be severely felt throughout the entire region. His grandfather was one of the heroes of the Revolution, and his mother was a lineal descendant of New Jersey’s first Colonial Governor.

Friday August 30, 1878

Another horrible nitro-glycerine explosion occurred at Negaunee the other day, resulting in the instant death of Henry E. HUBER, Samuel M. COOPER, Dayton L. BROWN and John J. SCANNELL, all unmarried men, who were in the employ of the Miners’ Power Company, and at whose works they were at the time of the accident engaged in the manufacture of the glycerine. The bodies of HUBER and SCANNELL are mutilated past recognition, while the debris of the company’s work is scattered around a large area. These works were situated within the corporate limits of the city, but at quite a distance from the business portion of the town, which experienced a fearful shock. The loss on buildings and stock cannot be closely estimated. Of course, there is no living witness to tell the cause of the 

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horror and the inquest will elicit but few material facts in that direction.

Friday September 6, 1878

A small child belonging to Mrs. Lemuel HAZEN, of Westphalia, wandered from home, and was found hanging by the neck from between the pickets of a neighboring fence, dead.

Friday September 6, 1878

Another frightful nitro-glycerine explosion took place near Negaunee last week, by which three men were instantly torn to pieces. It occurred in the Champion mine in the following manner: Four men were charging holes with this murderous stuff about noon near the bottom of the mine. One of men started up the ladder as the other three were pouring nitro-glycerine into the hole. With a crash and without warning, the entire amount they had, about five pounds, exploded, killing the three men instantly. The man who started up the ladder was thrown upon a shelving of a rock comparatively unhurt. The names of the three men killed are Andrew SULLIVAN, Stephen DAY and Stephen KEAHUS. All were married men. Day was torn to fragments. The other two were alive when picked up, but died within the hour. This is the second nitro-glycerine explosion in Marquette county within eight days. As usual, no one is left to tell the tale, and no one knows what caused the explosion.

Friday September 6, 1878

While loading a car of wheat at the Granger elevator, at Fenton, Frank WAKEMAN, son of L. B. WAKEMAN, on of the employes, ventured into the bin and was instantly drawn down, his body stopping the wheat from running. The men commenced looking for the cause and found his feet in the spout at the bottom of the bin. The bottom of the bin was broken in, letting the wheat on the flour below. Although every effort was made to get him out after they discovered him, it took about ten minutes before they succeeded. Drs. KNAPP and WIXOM were present and pronounced him dead. He was 13 years old.

Friday September 13, 1878

George MOORE, a prominent citizen of Richfield, Genesee county, was killed recently, by a kick from a horse.

Friday September 13, 1878

The wife of William PENNEY, of Ronald, Ionia county, was sun-struck while blackberrying a few days ago, and died the next day.

Friday September 13, 1878

A little daughter of Mr. McCLUSKEY, of Ogemaw, drank a large quantity of medicine when unobserved, a few days since, from which she died in three hours.

Friday September 13, 1878

Frederick GALLOFF, a farmer in the suburban village of Springwells, near Detroit, hung himself in his own grove the other night. His domestic relations were unhappy.

Friday September 13, 1878

A little son of Edward MOYLE, aged 17 months, living near Negaunee, was killed by a playmate, only a few years old, who found a cocked revolver, and tired it at the child in play.

Friday September 13, 1878

While George MOORE, a prominent farmer of Richfield, was endeavoring to presuade his team to cross a small ditch he struck one of the horses a slight blow behind, when it kicked fiercly, striking him in the stomach and killing him instantly. MOORE leaves a wife and children.

Charles JOHNSON, a carpenter at Midland, fell from a staging a distance of twenty feet and was instantly killed, lately.

Friday September 27, 1878

While a young man named BACON, who lives at Frankfort, was out on the lake in a sail-boat off Pierpont with a comrade, the boat upset and turned both into the water. BACON tried to swim to the shore and was drowned. His comrade clung to the boat and was saved.

Friday October 4, 1878

John STREET, a prominent and leading farmer in Cooper, was killed instantly the other morning by his runaway team.

Friday October 11, 1878

R. E. DAVIS, one of the pioneers of Sanilac county, and founder of the village of Davisville, died at his home at Davisville Sept. 30.

Charles GOODRICH, a young man in the township of Atlas, fell twenty feet from a swing a few days since, striking on his head, receiving internal injuries which resulted fatally.

Friday October 18, 1878

A falling scaffold at Flint killed George A. McGREGOR.

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Friday October 18, 1878

A 3-year-old child of Michael MONAGHAN was drowned in Manistee lake a few days ago. Its father worked in a mill, and it seems, the child wandered away from home toward the mill. When found, the body was floating in the water.

Friday October 18, 1878

Miss Fidelia EVARTS, living near Nashville, died suddenly recently, with great distress in the region of her stomach. A post mortem revealed the fact that her stomach had burst, and its contents were found.