Cheboygan County MI Genealogy

Deaths in Newspaper Articles

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Capsized and Drowned
St. Ignace, Mich., May 22 - Fred Todd, of Cheboygan, and Robert Wolfkeil, of Denver, Col., employed in the News office here, went out in a sail boat yesterday morning intending to return for dinner. No track of them has been found since but their boat was discovered near British landing, capsized. It is thought that the men perished.
Source: Grand Forks Daily Herald, May 23, 1893

Committed Suicide
Antony Slenkiewiez, whose death at Cheboygan, Mich., was announced in these columns yesterday, committed suicide. The news and manner of his death was communicated to his Williams employers yesterday, in the following telegram:

Cheboygan, Mich., May 24, 1898
To Polson Brothers
Antony Slenkiewiez dead. Committed suicide Saturday night.
Samuel H. Taylor

Mr. Taylor was Slenkiewiez's attorney, and F. O. Polson has sent word to him for particulars, which will be awaited with considerable interest, as Antony was well esteemed in this community. What his motive for self destruction would have been can only be surmised. He was of an emotional temperament, and the deed was probably done on a sudden impulse.

Deceased was unmarried. He had a brother in Cheboygan and was distinguished as being a relative of Henry Slenkiewicz, the author of "Quo Vadis." He was descended from Polish nobility, though from his modesty and unassuming ways one would never suspect it.

Antony Slenkiewicz came here several years ago as an employe of the Saginaw Lumber company, afterward becoming a salesman for Polson Bros., in which capacity he was efficient and faithful. He had many friends, who were shocked at the news of his death. - Williams News.

Source: The Albuquerque Daily Citizen, May 27, 1898

Lumbermen Drowned

Cheboygan, Mich., Dec 24 - John Haws, William Campbell and Ernest Marquette, employes at McCarthy's lumber camp, while crossing the ice on Mullett Lake Sunday afternoon about twelve miles from here, broke through the ice and were drowned.

Source: San Jose Mercury, Dec 25, 1900

Jumps to His Death

Buffalo, N. Y., Jan. 16 - R. L. Hubbard, of Cheboygan, Mich., committed suicide tonight by leaping from the third story of a private hospital. He was an epileptic and became violent while suffering from a severe attack.

Source: Grand Forks Daily Herald, Jan. 17, 1906

Blown to Atoms

Cheboygan, Mich., Sept. 30 - Three young hunters were killed in a dynamite explosion when they mistook a dynamite store house in the woods for a deserted hut and used it for a target.

The dead are: Bert Simmons, 18; C. Simmons, 15 and Leslie Ehret, 18.

The store house belonged to a local hardware firm and was situated about a mile from town. It contained 350 pounds of dynamite. Parts of Ehret's body was found but the other two boys were blown to atoms.

Source: The Evening News, Sep 30, 1907

Bank President Killed

Charlotte, Mich., Sept 25 - President William Smith of the First National bank of this city, was killed at Wolverine by being thrown from a log carrier against a moving saw. Mr. Smith held vast lumber interests in Cheboygan county and went to that point to make general arrangements for the transfer of the property to a Chicago man, who was with Mr. Smith at the time of the accident. Besides controlling the stock of the First National bank he was rated as one of the richest men in the county.

Source: Fulton Patriot, Sep 26, 1889

Tug Record Goes Down

One of the Staunchest Tugs on the Lakes Sunk in Ship Canal - Three Lives Lost

Duluth, Minn., June 3 - The tug Record, one of the Inman fleet, and one of the staunchest on the lakes, was run down and sunk in the ship canal just before midnight. Three of the tug's crew went down with their boat. They were: Captain John Bricklet, Elmer Cook, Cheboygan, steward; George Riggs, Cheboygan, engineer. The fireman, Al Davidson, was the only survivor of the tug's crew.

The Record met a steamer as she entered the harbor. The strong current setting out into the lake swung the tug broadside against the steamer's stern and Record went down like a shot.

Source: Oswego (NY) Daily Times, Jun 3, 1898

Cheboygan, Mich., Feb. 16 - Albert Fluery walked on the ice from Bois Blanc Island to this city last Saturday night to get medicine for his sick child. The mercury was 16 below zero, and a wild snow storm was raging. He set out on the return trip about midnight, with a lantern and compass to guide him. That was the last seen of him. There is little doubt that he perished, and his body was covered up by drifting snow.

Source: Oswego (NY) Daily Times, Feb 17, 1905

Ashtabula, July 23 - Ray Marquette, first mate of the steamer Frank L. Vance, was killed here this morning. He attempted to pass between two sections of a train being made up, when the engine suddenly backed up, catching Marquette between the sections and crushing him. He died in a few minutes. He was a brother of Captain E. B. Marquette of the Vance. The remains were taken to Cheboygan on the steamer Flower, the captain exchanging boats with Captain Marquette for the trip.

Source: Ogden (NY) Daily Times, Jul 25, 1895

Cheboygan, Mich., July 28 - Miss Emma Schmidt, aged 23, daughter of Frederick Schmidt, a wealthy resident of Ann Arbor, was drowned to-day when the steamer Valentine, with forty passengers, went down in the Cheboygan River, after striking a deadhead which pierced her hull. The tug Merchant, which was nearby, hurried to the rescue and took all the passengers and crew on board, with the exception of Miss Schmidt, who returned for her valise.

Source: Ogden (NY) Daily Times, Jul 30, 1906

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