1879C Sep-Dec

Friday September 5, 1879

John M. GYER, a prominent and well-to-do farmer of Niles township, committed suicide by hanging Tuesday.

Friday September 5, 1879

A man named ROACH was drowned at Argentine, Genesee county, on the 24th.

Friday September 5, 1879

Nelson MILES, a highly respected farmer near Lapeer, was fatally injured on the 23d by a kick on the side of his head given by a horse.

Friday September 5, 1879

Monday night as two brothers named DELLODER and a lad named SMITH were returning from a nutting expedition up the Clinton river in a skiff, they got into play in the boat and it capsized. SMITH got ashore, but the other two brothers were drowned. Their bodies were found, and an inquest was held at Mt. Clemens Tuesday. They were aged 10 and 12 years.

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Friday September 5, 1879

A few days ago John SHUH, saloon-keeper, and John BELKNAP, teamster, had a fight at Weirich’s brewery, in Grand Rapids, the former receiving injuries from which he died on Tuesday. BELKNAP is under arrest.

Friday September 5, 1879

William CONNROD, aged 25, a carpenter at Whitney’s mill, at Melbourne, eight miles below Saginaw, was drowned in the river on the 25th. He was married only two months ago.

Friday September 5, 1879

Harry OWEN, aged 15, was fatally injured at Grand Rapids, Wednesday, by the explosion of a cartridge which he was pounding with a stone. Part of the shell carried away a portion of the carotid artery.

Friday September 5, 1879

A little daughter of D. BRUNDAGE of Inland, Benzie county, was buried in a sand bank on the 25th and suffocated before she could be extricated.

Friday September 5, 1879

William GILBERT of Lake township, Huron county, a young married man, took a dose of salts prepared by his wife and died in ten minutes Monday night last. An inquest and a verdict that he came to his death by poison, administered either by his wife or his father, John B. GILBERT, physician pronouncing it strychnine.

Friday September 5, 1879

Lewis MORSE, a young man residing near Grand Blanc, while at work Friday afternoon, around a threshing machine, was knocked down and fatally injured by the slipping of the belt.

Friday September 5, 1879

Burton V. SMITH, stenographer, was drowned in Lake Michigan at Port Sherman Friday afternoon while bathing with a party from Muskegon.

Friday September 5, 1879

Mrs. Thos. EVANS, of Muskegon, who had been sick with fever for a week, slipped out of the house early Saturday morning while delirious and went to the central wharf, jumped into Lake Muskegon and was drowned. Her body was found an hour afterward floating on the surface.

Friday September 5, 1879

A Scotchman named Thomas BOYD and a lad named INGHAM were drowned in Lake Michigan Friday evening about three miles south of St. Joseph.

Friday September 5, 1879

George SILVER, a farmer living in Roxand township, Eaton county, was fatally shot Monday morning by a step-son named Albert ALLEN.

Friday September 5, 1879

Albert SAVAGE, a ten-year old son of James SAVAGE of Niles, was drowned Sunday while bathing in the race at the dam.

Friday September 5, 1879

At Riverside station Monday afternoon William B. COGSWELL, an employe on the Chicago & West Michigan Railway, fell a distance of thirty feet from a bridge, striking his head on a timber, from which injury it is thought he must die. He has a family.

Friday September 5, 1879

Quite a sensation has been caused in the township of Aurelius, Ingham county by the suicide of Mr. David H. FOUNTAIN. He arose from his bed at about 3 o’clock Saturday morning, staggered across the floor and finally fell. Upon gaining his feet he left the house, to which he did not return. Sunday night his body was found with his throat cut. When found the body lay near a tamarac log, on which deceased seems to have sat when he committed the deed which ended his life. Various evidences were found that the death struggle was violent. Mr. FOUNTAIN was 20 years of age and had a large family and a comfortable property.

Friday September 5, 1879

A hackman named Michael McKINLEY, was shot and killed Thursday morning in a house of ill repute on Orleans street by an inmate of the establishment named Minnie PORTER. All parties were drunk at the time.

Friday September 12, 1879

The man whose body was found August 26 in Clear lake, near Gaylord, Otsego county, is supposed to be Amos FRASER, who took up some land near there May 5, and hadn’t been heard of since. He came from New York state.

Friday September 12, 1879

A seven-year-old son of Henry AMENS, of Capac, St. Clair county, fell from a loaded wagon and was run over August 30 and so severely injured that he died in about an hour.

Friday September 12, 1879

Capt. Frank WOOLSON was lost off the barge Yankee during a squall on Lake Erie Monday night. He resides at Bay City, and leaves a wife and children.

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Friday September 12, 1879

A young lawyer named O. M. MILSPAUGH was found hung in a shed at the rear of his house, at Kalamazoo, Friday evening, in the northeast part of the village. He formerly lived at Bloomingdale, Van Buren Co., and was employed in the office of Thomas B. SHERWOOD. He had not been seen since Monday noon. He leaves a wife who has been bedridden for two years. Despondency was probably the cause.

Friday September 12, 1879

Ex-Senator Wm. E. WARNER, of Belleville, Wayne county, was engaged Saturday in tearing down a saw-mill, when one of the heavy timbers unexpectedly fell and struck him in the chest crushing him to the earth. He neither moved nor spoke afterward, though medical assistance was promptly on the spot and everything possible was done in his behalf. In 1864 he was elected register of deeds of Wayne county and was re-elected in 1866 to a second term. He has been a prominent and influential member of the Democratic party of Wayne county for the past 25 years.

Friday September 12, 1879

Mrs. Helen Ida Bahl REILLY, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. H. BAHL, and wife of Judge C. J. REILLY, of this circuit, died Wednesday morning at her father’s home after a lingering and painful illness.

Friday September 19, 1879

A young man by the name of J. MC GINN left Point St. Ignace Saturday evening in a small boat alone for Cheboygan. Nothing has been heard from him since, and he is supposed to have drowned.

Friday September 19, 1879

J. LOTZ, a saloon keeper of Bay City, walked off the bridge into the river Monday night and was drowned. His age was 56 and he leaves a wife and family.

Friday September 19, 1879

A few days since a lady named MILLER living near Beaver Lake, Otsego county, went into the woods to pick berries, and not returning home search was made and she was found dead in the woods. It is supposed she died of and epileptic fit. Her remains were taken to Plymouth for interment.

Friday September 19, 1879

Joseph NEWALL, an old man, while in a fit fell from his boat into the Kalamazoo river at Saugatuck Wednesday and was drowned. He leaves a wife.

Friday September 19, 1879

John ROHER, who was employed as a watchman in Smith & Adams camp at Summit Station, Ogemaw county, was found dead at the camp Thursday. It is supposed that he was killed by the accidental discharge of a gun.

Friday September 19, 1879

Dentworth VANDERPOOL, a Lake Shore brakeman resident in Adrian, was thrown from the top of his train Friday night near Coldwater, and three cars passed over him, severing one arm, crushing the other and inflicting fatal injuries about the head and body.

Friday September 19, 1879

A young man named RABIOR was shot and fatally wounded at Frankfort Saturday by a man named STRAUBLE.

Friday September 19, 1879

Leonard PHILLIPS, a highly respected farmer and one of the oldest residents of the township of Milford, was instantly killed Saturday morning by his team running away.

Friday September 19, 1879

Ole JOHNSON Elmwood, Leelanaw county, was killed by a falling tree on Friday. He leaves a family in Norway.

Friday September 19, 1879

Tuesday morning the revenue cutter Fessenden found the body of John BOYD, the unfortunate colored fireman of the steamer Alaska, floating in Lake Erie about half a mile below Bar point where the explosion took place.

Friday September 19, 1879

Mrs. SCHULTZ, better known as "Mother Ambrust," a notorious woman, has been arrested on a charge of murdering a girl named Ella LASODER in February, 1878.

Friday September 26, 1879

James GALBRAITH, a single man 28 years of age, was killed and his body horribly mangled by accidentally falling on a bolting saw in Hill’s mill near Edmore, Montcalm county, on Monday last. His home was in Pennsylvania.

Friday September 26, 1879

On Friday night, September 12, Angus SMITH of Harrisville and Mr. LEONARD of Detroit, who had been looking over some land in Otsego county, pitched their tent in some woods near Otsego Lake, and being very tired, were soon wrapped in slumber. The night was very chilly, and early Saturday morning Mr. SMITH awoke, shivering with cold. He moved outside

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 the tent without the knowledge of Mr. LEONARD and commenced gathering together chips for the purpose of building a fire. Mr. LEONARD awaking and thinking it a bear prowling around the tent, fired a revolver at it, inflicting a fatal wound of which Mr. SMITH died the next morning.

Friday September 26, 1879

Friday afternoon John CHIRGWIN, a Grand Rapids teamster, was thrown upon the sidewalk from his wagon by his horses starting while he was trying to adjust a sausage machine properly in the wagon. The machine fell upon him on the sidewalk, crushing his lungs. He was taken to Dr. DE CAMP’S office, where he soon died from internal bleeding. He was an industrious and temperate man and leaves a wife and child.

Friday September 26, 1879

Mrs. C. A. TRACY, of Mt. Pleasant, Isabella county, was thrown from a wagon on the 15th and so seriously injured that she died in half an hour.

Friday September 26, 1879

Edward LAPHAM and Oliver LAFEVER were sewing a heavy belt around a shaft in motion in Cummer’s saw-mill, at Cadillac Friday when the shaft caught the belt, killing LAFEVER instantly, smashing his head and severing his leg. LAPHAM was slightly injured. The deceased was 40 years old, and leaves a wife and three children.

Friday September 26, 1879

A man named John MITCHELL of Ottawa, fell into the river at Au Sable on Wednesday evening, while endeavoring to cast off a tug line, and was drowned before assistance could be rendered him.

Friday September 26, 1879

A man named CROUT, while at work in the lumber pile of Stone Island mill near Bay City, slipped into the river on the 20th and was drowned.

Friday September 26, 1879

An aged colored barber named DINGS was burned by his clothes taking fire Friday morning and died in a few minutes.

Friday October 3, 1879

Sebastian GREENWAY fatally stabbed Charles SHIEFEL at Grand Rapids Tuesday night. Both young men and both were drunk.

Friday October 3, 1879

Daniel BUDLONG, of Eekford, Calhoun county, died on the 19th from cancer in the stomach. He was unable to take any food whatever for 29 days before he died, and scarcely any nourishment for two months.

Friday October 3, 1879

Dr. Charles Julius HEMPEL, an eminent homeopathic physician and medical author, widely known in America and Europe for the past 30 years, died at his residence in Grand Rapids Wednesday night, aged 68 years and 19 days. He had been a resident of Grand Rapids for 18 years.

Friday October 3, 1879

The house of Frederick LONG, in the township of Lee, Calhoun county, took fire from the explosion of a kerosene lamp Wednesday evening, and burned to the ground. Mr. and Mrs. LONG were attending a meeting near by at the time, and before they reached their home, after discovering the fire, two of their three small children, who were asleep in the house, perished in the flames. The third child, who was asleep in a room that the flames had not yet reached were rescued.

Friday October 3, 1879

Abner DAVIS, a farmer of Bedford, was fatally injured Thursday afternoon by a runaway accident.

Friday October 3, 1879

Andrew JUAN, a teamster was killed at Cadillac, Thursday. His head was smashed between the wheel of a wagon and a tree. He leaves a wife and two children. He was formerly from the vicinity of Kalamazoo. He was the second man killed there in six days.

Friday October 3, 1879

Jenson P. BEERS, prosecuting attorney of Roscommon county, died in Stanton on the 19th. He was among the earliest settlers of Stanton, and held several local and county offices at different periods.

Friday October 3, 1879

Robert W. KIDD was crushed between two logs at Hawn’s lumber camp, near Stanton, on the 25th, and so severely injured that he died the next day. He came to Ionia county 43 years ago and was well known. His age was 60.

Friday October 3, 1879

A child of 4 years, the son of Mr. GUINTHER, of Greenville, was drowned in a cistern Friday afternoon. He fell in unobserved and was lifeless when discovered.

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Friday October 3, 1879

Mathias SHEARER, a farmer living a short distance out of Brownstown, committed suicide while drunk Saturday evening.

Friday October 3, 1879

Isaac PARKER of Geneva, over 70 years of age, was found hanging in his barn Monday dead. His body was taken to Kalamazoo for burial. Domestic trouble is the supposed cause.

Friday October 3, 1879

George H. TRYON, of Littlefield, Emmet county, while attempting to extract a bullet from his rifle on the 26th was instantly killed by the accidental discharge of the gun.

Friday October 3, 1879

The body of a drowned man was found Wyandotte Wednesday, and was identified that of Wm. SLATER, of Northville, an old man who is thought to have fallen into the river at Detroit during the State Fair.

Friday October 3, 1879

Bradley H. THOMPSON, an old and well-known citizen, died on Wednesday evening after a lingering illness of over a year. The deceased was born in Trumanboro, N. Y., in 1818, and came to Detroit with his father Mr. Daniel THOMPSON one of the first sheriffs of the county, in 1824.

John LUTZ, a young man employed in the mill of Ruddock, Palmeter & Co., at Manistee, while attempting to run a belt on Tuesday morning while the machinery was in motion, was caught in the shafting and instantly killed. His body was horrible mangled.

Friday October 10, 1879

The funeral of Mr. and Mrs. C. H. MORRIS, who were murdered near Decatur Sunday evening , took place Tuesday afternoon at two o’clock in the graveyard near their late residence and was attended by several thousand people. They were both buried in the same grave by the side of their only child, who died last winter, in the little cemetery on one corner of their own farm. Not the slightest clue has been obtained, so far as known, as to who the criminal is.

Friday October 10, 1879

A son of Geo. WINTERHALTER, of Sebewaing, was drowned Monday in the river at that place.

Friday October 10, 1879

The Jackson Patriot says the opinion is expressed by some parties that the recent death of the German brewer HANSER in that city may have resulted from some other cause than suicide, and that it is possible that he was murdered.

Friday October 10, 1879

Wm. JONES, while intoxicated, attempted to crawl under a train of cars at the depot of the Grand Rapids and Indiana railroad at Grand Rapids Thursday night. The train started and JONES’ legs were badly mangled. Physicians pronounce his injuries fatal. He has a family near Fisher Station, where he resides.

Friday October 10, 1879

Harvey PARK, a well-known and highly esteemed pioneer of Oakland county, died Friday night at the residence of his daughter, Mrs. Willard W. McCONNELL, of Pontiac, aged 90 years.

Friday October 10, 1879

John POSTMAN, a Hollander, was crushed to death about noon Monday by a pile of lumber at the Bigelows mill at Muskegon falling on him. He was unmarried and aged about 22.

Friday October 10, 1879

Mrs. Nettie FREDERICK, living in Matteson Township, Branch county, aged about 23 and only married four days, took strychnine last Saturday morning, and died from its effects at 11 o’clock. The cause is said to be jealousy, her husband having gone to a party the night previous with another woman

Friday October 10, 1879

The Adrian Disaster

During the progress of the Lenawee county fair at Adrian on Thursday, the grand stand gave way while about 2,000 people were seated upon it and a large crowd in the spaces beneath. It gave way first in the center, then the front fell outward to the track and the back fell in the opposite direction into the river. Six persons were killed and their bodies covered with debris. Their names were: M. M. MEREK, a German; Mr. John HUBBARD of Jasper; a boy named HYDE, about 12 years old; a boy named MOSHER, about the same age; David PLUMADOR of Petersburg, Monroe county, aged 18; Wm. MULZER aged 12 about 12. About 150 others were found to be more or less injured, some of them fatally. The calamity was followed by a scene of indescribable excitement and confusion. Prof. MACLEAN of the University, Prof. WYMAN of the Detroit medical college and sundry other eminent surgeons were telegraphed for. Supt. CURTIS of the Lake Shore road telegraphed at once proffering aid.

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The loss of life by the Adrian calamity on Thursday was greater then first reported. The following were added to the list Friday: Matthew JOHNSON, a Dane, whose home is at Attica, Ohio, and who worked for a Dover farmer named CLEMERSON, died Thursday night. Achiel HENDERSON, 70 years of age, Plumb River, Jo Davis county, Ill., died during Friday night. Henry HART died at 5 o’clock Friday morning. A boy named Willie HALL is reported dead Friday. R. R. HUME of Medina died Friday night at the Central House, Irving POWERS of Madison, died Friday. Reuben FERGUSON of Rome, aged 45, also died Friday. The list of wounded is also greater than first reported and other deaths are expected. The following jury was impaneled by Coroner R. B. HAUSE: Samuel TINGLEY, John G. MASON, Martin P. STOCKWELL, Zachariah COOK, W. H. WALBY, Brackley SHAW--all highly intelligent and fair-minded men. Charles R. MILLER, Esq., appeared for Mr. LAWRENCE, owner of the grounds, who is too ill to attend, and who is reported to have become insane in consequence of the calamity. Pros. At’y W . A. UNDERWOOD appeared to assist the coroner; he said responsibility of the disaster was one of the things to be determined, and that must be done by the jury. Seth BEAN Esq., appeared for the architect who made the designs and specifications for the building, C. F. SIZER. The investigation will last several days.

No additional deaths were reported Saturday, but the list of wounded was swelled by fuller reports to nearly 300. The coroner’s inquest was continued and witnesses examined as to the place and manner in which the grand stand was constructed. Mr. Ephraim ARMSTRONG testified that he took the contract from W. T. LAWRENCE; it was in writing. The plans and specifications were produced. The stand was to be 28 by 100 feet in size, the lower floor to be divided by one partition, to make the dining room 80X28, pool rooms 20X28. There were to be five sills running lengthwise building, 8X8, and six running crosswise, same size, all well framed and pinned together. Joists 2X8, 16 inches from centers. Center of post 8X8, running up to girder 12 feet high, girdle 8X8 running length of building to support carriage for seats; lower story posts to center section 10 feet from centers; alternate posts 6X6 from girdle to purline late, post to be 20 feet from centers.

Mr. ARMSTRONG testified that in constructing the grand stand he followed the specifications except that in some cases he used larger timbers and more nails than the contract called for.

Mr. Isaac MOSIER, a carriage maker of Adrian, testified that he and others examined the stand on Sunday before the accident and noticed that there was neither mortise nor tenon, no bracing to amount to anything in the construction of the stand; the larger timbers were toe nailed together; there was one timber, a joint that seemed to have been made for something else, it was sliced; there were no collar beams in the roof.

One more death occurred Saturday, Mr. Chas. WINANS, formerly a well-known commercial traveler for Toledo and Chicago houses, but who for some months past has resided with his father in Adrian. His neck was dislocated by the accident, but he lingered until Saturday morning.

The funeral of Mr. Henry HART which occurred at Adrian Saturday, was one of the largest attended affairs of the kind which has ever taken place in that city. Special trains were run from Toledo and Hillsdale bringing hundreds of people to attend the obsequies and view the scene of the catastrophe. The deceased was widely known through the state and much respected wherever known. Prominent citizens from every portion of Michigan were present.

One of the victims was Lum LAY, a Chinaman, who had a leg broken. It was amputated Monday but the patient soon after died.

Friday October 17, 1879

The six year old child of Henry STILES of Manistee was drowned in the river Wednesday morning. The body was recovered.

Friday October 17, 1879

About 2 o’clock Friday morning the Pacific Express going west at a high rate of speed, ran into a switch engine near Jackson Junction, and a frightful smash-up was the result. Engineer GILBERT of the express train was instantly killed, and dispatch stated that 25 other bodies had been taken from the ruins, but no names were given. A relief train containing Manager LEDYARD, Dr. FARRAND and others left Detroit for the scene of the disaster early Friday morning.

Friday October 17, 1879

Fred PAPIST, a German, 25 years old, and living five miles west of Mt. Clemens, committed suicide by hanging in his barn Friday. It is supposed that insanity is the cause.

Friday October 17, 1879

Mrs. J. P. HART of Battle Creek township was drowned Friday night in a small lake near her home. She was in bathing, and holding on to a plank. Losing her hold in deep water she sank. She was the sister of the wife of the Hon. Chas. S. MAY.

Friday October 17, 1879

H. J. COOK, a prominent lumberman of Greenville, who has been suffering for a number of months with an abscess, died Friday.

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Friday October 17, 1879

A German named Gottfried BREGEL was found hanging in a vacant room in his house at Manchester Monday morning. He was a barber about 60 years of age.

Friday October 17, 1879

The Adrian Disaster

The inquest at Adrian continued on Monday. Mr. E. R. ARMSTRONG testified that M. SIZER stayed about 15 minutes on the ground when he "inspected" the building.

C. F. SIZER testified that after consulting Mr. LAWRENCE he left out certain braces which were in the Toledo grand stand, to make more room. These plans are mine and Mr. LAWRENCE’S; he expressed himself well satisfied with these; he wanted me to make the plans for a cheap and safe building.

W. T. LAWRENCE testified that he told Mr. SIZER he could not have the job of building unless he was the lowest bidder.

Another death in consequence of the Adrian disaster occurred Tuesday afternoon, that of Miss VEDDER. The inquest was continued Wednesday. Mr. James MILL, a carpenter and builder of 40 years experience, testified; I know Mr. ARMSTRONG; didn’t know he was a carpenter and joiner; told Mr. LAWRENCE I thought ARMSTRONG was not competent.

Mr. J. F. BRAINARD, a carpenter who was employed by Mr. ARMSTRONG to help build the grand stand, said: I told him it ought to be tied together and braced both above and below: he said he intended to put a rod clear through the building; I told him if he would do that it would probably hold: the workmen on the roof felt afraid on account of the motion in the center; there was considerable vibration. ARMSTRONG was not I think, recognized as a carpenter or builder among carpenters and builders of the city; never heard that he was.

Geo. B. HORTON, president of the agricultural society, said it was the duty of the executive committee to know that the building grounds etc., were safe in proper condition, and that in regard to the grand stand they had taken LAWRENCE’ S judgment as superior to their own.

W. T. LAWRENCE, recalled, testified that he received three bids for doing the work; one from James MILLS, at $300; from C. F. SIZER, $190; from ARMSTRONG for $108.50. He further testified that SIZER was there on Monday afternoon and said everything seemed to be all right.

The evidence given at Thursday’s inquest simply corroborated that of former witnesses. It was all to the effect that everybody took it for granted the stand was safe because somebody else said so, and that anything in the nature of reasonable test or examination never suggested itself.

Secretary MANN of the agricultural society has published a card saying that the executive committee put two of their number in charge of selling tickets and filling the grand stand on Thursday afternoon. At the time of the crash these men had sold 470 tickets. "We may add to that number the band of about 20 members, the ushers and some children in arms not charged for, and from this I feel that it will liberal to put the total number on the stand at the time at 525".

The coroner’s inquest over the victims of the railroad collision began at 9 o’clock Saturday morning in the court house, Coroner COOK presiding. The following were the jurors: Charles W. PENNY, H. A. HAYDEN, Edward CROWE, Chester MERWIN, M. SHOEMAKER, N. B. HALL, Erastus PECK, city attorney, and Joshua HAIRE, assistant of the prosecuting attorney, represented the people; G. V. N. LOTHROP, of Detroit and W. K. GIBSON of Jackson represented the Michigan Central railroad company. F. HULETT appeared as attorney for yardmaster COLWELL. The Hon. Wm. B. WILLIAMS, State Railroad Commissioner, was also present.

Philip REITH, the first witness, testified as to the distances of the switches from each other and from the telegraph office. General Manager LEDYARD was next called and explained the rules of the company as to switching, right of way on the main track etc. He said: There was no discretion whatever in the yardmaster at the junction to put a yard engine upon the main track when a passenger train was due. COLWELL, the yard master, and Mr. JONES, the engineer of the switch engine, were both responsible for the switch engine being upon the track when the accident occurred. Mr. JONES was under no obligation to obey the order of Mr. COLWELL to violate a rule. He should have preemtorily refused to go upon the track. The switchtender was under direction of Mr. COLWELL. He should not, however, have opened a switch for a train to go where he knew it had no right to go. The engineer of the express violated the rules in his rate of speed. He was evidently running at the rate of 40 miles an hour when the accident occurred; his rate should not have been more than 20 , in order to slow down to 15 miles in passing the junction.

A. J. HENDERSON, the telegraph operator at the Jackson Junction, testified that he told COLWELL the express was 45 minutes late. This was 10 or 15 minutes after the train had passed Dexter.

The coroner’s inquest on the victims of the grand stand concluded taking testimony, and reached a verdict at a late hour Saturday evening.

The jury find that architect SIZER was guilty of gross negligence in preparing and furnishing the plans and specifications; that the ARMSTRONGS were guilty of gross and criminal negligence in undertaking such a building, being incompetent mechanics; and that there was gross negligence shown in the work of constructing the same; that LAWRENCE exercised gross negligence in the employment of such incompetent parties; further negligence in not having suitable superintendence, and further negligence in not himself examining the method and principles on which the building was being constructed.

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Immediately on the announcement of this result, Prosecuting Attorney UNDERWOOD swore out warrants for the arrest of SIZER, H. H. and E. R. ARMSTRONG and W. T. LAWRENCE on a charge of manslaughter. Mr. SIZER and H. H. ARMSTRONG, father of E. R., were arrested Saturday night. Mr. LAWRENCE was arrested Sunday. E. R. ARMSTRONG could not be found. Justice ROBBINS ____ the amount of bail at $5,000 for LAWRENCE, with two sureties. The examination was then adjourned until Wednesday, October 22, at 9 A. M. Bail was given Monday.

Another victim of the accident, Justus WRIGHT of Fairfield, aged 70, died Hillsbrant’s hotel Sunday morning. All the other wounded were reported to be doing well except Albert CHEEVER of Ridgeway, suffering from injuries in the abdomen. He is delerious, begging to be thrown in the river.

Friday October 17, 1879

The Jackson Disaster

Later dispatches from Jackson give the list of the killed as follows: M. L. GILBERT, 116 Howard street, Detroit, engineer of the Pacific express; Christopher B. SMITH, Jackson, aged 30 years, fireman on Pacific express; William John RICE, Front street, Philadelphia, aged 38, ticketed in Sterling, Nebraska; Mrs. Elizabeth RICE, aged 28, wife of the above; Mrs. Catherine SPARKLIN, Westminster, Md., aged 28; her husband had been employed in Philadelphia; Edith E. SPARKLIN, aged six years, daughter of the above; Marion L. SPARKLIN, aged 4 years, also daughter of the deceased Mrs. SPARKLIN; infant daughter of Mrs. Geo. U. JONES, of Shenandoah, Pa., 18 months old; Mrs. M. GARTLAND, aged 10 years, daughter of the above. William MONGEON, Buckingham, North Canada, a French Canadian emigrant about 42 years of age. Moses GREEN, Lowell, Mass., aged 35 years. Unknown man, about 26 years of age, 5 feet 6 inches in height, short, black hair and smooth face, dressed in gray checkered business suit; evidently a Canadian; had a conductor’s check from Chicago. Unknown man, about 40 years of age, prominent Roman nose and black moustache; initials. "G. E. R. " wrought in India ink on right wrist, together with a cross and anchor and the inscription "Faith, Hope and Charity;" is supposed to have been a sailor.

List of wounded includes 29 names, most of them strangers and emigrants. In the opinion of Dr. FARRAND they will probably all recover.

The express train consisted of 14 cars, of which 6 were Wagner sleeping coaches, 5 passenger coaches, with a smoking car, and a baggage car, and an express car, Silas LADD, conductor. The train was delayed 22 minutes at the Grand Trunk Junction and six or seven more at Ypsilanti. At Ann Arbor, the last stopping point, it was about 45 minutes late, but had made up about five minutes by the time it reached Jackson Junction, where it was making about 25 miles an hour when the collision occurred. The switch engine was on the main track making up a train under orders from the yard-master who acted on the Ann Arbor dispatch that the express was 45 minutes late. The two engines reared in the air and fell to the right, the heavy locomotive of the express train bearing the other backward. The express and baggage cars of the incoming train continued on, sliding clear over the locomotives, and only coming to a standstill many feet beyond. The smoking car, next to the baggage car, coming full against the end of the locomotive, crush the cab into minute fragments, and was brought to a dead stop. The next car behind, a second-class or emigrant-car, urged on by the terrible force of the long train behind, pressed against the smoking car, causing it to rise from it tracks and tear completely trough the emigrant-car, crushing and cutting away everything in its path.

The coroner’s inquest at Jackson was resumed Monday afternoon. Joseph SAWYER, the switchman on the night of the collision, testified that about 1 o’clock Mr. COLWELL, the yard man, came to him from toward the telegraph office and asked him why he (SAWYER) did not put the cars out to the south side. SAWYER told him there was not time, as the Pacific express was due. COLWELL replied that she was 45 minutes late. A freight train had just come in from the east on the Pacific express’s time. SAWYER asked the men on that train how much of the Pacific’s time they had, and they replied twenty minutes. He told JONES and he looked at his watch and said there was only seven minutes left, and added, "I don’t go out on no 7 minutes time. "This was just before COLWELL came down. COLWELL went over to JONES’S engine, which was some two or three car lengths away. He got on the engine and in a minute or two the engine moved down toward the switch. The collision occurred within a few minutes. On two or three occasions, when I refused to obey COLWELL I think that there would have been an accident if I had obeyed him; do not know whether the officers of the Michigan Central have ever taken pains to ascertain how I was doing my duty. The orders were posted on the bulletin-board.

Lee COLE was in charge of the switch and opened it for the switch engine to pass out on the main track. JONES whistled twice for the switch, then Mr. COLWELL, who stood on the engine with a lantern in his hand, said "COLE, they are 45 minutes late: give us the switch." I then opened the switch; would not open a switch except upon the order of Mr. COLWELL or a conductor.

Friday October 17, 1879

The body of a man found drowned at the foot of Third street Wednesday

 night was fully identified Thursday morning as Louis BARTZ, residing at or near Wayne. At the inquest held by Coroner OAKES, it was shown that the old man was last seen alive at the Collins house a short time prior to his death. He was then considerably under the influence of liquor. The jury returned a verdict of accidentally drowning.

Friday October 17, 1879

The bodies of John and Charles STEVENS, the unfortunate engineers of the Alaska, have been found and removed to this city for interment at the expense of John P. CLARK.

Friday October 24, 1879

A man by the name of Frank DECORROW, employed in Mc Arthur, Smith & Co.’s mill at Cheboygan, had his leg literally crushed to the hip joint on Tuesday while putting a belt on a pulley. His leg was amputated. He cannot live. He leaves a family.

Friday October 24, 1879

Mr. H. G. IVES of Chesaning, assistant county surveyor, was found murdered on the town line road between Taymouth and Albee townships, Saginaw county, Tuesday evening. The deceased was about 45 years of age, and leaves a wife and daughter. He was shot through the head and bore other marks of foul play. Wednesday evening a farmer named Allan BAUMAN, a resident of Albee township, was arrested on suspicion of being the murderer.

Friday October 24, 1879

Josiah BARKLEY, of Franklin, Oakland county, died Sunday afternoon, aged 87 years. Mr. BARKLEY is the very last of all the early pioneers who settled in that region having moved from Montgomery, Orange county, N. Y., in 1825, making him a resident of the township 52 years.

Friday October 24, 1879

Orvill CALVERT, a Schoolcraft lad of 14, met with a fatal accident Tuesday. While riding on a load of apples he fell off and one wheel passed over him, inflicting injuries from which he died in a few hours.

Friday October 24, 1879

Albert CHEEVER, another victim of the Adrian disaster died of his injuries Friday evening.

Friday October 24, 1879

Timothy I. TANNER, Esq., a citizen of Grand Rapids for the past 36 years died Saturday. He was early engaged in manufacture, having a stream mill just outside the city, and afterward because a large property-owner, though latterly he lived in moderate circumstances. He celebrated his golden wedding a few years since, and his wife survives him.

Friday October 24, 1879

A double murder was committed in the town of Hadley, Lapeer county, Saturday evening, of unusual atrocity, James M. FITCH, a drunken cowardly ruffian, shot his wife and little 3-year-old daughter, killing both. The mother was shot dead on the spot, the child lingered till Sunday afternoon. He had not been living with his family for some months, and the deed was done at the house of Mr. S. P. MARSTON, where his wife was at work. The murderer fled to the woods and up to Monday evening had not been arrested.

Friday October 24, 1879

The Jackson Disaster

The body of the sailor killed in the collision was identified as that of Geo. Ely RAYMOND of Detroit. He was 45 years old and not married. The wounded were reported as doing well on Tuesday and all likely to recover. Most of them had already gone to their homes.

The inquest was continued Tuesday Josiah LADD, conductor on the Pacific express on the night of the accident, testified that all car of his train had atmospheric breaks. These were inspected before leaving Detroit and found in good working order. We left Ann Arbor 47 minutes late, and did not stop again until the accident. About half a mile after passing Michigan Center I felt the breaks applied and the speed of the train sensibly diminish. We had slowed down, and at the time of the collision were not, in my judgment, running more than 25 miles an hour. The rate of speed through Jackson Junction when my train is late is usually 18 miles an hour. The rate of speed at which we were running when the engine was reversed would have been reduced to 15 miles an hour within 200 feet. The actual running time on the Pacific express between Detroit and Chicago is an average of about 34 miles an hour.

Carlisle HALLEEK, switch tender, was with COLE when he started down to open the switch for JONES’ engine, and corroborated his testimony. He thinks the Pacific passes the junction at the rate of 20 to 25 miles an hour.

A. J HENDERSON, telegraph operator, was recalled and testified: COLWELL came in about 12:35; I know this by the fact that a freight train came in on the Pacific’s time, and a moment later I heard it’s whistle. COLWELL then said: "How is Pacific?" I replied, "It is 45 minutes late now." I said this because I had just heard a report pass over the wires from Dexter to the train dispatcher. This report came after I had returned from the lunch room, and not more than two minutes before COLWELL inquired.

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The coroner’s jury in the railroad disaster conclude taking testimony Tuesday evening and met for consultation Wednesday morning. They were in session all day until 4 o’clock, when they went down to the scene of the collision to inspect the location of the tracks, etc. After their return they held an evening session, but reached no conclusion.

The coroner’s jury reached a verdict at a late hour Friday evening. They find that at the instant of the collision the Pacific express train had a clear right to the track and was running the usual rate of speed of that train under similar circumstances. That under the rules of the railroad company the switch train had no right upon the track at the time, and that it was placed there by the order of Evander T. COLWELL, the yard-master, who was criminally negligent of his duty in so ordering the switch train upon the main track at the time when the Pacific express was liable to arrive within 10 minutes, and that the was deceived as to time it was his own miscalculation. That Joseph SAWYER, switchman in charge of the engine, knowing that COLWELL had made mistakes on previous occasions, is censurable for permitting his engine to go upon the main track in face of admitted danger without decided protest. That Robt. R. JONES, engineer of the switch engine, is censurable for moving his engine upon the main track when he knew, by examination of his own watch, that he could not do so without violating the rules and orders of the company.

The jury also suggested the propriety of providing additional safeguards and danger signals, and the necessity of establishing such signals at a point further eastward than those now in use, especially in view of the high rate of speed invited and required by the company in passing stations at which no stop is made.

Friday October 31, 1879

The body of Wm. McLAUGHLIN, who was drowned in Ludington harbor a week ago, has been found.

Friday October 31, 1879

A 3-year-old child of George POWELLA of Forestville fell into a kettle of boiling water Tuesday night and was so badly scalded that he cannot recover.

Friday October 31, 1879

Jacob M. BARR, keeper of the Cheboygan lighthouse for the past two years, died on the 12th. A petition has been numerously signed asking for the appointment of his widow to the vacancy.

Friday October 31, 1879

Daniel HARRINGTON, of Woodbridge, Hillsdale county, was thrown from his wagon in a runaway on the 17th and instantly killed, his neck broken. He was an old and respected citizen.

Friday October 31, 1879

At Battle Creek, October 20, Mrs. Susan CONSADINE fell down stairs and was instantly killed. She was 83 years of age.

Friday October 31, 1879

Albert BECK, the young man who took an overdose of morphine at Lansing Thursday died Friday morning.

Friday October 31, 1879

Samuel R. SMITH, a middle-aged man who resides with his daughter in the vicinity of Potterville, Eaton county, was struck by Saturday’s afternoon eastern bound train on the Grand Trunk, while crossing a bridge two miles from Charlotte, and killed instantly.

Friday October 31, 1879

Mr. Oscar D. CHAPIN, a prominent citizen of East Saginaw, died at his residence in that city on Friday at the age of 53.

Friday October 31, 1879

Albert G. HICKENSBAUGH, a miner in the South of Walker’s mine, at Jackson, was smothered to death by fire-damp in the entry way 20 feet from the air shaft. The body was recovered by John PATTERSON, whose light went out, and he narrowly escaped the same fate in the attempt. HICKENSBAUGH was a young man of 19, recently from Pennsylvania.

Friday October 31, 1879

William WITHIAM, a farmer in the town of Burton, Genesee county, shot on Monday morning and instantly killed George RHINEHART, who was cleaning out a county ditch through WITHIAM’S land. RHINEHART was acting under orders of the drain commissioner and refused to quit work when ordered to do so. He lived in Flint and leaves a wife and two children. WITHIAM is a man 64 years old, of violent temper and has had trouble with his neighbors frequently. He is an old settler of the township and has a wife and family of grown children. He was arrested and now lies in the Flint jail.

Friday October 31, 1879

Dr. Louis DAVENPORT, a well-known physician of this city, was found dead in his office on Croghan street about 5 o’clock Wednesday after. he died of heart disease, accelerated by the death of his mother , Mrs. Sarah DAVENPORT, who died that morning.

Charles DYKE was killed in the Hamlin mill at Ludington, Wednesday, by falling upon a circular saw severing his body.

Friday November 14, 1879

George LEAVER, a prominent farmer of Township of Marilla, was instantly killed Wednesday morning. He was dressing a deer, and, while stooping

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 over another hunter named Jay CHEESEBORO mistook him for a bear and fired, the ball passing through LEAVER’S head. Deceased leaves a widow and child.

Friday November 14, 1879

About 10 o’clock Thursday night A. Wing’s logging train on the Evart and Oscola railroad, was thrown from the track by a log which had been placed on the track, and John NEVINS and Peter ROSS, engineer and fireman, were instantly killed, and an unknown man fatally injured. The engine and several cars were badly injured.

Friday November 14, 1879

Lewis FINCH, an employe of the Buchanan manufacturing company, died Friday afternoon from the effects of a hurt received Wednesday by a stick flying over a circular saw and striking him in the side.

Friday November 14, 1879

Prof. E. P. BRANARD, a prominent musician, died suddenly at his home in Greenville, Friday morning. Heart disease was the cause of his death.

Friday November 14, 1879

George WILLIAMS, a resident of Fon Du Lac, Wis., went to work in Jamison & Kies’s shingle mill at Manistee, Saturday afternoon and was suddenly killed by a piece of broken Jointer striking him on the head and smashing his skull.

Friday November 14, 1879

A young man named VOORHEES accidentally shot himself while out hunting near Buchanan, on Saturday, and died from lose of blood a few hours afterward. He was about 21 years of age.

Friday November 14, 1879

Edwin BRUSKE, who for 25 years has resided in East Saginaw and vicinity, committed suicide by hanging himself at his residence in the township of Buena Vista, Monday morning . He leaves a wife and nine children. He was in comfortable circumstance, and no cause can be assigned for the deed.

Friday November 14, 1879

Early Sunday morning Louis MELZAC, a maniac living five miles from Midland, made a murderous assault with a huge knife on his mother-in-law, Mrs. LEGRA, and a neighbor, Mr. MARSH, who had come to her rescue. MARSH, in self-defense , seized an ax and killed MELZAC instantly. MARSH and Mrs. LEGRA were still alive Monday but were lying in a critical condition.

Friday November 14, 1879

A man named H. L. TYLER, employed as a traveling agent by the Michigan Carbon Works, was found dead in his bed at the Cass house about 6 o’clock Thursday evening. The deceased was a native of Massachusetts, where his family resided. It is believed that his death was caused by apoplexy.

Friday November 14, 1879

A German shoemaker named Albert HABRECHT committed suicide, Monday evening by cutting his throat with a knife. He was partially insane and leaves a wife and seven small children.

Friday November 14, 1879

News is received of the death of Mme Roesrt de LIMBOURG, a daughter of Gen. CASS. She died at Florence, Italy, November 5. She was born in Detroit in 1816, and was for many years a leader of Detroit fashionable society. It was in honor of her--Isabella--that Belle Isle was named.

Friday November 21, 1879

A child 3 years old, son of J. PRATT, of Fenton, was drowned in a cistern Tuesday afternoon.

Friday November 21, 1879

Fred BARLOW was drowned at Alpena Tuesday.

Friday November 21, 1879

A man named WEATHERWAX and his team were run over and killed a little east of White Pigeon Thursday afternoon by the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern passenger train going west.

Friday November 21, 1879

Thursday evening while L. WEATHERWAX of Sturgis was approaching the crossing at Douglass station, on the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern railroad , his team apparently became unmanageable and he was struck by the passing train and killed instantly.

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Friday November 21, 1879

Mr. W. L. WARRING was attacked by a bull on his farm in Grand Rapids township Friday evening and gored to death.

Friday November 21, 1879

A 13-year-old son of Charles SCBRIGHT, of Salem Township, was accidentally shot in the forehead Thursday morning by his brother, who was handling a revolver, and died at midnight that night.

Friday November 21, 1879

A little son of Henry BROWN, of Saginaw City, aged 18 months, fell into a tub of water Friday and was drowned.

Friday November 21, 1879

Saturday afternoon one of the large boilers in the saw mill at Carrolton exploded, razing the brick boiler house, drill house and tall chimney. Three men were severely hurt, named Edward RAQUEPAS, Cyrus BURR and Frank ROBINSON, all married men with families. The two latter were buried beneath the ruins, and the former thrown 150 feet into the river. The mangled body of John PASTELLE was found beneath the ruins. He leaves a wife and seven children. The boiler flew in two pieces, one part, weighing four tons, going a distance of 15 rods and alighting in the river. The other was thrown 40 feet through the rear wall. Damage $8,000.

Friday November 21, 1879

Mr. B. F. TALMADGE of Leslie, while out hunting in Lake county on Saturday, accidentally discharged his gun and shot himself dead. His body was found on Sunday.

Friday November 21, 1879

A boy named Joseph THOMAS was killed at the Allouez copper mines, Keweenaw county, on the 11th, by falling under the cars of a tramway. Not long since one of his brothers was killed and another lost his sight by a premature blast.

Friday November 21, 1879

A young man named MILLER was buried alive on the 8th in a well which he was digging in Summerfield, Clare county. It was several hours before he could be reached, and life was extinct.

Friday November 21, 1879

About 2:30 o’clock Friday afternoon, when 70 miles east from Point au Palee, a severe squall struck the schooner C. G. Breed, capsizing her and drowning all on board except one man, named Frank DAVIS. The vessel lay on her side for 20 minutes, the crew meanwhile clinging to her sides and rigging. She then filled and commenced going down, and as she did so, righted, and DAVIS, who was clinging to the mast-head was lifted out of the water. He remained in this position until 1:30 o’clock Saturday morning, when he was rescued by a crew sent out by the propeller Milwaukee of the Western Transportation line and taken to Buffalo. The crew consisted of Capt. H. ROSE and eight men. DAVIS says he discovered one of the crew floating off on a box, and thinks it probable he may have reached land. The second mate, James SMITH, who was drowned, was a resident of Buffalo, where he has a wife and family. The names of the rest of the crew could not be ascertained, but they were all shipped in Detroit. The Breed had a cargo of 24,000 bushels of wheat for Buffalo. The schooner belonged to Mr. Jesse H. FARWELL of Detroit. Capt. ROSE leaves a wife and four children in Detroit. He was an old sailor and highly esteemed by all who knew him.

Friday November 28, 1879

A young man named Albert W. WILKIN was killed Monday at Robert LOUDEN’S camp on Chippewa river. His body was brought down to Saginaw Tuesday night. His parents reside at Hemlock City.

Friday November 28, 1879

Lewis DAY, son of John DAY, successor to J. H. Dormer & Co., of St. Johns, Michigan, was drowned near St. Ignace Monday morning, about daylight, in six feet of water. He slipped off the rug Kittie O’Neil. The body was recovered.

Friday November 28, 1879

James O’BRIEN, a young man living in Redford, near the town line, hung himself Wednesday morning just after breakfast. He and his father could not agree. He father took him from where he had hired out to work and brought him home. In passing out from the house he remarked to his mother that "he was going now where the old gent couldn’t get him." He went to the barn half a mile from the house, took the lines from the harness, tied them to a pole and jumped into eternity breaking his neck.

Friday November 28, 1879

Wednesday afternoon a man named William FROST of Goodrich, Genesee county, was gored by a bull which he was feeding in his barn. The animal’s attack was so sudden and unexpected that Mr. FROST was unprepared, and the horn of the beast struck him in the eye, passing through into his brain, causing his death almost instantaneously.

Friday November 28, 1879

Michael, a 17 year old son of Matthew HEANEY of Bunkerhill, Ingham county, met with an accident November 8, which terminated fatally. The lad was riding a horse to a pasture lot, going at a sharp trot, and in making short turn in the road he was thrown from the horse’s back and under his feet in such a manner that the sharp calk on the fore foot struck him on the

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 side of the head, producing a fracture of the skull, from which he died a few days after.

Friday November 28, 1879

Frank PERIAN of Ishpeming was killed in the National iron mine at Ishpeming by a falling rock. He leaves a large and destitute family.

Friday November 28, 1879

Rick VAN VLEET, a farmer of Hillsdale county, living three miles south of Jerome, cut his throat with a razor on the 21st at his residence. Cause, insanity.

Friday November 28, 1879

George KING, of St. John, while out hunting on Sunday was shot and fatally wounded by a 13-year old boy named John SMITH, who claims to have mistaken him for a turkey. KING managed to get home alone but died the next morning. He leaves a wife . SMITH is under arrest, awaiting examination on charge of murder.

Friday November 28, 1879

Eber BAXTER, father of Albert BAXTER of the Grand Rapids Eagle, and one of the early settlers of Kent county, living in Cascade township, ate breakfast Sunday morning, seemingly in his usual good health, drew back his chair, sat in it a few minutes and fell dead. He was 80 years old.

Friday November 28, 1879

Joseph GAULETTE, one of the oldest residents of Peck, Sanilac county, died on the 16th. He was said to be 104 years old.

Friday November 28, 1879

Sunday Michael CAGNEY, of Oshtemo, was going to church, in company with his wife, his buggy spring broke, throwing Mrs. CAGNEY backward, striking the ground on her head and shoulders. She was taken to Bambury’s, where she died Monday morning.

Friday November 28, 1879

An old man named FORTIER fell out of a second story window on Atwater street Tuesday evening and received fatal injuries. He was intoxicated.

Friday November 28, 1879

Miss Lillie DUCK, of Detroit, a pupil in St. Mary’s Academy in Windsor, died Tuesday morning from the effects of a dose of laudanum administered by mistake instead of brandy.

Friday December 5, 1879

John BOUGHTON was found dead on the beach at St. Joseph Monday night, with a wheel of a loaded wagon across his neck. His death is supposed to have been accidental.

Friday December 5, 1879

Hon. J. A. T. WENDELL, a very prominent citizen of Mackinaw, and supervisor of Holmes township, died suddenly Sunday night. It was only a few weeks since that his brother, who was probate judge, died with like suddenness.

Friday December 5, 1879

Hon. James MILLER, president of the Grand Rapids board of public works and a prominent attorney, died on the 25th.

Friday December 5, 1879

Willard N. PETTIE, formerly a citizen of Greenville, but for a few years a banker at Belding, was found dead in his bed at 10 Friday morning, shot in the head by a revolver found in his bed with him. He retired Thursday night after a Thanksgiving supper at his house. The revolver was fired into his mouth upward into his brain.

Friday December 5, 1879

A railroad accident occurred at Kalamazoo, Friday morning, by which Barney WYNNE, a well known citizen, was run over and so mangled that he died soon afterward.

Friday December 5, 1879

Friday morning a man named PROUTY was killed by a pile driver tipping over while working near Dwight’s bridge in Meridian Ingham county. He lived in Lansing was aged 56, and leaves a wife and three children.

Friday December 5, 1879

An infant child of M. P. GILL died at Newaygo Thursday of a dose of laudanum, given by mistake for ague medicine.

Friday December 5, 1879

Early Friday morning Isaac BRIGGS of Grand Rapids was found dead in his bed under circumstances which led the coroner to hold an inquest. The jury decided that he died of an overdose of hydrate of chloral, which drug he was in the habit of taking.

Friday December 5, 1879

A most brutal murder was committed on the barge Walton at Buffalo Thursday night or early Friday morning. The victim was an old man named Thomas RUSSELL, 60 years of age, whose mangled body was found floating in the river. The master of the vessel, Capt. A. McKENZIE, was arrested as the murderer. Capt. McKENZIE is 42 years old,

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 and has a wife and family in Detroit. RUSSELL leaves a wife and family who reside in St. Charles, Mich.

Friday December 5, 1879

A young man named Charley STOLTZ, formerly a news agent on the Detroit and Bay City railroad, went to Leadville, Col., sometime ago. A few days ago he got into trouble with a rough and shot him dead, and was in turn mobbed and hung. His mother resides at Rochester, Oakland county.

Friday December 5, 1879

James CAMPBELL, a juryman in the Wayne circuit court, Wednesday received a telegram from Flat Rock, saying that his son-in-law, Frank LORANGER, had been killed by a falling tree. It seems that after breakfast he went out into the woods to do some chopping, when a falling tree struck and instantly killed him.

Friday December 5, 1879

Buckminister WIGHT died at his home 415 Jefferson avenue, at an early hour Friday, almost 83 years of age. He was one of Detroit’s best known pioneers.

Friday December 5, 1879

Robert FOLEY, a shipping clerk in the employe of the wholesale dry goods firm of Chas. Root & Co., 134 and 136 Jefferson avenue committed suicide in the pub-cellar of the store Monday afternoon by hanging. He was 44 years of age and unmarried.

Friday December 12, 1879

On Monday a three-year-old son of Mark N. KELLEY, the well-known grain buyer at Metamora, got hold of a box of pills and ate so many that he died from the effects.

Friday December 12, 1879

Tuesday morning a well-known laundryman of Ann Arbor, named Emil CLIFF, made an attempt to commit suicide by taking a very large dose of laudanum, and died from the effects of it the same day. He was Polish German, well educated and about 45 years of age. He leaves a wife and several children. Inability to meet financial engagements in assigned as the cause.

Friday December 12, 1879

Died, at Pequaquawaming, Nov. 23 in the 70th year of his age, David KING. The deceased, at the time of his death, was chief of the Chippewa Indians who inhabit the shores of L’Anse bay, the title having been conferred upon him at the death of the first chief Charles BENASHA.

Friday December 12, 1879

J. Mortimer SMITH, a resident of Grand Rapids for the past forty years, died Thursday evening aged 70. He was the founder of the Village of Ravenna, Muskegon Co., and a prominent and wealthy citizen.

Friday December 12, 1879

Joseph NAPIER, employed at Rust’s camp, on Rifle River, was instantly killed Wednesday night by a falling tree. Deceased was about 25 years old and his relatives reside about sixty miles from Montreal.

Friday December 12, 1879

Byron PAUL, residing in the town of Locke, four miles northeast of Williamston, while examining a revolver Wednesday, met with instant death by its explosion. The ball entered his heart. He was a single man and much respected by those who knew him.

Friday December 12, 1879

Frank B. HOWARD, aged 18 years, of Bellville, Ontario, deliberately suicided Friday afternoon, jumping into the lake from Lee’s dock, at Oscoda. He had been unable to work because of ill health. It is supposed despondency was the cause of the act.

Friday December 12, 1879

While a Canadian named Joseph NAPLER, aged about 25, employed at Rust’s camp, near West Branch, Ogemaw county, was engaged in sawing on the 4th, he was struck by a falling tree and instantly killed. His skull was fractured and both legs broken. He came from near Montreal.

Friday December 12, 1879

Thomas Green, a farmer residing in the Township of Lake, Huron county, accidently shot himself through the breast Friday afternoon while in the act of climbing over the fence near his house after returning from hunting. He died in a few moments afterward.

Friday December 12, 1879

Henry SCHWARTZ, a well-known German resident of Adrian, was stricken with paralysis Friday and died Saturday morning, aged 47. He was formerly a popular engineer on the Michigan Southern Railroad, and figured prominently in the great strike some years ago. In 1878 he took the premium at the _at men’s convention at Put-in-Bay.

Friday December 12, 1879

Geo. W. CRANE died at South Haven Monday morning from the effects of an overdose of morphine, taken to alleviate pain. He is the fourth brother to die in that way.

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Friday December 12, 1879

Ex-mayor Moses V. ALDRICH of Grand Rapids, banker widely known throughout Michigan, die early Monday morning, aged 50 years. He leaves a widow, two sons and two daughters, with a very handsome estate. He has been in declining health the past two or three years, though showing it very little. The past three or four weeks he has been confined to his

Friday December 12, 1879

Thomas W. DAVEY, the well-known manager of the Detroit opera house, died at his residence 141 Cass street, about 7 o’clock Thursday evening, after a painful illness of over six months duration.

Friday December 12, 1879

Miss Lizzie FALK, a laundress in the Russell House, was instantly killed through her own negligence while descending on the hotel elevator Thursday afternoon.

Friday December 12, 1879

The funeral services of the late Manager DAVY were held at Grace Church Sunday afternoon and were attended by many members of the theatrical profession from all parts of the country.

Friday December 12, 1879

Mr. H. N. LEWIS, a brother of F. L. LEWIS of the firm of Lewis & Sykes, died in Chicago Monday after a lingering illness, of typhoid fever. Mr. LEWIS was at one time well known in this city, having come here in 1863 from Jonesville, where he had very successfully conducted the Independent, to accept a position on the staff of the Advertiser and Tribune. Early in 1864 he bought out the Michigan Farmer, which was then published as a monthly in pamphlet form. He changed its name to Western Rural, and issued it as a-weekly.

Friday December 19, 1879

Henry THOMPSON, a Canadian, who was working at a lumber camp on the middle branch of the Tobacco river, 10 miles northeast of Loomis, Isabella county, was instantly killed by a falling tree on the 9th. His body was taken to his home at Perry Sound by his two surviving brothers, who were at work with him.

Friday December 19, 1879

Mr. E. SKINNER, an old man of 70, was killed at Battle Creek on the 11th while walking on the railroad track, being run over by a freight train.

Friday December 19, 1879

Edgar MOORE, late of Wayne county, N. Y., was convicted of murder in the second degree in the circuit court at Lapeer, Friday, for killing his newly-born infant in Hadley township last September..

Friday December 19, 1879

Irving POWERS, injured at the fall of the Adrian grand stand, October 2, died Friday evening at his home near Madison, Lenawee county. He leaves a wife and child. He had been paralyzed from the time of the accident.

Friday December 19, 1879

A woman giving her name as Mrs. Lawrence SAUNDERS, bording with Mrs. NICHOLS at Port Huron, committed suicide Sunday morning by taking strychnine. A few moments before she died she said her husband Lawrence SAUNDERS, ran away with another woman, leaving her entirely destiute. He is living in St. Thomas, Ont.

Friday December 19, 1879

Joseph GULGOR died at the residence of his son at Blue Bush, near Monroe, a day or two ago, aged 108 years. He was born near Detroit, but moved to Monroe county when he was 12 years old, and has lived there ever since. He was a soldier in the war of 1812.

Friday December 19, 1879

A man named Brainard PETERSON fell out of a wagon while drunk near Muskegon and fractured his skull, dying almost instantly.

Friday December 26, 1879

Albert BREWER while at work in the lumbering woods was struck by a falling limb on the back of the head and probably fatally injured, near Hesperia Wednesday.

Friday December 26, 1879

Alexander EVANS of Grass Lake where his widowed mother resides, was killed a few days ago on an Iowa railroad upon which he was employed.

Friday December 26, 1879

Frankie EASTBROOK and Willie BURNS, two boys about 12 years of age, broke through the ice on the pond at Albion while skating on the 15th. EASTBROOK was drowned but after some time BURNS was brought to life.

Friday December 26, 1879

William YOUNG, a wealthy farmer, who has lived alone for years, was found dead in his house Wednesday, seven miles east of Niles. He had been shot through the head and an unsuccessful attempt was made to burn the house over him. He was robbed of money known to be on his person. 

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Boards were piled on his body and fired, but his body was only partly burned.

Friday December 26, 1879

A daughter of Wesley GLYUN, a farmer living near Dansville, Ingham county, committed suicide by taking strychnine on the 17th. She was 26 years old, and had been an invalid many years--tortured by the inflammatory rheumatism.

Friday December 26, 1879

Wednesday after while Bunlett MONREE, of Birmingham, he was struck on the head and was instantly killed by a falling limb. Deceased was ____ years old, and leaves a wife and three children in rather poor circumstances.

Friday December 26, 1879

Charles SWINDLE, at one time a resident of Adrian and for 10 years past proprietor of a tannery at Morenei, was struck by the east bound passenger train and killed Friday afternoon while crossing the Lake Shore track at Clark’s crossing in Adrian. He was driving a team, one horse of which was also killed.

Friday December 26, 1879

William MOSS, a young man of Grand Rapids, working in the lumber woods near Fife lake, Grand Traverse county, was instantly killed by a falling tree on the 17th.