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DEATHS
1879B May-Aug
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Friday May 2, 1879 The wife of the well-known Methodist preacher, the Rev. Thomas STALKER, died at Pontiac, Wednesday of consumption, aged 48 years.
Friday May 2, 1879 At Barstow’s Siding, about six miles from Big Rapids, two men named CROWLEY and BOYD got into a drunken quarrel, regarding a bet, in which BOYD shot CROWLEY, the ball penetrating the abdomen. CROWLEY was brought to Big Rapids and attended by Dr. HENDRIX, who pronounced the wound fatal.
Friday May 2, 1879 Wm. DUNSTON, who lived a few miles north of Clarkston, was killed by an enraged bull on Thursday, and his wife seriously, if not fatally injured while attempting his rescue.
Friday May 2, 1879 Richard J. MACOY died at Kalamazoo on the 21st aged 72, where he had lived for 35 years. He settled in Adrian in 1836. He took the first contract to build a railroad bridge that was let in this State, which was constructed at Palmyra.
Friday May 2, 1879 A little child belonging to J. B. SMALLEY, of Antrim county, was killed by hogs while playing in the door yard.
Friday May 2, 1879 Mrs. MILLER died in Amber, Mason county, April 22, at the great age of 100 years. She was the mother of 13 children, most of whom are dead. She was well up to within a few hours of her death. She was bowed down with her years, and in her coffin could not be straightened.
Friday May 2, 1879 Two weeks ago a German named Matthias BYERLEIN disappeared. His body was found at East Saginaw Monday floating in the river. The deceased served in the Second Michigan Cavalry during the war and was of intemperate habits of late. No marks of violence were found. He was aged 48 and leaves a large family.
Friday May 2, 1879 The body of a man named SCHIRMERHORN was found floating in the water at Sault Ste. Marie Monday morning. He came there last fall from Canada with his wife and six children and shortly after disappeared, leaving his family in destitute circumstances.
Friday May 9, 1879 Lt. Charles L. SHERMAN, from Kalamazoo, committed suicide in Philadelphia a few days ago. Cause not stated.
Friday May 9, 1879 Chas. M. COBB, aged 77, a respected citizen of Albion, was killed Tuesday afternoon by stepping in front of the day express engine.
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Friday May 9, 1879 The house of Michael BULTER of Grand Rapids burned Tuesday and two little children perished in the flames. The mother has since become a raving manic.
Friday May 9, 1879 Edward SANBORN, a man 73 years old, and an old resident of Danby, fell down cellar at his son’s residence Monday night and was almost instantly killed.
Friday May 9, 1879 A daughter of Thomas PEARSAIL, of the town of Deerfield, Lapeer county, aged 14 years, was shot through the head and instantly killed by accidental discharge of a rifle in the hands of her brother.
Friday May 9, 1879 A little child of John TUTTLE, of Rockford, Kent county, was poisoned April 28, by drinking a cup of milk into which a black spider had fallen. The nurse noticed the spider and threw it out, but a few moments after drinking the child went into spasms, and despite the efforts of physicians died in a couple of hours.
Friday May 9, 1879 The body of a man was found floating in the Detroit river opposite the Central Depot and has been identified as that of George KING, drowned at Belle Isle last October.
Friday May 9, 1879 The Indian Jno. HENRY, who was badly cut to pieces with a knife in the hands of a Frenchman named BUTAW, on Tuesday, near Isabella City, died Thursday night. The cause of the affray is supposed to have been robbery, as the Indian had just come down from the drive and had been paid off. The murderer was arrested, and put in jail at Farwell.
Friday May 9, 1879 Newell H. PARKER, of Grand Rapids, aged 26, committed suicide Sunday night by taking strychnine. He leaves a wife and one child.
Friday May 16, 1879 Joseph DANSARD, of the firm of B. Dansard & sons, Bankers of Monroe, died suddenly of apolexy Monday night. He was 42 years of age and a native of Monroe, where he has been engaged as a merchant and banker twenty years.
Friday May 16, 1879 A farmer by the name of SANAMON while felling a tree near Stevensville, Berrien county, Tuesday morning was struck by a limb breaking his neck. He leaves a family.
Friday May 16, 1879 Word comes from Kansas that George W. DIXON, of Pulaski, Jackson county, who left to look up a new location last fall, has committed suicide. Cause not assigned. He was an old resident of Jackson county and highly respected.
Friday May 16, 1879 Rev. Dr. J. L. McKEOWN, who was for one year President of the Albion College, has just died at Roseville, N. J.
Friday May 16, 1879 A young man of 35, and unmarried, named Henry GALLUP, in the employ of Mrs. HOBART, living between Leoni and Grass Lake, was run over on the 4th on the Central Railroad and completely torn to pieces. He was probably drunk and asleep on the tracks.
Friday May 16, 1879 A Blissfield man who advertised to cure the opium habit, has got himself into trouble. Two very estimable women, Mrs. John YOUNG, of Blissfield, and Mrs. J. M. LUKES, of Lansing, have suddenly died under his questionable treatment.
Friday May 16, 1879 Monday morning the large brick block on Saginaw street, Flint, was almost entirely destroyed by fire, together with its contents. Losses on buildings as follows: J. A. FARR & Co. Cincinnati, $1,500: Henry BARBER, Mt Morris, $1,500: Levi WALKER estate, $2,000 all fully covered by insurance. Losses by occupants are as follows: John BRADY, restaurant, $1,500, insured $1,100; Carl SCHIMMER, $1,200, insurance $500; J. H. GOWER, tinware, $800, not insured. The usual origin a defective flue. One man, a German named Fred URTEL, unmarried and aged 35, was burned to death in his bed.
Friday May 23, 1879 Edwin FISHER, of Keeler, a man well known in Van Buren county, was engaged with others in raising a barn a few days since when a timber fell, catching him in such a shape as to completely mash the upper portion of his head and, of course, kill him instantly.
Friday May 23, 1879 A man named John PARKS was killed while falling a tree near Dowagiac on the 9th. He leaves a wife and two children.
Friday May 23, 1879 Edward SNYDER of Fremont, who was out hunting Sunday, May 4, and was accidentally shot in the arm, died last Sunday. Mortification set in and he refused to have his arm amputated.
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Friday May 23, 1879 The Hon. J. B. DICKINSON, mayor of Mt. Clemens, died at his residence Friday afternoon, after as illness of about one week.
Friday May 23, 1879 Willie PRATO, aged 15, was drowned at West Bay City, on the 17th, while bathing in the river.
Friday May 23, 1879 John RAYNER, of Mason, an old settler, and one of the wealthiest men and heaviest land owners in the State, died on the 18th after an illness of only two days.
Friday May 30, 1879 John THURSTON, one of the men burned at the explosion in Berry’s varnish factory in Detroit, died of his injuries Tuesday.
Friday May 30, 1879 Chauncey CARMAN, a farmer, aged about 56, in Mason, Cass county, hung himself in his barn on the 13th. He was in comfortable circumstance and poor health producing despondency, is supposed to have been the cause of his taking his own life.
Friday May 30, 1879 William B. REYNOLDS, a prominent business man of Jackson county and proprietor of the Norvell mills, died of heart disease at his residence at Norvell Wednesday afternoon, aged 47 years.
Friday May 30, 1879 Miles BYRNE, superintendent of the Flint City Gas Works, died very unexpectedly Saturday night of lung affection after a few days illness. The deceased was a man of special prominence in Catholic circles, and had a wide business acquaintance.
Friday May 30, 1879 Carlos BETTS, a lad 11 years old, and son of Hiram BETTS, a farmer living three miles from Mt. Clemens, shot himself Saturday afternoon while illustrating the manner in which a suicide killed himself with a pistol. The ball entered the skull in the forehead and lodged below the right temple.
Friday May 30, 1879 Frank GLOFF, aged 21, was drowned in Bridgewater, Washtenaw county, on the 24th, while washing sheep in a lake.
Friday June 6, 1879 Rev. A. L. BLOODGOOD, of Monroe, a retired Presbyterian minister, died in that city, on Monday night, of congestion of the brain, aged 66 years.
Friday June 6, 1879 William ALLEN was thrown from a carriage near Alma one day last week and instantly killed.
Friday June 6, 1879 Charles LAFAYETTE, a stone-cutter, aged about 25, was found drowned in Grand River, near the stone quarry of Charles MARSH three miles west of Lyons on Monday afternoon.
Friday June 6, 1879 Clarence STORM, 13 years old, a son of Chas. STORM of Portland, was drowned in Grand River Thursday afternoon while trying to rescue a drowning companion. His body was recovered after one hour’s searching.
Friday June 6, 1879 A little son of George PARKER of Vicksburg, Kalamazoo county, was drowned May 30.
Friday June 6, 1879 A lad named James TRENGROLF, aged 8, was drowned in the lake at Houghton May 27.
Friday June 6, 1879 James BURK, a young man, while at work for a farmer three miles north of Wayne, was struck by lightning May 29 and instantly killed. His parents reside two miles east of Dearborn.
Friday June 6, 1879 Two Polanders, named PAWLASKI and SUBA, each lost a child 7 years old at Manistee on Saturday. The children were playing on logs in Shrigley’s boom, when one of them fell in, and while the other tried to rescue the drowning child they both got under the logs and were drowned. The bodies were recovered.
Friday June 13, 1879 Wednesday morning James A. HILL, of Rutland, was picked up dead in the field where he had been plowing. He died of apoplexy, aged 66 years. He was one of the oldest and best known citizens of Barry county.
Friday June 13, 1879 Miss Lillie OSGOOD, of Lawrence, daughter of Roland OSGOOD, of Lawrence, attempted to commit suicide by taking arsenic Wednesday, and now lies in a precarious situation. She will probably die.
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Friday June 13, 1879 Allen ANSCOMB, a well known farmer living near Birmingham was fatally kicked by a horse Wednesday, and died almost instantly.
Friday June 13, 1879 Egbert PATTISORF of Alaiedon, one of the old pioneers of Ingham county, died May 25, aged 70. He erected the first house built by a white man in the township. He has been blind some 15 years.
Friday June 13, 1879 A young man named GEARY was drowned by the capsizing of a small boat near Kalamazoo Sunday afternoon.
Friday June 13, 1879 Miss Lillie OSGOOD, of Lawrence, Van Buren county, whose attempt at suicide by poison has already been chronicled, died shortly after.
Friday June 13, 1879 A boy named John OWENS was drowned at Bridgeport, Saginaw county on the 6th. He had run away from school to go in swimming with some other boys.
Friday June 20, 1879 Lightning struck Susella’s hotel at Parisville Tuesday morning, entirely demolishing the chimney, and instantly killing Wm. SUSELLA the proprietor.
Friday June 20, 1879 J. Clark BARROWS, of Stephens, Lapeer county, died Wednesday morning from the effects of morphine, taken probably with intent to commit suicide. He was aged 62 years.
Friday June 20, 1879 A distressing accident occurred in Rush, Shiawassee county, on the 7th, the dwelling of Kirkwood BEELBY being destroyed by fire, and a babe of nine months perished in the flames.
Friday June 20, 1879 Wm. O. AXFORD of Flint, who started for Benton, Tennessee, several days ago to investigate the sudden death and supposed murder of his brother, Major T. W. AXFORD, who formerly resided near Pontiac, reports that his brother was unquestionably poisoned. The remains of the deceased have been disinterred for analysis. Detectives are working up the matter and think they are on the track of the guilty parties.
Friday June 20, 1879 A young married man named STEPHENS, employed as night watch in Clark’s lumber mills on the Detroit and Bay City Road, became jealous of a man named John HOUSE, a laborer residing near by, whom he suspected was on too intimate terms with his (STEPHENS’s) wife. About 11 o’clock Friday night STEPHENS saw a light at his residence, unusual at that hour, and went to see the cause of it, and discovered HOUSE there talking with his wife, and persuading her to elope with him on the night train. It appears the woman was resisting his entreaties, when the enraged husband, feeling his honor had been compromised, went back to the mill, a few rods distant, got his revolver, and entering, emptied five chambers of the deadly weapon into the body of the man he conceived had wronged him. He then retired and wrote out a statement of affairs, after which he shot his wife and, some little time after, shot himself dead.
Friday June 20, 1879 Levi A. H. BUEL, an old, and one of the oldest residence of Sand Beach, committed suicide by hanging himself in the woods Saturday night. He was found Sunday.
Detroit in Brief
Friday June 20, 1879 Charles TOLEY. An unmarried man 26 years old, was instantly killed Wednesday morning in the Michigan Central yards, being run over by a freight car. He was attempting to couple the cars and fell upon the track.
Friday June 20, 1879 George BUCHAN, a Scotchman about 50 years of age and well known in the city, walked off the dock at the foot of Woodward avenue Tuesday night, and struck his head against a pile with such force as to cause instant death. He was intoxicated at the time and was accompanied by Robert CAMBELL, of Huron county, who also fell into the river but was rescued unhurt.
Friday June 20, 1879 George V. SMYTHE, a former employe of the Grand Trunk, was found dead in bed at the American House on Sunday, the effects of a overdose of morphine.
Friday June 27, 1879 Wm. J. FRENCH, a much esteemed farmer living five miles north of Romeo, hung himself Tuesday morning. He has been insane for some time, but has never manifested any suicidal intentions.
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Friday June 27, 1879 Fred H. BLOOD, Jr., of St. Clair died Wednesday from an overdose of laudanum, supposed to have been taken intentionally. He was only 17 years old.
Friday June 27, 1879 Daniel HOUGH, a German brewer in Frankenmuth, hung himself on Saturday in a well in his brewery. The body was found Tuesday. He leaves a wife and four children.
Detroit in Brief
Friday June 27, 1879 An old man named SMITH was run over by a Grand Trunk train and killed, near Fraser station, 16 miles from the city, on Tuesday night. His body was found by the side of the track horribly mutilated.
Friday June 27, 1879 Augustus CLIPPERT aged 17 was drowned Friday noon while bathing in a pond near the Michigan Car shops. He was the son of the late Casper CLIPPERT of Springwells.
Friday July 4, 1879 Daniel DYE, of Canandaigua, Lenawee county, committed suicide by hanging on the 20th. He was a well-to do farmer, about 60 years old, and had been afflicted with symptoms of derangement for some months past. He leaves a wife and three married children.
Friday July 4, 1879 As Mrs. Wm. PEACOCK, living near Charlesworth, was riding with a man named RIPPERMAN on a load of shingles to visit her parents, a bunch fell off, which frightened the team. They, running away, threw the woman and her child under the wheels, which crushed the childs head, killing it instantly, and broke the woman’s neck. She lived about an hour.
Friday July 4, 1879 John S. BURTON, formerly of Ravenna, Muskegon county, his son and son-in-law were all killed by the Indians somewhere in Colorado recently.
Friday July 4, 1879 A. B. MACKEY, of Elmwood, one of the old settlers in the Grand Traverse region, was accidentally killed by a tree falling on him on the 24th.
Friday July 4, 1879 Levi S. BISHOP, a switchman on the Chicago and Lake Michigan Railroad, caught his foot in the frog of the track at Muskegon Friday morning and was run over and Mangled beyond recognition. He was 27 years old and had friends at Victor, N. Y.
Friday July 4, 1879 Mrs. STEPHENS, wife of the murdered and suicide at Hunter’s Creek, Lapeer county, died from her wounds Friday night, just two weeks from the time of the shooting. HOUSE, the cause of this sad tragedy, is said to be in a precarious condition from his wounds at the residence of his brother in Oxford.
Detroit in Brief
Friday July 4, 1879 A young man named Michael STACKPOLE, while at work on the new building of W. K. COYL, corner of Miami avenue and Williams street, met with a terrible accident, sustaining injuries of a fatal nature. He fell a distance of 40 feet, striking his head and shoulders on the stone flagging.
Friday July 4, 1879 A young man named William BELLITT died at Harper Hospital Thursday from the effects of a dose of morphine administered by himself. He was a former resident of Defiance, Ohio, and a cigar maker by occupation.
Friday July 4, 1879 James R. EVANS, a salesman 40 years of age, went to sleep on the roof of his boarding house on Grand River Avenue Friday night and, in his sleep, rolled off and fell on the ground, receiving injuries which resulted in his death a few hours afterward.
Friday July 11, 1879 A teamster named George EMMET was fatally injured near Flint, Wednesday, by a kick in the head from a balky horse. EMMET died in the afternoon from his injuries. He was about 25 years old and a single man.
Friday July 11, 1879 Capt. WALTERS, of Spring Lake, Ottawa county, was drowned near Michigan City, from his schooner, June 27. He leaves a wife and three children.
Friday July 11, 1879 John COATES, of Friendship, Emmet county, aged 63, was killed Tuesday by a falling tree while in the woods cutting timber.
Friday July 11, 1879 Wednesday afternoon at Free Port, Mrs. Emanuel BERGY shot and instantly killed two of her children and fatally wounded another, and then shot herself . She is presumed to have been insane, as evidences of insanity had been discovered some time since in an attempt on the life of her brother witha butcher-knife. Mr. BERGY is a leading citizen of
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Bowne, Kent county, and has long resided in that section of the State.
Friday July 11, 1879 Wm. STEVENSON, of Bay City, committed suicide on the 3rd. The last that was seen of him was at Rust’s mill, on Thursday night at 10 o’clock. His body was found a the Twenty-third street bridge Saturday.
Friday July 11, 1879 Montgomery ELLIS was drowned at Ludington Friday. His body was recovered Saturday. He was in a boat tied behind a tug and capsized. He came from St. Johns and leaves a family.
Friday July 11, 1879 Fred SMITH, aged 23 years, employed on the Third street bridge swing at Bay City, was drowned Sunday. Dr. HAGADORN’s hat blew off as he was going over in a buggy. SMITH put on a pair of overalls and plunged in to get the hat. A 5-year-old boy named RICHARDSON was also drowned the same day by falling off a dock at Rust’s mill.
Friday July 11, 1879 James A., son of Wm. JACKSON, aged 16, and Edward A., son of Adam KNOBLOCK, aged 18, both of Monterey, Allegan county, were drowned on the 4th while swimming.
Detroit in Brief
Friday July 11, 1879 Joseph M. SCHUFFERED, a colored letter carrier was found dead in his bed Monday morning, probably of heart disease. He was well known throughout the city.
Friday July 11, 1879 The body of a peddler named Hugo BRINNER, was found in the river near Trenton Sunday. Whether a case of suicide or accidental drowning is not known.
Friday July 18, 1879 Geo. BICKEL, a former resident of East Saginaw, killed himself by cutting his throat at Dallas, Oregon, June 16.
Friday July 18, 1879 Carrie and Cora HINCKLEY, aged 19 and 16 years, daughters of Lieut. Col. J. D. HINCKLEY, deputy warden, of the State Prison, were drowned while bathing in the Michigan Center mill-pond, Jackson Co., Tuesday afternoon. Their bodies were recovered in 10 feet of water _0 feet from shore, one by Mr. OSBORNE, keeper of the prison insane asylum, and the other by John O’HERN, the pedestrian. Col. HINCKLEY’S entire family of nine persons and a number of acquaintances were enjoying a picnic, and the girls with Charles HINCKLEY, their brother, went bathing and got out of their depth. Charles was rescued by his father and John O’HERN, but the girls did not rise after they sunk, the bottom being full of sticks and weeds, to which they clung.
Friday July 18, 1879 Robert HALL, a well known music teacher, was found dead in his room at East Saginaw, Thursday afternoon. The body was in an advance state of decomposition. The cause of death is supposed to have an overdose of morphine.
Friday July 18, 1879 William M. DAVIS, foreman of Hileman Hesser & Co.’s lumber mill at Trufant, Montcalm county, had his head gashed by a gang edger Thursday afternoon. His death was instantaneous. He leaves a wife and two small children.
Friday July 18, 1879 Martha HOSKSEMA, 19 years old was struck by lightning and instantly killed Thursday near Holland.
Friday July 18, 1879 Mr. Lorenzo CHUBB, an old resident of Lisbon, Ottawa county was struck by lightning and killed at Blackberry Ridge, Oceana county, where he has a fruit farm, on the 9th.
Friday July 18, 1879 Miss Florence ELSWORTH of Stanton, Montcalm county, aged 16, was found dead in her bed on the 8th, a case of suicide by morphine. Impending disgrace is said to have been the cause.
Friday July 18, 1879 Homer CROSSMAN, formerly of Tecumseh, where his parents settled, committed suicide at Plano, Ill., a few days since, by throwing himself under a railroad train. As he has been recently married, and was pleasantly situated, there can be no reason assigned for the act except that of temporary insanity.
Friday July 18, 1879 Saturday afternoon a 13-year-old daughter of Frank CARMAN, of Lexington, was shot and killed by a 10-year-old lad named HALL.
Friday July 18, 1879 William JULIAN was picking berries in the woods, near Imlay City, on Friday when the tornado came and he was knocked senseless by a falling limb. When found, five hours after, he was alive, but did not regain consciousness previous to his death, on Sunday afternoon. He leaves a wife and three
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children. A lad named SHOLES was also killed by a falling tree near Utica.
Friday July 18, 1879 Albert, 9 year old, son of S. W. BAKER of Lowell, was accidentally drowned on the 12th.
Friday July 18, 1879 From the Fremont Indicator. A tragedy was enacted in the township of Greenwood, Oceana county, last Sunday morning, that for terribly dramatic details eclipses anything we ever heard of, and will probably for a long time stand alone in the annals of crime. The facts are substantially as follows: I. H. COGSWELL, supervisor of Greenwood, was administrator of the estate of Joseph STEBBENS, and interested parties were working to have him removed. The settlement was to take place on Monday, and the Probability is that he was "not prepared." He had told some of his neighbors that he would "show the judge of probate a trick with a hole in it;" and nobody now doubts his word. About three o’clock Sunday morning he awoke his wife and explained that he was going to kill himself, and wished to kill her also. She objected that she was not prepared to die, and he let the matter drop for a few minutes. He gathered all the papers connected with the STEBBENS estate, a package of money which his wife thinks contained $2,500, and all the books belonging to the town in his possession. These he burned in the stove. He then poured kerosene oil on the floor, beds and furniture, and started several fires. His wife, seeing he could not be deterred from his horrible purpose, made her escape from the house. COGSWELL followed her out and urged her to go back and die with him, but she again declined the proposition and he attempted no violence. By this time the interior of the house was a sheet of flame. Flinging her a pocketbook containing money belonging to her, he stepped back into the house, closed the door, and was all over. His neighbors think he was perfectly sane. His bondsmen will have to make good the loss and it will fall heavily upon them.
Friday July 18, 1879 From the Nashville News. A Mrs. BURGY, living one and one-half miles west of Freeport, in the town of Bowne, Kent county, the wife of a highly respected citizen and mother of five children, on Wednesday afternoon last shot dead with a revolver two of her children, and it is feared, mortally wounded another, the oldest being a boy of 8, the other two, girls, younger. On the morning of the tragedy Mr. BURGY went to his work, having crossed the river one and one-half miles distant, taking his dinner. During the forenoon Mrs. B. Sent her oldest girl, aged 10, to Freeport. The girl returned and the mother sent her again, and when she returned the second time she missed her little brother and sister and inquired for them. Her mother told her the two of them had gone to the neighbor’s to pick berries, and the other to another neighbor’s to pick cherries, and directed the little girl to go to the garden and get some radishes for dinner. Dinner was over, but the child obeyed, and as she went, took the babe from the crib, carrying it with her. She soon returned to find her mother sitting in the rocking- chair, a corpse, with the implement of her destruction, a revolver, still clenched in her hand. The girl ran to a neighbor’s and in frightened, broken accents told the fearful news, which spread like wildfire, and people flocked from every direction to the horrible scene. Their feelings can better be imagined than described when, upon entering the house, they found not only the mother in the condition described by the daughter, but under the stairway, where they fell, the boy and one of the little girls, lying across each other stone dead, exhibiting a fearful wound made by the revolver. Up stairs, speechless on the floor, was the third, a girl, with an ugly wound in the back of the head. How the unfortunate, insane mother obtained the revolver with which to accomplish her own and children’s destruction is a mystery as yet unsolved. About a year ago Mrs. B. Showed signs of insanity, and was sent to Canada, her former home. When she returned it was supposed she had recovered, but within a few days previous to the tragedy showed signs of returning insanity.
Friday July 25, 1879 John SAUERS, a German laborer, committed suicide at Ionia Tuesday afternoon by cutting his throat with his jack-knife. He has lived in that city about eight years. He has no family and was a man of intemperate habits.
Friday July 25, 1879 John JOHNSON, a well-known fireman of Big Rapids, was killed by a falling tree near this city on the 15th during a storm.
Friday July 25, 1879 Miss SHERWOOD of Mundy, Genesee county, died on the 9th from injuries received by the upsetting of her carriage on the 4th.
Friday July 25, 1879 A young man of Brighton named John M. NYE, about twenty years old, was drowned in Briggs’ lake on the 14th while bathing.
Friday July 25, 1879 C. B. ANDERSON, who recently operated an elevator for the grange at Belding, Ionia county, disappeared the latter part of June, being short $3,000 in his accounts, the result of dissipation. It now transpires that he went to Toledo under an assumed name where he was taken sick and where he died on the 15th.
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Friday July 25, 1879 Hon. E. C. SEAMAN died at his residence in Ann Arbor Thursday night. He was born in Chatham, Columbia county, N. Y., in 1805, studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1831, located at Ballston Springs in 1844, where for five years he practiced his profession. He came to Detroit in 1844, where he resided when appointed second comptroller of the treasury under President TAYLOR, which position he also held during President FILMORE’S administration. He was a voluminous writer, the author of "The Progress of Nations," a work in two volumes; "The American System of Government," "Commentaries on the Constitution," "The People and History of the States, " "Views of Nature," and several papers on "Life and Spontaneous Germination." For nine years he was editor of the Ann Arbor Journal. For the past two years he has given nearly the whole of his time to the preparation of another work which was almost ready for the press at the time of his death.
Friday July 25, 1879 The man whose body was found suspended to a tree in the woods near Charlotte some days ago, has been identified as Baptist YEAMAN. He has been in the country four years, and his former home was at Salsburg, Germany. He was a single man and has three brothers, one in Germany and two here.
Friday July 25, 1879 Lorenzo D. PHELPS, bookseller and newsdealer at Corunna, died Friday afternoon from the effects of an ounce of laudanum. He confessed to his family that he intended to commit suicide. Mr. PHELPS was attacked with paralysis last summer and his mind has never recovered.
Friday July 25, 1879 Conclusive evidence having been obtained showing that Alonzo DAVIDSON, whose body was found in Scram Lake July 3, died from the effect of poison, Sheriff PECK, of Kent county, went to Oakfield Friday and arrested P. E. STEVENS, who is suspected of committing the murder. A woman interested in the case has left the State.
Friday July 25, 1879 Wm. EMMET, son of Joseph EMMET of the township of Davison, Genesee county, fell into a well Saturday forenoon. When taken out life was found to be extinct.
Friday July 25, 1879 A young lady, 23 years of age, named Lillie MUNGER, living near Pontiac, took a large dose of arsenic on the 15th and died from its effects on the 18th a Rochester. Her parents live in Ashtabula, Ohio. She had been at work for one TERRY, near Pontiac, who, she says, accused her of opening a letter not belonging to her and threatened to have her arrested. This so worked upon her as to cause her to commit the rash act.
Friday July 25, 1879 A five-year old son of J. COLE of Sebewaing, Huron county, was killed last week by the kick of a horse.
Friday July 25, 1879 Several days ago Michael GRADY, of Jackson drank bed-bug poison. He was prostrated by the dose and lingered until Monday morning, when he died. He took the fatal dose by mistake.
Detroit in Brief
Friday July 25, 1879 Henry T. BRUSH, a well known and promising young architect, committed suicide Tuesday afternoon by shooting himself in the head with a revolver. He had been in ill health for some months and quite despondent. He leaves a wife and child.
Friday July 25, 1879 George HINTERMISTER, a carpenter 21 years of age, fell dead from sunstroke Tuesday.
Friday July 25, 1879 An insane woman named Melinda BERCHEY, 73 years old, fell from a fourth story window on Congress Street, Wednesday night and was almost instantly killed.
Friday July 25, 1879 Thomas H. HILBERT, a single man aged 25, accidentally and fatally shot himself Thursday morning with a revolver which he kept under his pillow.
Friday July 25, 1879 The body of a woman was found in the river at Trenton on Saturday, which proved to be that of an abandoned woman named Belle O’DELL, who is supposed to have jumped into the river at the Milwaukee Depot, Wednesday night.
Friday July 25, 1879 Eli V. LADEROOT, aged 22, was drowned at Sugar Island Monday afternoon, where he had gone with an excursion party and swam out into the river.
Friday July 25, 1879 The injuries which Col. Wm. PHELPS received on the 7th inst. By cutting his hell with a sharp edge of a china wash-bowl took a very serious turn, gangrene setting in and resulting in his death.
Friday August 1, 1879 Levi ROBINSON, of Woodbridge, Hillsdale county, aged 22, was the victim of a fatal sunstroke on the 18th.
Friday August 1, 1879 In a saloon row at Kalamazoo Tuesday night a stranger supposed to be Ed KELLY was fatally shot by a man named RICE, who was subsequently arrested.
Friday August 1, 1879 Brig. Gen. Christopher W. LEFFINGWELL, one of the chief quartermasters of the department of the army of the Potomac during the rebellion, died at Henry, Ill., on the 21st, at the residence of his daughter, at the age of 70. He went to Grand Rapids in 1853, where his home had been mostly since.
Friday August 1, 1879 A man named Richard EDDY was buried alive in the Jackson Iron mine, Marquette county, on the 22. He was shockingly mangled and when his body was recovered he was dead. He has been in the employ of the mire for 13 years. He leaves a wife and five children.
Friday August 1, 1879 A woman named Mate ELLIOTT died at Grand Rapids Thursday afternoon from the effects of an overdose of morphine, taken accidentally.
Friday August 1, 1879 John ACKERMAN, one of the oldest patients at the Kalamazoo asylum, was found in his bed Friday with his throat cut from ear to ear.
Friday August 1, 1879 Two children, a daughter, and a son of A. B. BONN of Riverton, Livingston county, aged 6 and 4 years, were burned to death on the 24th while playing in a barn, which was accidentally set on fire.
Friday August 1, 1879 Edward GARDNER, a young unmarried farmer living three and a half miles east of Chelsea, hung himself Thursday, and was found Friday dead. No cause is known for the act.
Friday August 1, 1879 Mr. Joseph EARL, aged 63, a well-known resident of Bronson, Branch county, was sun-struck while at work in the field on the 21st, and died the same evening.
Friday August 1, 1879 A terrible accident occurred at Port Huron Thursday night, the victim being Mrs. Adam HELMER, who with her husband resides on the corner of Union and Tenth streets. About 11 o’clock Mrs. HELMER was awakened by the noise of burglars in the house. She immediately aroused her husband. On getting up Mr. HELMER told his wife to keep quiet. He then seized an army musket lying in the bedroom and went to another part of the house on a search for the intruders. Meanwhile his wife arose and went to a different part. When her husband returned he thought he saw an intruder in the closet and fired; but to his most sorrowful surprise the intruder proved to be his wife. The whole charge from the musket entered Mrs. HELMER’S right side, causing a fatal wound.
Friday August 1, 1879 Nathan CRAWFORD, residing near Otisville in Genesee county, was thrown from a fractious horse while riding Friday and fatally injured. He is a young, unmarried man, aged 25.
Friday August 1, 1879 Hon. Deloa L. FILER, president of the Pere Marquette lumber company, and a leading man at Ludington, died Saturday. He had been seriously ill for some time.
Detroit in Brief Friday August 1, 1879 Col. William PHELPS died Thursday morning from the effects of an accidental injury to his foot on the 7th ins. His right leg was amputated at the knee on Wednesday as the last hope of saving his life from gangrene in the wound in his foot but without avail. He was 93 years of age and had been a resident of Detroit since 1834. In March, 1863, he was appointed by President LINCOLN paymaster in the army, with the rank of major. He served in that capacity throughout the remainder of the war, and in March, 1865, was promoted by President JOHNSON to the rank of lieutenant-colonel "for gallant and meritorious service during the war."
Detroit in Brief
Friday August 1, 1879 Friday morning, Charles LABERGE, aged 69, was pushed over by a barber named HAMILTON and striking his head on the curb-stone, received fatal injuries.
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Friday August 1, 1879 Monday morning a youth named John RICHLY, who, with a companion, was fishing for minnows with a hand net on the dock below the ruins of Bourke’s distellery, Windsor, fell into the river and was drowned. He was about 18 years old and resided with his uncle on Eighteenth street.
Friday August 8, 1879 The oldest victim of death in Michigan in 1878 was KE-WE-WAY-QUA KE-NA-BICK, a male Indian, born on Grand river near Grand Rapids, who died in Wayland, Allegan county, aged 116 years.
Friday August 8, 1879 August PETERSON, for 10 years past employed in Clark & Brown’s brickyard, at Grand Rapids, was oiling the crown-wheel Wednesday morning, when his clothes were caught by it and he was mashed up against it with great violence, his breast being torn open. He lived but a short time, and leaves a wife and three children.
Friday August 8, 1879 A man named George THOMPSON, at work blasting for C. C. Comstock, of Grand Rapids, approached a fuse which he supposed had died out ineffectually, when it exploded, blowing his head off. He leaves a family in Toronto Ontario.
Friday August 8, 1879 Harrison COOK, an old resident and prominent business citizen, of Adrian, died unexpectedly Wednesday morning of cholera morbus. He was born in Ontario county, N. Y., in 1822, and settled in Adrian in 1835.
Friday August 8, 1879 Father VAN ERP, pastor of St. Thomas Catholic church at Ann Arbor, was thrown from a carriage Wednesday and fatally-injured.
Friday August 8, 1879 Samuel HAVILAND of Raisin, Lenawee county, a venerable Quaker, died July 28, aged 87. He settled there in 1832, and had lived there ever since, dying in the house he first built. His wife with whom he had lived 58 years, died about two weeks since.
Friday August 8, 1879 A fire at Goguac Lake near Battle Creek, Thursday morning destroyed the steamer, Lew Clark, three boat houses and the dwelling house of James CLEVELAND. Mrs. CLEVELAND, an infant child and a little son were fatally burned or injured in escaping from the burning building.
Friday August 8, 1879 John PONN, a German farmer living some eight miles north of Albion, while on his way home Thursday with a load of lumber, was thrown from his load and run over, receiving injuries from which he died in two hours.
Friday August 8, 1879 Ira CONGDON was instantly killed Friday at Morris and Stebbin’s steam mill, about six miles from Hart. He had been mending a belt and it started to run over the cylinder before he was aware of it. It drew him into the machinery, tearing and mangling his body terribly.
Detroit in Brief
Friday August 8, 1879 A lad named Louis HART was accidentally caught in the belting at Frost’s wooden ware works Friday morning and instantly killed.
Friday August 15, 1879 A farmer named Marcus LAWRENCE, residing in the township of Richfield, Genesee county, fell from a load of oats Tuesday under the horses feet and was fatally injured.
Friday August 15, 1879 In Otto, Oceana county, a bachelor by the name of WEBBER was found dead on Tuesday in his cabin where he was living alone. He had attached a string to the trigger of his gun and then to his toe, and placing the muzzle to his mouth discharged the gun. He had probably been dead since Sunday, as that was the last that was seen of him.
Friday August 15, 1879 Gotlieb BRECKEL an old resident of Penisnsula township, Grand Traverse county, suicided Wednesday night by drowning in the bay at Old Mission. Family difficulties are alleged as the cause.
Friday August 15, 1879 Kink BYERLY, son of James H. BYERLY, who lives three miles southwest of Owosso, while hunting on the 5th with his father and two brothers, was shot by mistake by his brother, Sam, dying in 20 minutes.
Friday August 15, 1879 Anthony ENO was choked to death while eating meat at Athens, Calhoun county, on the 4th.
Friday August 15, 1879 Mrs. Matilda VAN CAMDEN was killed at Drayton Plains, Oakland county, on the 7th while walking on the railroad track.
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Friday August 15, 1879 Simon SHARROW, an old citizen of East Tawas, committed suicide on the 8th by drowning himself in a well near his home.
Friday August 15, 1879 A little twelve-year old son of Lafayette FLETCHER, at Hartford, Van Buren county, while "playing brakeman" on a freight train at that place on the 4th , fell between the cars and was killed.
Friday August 15, 1879 Phillis, wife of Maxim RINGUET, died at Grand Rapids, Saturday, aged about 72. She came there with the early French settlers from Montreal in 1835 and has lived there ever since.
Friday August 15, 1879 The body of Cornelius MAHONY of Kalamazoo, the boy drowned in Reed’s Lake July 13, was found afloat there Sunday. There were no signs of foul play. The coroner’s verdict was, drowned while intoxicated.
Friday August 15, 1879 C. V. VAN WORMER, an old respected citizen of Tuscola county, died Sunday at the residence of his son in Flint, aged 63 years.
Detroit in Brief
Friday August 15, 1879 Capt. Greenbury HODGE, one of the representative colored men of Detroit, died at his home in Waterfall alley, of consumption, early Monday morning, aged about 65 years.
Friday August 15, 1879 Wm. A. HICKOK, Superintendent of the Detroit and Saline Plank Road, committed suicide at the first toll gate on Michigan avenue, by shooting himself in the head. The cause is suppose to be financial embarrassment. He leaves several children.
Friday August 15, 1879 Friday afternoon Private PETIT, of Company K Tenth United States Infantry, stationed at Fort Wayne, met with a shocking death. He was standing on the porch of the barracks and while leaning over, looking at something below, he lost his balance and fell to the stone-paved court, a distance of about eighteen feet. He was carried to the post-hospital, where he died in twenty minutes.
Friday August 15, 1879 A coal heaver named James DULLEA, attempted to jump on the front platform of a street car Friday night, but fell under the wheels and was almost instantly killed.
Friday August 22 1879 John HELSEL, aged 28 years, was found hanging by the neck in his uncle’s barn in Algoma township, Kent county, Thursday, apparently a case of suicide.
Friday August 22, 1879 Wm. HIBNER, late of Carson City, Montcalm county, where his parents still reside, was killed in a quarrel with three roughs in Montana a short time since.
Friday August 22, 1879 On Saturday night James C. GIBBS, marshal of Middleville, was stabbed by John and Jim JOHNSON, Swedes, while taking them to the lock up for disorderly conduct. John was arrested on the spot and is in jail. Jim ran and is yet at large. GIBBS died at 2 o’clock Sunday afternoon. The Sheriff offers a large reward for the arrest of the fugitive.
Friday August 22, 1879 Mrs. Geo. JOHNSON, wife of a wealthy farmer of Lodi, was drowned Monday morning in Saline River. It is supposed that she fell from a log and was stunned, as the water was not deep. She was found by her husband.
Detroit in Brief
Friday August 22, 1879 The body of James ORR, a lad who was aboard the steamer Steinhoff which burned Tuesday night, was found in the debris on the dock Thursday afternoon badly burned.
Friday August 22, 1879 The body of a young woman was found in the river at the foot of Griswold street Friday afternoon. It was identified as that of Anna FLEISHAUS, who was aboard the steamer Steinhoff the night it was burned, and who had evidently jumped or fallen into the river and drowned.
Friday August 22, 1879 Saturday afternoon Thomas N. JOHNSON, 65 years of age, shot himself through the breast at his residence, 89 Fifth street, and died from the effects of the wound early Monday morning. The deceased was for many years proprietor of a saloon in Windsor and subsequently had charge of a hostelry at Malden. He had acted strangely for a long time, and is believed to have been insane.
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Friday August 29, 1879 Tuesday morning Isaac EVANS, a resident of Lapeer, fell from a small load of straw and broke his neck, from which death ensued instantly. He was 69 years of age, a retired farmer, highly respected, and has resided in that city and the immediate vicinity for 39 years.
Friday August 29, 1879 John HYSLOP, a boy of 12, was run over and killed on the railroad near Hudson on the 20th.
Friday August 29, 1879 Hon. George BROWNELL of Utica, Macomb county, one of the oldest pioneers of eastern Michigan, died on the 15th, aged 77. He settled in Farmington in 1825, in old territorial times, where he lived 31 years. He then removed to Utica, where he has since resided.
Friday August 29, 1879 Mr. L. GORTON, formerly of Paw Paw, but lately of Chestonia, Antrim county, was killed on the 20th by a falling tree.
Friday August 29, 1879 Geo. CLARK was fatally shot at Tuscola, Ill. By his step-son, Hugh McGUIRE, who met CLARK in the street and told him he had come all the way from Kansas to kill him for deserting his (McGUIRE’S) mother. McGUIRE gave himself up to the authorities.
Friday August 29, 1879 John WIVELL, employed at the Quincy copper mine, Hancock, fell down a shaft 100 feet on the 20th and was killed.
Friday August 29, 1879 Mrs. P. C. TERRY of Augusta was fatally injured in a runaway accident at Battle Creek, Monday evening.
Friday August 29, 1879 A. F. RUMPE, a laborer on the Grand Rapids and Indiana Railroad, died at Shelbyville Monday afternoon from injuries received by falling from a hand car on Saturday. He was 30 years old and leaves a widow.
Detroit in Brief
Friday August 29, 1879 The Rev. W. R. TILLINGHAST of the Holy Trinity Church, Detroit, was accidentally and fatally shot while camping on Fox Island, Tuesday afternoon. A young man named James WRIGHT, was handling a revolver, and did not perceive that it was full cock. As he turned around to say something to Mr. TILLINGHAST, the revolver was accidentally discharged, the ball entering Mr. TILLINGHAST’S back between the shoulder blades and descending on the outside of the ribs about four inches, where it changed its course and entered the body, cutting one of the largest arteries, which caused internal hemorrhage. Mr. TILLINGHAST walked a few steps after being shot, but died before medical aid reached him. He was about 40 years of age and had been a resident of Michigan about 12 years.
Friday August 29, 1879 Edward K. and Robert, two sons of Prof. Bela HUBBARD, aged respectively 23 and 21 years, left the city on the 16th for a boat excursion on the St. Clair flats, have not since been heard from and it is believed they were drowned.
Friday August 29, 1879 The bodies of Edward K. and Robert HUBBARD, the young men who were drowned in Lake St. Clair some days ago, were discovered Saturday afternoon near Basset channel about two miles from the boat house where they were last seen alive.
Friday August 29, 1879 Ransom SAULSBURY, a well known Detroit confidence man and gambler, was shot and killed in Toledo, on Saturday, by a policeman named NOHL, who afterwards shot and killed himself.
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