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Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan - Death Notices
Thursday, May 12, 1887 Page 2
Mr. Mason of the firm of Dowling & Mason, real estate and insurance agents, went below some time before the opening of navigation, intending to return by first boat. Sickness and death, however have visited his family and delayed his return. He has been called upon to follow a beloved sister to the grave and at last accounts was hourly expecting his father's death. His many friends in the Sault tender their heartfelt sympathy in his bereavement.

Saturday March 12^th 1898 Page 3
Tone (Special Correspondence)
The funeral of Mr. Blair of Pickford, occurred Friday. Interment was made in Bethel cemetery.

Thursday, May 12, 1887 Page 4
Ex-sheriff Brennah, of Bay City, died of consumption of the 4th.

Thursday, May 12, 1887 Page 4
Col. Thos. S. Spragge, a well known patent attorney of Detroit, died on Monday, age 64.

Thursday, May 12, 1887 Page 4
D. J. Spragge, the oldest G.A.R. man in the state, died at Bronson Saturday, aged 83 years.

Thursday, May 12, 1887 Page 4
John Snyder, of Bushnell township, Montcalm county, while insane, on the 1st, crushed his wife's head with an axe, killing her instantly.

Thursday, May 12, 1887 Page 4
Mrs. Chas. Martin, wife of a farmer living near Grand Rapids, poisoned herself and two of her children on the 3d, with "rough on rats."

Thursday, May 12, 1887 Page 4
Upper Peninsula News
John Nester, of Baraga, brother of Thomas and Timothy, died at his home on Sunday last.

Thursday, May 12, 1887 Page 4
A terrible accident occurred in the rolling mill of the Hubbard Iron company, at Hubbard,, Ohio, shortly after 2 o'clock on the morning of the 6th. Engineer Griffith Phillipps, aged 29 years in passing around the ore crusher oiling the bearings, was caught in the wheels and dragged into the crusher. He was mangled out of all semblance of humanity, the flesh adhering to the clogs. He leaves a wife and 3 children.

Thursday, May 12, 1887 Page 4
George B. Peck, whose mother lives in Onondaga county, N,Y, committed suicide in front of the residence of W. H. Dodge, a well-to-do farmer, two miles north of Elkhorn, Wis., on the 5th. It seems that Peck married Dodge's daughter a year ago while she was teaching school at Wyoming, N.Y., against the wishes of the young lady's parents. A separation was brought about and Peck went to Michigan. He appeared at Dodge's house and after an unsatisfactory interview with his wife took his life in....

Thursday, May 12, 1887 Page 4
John Fromer was shot and killed at Greensburg, Ind. On the 7th by his wife, in his brother Charles' bakery. They had separated a short time ago and John was living with his brother. The cause of their separation was Mrs. Fromer's violent aversion to her husband's two little children by a former wife. Since the separation she has asked him to return and put the children in a boarding house, which he refused to do. On the day of the shooting she talked to him in the bakery a while and was heard to say several times: "Won't you come, John?" As he said "No" and turned to go she drew a revolver and fired. Just then she was caught and disarmed. She said she intended to kill herself also. She talked insanely, saying God's spirit told her to kill her husband.

Thursday, May 12, 1887 Page 7
Jean P. Soquet was found guilty on the 4th at Green Bay, Wis., of murder in the first degree. The crime was committed fourteen years ago and the victim was his wife. At the time of the occurrence Soquet and August Mainsart's wife were on very intimate terms. Mrs. Soquet and Mr. Mainsart died within a short time of each other and the widow and widower at once married. Mrs. Mainsart was tried for the murder of her husband, but the case was not proved. A short time ago Mrs. Minsart, now Mrs. Soquet, sued for a divorce and suceeding development caused Soquet's arest for the murder of his first wife. Mrs. Soquet No. 2 mysteriously disappeared when the case came to trial.

Thursday, May 19, 1887 Page 3
Justice Woods, of the United States supreme court, died at Washington on the 14th inst.

Thursday, May 19, 1887 Page 3
At North Branch on the 11th, Alexander Hoy's little son spilled a bottle of carbolic acid over his body. The stuff burned the child from his head to his feet, and he will probably die.

Thursday, May 19, 1887 Page 3
Smith J. Tooker, a pioneer, died on the 11th, at Lansing, of paralysis, aged 68 years. Tooker was a member of the first party that located in Lansing, and his wife was the first white woman there. He was one of the 15 original members of the state pioneers society.

Thursday, May 19, 1887 Page 3
Mrs. Dean Mix, of Kalmo, Eaton count, was thrown from a buggy recently and probably fatally hurt, one limb being broken and other severe injuries sustained. Her father named Slater, was killed by the cars several years ago, her brother Kit was drowned two years ago while fishing, and her mother is at present almost helpless from a stroke of paralysis.

Thursday, May 19, 1887 Page 3
John Huster dropped dead in a Neugaunce saloon on the 12th.

Thursday, May 19, 1887 Page 3
Judge George Woodruff died at Marshall on the 13th, aged 80 yrs.

Thursday, May 19, 1887 Page 3
Nahum N. Wilson, pioneer of Genesse county, is dead at Flint, aged 82 years.

Thursday, May 19, 1887 Page 3
George Smith's two year old child at William's, Bay county, died last week in great agony after eating heartly of canned peaches.

Thursday, May 19, 1887 Page 4
Mrs. George W. Stevenson, of Jackson, died on the 13th, from the effects of injuries received by the explosion of a gasoline stove last week.

Thursday, May 19, 1887 Page 4
Lewis Roberts' and wife, of Galien, Berrien county, ate some berries which had been canned two years or more. Both were taken ill, but Roberts soon recovered; Mrs. Roberts died.

Thursday, May 19, 1887 Page 8
John McLain, who had been working in a cedar camp near St. Ignace the past winter, began choking at the dinner table at the Snyder house, St. Ignace, on the 11th, and died a half hour later. He is supposed to have a sister at Cheboygan.

Thursday, May 26, 1887 Page 4
Charles E. Stuart, of Kalamazoo, died on the 19th inst. at his home having been an invalid for twenty years. He was a member of congress two terms and senator one term 1853 to 1856. Thirty years ago, Mr. Stuart was one of the most prominent Democratic leaders in this state. Michigan owes Mr. Stuart the passage of the Act appropiating the land which constructed the Sault Ste. Marie Canal.

Thursday, May 26, 1887 Page 4
Wm. Bedford died at Dollarville recently, aged 60 years.

Thursday, May 26, 1887 Page 4
Mrs. Geo. H. Carey, wife of the the station agent at Dollarville, died on the 12th inst.

Thursday, May 26, 1887 Page 8
On Monday last, 23d inst., Peter Olmstead, of Detour, started from that place for the Sault in a sailboat loaded with potatoes. When near the Encampment a passing barge was hailed for a tow up. A line was thrown from the barge, which struck one of the spars of the sailboat and precipitated Olmstead into the water. He immediately sank and was drowned. His son was on board the boat at the time and witnessed the sad affair.
The deceased was about 45 years of age and had resided at Detour for upwards of 25 years. Several brothers still reside there. He leaves a widow, a daughter of Capt. Stiles, of this place.


Thursday, June 2, 1887 Page 1
Death of Mrs. W. H. Smith Died- At her late residence, Ferris Street, on Monday, May 30, at 11:00 a.m., Mrs. William H. Smith, in the 43d year of her age. Mrs. Smith was born in Yarmouth, Ontario, and had been a resident of Sault Ste. Marie since 1871, during which time she had made a wide circle of friends and acquaintances. The most of these friendships were formed by the bed of sickness and were warm and lasting. Mrs. S. was a practical nurse, and understood the whims and caprices of the sick perfectly. She had charge of the Marine Hospital here for some years, and many a poor mariner tossing upon a bed of sickness, a stranger in a strange land, had cause to be thankful for many acts of kindness and attention received at her hands. Her work in that direction was not confined to the hospital, however. Wherever there was sickness and she thought she could be of service, there she was to be found. Night after night she has sat at the bedside of the suffering, comforting them in her sympathising way. These kindly traits of character won for her the love and esteem of the community, and she will always be remembered lovingly by those to whom she ministered.
Mrs. Smith leaves a husband and five children, one of them an infant a week old, to mourn the loss of an affectionate wife and kind mother. The funeral took place yesterday at 2:30 p.m. from the M. E. Church and was very largely attended.

Thursday, June 2, 1887 Page 4
Louis Mickelson was shot and instantly killed on the 25th by Amos Rhodes at a logging camp four miles south of Manistee. During the past four months Mickelson had employed Rhodes and wife as housekeepers on his farm, a few miles south of that city, and during the spring Mickelson has been engaged, in addition to his farming duties, in logging about one mile from his farm. During that afternoon Rhodes came to Jark's store in the Village of Oak Hill, and bought some small buckshot, and after he had put the same in his pocket remarked that he was going to shoot Mickelson. Returning to the farm Rhodes learned that Mickelson had gone to his logging camp to load logs. Rhodes took a gun, loaded it, and said he would hunt up and kill Mickelson. The son of Mickelson hearing the remark, ran to his father and apprised him of his danger but his father treated it as a scare. Soon after Rhodes appeared where Mickelson was at work with a half dozen men and getting within twenty feet of Mickelson called out to him, "if you have anything to say, say it, as I am going to shoot you" Mickelson said, "Go away and don't molest me in my work" whereupon Rhodes aimed the gun and fired, over 100 shots striking Mickelson in the left breast, some penetrating to the heart, causing instant death. Rhodes returned to his home and went to bed, where he was afterwards arrested and placed in jail. The friends of Rhodes claim that Mickelson had been intimate with Mrs. Rhodes and that Rhodes is crazy. Mickelson was 45 years of age, has always been a hardworking quiet person, had a wife and several children who reside in the city, where the children can enjoy better educational advantages. Rhodes is 26 years old, of German descent and a few years ago came from the eastern part of Ohio. He has a wife and one child.

Thursday, June 2, 1887 Page 4
Eleazer Moister, one of Bay City's oldest Jewish citizens, died there on the 23d ult., aged 63.

Thursday, June 2, 1887 Page 4
A polish boy five years old was struck in the stomach by a base ball while watching a game at Grand Rapids last week and instantly killed.

Thursday, June 2, 1887 Page 4
At Canton, Ohio, last week, Charles Danseizen, a bricklayer, went home drunk and, picking up a butcher-knife six inches long, murdered his wife by stabbing her in the throat. He says she drove him to the deed because she joined the salvation army.

Thursday, June 2, 1887 Page 4
A letter from Fulton County, Ark., says James Smith and John Howell, who were passing through that couty last week were attacked by a pack of wolves. Two leaped upon the horse and seized Howell by the neck, wounding him so seriously that he died. Smith was dangerously wounded, but succeeded in escaping to the house of Jack Arnette, closely followed by the wolves. From there they went to a creek near by and attacked James Thompson, one of a fishing party, fatally wounding him and seriously injuring a companion. A party started out to hunt them down and succeeded in killing one, but the others are still in the neighbourhood.

Thursday, June 2, 1887 Page 5
Rose Coleman, a domestic in C. L. Newell's family died on Thursday night last of paralysis after an illness of only two days. Mrs. Newell was very kind to the girl during her brief illness, doing all she possibly could for her. The funeral took place on Friday afternoon. The deceased belonged to Manitoulin Island, Ontario.

Thursday, June 2, 1887 Page 5
Frank Gardner, a seaman on the schooner Wagstaff, while reefing, in a recent gale on Lake Huron, fell on a coil of rope, receiving fatal injuries. He is from Cleveland.

Thursday, June 2, 1887 Page 8
St. Ignace Notes
Mrs. Hulbert, wife of William C. Hulbert, died at Erie, Pa., on May 23. The family had been residents of Mackinac Island for 20 years, but removed to Erie 15 years ago.

Thursday, June 2, 1887 Page 8
Patrick Hoban, died at Mackinac Island on the 24th, in the 85th year of his age. He had been a resident of the Island for 38 years.

Thursday, June 9, 1887 Page 2
The death is announced of Thomas Spencer Bayes, the well-known professor of logic, and one of the editors of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Thursday, June 9, 1887 Page 4
Elijah Daker, foreman of the Detroit Steel and Spring Works, dropped dead about 11 o'clock on the morning of the 2d. He stepped into an outhouse. A moment later he was heard to cry "Oh!" and seen to fall. He died before a physician could arrive. It is supposed he died of heart disease. Daker was about 40 years of age and brother of the superintendent of the works. He had just built a new house on twenty-fourth street, and was in good circumstances. He moved to Detroit with his wife and three children from Pittsburgh about three years ago.

Thursday, June 9, 1887 Page 5
A prisoner in the Ionia house of correction, named Joseph Descario while attempting to escape from that institution recently, was shot dead by a keeper. He was a Canadian Frenchman from St. Ignace and was sent to prison February 21, for three years for perjury. He was 24 years old.

Thursday, June 16, 1887 Page 4
John Byron, aged 72, living in West Bay City, was discovered dead last week. Appoplexy was the cause.

Thursday, June 16, 1887 Page 5
Word was received here on the morning of the 10th of the death of C. W. Endress, a former resident of this place, which occurred at his late residence, Two Rivers, Wis. Mr. Endress was engaged in the drug business here, but ill health compelled him to sell out and remove to a warmer climate. About six years ago he left the Sault and had been gradually growing worse, the past two years being almost entirely confined to his bed. He had been a great sufferer and his friends, while mourning his death, cannot help feeling thankful that his sufferings are at an end. The remains were brought here by steamer on Sunday morning and the funeral took place the afternoon of the same day. The masons of which he was an old member paid the last tribute of respect to their deceased brother by taking charge of the funeral and performing their beautiful burial service over the grave.

Thursday, June 16, 1887 Page 5
James Campbell, of Pickford, being troubled for some-time past with a sore neck, left his home and came to the city for treatment. Dr. Rundle was attending him, and apparently he was improving. On Saturday morning, at 6 o'clock after arising from bed and getting ready for his breakfast he dropped dead. The body was sent to Pickford for burial.

Thursday, June 16, 1887 Page 6
Cheboygan Notes
Jacob Sammons, a native of Cheboygan, and for some time bookkeeper for the Northwestern Hospital Co., died at the hospital last Sunday and was buried Tuesday afternoon by the Masons.

Thursday, June 23, 1887 Page 4
John Brooks, an old man, dropped dead at Sturgis recently.

Thursday, June 16, 1887 Page 7
At Brownsville, Texas, recently a thunderbolt struck a house at Chatone's ranch, killing two people and stunning four others. Manuel Portales and his wife were killed outright. Eugenio Rincones and his wife were stunned and when brought to, were each blind of the right eye. Two boys, sons of Rincones, were stunned. The entire party lay senseless for about an hour. The lightning glanced from the mesquite trees near by, entered through the roof of the jacal and struck them all down as they stood around a table. The suspicion has always existed among their neighbours that Portales and his wife killed her first husband, and they claim that Heaven's vengeance has been executed on Portales and his wife and a warning given to others.

Thursday, June 16, 1887 Page 7
At Washington, recently, while workmen were engaged in the construction of a stone warehouse in the southeastern part of the city, the scaffolding, which was covered with several tons of stone, gave way and precipitated the contractor, James McKnight, and five masons to the ground, a distance of thirteen feet. John Clark, aged 60 years had his skull crushed by a falling stone and died almost instantly. Thomas Chapman, a stone mason, and James Murray, a laborer, who were beneath the scaffolding, sustained serious injuries, and John Hogan, Wm. Lannon, sr., and Wm. Lannon, jr., and McKnight were also injured, but, it is believed, not seriously.

Thursday, June 23, 1887 Page 5
-A Dakota Tornado-
On the 17th, Grand Forks, Dakota, was visited with a destructive tornado. The storm came from the west and travelled due east. Twenty-five or more buildings, including the Catholic Church and the University of North Dakota, were blown to the ground. The laboratory and museum in the university were almost totally destroyed, besides hundreds of smaller dwellings, storehouses and sheds.
The following were killed outright: Mrs. Follett and her mother Mrs. Davis; Cora Starbird, 12 years old: a man named Gummerson, in East Grand Forks.
The seriously injured were: Mrs. A. Starbird and child. Mrs. Ed Tierney and two children, Mrs. J. Andrew and two children, Mrs. Taltao and two children, Mrs. Guyot and daughter, at the University of North Dakota.
In East Grand Forks fourteen business building were destroyed. Both bridges across the river were swept away. The total loss is estimated at $100,000. The storm was local. The train from the North was blown from the track about four miles out, and rolled over a couple of tiimes. No one was killed, but many were seriously injured. During the storm Halver Leland, of Walle Township, was killed. The storm was reported quite severe at Manvel and Ardock, where buildings were blown away. The Andrew family had their house torn to pieces and carried 100 feet. Ed Tierney's house was overturned and his wife injured. The children were carried 150 feet and not hurt. One of them 6 years old, was carried across the railroad track and lay there during the whole storm. C. A. Myerstorm was dangerously hurt.

Thursday, June 23, 1887 Page 5
The steamer Champlain, of the Northern Transportation Line, plying between Chicago and St. Ignace, burned at midnight on the 16th, half-way between Norwood and Charlevoix. She had fifty-seven persons on board, passengers, officers and crew, and a large amount of freight, with some horses.
The Lost
Mrs. Ella Smith, of Charlevoix; drowned; body recovered.
Geo. Wrisley, Charlevoix; drowned; not recovered.
Robert Welch, Charlevoix; burned.
Capt. G. G. Lucas, Petoskey; drowned; body recovered.
Russell Jackson, agent of the Corset Company; died of exhaustion after reaching shore.
Henry Burhan, clerk, also died of exhaustion.
Mr. and Mrs. Keogh, Chicago; drowned; bodies not recovered.
Two children of Martin Bange, steward; drowned, bodies not recovered.
Jack Hoxtley, second cook, drowned; body recovered.
Mrs. Mary Fall and daughter, Lulu Williard, residence unknown, missing.
Unknown man and little boy, who took passage at Milwaukee for Mackinac Island both drowned. The body of the father was found, but not that of the boy.
Four whites and four Indians, from Elk Rapids, of the boat's crew and Eddie Wilkins, cabin boy, of Chicago, drowned. The latter's body was found.
The following gives the identity of the "unknown-man and little boy" referred to above:
"Upon the body of one of the dead was found a piece of paper on which were these words." If anything happens to me, write my wife, Mrs. J. J. Rogers, Fort Mackinac. J. J. Rogers, Hospital Steward, U. S. Army." His little boy with him, is missing."
-The Captains's Statement-
Capt. Casey states that the first he knew of the fire the first engineer rushed up on the upper deck with his clothes all ablaze. He shouted to him to jump into the water tank and with the assistance of the first mate threw him in and extinguished the flames. The engine room was all on fire, and after seeing that there was no chance to quench the flames, the Captain headed the boat for Fisherman's Island and gave orders to lower the boats. But the boat, was rushing along at full speed, and before they could be launched the fire drove all hands upon the bow of the boat. Here all were provided with life preservers. The boat grounded about a mile from shore. The flames had been kept back by the speed of the boat and the wind, but now they came rapidly nearer and the people were forced to take to the water. Many were let down with lines, while others jumped overboard.
The captain says it was not more than ten minutes from the time the fire broke out before the boat was wrapped in flames.
The books were lost, and as the clerk died from exhaustion after being picked up, it is possible that a complete list of the lost will never be secured. The engineer and firemen who were saved, are at Smithson's camp, six miles from Charlevoix, and they were so badly burned that he made no effort to learn from them the manner in which the fire originated.

Thursday, June 23, 1887 Page 4
Frank Monogan, an ex-soldier of the 3d Mich, calvary, was horribly mutilated by a log train on the F. & P. M. road, near Bay City recently. It is believed that he was murdered for his pension money, which he had just drawn, and afterwards placed on the track to cover up the crime.

Thursday, June 23, 1887 Page 5
On Thursday last the body of a man was found floating in the canal, above the upper gate. It was taken from the water and identified as the remains of Thomas Wigwaus, an Indian belonging to Sugar Island, who had been missing for some time. A inquest was held in the afternoon. Medical testimony was to the effect that the deceased's brain was affected, and that he had probably walked over the pier in a fit of temporary insanity. The jury returned a verdict in accordance with the evidence.

Thursday, June 23, 1887 Page 5
Capt. Henry E. Brooks, of Green Bay perhaps the oldest vessel master on the lakes, is dead. He was born in 1807, and had been on the water ever since he was ten years of age. He assisted in hauling the steamer Independents from Lake Huron to Lake Superior in 1843. He retired in 1882, the last vessel he sailed being the steamer M. C. Hawley.

Thursday, June 23, 1887 Page 7

Saturday morning John Doran, of Baraga while measuring lumber, was suddenly taken with a fit and fell into the lake and was drowned.

Thursday, June 23, 1887 Page 7
A brakeman, named Kippen, was killed while coming through the Rock cut on the Antoine branch near Norway last Saturday night. Sixty ore cars ran over him and the unfortunate man was cut to pieces -Escanaba Mirror.

Thursday, June 23, 1887 Page 7
On the 15th inst. while J. C. Ryan and Harry Treloar were drilling out a blast which had missed fire in the Paint River Mine at Crystal Falls, the blast went off, blowing off the heads and arms of both men and horribly mangling their bodies.

Thursday, June 30, 1887 Page 3
Giles Daubany, of Cheltenham, England committed suicide at Cheboygan on the 23d, by shooting, himself. He was discouraged, having no employment or means.

Thursday, June 30, 1887 Page 4
Silas Holt, while in a drunken frenzy, fell or jumped from the second story of the house where he was boarding at Houghton and fractured his skull, besides receiving serious injuries. He cannot recover.

Thursday, June 30, 1887 Page 4
Barney Drake hung himself by the neck to the ladder in his barn at Springfield, recently. Drake was 74 years old and had resided in Springfield thirty-five years.

Thursday, June 30, 1887 Page 4
John Norman, of Escanaba, was killed at Ishpeming on the 23d, by being thrown from a buggy.

Thursday, June 30, 1887 Page 4
The Florence, Wis., NEWS says the mystery which has surrounded the fate of Willie Dickenson, the 6-year-old son of Capt. William E. Dickenson of Commonwealth, who mysteriously disappeared while returning home from school on the afternoon of November l, 1881, has at last, it is thought, been cleared up. It is believed that the boy was kidnapped and murdered by certain disreputable parties who infested Florence and Commonwealth some six or seven years ago. The motive for the crime is thought to have been revenge, the supposed kidnappers having become incensed against Captain Dickinson because he had thwarted them in some of their acts of villainy. Recently a letter was found in Milwaukee giving a clue to the whole mystery, and the father is there engaged with the police in investigating the affair.

Thursday, June 30, 1887 Page 4
On the 26th, Gen. James Speed died at Louisville, Ky. He was attorney general under president Lincoln.

Thursday, June 30, 1887 Page 5
A man named Lightheart, belonging to Mudge Bay, Ontario was drowned at Garden River on Monday last, while swimming his horses across the river at that point he was in some manner thrown from the back of one of the animals and carried down stream by the current, drowning before assistance could reach him. His body was recovered.

Thursday, July 7, 1887 Page 4
Wm. F. Smith, general passenger agent of the Grand Trunk railway, died suddenly while sitting at his desk in New York, on the 27th ult.

Thursday, July 7, 1887 Page 4
At Kingston, Ontario at the jubilee celebration, a sad accident occurred on the cricket field in connection with the fireworks display. A printer named Jos. Thompson was hit by a rocket which swept down upon him and instantly killed him. His head was almost severed from his body.

Thursday, July 14, 1887 Page 4
At Leitchfield, Ky., on the night of the 6th, W. R. May, distiller and whiskey seller, was called from bed by some one who pretended to want a quart of whiskey. May obtained the key of his grocery and went with the man. The assassin was stationed in front of the building, and as soon as the light fell upon May's face, discharged a load of buckshot into his head, killing him instantly.

Thursday, July 14, 1887 Page 4
An 8 year old son of Conductor Hubbard, of Port Huron, was hit on the nose by a batted ball, Friday and gradually bled to death dying Monday.

Thursday, July 14, 1887 Page 4
A young man named Stal Neusman, of Muskegon, is in jail charged with killing his father aged 60 years.

Thursday, July 14, 1887 Page 4
James Crotty of Oakland county, is dead at the age of 82; also David Turrell, an old hotel man and among the first settlers of Genessee county aged 68.

Thursday, July 14, 1887 Page 4
Maud Blye, of Charlotte, was fatally injured by the cars on the 4th, and Jos. Gibbons of the same place, was killed by the bursting of an anvil used in celebrating.

Thursday, July 14, 1887 Page 4
John Anderson, an employee of the S. N. Wilcox Lumber Company's mill at Whitehall, was cut in two on the 6th, his body falling in two pieces on each side of the edger saw.

Thursday, July 14, 1887 Page 4
Ben D. House, adjutant general of the Indiana G. A. R., and known a poet and journalist throughout the state, died at Indianapolis on the 4th.

Thursday, July 14, 1887 Page 4
Private Thomas N. Bateman, troop of the Second United States Cavalry, shot and killed First Sergt. Samuel M. Sopher, of the same troop, at the Presidio Barracks, San Francisco on, the 5th, for a reprimand.

Thursday, July 14, 1887 Page 5
Hebert, infant son of Mr. and Mrs. John A. France, died on Wednesday morning of cholera infantum, after a few hours illness.

Thursday, July 14, 1887 Page 5
E. J. Nickerson was drowned at the mouth of Cheboygan river Sunday while rafting cedar.

Thursday, July 14, 1887 Page 5
Mrs. Gleason, of Jonesville, Hillsdale Co., daughter of W. C. Knox of this place, arrived here on the 2d, with her three children on a visit to her parents. That evening her baby aged three month was taken ill and on Sunday the little one died. On Thursday last her little two year old son died, and at this writing the remaining child is very low. The death of the little boy was the eight that has occurred in Mr. Knox's family since September last. Mrs. Gleason's visit has been a very sad one to her.

Thursday, July 14, 1887 Page 8
A five year old son of Mr. F. Fleming, manager of the Sault Brick & Tile company, died suddenly this week.

Thursday, July 21, 1887 Page 4
Sergeant Clark, who fired the fatal shot at Private Arthur Stone at Fort Wayne, Detroit, will be held for trial on a charge of murder in the U.S. circuit court.

Thursday, July 21, 1887 Page 2
Near, Logansport, Ind., at an early hour on the morning of the 12th, W. A. Garner was awakened by some one groping around the room. Seeing a form at the window, he thought it was a burglar, and he fired at it. The body fell. When he got a light he found he had shot his wife and she was dead.

Thursday, July 21, 1887 Page 2
Benjamin West second cook on the streamer Winslow, died suddenly on Saturday about 11 o'clock, while the steamer was between Port Huron and this place. On her arrival here the authorities were notified and coroner Cota at once summoned a jury and held an inquest. Dr. Marks, attending physician after an examination of the remains, and the testimony of two witnesses, stated that death resulted from inflamation of the bowels, superinduced by an attack of cholera morbus. The jury returned a verdict of death from natural causes. The remains were then turned over to Thompson Bros., undertakers, for burial. West had sailed on the lakes for a number of years but this was his first trip on the Winslow.

Thursday, July 21, 1887 Page 2
A sensational murder occurred in Washington on the 13th. Joseph C. Kennedy, a very prominent lawyer and old resident of the capital, was fatally stabbed by a laborer named Joseph Dailey, without apparent provocation.

Thursday, July 21, 1887 Page 2
The Supreme Court of Missouri has overruled the motion for a new trial in the case of Brooks, better known by his alias, Maxwell, who was tried last fall for the murder of Preller, found guilty and sentenced to be hanged on the 12th of August.

Thursday, July 21, 1887 Page 4
Wm. Carl, for 22 years conductor on the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern railroad was killed Monday near Hillsdale, while in charge of a gravel train. He slipped and fell between the wheels.

Thursday, July 21, 1887 Page 4
Mrs. Cole, of Marshall, fell out of the second story window of her house Monday and was killed. Whether the fall was accidental or intentional is not known.

Thursday, July 21, 1887 Page 4
Harry Bell, a former resident of and well known in Pontiac, died at Windsor, Ontario, recently.

Thursday, July 21, 1887 Page 5
Rev. Dr. Thomson received the sad intelligence yesterday morning that his boy was fatally injured at St. Paul. Mr. and Mrs. Thomson and son returned home to-day. No particulars.

Thursday, August 11, 1887 Page 2
Thos. Black, who was driven out of Bessemer with a load of shot in his body, was killed by a negro in his employ, last week. Black kept a floating den on Lake Goegebic.

Thursday, July 21, 1887 Page 5
Mrs. Thos. Fahey died at her late residence, Spruce avenue, on Tuesday evening, 19th inst. The funeral will be held this morning at 10 o'clock. The deceased leaves a husband and two children, one an infant, to mourn her loss.

Thursday, July 28, 1887 Page 2
George C. Rels, manager of the Iron River Furnace Company, of Iron River, was killed at that place by the cars. Mr. Rels was walking down the track when the train was set in motion by being struck by a switch engine. He was knocked down and dragged about a hundred feet. His legs and arms were broken and his body frightful mangled.

Thursday, July 28, 1887 Page 2
Frank E. Heminway, of Bay City, a young attorney, died at Quannicassee last Monday.

Thursday, July 28, 1887 Page 2
Geo. Harrington, aged 17 was fatally shot in the forehead.

Thursday, July 28, 1887 Page 2
David Aldrick, a baker, aged 65 years, who had been a resident of Battle Creek 35 years dropped dead on the 19th.

Thursday, July 28, 1887 Page 2
Mrs. W. A. Lambertson was fatally shot in the left breast, just above the heart.

Thursday, July 28, 1887 Page 3
Freddie, infant son of Fred W. and Lulu Roach, died of cholera infantum on Sunday evening last, the 24th inst., at 5:30 o'clock, aged nearly four months. He was born on Sunday April 4 at 5:30 p.m., and his death occurring on a Sunday at the same hour, was deemed not a little remarkable by his parents and their friends. The funeral took place from the residence of Mr. A. B. Roach on Monday last, the Rev. Mr. Cory officiating. The parents have the warm sympathy of a large circle of friends in their affliction, particularly as the young mother was just convalescing from nearly fatal illness and it was feared that the loss of the child might cause a relapse. However, no danger is now apprehended, as Mrs. Roach is in a fair way of recovery, which is a matter of rejoicing to her family and friends.

Thursday, July 28, 1887 Page 8
St. Ignace Notes
The 7-year old daughter of Ignatius Reagan died on Sunday.

Thursday, August 4, 1887 Page 2
Capt. Wm. A. Owen, one of Detroit prominent citizen was killed last week Tuesday by being thrown from a buggy. He was one of the most prominent Democratic leader in Detroit.

Thursday, August 4, 1887 Page 2
Franklin Elmer, an Eaton county pioneer, who recently died in his 84th year, abstained from any nourishment whatever for more than 50 days previous to his death.

Thursday, August 4, 1887 Page 2
Peter W. Bursha, a locomotive engineer on the Bay City division of the Michigan Central Railroad, was shot and almost instantly killed July 27th, at Detroit. The assassin was a young man who Bursha had befriended and who had alienated his wife's affection. Bursha was an industrious hardworking man and a favorite with those who knew him.

Thursday, August 4, 1887 Page 8
The infant son of William and Anna Sparling, died Friday morning last, aged 13 months. It was their only child and an exceedingly bright and interesting boy, who was the idol of its parents. There friends will unite in sympathy in their bereavement.

Thursday, August 11, 1887 Page 2
Homer last week was the scene of a triple tragedy. Geo. Burton shot his wife, his mother-in-law and himself. Burton and his wife are dead, but the mother-in-law will survive. Domestic bickerings was the cause. Two children are orphaned by this sad affair.

Thursday, August 11, 1887 Page 2
Dr. Upjohn, one of Hasting's most distinguished citizens died last Wednesday. He was one of the first regents of the university.

Thursday, August 11, 1887 Page 2
Capt. Thos. Ball, of the Youngtown mine, at Crystal Falls, was killed last week by falling down the shaft of the mine.

Thursday, August 11, 1887 Page 2
Joseph Korniecny, a Polack, employed at "Camp 4," two miles north of Gladstone on the line of the Soo road, having spent the Friday night of last week with some companions, among the saloons at the head of the bay, was returning at about 5 a.m. of Saturday to camp, when he fell overboard from the skiff, in which the trip had been made and was drowned in about three feet of water, being too drunk to stand erect and his companions too drunk to assist him.

Thursday, August 11, 1887 Page 4
One of the deck hands on the steamer Mackinac fell overboard on Thursday night at the Island, while the boat was lying in dock. His body was recovered. On his right arm was pricked in Indian Ink an American eagle and the initials "J. L." On his left arm was the image of a child and underneath the stars and stripes, a cannon, etc. He was buried at the Island.

Thursday, August 11, 1887 Page 4
Died: At Mackinac Island, Aug. 1st, '87, Louis Cadotte, aged about 74 years. Funeral from St. Ann's Church on Wednesday. Mr. Cadotte was born at Mackinac Island, and had lived here his life time. He was well known as an intelligent, honest and courteous man. He was often employed by the Government as an interpreter of Indian tongues, and he was a proficient in the different dialects of the tribes of this part of the northwest.

Thursday, August 11, 1887 Page 6
Jas. Barklay, the pioneer settler of Bay City, is dead. He settled at Bay City in 1849, and built the first hotel. He ran the first stage and traded with the Indians forty years ago. He was quite wealthy and generally respected.

Thursday, August 11, 1887 Page 6
Geo. H. Cary lost his little child last week. His wife has just died, and he had only returned from Charlotte where he buried her.

Thursday, August 11, 1887 Page 6
Mrs. Walter Lyon, died last week at the home of her parents in Cheboygan, she had left the village but a few days before and the first knowledge her husband had of her illness was the word of her death.

Thursday, August 18, 1887 Page 4
Archie, the ten-year old son of Dr. Newkirk, of Bay City, was thrown from a horse and killed last Wednesday. The horse stumbled and fell on the boy, crushing him to death.

Thursday, August 18, 1887 Page 7
John Maloney, a private at Fort Wayne, committed suicide last week. Maloney had been troubled with rheumatics, and been in the hospital for some time and being accused of feigning sickness to escape duty, he killed himself.

Thursday, August 18, 1887 Page 8
The infant son of Mrs. John Knox died on Monday last of cholera infantum. This is the sixth child she has lost and her husband died less than a year ago. She has the sympathy of the entire community in this, her sad bereavement.

Thursday, August 25, 1887 Page 2
Sheriff Lynch, of Alpena, is dead. He was shot by "Blinky" Morgan one of the Cleveland fur robbers, who was arrested for the murder of Detective Hulligan and the rescue of the gang at Ravanuo, Ohio.

Thursday, August 25, 1887 Page 3
Arthur, the four year-old son of William Ogle died last week Saturday of scarlet fever.

Thursday, August 25, 1888 Page 3
Claudie, the seven-year-old son of W. H. O'Brien, who has been suffering from an affliction of the spine for some time, died last Thursday. The remains were taken to Grayling for burial.

Thursday, September 1, 1887 Page 4
Prof. Spencer F. Baird, secretary of the Smithsonian Institute, died at Woods Hall, Mass., last Friday. He was a scientist of great ability.

Thursday, September 1, 1887 Page 8
William Guard, a popular young man of Baraga died last week Friday of Typhoid fever.

Thursday, August 25, 1887 Page 6
A telegram came Sunday for Lou Veeder, in care of Frank McGough, saying that his little boy was dead. Lou went to Cheboygan from here, but has left there, and no one seems to know where he is. Lou's many friends here will be sorry to hear of his misfortune.

Thursday, August 25, 1887 Page 6
Wm. McMahon of White Fish Point desires in our columns to thank Captain McIntire for his kindness in delivering mail to him during his unfortunate bereavement, the loss of his youngest child.

Thursday, September 1, 1887 Page 3
Judge Daniel Goodwin, died at Detroit, last week Wednesday. He was the Nestor of the Michigan Bench, having been first appointed in 1843. His death was not unexpected as he had been sick for several months.

Thursday, September 1, 1887 Page 9
Tuesday morning about six o'clock Capt. Peter Mondor died at the residence of his brother Capt. James Mondor. The Capt. has been an invalid for nearly ten years, and totally blind. Before his affliction he was one of the best pilots and captains on the lakes and popular with all who knew him. The past few years he has received the best of care from his brother and his family, at whose residence he has lived, and all that a brother's love could do has been done for him. He was not thought to be worse than usual until about four o'clock Tuesday morning when it was seen by those attending him that he was gradually sinking and the end was near. He passed away quietly without suffering and was conscious almost to the last. ....The funeral took place this morning from the Catholic Church.

Thursday, September 8, 1887 Page 2
John Shalerd was killed by a fall of ground in the Youngstown mine, Crystal Falls, Saturday last.

Thursday, September 8, 1887 Page 6
Daniel Kennedy, a brakeman, had his head crushed and died instantly, while coupling cars on the Thayer Lumber Company's logging road Friday. He was a young man, unmarried, and his parents reside in Canada.

Thursday, September 8, 1887 Page 6
Jessie Pomeroy, the boy murderer doing life sentence in Massachusetts, has confessed to the killing of Horace Miller, of South Boston, making his seventh victim.

Thursday, September 8, 1887 Page 10
From the Marquette "Mining Jounal" we clip the following: "Rev. Father Jacker died at the bishop's residence Sunday afternoon at about 5 o'clock. After mass Sunday morning he was stricken with paralysis, and failed to rally, passing peacefully into his rest. Father Jacker was one of the best known priests on the upper peninsula as well as one of the oldest in point of service....."

Thursday, September 15, 1887 Page 2
Prof. O. S. Fowler, the phrenologist and lecturer, died after a brief illness yesterday near Sharon station, Conn.

Thursday, September 15, 1887 Page 8
OBITUARY--Died -On Saturday the 10th inst., of consumption, George Osmun, in the 47th year of his age.
Mr. Osmun was born in Dempsey township, Ontario, and resided there a number of years. Afterwards removing to other parts of that Province. In 1880, he with his family removed to this country, settling in Donaldson, where he continued to reside until last fall. He then came to the city and resided here until his death. During his residence in Donaldson he made a host of warm personal friends who were much grieved to hear of his death. Shortly after becoming a resident of this city he was attacked by that dread disease, consumption. He was able to be around and do light work until about eight weeks before his death when he was compelled to take to his bed. He leaves a wife and family to mourn his death. The funeral took place on Sunday afternoon from the M. E. church of which society the deceased was always a zealous and consistent member. The Knights of Labor paid a last tribute of respect to the memory of a departed by taking charge of the funeral arrangements and attending in a body.

Thursday, September 15, 1887 Page 10
Canadian Sault
A man named Goodall was drowned in the Root River last week.

Thursday, September 22, 1887 Page 5
Gen. Edward Clark died last week, Wednesday. He was born in Connecticut and came to Ann Arbor in 1872. He was a general in the Black Hawk war, and for the past 20 years a justice of the peace. He was also the first register of deeds in Washtenaw county.

Thursday, September 22, 1887 Page 5
Edmund H. McQuigg, one of Flint's leading citizens, is dead.

Thursday, September 22, 1887 Page 8
Ex. Gov. Luke P. Blackburn, who has been lying at the point of death at Frankford, Ky., for weeks past, died there at 2:35 p.m. last Wednesday. His last intelligible words were spoken last Sunday, and were "Oh, the beauty of religion". Ex- Gov. Blackburn was born June 16, 1816 in Woodford county, Ky. He was governor of Kentucky during the term which preceded that of the lately retired Govenor J. Prescott Know. He was a half brother of Senator J. S. C. Blackburn.

Thursday, September 22, 1887 Page 11
Geo. Walker, a young man of about 26 years of age, an employee of Irwin's camp, suicided last Thursday. No cause is known except that he has been drinking heavily.

Thursday, September 22, 1887 Page 11
Gov. Bartlett, of California, is dead and his successor, Lieut. Gov. Waterman, is a republican, although elected the same year.

Thursday, September 22, 1887 Page 11
"Blinky Morgan", who shot Sheriff Lynch, of Alpena, has been arraigned at Ravenna, Ohio, for the murder of Detective Mulligan.

Thursday, September 22, 1887 Page 12
A little niece of Geo. Wheatley died yesterday morning of Diptheria. His little boy is also sick with the same complaint.

Thursday, September 29, 1887 Page 7
Gen. Wm. Preston died last week at Lexington, Ky., aged 81 years. He was prominent in the confederate army and was confederate ambassador to England and France.

Thursday, September 29, 1887 Page 7
The fund at Ashtabula Harbor for the widow and children of the late Capt. Clements of the ill-fated Niagara has reached over $200.

Thursday, September 29, 1887 Page 10
Capt. Geo. Beringer died at Norway last Thursday of pneumonia. The remains were to be brought to Negaunee for burial on Saturday. He was one of the oldest and most experienced mining men in this peninsula, and had long been prominent in this county before removing to the Menominee range. He leaves a son and two daughters, and a host of friends all over the peninsula.

Thursday, October 6, 1887 Page 5
Gilbert Carmichael, one of Negaunee's most prominent citizens, died last week.

Thursday, October 6, 1887 Page 6
Will Mahon, conductor on an ore train, met an untimely death by an accident to his train Monday. The train while going down the grade between Bancroft and Marquette, got beyond control so that the engine had to let go and run for safety to side track, while the train of ore cars came thundering in its rear, running into another string of loaded cars at Marquette, smashing things in fearful shape. Cars were piled four high, and Mahon's body was found under the wreck when it was cleared away.

Thursday, October 6, 1887 Page 11
Milan had a case of cheese poisoning last week, in the family of S. H. Evans. The entire family partook of milk freely Friday and with one exception all were taken suddenly ill. Physicians were summoned and suspician turned toward the milk. Prof. Vaughan, of the University, was sent for and pronounced it a sure case of the effects of tyrotoxican. A boy of 12 or 14 years of age died Saturday; Mrs. Evans on Sunday, and it is feared one daughter may not recover. Mr. Evans is now believed to be out of danger.

Thursday, October 6, 1887 Page 11
J. T. Littress, a travelling man, suicided last week at the Russell House, Detroit. He said the world did not reward merit and left a letter explaining that this was the cause of his death, together with lack of funds.

Thursday, October 13, 1887 Page 4
The Minister to Mexico, Judge Thomas Manning, died in New York on the 11th inst.

Thursday, October 13, 1887 Page 9
George Reidy a son of Maurice Reidy, one of the oldest and a well known citizen of the Sault, died yesterday morning. He was around and playing about until Tuesday, when he was taken sick. From that time he sunk until death released his suffering. The many friends of Mr. and Mrs. Reidy will condone with them on this unexpected loss of their bright and promising son.

Thursday, October 13, 1887 Page 9
Died- On Thursday, the 6th inst., of diphtheria, Harry T. Fitch, only son of Mr. and Mrs. James E. Fitch, after an illness, of only a few days. From the first of his illness he seemed to anticipate approaching death and although only seven years old, he talked of his going away as of going home, and tried to comfort his mother and sister, and urged them not to weep for him.

Thursday, October 20, 1887 Page 4
Sudden Death —A Carpenter Drops Dead at the Superior House-Norman J. Scott is a carpenter who came to the Sault on or about the 9th day of July last, and has been employed for some time past on the round house. Since his arrival he has been stopping at the Superior House. Last Saturday evening, Scott quit his work, saying he was not feeling well and would rest for a few days. Until Tuesday he was feeling miserable, but did not consider himself sick, but on Tuesday he felt much better, and so expressed himself to his friends. Tuesday evening he was sitting around the hotel, reading and chatting with his friends. A little before eight o'clock he sat reading, when the guests who happened to be sitting in the office, noticed him settle back in his chair, his head drop and sway as if nodding. Once or twice this occurred, when someone walking over to where he was seated to see if he felt badly, when it was discovered that the man was dead. Without a struggle or a gasp, he dropped into the silent sleep of death as quietly as a child to repose. A doctor was hastily summoned, but too late to be of any service, save to take care of the body. It was not thought necessary to hold an inquest, as death was undoubtedly caused by heart disease. Mr. Scott was a man much liked by all who knew him, quiet in his manners, industrious and hard working. Such an unexpected death will come hard upon his wife and two children, who were not with him at his death, but at their home in Verona, Huron Co., Mich. The remains were cared for by Mr. Kennedy, who has done everything that could be done. His wife has been informed of the sad occurrence, but up to the time we go to press, no answer had been received from her.

Thursday, October 20, 1887 Page 2
The funeral of George Reidy took place last Saturday. A large number of Mr. and Mrs. Reidy's sympathizing friends attended the funeral of their little son.

Thursday, October 20, 1887 Page 7
John B. Finch, the well known temperance advocate, died very suddenly last week.

Thursday, October 20, 1887 Page 10
Charles DeGroat, the colored man, who was convicted of perjury at Pontiac, committed suicide, and his body was sent to Ann Arbor, for the students to hew.

Thursday, October 20, 1887 Page 11
Newberry Notes
Wm. Woods, while sitting in the office of the Clifton House, last Wednesday evening, was found to be dead. He had been talking but a few minutes before with several men and at the time complained of not feeling well, and the next noticed of him he was found to have fallen over on the chair in which he was sitting. Dr. Kelso was at once summoned but it was too late for medical aid. The doctor pronounced the direct cause of his death to be heart trouble. The deceased was born in Galashiels, Scotland, where he had relatives living. He came to Newberry when the railroad was building and has spent his time since at Newberry, Naubinway and St. Ignace. He has received several remittances from Scotland said to be the interest of a large estate of which he was one of the heirs. The funeral takes place this afternoon at 3 o'clock.

Thursday, October 20, 1887 Page 11
Minnie Demorse, adopted daughter of James Henderson, was arrested last week Tuesday at Manistee for larceny committed several months ago, but the real sensation in the case has just come to light. This spring Mr. Henderson's cow died, and her milk just previous to her death killed nine pigs. The girl confesses she poisoned the cow because she did not want to milk it. Mr. Henderson's house was set on fire five times in one day a few weeks ago, and the girl confesses she did that, too. Mr. Henderson's baby died suddenly, and the girl confesses she smothered it because it cried and she did not want the trouble to care for it. She is 18 years old, and was adopted 15 years ago.

Thursday, October 20, 1887 Page 14
Upper Peninsula Notes
The eldest son of Lieut.-Gov. Macdonald, died last week, at Escanaba, of consumption.

Thursday, October 20, 1887 Page 16
Catherine Dorgan, the sixteen year old daughter of Michael Dorgan, of Waiskai Bay, died the first of the week.

Thursday, October 27, 1887 Page 9
The funeral of the late Chas. Londraville took place last week, Saturday.

Thursday, October 27, 1887 Page 5
The typhoid fever at Iron Mountain and examination of the wells from which the waters supply is obtained show that the water is very bad .... In all four deaths have been reported. Among the victims were M. S. Thibault a newsdealer and jeweler, and Miss Minnie Trenholm, a young lady who was soon to have been married.

Thursday, October 27, 1887 Page 9
Last week Sunday occurred a sad accident down in Waverly township, whereby Edward Spencer lost his life by the accidental discharge of a gun in the hands of Jas. E. Hill. It seems that a party of men working in a camp down there went out in the woods to see what game they could get, and while walking along, Hill in the lead, the gun accidentally went off, the full charge entering Spencer's head, killing him instantly. The affair was a very sad one, the two men being warm friends. Justice Ward held an inquest over the body and a verdict was returned exonerating Hill. The body was brought here on Monday, and on Tuesday was buried in Pine Hill cemetery. Spencer had only been in the county but a short time, coming here from Fremont, this state.

Thursday, October 27, 1887 Page 10
Local
John Fletcher Drowned
Last Wednesday night, a party of young people chartered the Flora Holden, for a trip down the river, to McMahon's dock, where there was to be a dance. Among the party was John Fletcher, a young man of about thirty years, well known to the people of the Sault, and the son of Landlord Fletcher of the Fletcher house, situated on Ashmun street nearly across from the DEMOCRAT office.
Every one of the party was bound for a good time and fun reigned supreme. Jack Fletcher, as he is more commonly known, was in his usual good spirits, and in coming from the cabin, he ran up the steps, on to the deck, jumped on the railing to seat himself, lost his equilibrium and fell into the water. The people on the deck saw him fall over, and quickly the cry "man overboard" was given, and the steamer stopped. The man's cries for help were distinctly heard but owing to the darkness of the night he could not be seen. Life preservers were thrown overboard but none reached him, so the young man, unable to receive assistance from the friends and unable to swim, sunk into an untimely grave in the raging waters of the St. Mary's. The people on the boat did everything that could be done, and for over an hour a search was made for the missing man but without avail. Such a death always creates the utmost sadness in a community and it is visibly felt in this. A young man with ability and promising prospects, so suddenly taken away from earthly existence, when in the midst of pleasure, is certainly appalling to those who little think when the time for their departure from this world may come. John Fletcher had a large number of personal friends with whom he was always popular and well liked. He was a member in the best of standing in both the Knights of Pythias and the Workingmen's Union.

Thursday, October 27, 1887 Page 10
A Young Girl Cremated
The first young girl to be cremated in America was 9 year-old Alida Weissleder, the daughter of the superintendent of the Brush Electric Light company in Cincinati. Her body was burned last week at the crematory in that city.

Thursday, October 27, 1887 Page 10
Bridge Workman Drowned
Last Thursday afternoon, about four o'clock, just about the time the heavy gale blew down upon the Sault from Lake Superior, a sad accident occurred at the bridge. One of the workman named Peter DeLisle, a half-breed,was employed on the outer edge of the span just completed. [large write-up explains his heroic fight for life ]

Thursday, October 27, 1887 Page 12
The remains of Norman Scott, the carpenter who died so suddenly at the superior House, were sent to his old home last week, in answer to a telegram from his wife, asking that it be done.

Thursday, October 27, 1887 Page 13
Otter Belt, one of the greatest of Comanche chiefs, died in Indian Territory a few days ago. Five minutes before his death they held him erect and rigged him out in his best war costume. They painted him red, set his war bonnet on his head, tied up his hair in beaver skins, and laid him down just as he died. Then his five wives took sharp butcher knives, slashed their faces with long, deep cuts, cut themselves in other places, and beat their bleeding bodies and pulled their hair. They also burned everything they had, tepees, furniture, and even most of the clothing they had on. A big crowd of bucks looked on and killed ten horses, including a favorite team of Fress Addington, on whose ranch Otter Belt lived.

Thursday, October 27, 1887 Page 13
There died in the Old Gentlemen's home at Boston, a few days ago, a man who was identified with the leading mechanical inventions of the past fifty years. His name was D. H. Chamberlin, and he was a cousin to ex-Governor D. H. Chamberlin. Some of the devices in the inventions of which he was interested were the repeating rifle, the hand and power planer, the spring roll for window curtains, the hook and eye machine, the kerosene lamp burner and the lettered wheel hand stamp.

Thursday, October 27, 1887 Page 13
It is said that Jack Fletcher, who was drowned last week Thursday, had in his possession a large sum of money. His life was insured for two thousand dollars, one thousand in the Knights of Pythias endowment rank, and another, in the Foresters. The policy for this last amount only arrived Monday last; several days after his death.

Thursday, November 24, 1887 Page 10
J. H. Hill, the millionaire lumberman of East Saginaw, died suddenly last week.

Thursday, November 3, 1887 Page 1
Mike McLenten, a man about middle age, and quite well known around town, died at the hospital Friday, from the effects of a prolonged spree. He was a very fine penman, and for some time had worked for Moiles Bros., at Detour, but more lately he had been employed by Dave Ranson, in the woods. [first pages missing ]

Thursday, November 10, 1887 Page 3
News was received by telegraph Monday from Chicago of the death of Miss Mary Schweitzer. She has been at the Presbyterian Hospital in Chicago for some time, receiving medical treatment, her death resulting from a surgical operation which was recently performed. She was a sister of Mr. J. T. Schweitzer, formerly of the Falls City Laundry, who was at her bedside when she died; also a sister of Mrs. Jos. Brown of this place, upon whom the sudden news falls very heavily. The remains will probably be interred at Marquette.

Thursday, November 10, 1887 Page 8
Jenny Lind, the singer, died on the 2nd inst., at Wiesbaden. She has been growing weaker for two weeks past, and her death was the result of sheer exhaustion, her last hours having been unattended by pain.

Thursday, November 10, 1887 Page 10
Upper Peninsula Notes
Erick Wickstrom, a miner employed at the Barnum iron mine, met a horrible death last week. He was taken sick in the mine late in the evening and started to go to the surface. Being unable to climb the ladder, he got into the cage used for hoisting ore and started for the surface. Three hundred feet from the bottom of the shaft he was seized with vertigo and fell from the cage, going to the bottom of the shaft. His body was crushed to an unrecognizable mass.

Thursday, November 10, 1887 Page 10
Dr. W. W. Waite of Brighton, who was convicted of causing the death of Ida May Lee, a pretty dressmaker of that village in January last, by an attempt to produce an abortion, has been sent to Jackson for five years.

Thursday, November 17, 1887 Page 1
Capt. Soper Drowned
The steam barge Alcona and consort Alta, arrived here on Nov. 11th. The captain of the Alta reports that abreast of Thunder Bay light, her first mate, Capt. Soper, while stowing away stay sail at 5 o'clock in the evening, lost his grip and fell overboard. Before assistance could reach him, the vessel having passed on in her tow, he disappeared beneath the waves. The captain says Soper hailed from Detroit.

Thursday, November 17, 1887 Page 16
Mrs. Emery, the wife of Peter Emery, was found dead in her bed at his home some few miles out in the country on Saturday last. The cause being heart disease.

Thursday, November 24, 1887 Page 8
The funeral of Mrs. Margaret Taillon, who died last week, took place last Saturday. The services were conducted at St. Mary's Church.

Thursday, November 24, 1887 Page 8
It is said on the street that Miss Ida Carew, who mashed the patrons of the variety theatre by her song, "You can't do it, you know", died at New Orleans lately.

Thursday, November 24, 1887 Page 15
Upper Peninsula Notes
John Fortier, aged 30, a single man, in the employ of the lumber firm of F. W. Reed & Co., at Eagle Mills, three miles east of Negaunee, was instantly killed by a falling tree last Thursday.

Thursday, November 24, 1887 Page 15
Upper Peninsula Notes
Charles Birchies, a German, unmarried, and 24 years old, was caught on the skids by a heavy log last week, while decking lumber at Paint River camp No. 5, of Ludington, Wells & Van Schaack. He was crushed to death before assistance could be given.

Thursday, December 8, 1887 Page 2
Some time ago an article in our columns announced the death of one of the patients at the Sault Hospital. His name, we discover, was given wrong, it should have been Alfred McClinton. He had wealthy relatives in Birmingham, Eng., who have been communicated with, as they had long since lost track of the unfortunate man.

Thursday, December 8, 1887 Page 4
Canadian Sault
Emile Rose, a painter who had been working for some time past in this town, was frozen to death on the outskirts of the town on Wednesday night of last week. His body was found on Saturday and taken to the police station. No inquest was held as it was evident the unfortunate man, who was a native of France, had imbibed too much alcohol and laid down to rest. His son, who arrived here on Monday thinks he died of heart disease, but the presence of a black bottle near the remains containing some whiskey would seem to indicate that liquor had something to do with it. The body was taken to Mattawa for interment.

Thursday, December 8, 1887 Page 4
Marquette
Lawrence Finn, a dissipated loafer, attacked his wife last week Saturday night with a heavy iron tea kettle he snatched from the stove. He knocked her down, beat her brains out and smashed the kettle in pounding her. The woman's eldest boy witnessed the assault and ran from the house screaming murder. A police officer was found who arrested Finn after he had horribly mutilated his wife's body.

Thursday, December 8, 1887 Page 4
During a drunken row in a low dive at Negaunee on Monday, Oscar Field, the proprietor, struck Jacob Terrman a blow on the head with a club, badly fracturing his skull, and from the effects of the blow he died. Field is a Finn.

Thursday, December 8, 1887 Page 4
John Hamm, of Owen Sound, who has been working all summer in the town, was found dead in his bed at McMullen's boarding house on Monday morning. Mr. Hamm was 67 years old and a carpenter by trade. The mayor telegraphed the sad news to Owen Sound, but no reply was received, and the deceased was buried by the town. Sufficient money was found on his person to defray all expenses. He has a son in some part of Northern Michigan.

Thursday, December 8, 1887 Page 4
As August Gunther, an employee of the Hancock chemical works, was driving a nail into a scantling saturated with nitro-glycerine, last week, an explosion occurred, injuring him beyond recovery.

Thursday, December 8, 1887 Page 6
Sad Death - A sad death occurred last Sunday, when the wife of Lieut. Nichols died after a short illness. Mrs. Nichols had been a marvelously well woman until she was taken sick soon after the removal of Lieut. Nichols to the post. Two little children are left with their father, to mourn this loss. Lieut. Nichols is confined to his room by inflammatory rheumatism. Col Halier, a retired army officer, the father of the deceased, has started from Seattle, W. T., for the Sault, and the remains will be taken there for burial.

Thursday, December 8, 1887 Page 15
Geo. Watson, a young man about 25 years of age, died at the Sault Hospital Tuesday, of typhoid fever, after a short illness. He was a young man of excellent habits, and formerly worked for Dave Ranson. We understand he has, relative living in the country.

Thursday, December 8, 1887 Page 15
Mr. Golden, foreman on the Edison Canal, returned home on Saturday from Thorold, Ontario, where he had been to attend the funeral of his father.

Thursday, December 15, 1887 Page 4
Obituary
The very sad intelligence reached here Monday, of the death of the mother of Bartley and Patrick McEvoy two well known and influential citizens of the Sault. Mrs. McEvoy, aged sixty years, died at Stayner, Ont., where she had been ill for some time, yet this blow came unexpected. By some mistake in telegraphing the message was received here only on Monday and as the deceased was buried that day, it was impossible for the two brothers to be present at the funeral. The many friends of the two brothers will unite with the Democrat in extending all the consolation that sympathy can bestow.

Thursday, December 8, 1887 Page 16
The little child of Mr and Mrs Lemond, living on the corner of Easterday avenue and Court street died last week of inflamation of the lungs and was buried Sunday.

Thursday, December 15, 1887 Page 4
The Rev. J. S. Kalloch, who was wounded by Editor De Young in San Francisco in 1879, and whose son subsequently killed the editor, died in Washington Territory recently.

Thursday, December 15, 1887 Page 6
Geo. McCarron, engaged at Jas F. Moloney, and Bro.'s will have many sympathizers here in his bereavement over the death of his sister, Mrs. Gayner, which occurred at Lucknow, Ont., on Sunday last.

Thursday, December 15, 1887 Page 10
Newberry Notes
A young man named James Gallagher of Beaver Island died suddenly at Naubinway last Sunday.

Thursday, December 15, 1887 Page 11
Upper Peninsula Notes
A distressing accident occurred at the Pilgrim mine on last week Tuesday. A young German and brother were assisting in landing at the mouth of the shaft. In grasping hold of the rope to descend he lost his hold and dropped to the bottom of the shaft, 225 feet deep. He was instantly killed, being much mangled by the fall. His body was brought to Bessemer the same evening and shipped via the Wisconsin Central to his home at Colby, Wis. His name is Chas. Weimann.

Thursday, December 22, 1887 Page 14
At Holly last week Tuesday, F. A. Baker, Sen., father of the well known Detroit attorney, was passing over the F. and P. M. track at the depot, when he was instantly killed by being knocked down and run over by an engine that was backing up .... Mr. Baker recently celebrated his 83d birthday says the "Advertiser" and had been a resident of Holly for nearly fifty years.

Thursday, December 22, 1887 Page 14
State News
Flushing has had a first-class mystery. A farmer named Jerry White disappeared and his body was found in the woods badly mangled. Suspicion at once fell on a laborer named Daniels, who has been arrested for the murder.

Thursday, December 22, 1887 Page 19
News Notes
Mrs. John Jacob Astor died in New York recently. She had always given largely to charity and was greatly esteemed for her good deeds.

Thursday, December 22, 1887 Page 19
A man named Caroll died at the poor house Sunday. He was a middle-aged person, who had been at work on the railroad and lumber camps, Consumption was the cause of his death.

Thursday, December 22, 1887 Page 19
A young man 22 years of age named Dan. McGregor, died at John Navin's hotel early Monday morning. The young man had been employed by Messrs. Endress at White Fish Point for the past five years, engaged in the fisheries, .... His brother came down from Port Findlay, Canada and took the body home with him on Monday.

Thursday, December 22, 1887 Page 20
The remains of Mr.Albert McCoy, brother-in-law of Mr. Miller of the Pacific Hotel, Canada, arrived here yesterday from Wisconsin. He met his death by the limb of a tree falling upon him. Mr. Gabriel interred him in the protestant cemetery.

Thursday, December 29, 1887 Page 1
Resume of the Year 1887

January 2—John Brohman froze to death near Pine River.

January 17—Capt. John Spalding died.

February 3—Mrs. P. J. Sullivan dies of lung troubles.

February 25—Dollie Blank died after a long illness.

March 20—Nelson Nault died of consumption.

Thursday, December 29, 1887 Page 2
Daniel Manning, ex-secretary of the treasury, died at Albany last Saturday, in the 57th year of his age...... Cleveland owed much of his success to him, and to show his appreciation he appointed him secretary of the treasury, which he held until ill-health compelled his retirement. Since that time he has gradually sunk, until death finally released him from suffering

Thursday, December 29, 1887 Page 2
Obituary
On Christmas morning at the residence of his parents, occurred the death of Willie, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Danskin. The young man had been sick for a number of weeks and latterly he seemed to be gaining, but it proved to be only a temporary rally and hopes doomed to disappointment.... The funeral took place yesterday afternoon from the Presbyterian church and was very largely attended.

Thursday, December 29, 1887 Page 2
Virgina Lyon The death of this young lady occurred on the 22 inst, at Los Angeles, Cal.,whither she had gone in order to escape the severe winter climate of the Saul.t .... The body was not brought to the Sault for burial as was expected but was interred in Los Angeles.

Thursday, December 29, 1887 Page 4
In the loss of Daniel Manning, whose death occurred at Albany, N. Y. last Saturday, the Democratic party loses an able leader....

Thursday, December 29, 1887 Page 4
Hon. Seth C. Moffatt congressman from this district, died at Washington last week, Thursday.....(considerable elaboration in this article)

Thursday, December 29, 1887 Page 12
A terrible story comes from Lake Nipissing, in the Upper Peninsula, John Benoit in returning to his home, recently, found the lake partially covered with ice .... he died just as his wife had pulled him to shore.

Thursday, December 29, 1887 Page 12
A three story hotel, the Baraga House, at Baraga, was destroyed by fire last week.... John Bennick's charred body was found in the ashes.
Thusday, December 29, 1887 Page 12
Wilbur H. Hill member of the firm of J. H. Hill and Sons, the Michigan lumber king, died very suddenly at his residence in Saginaw City, recently, aged 46. He leaves a widow. He was an extensive traveler and has but recently returned from California. Heart disease is supposed to have been the cause of death. His father died suddenly about four weeks ago.

Saturday, January 7, 1888 Page 2
Gen. John S. Marmaduke, governor of Missouri, died at Jefferson City last week. He was a dashing rebel officer during the rebellion.

Saturday, January 7, 1888 Page 2
While two miners, James Knuckey and George Jane, were drilling a hole in the Jackson mine at Negaunee, Saturday, the drill struck an old unexploded charge that had been abandoned some time before, and it went off with terrific force, killing them both instantly. The bodies were frightfully mangled and Knuckey's head was torn from his body. Both were married.

Saturday, January 7, 1888 Page 2
Benjamin H. Hague, of Dalley, was suddenly killed, by slipping off a log, while holding the muzzle of a double-barrelled shot gun. The hammers struck the log and fired both barrels into him.

Saturday, January 7, 1888 Page 2
Barber Perkins, former resident of Quiney died at Mishawaka, Ind. His remains were interred at Quiney. Deceased contributed generously to Hillsdale College when it was financially embarrassed.

Saturday, January 7, 1888 Page 7
Detour
The infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Anges McDonald was buried on Friday last.

Saturday, Janurary 14, 1888 Page 3
Wm. Le Barron, an old resident of Newaygo county, was instantly killed by a falling tree, which split and kicking backward disemboweled him.

Saturday, January 14, 1888 Page 3
Mrs. A. Miller, of Luther, gave her little child a dose of creosite, recently by mistake, causing the little one's death.

Saturday, January 14, 1888 Page 3
Mr. Ammi Baldwin, late cashier of the broken Fidelity National bank of Cincinatti, died suddenly of paralysis at his residence on Walnut Hills. Mr. Baldwin was indicted with the other officers of the Fidelity bank but for some reason his bond was placed at $10,000 and he was able to secure bondsmen and has not been in jail.

Saturday, January 14, 1888 Page 3
Emory Ormsby, who died a poor man at Deep River recently, was at one time worth $75,000, and was a soldier in the Crimean and Mexican wars, as well as in the late rebellion. His death was the direct result of late severe exposure.

Saturday, January 14, 1888 Page 3
William H. Hunter, piano tuner, frozen to death near Oscoda, hailed from Alpena, not Detroit, as stated in telegrams. He was terribly frozen, his tongue clinging to roof of his mouth and his extremities being like sticks.

Saturday, January 14, 1888 Page 3
R. Picket, the Cheboygan saloonkeeper who jumped from a window and performed other capers in decollette attire while delirious recently, went to Otsego Lake a few days ago and died.

Saturday, January 14, 1888 Page 3
T. J. Pack of Marquette, was fatally scalded in a railroad collision near Cambridge, O.

Saturday, January 14, 1888 Page 5
From Detour The sad event was the death of one of our fellow citizens, Mr. Vrisneaux, which occurred on Thursday of last week.

Saturday, January 14, 1888 Page 8
The sad intelligence is received by friends at the Soo of the death of Mrs. Geo. B.K. Pease, wife of the brother of C. H. Pease, at 431 West Fifty-four street, New York. Mrs. Pease visited in the Soo a few years ago where she formed many pleasant attachments. Her friends here receive the sad news with much sorrow.

Saturday, January 28, 1888 Page 2
The coroner's jury in the case of Mrs. Federman, the Manistee woman who was found dead, rendered a verdict recently to the effect that she drank herself into the happy hunting grounds. This entirely clears the young man who was arrested.

Saturday, January 28, 1888 Page 2
Uriah Ryan, formerly of Hanover, was frozen to death recently in Dakota. Remains will be brought to Hanover for burial.

Saturday,January 28, 1888 Page 2
Rev. M. J. Hall, who was found dead in the woods in Alpena county, is thought to have died from heart disease.

Saturday, January 28, 1888 Page 2
Two boys, orphan sons of W. Weatherbee, aged 9 and 11 years suffered a horrible death at Benona, Oceana County, Wednesday. They were digging a well when the earth caved in upon them, smothering the lads long before help reached them.

Saturday, Janaury 28, 1888 Page 3
Mrs. Eliza Ballou Garfield, mother of the late lamented President Garfield, died at Mentor, Ohio, last Saturday. She was born at the foot of Mount Monadnock, N. H., Sept 25, 1802, married Abraham Garfield in 1827, and moved to Orange, Cayahoga County, O., seven years after. The husband died when Tom, the oldest boy, now of Grand Rapids, Mich., was ten years old. She was left with four children and a cabin in the woods." How faithfully and well she performed her hard task of bringing up the little family history will tell.

Saturday, January 28, 1888 Page 8
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Bertram have the sympathy of the entire community in the bereavement occasioned by the death of their three year old daughter which occurred last Saturday.

Saturday, February 4, 1888 Page 2
Frank Conant, a well digger, was buried alive in a well at Albion the other day, fifteen feet of earth caving in upon him. Life was extinct when he was dug out.

Saturday, February 4, 1888 Page 2
From Detour
Died of diphtheria on the 13th inst., Anna, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Sims. She was six years of age and was a sweet and pleasant child.

Saturday, February 4, 1888 Page 2
News Odds & Ends
Lemuel J. Curtis a millionaire, who died the other day at Meriden, Conn., bequeathed $750,000 to the Curtis Home for old women and orphans, an institution built and maintained by himself. Several Episcopal Charities also get $20,000 each.

Saturday, February 11, 1888 Page 5
Henry F. Harman, uncle of Mrs. Cleveland, died at Charlestown, Mass., Friday the 3d, aged 39.

Saturday, February 11, 1888 Page 8
Willard Crooks the brakeman who was injured about the head while coupling cars at Eckerman last week died Tuesday at the hospital. His skull was fractured. The funeral took place yesterday afternoon from the Gabriel undertaking establishment. The South Shore officials kindly defrayed all expense connected with the funeral, and arranged the details which were complete in every particular. The remains were interred in the cemetery here.

Saturday, February 18, 1888 Page 1
The little child of a family named Boor, formerly of Detroit, was burned to death at their home, near Clyde, Wednesday. The remains were brought to Detroit for burial.

Saturday, February 11, 1888 Page 8
Evening Press Bay City
The announcement in last evening's Press of the death of Miss Rose Payment, was received with the utmost sadness by a large circle of friends, as well as her relatives. Miss Payment was 71 years of age, went to Sugar Island ten miles from the Soo, 38 years ago, to her brother and has since been a mother to his children, caring for them as tenderly as if they had been her own. She removed with her brother to Detroit eighteen years ago, and thence to Bay City. She has always been a consistent Christian lady and notable in all works of charity, being an especial friend to the poor and distressed, who will sadly miss her kindly and gentle ministrations. Her remains will be taken to Sugar Island for interment beside her mother, brother and uncle.

Saturday, February 18, 1888 Page 1
Morris Mendelshon, of the Union Clothing company, left Thursday morning for Chicago, whither he was called by the sudden death of his aged mother, who was in her eighty-fifth year.

Saturday, February 18, 1888 Page 2
The inquest on the body of Mrs. Eliza M. Palmer, of Alma, whose remains were found boxed up and buried in a stable, has ended in a verdict that she was strangled to death by her husband, Edward Palmer. Palmer is still in jail at Ithaca and is keeping very still.

Saturday, February 18, 1888 Page 2
C. A. Wing of Howell has investigated rumor that remains of his sister, Mrs. Helen Wing, had been disinterred and sent to Ann Arbor for dissection and pronounces it grossly false.

Saturday, February 18, 1888 Page 2
Michael Marony, a brakeman on the Detroit, Grand Haven & Milwaukee railroad, was killed at Vernon recently by being run over by the cars of a freight train. His home was at Owosso.

Saturday, February 25, 1888 Page 1
A Sad Death
The death of George A. Dean, which occurred last Tuesday was one which came with startling effect upon his many school mates and friends. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Dean. He was at play as usual last Saturday, and Sunday started to Sunday school but feeling unwell returned home. His condition grew rapidly worse and he died Tuesdaay morning with congestion of the brain. He was a bright warm hearted boy and highly thought of by all who knew him. He was fifteen years and two months old at the time of his death, and a member of the fifth grade in the high school. The funeral occurred Thursday afternoon at the Methodist church, the Rev. Cassler conducting the services.

Saturday, February 25, 1888 Page 6
Rev. Jas. Schofield, father of Gen. Schofield, U.S.A, is dead at Chicago

Saturday, February 25, 1888 Page 1
Capt. Joseph Soulier who formerly lived at the Soo and was well known here died at Mackinaw Island on Feb. 11. He was about 90 years of age. He was one of the early sailors at the Soo, and sailed for some time for American Fur company.

Saturday, February 25, 1888 Page 3
Herschel Adkins, who shot and killed Henry Overheiser in Casco, Allegan county, during a fight, was tried at Allegan and acquitted.

Saturday, March 3, 1888 Page 6
Friends of Roy Tetet, who was killed on the Coldwater fair grounds last fall by a slab thrown from a sawing machine, sued for $10,000 damages and settled for $500.

Saturday, March 10, 1888 Page 1
Kaiser Wilhelm Dead
The Great German Emperor Passes away Thursday at the Royal Palace Last Thursday night at 6:45 o'clock the death of Emperor William of the German empire, occurred at the Royal Palace in Berlin [a large write up ]

Saturday, March 17, 1888 Page 4
Sylvanus McDaniels, who murdered Jerry White near Flushing, was sentenced to serve a life sentence at Jackson. As he boarded the train at Flint to be taken to Jackson he carried in his hand a bible. Daniels will have plenty of time to study the work, but a very limited field in which to practice its precepts, but society will be the better off for it.

Saturday, March 17, 1888 Page 6
George W. McCrary's 5-year old George drank boiling water from the spout of a tea kettle at East Saginaw and died.

Saturday, March 24, 1888 Page 1
Mr. J. Sawyer, of Lake View farm, West Gwillimbury, Ont., has written Mrs. L. Ausman a touching poem, replete with pathos, upon the death of her little flower Lillian, who entered the angels realm on Jan. 28, last.

Saturday, March 24, 1888 Page 1
Willie Fleming, son of John Fleming, is lying very near death from compression of the brain, caused by a horse stepping on his head last Saturday. Dr. Rundle is attending him and everything possible is being done to relieve the unfortunate little sufferer.

Saturday, March 24, 1888 Page 2
Randall McDonald, a school teacher from a back woods district, laid down on the track of the Detroit, Bay City & Alpena railroad to sleep off the effects of liquor. He was struck by a train and mangled so that he died soon after.

Saturday, March 24, 1888 Page 2
A four year old son of Patrick Dulin of Niles fell into a cistern and was drowned.

Saturday, March 24, 1888 Page 2
Clare Falls, aged 11 years, son of a well-known business man of Tecumseh, while playing with an "unloaded" revolver in company with some other boys, playfully pointed it at his head and fired, killing himself instantly.

Saturday, March 24, 1888 Page 7
Previous to the death of Mrs. Esther Potter, of Burlington, Me., she prayed that her 17-months old baby might die with her. The child, who but an hour or two before was as well as usual, playing about the room, immediately after receiving a kiss from its dying mother, closed its eyes, and in five minutes or less was dead.

Saturday, March 24, 1888 Page 7
Over four months ago a mass of molten iron was forced by an explosion into the mouth and throat of Jacob Halemberger, of Reading, Pa. The result was that the passage to the stomach was completely closed, and the man died of starvation.

Saturday, March 31, 1888 Page 1
Little Johnny Fleming died Sunday.

Saturday, March 31, 1888 Page 1
Died Suddenly at Bay Mills
The sudden and deplorable death of Mrs. W. K. Parsille, at Bay Mills on Monday last, March 26th, at 4 p.m., has filled the hearts of her many many friends in this community with the deepest sorrow and grief. The bright and sunny friend and companion whom so many knew as Julia Chisolm, and whom all who knew her loved, for her kind and noble heart, her cheerful and open spirit her brave, generous and loyal friendship has entered into her rest in the very May of her life. She was born at Bruce Mines, Algoma, in 1864, and was at the time of her death but 24 years of age. There she lived with her father and brothers and sisters until the sad drowning of her father and little brother about nine years ago, which caused the breaking up of her home, and since then, with a little interval, she has resided in Sault Ste. Marie and its immediate neighborhood. Vividly does the writer remember then her young life and lovely charater .... On July 4th, 1887 she was united in marriage to Mr. W. K. Parsille, of Bay Mills, and in the sad loss of his young wife he has the deepest sympathy. Though sick for a few days no serious danger was anticipated until Saturday and suddenly death was seen to be ready to claim her as his own. Her funeral was held in the Episcopal Church on Wednesday last. ....

Saturday, March 31, 1888 Page 3
Mrs. Carpenter mother of Alfred Carpenter, who was recently killed in Frank Boos' saloon at Battle Creek, by Conductor McCarty, and who was about to institute proceedings against Saloon-keeper Boos, has compromised the matter for $100.

Saturday, March 31, 1888 Page 3
William Dalrymple who lives near Buchanan, lost five children by diphtheria.

Saturday, April 7, 1888 Page 1
Killed by the Cars
Thomas F. Hurley, a brother-in-law of L. F. Bedford, was run over and instantly killed, about two miles from the city, on the Soo road, Thursday night. He was teaching school at Jones' Cut and was on his way thither. N. V. Gabriel cared for the remains until yesterday, when Mr. Bedford left with them for Wallaceburg, Ont., where the unfortunate Hurley had a wife and two children. The body was frightfully mangled.

Saturday, April 7, 1888 Page 1
City News
Sisters of the late John Fletcher, drowned, have received $1,000 insurance on his life, had in the Knights of Pythias endowment rank.

Saturday, April 7, 1888 Page 6
Captain Daniel Bannatyne died the other day at Toledo of rheumatism, Capt. Rannatyne located in Toledo in 1850 and sailed the lakes from then until confined by sickness. His last vessel was the H. S. Walbridge, which he commanded seven years.

Saturday, April 14, 1888 Page 1
Louis Schimmel received a telegram from Milwaukee yesterday, announcing that his brother George is dying.

Saturday, April 14, 1888 Page 2
J. R. Wright, an old resident of Sodus, Berrien County, was instantly killed in a runaway accident.

Saturday, April 14, 1888 Page 2
Effie Hanks, aged 8 years, was burned to death at Quincy while burning brush in the door yard.

Saturday, April 14, 1888 Page 2
Mrs. Sarah Holbrook, who was one of the pioneers of Portland in this state, died at East Tawas.

Saturday, April 14, 1888 Page 2
Dr. Howard Simonds, of Allegan, died yesterday of apoplexy.

Saturday, April 14, 1888 Page 2
Miss Metta Fordham, of Bronson, a music teacher and exceedingly bright young lady, died with measles. When the disease first seized her she told her friends she would never get well.

Saturday, April 14, 1888 Page 2
John D. Ross, banker, of Buchanan, is dead.

Saturday, April 14, 1888 Page 2
John Tear, aged 65 years, was found dead at Trenton. He was apparently as well as usual half an hour before.

Saturday, April 14, 1888 Page 2
Horace Howe, of Buchanan, temporarily insane, blew his brains out. He was a young married man.

Saturday, April 14, 1888 Page 3
Hudson, Wis. Star and News
Died—In this city, on the 20th of March, Mrs.Louis Massy, aged about 90 years.

Saturday, April 14, 1888 Page 3
Hudson, Wis. Star and News
A Soo Romance
Mrs. Massy and her husband were the first settlers in this city and county, having located here in 1840, both living to an advanced age and dying within a few months of each other.... This was the case with Mr. Massy, but those who knew him best have data and circumstances to show that he was over 100 years old at the time of his death.

Saturday, April 14, 1888 Page
In Memoriam—Willie Fleming.

Saturday, April 21, 1888 Page 3
Ex Senator Roscoe Conkling died in New York city at 2:07 o'clock Wednesday morning last, after a painful illness of ten days or more. He was born Oct. 30, 1829, and was in his fifty-ninth year.... However, in his death the county loses one of its leading lawyers and ablest men, in fact, one equalled by but few.

Saturday, April 21, 1888 Page 6
Mr. Matthew Arnold, the noted poet, scholar, critic and theologian, whose recent sharply critical on "Civilization in the United States" attracted marked attention, died suddenly Monday in Liverpool from heart disease.... Mr. Arnold was born in 1822, and was in his sixty-sixth year.

Saturday, April 21, 1888 Page 6
Robert Mills is dead at Galveston, Texas. Before the war Mills was the wealthiest planter in the south, his property being valued at $3,000,000. The emancipation proclamation "robbed" him of 1,000 choice slaves and resulted in his ruin.

Saturday, April 21, 1888 Page 7
Cornelius Austin died at Walled Lake, aged 97. He was in good health until few weeks ago, when he fell and received severe injuries. He drew pension for services in war of 1812, and spent most of his life at hard labor. He has lived in Oakland since early in '30s.

Saturday, April 21, 1888 Page 7
Patrick Wade of Waudecah, who shot Mrs. Burke, of Norway, a few days ago, has been convicted of murder in the first degree by a circuit court jury at Menominee.

Saturday, April 28, 1888 Page 3
Prof. C. W. Heywood, who has been connected with several Michigan academies, was once professor in Hiram college, Garfield's alma mater, and for a time occupied in newspaper work in Kalamazoo and Battle Creek, died at Battle Creek Wednesday night of heart disease. He was 67 years old.

Saturday, May 5, 1888 Page 1
By the death of W. B. Dinsmore president of the Adams Express company which occurred in New York on April 24, a Sooite is left a legacy. Mr. Dinsmore's wealth has been estimated at from $15,000,000 to $20,000,000. The person who is thus remembered by the deceased millionaire is E. H. Bowers who is proprietor of the confectionery stand located at the corner of Gurnoe alley and Portage avenue just west of the Michigan Exchange.....

Saturday, May 5, 1888 Page 1
A letter has been received here from John Richardson of Chippewa Station, Oscola county, Mich., on the Flint & Pere Marquette railroad stating that a James Stuart died there about three weeks ago. He claimed to have relatives at Sault Ste. Marie, but refused to give their names or address..... He was a Scotchman about fifty years of age said he left the Soo last October.....

Saturday, May 12, 1888 Page 5
John Winter, who died recently at Grand Rapids, is alleged to have said with his dying breath that his wife poisoned him. The woman and her neighbors agree that he died of dissolute habits.

Saturday, May 19, 1888 Page 5
Zysh Davis,the colored Chicago murderer was hanged Saturday night.

Saturday, May 19, 1888 Page 5
The boiler in the Caro wooden works exploded Monday, killing Henry Howland and severely injuring Joseph Randall, Frank Riddle, Albert Riddle and T. W. Wisner. The explosion was caused by low-water in the boiler, which was old and patched.

Saturday, May 19, 1888 Page 5
Last fall two trappers, McMillan and Golden, left Edmonton, N.W.T. for the Athabasca and Pembina Rivers. They lost their provisions, severe weather made hunting impossible. They boiled their furs and ate them and waited for death. Golden died April 20. Ice soon began to move and McMillan drifted down in his canoe, reaching Athabasca Landing in a most pitiable condition.

Saturday, May 26, 1888 Page 4
Josie Mansfield, whose name was familiar with the Fisk-Stokes tragedy died at Beverly, N. J.

Saturday, May 26, 1888 Page 6
Fred Marsden, the well-known playwright, committed suicide in New York last week by turning on the gas in his room. He became despondent because of the reckless conduct of his daughter whom he was unable to control, and who left her house to enter upon a shameful career. Mr. Marsden was the author of a number of very successful plays. The life which he devoted to writing comedies ended in tragedy.

Saturday, June 2, 1888 Page 1
Mr. and Mrs. Duncan McGregor's little girl, twenty-two months old, died yesterday morning at five o'clock. The funeral will take place from the Presbyterian church at the usual hour for morning service to-morrow.

Saturday, June 9, 1888 Page 2
Lysander K. Shaw, who was found dead in a swamp near Romeo last winter, left a widow and a divorced wife. Now the children of the first wife come into the probate court and charge the widow with secreting certain of Mr. Shaw's papers.

Saturday, June 9, 1888 Page 2
Charley Maiden, resident of Duncan City, who is supposed to have last his head over a love affair, committed suicide Saturday night by jumping from the Third street bridge into the river.

Saturday, June 9, 1888 Page 2
Mrs Frank Carmichael was arrested at Lansing on a charge of murdering her husband, Anderson Carmichael, in Hillsdale county last January by putting poison in his pie.

Saturday, June 9, 1888 Page 5
Edward Fritzell, about whom very little can be learned, dropped dead in a chair in Clark's "Hub" saloon on Water street, Saturday evening. Fritzell had been drinking heavily. He is said to have been a watchman at Cascade mine. Dr. O'Neil was called, but too late. Supposed heart disease.

Saturday, June 9, 1888 Page 7
Joseph Ketcham, the baggagemaster who was shot by robbers in his car on the Cincinnati, Indianapolis, St. Louis & Chicago railroad near Delhi, died of his injuries the following day. A reward of $1,000 is offered for the capture of the robbers.

Saturday, June 9, 1888 Page 8
The funeral of little Allie Danskin, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Danskin, occurred Monday morning. The services were held in the Presbyterian church.

Saturday, June 9, 1888 Page 8
Dr. Richardson was called to Lower Canada on Sunday last, by the sudden death of his father.

Saturday, June 16, 1888 Page 2
Henry Muenchthaler killed his wife and then himself with a revolver on Monday night in Detroit. Muenchthaler was a dissipated and shiftless fellow, and committed the deed in a fit of rage.

Saturday, June 16, 1888 Page 4
A Telegram received yesterday morning announced the death of Emporer Frederick William of Germany. He fought a valiant fight for many months, but no human and could stem the tide of the dread disease.

Saturday, June 16, 1888 Page 7
Thomas McElrath, the old business partner of Horace Greeley, in the days when the New York Tribune was at the zenith of its influence, died in New York on Wednesday last. He was in the 82d year of his age.

Saturday, June 16, 1888 Page 7
The body of T. Harrison Garrett, who drowned on Thursday night last by the sinking of his yacht, the Gleam, near Baltimore, has been recovered. It was found a mile distant from the spot where the accident accurred.

Saturday, June 16, 1888 Page 7
Thomas Walsh, the Irishman who was said to be implicated in a plot similar to that which resulted in the murder of Lord Cavenish and Secretary Burke in Phoenix Park, Dublin, in 1881, has arrived in New York. He came in the La Normandie, of the French line, under the assumed name M. Walters.

Saturday, June16, 1888 Page 8
Fred Miller, presdent and chief owner of the Miller Brewing company of Milwaukee, which has a big agency at the Soo, died of cancer at his home on Monday.

Saturday, June 23, 1888 Page 1
A little son of Charles Ripley died yesterday morning.

June 23, 1888 Page 3
Ex-State Senator Charles C. Conger of California, who died recently, was son of Judge Thomas Conger and first white child born in what is now Benton Harbor. Deceased's mother was sister of Henry C. Morton, now living at Benton Harbor, and his grandfather, E. Morton, was first white settler in that vicinity.

June 23, 1888 Page 4
A Coincidence
Last week Norway, Mich., was destroyed by fire and at about the same time, its founder, Carl L. Wendell, died at Ishpeming.

June 23, 1888 Page 8
Died—Harry K., son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Ripley, on Friday morning, aged 11 months. Funeral Sunday from the residence. Friends are invited.

Saturday, June 30, 1888 Page 1
Mrs. Rhoda Olmstead, who formerly resided at the Soo, died at Detour last Sunday.

June 30, 1888 Page 2
Around Munising
Across Munising Bay .... At old Munising I was sheltered at the log house hotel kept by Mrs. Anthony O'Donnell and her daughters, .... Mrs. O'Donnell's husband, while fishing near Miner's Castle, a portion of the celebrated Pictured Rocks, was drowned a year ago in a very sad manner. They formerly lived on St. Joseph's Island, ....

Saturday, June 30, 1888 Page 8
William Sutherland, steward on the steambarge Waldo A. Avery, received a telegram on his arrival here last Saturday noon, anouncing the death of his boy by drowning, at Bay City, on the 22nd inst. He immediately took the train for that city.

Saturday, June 30, 1888 Page 8
A child of Mr. LaMond, who resides on the corner of Court street and Easterday avenue, died of diphtheria Thursday, and Dr. Floyd says no report of the same was made to the health office. There have been several such deaths concealed, says the health officer, and he warns physicians that there is a fine of $100 for such an offense.

Saturday, July 7, 1888 Page 1
Burned to Death.
Four People Lose Their Lives On the Canada Side.
THE DEADLY SMUDGE
It is Responsible for Another Horrible Death.
A farm house owned and occupied by George Dobbs and located in Tarentorus township about six miles east of the Canadian Soo, was destroyed by fire yesterday morning at two o'clock, causing the death of George Dobbs, aged seventy- two years: David Merryfield, aged 21 years: Alice Say Thompson, aged nine years and Margaret Melissa Thompson aged four years. It is the common theory that the fire originated in a smudge, which was burning lazily on the front stoop when the family retired to rest. Mrs. Dobbs, an old lady seventy years of age, who escaped almost miraculously from the burning building, thinks that the children must have thrown a few chips upon the smudge before they went to bed. At all events, she was awakened about two o'clock by the dread crackling of the flames, and realizing the impending danger she quickly awoke her husband and Merryfield, who was sleeping in an adjoining room. The smoke was so dense and stifling that they could scarcely breathe, but they managed to grope their way down stairs to a rear room. Mrs. Dobbs attempted to open the back door, but was stopped by her husband who thought that it would cause a draught which would aid the flames in their deadly work. At this moment she stumbled, her foot striking the ring of a trap door which opened into the cellar. By an almost superhuman effort she managed to raise the door, when overcome by the heat and smoke she fell through. Recovering from the effects of her fall she called to her husband and Merryfield to save the children, who were in a room in the upper part of the house. She then succeeded in crawling out through a ventilator in the cellar which afforded the only means of escape. She managed to work her way slowly to a safe distance from the house, when she sank exhausted to the ground, unable to move or cry out. Here she remained until long after daylight, exposed to the chill night and with no clothing on save a night dress, which in her terrible struggle to escape had been nearly torn from her body. After remaining unconscious until the sun had climbed well up above the horizon she recovered sufficiently to cry aloud. A passing farmer was attracted to the spot by her pitiful wails for help, and conveyed her to a neighboring farm house, where she was tenderly cared for by sumpathetic neighbours. Later in the day she was taken to the Canadian Soo and placed in the care of Dr. Reed. She is badly burned and this together with her enfeebled condition, and advanced age make her recovery doubtful. She is laboring under great mental excitement and can scarely talk rationally. She thinks that her husband and Merryfield tried, in obedience to her call, when she was precipitated into the cellar, to save the children. They probably reached the upper floor and were then either suffocated or quickly burned to death by the greedy flames. No cries were heard from the children by Mrs. Dobbs and it is therefore reasonable to assume that they were suffocated before being burned.
The house was a frame building and the flames spread with great rapidity, completely destroying it. Merryfield was employed on the new steamer Soo City as fireman and had obtained leave of absence for a couple of days to visit the old couple. He came from near Mitchell, Ont., and was unmarried. The children were daughters of James Thompson, whose farm is near the Dobbs farm. Their mother died two years ago, since then they have lived with their grandparents. Mr. Thompson has been employed in the Canadian Soo during the summer. He received the first news of the sad catastrophe yesterday morning.
The bodies which were burned to a crisp were recovered from the ruins yesterday afternoon. The funeral occurred this morning and the last sad rites were performed by the Rev. J. McClung, of the Canada Soo. Mr. Dobbs was born in Ireland but lived many years in Tarentorous where he was highly esteemed. He was in comfortable circumstances.

July 7, 1888 Page 1
A 23-years-old son of contractor R. Dickson was drowned Thursday at Selkirk, Manitoba.

July 7, 1888 Page 1
William Lesk, son of late Capt. Lesk of Sugar Island, was drowned while attempting to get a tow from the barge Germania, yesterday afternoon about six miles down the river. The body was recovered. Funeral tomorrow at Sugar Island.

July 7, 1888 Page 2
Profs. Palmer, Cheever and Dunster, of the Ann Arbor university, have died this year.

July 7, 1888 Page 2
Miss Aileen Harrington, of Grand Rapids is a daughter of Lieut. Harrington, who died with Custer at the battle of Little Big Horn....

July 7, 1888 Page 7
The Very Rev. Patrick Joseph Conway, vicar-general and rector of the Holy Name Cathedral, Chicago, died at the parochial residence Monday at 1:40 a.m. For two weeks he has been suffering from congestion of the stomach and lungs, and his death was not a surprise.

Saturday, July 7, 1888 Page 1
MRS. CHARLES PAINE CREMATED
The boarding camp of Charles Paine, situated a few rods from the Duluth & South Shore depot, was destroyed by fire on the evening of the Fourth of July, and Mrs. Mary Paine, wife of the owner of the place, was burned to death. The camp was a rude looking building, built partly of wood and partly of canvas, and at the time of the fire was occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Paine and three boarders named Samuel Winfield, Samuel Twelves and Richard Campbell, laborers employed on railroad work by Drew, Lewis & Co. After starting a smudge to drive away the mosquitoes, Mr. Paine and his wife retired. The smudge was built in a tin basin covered with a damp sack soaked with kerosene, and then placed beside the bed. The sack soon becoming dry and inflammable, took fire and in a few moments the whole front part of the building was enveloped in flames. Paine was aroused and after making an ineffectual effort to save his wife, who, he claims was either stupified or suffocated by the smoke, staggered to the door, where he was seen and pulled out by James Mackin. A crowd soon gathered and an unsuccessful attempt was made to subdue the flames by throwing buckets of water upon the burning shanty, but the thin boards were dry as tinder and the entire building was quickly consumed. Meanwhile Paine was rushing about almost bereft of his senses, crying wildly and talking incoherently. It is currently reported that both were under the influence of liquor at the time of the fire, but this charge is strenuously denied by Paine and his friends. At an examination conducted by prosecuting attorney Goff at the coroner's inquest, Paine acknowledged that both he and his wife were in the habit of drinking, but he would not admit that they had taken more than a couple of drinks during the afternoon and evening of the Fourth. He testified that he tried to escape through the window, but could not get it open. Then grasping his wife he staggered to the door of their sleeping apartment, where he dropped her. He claims that then he became unconscious.
The coroner's jury consisted of C.L. Newell, Francis Lessard, H. G. Wait, P. Bertram, Wm. Ireland and John A. McDougall, aided by Mr. Goff. It was his first night in the house examined a number of witnesses. There had been some whispers of foul play, but there was nothing in the evidence to support the charge and the examination was sharply and searchingly conducted by Mr. Goff. The jury therefore brought in a verdict that the woman came to her death by suffocation. The charred and blackened remains, wholly unrecognizable, were removed to Gabriel's undertaking rooms Thursday, where they were prepared for burial. The funeral took place yesterday from the St. Mary's Church and the body was interred in the Catholic cemetery. Paine was an Englishman and was married to the late Mrs. Paine about fourteen years ago in England. Paine came to this country about five years ago and established a boarding camp near Bruce Mines. He came to this side and put up a camp on the line of the Duluth & South Shore road, settling finally at the Soo. His wife did the cooking for the camp boarders, and he acted as cook at the West End saloon. An only child thirteen years old is in a convent in England.

July 7, 1888 Page 2
Frank Merchant, employee of Chicago & Northwestern railroad, had both legs smashed, both arms broken and head crushed into unrecognizable mass by cars at Norway. He lived at Quinnesec with parents.

July 7, 1888 Page 2
David Holliday fell into a mill pond at Mayfield, in the Grand Travese region Thursday, and was drowned.

July 14, 1888 Page 3
Mrs. John W. Sanders, aged 35 years, and wife of a farmer near Horton in Jackson County, suicided by hanging herself with a clothes line from a beam in the cellar. Deceased has for two years been considered mildly insane and had threatened to take her life. She leaves two young sons besides her husband.

July 14, 1888 Page 3
James Etsey and his 16-year-old stepson were killed by a Detroit, Lansin & Northern train at Meridian. Their horses became frightened and dashed into the train which was going at full speed.

July 14, 1888 Page 3

August Nearlson, 22 years of age, stepped into the shaft at the Winthrop Mine, Ishpeming, fell 300 feet and was bruised into a unrecognizable mass.

July 21, 1888 Page 9
Some light is thrown upon the mysterious suicide of G. H. Spencer, who ended his life June 16, at a hotel in Marquette, by taking carbolic acid. Copies of the two letters which he left for his wife and which the Coroner refused to open at the inquest have been received by your correspondent. In them he begged forgiveness for the trouble he had made her and said his brain was turned and that he killed himself to keep out of the mad house. It is understood that there was a woman in the case, who has always borne an unspotted reputation.

July 28, 1888 Page 2
Emil Schandein, one of Milwukee's millionaire brewers, died at Bremen, Germany, last Sunday, where he had gone for a brief visit. For fifteen years Mr. Schandein had been vice-president of the Best Brewing Company. The remains will be brought to this country for interment, at Milwaukee.

July 21, 1888 Page 9
Thomas Hayes, a hotel proprietor at Seney and a highly respected citizen, had some words with a man named McCleary and a companion. Blows followed and the two men were punishing Hayes severely, when George Everett also jumped in to do Hayes up. At this Mr. Hayes lost his self-control and pulling a revolver shot Everett three times in the breast, inflicting fatal injuries, and McCleary once through the shoulder.

July 28, 1888 Page 1
Miss Jennie Cline, sister of Mrs. Geo. A. Cady, died of consumption at the latter's residence in this city Tuesday. The remains were taken to Rochester, Mich. for interment.

July 28, 1888 Page 7
Mrs. James Crisp, wife of Capt. James Crisp of Live Saving Station No. 10, died in this city Tuesday. The funeral occurred Thursday, the Rev. P. T. Rowe of St. James Episcopal church officiating.

August 4, 1888 Page 1
Eliza, the bright little daughter of David Burnett, died of diphtheria and a private funeral from the home was held last Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Burnett have the sympathy of all their friends in their sorrow.

August 4, 1888 Page 1
Last Wednesday afternoon, Richard Clough committed suicide at the Pacific Hotel by taking laudanum. Mr. Clough was well known in the city. He was engaged for the year past until three weeks ago with Carkin Stickney & Cram who have the contract for government work here. About three weeks ago he quit the firm and has since resided in the Canadian Soo. He came over Wednesday morning to take the Minnie M. for St. Ignace where he had secured employment. He missed the boat and was waiting to take the Soo City. His wife visited him in the afternoon at his room in the Pacific House and found him badly under the influence of the drug. She immediately hastened for doctor Ennis, but death arrived before the physician did. A post mortem examination was made by Dr. Ennis who found many evidences of disease about his organization, to relieve himself from the pains of which, he probably took poison.

August 4, 1888 Page 1
The wife of Dennis Ryan of Ashmun street died yesterday morning. Mrs. Ryan has been ailing for some time. The funeral will occur tomorrow at 8 o'clock.

August 4, 1888 Page 4
The sudden death of J. R. Clark, general superintendent of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railway, directs attention to the mortality list of this great corporation. Within a very few years the road has lost President Alexander Mitchell, Vice- President Julius Wadsworth, General Manager S. S. Merrill, Treasurer R. D. Jennings, General Superintendent James T. Clark, Assistant General Superintendent H. C. Atkins, Superintendent of Freight Traffic W. G. Swan, and Division Superintendent L. B. Rock. These men died in harness. They made the St. Paul road what it is to-day—the biggest railroad in the world under one management. In accomplishing this task they sacrificed their lives. Railroading today is not play. It wears men out before their time. T. J. Potter's death resulted from overtaxing the system. Is the game worth the candle?

August 11, 1888 Page 1
P. J. Byron, the well known and exeedingly popular real estate man, died Monday evening after a brief illness. He was buried at Garden River. The chamber of commerce adopted resolutions of regret.

August 11, 1888 Page 1
The young son of W. F. Ferris, who was injured by a fall last week, lingered in great agony until Sunday, when he died.

August 11, 1888 Page 1
William Burdick, son of S. Burdick, died at three o'clock yesterday morning from the effects of injuries received Thursday morning while attempting to leap aboard the steambarge Pringle at the Union dock. Burdick was employed Osborn Bros. Ice and milk dealers, and in his eagerness to secure the boat's trade he jumped from the dock to the boat while she was moving toward the wharf. Miscalculating the distance he fell and was caught between the dock and the side of the boat and severely crushed in the region of the abdomen. He was a young man highly esteemed by all who knew him. Funeral will take place tomorrow at half past one from the house.....

August 11, 1888 Page 1
Frank Bertram, the well known liveryman died Friday morning from a complications of disorders, chief among which was inflammation of the bowels. Mr. Bertram had been ill about ten days. He had not been in perfect health, his physicians say for many years.... The funeral will occur this afternoon at 2 o'clock.

August 11, 1888 Page 4
General Sheridan died Sunday night at Nonquitt, Mass. He made a strong fight for life, but was of last compelled to yield. The immediate cause of his death was heart failure.....

August 18, 1888 Page 5
Ella H. Nash, a niece of G. E. Dexter of Charles City, Iowa, died of consumption Monday at the Canadian Soo. The deceased came here early in the season with Mr. Dexter and remained for a time on this side of the river. Failing to improve she was taken to the other side. The remains were embalmed by N. V. Garbiel the undertaker, and shipped to Goshen, Ind., Tuesday afternoon.

August 18, 1888 Page 7
Two young men named Morey and Bell, formerly reporters on the Minneapolis Evening Journal, were drowned at Petoskey. Wednesday they left Minneapolis for the Crooked lake country equipped for camping. They left Oden for Burt lake in the early afternoon and were caught in the furious storm of that day, and their boat and contents were found on the shore of Burt lake. Their provisions were scattered along the shore. They had written their names on the bottom of the boat, and beyond doubt were lost in the storm.

August 25, 1888 Page 1
Capt. Geo. Hammer, whose name appears in the list of cabin passengers who lost their lives by the sinking of the steamship Geiser, is well known on the lakes having formerly owned and sailed the schooner Ashtabula.... He has resided at Highland Park, a Chicago suburb, for some time past.... [On page 6 an account is given of the sinking of the Geiser on August 14, 1888].

August 25, 1888 Page 1
An infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L. J. Barr died on Wednesday and was buried on Friday. The child was twenty days old.

August 25, 1888 Page 5
Prof. Elisha Jones, of the Michigan university, died last week in Denver Colorado. Prof. Jones graduated at the university in the class of 1859.....

September 1, 1888 Page 2
Arthur Edwards fell off Pope's wharf in Houghton and was drowned. He was 24 years old, was unmarried and was waiter on the steamer Fremont.

September 1, 1888 Page 8
Blanche Endress, the six year old child of Mrs. Charles Endress, was buried yesterday afternoon. The little one died from diptheria. Undertaker Gabriel attended to the funeral arrangements.

September 1, 1888 Page 8
Lieut. James R. Cranston, of the tenth U. S. Infantry, who was stationed at Fort Brady from 1879 till 1884, died in camp near Amargo, New Mexico, August 23. Lieut. Cranston was engaged in removing settlers from the Jicerilla Indian reservation. He was very popular here and his death will be regretted by a large cirle of old-time Sooites.

September 29, 1888 Page 8
Iroqouis
The wife of Mr. Sutton passed suddenly away to the world of eternity on the night of the 16th inst., Mr. Sutton has the sympathy of the surrounding neighborhood.

September 8, 1888 Page 8
Mrs. Mary Bennett died suddenly in Collingwood on her way to her home in the Canadian Soo. Her body will arrive to- day and the funeral will take place to-morrow afternoon at 1 o'clock from the residence of her son, Arthur Bennett. N. V. Gabriel has charge of the funeral arrangements.

September 8, 1888 Page 1
Undertakers Vanderhook and Cook, of the Dunning Furniture Co., were called at 1 o'clock Tuesday night to care for the mangled remains of Joseph Elliot, son of George S. Elliot, the baker, who was accidentally killed in a lumber camp near Bruce Mines, Ontario. The remains of the unfortunate Elliot, were interred at the Canada Soo Cemetery on Wednesday.

September 8, 1888 Page 1
Peter Biron, who died a few weeks ago, had his life quite largely insured. Some of the policies had lapsed on account of the premium not having been kept up. However a policy for $5,000 in the Western Union Mutual, of Detroit has been found to be in effect and the company announces that it will pay the sum promptly. The lamented Biron's friends will be glad to learn this.

September 15, 1888 Page 1
John W. W. Hamley, the three-year-old son of Samuel W. Hamley, Ridge street, died on Wednesday of diptheria. The funeral was not public.

September 22, 1888 Page 1
John Tate's little three-months-old boy babe died Tuesday, and was buried Wednesday from their residence, by Undertaker Garbriel.

September 29, 1888 Page 1
Fractured His Skull
Last Monday Norman McLeod, who has been employed by D. McKenzie, the contractor and house mover, was fatally injured, while moving a barn off of the waterpower canal property near Ashmun street. He was at the capstan when it was suddenly broken from its fastening and Mr. McLeod was hit on the head. The blow fractured his skull and he died from the results on Tuesday. His remains were taken to Ripley, Ont., for burial yesterday. He leaves a wife and seven children.

October 6, 1888 Page 1
Frank P. Jones was called to Wisconsin suddenly last Sunday, by the death of his sister-in-law. Mr. Jones will remain at Clintonville, Wis., for some time.

October 13, 1888 Page 3
Yellow fever is still making life dismal in Florida. Among the deaths at Jacksonville this week were Edwin Martin, editor of the daily Times Union and Chas. L. Forest the Detroit telegraph operator who went there to help out the force in the telegraph ffice.

October 6, 1888 Page 8
Marine Matters
The barge St. Clair, went to pieces at Sand Beach. The life-saving crew went to the St. Clair and offered to take off her crew, but they refused, though they agreed to signal for help if they required it. At 11 p.m. she showed her signal and the life-savers went out to her.... The life-boat had succeeded in taking of the barge's crew, but could not face the heavy sea, .... In attempting landing at Port Sanilac, the boat was capsized, and four men and the woman cook of the St. Clair crew were drowned. The life-saving crew are all safe. The names of the lost are: Capt. C. H. Janes, of Bay City; sailors Henry Anderson of Australia; George McFarlane, of Cleveland; Louis Fertaw, of Bay City, and the cook, Julia Greawreath of Sebewaing. The rescued men were Maurice McKenna, of Bay City and John Rose, of Detroit.

October 13, 1888 Page 8
Chief Mitchell received a telegram yesterday announcing the death of his brother, who was killed suddenly by the cars Thursday in Harford county, Md. The deceased was forty years of age and was a prosperous farmer.

October 13, 1888 Page 8
A young son of C. T. Merrifield, died on Tuesday morning of croup.....

October 27, 1888 Page 2
Peter H. Potter, drowned from a fish boat while attempting to cross the straits. He was trying to take in the jib when a sea washed him overboard. His partner, Bob Oleson, who was with him, tried to save him, but the sea was too heavy....

October 27, 1888 Page 7
Francisco Iata, Natale Sabatano and Guisseppe Canizzaro, who have been occupying cells in the Tombs in New York on suspicion of being concerned in the murder of Antonio Flaccimio, whose dead body was found on the street near Cooper union a week ago, have all made confessions to Inspector Byrnes about the murder.... Flaccimio had done both and knew he was to die. He arranged with his son to carry on his business in case of his sudden disappearance.

October 27, 1888 Page 7
Wright Sanford, the well known club man and broker, died in the Gilsey House, New York, where he had been ill for some time.

October 27, 1888 Page 7
Col. R. M. Pulsifer, for many years one of the proprietors of the Boston Herald, is dead.

November 3, 1888 Page 2
Patrick McCormick, who was tipped over and killed while riding along a dark road near Clio, lived with his brother-in- law, Joseph Belill, of Thetford.

November 3, 1888 Page 2
Alexander Brown, of Jackson, a fireman on Northern Pacific engine, was killed Saturday by accident at Crow Wing River, Dakota.

November 3, 1888 Page 5
The famous bandit, Victor Flagoso, has been killed and some of his companions wounded by the civil guard of Cuba.

November 10, 1888 Page 7
James Bell, Ben Russell and George F. Grifin were killed in Van Zand County, Texas, Wednesday night. Russell was accused of a misdemeanor, and W. L. Hayes, Sam Stanford, Claude Stanford and Will James went to arrest him. The three negroes were met together and ordered to throw up their hands. Before they could comply they were shot down. Friends of the dead men claim they were killed as the result of a political quarrel. An investigation is being made.

November 10, 1888 Page 1
Serious Marine Accident
A serious accident, resulting in the death of one man and the scalding of three others occurred on board the steambarge Baldwin, off Point au Sable, Lake Superior, on Tuesday night at 11 o'clock.... The escaping steam scalded Jerry Renney the second engineer, and he died shortly afterward in great agony.... The remains of the unfortunate man were brought to the Soo and prepared by Gabriel for transportation to Ogdensburg, the home of the Renney family.... He was on his way home to get married....

November 10, 1888 Page 1
The body of Bill Waiskai, who fell into the canal near the light house Saturday and was drowned, was recovered Monday afternoon by a diver.

November 17, 1888 Page 1
Louis Helmchrist, a Swede employed as a deck-hand on the barge Ben Brink, fell overboard into the canal Thursday night above the railroad bridge and was drowned despite the efforts made to save him. He lived at Pequaming. The body was recovered yesterday forenoon.

November 17,1888 Page 3
Judge Cooley made the burial address at the funeral of Judge C. A. Stacy, at Tecumseh. The funeral was attended by the Lenawee county bar, and by a large share of the people of Tecumseh and vicinity.

November 17, 1888 Page 3
Mrs. Charles Kimball, of Kalamazoo, aged only 25, and as handsome a brunette as you would find in a day's travel, committed suicide by taking morphine.... Although she had been married twice her domestic relations were supposed to be very happy, and her death is entirely unexplained.

November 17, 1888 Page 6
The death of Dr. Hostetter leaves the control of the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie road in the hands of the Vanderbilts. ....

November 24, 1888 Page 1
A son of Edward Stanley found the dead body of a man in the gutter on East Portage avenue, nearly opposite the residence of J. W. Sutton, at 6 o'clock yesterday morning..... It was discovered to be the body of an umnarried Italian, about thirty years of age, who is employed on the water power canal and who figures on the books of the company, as William Rose. Rose was one of fifteen Italians who "batch" in a shanty near the works. He received his pay a few days ago and had been drinking freely since.

November 24, 1888 Page 3
George Woodward, of East Saginaw, is said to have struck Thomas Howe on the head with an axe cutting a hole that may cause his death. Woodward was the bartender in Tom Kern's gin mill and Howe was a carpenter who went there and got into a fuss.

November 24, 1888 Page 3
A sailor named Wm. Hensburg was instantly killed off Sand Beach by a fall from the cross-trees of the schooner Kensky to her deck. He had no money or friends that any one knew of, and was buried in the potter's field at Port Huron.

November 24, 1888 Page 3
Isaac H. Hill, an old and prominent resident of Bay City, is dead. He was president of Michigan Pipe works and was 74 years old. He leaves widow, daughter and two sons. Remains will be buried in Schuyler county, New York State.

November 24, 1888 Page 6
Rear Admiral Baldwin is dead. He was born September 3, 1822, and on April 24, 1839, was appointed a midshipman on the frigate Brandywine, where he experienced his first sea service.....

November 24, 1888 Page 1
John Shine Killed While Pursing William Leighton Friday
Wm. Shine, of Lindsay, Ont., brother of the deceased, arrived in the Soo early in the week to attend the funeral services and look after the business affairs of the dead man. The funeral occurred Thursday afternoon, the body being interred in the Catholic cemetery..... Shine had a number of cousins living in this city. [2 columns of story on the shooting incident]

November 24, 1888 Page 6
John Mahoney, was shot in a saloon brawl, in Ashland a few days ago and died from the wounds received. Mr. Mahoney was proprietor of two of the largest of the establishments known all over the country as "dens of Northern Wisconsin."....

December 1, 1888 Page 1
John Barrie, of Hay Lake, an old Canadian Frenchman, well known in these parts, died early last week.

December 1,