Hamilton Spectator
Deaths -
July-December, 1895
Monday, July 1, 1895
SWINTON - At his residence, 94 Bay st. north, on June 28,
1895, William Swinton, aged 62
years. Funeral on Tuesday at 2:30. Friends and acquaintances
will please accept this
intimation.
William Swinton,
carpenter, died yesterday at his residence, 94 Ray street, aged 62 years.
He was a native of Peebles, Scotland, and came to Hamilton
40 years ago. He was foreman
for Aitchison & Co. for many years, a Reformer in
politics and a member of the MacNab
street Presbyterian church since it was established. He leaves
a widow and three sons. The
deceased was a good citizen and as such, was esteemed and
honoured by all who knew him.
VANDUSER - (Tapleytown) - The funeral of the late Mrs. L.
Vanduser, of Elfrida, daughter
of Thomas Peterson, of this place, took place on Wednesday
last at the Tapleytown Methodist
church burying ground. Rev. Mr. Bowlby preached an
impressive memorial sermon.
NURSE - Robert Nurse, a painter, died Saturday morning at
Jordan from injuries received in
a runaway accident on the previous evening. He was driving
along the road east of
Beamsville, returning from work, when his horse became
frightened and he lost control of it.
Joseph Fulton, a farmer, saw the horse go past at a gallop
with Nurse doing his best to stop it.
Fulton followed, and some distance further on found the
young man lying beside the road
insensible, with his head cut as if coming in contact with a
three-cornered stone. He had
evidently been thrown from the rig. Nurse lingered until
8:45 the next morning and died
without having recovered his senses. He was 28 years of age,
an Englishman, and had no
relatives in this country, so far as known.
DICK - About 10:30 Saturday evening, a telephone message to
the central police station
contained the information that a woman had been found dead
at No. 281 Bay street north. The
patrol wagon was sent down and there on the kitchen floor
lay the body of Mrs. Margaret
Dick, a woman of about 45 years. In the house were Michael
Welsh and his wife, the tenants.
Mrs. Welsh is a daughter of the dead woman and the Welsh
house had been Mrs. Dick’s
home for some time. Around the house were evidences that the
people had been drinking
during the evening. Welsh was suffering from a severe and
dangerously-looking cut over the
right eye and there was blood on the floor. As there were no
marks on the body of the woman,
it is likely the blood came from this cut on the man’s face.
It is said that all
three had been drinking at the house and that Mrs. Dick went out in the
yard to vomit. When she came in, she fell on the floor,
dying almost immediately. This leads
to the conclusion that she had burst a blood vessel by
violent retching. Nothing will be
positively known as to the cause of death until after the
post mortem.
Mrs. Dick was a
powerful woman, above average height with hard features and iron-grey
hair. She had a wonderfully developed chest and body. Welsh
married her daughter some time
ago and their married life is reported to have been not all
roses.
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Tuesday, July 2
CALDER - At Waterdown, on the 1st of July, at 2:15 pm, Lena
E., only daughter of W.H.
Crooker and beloved wife of W.B. Calder, aged 31 years, 4
months and 15 days. Funeral on
Thursday at 2 p.m. Sermon in the Methodist church in
Waterdown at 2:30 p.m., thence to
Hamilton cemetery for interment. Friends will please accept
this intimation.
MCDONALD - At Trafalgar, on June 28, 1895, Thomas McDonald,
in his 80th year.
SYKES - In this city at 297 John st. north, on July 2, Sarah
Jane, youngest daughter of
Richard and Janet Sykes, aged 10 months. Funeral from the
above address on Wednesday at
2:30 p.m. Friends will please accept this intimation.
SEYLER - At Toronto, on 29th June, Lena, beloved wife of
W.H. Seyler and only daughter of
Albert Gibb. Funeral from her father’s residence, 147 King
William street, on Wednesday,
3rd July, at 4 p.m.
HESLOP - At Hamilton, on Tuesday, July 2, 1895, Susan
Heslop, wife of Frank Heslop, 52
Strachan st. west, aged 62 years. Funeral on Thursday, 4th
July, at 3 pm. Friends and
acquaintances will please accept this intimation.
WESTPFHAL - At the Aged Women’s Home, July 2, Mrs. Annie
Westpfhal, aged 73 years.
Funeral July 3 at 3 pm from this institution, Wellington st.
south.
Wednesday, July 3
HESLOP - At Hamilton, on Tuesday, July 2, 1895, Susan
Heslop, wife of Frank Heslop, 52
Strachan st. west, aged 62 years. Funeral on Thursday, 4th
July, at 3 p.m. Friends and
acquaintances will please accept this intimation.
HUNT - In this city on July 2, William Hunt, aged 63 years.
Funeral from his late residence,
206 John street south, on Thursday at 1:30 p.m. Friends are
cordially invited to attend.
Yesterday, at the age
of 63 years, William Hunt died at his residence, 206 John street south.
Mr. Hunt was a well-known figure in the Hamilton Market
where he carried on the butcher
business for forty years. He was a native of Devonshire,
England, and came to this country
forty-two years ago, settling and remaining in Hamilton. He
made many friends. He leaves a
widow and five sons and one daughter; William, Richard,
Edward, Benjamin and James, and
Mrs. Huscott. The funeral will take place from 206 John
street south tomorrow at 1:30.
JOEL - In New York, on Monday, July 1, Julius Joel,
brother-in-law to Mrs. Thos. Buttle, of
this city, aged 58 years. Funeral notice later.
TAIT - At Toronto, on July 1, Mrs. R.B. Tait, sister of Mrs.
Wm. Donaghy (Inland Revenue
Department, Hamilton).
WARD (Kingston) July 2- J.F. Ward, a printer, who served on
the expedition sent to the relief
of Gen. Gordon at Khartoum, was found dead today in his bed.
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Thursday, July 4
NORTON - At Winona, on July 1st, Ella, beloved wife of John
Norton and only daughter of
William Parkins, of this city, aged 22 years. Funeral took
place on Wednesday, July 3rd.
JOEL - In New York, on Monday, July 1, Julius Joel,
brother-in-law to Mrs. Thos. Buttle, of
this city, aged 58 years. Funeral from No. 122 Hughson
street north tomorrow (Friday) at 4
p.m. Friends will please accept this intimation.
HOODLESS - At East Court, the residence of his son, John, on
July 4th, Joseph Hoodless, in
his 71st year. Funeral will take place on Saturday at 3 p.m.
Friends are invited. No flowers.
By the death of
Joseph Hoodless, which occurred at Eastcourt, the residence of his son, this
morning, Hamilton loses a good citizen. His death has been
daily expected for a month but he
showed wonderful vitality. Heart trouble was the cause of
death. While he suffered for a
couple of years, having had painful attacks at times, it’s
only in the past six months that he
was considered dangerously ill.
The deceased was born
at Parkhead, Cumberland, England, on Jan. 12, 1824. He came to
Canada in 1844 and six years later, established himself in
business in Hamilton as a
manufacturer of furniture. By his energy and push, he built
up the large business of Joseph
Hoodless & Son. Years ago, in his younger days, Mr.
Hoodless was captain of No. 1 company
and assistant chief of the volunteer fire department.
Mr. Hoodless never
took an active part in politics. He was a man who loved his family and
his home and attended strictly to business. He was kind to
his employees and they deeply
deplore his death, especially those who had been associated
with him ever since he went into
business. In his commercial transactions, the deceased was
most honourable. His word was as
good as his bond. Since the sudden death of his wife, last
August, he lived with his son, John
Hoodless, at Eastcourt. The deceased was a member of St.
Thomas’ church. He leaves three
children - John Hoodless, Mrs. George T. Tuckett and Mrs.
C.H. Porter of Cleveland. The
funeral will take place on Saturday.
CALDER - The funeral of the late W.B. Calder, of Waterdown,
took place this afternoon and
was very largely attended. A service was held at the
Methodist church at 2:30, previous to the
funeral. The deceased was buried in her bridal dress, having
only been married about a year.
WINDLE (Woodburn) - The funeral of the late Edward Windle
took place on Friday morning.
His health had been failing for the past year and after some
weeks confinement, he passed
quietly away. He leaves a wife and one son to mourn his
loss.
KENNEDY (Millbrook) July 3- Last night about nine o’clock,
while Mrs. Kennedy, who
lived on a farm in the north of Hope, was driving home, the
horse became frightened and
running off the road over some rails, threw the lady out.
She was thrown violently on the
rails, inflicting such injuries in the back of her head that
she died about two hours after. The
accident happened about two miles east of Baillieborough and
she was discovered in a few
minutes by a farmer whom she had passed on the road. The
deceased was about 37 years of
age and leaves a family of four young children.
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Friday, July 5
SINGER (Guelph) July 4 - Word was received in the city
yesterday of the death by drowning
at Teeswater of Louis Singer, son of Louis Singer, New
Germany. He had been attending St.
Jerome college, Berlin, for the past three years where he
was studying for the priesthood. The
college closed recently for holidays and Mr. Singer and his
cousin drove up to Teeswater to
spend a few days, and while in bathing, Mr. Singer took
cramps and was drowned. The body
was shortly after recovered and arrived in the city
yesterday afternoon, whence it was
conveyed to his father’s place, New Germany. Mr. Singer was
about 19 years of age and gave
bright promise for the future.
Saturday, July 6
MASHINTER (Toronto) July 6 - The inquest of the remains of
Arthur Mashinter, which were
found in the lake on Sunday last, was resumed at the police
court last evening before Coroner
Young. The principal evidence taken was that of Drs. Bingham
and Klotz who made the postmortem.
Their testimony clearly showed that death had been caused by
suffocation. Several
technical points were advanced, both in support of and
against the drowning theory, but it
appears that it is difficult to determine whether or not
death was actually caused by drowning.
JACKSON - Shortly after noon today, David Jackson, 23 Ferrie
street east, died suddenly in
his back yard. At first it was supposed death had resulted
from natural causes but after
investigation, it looks as if the deceased committed
suicide. An empty bottle which had
contained prussic acid was found. Jackson was of a
melancholy and morose disposition. He
was employed at the warehouse of A. Wilson & Co
wholesale druggists. For some time past
he had not enjoyed good health and was much depressed. He
was at the warehouse this
morning. When he was on his way home, he met Mrs. Jackson
and returned with her. Shortly
after they arrived home, Mrs. Jackson saw her husband with a
small bottle in his hand but she
did not dream that it contained poison. Afterward, the
deceased went into the back yard. A
few minutes later he fell to the ground. Dr. Wallace was
summoned. Before he arrived, the
man was dead.
The deceased was 37
or 38 years of age. He leaves a wife and two children. It is supposed
that he got the acid at the warehouse.
HOODLESS - The remains of the late Joseph Hoodless were
consigned to earth this
afternoon, the funeral taking place at 3 p.m. from
Eastcourt, the residence of John Hoodless. It
was attended by a large concourse of citizens. The
pallbearers were Robert Young of
Brampton; C.W. Meakins, Alex Turner, R.R. Morgan, William
Bell, John Alexander, George
Russell and A.T. Freed. The chief mourners were John
Hoodless, son of the deceased; George
T. Tuckett and C.H. Porter of Cleveland, O., sons-in-law;
Fred A. Hoodless, nephew; Geo. J.
Tuckett and J. Bernard Hoodless, grandsons and J. Monro,
brother-in-law.
The employees of J.
Hoodless & Son attended the funeral in a body. They also sent a
beautiful floral design in the form of a broken wheel, which
was placed on the coffin. Many
other handsome floral tributes were sent by friends.
Revs. W.H. Wade,
Canon Curran and George A. Forneret were the officiating clergymen.
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BORNEMANN (Gravenhurst) July 5 - Herman Bornemann, a farmer
living a few miles from
this town, while putting a horse in his stable this
afternoon, was kicked on the breast just over
the heart and killed.
THOMPSON - William Thompson, a well-known and highly
respected young farmer of
Oneida township died last Monday morning after a short
illness, a victim of Bright’s disease.
There was an immense attendance at the funeral on Wednesday.
GLEASON (Brockville) July 5 - A five-year-old boy named
Gleason, son of the late Patrick
Gleason was drowned in the river here this afternoon. He had
been playing around the bank
and fell in unnoticed. The body was found some time after.
KETCHUMSEN - James Ketchumsen, of Cherry Valley, Ont., died
yesterday, aged 97. He
was one of the leading men in the township of Athol,
especially in temperance work and had
always been a Liberal in politics.
Monday, July 8
JACKSON - On Saturday, July 6, David Jackson, aged 39 years.
Funeral will take place on
Tuesday, 9th inst., at 3:30 p.m. from his late residence, 23
Ferrie street east. Friends will
please accept this intimation.
HAYES - On July 8, at his late residence, York road, West
Flamboro, John Hayes, in his 83rd
year. A native of the county Tipperary, Ireland. The funeral
will leave his late residence on
Wednesday morning at 9 o’clock to St. Augustine’s church,
thence to Holy Sepulchre
cemetery.
SHUTTLEWORTH - On the 7th inst., at 51 Leeming street,
Nettie A., the only child of Nettie
and James Shuttleworth of Geneva, NY. Funeral private.
HERRIMAN - At her late residence, 27 Bay st. south, on Sunday,
July 7, 1895, Sarah Jane,
beloved wife of Jebtha Herriman, aged 43 years and 10
months. Funeral private, Tuesday to
T.H. & B. station. Interment at Brant chapel.
STEPHENS (Montreal) - Drowned in Montreal on July 6, John,
eldest son of John Stephens,
formerly of Hamilton, age 17. Funeral from the residence of
his uncle, Philip Stephens, 171
Bold street on Tuesday at 3:30 p.m. Friends will please
accept this intimation.
John Stephens, eldest
son of John Stephens, formerly of this city, was drowned at Montreal
on Saturday. The funeral will take place from the residence
of his uncle, Philip Stephens, 171
Bold street, tomorrow.
HILDER - The Spectator this morning received word from
Whitehall, N.Y. that Edwin
Hilder, who belonged to Hamilton, had been shot and killed
by Newell Blanchard. The
murder was committed on Saturday. It is said that jealousy
prompted the deed, Hilder having
been seen with Blanchard’s wife on several occasions.
Blanchard had threatened to take
Hilder’s life but the young man did not think he was in
earnest, and laughed at him. Young
Hilder was a member of the fire department at Whitehall and
was exceedingly popular.
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The deceased’s mother
lives at 107 Inchbury street. Mrs. Hilder did not hear of her son’s
murder until a Spectator representative told her the sad
news. It was a terrible shock to her.
She said Edwin used to write to her regularly. She last
heard from him about a month ago.
She expected him home in October and was anxious to see him
as it is four years since he left
home.
When the deceased left Hamilton, he said he wanted to see
the world. For a couple of years,
he was on a sailing vessel and made a trip to the Cape of
Good Hope. He went to Whitehall
six or seven months ago. Young Hilder was about 22 years of
age. After he left school he
worked for D. McPhie for a short time. Mrs. Hilder is a
widow with four other children.
About a year ago her daughter died rather suddenly.
It was the intention
of the fire department to bury the body at Whitehall but Mrs. Hilder has
telegraphed to have the remains sent to Hamilton. Mrs.
Hilder identified a photograph of the
murdered young man as that of her son.
PRICE - The funeral of the late Alice May Price, who died
after a short illness, took place
yesterday from her grandfather’s residence, 47 Hughson
street north, and was attended by her
Sunday school class and members of the juvenile department
of the Daughters of England
Benevolent society who conducted the service at the grave,
the deceased having been a
member of that society.
DAVIDSON (Peterborough) July 8 - On Saturday afternoon,
James Davidson, a farmer, of
North Monagahan, was thrown from the top of a load of hay
and killed.
GARNOCH - John Garnoch, of Ancaster, a member of No. 4
company, Seventy-seventh
battalion, was brought to the city hospital Saturday
afternoon and died yesterday morning. He
had not been well since returning from camp. The hospital
authorities say the cause of death
was pneumonia.
REID (Leamington, Ont.) July 7 - Walter Reid, 18 years of
age, the youngest son of John M.
Reid, 9th concession, Mersea, was accidentally drowned in
the lake here today at 11 a.m. His
elder brother and he had driven to the lake for the purpose
of having a bathe and while
bathing, thought of taking the horse out also. Deceased and
a young man named Kennedy
mounted the horse and went out a considerable distance and
when turning to come ashore the
horse either rolled over or the young men slipped off and
young Reid, being unable to swim,
was drowned. His brother and the young man Kennedy, were
also unable to swim and did not
realize his danger until they could not help him. There was
no one on the shore at the time to
render assistance, and before Frank Ives, who lives a short
distance from the bathing grounds,
could arrive with his boat, the young man had been a
considerable time in the water. His body
was found almost at the exact spot where the accident
occurred and was speedily taken
ashore. Although every effort was put forth to resuscitate
him, it was of no avail.
COONEY (Brantford, Ont.) July 7 - A very sad fatality took
place on Friday afternoon about
three miles from the village of Burford. The 7-year-old
daughter of a farmer named Cooney
started to light the kitchen fire, and the wood, failing to
ignite, she used some coal oil. In an
instant the flames burst out and ignited her clothing, the
poor little thing becoming surrounded
by a sheet of flame. Her cries speedily brought assistance
but before she could be rescued, she
had sustained terrible injuries and died in fearful agony
shortly afterwards. The house also
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became ignited and was saved with great difficulty. The
father and mother were in the house
at the time of the sad mishap.
FITCH (Toronto) July 8 - John C. Fitch, of 566 Jarvis
street, dropped dead at Sunnyside on
Saturday night owing to overexerting himself in endeavouring
to catch a street car. The
deceased gentleman had been out to Long Branch in the
afternoon to see some friends and
was returning unaccompanied on the Mimico cars. About 10 pm,
he reached Sunnyside and
ran to catch a Queen street car, No. 400 which was just
starting. No sooner had he boarded it
than he fell insensible to the floor. The conductor and some
of the passengers carried the
dying man into the Sunnyside hotel, where, despite every
effort to arouse him, he speedily
passed away. Drs. Rowe and Aylesworth were called but before
they arrived, life was extinct.
Examination showed that he had died from heart failure and
Coroner Orr, who was
summoned, considered an inquest unnecessary.
The late Mr. Fitch
was 75 years old and for many years carried on a wholesale grocery
business in partnership with Col. John I. Davidson. The
present firm of Davidson & Hay is
the successor of the old firm of Fitch & Davidson which
was dissolved several years ago.
The only son of the
deceased was Lieut. Wm. Fitch of the Royal grenadiers who was killed
at the battle of Batoche in the rebellion of 1885. The
father never entirely recovered from the
sorrow of his son’s death. A monument erected in his memory
is today the chief ornament of
Mount Pleasant cemetery.
BOYD (Toronto) July 8 - Chancellor Boyd has been summoned to
Middlesex to attend the
funeral of his brother, Dr. Francis Boyd, concession 2,
London township, who died in the city
hospital on Friday afternoon at 5:30 from the results of
injuries sustained in a collision with
the London west electric car.
On Wednesday, Dr.
Boyd was in London west attending the funeral of Geo. Fearnley who
died at the age of 95 years. In company with another London
township resident named
Routledge, the doctor was turning off Charles street onto
the Wharncliffe road just as the
trolley car came along. The front wheels had barely cleared
the track when the car and rig
collided and the occupants of the latter were thrown a
considerable distance. Mr. Boyd was
the more seriously hurt and was hastily removed to the
hospital. He sustained a fracture at the
base of the skull, a broken nose, numerous bruises on the
head and injuries to his back.
Thursday morning he became delirious and gradually sank.
Death was due to the fracture.
Dr. Boyd was 76 years
old and one of the best-known residents of London township.
MYERS (St. Catharines, Ont.) July 8 - Joseph Myers, aged 16,
son of Anthony Myers, baker,
was drowned in the old canal below lock 2 Saturday night
while bathing.
Tuesday, July 9
HAYES - On July 9, at his late residence, York road, West
Flamboro, John Hayes, in his 83rd
year, a native of the county Tipperary, Ireland. The funeral
will leave his late residence on
Wednesday morning at 9 o’clock to St. Augustine’s church,
thence to Holy Sepulchre
cemetery.
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MORIN - At 50 Barton st. west, on the 8th inst., Francis Albert,
infant son of Joseph and
Catharine Morin, aged 10 months and 24 days. Funeral
Wednesday, July 10, at 3 p.m. Friends
will please accept this intimation.
MERNER (Berlin, Ont.) July 8 - Fred Merner, of New Hamburg,
brother of Senator Samuel
Merner, died at his home yesterday at the age of sixty-six
years. For a time Mr. Merner was
one of the wealthiest men of Waterloo county but he met with
business reverses and died in
comparatively humble circumstances.
JACKSON (Gravenhurst, Ont.) July 8 - James Jackson, one of
the most progressive farmers
on the west side of Lake Muskoka, was instantly killed by
the fall of a tree on his farm three
miles below Bala. He leaves a widow and five children.
BARNES (Woodstock, Ont.) July 8 - William Barnes, a baker,
employed by J.McCormick &
Co., confectioners, died this afternoon in Dr. A.M. Clarke’s
dentist parlour while having his
teeth extracted. During the day he had been troubled with
toothache and went to the dentist to
have his teeth removed and desired to have chloroform
administrated. Dr. McLurg was called
in to do this. Four teeth had been successfully removed and
while the fifth was being
extracted, he suddenly gasped and is supposed to have
expired immediately. Dr. Rice and
Odium were called in to assist in endeavouring to
resuscitate him but after an hour and a half
their efforts were unsuccessful and the unfortunate man was
pronounced dead. It is the
opinion of the doctors present that his sudden death
resulted in paralysis of the heart. He was
about 30 years of age and leaves a widow and one child two
years of age. He had resided in
Woodstock only two months, having removed here from
Stratford.
MILLER - Early this morning, Alexander Munro, of Munro and
Robertson, and his son, saw
what looked like the body of a man floating in the bay near
Hargrove station, north of the
canal at the beach. It was in about the same place as the
empty boat was found last Thursday
and Mr. Munro came to the conclusion that it was the body of
John Miller, the Toronto man
supposed to have been drowned last Wednesday.
Mr. Munro and his son
floated the body to the shore and it was afterwards taken to the city
morgue by Undertaker Blatchford. As there is some mystery
about Miller’s disappearance,
the police notified Coroner White who decided to hold an
inquest. The jury met at the city
hospital at noon today, James Main was chosen foreman. After
viewing the body, the jury
adjourned until Thursday night when further evidence will be
taken.
Whether he committed
suicide or was accidentally drowned will never be known.
STEPHENS (Montreal) July 8 - John Stephens, a brass
finisher, employed in Mitchell’s
foundry, went to the water with some companions to enjoy a
swim, got beyond his depth,
sank and was drowned. The body was brought to Hamilton and
the remains buried from the
residence of the dead young man’s uncle, Phillip Stephens,
171 Bold street this afternoon.
Wednesday, July 10
STERLING - Suddenly at Oakley, Ohio, on 6th inst., George B.
Sterling, of Chicago, Ill.,
second son of the late Mr. George Sterling of this city.
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PATULLO - Mrs. Andrew Patullo died at St. John’s hospital,
Toronto yesterday. Deceased
was a daughter of the highly-esteemed postmaster of
Oakville, Robert Balmer, who very
recently celebrated his golden wedding on which occasion
Mrs. Patullo was present.
Mrs. Patullo, the young wife of Andrew Patullo, of the
Woodstock Sentinel-Review, lies
dead, and the heartfelt sympathy of the whole newspaper
fraternity of the Dominion is with
the bereaved husband. The Spectator joins in the general and
sincere regret which the sad
occurrence has called for.
VANSICKLE (Alberton, Ont.) - On Wednesday of last week, Mrs.
Vansickle, wife of the late
James Vansickle died at the residence of her oldest son, Ira
Vansickle, near Onondaga. Old
age was the cause of death. The funeral took place on Friday
and was very largely attended.
The funeral service was conducted by her pastor, the Rev.
J.M. Wright, at the Trinity church.
The body was afterwards interred at the burying ground of
the White Brick church, Fiddler’s
Green. The deceased was born in 1814 in this township on the
farm now owned by Daniel
File. Her maiden name was Jane Bradshaw. In 1833, she was
married to James Vansickle.
They settled on a farm near where the Trinity church now is
and lived there until the death of
Mr. Vansickle about twelve years ago. Since that time she
lived among her family. Seven
sons and four daughters survive her. The deceased was a
remarkably strong active woman and
did much to aid her husband accumulate a large amount of
property. She was an earnest
Christian having united with the Methodist church in 1839
and taking an active part in church
work ever since.
BRISTOL (Tillsonburg, Ont.) July 10 - Rev. Emerson Bristol,
of the Hamilton conference,
better known as Elder Bristol of the former M.E. church now
superannuated, died at the
residence of his son-in-law, Rev. E.L. Clements here
yesterday. The Rev. Mr. Bristol has two
sons in the Methodist ministry, one at Arkona, the other at
Lynden. He was 82 years of age.
His remains will be taken to Ancaster, his former home for
burial.
Thursday, July 11
BRISTOL - At Tillsonburg, on 10th inst. Rev. E. Bristol,
aged 82 years. Funeral from his late
home, the residence of his son-in-law, F. Marshall,
Ancaster, at 1 o`clock on Friday, July 12
to White Brick cemetery. Friends and acquaintances will
please accept this intimation..
ARMSTRONG (Selkirk) July 11 - Rumors have been quite
prevalent hereabouts of the death
of an infant child of five months on the premises of Mrs.
Charlotte Webb, resident about three
miles from here, on the lake shore. These rumors have
culminated into a coroner`s inquest,
which was held at Cheapside, a village near here, where the
infant`s body was interred, and
evidence was elicited that the child was the illegitimate
offspring of a young woman, a Miss
Effie Armstrong, from Port Burwell, Port Rowan or Simcoe, at
each of which points she had
been resident; that she had engaged with Mrs. Webb near
here, and had been working in the
fields; also that she had weaned the infant when only three
months of age on coming here;
that it was kept upstairs, while she, Mrs Webb and her son,
all the members of the members
of the household, worked in the field; that it was subject
to fits and died on July 3. The girl`s
evidence, apparently, seemed to be under considerable
restraint, and contradicted in several
points that of the Webbs. It was also brought out that the
child was only fed on boiled bread
and water, and a very little sugar, in a sugar teat, made
with a piece of rag, five times a day.
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The post-mortem examination evidence of Dr. T.T.S. Harrison,
of Selkirk, brought out the
statement by him that the child came to its death by
starvation, there being nothing in the
stomach or intestines, while the organs were all healthy.
The jury after consideration, brought
in a verdict as follows: “We, the jury, empanelled to inquire
into the death of Harry
Armstrong, are of the opinion that deceased came to his
death by inanition, and we strongly
condemn the mother, Effie Armstrong, Mrs. Charlotte Webb and
Norman Webb.”
The matter is now in
the hands of the county crown attorney, C.W. Colter of Cayuga. It is
since alleged by the parties that evidence could have been
produced that would prove that the
Webbs would work in the field and compel the girl Armstrong
to do also all day and leave the
infant upstairs. Also, that they went to Cheapside and
Hagersville and left it in the house
while gone, though young Webb swore it was with them on this
occasion.
No public funeral was
awarded the infant and a coffin only was purchased here at $1.50
from the funeral director, Snyder, here as sworn to by him.
There is considerable excitement
over the matter in this neighborhood and it seems that some
condemn the jury strongly for not
bringing in such a verdict that the parties concerned would
be arrested immediately.
The body of the
infant was exhumed. It showed considerable emaciation, with several
bruises on its face, which are supposed to be caused by the
mother overlaying it at night, as
sworn by her.
Friday, July 12
WEBB - In this city, on July 12, Willie, only child of
Thomas and Edie Webb, aged 1 year
and 3 months. Funeral will take place on Sunday afternoon at
3.30 from his parents’
residence, cr. Wellington and Murray streets. Friends will
kindly accept this notice.
MORISON - On the 12th inst. At 212 Locke st. south Fred
Scott, infant son of Robert and
Tillie Morison. Funeral on Saturday at 2 p.m. Friends will
please accept this intimation.
MILLIGAN - In this city on July 12th,Gertrude Louisa only
and beloved daughter of Edward
and Louisa Milligan, aged 7 years and 3 months. Funeral from
her parents residence, No. 182
Locke st. north, on Sunday at 3 o’clock p.m. Friends will
please accept this intimation.
ROY(Kingston July 11) - The body of Mrs. Roy, of Sorel,
Quebec, was on the barge
Cunningham when it reached this port. She was the wife of
the captain and had been drowned
near Alexandria bay. She was in the cabin while the crew
were forward, and it is supposed in
stepping down slipped, fell overboard, struck her head and
was speedily drowned before her
absence was noticed. Her body was sent to Sorel for burial.
Seven children, one an infant of a
few months, survive. Deceased was about 40 years of age.
Saturday, July 13
WEBB - In this city on July 12, Willie, only child of Thomas
and Edie Webb, aged 1 year and
3 months . Funeral will take place on Sunday afternoon, at
3.30 from his parents’ residence,
cor. Wellington and Murray streets. Friends will kindly
accept this notice.
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MILLIGAN - In this city on July 12th, Gertrude Louisa, only
and beloved daughter of
Edward and Louisa Milligan, aged 7 years and 3 months.
Funeral from her parents residence,
No 182 Locke st. north, on Sunday at 3 o’clock p.m. Friends
will please accept this
intimation.
WARDELL - On the 12th inst., at the residence of his son A.
R. Wardell , Orchard Hill,
Ancaster, in his 92nd year, Richard Wardell, youngest son of
the late Richard Wardell M.P.,
Plymouth, England. Funeral private.
R. Wardell, father of
A.R. Wardell of Dundas, died at his son’s residence yesterday at the
age of 92. He was the youngest son of John Wardell member of
parliament for Plymouth
Eng., and came to Canada when a young man, locating near
Dundas. He lived there until
about 1870, when he went to Chicago to reside with his son
Charles, returning to Dundas last
year. He was a gentleman of remarkable virility and
preserved his vigor until within the past
year, when his health began to fail. The funeral will take
place on Monday from Orchard
place, the residence of A.R. Wardell.
FULTON - At Strabane, on July 12th, James Fulton in his 80th
year. Funeral from his late
residence, Brock Road, on Sunday at 10 a.m. to Strabane
cemetery. Friends will please accept
this intimation.
James Fulton, one of
the oldest members of the Conservative party in North Wentworth ,
died at Strabane yesterday in his 80th year. He was a native
of Tyrone, Ireland, and came to
Canada in his youth. He leaves a family of four sons - John,
William, Daniel and James
Fulton - and four daughters - Mrs John Rogers, Strabane; Mrs
James Purvis, of Hamilton:
Mrs. Wm. Johnson, of Campbellville, and Miss Lizzie Fulton.
SHAW (Glanford) - James Shaw, son of James Shaw, of this
township, was killed in Detroit.
His body is being sent home for burial.
MILLER (Port Hope) July 12 - Mrs James Miller, Peter street,
died suddenly this morning. A
neighbor’s wife was taken ill about 11 o’clock last night
and the husband went to get Mrs.
Miller to wait on the sick woman. She told him not to wait
for her, that she would be along
shortly. He returned home and waited an hour and a half and
then went to see the cause of the
delay, and when a hundred yards from her residence, he found
Mrs. Miller lying by the side
of the walk dead.
SALTER (Toronto) July 13 - Coroner Johnson has issued a
warrant, calling for an inquest
into the cause of the death of two infant children aged
respectively 4 and 3 months, the
parents of whom, William Salter and wife, and Mrs. Webb, a
widow, reside at 148 Chestnut
street. The children, the elder a boy and the younger a
girl, have, during the past two months,
been daily left at the creche conducted by the Toronto
Mission union, in Hayter street, while
their mothers went to work.
On Saturday last Dr.
E.H. Adams, of Queen street east, visited the children, whom he found
in an emaciated and moribund condition. Both children showed
similar symptoms, and have
since died at their parents residence, the girl on Wednesday
and the boy on Thursday last. The
doctor issued the usual burial permits and declared death
due to mal-nutrition. The police,
believing the children have been neglected, have taken the
step of having an inquest held.
Mrs. Webb states that her child has been sickly from birth.
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William Salter says
that his child was taken ill on May 23 last, and was attended by Dr.
Clingan, that the doctor afterwards visited the creche. He
added that the lady in charge of the
children appeared suitable for the task.
Monday, July 15
CLARK - In this city on Sunday, July 14, Gordon Clayton,
only son of Rosamond and
George J. Clark, aged 1 year and 9 months. Funeral Tuesday,
4 p.m., from their residence, 84
West avenue south. Friends please accept this intimation.
BLAKELY - In this city on July 14, Robert Blakely, aged 85
years. Funeral from his late
residence 229 Emerald street north, on Tuesday at 2:30 p.m.
Friends and acquaintances will
please accept this intimation. No flowers.
Robert Blakely died
yesterday at his residence, 229 Emerald street north after a short
illness. He was a native of county Tyrone, Ireland, having
been born there in 1810. He came
to Hamilton in 1854 and was for 30 years a nightwatchman
here. He was a member of the
Orange order and a good Conservative. The deceased leaves
two sons- Robert Blakely,
Buntin Gillies & Co., and John Blakely of the Eagle
Knitting company - and one daughter,
Mrs. James Muir.
HASTINGS - At his mother’s residence, No. 63 West avenue
north, on Monday, July 15,
1895, James Henry Hastings, youngest son of the late William
Hastings, aged 20 years and 5
months. Funeral Wednesday at 2 p.m., to church of St.
Thomas. Interment at Hamilton
cemetery. Friends will please accept this intimation.
MONDAY - Yesterday Abraham Monday, a 13-year-old lad, whose
parents live on the bank
of the Grand river about two miles from Caledonia, went in
the river for a swim. He took a
cramp and was drowned. The water at the point where the lad
was drowned is not more than
six feet deep. The body was recovered a couple of hours
after the accident occurred.
Monday’s parents used to live at Mount Hope.
FARROUGH (Essex) July 13 - A 7-year-old son of John
Farrough, of Maidstone, was fatally
gored by a cow on Friday evening about six o’clock. A wound
six inches in length was made
in the abdomen. The child died this morning.
GRIFFEN (Smith’s Falls, Ont.) July 14 - A young man named
Wesley Griffen, residing near
Brockville, was run over and killed on the railway track
near here on Friday night. His
remains were found yesterday morning scattered along the track,
and must have been tossed
back and forth by four trains which passed through the
night.
Tuesday, July 16
CURRAN - At the Home of St. John the Divine, Toronto, on
July 15, 1895, Captain T.
Bannington Curran, in his 84th year. Funeral private.
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FLEMING - At his residence, Lake Shore, Township of Nelson,
County of Halton, on
Monday, July 15th, John Fleming in the 75th year of his age.
Funeral will take place on
Wednesday, the 17th inst., to St. Jude’s cemetery, Oakville,
at 2 o’clock p.m.
HASTINGS - At his mother’s residence, No. 63 West avenue
north, on Monday July 15,
1895, James Henry Hastings, aged 20 years and 5 months.
Funeral Wednesday at 2 p.m. to
church of St. John. Interment at Hamilton cemetery. Friends
will please accept this intimation.
HOLMES - At his late residence, Barrie, Ont., on Sunday,
July 14, 1895, William Holmes
aged 38 years. Funeral from G.T.R. Stuart street station
to-morrow (Wednesday) at 2.45 p.m.
Friends will please accept this intimation.
The funeral of
William Holmes, of Barrie, is postponed until 2.30 Wednesday afternoon
from the Stuart street station. The Foresters will kindly
meet that train.
CURRAN - Canon Curran’s father, the oldest of the captains
who sailed upon our inland
waters , died yesterday in Toronto at the advanced age of
84.
NEWELL (Ottawa) July 16 - The inquest on the body of Mary
Newell, the 16-year-old girl
who died while being taken to the Water street hospital in a
hack, was concluded last night. A
verdict was returned to the effect that the deceased had
come to her death from shock and
exhaustion being the result of a poisonous irritant, taken
some time previously. Annie
Summers, an inmate of the hospital, deposed that while in
the hospital deceased had told her
that she had taken some horse medicine in a stable that
smelled of carbolic acid. She had
taken it because her parents had turned against her on
account of having turned Protestant.
Wednesday, July 17
MOORE - Rev. T. Albert Moore, of Palmerston, formerly of
Hamilton, is mourning the death
of an infant son.
OILLE (Fulton, Ont.) - Mrs. Oille, who was formerly a
resident of this place, died at her
home in Smithville on Saturday morning. A number of her
friends here attended the funeral
on Monday afternoon.
SAUNDERS (Ogdensburg N,Y.) July 16 - Capt. Saunders, of
Kingston Ont., was drowned in
the St. Lawrence , opposite this city while crossing the
river in company with Daniel
McCartin of Prescott. Capt. Saunders fell out of the boat.
He leaves a wife and children.
Capt. John Saunders,
who was drowned at Ogdensburg yesterday morning, was about forty
years of age, and one of the most skilful navigators in
Ontario. He sailed seven vessels, the
last being the schooner Ella Murton, of Hamilton.
GOSLING (Toronto) July 17 - The charge of murder laid
against Stephen Wright and Mary
A. Clarke, who was said to have caused the death of a woman
named Charlotte Gosling, in a
house in Symes place on June 10 last, was partially
investigated at the police court yesterday.
Dr. Bingham filed his
report of the post mortem examination. He said the primary cause of
death was Bright’s disease and the immediate cause some sort
of shock. The spleen was
ruptured, which might have been caused by a slight blow, or
by someone leaning with their
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knee upon the woman. There were also some cuts upon the
face, made recently, but not
sufficient to cause death.
Mr Tytler, the
witness, said deceased was in a very bad state of health and could not have
lived long in any event. He would not have been surprised to
hear of her death at any moment.
The doctor thought, however, that some violence had preceded
death, either by a fall, fit,
convulsions or blow. The enquiry was adjourned.
JEFFERSON (Parry Sound, Ont.) July 16 - An explosion
occurred here in a machine shop
yesterday afternoon, at which Charles Jefferson, engineer,
was mortally wounded, and three
other men slightly injured. A cylinder was being heated,
when it suddenly exploded with
terrific force. It was found that it contained water,
unknown to the workmen. Part of the end
of the building was blown out. Jefferson received internal
injuries from which he died three
hours afterwards. Alex. Adair was cut in the face and head.
John Wood was slightly cut and
one other slightly hurt.
WILSON (Durham, Ont.) July 16 - The four-year-old son of
Archibald Wilson, of
Glenroaden Mills, was drowned this afternoon in the Saugeen.
He went with his brothers and
sisters picking berries in the fields along the river, and
after straying from them fell over the
bank into the water.
Thursday, July 18
MACINTYRE - In this city, on July 17, Hugh MacIntyre, aged
29 years. Funeral from his
brother’s residence 160 Macnab street north, on Friday
morning at 8.30 o’clock to G.T.R.
Stuart st. station. Interment at Woodlands cemetery, near
Mount Forest. Friends and
acquaintances will please accept this intimation.
Hugh McIntyre, a past
president of the Hamilton Gaelic society, died yesterday after a few
days illness. He had however, been ailing for some years.
Mr. McIntyre was a native of
Mount Forest, Ont., and came to Hamilton ten years ago. For
a short time he was engaged in
the wood and coal business. He was a member of Knox church,
was 29 years of age, and
unmarried. The remains will be taken to Mount Forest for
burial.
QUINN - Word has been received here that Eddie Quinn, eldest
son of W. Quinn, general
freight agent of the G.T.R. at Liverpool, was drowned while
yachting on a lake near that city
last week. Mr. Quinn and his family have many friends in
Hamilton who will hear the sad
news with deep regret.
JAGOE - James Jagoe, son of James Jagoe, died at Chicago on
Tuesday. The body will be
brought to Hamilton for interment. H.B.Jagoe, the popular
representative of the West Shore
railway is in the city to attend the funeral.
TUGENTHAFT (Toronto) July 18 - Mike Tugenthaft, a
10-year-old newsboy was killed by a
trolley near the corner of King and Yonge streets last
evening. The accident occurred at 6:20,
just when the corner was crowded.
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The little,
bare-footed Hebrew lad made an attempt to board the motor of a west-bound
King street car. He missed his hold by the right hand, on
which he seized the other hand bar
with his left hand, and the car being in motion, he swung
round and fell between the motor
and the trailer.
The car had almost reached the stopping place, and the brake
was immediately applied. The
car was stopped but not before the two wheels had passed
over the boy’s body. He was
promptly extricated and laid on the pavement.
Dr. Emory of Grace
hospital who was riding his bicycle in King street saw the accident. Dr.
McCully and other medical men were soon in the crowd that
collected. The ambulance was
summoned and accompanied by Dr. Emory, the sufferer, who was
unconscious, was taken to
Grace hospital. From the first it was manifest that there
was no hope for the boy, He lingered
however for three-quarters of an hour after admission to the
hospital. Thence the remains
were taken to the morgue.
The boy’s parents
reside at 24 Terauley street. They have a large family and cannot speak
English. The mother’s husband is a pedlar. and was last
heard of in Lindsay yesterday.
Friday, July 19
HILL - On July 18, at her late residence, 58 Spring street,
Jane Kennedy, of Dumfrieshire,
Scotland, relict of the late Wm. Hill, aged 70 years.
Funeral from the above address at 4
o’clock, Saturday, the 20th. Service at the house at 3.30.
Please omit flowers.
STONEHAM - In this city on July 19th, Harriet Ann Stoneham,
beloved wife of the late
William Stoneham. Funeral from her late residence, 138
Hunter street east, on Sunday at 2.30
p.m. Friends and acquaintances will please accept this
intimation
POWER - In this city on the 19th inst., Jeremiah Joseph,
only son of Thomas and Minnie
Power, aged 10 months and 12 days. Funeral will take place
from his father’s residence, 171
Market street, on Saturday, at 2:30 pm.
GREENE (Orillia, Ont.) July 18 - Richard Eustice Greene,
eldest son of Rev. Canon Greene,
was drowned in Lake Couchiching. He was not missed till the
afternoon, and later his boat
was found with the ballast all in the bow, and the stern
just floating above water, near Heron
island. The steamer Longford has taken out searching
parties, but no trace of the body has
been found.
HENDERSON (Belleville, Ont.) July 18 - L.H. Henderson, city
treasurer and city solicitor,
died very suddenly in his office shortly before 1 o’clock
to-day. Deceased who was 77 years
of age, leaves a widow, a daughter and a son. Deceased was
highly esteemed and was a
prominent member of the Masonic order. He was also the
commanding officer of the
Fifteenth battalion.
SMITH (Toronto) July 19 - Acting County Crown Attorney W.E.
Raney, High Constable
Jones and Constable Savage, of Newmarket accompanied by
Coroner A.J.Johnson, Dr. John
Caven and Dr. George A. Bingham of this city visited
Kettleby cemetery, in the county of
York, yesterday and exhumed the body of Mrs Sarah Smith,
wife of a farmer residing on the
stone road between Bradford and Holland’s Landing about a
mile south of the former place.
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Mrs. Smith died about three weeks ago, and subsequent to her
interment rumors were
circulated that her death resulted from abortion. These
rumors were communicated to the
authorities and it was decided to exhume the body and hold
an inquest into the cause of her
death. The original intention was to hold the inquest at
Holland’s Landing but subsequently
this was changed to Aurora. Owing to the delay in securing a
jury, the doctors did not reach
Kettleby cemetery until nearly dusk, and the post-mortem was
postponed until to-day. The
inquest will be resumed at Aurora to-night, It is alleged
that Mrs. Smith went to a doctor and
told him that she did not wish to have any more children,
that he subsequently operated upon
her with instruments and as a result she died.
COOK (Toronto) July 19 - An old pensioner named James Cook,
who has been working as a
tailor for J.W. Cheeseworth, Bay street, dropped dead as he
sat at dinner yesterday in his
boarding house, 25 Temperance street. Several doctors were
called in but their efforts to
resuscitate him failed. An inquest has been called by
Coroner Young but it is probable that it
will not be held, as the doctors certify that death was due
to heart disease.
READY (St. Catharines) - A horrible accident occurred
Wednesday afternoon on the farm of
the Widow Moot, on the Smithville road, whereby a young man
lost his life, dying a fearful
death.
Patrick Ready, aged
22, worked as a farmhand for Mrs. Moot and was engaged drawing in
hay, using a wagon with iron uprights. He took a large load
into the barn, and not thinking
about the iron uprights, attempted to slide to the ground,
when one of them pieced him near
the hip, impaling hm and coming out near his mouth. The poor
fellow screamed fearfully, and
as soon as possible he was taken off the stake, and Dr.
Bowman of Beamsville, and Dr.
Greenwood, of this city, summoned. Soon they were on the
spot and did everything possible,
but to no avail, for he died about midnight.
Ready was spoken
about as an exceptional fine young fellow, and his horrible death has cast
a gloom over the neighbourhood. The hay rack has been seen
occasionally on the market and
more than one person has prophesied that an accident would
occur.
Saturday, July 20
HORN - At his late residence, No 347 Hughson st. north, on
Saturday 20th July, 1895,
Thomas Horn in his 67th year. Funeral Monday at 3:30 pm.
Friends will please accept this
intimation. No flowers.
WALTON - At Riverside, California, on the 19th inst., Alfred
Morrison, aged 36 years, eldest
son of the late Rev. John Walton, formerly of “Greenends”,
Alston, Cumberland, England.
BLOWES - In this city on 19th inst., Sarah, daughter of
Catharine and the late James Blowes.
Funeral on Sunday at 2.30 pm from her mother’s residence,
No.267 Bay street north to St.
Mary’s Cathedral and thence to Holy Sepulchre cemetery.
Friends and acquaintances will
please accept this intimation.
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RUMPLE - On Saturday, July 20, Lila Murial, daughter of
Frederick and Minerva Rumple,
aged 4 months and 2 weeks. Funeral from her grandfather’s
residence, 28 Davenport street,
Sunday at 4 pm. Friends and acquaintances will please accept
this intimation.
HANCOCK (Swansea, Ont.) July 20 - A young man by the name of
William Hancock, 128
Harrison street, Toronto, was drowned in the Humber river,
under the railway bridge at about
10:15 this forenoon.
BOYLE (Collingwood, Ont.)July 19 - Patrick Joseph Boyle, killed
in a railroad accident at
Rush City, Minn., was buried here to-day.
GALLAUGHER (Lisle, Ont.) July 19 - John Gallaugher, reeve of
Tossorontio, was killed by
a wagon upsetting. Mr. Gallaugher was struck by a large can
of milk, his injuries proving fatal
in a few minutes.
Monday, July 22
MCPHERSON - In this city, on July 21, after a long and
painful illness borne with Christian
fortitude and patience, Alexander McPherson in his 72nd
year. Funeral from his late
residence, 274 Barton street east, on Tuesday July 23, at
3:30 p.m. Friends will please accept
this intimation. Friends kindly omit flowers.
REID - At the City Hospital, Hamilton, Ont., on Sunday 21st
inst., William James Philps
Gordon Reid, a native of Aberdeen Scotland aged 73 years.
The funeral will leave Pray’s
undertaking rooms , King street west, at 3 o’clock on
Tuesday, 23rd inst. Friends and
acquaintances will please attend without further notice.
Wm. James Philps
Gordon Reid, a native of Aberdeen, Scotland, died at the city hospital
yesterday afternoon . Mr. Reid was better known in Hamilton
as eccentric Wullie Reid. He
had lived in the city for many years and was the possessor
of a large amount of real estate, his
possessions numbering some twenty-one houses. He was a
kindly old man, but rather irritable
when aroused, and was always warring with his neighbours,
and has more than once figured
in police court cases. His last trouble was with ex-Ald.
Brick whom he was accused of having
libelled. The case was settled out of court.
Some weeks ago “Wullie”
was stricken with paralysis and this hastened his death. He was
fast breaking up before the stroke came, being 73 years old.
The funeral will take place from
Pray’s undertaking rooms on Tuesday afternoon.
Wullie Reid the
eccentric old Scotchman who died in the hospital on Sunday, never had a
more faithful friend than a mongrel dog which he named
“Collie”. After Wullie was removed
to the hospital the dog became very fretful, and his doleful
whining was incessantly heard by
the neighbors night or day. They endeavored to pacify him
with all kinds of delicacies in the
shape of food but their efforts were futile and poor Collie
continued to moan. Yesterday,
however, the whining of the dog ceased, and upon investigation
Collie was found dead on the
back doorstep of Wullie’s late residence.
For many years Wullie
and his dog have been inseparable, sleeping in the same bed and
eating from the same dish. It was a very sagacious canine
and seemed to understand
thoroughly his master’s peculiarities.
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RODGERS, (Niagara) July 21 - A sad affair took place near
Six-Mile Creek some time last
evening, in which a young man named George S. Rodgers lost
his life while playing a
practical joke on an Italian named Dominick, employed by
Frank Havens as a farm hand. The
two young men were cocking hay when Rodgers left the field ,
and going to the house,
returned with a sheet, intending to frighten the Italian,
who had a mortal fear of ghosts.
Enveloping himself in the sheet, he hid behind a cock of
hay, and as the Italian came along
suddenly sprang up before him. The Italian being nearly
frightened to death, quickly thrust his
pitchfork into Rodger’s eye, inflicting injuries from which
he died almost immediately.
Nothing has yet been done to the Italian.
HOGAN (St. Catharines) July 21 - A barn belonging to Stewart
Jones, a colored farmer of
Grantham township, was burned on Saturday night about
midnight and about $500 damage
was done to the barn and contents. The fire was of incendiary
origin, and is supposed to have
been caused by a colored man named Hogan, formerly employed
by Jones who as
disappeared and is supposed to have committed suicide by
jumping into the new canal. He has
a peculiar walk, and his footsteps were traced from the barn
to the canal bank, where his hat,
stick, vest and purse were found. A party have been dragging
the level all day, trying to find
the body, but so far without success. Hogan was 70 years
old.
CHANTLER (Woodstock) July 21 - James Chantler, aged 86, an
inmate of the house of
industry, ate a hearty breakfast Saturday morning, leaned
back in his chair and expired.
MORDEN - The death of A.L. Morden, Q.C., crown attorney for
Lennox and Addington,
occurred at Liverpool.
CRAIG (Bond Head, Ont.) July 20 - A son of W.M. Craig’s was
frightfully kicked by a horse
while attempting to harness him. Besides having a fracture
of the skull and one broken thigh,
young Craig received several body wounds. He lived only two
hours.
Tuesday, July 23
MCGEE (Hamilton) - Chief Smith sent Sergeant Vanatter and
P.C. Knox over the bay this
morning with grappling-irons to search for the body of Prof.
McGee, who was drowned last
night.
RIDOUT (Toronto) July 23 - Norman Stewart Ridout, 125
Tyndall avenue, son of the late
Donald Ridout, was killed by a railway train at St. Anne’s,
Quebec, on Saturday. Mr. Ridout,
who was a cadet in the Royal Military college, Kingston, was
one of a surveying party who
were working about 25 miles from Montreal. He was standing
on one track and stepped on to
the other to allow a train to pass. He stepped directly
before a train on the latter track, and
died ten minutes after being struck. The funeral will take
place this afternoon at 3 o’clock.
JEFFERSON (Parry Harbor) July 18 - On Monday July 15, a
terrible accident took place at
Wm. Peter’s new mill here, as a result of which Charles
Jefferson, a blacksmith, lost his life,
while Joseph Bovaier , an engineer, was disfigured for life
and Alex. Adair and W.H.
Dearborn were severely cut about the head and face. The
accident was caused by the bursting
of the piston of the steam log roller, the rod of which had
got bent while working and as the
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men were unable to straighten it cold, it was placed in the
forge and heated. Steam was
noticed coming from the piston head, in which some water had
gathered, and a moment later
it exploded with great force, wrecking the end of the
blacksmith shop in which the repair was
being made and injuring fatally Jefferson who was holding it
in the fire. Jefferson’s wounds
proved to be internal and he died in three hours, while
Bovaier’s cheek was broken. The
deceased, who was 31 years of age, was a steady and
industrious man and had been just a year
married. He was a native of Goderich and his body was on
Tuesday removed from there and
to-day it was buried in that town.
JAMES (Toronto) July 23 - Miss Sarah James, daughter of
Walton James, a farmer, living
near Utica P.O., Uxbridge township, died at 49 Bellevue
avenue yesterday under
circumstances which caused the authorities to suspect that
death resulted from a criminal
operation,
Miss James, who was a
good-looking young woman of 22, had been teaching school for
some time at Corbetton, Grey county. While there, she became
engaged to a young farmer
named Albert Somerville of Bonda. The two were to be married
shortly and when school
closed, Miss James spent two weeks at her lover’s home. Two
weeks ago to-day, she called at
the house of Mrs Doherty, 4 Bellevue avenue and told Mrs
Doherty that she was not well and
that Dr. Lehman of Spadina avenue had recommended her to
come to her house to board for a
week or two, until she had recovered.
The young woman
gradually grew worse and on Saturday last her mother and her lover
were telegraphed for. They arrived the same day and remained
with her until her death, which
took place yesterday morning. Before she died, George
Hewson, 71 Palmerston avenue, a
friend of the James family, was summoned.
After the death had
taken place Mr. Hewson had a conversation with Somerville, in the
course of which the latter according to Hewson’s story to
the police, said “I paid that doctor
$40 to do that job, and if he had done his work right there
would have been no trouble.” No
name was mentioned. Hewson at once communicated the
statement to Inspector Johnson of
the Third precinct. An officer was at once dispatched to the
house, and arrived just in time to
intercept Undertaker E.J. Humphrey, who had given a burial
certificate, and was about to
remove the body.
Dr. Lehman’s
statement is as follows: “A week ago last Wednesday a young lady, who
afterwords proved to be Miss James, came to me and
complained of sharp pains in the
abdomen. I prescribed for her, thinking she had a slight
touch of inflamation. I saw her at
intervals during the week, and I became a little suspicious.
On the Tuesday following I though
there was something wrong and questioned the girl very
closely. She finally admitted
pregnancy, and said she thought the child was dead. I called
Dr. E.E. King in consultation,
and we decided that an operation was necessary. This was
performed on Wednesday and we
took from her a five months foetus which had no doubt been
dead for some time. The poor
girl gradually sank until her death yesterday.”
When Mrs. Hewson, 17
Palmerston avenue, was interviewed she was very reluctant to give
any information, but said that Somerville had made the
statement to her husband with which
he is credited. The parents of the young girl are wealthy
and highly respected farmers of
Uxbridge township. Somerville, who admitted he had betrayed
her, is about 23 years of age
and is the son of a well-to-do farmer of South Simcoe. He
returned to his home yesterday, but
will be recalled for the inquest. A post-mortem examination
of the body will be made, and
when the jury have viewed the remains to-night they will be
forwarded to Utica for interment.
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Wednesday, July 24
OSBORN - In this city, on the 24th inst., Thomas Mills,
youngest son of Cephas and Rosa
Osborn, aged 8 months. Funeral from parents residence, 275
Mary street, on Thursday
afternoon at 3.30. Friends will kindly accept this notice.
HUNTER - In this city, on July 23rd, Robert Hunter, a native
of Peebleshire, Scotland, in the
67th year of his age. Funeral will take place from his late
residence, Ida street, on Friday, at 3
p.m. Friends will please accept this notice.
Robert Hunter, high
constable of Wentworth and auctioneer, died last night. He had been
ailing for ten months, although he was not confined to his
bed.
The deceased was in
the sixty-sixth year of his age, and was born in Edinburgh, Scotland.
He was fourteen years of age when his parents came to
Canada. For many years he was a
farmer in Beverly. When he was twenty-two he had the
misfortune to lose his arm. Mr.
Hunter also acted as bailiff of the forth division court for
a number of years. In 1874 he
moved to Hamilton and was appointed bailiff of the ninth
division court, which position he
filled for six years. Fifteen years ago he was appointed
high constable of Wentworth. He was
a familiar figure at all the courts.
Mr. Hunter leaves a
widow, four sons - William, Alex.,James and John - and four daughters
- Mrs. McEachern, Portland, Ore., Mrs. R.C. Pettigrew, of
this city, and two unmarried
daughters. Mrs. Hunter has been ill for two weeks.
MCGEE - Up to a late hour this afternoon the body of Prof.
McGee had not been recovered
from the bay. Sergt. Sergt. Venater and P.C. Knox were down
on the water again to-day
grappling, but without success. The fact that the drowned
man has no clothing on makes it
very difficult to locate his body with hooks. Prof. Parks
has engaged Wesley Lee to search for
the body, and this afternoon L. McDonald started out with
some dynamite to explode in the
vicinity of the drowning, in the hope of raising the body.
CLARK (Brantford) July 23 - The body of Agnes, the
two-year-old daughter of Frank Clark,
was found lying in the Grand river this evening in front of
her father’s door. No one saw her
fall into the water, but it is supposed she was playing on
the embankment at the spot indicated
and fell over into the water, which, though very shallow,
was sufficient to drown her.
CHAMBERS (Chatham) July 23 - Wm. Chambers, aged 108 years by
actual proof, died at his
home in Dresden yesterday after a brief illness. Up to the
time of his death he retained his
faculties to a wonderful extent and could talk as clearly
and briskly as a man in middle life.
The deceased was a veteran of Waterloo, though he did not
take part in the action, being a
youth and filling a position which at that time kept him in
the field. But he saw many another
fight, and nothing pleased him more than to gather a crowd
around him, “shoulder his crutch
and tell how fields were won”. He was a user of whiskey and
tobacco all his life. About a year
ago the patriarch returned from a trip to the far west to
visit his sons. He made the journey
alone.
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JAMES (Toronto) July 24 - The inquest into the cause of the
death of Miss Sarah James, the
young woman whom the police believe died from the effects of
a criminal operation, was
opened by Coroner Johnson at the undertaking establishment
of E.J. Humphrey, 407 Queen
street west, yesterday . The jury was sworn, and an
adjournment made until Thursday
evening.
Detective Slemin left
last evening for Banda, and it is expected his investigations there will
result in one or more arrests.
Thursday, July 25
MCGEE - Drowned in Hamilton bay on Monday, July 22, David W.
McGee, B.A., Ph.D,
lecturer in orientals , Toronto University, aged 23 years.
Funeral from the residence of Mr.
Parks, No.164 Stinson st., on Friday at 3 p.m. friends will
please accept this intimation.
This morning the body
of Dr. McGee, the Toronto university lecturer, who was drowned on
Monday, was found by a couple of young men in a rowboat. It
was doubled up, and the
appearance of it gives weight to the theory that the young
man took cramps when he was in
bathing. The body was recovered in about ten feet of water.
It was carried on shore, and was
brought to the city by Undertaker Blachford.
The funeral will take
place to-morrow from the residence of Mr. Parks, 164 Stinson street,
Hamilton.
CASTELL (Kingston) July 25 - William Castell, butcher, of
Ellenburg, died this morning
from the effects of a blow from a baseball bat received at
Sydenham yesterday. He interrupted
a game, rushing at R. Wycott, of Odessa, at the plate. In
self-defense, Wycott struck Castell
over the forehead. A fight ensued. Castell was taken away
and some time after grew drowsy,
became unconscious, and died. An inquest will be held.
COOMBES (London) July 25 - Robert and Nathaniel Coombes,
aged respectively 13 and 11
years, who murdered their mother about three weeks ago by
stabbing her while she was
asleep and lived ten days in the house with her decomposing
body, were arraigned in the
police court this morning. The police authorities announced
that they would not charge the
younger brother with participation in the crime, but they
would call him to witness.
Nathaniel was placed
in the witness box and told of his brother’s having bought the knife
with which the killing was done. He did not see his mother
killed, but heard her groan, and
went into the room and looked at her while she was dying.
His brother admitted to him that it
was he who had killed her. The magistrate committed the
elder brother, Robert, and a halfwitted
man Fox, who was arrested with the boys, for trial on the
charge of murder and held
Nathaniel as a witness.
Friday, July 26
JONES - In this city, on July 25, Thomas Jones, a native of
County Kerry, Ireland, aged 66
years. Funeral from his late residence 221 Maria street, on
Saturday, July 27, at 2 o’clock
p.m. to St. Patrick’s church, thence to Holy Sepulchre
cemetery. Friends and acquaintances
will please accept this intimation.
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CAIRNS (Sarnia) July 25 - Some time during Sunday night,
July 14, Frank Cairns, the 19-
year-old son of J.K. Cairns, of the lake shore, left his
home, and it was supposed that he went
on the lake, as a boat belonging to Mr. West on the lake
shore, was taken during the night,
and no trace of it has since been heard of.
Cornelius O’Brian, of
the lake shore, saw something floating in the lake and after procuring
assistance went out to see what the object was, and they
were rewarded by finding the body of
a young man floating in the water.
They towed the body
ashore and it was there identified as that of Cairns. There was a bullet
hole in the deceased’s forehead and a large weight was
fastened to his body, which would
indicate that it was a determined case of suicide.
PEGG (Toronto) July 26 - The residents of Thornhill were
startled on Tuesday upon hearing
that one of their citizens, James Pegg, had dropped dead.
Deceased was out in the bush with
one or two others digging with a spade, when suddenly he was
noticed to fall forward on the
ground and expired in a few moments. He had not enjoyed good
health for the past year.
Heart failure is supposed to have been the cause of death.
Deceased, who was about 40 years
of age, leaves a wife and one child.
BROWN (Scotland) July 25 - William Brown, a resident of
Scotland, Ont., was found in
Foster’s pond, in this village, this afternoon. He is supposed
to have drowned himself, having
been despondent for some time. The coroner was here this
afternoon, and will probably hold
an inquest to-morrow.
Saturday, July 27
MUIR - At Lochwinnock, Scotland, on July 10, Robert Muir,
aged 76 late of 246 MacNab
street north, Hamilton. Buried at Lochwinnoch, July 12.
Robert Muir, late of
245 MacNab street north, in this city, died at Lochwinnoch, Scotland,
on July 10, aged seventy-six. Mr. Muir had gone to Scotland
for his health, accompanied by
his wife. He had been a resident of Dundas and Hamilton for
the past fifteen years. He leaves
a family of five daughters and two sons.
CORP - In this city, on July 27, Marcella, eldest daughter
of James Monds and beloved wife
of Ernest J. Corp, aged 26. Funeral from the residence of
her father.162 Locke st. north, on
Monday at 3:30 p.m. Friends and acquaintances will please
accept this intimation. No
flowers.
STIPE - On July 26th, William Edward, infant son of William
and Frances Stipe, Barton, aged
6 weeks and 5 days. Funeral Sunday afternoon at 2 o’clock.
Friends and acquaintances will
please accept this intimation.
FOSTER - Accidently killed on Friday, July 26, Emma Foster,
aged 39 years. From her
mother’s residence, No. 41 Nightingale st., Monday at 2 p.m.
Friends will accept this
intimation.
Emma Foster met her
death in a simple way. The young woman tried to get off a car when it
was in motion. She fell on the asphalt pavement, she struck
her head with great force and died
in a short time.
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TORRENCE (Ottawa) July 26 - Information was received here
yesterday that Fraser
Torrence, who is well known in Ottawa having been connected
for some years with the
geological survey, has been found dead near Rat Portage. It
is not known whether his death
was accidental or the result of suicide or foul play. He has
not been connected with the survey
for the last five or six years, and at the time of his death
was prospecting in the gold regions
about Rat Portage.
BAYLEY (London) July 26 - Mrs. C.H. Bayley, wife of the
well-known Dundas street dry
goods merchant, died suddenly to-day, in the 31st year of
her age, about 6 o’clock yesterday
morning she experienced a paralytic stroke, which terminated
as above stated. Deceased had
been married six years.
BROPHY, WINDFIELD (Ottawa) July 26 - About 5 o’clock this
afternoon, Alexander, aged
25, Walter, aged 20, Edward, aged 12, sons of Mr. Brophy;
George aged 13, only child of the
rev. Mr. Windfield, went for a sail in a canoe in Aylmer
bay. A squall struck and it upset,
throwing the occupants into the water.
LUDLOW (Brantford) July 26 - Word comes from a neighbouring
village of Longford of a
terrible mishap. Mrs S. Ludlow was on a visit to a farm of
Wm. Dowdy, and she took her
three-year-old boy with her. He was left to sleep on the bed
during the afternoon, when the
mother was aroused by frantic screams, and returning to the
room found the poor little fellow
sitting on the bed with his clothing all burned off with the
exception of a little waist, which he
was wearing next to the skin. The poor little sufferer had
run from one room to another, and
returned to the bedroom where he was first left. He died in
a few hours. Some burned matches
and paper told how the little fellow had caused the fire.
EDDINGTON (Cheltenham) July 26 - A sad accident occurred
here to-day, which resulted in
the instant death of a lad of 16 years of age named James
Eddington, from Dr. Barnardo’s
home who was in the employ of Wilson Wilkenson, a farmer of
this neighborhood. The
deceased slipped from a load of hay, fell between the
horses, which became frightened and
began to run. After going a short distance the load upset,
and the unfortunate boy was crushed
to death by the wheels.
COLE (Southhampton, Ont.,) July 26 - Shortly after noon
today, the body of John Cole, of
this place, was found with a bullet in his forehead. Coroner
Patterson, of Port Elgin, was
immediately notified and an inquest was held, when this
verdict was brought in: “That John
Cole came to his death by a wound on his forehead caused by
a pistol shot, but whether selfinflicted
or not we are unable to say.”
MCDONALD, RODGERS, GALES (Chatham) July 26 - The river
Thames this evening
claimed for itself a trio of little victims, Clifford
McDonald, aged eight; William Rodgers,
aged nine, and Harold Gales aged ten. The lads left their
playmates early in the evening for a
swim, and their non-appearance at the expiration of two
hours caused anxiety. A searching
party was organized , and their clothing found lying on the
park to the rear of Duff’s slaughter
house. The parents, who were almost frantic with grief,
ordered the river to be dragged, and
the bodies were recovered late this evening. The lads are
all well connected and the triple
tragedy has cast a gloom over the entire community.
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MEEK (St. Thomas, Ont.) July 26 - Mrs. Robert Meek, of
Southwold, near Fingal, died
yesterday in terrible agony of lockjaw, the result of having
stepped a few days ago on a rusty
nail, which penetrated the ball of the big toe.
Monday, July 29
BROWNE - At Hamilton on the 28th inst., Matilda, relict of
the late John E. Browne, formerly
of Grimsby, Ont.
PFANN - In this city on July 28th, Christina, beloved wife
of George Pfann, aged 51 years.
Funeral from 206 Caroline st. south, Wednesday at 2 pm.
Friends will please accept this
intimation.
COOMBES (London) July 29 - The coroner’s jury in the case of
Robert and Nathaniel
Coombes, who are accused of having killed their mother a few
weeks ago by cutting her
throat, today returned a verdict of wilful murder. This
verdict was rendered despite the
decision of the court Saturday that Robert, the 13-year-old
boy, was alone guilty of the
murder and that Nathaniel, who is only 11 years of age should
merely be held as a witness
against his brother. At the hearing on Saturday, when Robert
was remanded and Nathaniel
held as a witness, Robert confessed that his brother did not
give him any assistance in killing
his mother and the younger boy corroborated him by declaring
that his mother was in a dying
condition from the wounds inflicted by Robert when he went
into her room, having been
attracted by her groans.
FOSTER - The funeral of Miss Foster, who was accidentally
killed on a James streetcar on
Friday night, was held this afternoon and was largely
attended. Miss Foster, who was fatally
injured by falling from a trolley car on Friday evening, had
a pair of gold-rimmed spectacles
on which have not been discovered since her death. The
finder would confer a great favour by
returning them to the mother of deceased at 41 Nightingale
street.
LOGAN (Niagara Falls) July 28 - Alexander Logan, a prominent
young society man of this
town and son of ex-mayor Logan, met a tragic death this
morning at Grimsby where the
family is staying for the summer. Young Logan was enjoying
the surf bathing on the
lakeshore on Saturday, diving into the waves as they rolled
in on the sand. The water where
he was making his plunges was only three feet deep and in
one of his dives he struck in the
trough of the wave and his head hit the hard sand with great
force. Logan was a powerfullybuilt
young man weighing 210 pounds so the shock must have been
severe. His companions
saw the accident and the body splash in the water. They went
to aid him and found that the
boy was paralysed, his neck having been broken. He lingered
until this morning when he
died. So highly esteemed was young Logan that the flags were
ordered at half-mast in his
honour. He was very prominent in society, church and
sporting matters. He was a member of
the hockey club and also of the baseball club. The body was
brought home this afternoon and
was met by a large crowd of the young man’s friends.
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ASHLEY (Belleville) July 28 - Mary Walden Meyer, widow of
Lyman Ashley, died at her
home in this city on Friday at the great age of 94 years and
5 months. Deceased, who was a
daughter of Jacob Walden Meyer and grand-daughter of Captain
John Walden Meyer, the first
settler in Belleville, was born, married and died here. She
was the oldest resident of the city.
Mrs. Ashley was in good health up to two weeks ago when she
fell and broke her hip bone
which was the cause of her death. She leaves a family of
five. Deceased was much respected
and a great favourite with young and old.
KEELAN (Mount Forest) July 29 - Thos. Keelan, of the
township of Arthur, committed
suicide Friday night by hanging. His knees were only a foot
from the barn floor when found.
GOODCHILD (Windsor) July 27 - Charles Goodchild, aged about
45 years, living near
Amherstburg, while attending his horse in a stable yesterday
afternoon, was kicked in the left
side. One of his ribs was broken which penetrated his heart,
killing him instantly.
JACOBS (Toronto) July 29 - Thomas Jacobs, an employee of the
Grand Trunk railway,
happened with a fatal accident yesterday morning at the
ice-house of the railway opposite the
Don station. Deceased was employed in the ice-house and it
was his duty to assist in loading
ice into the cold storage cars that passed through on the
Grand Trunk railway. Early on
Sunday morning, he was eating his lunch with his companions
in the building and when he
had finished, he got up and left them. Shortly after this
they heard a crash and they thought it
was some of the ice falling. When they went to resume work
Jacobs could not be found and
on looking for him they found him lying on the railway
track. He had apparently fallen from a
scaffold or platform in front of the building to the track
below, a distance of twenty feet. In
falling, his head struck the rail, fracturing his skull,
inflicting a frightful injury. The
ambulance was sent for and he was removed to the general
hospital where he died in a few
hours after the accident. Deceased had served in the British
army and had no friends in this
country. Coroner Johnson will hold an inquest.
DICKSON (Goderich) July 28 - James Dickson, registrar for
the county of Huron, died this
afternoon at the ripe age of 80 years. Deceased had been ill
for some time. Mr. Dickson was
one of the pioneers of Huron. He took great interest in the
development of agriculture,
especially in stock, and his farm was the model farm for
Huron county. Deceased was known
far and wide. The funeral will take place on Tuesday
afternoon.
CAMIDGE (Niagara) July 28 - Charles Camidge, JP, committed
suicide at his residence here
this morning. Deceased had been in poor health for some time
but not sufficiently so to
confine him to his house. The rash act was committed whilst
Mrs. Camidge was preparing his
breakfast which he told her not to bring up to him; that he
would be down presently. Shortly
after he had said this, Mrs. Camidge heard the report of a
pistol and immediately went to his
room where she found him lying on the floor on his back,
dead, with a revolver in his hand.
Dr. Anderson was sent for at once , who upon examination
said that death was instantaneous,
the ball having entered behind the left ear and making an
upward course penetrated the brain.
Mr. Camidge was 71 years of age. He came to this town about
25 years ago.
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Tuesday, July 30
CARPENTER - In this city, on Tuesday, 30th instant, suddenly
of heart disease, Charles
Carpenter, aged 66 years. Funeral notice later.
TOWERS - In this city on July 29, Irene, second daughter of
Thomas and Elizabeth Towers,
aged 3 years and 10 months. Funeral took place this
afternoon from parents’ residence, 52
Young street. It was private.
MIDWINTER - In this city on July 30, Maudie, second daughter
of George and Minnie
Midwinter, in the 14th year of her age. Funeral from her
parents’ residence, Arlington hotel,
corner John and King William streets on Wednesday at 4 p.m.
Friends will please accept this
intimation.
Maude, the
14-year-old daughter of Geo. Midwinter, of the Arlington hotel, died yesterday
of neuralgia of the heart after a short illness. The funeral
will take place tomorrow afternoon.
AITCHISON - In this city on the 30th inst., William
Aitchison, in the 74th year of his age. A
native of Annan, Dumphriesshire, Scotland. Funeral from the
residence of his son, No. 304
East Main street on Thursday at 3:30 p.m. Friends and
acquaintances will kindly accept this
intimation. No flowers.
NESBITT (Gore Bay) July 29 - Edward Nesbitt, keeper of the
Cape Roberts lighthouse, was
found drowned in four feet of water at the docks. There were
bloodstains on the face and the
coroner will hold an inquest.
CAREY (Woodstock) July 29 - Mrs. William Carey expired at
the supper table Saturday
night while drinking a cup of tea. She choked and ruptured a
blood vessel.
TAYLOR (Eastwood) July 29 - Mrs. Taylor, a woman about 70
years of age, was struck by a
G.T.R. passenger train and instantly killed a short distance
east of Eastwood station this
morning. She had been wandering aimlessly around during the
morning, and just before the
11:40 accommodation train came along she walked on the
track. She proceeded westward, not
noticing the train approaching from the east, and was struck
by the engine and hurled about
fifteen feet. She was picked up by some section men, and it
was found that she had been
instantly killed. She was the mother of twelve children. An
inquest was commenced tonight
and will continue tomorrow.
AITCHISON - William Aitchison, of Aitchison and Co.,
proprietors of the Main street
planing mill, died suddenly this morning. Last Friday he
complained of nausea. Afterwards he
was attacked by a fit of the hiccoughs. Drs. Wolverton and
Balfe did all in their powers to
stop the hiccoughs, but they were unable to do so. Mr.
Aitchison grew weaker and weaker,
and the end came this morning.
The deceased was in
the seventy-fourth year of his age, and was a highly respected citizen.
He was born in Annan, Dumphriesshire, Scotland, and came to
this country in 1850. He lived
in the States for a few years, and came to Hamilton in 1853.
For years he was superintendent
of a planing mill, which was situated on the site of the
Sawyer-Massey company’s factory.
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Afterwards he was
connected with Brennan & Co. For a number of years past, he had been
in partnership with his brother, David.
Mr. Aitchison never
took any interest in politics. His home life was happy. Several months
ago his partner in life was taken away from him, and he was
never the same after that. He
leaves two sons - A.W. Aitchison, chief of the fire
department, and Jas. Aitchison, of J. Winer
& Co.
Wednesday, July 31
AITCHISON - In this city on the 30th inst., William
Aitchison, in the 74th year of his age. A
native of Annan, Dumphriesshire, Scotland. Funeral from the
residence of his son, No. 304
East Main street on Thursday at 3:30 p.m. Friends and
acquaintances will kindly accept this
intimation. No flowers.
RAM - At 250 Farley ave., Toronto, on July 30, Alfred
Edward, infant son of Edward J. and
Jennie E. Ram, aged 11 months. Funeral took place from
G.T.R. station this morning to
Burlington cemetery.
AMOS - In this city on July 31, Sarah, beloved wife of James
S. Amos, in the 81st year of her
age, daughter of the late Joseph Bloor, of Bloor street,
Toronto. Funeral from her late
residence, 96 Catherine street north, Thursday at 2:30 p.m.
Friends will please accept this
intimation.
MCADAM (Southsea) July 6 - Philip Henry, CE, second son of
the late Philip McAdam, of
Blackwater house, county Clare, Ireland, age 64.
CARPENTER - On Tuesday, July 30, suddenly of heart disease,
Charles Carpenter, aged 66
years. Funeral from his late residence, 56 Hess street
south, on Thursday, 1st August at 2 p.m.
Friends and acquaintances are respectfully invited to
attend.
BOLTON (Ogdensburg, N.Y.) July 31 - About 9 o’clock last
night, Robert Bolton, aged 19,
and a young companion, were crossing from Brockville, Ont.,
to Terrace park, near
Morriston, N.Y., in a skiff during a high wind, when the
boat was capsized and Bolton was
drowned. His companion was saved by a man who put out in a
small boat. Bolton’s parents
reside near Brockville.
TAYLOR (Toronto) July 31 - Mrs. Amelia Taylor, wife of P.
Taylor, 770 Yonge street, died
suddenly yesterday while engaged in taking a bath. Mrs.
Taylor had been in a poor state of
health for two years. Yesterday morning she went to take a
bath. An hour passed away and
Miss Taylor wondered what kept her mother so long a time in
the bathroom. A rap a t the
door elicited no response, assistance was procured and the
door burst open. Mrs. Taylor was
found lying in six inches of water in the bathtub quite
dead. Mrs. Taylor’s friends attribute her
death to heart failure.
BROWN - A carpenter named George Brown, of Newburgh, Ont.,
was struck and instantly
killed by the Grand Trunk railway westbound express early
yesterday afternoon about a mile
from Newburgh.
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SMITH (Belleville, Ont.) July 30 - On Sunday a little child
of Robert Smith, a farmer who
lives near Queensboro, was accidentally burned to death.
AMOS - Mrs. Sarah Amos, 96 Catherine street north, died at
her home this morning
surrounded by mourning friends. Mrs. Amos had been a
resident of Hamilton for 43 years and
was a daughter of the late Joseph Bloor of Toronto, who was
one of the Queen city’s oldest
inhabitants. The deceased was in her 81st year and her
husband, James S. Amos, left now a
widower, is 84 years old. The aged couple have not only
enjoyed their golden wedding
anniversary but last February, the sixtieth anniversary of
their happy married life was
celebrated. Mrs. Amos was some years ago stricken with
paralysis, but recovered and till
within two days of her death, was clear of mind, bright and
cheerful of disposition. She had
long been a member of Central Presbyterian church. Five
children are left to mourn - Robert
of London, James of Rochester; Joseph of Chicago; Mrs.
Wm.McCaulay of East Hamilton
and Mrs. N.D. Galbraith. The funeral will take place on
Thursday at 2:30.
Thursday, August 1
HIPKINS - At Toronto, July 29, Jennie, third daughter of
Alfred and Elizabeth Hipkins, in her
64th year.
CARPENTER - The funeral of the late Charles Carpenter took
place from his residence on
Hess street south this afternoon and was largely attended.
Rev. Mr. Fourneret conducted the
services.
AITCHISON - The funeral of the late W. Aitchison, which took
place this afternoon, was
attended by a large number of citizens including the members
of the markets, fire and police
committee. The pall-bearers were: John Cox, G.G. Hacker, W.
Edgar, W.J. Aitchison, James
Cox and David Aitchison. Rev. J. Morton conducted the
religious services.
FORBES - Yesterday afternoon, the remains of George Forbes
were laid at rest in the
Hamilton cemetery. Mr. Forbes was well known of the
Caledonia society, being one of its
pipers in its flourishing days. He was of a very quiet and
reserved disposition and was wellliked
with all who came in contact with him. The pall-bearers were
Pipers Duncan Campbell,
Wm. Oswald and Alex Campbell, Messrs. Scott and Nicol and
chief H. McL. Henderson,
Sons of Scotland. The funeral was largely attended.
MCCONNELL (London) Aug. 1 - John McConnell, of Toronto, a
delegate to the Foresters
convention, fell dead in St. Martins town hall, London, at 5
o’clock yesterday afternoon. A
few minutes previous he was chatting with other delegates
and made no complaint as he
walked into the corridor where he was found dead. It is
supposed that apoplexy was the cause.
CASTELL (Kingston) July 31 - Robert Whycott pleaded not
guilty before Judge Price this
morning on a charge of manslaughter in killing W.H. Castell
by a blow from a baseball bat at
a picnic on July 26 at Sydenham. The crown presented the
facts of the conflict and that
Castell died from the effects of the blow received. In the
prisoner’s behalf, many witnesses
testified as to Castell’s ugliness and that Whycott had
acted solely in self-defence. The judge
found Whycott “guilty of killing Castell” but released him
on suspended sentence on his own
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recognizance.
SCHMALE (Stratford) July 31 - Peter Schmale, twelve years
old, while working a rack-lifter
in his father’s barn, was struck by a clevis. His skull was
smashed and he will die.
Friday, August 2
KITCHEN - On the 18th July last, at the residence of his
father, Moorville, Fartown,
Huddersfield, England, Robert William Kitchen, late of
Hamilton, Ont., in his 42nd year.
COYNE (Ingersoll) Aug. 2 - An old and highly respected
citizen of St. Thomas, William
Coyne, formerly a dry goods merchant there, died very
suddenly at the G.T.R. station here
shortly after the arrival of the 8:30 mixed train last
night.
HANNON - John Y. Hannon, of Hannon post-office, Glanford
township, came to the city
yesterday afternoon with a small load of rags, which he took
to a rag dealer on Walnut street.
While making a bargain for his load the farmer, who is 74
years of age, suddenly fell to the
ground. The rag man at first thought he was intoxicated, but
soon saw that he was ill. Dr.
Griffin was summoned and an examination showed Hannon was
suffering from paralysis. He
was removed to the city hospital in the ambulance, and today
his condition is most
unfavorable.. This is his fourth attack and he will probably
die.
The team and small
boy who accompanied Hannon were taken home again by the police.
COMBS (Toronto) Aug. 2 - Four-year-old Ernest Combs, son of
W.B. Combs,13 Waterloo
avenue a blacksmith in the employ of the Northey
Manufacturing company, was killed
yesterday afternoon within a few yards of his mother’s door.
Ernest was one of a
family of five children. Some time during the afternoon he had,
unnoticed by his mother, left the house and crossed the
street to the G.T.R. yards.
The mother missed him
at 3 o’clock and as his sisters and brothers had not seen him, she
became anxious and sent them in search of him. They made a
thorough search of the
neighborhood without success, and when 6 o’clock came with
no tidings of the child Mrs.
Combs became alarmed.
The father reached
home, was informed of the child’s absence and joined the searchers.
Instinctively he first turned to the railway yards where he
feared an accident the boy had
befallen. His surmises proved correct, as pinned to the
ground with a heavy cedar log, he
discovered the lifeless body. The boy had been dead for some
time, as the body was almost
cold.
It is thought that
the little fellow had been climbing the large pile of cedar logs when one
became loosened, and rolled down onto him. Death was
instantaneous, as the ribs were
broken and crushed down into the heart. Dr. Hunter was
called and he notified Coroner Lynd,
but it was thought unnecessary to hold an inquest.
COX (Ottawa) Aug. 1 - Capt. Charles F. Cox, assistant in the
engineer’s branch of the
department of marine and fisheries, was drowned this morning
in the Ottawa. He was a native
of London, Ont., and leaves a widow and child. Cox was in
bathing.
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Capt. Cox was aged
37, and was well known in social and military circles. He was a
prominent member of the Ottawa Cricket club and belonged to
the Church of England.
Deceased was a member of the Forty-third battalion, and
served with much distinction in the
Northwest rebellion.
MIDWINTER, TOWERS - Maud Midwinter and Irene Towers, two
members of James street
Baptist Sunday school, died on different days this week, and
on Sunday afternoon next a
memorial service will be held at the school. The
circumstances in connection with the death
of the little Towers girl are particularly sad. Some days
ago she found a stray kitten and
brought it home, loving it and kissing it. The next day her
face broke out in pimples and very
few days afterward she died from scarlet fever. Miss
Midwinter, though but 14 years old and
had long been a sufferer from rheumatism, which developed
heart trouble.
Saturday, August 3
SMYTH (Smith) - In this city on Aug. 3, Stephen W. Smyth,
aged 75 years, a native of
Tipperary, Ireland. Funeral from his son’s residence, 399
James street north, Monday
afternoon, at 3 p.m. Friends and acquaintances will please
accept this intimation. No flowers.
Stephen W. Smith, of
Washington D.C. who has been visiting his sons here since June 5,
died to-day at 399 James street north. He leaves four sons
who reside in Hamilton - John,
Robert, Frank and Stephen Smith, and a stepson, Thos. Welsh.
KNOWLES (Toronto), Aug., 3 - Henry A. Knowles, of 26 Shannon
street, died very suddenly
on Thursday night. He had been down town during the
afternoon, and, not feeling well,
consulted Dr. King. On returning home he grew worse, and
before the arrival of Dr. King,
who had been summoned, he passed away. The late Mr. Knowles
was a native of Guelph, but
for 25 years had carried on business as a druggist, selling
out only on June last. He was 56
years of age, and leaves a widow, three daughters and two
sons.
DAVIDSON (Woodstock) Aug. 2 - A message was received today
announcing the death in
Denver, Col., of Harry Davidson, at one time manager of the
James Hay company. Deceased
had been in Colorado nearly a year endeavouring to regain
his broken health. The immediate
cause of death was pneumonia.
Monday, August 5
TODD (Toronto) Aug. 4 - Edith Todd, the 4-year-old child of
Arthur Todd, 11 Emerson
avenue, was instantly killed by a street car in Bloor street
west, Saturday afternoon. Car No.
268, in charge of conductor Geo. Schultz, was going west
near Marguerite street, when the
little girl attempted to cross in front of it. She was
thrown down, the tender missed her, and
she was crushed beneath the heavy gearing of the car and
killed instantly. Dr. Dumble was
summoned, but could do nothing, and the body was taken to the
home of the parents.
Coroner Spencer has
issued a warrant for an inquest to be held Monday evening. Eyewitnesses
of the affair say that no blame attaches to the motorman or
conductor.
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MIDWINTER, TOWERS - The memorial service in James street
Baptist church Sunday
school yesterday afternoon for Miss Maud Midwinter and
little Irene Towers was very
impressive. The school room was draped in white, and
bouquets of white flowers were
tastefully arranged around the platform. Short addresses
were given by H. E. Copp and P. W.
Dayfoot, honorary superintendents , Rev. Ira Smith of London
and C.G. Booker the
superintendent . Two quartettes were sung by Mrs Keruches
Miss W.Blandford ,W.W.Harlow
and John E. Wodell - Beulah Land and Rock of Ages. A
suitably worded resolution of
condolence was passed by the school and forwarded to the
bereaved parents.
HANNON - John Y. Hannon, of Hannon post-office, Glanford
township, who was stricken
with paralysis on Thursday on Walnut street died yesterday
in the city hospital.
Tuesday, August 6
HORN - At the residence of his daughter, Mrs. Woolfrey, 18
Gildersleeve ave., Toronto on
Aug 5th, Wm. Horne, aged 89 years. Funeral from G.T.R.
Stuart street station, Wednesday, on
arrival of 2:45 p.m. train.
Wm. Horn, for many
years a Grand Trunk messenger here, died yesterday at the residence of
his daughter, Mrs. Woolfrey, in Toronto, aged 89 years.
HUNTER - On mountain top, Hamilton, on Aug. 4th , George
Hunter, aged 72 years. Funeral
from G.T.R. station, Hagersville, on arrival of the 8.30
train Wednesday morning. Friends
will please accept this intimation.
KEEBLE - On Sunday, the 4th, at midnight, Martha, relict of
the late William Keeble, of
cancer of peritonuem, aged 74 years, 4 months and 10 days.
Funeral from the residence of her
son, Arthur Keeble, 99 Emerald street north, on Tuesday at 3
o’clock. Welland papers please
copy.
SMITH - A two-year-old son of Robt. Smith of Tweed, was
burned to death.
GALLAGHER - P. Gallagher, a farmer, residing four miles east
of Hastings, Ont., was
thrown out of his buggy Saturday and killed.
Wednesday, August 7
HUNTER - George Hunter, whose home was on the mountain, died
on Sunday in his 72d
year, Deceased was a successful business man in Oneida
township before coming to Hamilton
to retire from business. He leaves a widow and a an adopted
son, who is a resident of the
United States. Deceased was wealthy, holding many thousands
of debentures of this and other
cities.
Thursday, August 8
HOWE, WELCH - (Toronto) Aug 6 - The story of the calamity as
revealed by the inquest
evidence was this; George Curtin the elevator man had taken
the elevator to the fourth floor
when he discovered that something had gone wrong with the
machinery. The elevator would
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not move. In the basement he found that the cable had slipped
from the drum. Chas McBride,
the engineer, and Curtin set to work to repair the damage.
They laid out on the floor the
portion of the cable that had unwound itself from the drum
which had revolved while the
elevator car was stationary at the top of the building. Then
they required a wrench which was
in the machine room on the third floor and they sent James
Welch for it. Welch, for some
reason not yet explained, went to the fourth floor and with
a broomstick tried to pry up the
lever connected with the automatic brake on the car. He was
unable to accomplish it and
Chas. Howe, the foreman of the bindery went to his
assistance. They had been at work but a
few moments when the car dropped down the shaft with the two
men inside. As the car
descended the unwound portion of the cable in the basement
rushed up the shaft and
McBride, whose legs had become entangled in it was jerked
upwards with terrible force.
Howe and Welch were precipitated upon the basement floor
with such force as to inflict the
injuries that caused their death.
HOWELL (Toronto) Aug. 8 - Jeremiah Howell, the East Flamboro
farmer who broke his back
owing to a fall in a barn last Friday, died at the general
hospital at 9:30 last night. Deceased’s
injuries caused paralysis, and no hope was entertained by
the medical men for his recovery.
He remained in an almost unconscious condition until the
time of his death. Deceased was 52
years of age. The body will be removed to his home.
Friday, August 9
HAW - In this city, on the 8th inst., Ann, relict of the
late James Haw, of Port Hope and
mother of Mrs. Thos. Armstrong of the Dominion hotel.
Remains will leave the residence of
her daughter, Mrs. Strain, 112 Bay st. north at 6 p.m. on
Saturday for G.T.R. depot for
interment at Port Hope, on Sunday, the 11th inst.
Mrs. Haw, widow of
James Haw, died last night at the residence of her daughter, Mrs.
Strain, 112 Bay street north. The deceased lived in Port
Hope. A couple of months ago she
came to Hamilton to visit her married daughter, four of whom
live here, one of them being
Mrs. Armstrong of the Dominion hotel. She had been in poor
health for some time, and her
death was not unexpected..
Mrs Haw leaves seven
daughters and two sons - James Haw, proprietor of the Orillia house,
Orillia, and Laurence Haw, of the American hotel, Port Hope.
The body will be taken to Port
Hope for interment on Saturday.
LEA - In New York city, on August 8, 1895, of consumption,
C.A. Lea aged 21 years,
nephew of Mrs. John Payne, Hamilton Provident and Loan.
Funeral Sunday at 3.30 p.m. from
Green Bros. establishment cor. King and Catharine streets.
Friends will kindly accept this
notice.
HOWELL - The funeral of the late Jeremiah Howell took place
to-day to Waterdown
cemetery.
MALONEY - Mrs John Maloney, an old Waterdown widow, who has
lived alone for 20
years, died yesterday after a short illness.
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HANNON - John Hannon, who died of paralysis at the city
hospital in Hamilton last Sunday,
was an old resident of this place, having been born here 73
years ago, and was well thought of
for his honesty, uprightness and cheerful disposition. He
was in fairly good circumstances at
the time of his death. The interment took place at the
Trinity church on Tuesday afternoon,
and was attended by a very large concourse of relatives and
friends of the deceased. The
funeral service was conducted by Rev. J.C. Harris of
Binbrook, assisted by Rev. David Allen,
of the Free Methodist church here. Deceased leaves a widow
and a family of five daughters
and one son - all married.
SOVEREIGN (Brantford) Aug. 8 - A young lad, named Sovereign,
of Waterford, came here
last evening with the Mount Pleasant football team to play a
game. The exercise being too
great he became prostrated, was taken to the hospital, and
died of heart failure at an early hour
this morning.
Saturday, August 10
GIBSON - At the residence of her daughter, Mrs Zealand, 22
Murray st. west, Mary Sinclair,
relict of the late William Gibson of Toronto township aged
86 years. Funeral Sunday at 3.30
p.m. Private.
EMMANUELLA - On Saturday Aug. 10 at Loretta Convent, Sister
Emmanuella, aged 21.
Funeral on Monday at 9 o’clock.
At Loretta convent
this morning Sister Emmanuella died of consumption at the early age of
21. Before entering the sisterhood she was Miss Agnes
Shannon of Woodstock, and graduated
from the convent school four years ago with distinction.
CURRIE (Hepworth Ont.) Aug. 10 - Last night while a few
friends had gathered at the house
of James Currie, about four miles from this place, lightning
struck the gable end of the house
killing John Currie instantly and injuring two other young
men named William Hammond and
Wesley Loucks. Currie was about 18 years of age. The other
two will recover.
GIBSON - Mrs Mary Sinclair Gibson, widow of the late Wm.
Gibson of Toronto township,
died last evening at the residence of her daughter, Mrs
Zealand, 22 Murray street west. The
deceased was the mother of Hon. J.M. Gibson, provincial
secretary, and was in her 86th year.
She was the daughter of Samuel Sinclair of Nelson township,
and was married when 17 years
of age, shortly after moving to Toronto township, near
Cooksville, where she lived for many
years and reared a family of five sons and two daughters.
Her daughters are Mrs Zealand of
this city and Mrs Allen, wife of H.W. Allen M.P.P. for
Essex. Three of the sons, of whom the
provincial secretary is the youngest, survive. One of the
others is a lumber merchant in
Brantford and the other is a farmer in Oneida. Mrs Gibson
came of a family of long-lived race
of hardy Scottish pioneers, a brother and sister having
recently died who had reached the
allotted span of four score years. The funeral will take
place to-morrow at 3:30.
LAWLESS (London) Aug. 9 - The inmates of Gosling’s boarding
house, corner of Ridout and
Dundas streets, were startled about 9 o’clock this evening
by revolver shots. Rushing to the
third story, Mr. Gosling found Lawrence Lawless, a boarder,
lying dead on the bed. A
smoking revolver on the floor told the tale. The suicide was
most deliberate. Lawless had
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removed his coat, thrown open his vest, placed himself on
the bed, and then emptied the
seven chambers of a self-cocking 34-caliber revolver into
the region of his heart. He left no
message. Lawless was about 40 years of age and had a good
position as mail clerk in the postoffice
, which he had held between 15 and 20 years. He was married
only two years ago to an
estimable young lady in this city but the couple had no
children. For the past few weeks they
have been living apart. There had been nothing in Lawless
demeanor of late to indicate that he
was troubled, and his action is generally attributed to
temporary insanity, which may have
been aggravated by his domestic affairs. Lawless belongs to
a well-known and highly
connected family. An inquest will be held by Coroner Flock.
JEANNERET (Berlin) Aug 9 - Detective Greer of Toronto,
arrived in Berlin Thursday
evening to prosecute the inquiry into the Breslau murder
mystery,. With Detective Klippert he
set out to-day for the scene of the tragedy.
A. Jeanneret, of
Elmira, a brother of the victim and the deceased came to Canada from
Switzerland some 17 years ago. The murdered man was 16 years
his elder and would have
been 50 years old in December. Speaking of his brother, he
said he was of a kind disposition
and the last man in the world to seek a quarrel.
There are five
sisters and a brother in the old country, both parents being dead and there
were but the two brothers in America.
THOMPSON - Mrs. Thompson, a very old resident of Seneca
township, aged 86 years, died
very suddenly on Thursday, while sitting in her chair. She
was the widow of the late Wm.
Thompson, one of the earliest settlers in this section.
Monday, August 12
LUXTON - In this city on August 11th, George Luxton aged 60
years. Funeral notice later.
George Luxton, grain
buyer, died at his residence, 207 John street south, last night about
nine o’clock. On Saturday evening he was stricken with
apoplexy and died 24 hours
afterwards without regaining consciousness. The deceased was
born in Devonshire, England,
and came to Canada in 1858, settling in Hamilton, where he
entered the employ of the late
Alexander Harvey, for whom he worked three years, and then
went into the flour and feed
business with his brother John. He continued in business up
to the time of his death. In
addition to his retail flour and feed business he dealt
largely in grain, and made a comfortable
fortune out of it. He leaves three daughters and one son,
the latter being in the Bank of
Hamilton at Owen Sound.
Mr. Luxton was a
staunch Conservative in politics and a member of St. Thomas church.
When he resided on the mountain he was for a number of years
churchwarden of Holy Trinity
church
HARVEY - In this city on Sunday August 11, at her late
residence, 207 Murray st. east, Ellen
C. widow of the late James Harvey, aged 56 years. Deeply
regretted. Funeral from above
address on Tuesday at 2:30 p.m. Friends and acquaintances
will please accept this intimation.
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GIBSON - The funeral of the late Mrs. Gibson, mother of Hon.
J.M. Gibson, took place
yesterday afternoon from 23 Murray street west. The
pall-bearers were six grandsons: Capt.
E. Zealand, Wm. Zealand, W. Gibson of Chicago, Wm. Gibson of
Caledonia; David Gibson,
of Oneida, and David Gibson of Brantford. A number of
officers of the Thirteenth battalion
and the immediate relatives were present. Rev. Dr. Lyle
officiated.
LICKMAN - The funeral of the late Lottie Lickman, daughter
of R. Lickman, took place from
her father’s residence, Caistorville, on Tuesday.
SPRING (Toledo, Ohio) Aug. 11 - A special from Tontongany,
Ohio, says Robert Spring, of
Meaford, Ont., who, with his brother, was tramping to
Cincinnati from their home in Canada,
was struck by a fast train on the Cincinnati, Hamilton and
Dayton railroad last evening and
instantly killed. The men stepped from one track to another
to avoid a passing freight, and
failed to notice the express train, which was running at a
high rate of speed. The brother
escaped death by a miracle but Robert’s body was fearfully
mangled.
GRANVILL (Southhampton, Ont.) Aug. 11 - Saturday morning,
when about off the Sauble
beach, a fisherman named Gabriel Granvill, was struck and
instantly killed by lightning. He
was standing against the foremast when the mast was struck.
THEXTON (Lindsay, Ont.) Aug. 11 - Robt. Thexton, of Lindsay,
contractor, was drowned
Saturday. His barge was towing three barges of wood, and he
was measuring the wood, and
when near the landing he fell into the river. He could not
swim.
HERD (Minden, Ont.) - Jane, the 16-year-old daughter of
James Herd, died suddenly after
two days illness, the result of eating chokecherries on
Wednesday and afterwards drinking
new milk .
WHITEHOUSE (Amherstburg, Ont.) Aug. 11 - A five-year-old
child of John Whitehouse, of
the M.C.R., was choked to death at the supper table by a
piece of meat lodging in her throat.
PORTER (Palermo, Ont.) Aug. 11 - Chas. Porter, a well-to-do
farmer near Appleby, near
Nelson, is dead. Mr. Porter was crushed under a load of
wheat on July 16, sustaining fractures
of the fifth cervical vertebrae, causing paralysis and loss
of sensation and motion from his
neck down. He died on Saturday.
Tuesday, August 13
LUXTON -In this city on August 11th, George Luxton, aged 60
years. Funeral on Wednesday
at 3 p.m. Friends please accept this intimation
MCGUIRE - In this city on the 12th inst., John, infant son
of John McGuire, aged 9 months.
Funeral from the residence of his parents, 473 Ferguson
avenue north, on Wednesday, 14th
inst. at 2.15 p.m.
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BRICE -At his parents’ residence, 142 Bold st. Horace
Edward, youngest son of Harry and
Elizabeth Brice, aged 9 months and 2 weeks. Funeral
to-morrow (Wednesday) at 2 o’clock
sharp.
COOPER - In this city on Tuesday, the 13th inst., Mary M.
beloved wife of J. C. Cooper, in
the 33rd year of her age. Funeral from her late residence,
12 Magill st. on Thursday 15th inst. at
3:30 p.m. Friends will please accept this intimation.
RICHTER - In this city, on 13th inst., Traugott Richter, in
his 68th year Funeral notice later.
Please omit flowers.
There died in this
city to-day an old and much respected citizen in the person of Traugott
Richter. Mr Richter embarked from Germany for Canada about
forty years ago, and twenty
years later opened a hotel in this city which business he
conducted successfully until his
death. For the past ten months he suffered acutely from
Bright’s disease. A wife and family of
seven survive him - Mrs. W. J.T. Gordon, Mrs. C.W. Gardner
and Emma, Clara, Millie,
William and Charles Richter.
Mr. Richter was
universally respected and liked. His kindly humor and gentle ways earned
for him a host of friends and his death will be widely
mourned
SALMON - Yesterday morning the lifeless body of George
Salmon, a young farmer of
Binbrook was found on the roadside near that place. He had
started for the blacksmith shop
early in the morning, and it is supposed that his horses ran
away and threw him out, a part of
the wagon being found near the body. There were many bruises
on the body and three deep
gashes on the right temple. Some of the residents think that
an inquest should be held.
BIRD (Toronto) Aug 13 - Edwin Bird, a Canadian Pacific
yardman was fatally hurt at the
Parkdale station about 2 o’clock this morning. He was
coupling cars at the time and is
supposed to have slipped and fallen beneath the wheels. Both
legs were badly crushed. The
ambulance was called and the injured man was then sent to
the general hospital but when the
vehicle arrived there it was found that he had died on the
way. An inquest will be held. Bird
was a young man and leaves a widow and one child.
KERR, CONLIN - Harvey Kerr, one of the most successful and
prominent farmers of the
township of East Whitby, died at his residence on Sunday
morning, in his 86th year. On
Sunday evening Thomas Conlin, of Conlin’s school-house, died
in his 80th year. Messrs. Kerr
and Conlin resided for nearly half a century within fifty
rods of each other.
Wednesday, August 14
HARVEY (Toronto) Aug. 14 - John Harrison Harvey, who
conducted a grocery store at
Yonge street and Erskine avenue, Eglington, was found lying
on his bed in a dying condition
Sunday afternoon. Dr. Richardson was called but could not
save the young man’s life, death
ensuing soon after his discovery. Coroner Aikens issued warrant
for an inquest which was
concluded at Brunskill’s hotel last evening. The evidence
showed that the deceased had been
in the habit of taking laudanum to induce sleep and that he
had purchased a quantity of it at
Cook’s drug store Wednesday evening. The jury returned a
verdict that deceased came to his
death from an overdose of laudanum but by whom administered
the evidence did not disclose.
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A rider was attached recommending more stringent laws
regulating the sale of opium and its
preparations.
REID - John Reid, a resident of Kingston, has died suddenly
in Winnipeg hospital.
HARRISON - Evans Harrison, a Chesley farmer, dropped dead
yesterday morning from heart
failure.
BOWLES (Rosseau) Aug 13 - J.W. Bowles, a farmer from
Humphrey, while on his way to
Rosseau with a load of tanbark yesterday afternoon, was
thrown off and the wheels passed
over his head.
ROBINSON (Toronto) Aug 14 - John Robinson, of this city, who
was run over by a freight
train in the Grand Trunk yards at Windsor on Saturday last,
has since died of his injuries.
Robinson evidently had a wife in London, Eng. Before his
death while being attended by the
sisters at the Hotel Dieu, he was asked if there were no
relatives he wished notified. His reply
was that “nobody cared enough for him in this world to worry
about what became of him”
Since his death however letters have been found in his
clothing which show, without a doubt,
he had a wife who is now in London. A letter addressed to
her, dated from Montreal, gives
her address as 38 Bow Row. He had neglected to mail the
letter but it was sealed and bore a
stamp. Robinson had evidently been addicted to drink
although it is supposed he was not
under its influence when the fatal injuries were received.
Among other things found in the
letter is the declaration that he had quit drinking and
intended to be a better man. In his pocket
was also found a letter from his wife which warned him not
to drink while in America. The
body was interred at Windsor.
YEREX (London, Ont.) Aug. 13 - This morning Edward Yerex,
19, met his death on a C.P.R
train between Chatham and Windsor. Yerex, while stealing a
ride, fell asleep on one of the car
platforms and rolled off.
Thursday, August 15
UNSWORTH - In this city on Thursday, Aug. 15th, Mary L.,
beloved wife of H. Unsworth,
second daughter of J. Nickling, in the 24th year of her age.
Funeral from her father’s residence
180 Queen street north Saturday at 4 o’clock. Friends will
kindly accept this notice.
REVELL - In this city on August 15, Charles, infant son of
Frank and Sarah Revell, aged 6
months. Funeral from parent’s residence, 12 Augusta street
to-morrow (Friday) at 2:30 p.m.
GLASS - In this city, suddenly, on Thursday August 15,
Galbraith Glass, aged 67 years.
Funeral on Saturday, at 2:30 o’clock from his late
residence, 184 Hannah st. east. Friends
will please accept this notice.
MCKINLEY - C.J. McKinley, government analyst of this city,
died at Grace hospital,
Toronto, this morning. The remains will be taken to
Clarksburg, Ont. for burial.
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LUXTON - The funeral of the late George Luxton took place
yesterday afternoon and was
largely attended. There was a service in St. Thomas’ church,
at which Canon Curran, Cannon
Bull of Niagara Falls, Rev. W.R. Clark, of Barton, and Rev.
C.R. Lee of Grimsby officiated.
The pall-bearers were W.A.H. Duff, Wm. Gruer, of Mount
Forest; James Dunlop, Wm.
Ronald, and Frank Wilkinson.
GLASS - Although not entirely unexpected, many citizens will
regret to hear of the death of
Galbraith Glass, which happened at noon to-day at the
residence of his son-in-law, Hannah
street east. For some time past he has been affected with
heart disease, but was able to be
around. At the time of his death he was sitting playing with
his grandchild, when suddenly he
fell over, and the end came a few minutes later without his
regaining consciousness. Mr.
Glass was a native of Ireland, but for upwards of forty
years he had been a resident of this
city, possessing the esteem of a wide circle of friends on
account of his many sterling
qualities. He was 67 years of age.
WALKER (Amherstburg) August 14 - The body found at the mouth
of the Detroit river last
night has been identified as that of A.F. Walker, of Guelph,
Ont. Walker’s mother and sister
live in Guelph. He left Guelph on Monday week and next day
he went to the Windsor races
where he laid several bets. On Sunday he was not feeling
well and was visited by Al. Taylor
an intimate friend. On Monday he again went to Windsor.
Taylor missed him coming from
the track, and did not hear of him again until notified of
his death this morning. His friends
are unable to account for the finding of the body in Lake
Erie unless it is that the unfortunate
man killed himself. How he got as far as Amherstburg is a
mystery, unless he went down on
one of the boats. It is known that he carried a revolver and
that he had pawned his watch. The
deceased was one of the best-known bookmakers in this
country and during his day he made
immense sums of money.
BRISBOIS (Berlin) Aug. 14 - Joseph Brisbois of Guelph, a
repairer in the employ of the G.N.
W. Telegraph company, was killed by a Grand Trunk train near
Breslau, this afternoon. He
was walking along the track looking up at the telegraph
wires, when the engine struck him.
When picked up he was dead.
Friday, August 16
SPENCE - In this city on the 15th inst. George Spence, aged
63 years accidentally killed.
Funeral from his late residence 24 Liberty street, at 4
o’clock Saturday, Aug. 17th . Friends
and acquaintances will please accept this intimation.
George Spence, the
carpenter, who fell from a building at the beach yesterday, died when he
was being conveyed in the ambulance to the city.
Spence was at work on
a house being built by Robert Fletcher on the beach road. He was
working on the roof and fell to the ground below, a distance
of 25 feet. His head struck
against a projection, and he was unconscious when he was
picked up. Dr. Farewell was
summoned. He found the injured man suffering from concussion
of the brain. The doctor
telephoned
for the ambulance. It
was a long time after he telephoned that it arrived.
The deceased lived on
Liberty street. He was about 64 years of age and leaves a grown-up
family.
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BOWMAN - On the 16th inst., at his residence, Victoria
street, Dundas, Jos. Bowman, aged
72 years. Funeral Saturday, 17th at 4 o’clock. Friends are
invited.
PEARSON - On Thursday James Stanley Pearson, aged two years
and eleven months, son of
John Pearson, 101 Ray street south was playing with his
little four-year-old brother, John.
They had matches, and the clothing of James was set on fire.
Mr. Pearson chanced to be at
home, and put the fire out promptly, but not before the
little fellow had sustained such severe
injury that he died from the effects last evening. The
funeral took place at 2:15 to-day, to the
King street station, the body being interred at Rymal. Mr.
Pearson is a motorman in the
employ of the street railway company.
WALKER (Windsor) Aug. 16 - The coroner’s jury at Amherstburg
last night, in the case of
Alexander Frederick Walker, the bookmaker, whose dead body
was fished out of Lake Erie
on Tuesday, returned a verdict to the effect that he came to
his death by a blow delivered on
the back of the head by a blunt instrument by some person or
persons unknown, and that the
blow was inflicted before the body was put in the body(water
?) causing concussion of the
brain. No consideration was given by the jury to a letter
which was turned over by Al. Taylor,
Walker’s friend and which read as follows:
“Detroit, Monday, Aug. 12 - My name is Alexander Frederic
Walker. My parents live in
Guelph, Canada. My wife (God bless her!) Lives in
Cincinnati. Her address is 114 West
Seventh street. I am tired (Signed) Fred Walker
“ P.S. Give what I
have got to my wife”
Taylor found the
letter in Walker’s room at the Detroit house and knew the handwriting was
that of Walker. Two other letters, which were directed to
his wife and mother and marked
private , were also turned over to the coroner, but he
refused to make them public. It was
declared their contents were substantially the same as that
of the one above. There seems to
be a little doubt that Walker committed suicide, not
withstanding the verdict of the coroner’s
jury, which says he was murdered.
The theory built up
by his friends is that he went aboard the Cleveland steamer Monday
night to carry out his oft-made threat of suicide, and that
after the steamer was in mid-stream,
Walker jumped overboard around Fighting Island and that he
was killed by being struck in the
head by a paddle of the wheel. For this reason his body did
not sink, and the time from the
departure of the steamer up to the finding of the body would
necessarily be required for the
body to float down to Amherstburg.
MCKINLEY - Yesterday in Grace hospital, Toronto, died C.J.
McKinley, of this city. Mr.
McKinley was one of the cleverest chemists and assayists in
the Dominion. He was at one
time a Dominion analyst. Three years ago he came to Hamilton
and went into the drug
business, after which he was employed by F.F. Dalley &
Co., and was assayist for the
Hamilton iron and steel company. He stood high in his
profession, and by his kindly, genial
manner won friends wherever he went. Many Hamilton people
who knew him mourn his
untimely taking off, and deeply sympathize with his bereaved
relatives.
PEER (Guelph) August 15 - One of the oldest natives of this
section of the country died in the
city today in the person of Levi Peer. Deceased was born in
Wentworth county 88 years ago.
He moved into Halton when a young man, and settled in nelson
township. Seven years ago he
came to this city and had lived here with his family ever
since. He was a sturdy, active old
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gentleman and a fine type of the vigorous manhood that
battled for civilization in the early
days. He leaves a widow, six sons and three daughters to
mourn his loss.
BAUER (Berlin, Ont.) Aug. 15 - A telegram was received here
today from Mount Clemens,
Mich., stating that Frank Bauer, manager of the Park
brewery, Waterloo, had died suddenly at
that place last night, where he was taking the baths. He
died while taking a bath. The
deceased was one of Waterloo’s most prominent citizens, and
was about 35 years of age. The
remains will be brought here for burial.
LIDDY Chatham, Ont.) Aug. 15 - A sad fatality occurred in
Harwich township yesterday
afternoon, by which one young lad was instantly killed and
his two brothers very seriously,
though not fatally, injured. James Liddy, who had been in
the city, was hauling home a load
of large tile. On nearing his home on the Creek road his
three sons, Patrick Henry, James and
Matthew, aged respectively 8, 10 and 12 years, met him and
climbed on the load. They drove
along to the ditch where it had been decided to deposit the
tile, when the wagon took a lurch
to one side on the incline, and threw off the load and
riders. Mr. Liddy fortunately slipped off
at the front, and escaped injury, but the boys were thrown
right under the load. The frenzied
father hastily removed the tile, only to make the awful
discovery that his youngest boy,
Patrick Henry, had been instantly killed, and the other lads
seriously injured. The funeral of
the deceased lad will take place tomorrow at 10 o’clock to
St. Anthony’s cemetery. He was a
nephew of John Liddy, of this city.
Saturday, August 17
DAY (Windsor) Aug. 17 - Samuel Day, the nine-year-old son of
Judson Day, of the fourth
concession, Colchester, was killed on Thursday by the
accidental discharge of a rifle in the
hands of a companion while shooting birds.
AVELING - Mrs Aveling, whose death occurred last Monday in
Montreal, had many friends
in this city, who were deeply pained and grieved at hearing
the sad news. Mrs Aveling was
organist at the church of St. Thomas for two years.
SUTTON - Mrs George Clark has gone to Blenheim to attend the
funeral of her nephew Jas.
Sutton.
MCLAUGHLIN (Toronto) Aug. 16 - Patrick McLaughlin,
postmaster and grocer at
Summerville, Peel county, 35 years of age, met with a
terrible death last night at 11:15. He
was walking in the cinder path near the Humber, between the
trolley lines of the Toronto and
Mimico railway and was not seen by the motorman of a car
going west until the trolley was
nearly upon him. Immediately the motorman sounded the gong
and reversed the car with such
force as to derail the car, which stopped within its own
length.
McLaughlin was struck
by the trolley, the wheels passing over the head, which was
completely smashed. Coroner Cotton, of Lambton Mills, was
promptly informed of the
accident and an inquest will be held on the body, which was
removed to Nurse’s hotel.
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BAUER (Mt. Clemens, Mich.) Aug. 16 - Frank Bauer, aged 40, a
brewer in Waterloo, Ont.,
was .found dead in the county jail yesterday. He was taken
there at 11 o’clock the night
before and committed on the ground of insanity.
SULLIVAN (Chatham) Aug. 16 - Mary Ellen Sullivan, 17, was
drowned last night by the
upsetting of a rowboat in the river.
On Thursday night,
while four young ladies were crossing the river near Chatham, Ont., in a
rowboat, it upset and Miss Mary Ellen Sullivan, aged 17
years, the daughter of Thomas
Sullivan of the River road, Raleigh, was drowned. The other
three ladies clung to the
upturned boat until help arrived.
ROWLAND - Mrs. Wm. Rowland, probably the oldest resident of
London, Ont., died on
Thursday night. She was 94 years of age.
SWITZER - Mrs. Sarah Switzer, wife of an employee of the Hay
Singer company of
Woodstock, died very suddenly on Thursday night.
COULSON - Roy, the fourteen-months-old son of Thomas Coulson
of South London Ont.,
who was terribly scalded by a boiling mixture two weeks ago,
died on Thursday.
Monday, August 19
EVANS - When Edward Hudson was standing at the bow of the
steamer Acacia at the Simcoe
street wharf yesterday morning he saw the body of a man in
the water. With the assistance of
a couple of men he brought the body on shore. It was lying
between two piles in about two
and a half feet of water. There were no marks of violence,
and nothing to indicate that there
had been foul play. It was thought the man had been drowned
in the storm on Saturday
afternoon as it was reported that several boats had been
upset. When the police arrived Sergt.
Vanater identified the body as that of William Evans, a
marble cutter, who lived at 6 Crooks
street.
The body was taken to
the morgue and then to Blachford’s undertaking establishment,
where it was identified by Evan”s relatives.
It is believed the
man committed suicide He had been out of work all summer and became
despondent.
The deceased was about
51 years of age and had lived in Hamilton twenty years. He used to
keep a marble establishment on York on York street in the
rear of Crooks’ hotel, which was
formerly kept by Henry Goering. He leaves a wife and five
children - four daughters and a
son. When he did not return home on Saturday night it was
feared that something had
happened him. His son went to look for him and searched in
vain until early yesterday
morning. The news that his body was found was a great shock
to the family.
NOTTLE - After an illness of half a year’s duration, there
passed away today, in this city,
Jacob Thomas Nottle, a well-known and much-esteemed citizen.
The deceased gentleman was
born in Cornwall, England, and came to Hamilton forty years
ago. His business was that of a
broker and real estate man. He organized several building
societies and it was he who bought
the right of way for the Northwestern railway. About twenty
years ago Mr. Nottle retired from
business and lived quietly until his death. He leaves a
widow and three daughters - one being
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Mrs. A. W. Peene and the others unmarried. Mr. Nottle had
obtained the good old age of 78.
The funeral will be private
JONES - Alva G. Jones, one of the most popular residents of
Stony Creek, passed away
yesterday Mr. Jones had for many years taken an active
interest in municipal affairs and his
obliging cheerful disposition made for him innumerable
friends. From 1857 to 1861 he held
the office of deputy reeve of Saltfleet township and in
1865, 1868 and 1870 he also occupied
the reeve’s chair. In 1867 he was appointed warden for the
county of Wentworth. He was for
twenty years treasurer of the township of Saltfleet. When
the Sandfield Macdonald
government was in power he was appointed postmaster and
clerk of the division court, which
positions he held until his death.
Mr. Jones was 65
years of age and for some time suffered from Bright’s disease. He leaves
a widow, two sons and four daughters. One daughter, Emma is
at home. The other members
of the family are; Mrs. Davis, Mrs. J.K. Lottridge, and Mrs.
Bates, Stony Creek: A.C. Jones,
M.D. Kilbride and S.J. Jones., M.D., Glanford. The deceased
has two brothers, Judge Jones of
Brantford and William Jones, a retired gentleman, living in
this city.
Mr. Jones was an
honorary member of Acacia Lodge. A.F. & A.M., Rev. Wray R. Smith
will conduct the funeral service, which will take place on
Tuesday at 2 p.m.
CHECKLEY (Huntsville) Aug. 18 - In the inquest on the body
of Robert Checkley, a Chaffey
farmer, who was supposed to have died from poison, the jury
found that deceased died from
dropsy and not by any violent means whatsoever.
JOHNSON - John Johnson of Kent county, was killed by
lightning during Saturday’s storm.
SIBLEY (Picton) Aug. 18 - Wm. Sibley, an Englishman, about
fifty years of age, engaged as
a general servant at Dr. Stirling’s, of this town, died on
Tuesday last. He was apparently in
poor health, but did not complain.. On Friday night he
retired, but in the morning did not
come down from his room at the usual hour for arising. The
family feared that something was
wrong, and on entering his room saw that he had been dead
for some time. Mr. Sibley, it is
said had been in this country for about three years, but all
his relatives are in England. The
cause of his death was heart disease.
HARKNESS (Blissfield, Michigan) Aug. 18 - Mrs. Harkness and
son Hubert of Port
Dalhousie, Ont., who were visiting here, were thrown from
their buggy in a runaway this
afternoon and Mrs. Harkness was instantly killed, her neck
being broken.
Tuesday, August 20
NOTTLE - In this city on Monday, Aug. 19th Jacob Thomas
Nottle, a native of Cornwall,
England, in the 78th year of his age. Funeral private.
MAXWELL - At the residence of her son-in-law, 473 Ferguson
avenue north, this morning
Barbara Maxwell, relict of James Maxwell, native of Lanark,
Scotland, in the 78th year of her
age. Funeral on Wednesday at 4 p.m., from the above address.
Friends please accept this
intimation.
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COLVIN - At her late residence No. 486 Hughson street north
on Monday Aug. 19, Margaret
Colvin, widow of the late Patrick Colvin, aged 70 years.
Funeral Wednesday at 2 p.m. Friends
will please accept this intimation.
HANNAFORD - On Aug. 19, at his grandfather’s residence, 232
Robinson street, Robert
Henry, twin son of Charles and Lovina Hannaford, aged 10
months and 2 weeks. Funeral
from above address on Wednesday at 3:45 p.m. Friends will
please accept this intimation.
KEMP - John Kemp, aged 80 years, died at the city hospital
yesterday. He was a member of
the Salvation army, having been connected to the work from
the time of its inception in
Hamilton. The army will conduct the funeral from his late
residence, 186 ½ Jackson street
east, tomorrow afternoon.
BOWMAN - Rev. John Kay of Hamilton, assisted by Rev. Dr.
Laing, conducted the funeral
services of the late Mr. Bowman. Just as the funeral was
leaving the house the storm burst and
the undertaker wisely deferred the funeral for an hour and
by that time the storm was over.
ASHWORTH (Peterboro) Aug. 19 - On Friday William Ashworth,
aged 15, in the employ of
Adam King, of North Monoghan, was sent by Mr. King to cut
some corn on the farm but did
not return. Yesterday young men paddling by the farm
discovered the body floating in the
water.
PRICE (Belleville) Aug. 19 - About 3 p.m. David Price, the
youngest son of D. Price of this
city started with a companion named Brooks to row from
Massassaga park four miles east of
here to the city. A heavy north-west wind was blowing at the
time and when opposite
Gerow’s island the boat capsized. Brooks managed to climb on
top of the upturned boat and
Price held on for a few minutes but lost his hold and sank.
Brooks threw him an oar which he
failed to catch when he rose to the surface. The body of the
unfortunate boy has not yet been
recovered.
DOWZER ( Clinton) Aug. 17 - Mrs Dowzer passed away after a
few hours of sickness. She
was a highly respected widow and leaves a family of eleven
children.
BUTT (Clinton) Aug 17 - Josiah Butt, a retired farmer after
spending a day visiting returned
home apparently in the best of health and sustained a stroke
of apoplexy from which he died
shortly after. He leaves a three daughters, two sons and a
widow.
HOWSON (Windsor) Aug. 19 - Johnnie Howson, a ten year old
son of Manager Howson of
the Walkerville brewery may die from injuries received by
being struck in the head by a
baseball bat Saturday. The Walkerville baseball club and the
Shamrock club of Detroit were
playing a match game and Howson was watching the game when a
Shamrock player named
Henley threw his bat which struck the boy and broke his
skull. He was taken to the Hotel
Dieu.
CROWLEY (Stratford Ont.) Aug 19 - During the storm of last
Saturday afternoon the barn of
Cornelius Crowley, township of Ellice, was struck by
lightning and his son Lawrence, 17
years of age, was instantly killed. He, with two brothers,
had taken shelter in the barn. They
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noticed his hair on fire. On going to put it out they found
him dead. No other evidence of the
stroke was found on his body.
Wednesday, August 21
SCARLETT - At his late residence 127 Peter street, on
Tuesday, Aug. 20, David Scarlett aged
48 years. Funeral Friday, Aug. 23 at 2 p.m.
THOMPSON (Uxbridge) Aug 21 - Last evening the boiler in
Gordon’s planing mill exploded
with a terrific force, shattering the mill and killing one
employee named Thompson, whose
friends reside in Sutton. The loss on the building is
estimated at $1,000.
NORTON (Tapleytown, Ont.) - E. Norton lost a child four
months old on Saturday last. It
took sick between four and five o’clock in the morning and
died about one o’clock. The
funeral took place on Monday to Stoney creek.
WARWICK (London) Aug. 20 - Sunday evening three young men
named Warwick living at
44 Miles street rented a rowboat and went down towards the
hotel near Springbank where
they had a good time . Shortly after starting for home John
Warwick fell out of the boat and
his brother Richard jumped in after him.
“I don’t know what
became of them” said the third man”,Trusty” Warwick. “We had been
having a good time and I immediately fell asleep”
He managed to get
back to the city without troubling himself with what had become of his
companions believing that they would eventually turn up all
right. Search was made along the
river all day yesterday .No trace was found until this
forenoon when the body of Richard
Warwick was found near Springbank. Search is being continued
for the body of his brother,
John, who has undoubtedly met with the same fate.
Thursday, August 22
SCARLETT - At his late residence 127 Peter street, on
Tuesday, Aug. 20, David Scarlett,
aged 48 years. Funeral Friday, Aug. 23 at 2 p.m.
KEMP - The funeral of the late John Kemp took place
yesterday afternoon. It was a Salvation
army “military” funeral and the local corps, under Ensign
McLean, preceded the hearse
through the streets, singing cheerful hymns and army songs.
At the cemetery there was a
service of prayer and song and the soldiers fired three
“volleys” over the grave.
FLEURY (Wellington, Ont.,) Aug 22 - J. Fleury, of Aurora,
dropped dead this morning on the
West lake shore, where he had been staying for a short time.
WILKINSON (Queenstown) Aug 22 - G.L. Wilkinson of Canada, a
saloon passenger on the
steamer Britannic, from New York Aug. 14, died at sea on
Aug. 20.
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WARKWICK (London) Aug. 21 - The body of Richard Warkwick,
who with his brother
Robert, was drowned on Sunday night in the Thames, near
Springbank, was found in the river
this morning on the south side, opposite the spot where
Robert’s remains were discovered. An
inquest will be held on Thursday night. Both bodies are to
be buried to-morrow morning in
Brown’s Hill cemetery Nissouri.
CUDNEY (Buffalo) Aug. 21 - Frank Cudney who came to this
city from St. Catharines, Ont.,
where he has relatives still living, fell from the fourth
story of Ellicott square building this
afternoon and was instantly killed.
Friday, August 23
PETTIT - At Saltfleet, Aug. 23, Adelaide, beloved wife of
Joseph Pettit, aged 54 years.
Funeral will leave the house on Sunday, 25th inst. at 10:30
a.m. Service at St. John’s church
Winona.
DAVIDSON - In this city, on 23rd inst., Flora McKellar, wife
of the late John Davidson, aged
77 years. Funeral notice later.
Flora McKellar, widow
of the late John Davidson, died today at the home of her son-in-law,
W. T. James foreman of the Central fire station. Deceased
was highly esteemed and was a
resident of this city for over forty years.
OVEREND - George Overend, the young man injured in a runaway
accident on Ferguson
avenue the other day, succumbed to his injuries at the city
hospital last evening. From the
first, the doctors had kittle hope of his recovery, his
injuries being dangerous and very severe.
The saddest part of the affair is that the dead man had been
married but two months, and his
bride of but a few weeks, so suddenly left a widow, is
heartbroken.
The circumstances
connected with the accident are so simple and so purely of an accidental
nature that the inquest would seem entirely necessary to
free the railway company of any
blame.
Suit for damages may
be brought by the widow against the railway company if evidence is
secured to show that the men on the train could have in any
way prevented the accident.
BUCK (Ridgeway Ont.) Aug 23 - A serious runaway accident
occurred here yesterday
afternoon by which one man lost his life and several ladies
were injured. While one of the
Crystal Beach busses was taking on baggage at the Queen’s
hotel here, a trunk slipped down
behind the horses, starting them kicking. The driver,
Charles Buck, jumped from his seat to
take the horses by their heads, when he was thrown down and
the loaded wagon passed over
his head, causing injuries from the effects of which he died
about 1 o’clock this morning,
never having regained consciousness. The horses then ran
away with their load of passengers,
mostly ladies, who all, with one exception, jumped and were
all more or less injured, three
requiring medical attendance.
LYONS (Dundas) - Jeremiah Lyons died on Tuesday and was
buried on Thursday. Eighty
years ago he was born in the township of West Flamboro and
in the same township he died.
He was highly esteemed by a very wide circle of friends.
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HILLIKER (Norwich) Aug. 22 - Albert Hilliker, a hog buyer,
was thrown from the train near
here last night and killed. The section men discovered the
body this morning.
WILKINSON (Kingston) Aug. 22 - The “G.L.Wilkinson of Canada”
reported to have died on
the steamer Britannic on its way across the Atlantic, turns
out to be G.E.Wilkinson, of this
city. Deceased left Kingston on the 12th instant going to
old Orchard Beach, where he
remained until the 14th, when letters intimated that he
would sail that day for England on a six
months tour. He was about 28 years of age; a member of the
grocery firm of G.M. Wilkinson
& Sons. When last heard from, before sailing, he was in
improving health.
MORRISON (Picton) Aug. 22 - G.W. Morrison of Aurora, died
suddenly this morning at the
residence of his son-in-law W.V. Pettit, West Lake. Mr.
Morrison, accompanied by his wife,
arrived at Mr. Pettit’s last Saturday to spend a couple of
weeks with their daughter at their
beautiful home at West Lake. This morning Mr. Morrison and
Mr. Pettit went out on the lake
for a couple of hours fishing. Mr. Morrison who had been
feeling unusually well, was taken
suddenly ill while in the boat and died before they could
get him to Mr. Pettit’s residence.
COATES (Trinidad, Col.) Aug 22 - When the express train for
California reached the summit
of Raton mountain this morning, Miss Birdie Coates, whose
home is in Almonte Ont., died of
consumption. She was going west for her health.
CHISHOLM (Williamstown, Ont.) Aug. 22 - Mrs. Alex. Chisholm,
an aged widow who lived
alone with an unmarried sister, a Miss Fraser, was
accidentally burned to death about 7:30
this evening. Miss Fraser was ill in bed, and Mrs. Chisholm
was in the kitchen lighting the
lamp, when her clothing caught fire, and before assistance
arrived she was so terribly burned
that she only breathed a few minutes. She has an only son
who is a resident of Grand Marias,
Mich. Mrs. Chisholm was a sister of the late Col. Fraser, of
Fraser’s Point, Glengarry.
Saturday, August 24
OVEREND - On Aug. 22, George Overend, aged 22 years, 1 month
and 22 days. Funeral
from the residence of his father-in-law, Wm. McMann, 674 Catharine
st. north, on Sunday
afternoon at 3 o’clock. Friends will please accept this
intimation.
EASTWOOD - At his late residence, East Hamilton, on the 24th
inst., John Eastwood, aged 58
years. Funeral on Monday afternoon at 2:30. Friends will
kindly omit flowers.
DAVIDSON - In this city, on the 23rd inst., Flora McKellor,
wife of the late John Davidson,
aged 77years. Funeral notice later. Funeral from her
son-in-law’s residence, 19 Mulberry st.,
on Sunday afternoon at 2 o’clock. Friends and acquaintances
will please accept this
intimation.
FORSTER - On August 24th, at 205 Walnut st., Lizzie A.,
third daughter of Mathew J. and
Mary Forster. Funeral on Monday, Aug. 25, at 9:30 to St.
Patrick’s church thence to Holy
Sepulchre cemetery.
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PIERSON (Hannon) - The interment of John Pierson’s child
which was fatally burned in
Hamilton, took place at the St. George church cemetery here
on Friday, Rev. J. Fielding
officiating.
VALLAINCOURT- (North Bay) Aug. 24 - A brakeman named Frank
Vallaincourt, who
belonged to the North Bay division of the Canadian Pacific
railway was killed a few days ago
near Chalk River station. His train left Chalk River some
time during the night, but no one
seems to know exactly how his death occurred. He was not
missed until towards morning, and
on search being made his body was found, terribly mangled,
near the Chalk River station. The
night was very dark and foggy, and it was thought he missed
his footing and fell between two
box cars. He was buried by the trainmen here last Sunday. He
leaves a widow and two
children in poor circumstances.
KETTLE (Toronto) Aug. 24 - George Kettle, an Orangeville
blacksmith, who, until two years
ago, resided in this city and who was to have been married
shortly to a Toronto young lady,
died suddenly yesterday. Deceased, who was employed in
Hewson’s blacksmith’s shop, went
to the rear door to get some fresh air, saying that he did
not feel well. Almost instantly on
reaching the door, the young man fell dead. He had been
suffering from heart disease for
some time.
YOUNG (Toronto) Aug. 24 - John Montgomery, while fishing
near the breakwater yesterday
morning, noticed something floating in the water, and upon
rowing up to see what it was
found that it was the body of a young woman. He procured
assistance and towed the body to
the wharf, whence it was removed to the morgue, and was
subsequently identified as the body
of Phoebe Young, who was employed as a domestic at the
Rossin house, and was drowned
some weeks ago while out in a skiff with a colored man named
George Garrison. The remains
are much swollen and decomposed, but were identified by the
brother of the unfortunate
young woman
PRICE (Belleville) Aug. 23 - The body of David Price jr.,
who was drowned in the bay on
Monday afternoon last, was found this morning at 2 o’clock
by John Hayes, a fisherman, and
his sons, who were grappling for it. The corpse was found in
nine feet of water, half a mile to
the north of where it was supposed to be. The funeral took
place this afternoon.
WILSON (Gravenhurst) Aug. 23 - On Tuesday, a fatal quarrel
took place near Severn Bridge,
resulting in the death of John Wilson jr., a Swede. The
assailant was his nephew, Peter
Paulson, a slightly-built young man with a knowledge of
boxing. The two men were in a barn
of Mr. Wilson sr., (grandfather of the deceased and father
of the assailant) and were having
high words about a girl.
Richard Draper
witnessed part of the quarrel and advised Wilson who was a big fellow, to
give Paulson a licking. Wilson tried to act on the advice
and went forward to attack Paulson,
but was met with a blow in the forehead, from which he never
recovered,
It happened at 2:30
p.m. on Tuesday, and Wilson died next day at 10:30 a.m., being
attended by Drs .Ardagh and Harvie, of Orillia, who could do
nothing to abate the series of
convulsive fits which followed the blow.
Dr. Campbell,
coroner, sent Chief Constable Sloan to investigate yesterday. He obtained a
statement from Draper, who strongly affirmed that Paulson
struck in self-defense. Under the
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circumstances it has, strangely enough, been decided to hold
no inquest, the friends of the
deceased concurring in this, as well as all the parties
concerned.
Constable Sloan made
no arrest, but it is likely something more will be heard of the affair.
VARSON (Brampton) Aug. 23 - William Varson, a bachelor, 80
years of age, remarked to a
neighbor that he thought he would hang himself. Next morning
he was found suspended from
the ceiling.
EASTWOOD - About 9 a.m. to-day one of Hamilton’s best known
and most highly respected
citizens, John Eastwood, died at his residence in Hamilton.
For over a year he had been
suffering from a spinal disease, and his death was not
unexpected. He passed away very
peacefully and without pain, with the members of the family
surrounding his bed.
Mr. Eastwood was born
in Toronto on July 5, 1837, and came to Hamilton with his parents
in his early boyhood. He was educated in the schools of this
city. His business career was
begun in the warehouse of James Buntin & Co., of Toronto,
stationers, and for thirty-seven
years Mr. Eastwood continued in the same business. For
thirty-six years he carried on a book
and stationery business in the building now occupied by the
firm of John Eastwood & Co. As
a business man Mr. Eastwood was sagacious, industrious and
strictly honorable, qualities
which enabled him to succeed in every enterprise which he
engaged in. He was a director of
the Times Printing company, vice-president of the Hamilton
Gaslight company and was
connected more or less intimately with other business
enterprises. As a director and president
of the Great Central fair his executive ability and great
energy were exercised to advantage.
Though adverse to public life, he consented to be an
aldermanic candidate one or two years,
was elected and made a capital alderman, serving one years
as chairman of the markets, fire
and police committee. He was a member of the Masonic order
but never aspired to high
honors in it.
Mr. Eastwood was well
known as an enthusiastic lover of art, a generous patron of rising
artists and a connoisseur of fine cultivated taste. His
favourable opinion of a painting was
eagerly sought by local dealers for it often enhanced the
value of the picture.
In 1861 Mr. East wood
married a daughter of the late Samuel Kerr of this city. She, with
one son and one daughter - John M. Eastwood and Mrs. C.A.
Murton - survives him.
The deceased
gentleman was a general favourite. Cordial in manner, uniformly courteous,
cheerful and kindly, he was an approachable and
companionable man; and his kindliness was
not merely on the surface. Although refined in his taste and
a man of cultured mind, he
willingly assumed the role of a simple citizen for he hated
ostentation in every form. His
latest wish was that his funeral should be conducted with as
much simplicity as possible.
Monday, August 26
MCCLELLAND - In this city on Sunday, Aug. 25, Peter
McClelland, aged 41 years. The
funeral will leave his late residence, 59 Cathcart street,
on Tuesday afternoon at 4 o’clock.
Friends and acquaintances are invited to attend. No flowers.
BALE - In this city at his late residence, on Aug. 24,
Thomas Bale sr., in his 89th year.
Funeral on Tuesday. Private. Friends will please omit
flowers.
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Thomas Bale , sr.,
for many years sexton of Wesley church, died on Saturday at the age of
89. He was a native of Devonshire Eng., and came here in
1853. He leaves one son and four
daughters.
HOPKINS - On Aug. 24, S.F. Hopkins. aged 39 years. Funeral
from the old homestead, Stony
Creek, on Tuesday, at 11 o’clock a.m. Friends and
acquaintances will please accept this
intimation.
S.F. Hopkins, a
butcher on the market, died on Saturday at the hospital at the age of 39. He
was the son of the late Silas Hopkins of Saltfleet and a
brother of M.W. Hopkins, civil
engineer. Some months ago he got cold with sleeping on the
grass and rheumatism set in. The
deceased leaves a widow and four children. The funeral will
take place tomorrow from the
homestead at Stony Creek
TRUMAN - In this city, at No 15 Stinson st. the infant son
of W.A. and Louise Truman, aged
4 days. Funeral took place yesterday.
CLARK - At 124 Hannah street west, on Sunday 25th August,
Annie, wife of Edwin Clark.
Funeral private on Tuesday at 2 p.m. to Ancaster. Friends
please omit flowers.
EASTWOOD - The funeral of the late John Eastwood took place
from the family residence,
Main street east this afternoon and was attended by a large
and representative gathering of
citizens and friends. The pall-bearers were: John Billings,
Richard Fuller, William Gibson,
M.P. John W. Murton, Dr. Springer and George Rutherford.
Rev. Dr. Lyle and Rev. Mr.
Young conducted the services at the house and grave.
WALKER - The following from the Tilbury News undoubtedly
refers to F.B. Walker the
Guelph bookmaker whose dead body was found near Amherstburg
on Saturday, Aug. 17, and
is an additional proof that the young Walker committed
suicide and was not murdered as at
first supposed.
A young man about 23
years of age arrived in town on Friday last. He was intelligentlooking
and respectably dressed. Said he came from Windsor and was
over communitive,
though he could give no reason for having come to Tilbury.
He acted quite strangely
throughout the afternoon and approached many men familiarly
whom he had never seen
before. He took a few drinks with the boys and bought a few,
and during the evening sat
around the hotel weeping and crying most pitifully. Between
the deep sobs and heartrending
groans he would mumble something about Windsor races and
losing money. He attracted
considerable attention, some sizing him up as a confidence
man, others as a fake beggar and
others as a lunatic. The latter is quite a probable solution
, though no one learned anything
from him. He disappeared on Friday night , previous to which
he had announced that he was
going to Toronto.
HOLMES - Prof. Ellis will make an examination of the stomach
of Wm. Holmes, the marble
cutter, who died recently at Barrie under what have been
considered mysterious
circumstances In the meantime the inquest which had been
opened has been adjourned,
pending the result of the analysis. Prof. Ellis will make
his report early in September.
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MCIVOR (Ottawa) Aug. 25 - Hugh McIvor, an ex-journalist, was
drowned Friday night at
Brittania, seven miles from here. He either fell out of the
boat or suicided.
STALKER (Ottawa) Aug 25 - Architect G.F. Stalker died on
Friday in a hack while being
driven to his home on Creighton street.
Tuesday, August 27
MALONE - Patrick Malone, an aged and wealthy resident of
Chatham township, Ont., died
yesterday. He had resided in the district for 35 years.
DOUGLASS (Caledonia) Aug. 26 - William Douglass, one of the
best and most successful
farmers in the county of Brant, died to-day, aged 78 years
after an illness of some two
months. Deceased was a native of Scotland, and settled on
the Grand river some 55 years ago.
He was well known all over the province as a breeder and
importer of short-horns, at which
business he met with considerable success. He was councilor
of the township of Onondaga for
many years, and held other positions of trust and
responsibility.
MOSS (Cornwall) Aug. 26 - David B. Moss, of Moulinette village,
about six miles west of
Cornwall, went to church in Wales last night, and after
church started to ride home between
the double track of the Grand Trunk railway, where there is
a splendid bicycle path. This
morning a farmer named Geo. Fickes found his body in a
culvert, about a mile west of
Moulinette. The body was still astride of the wheel, and lay
in the fifteen inches of water
which was in the culvert. The unfortunate young man probably
rode into the culvert and,
striking his head against the wall was either killed
outright, or stunned so that he drowned in
the water. A couple of bruises were found upon his forehead.
The deceased was a fine young
man, 22 years of age, and had just matriculated with honors
from the school at Richmond,
Que. He intended to begin a medical course in McGill this
fall.
SINCLAIR (Ridgetown Ont.) Aug. 26 - On Sunday afternoon the
funeral was held here of
Mrs. Alexander Sinclair, one of the best-known pioneers of
Western Ontario. She was born in
Henryville, Lower Canada, in 1828. Her father Samuel Bower,
a Waterloo veteran moved in
1836 with his family to Kent county Ont. She taught school
for a short time, and in 1849 was
married to Alexander Sinclair settling on their new farm,
now bordering on the town of
Ridgetown where their home became a center for educational
and religious influences. Her
husband survives her, one of the few remaining pioneers of
those early days. She leaves four
children - S.B. Sinclair, M.A. vice- principal Ottawa Normal
school, and formerly of the
Hamilton Collegiate institute; A.H. Sinclair , M.A., LL.B
barrister, Toronto; Rev. J.J.
Sinclair, Thorndale, and Anna E. Sinclair.
BARRETT (Toronto) Aug. 27 - Coroner Johnson last night
issued a warrant for an inquest to
be held on Thursday on the body of James Barrett, of
McMurrich township, Parry Sound. The
body was recently interred in Mount pleasant cemetery.
About two years ago
Barrett moved to Parry Sound district, and took up a farm in
McMurrich township, near Buck Lake. He had his wife and
child with him, and it is alleged
that he was not on the best of terms with some parties
living in the vicinity. On Thursday,
Aug. 15, he was crossing Buck lake in a punt with two other
men, one a neighbor named
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Moles. And in crossing it is alleged the boat filled with
water and Barrett was drowned. On
the Sunday following the body was recovered, and it was sent
to this city and interred, as
stated, in Mount Pleasant cemetery.
The tongue of rumor
was busy after the drowning, and some of the whispers reached the
ears of Mr. Barrett a brother of the deceased, living at 96
Ulster street. He called on Coroner
Johnson, and at his instigation the warrant for the inquest
was issued.
WALKER (Windsor) Aug. 26 - Crown Attorney Clark has received
the evidence taken at the
coroner’s inquest on the body of A. F. Walker of Guelph, who
was found in the river near
Amherstburg two weeks ago. The jury found that Walker was
murdered, and if the crown
attorney finds that the verdict was justified by the evidence
he will give the case to the
detectives.
DOUGLAS (North Bay) Aug 26 - The body of Alex T. Douglas,
storekeeper for Davidson &
Hay, Toronto, who was one of the twenty-one who lost their
lives by the burning of that
firm’s steamer, the Fraser, on Lake Nipissing, Sept. 7,
1893, was found by John Couchin, an
Indian, on Saturday, on the north shore of the lake five and
a half miles west of here. It was
nude but well-preserved . That the body had been lying in
sixty feet of water and possibly a
muddy bottom, seems the only way of accounting for its
preservation for so long a time and
the recent thunderstorms are thought to be the cause of its
coming to the surface. The bodies
of fifteen of the twenty-one victims had previously been
found, nearly all within a year after
the occurrence.
The interment took
place here to-day and was attended by the widow and children of the
deceased, who are living at Cache bay.
GEORGE (London, Ont.) Aug. 26 - William George, who had
lived on the Hamilton road,
near Adelaide street for the past six or seven years, left
his home early this morning to take
the cars to his son’s place in Dorchester, where he intended
to put in the day angling. He had
only gone a short distance, however, when some children
noticed him fall heavily to the
ground, and they at once gave the alarm. Dr. English was
summoned, but the old man was
beyond human aid. His death was ascribed to heart failure.
He was 82 years of age and leaves
several children, besides his bereaved widow.
BURDETT (Belleville) Aug. 26 - Dr. Bavid E. Burdett died
yesterday after a long illness. Dr.
Burdett, who was born in Prince Edward county, Ont., 67
years ago, practised here for
upwards of 30 years, and was a highly popular physician.
A melancholy
coincidence in connection with the death of Dr. Burdett is that his brother
Daniel died yesterday at the old family homestead, in
Newburgh, at about the same hour as
the doctor aspired here. The telegrams from the relatives
announcing the deaths were
dispatched and received within a few minutes of each other.
BALE - Thomas Bale, with his brother James and their
families, arrived in this city from
Devon, England, 42 years ago, when Hamilton was a
comparatively small place. He has since
resided here, leading a quiet, industrious life, beloved and
respected by all who knew him.
Loss of sight and hearing for some years past prevented his
going about but up to the last he
took a deep interest in the welfare of Wesley church, of
which he was a member ever since
his arrival here. He passed away peacefully on Saturday
night. His son Thomas, of the
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postoffice department and Miss Annie Bale and Mrs. James,
Mrs. Smale and Mrs. Partridge
survive him. The interment took place this afternoon.
Wednesday, August 28
MURRAY - At St. Catharines, on Tuesday Aug. 27, 1895,
suddenly, James Murray in his 64th
year. Funeral at 3 o’clock p.m., Thursday, from his late
residence, 183 Church street, St.
Catharines.
MCCLELLAND - The funeral of the late Peter McClelland took
place yesterday and was
largely attended. Rev. Dr. Fletcher conducted the services.
The pall bearers were: Geo. R.
Allan, William Harper, John Burns, H. Obermeyer, Alfred
Taylor and Samuel Truman.
GILBERT - Novelle Gilbert, who rose from a sick bed a few
weeks ago, was lately taken with
typhoid fever in the worst form, from the effects of which
he died on Wednesday. The funeral
services were conducted by Mr. Asher on Friday.
JOYCE (Huntsville Ont.) Aug 27 - Last night the barn of
George Hutchins, near this village,
took fire from the bursting of a coal oil lantern. Mr.
Hutchins’ son and two other boys went to
the barn to sleep , and when blowing out the lantern it
burst. One of the boys named Algin
Joyce, about 14 years old, perished in the flames, and Mr.
Hutchins’ son is so badly burned
that he can not recover.
Coroner Reece decided
that it was not necessary to hold an inquest.
GIBSON (Whitby) Aug. 27 - Fred Gibson was thrown from a
wagon in C.F. Stewart’s
orchard. He fell against a post, smashed his skull and died
soon afterward.
IVEY (Toronto) Aug 28 - Mrs William Ivey, who lives at 538
Front street west, was notified
yesterday by the G.T.R. authorities that her husband had
probably drowned on Monday night
at Collingwood.
It appears that
William Ivey, an old and trusted engineer in the Grand Trunk railway, went
to the end of the Collingwood pier at about at 9 o’clock at
night to bathe his feet as is
customary with engineers, who find it a great relief after
standing in a hot engine all day.
As Ivey did not appear
before morning a search was instituted with the result that some of
his clothing was found on the -end of the pier. The bay was
dragged all day yesterday but the
body was not recovered.
Ivey was 42 years of
age and had been in the employ of the G.T.R. for 25 years. For some
time past his run had been on the freight train between
Toronto and Collingwood. He would
be at each place on alternate nights.
Deceased leaves a
widow and five children, the youngest being 3 years of age. The eldest, a
boy of 17, had been ill in bed for three weeks, suffering
from haemorrhage of the lungs.
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BEATTIE (Essex, Ont.) Aug. 27. - The little two-year-old son
of W.D. Beattie, farmer, of this
town, while playing about 9 o’clock on Monday, fell through
a small opening into a well,
about 12 feet deep. The child being missed it was searched
for, and was found about half an
hour after the accident floating in a foot of water. Medical
aid was at once summoned, and
every means used to restore life, but the child was
evidently killed by the fall.
MURRAY (St. Catharines) Aug. 27 - Capt James Murray expired
suddenly at his residence in
the city this afternoon. He retired in apparent good health
but was awakened at about two
o’clock by violent pain. A doctor found an obstruction of
the liver. At 12:45 and very
suddenly Capt. Murray died. Captain Murray was known all
over Canada. He came of an old
Scottish family and was born in Argleshire, May 12, 1832. In
1837 his father emigrated to
this country and settled in York county. Later on James came
to this city to reside with an
uncle. When seventeen he started sailing on the lakes and in
five years he had the rank of
commander of a vessel. Several years later he purchased several
large vessels and carried on
operations on an extensive scale. As a contractor he was
best known. In addition to work on
the Welland canal he had contracts for public works of
various kinds along the lakes He was
president of the Castleman lumber company, vice-president of
Northwest Central railway. In
politics he had always been a Conservative, holding the
position of president of the Lincoln
County Conservative association for upwards of 25 years. He
was a devoted adherent of Knox
church and very liberal supporter. In 1856 he married
Harriet, daughter of the late James
Soulder.
TULLY (London) Aug. 27 - Norville A. Tully, a young man of
20 years, who, with his
mother lives with A.S. Abbott, ex-city clerk, 227 Queen’s
avenue, this afternoon started out
for a ride in his small canoe, but had not gone far when the
little craft upset and he was
drowned.
Thursday, August 29
MURRAY - At St. Catharines on Tuesday, Aug 27, 1895,
suddenly, James Murray, in his 64th
year. Funeral at 2 o’clock p.m. Thursday, from his late
residence 123 Church street, St.
Catharines.
WEBB (Toronto)Aug. 29 - At ten o’clock this morning a man
named F.M. Webb was found
dead in bed at the Kensington hotel. He registered there
Tuesday night, and yesterday
morning he ordered a drink of whiskey to be sent to his
room. He did not appear during the
day and it was thought he was sleeping.. This morning a
visit was made to his room and he
was found dead in bed. A phial, supposed to have contained
prussic acid, was found near him.
KEMPTHORN (Pickering, Ont.) Aug. 28 - Albert Kempthorn, the
victim of the shooting
affray at Scriba N.Y., Tuesday morning was a native of this
village He was 29, and was the
youngest member of a large family, all of whom are now dead
excepting two boys, Thomas
who lives here and George who holds a responsible position
on a Michigan railway. The
family was well-known throughout Pickering township and also
in the town of Bowmanville,
where William, one of the brothers, resided for years. Bert
as he was always called , was the
last one to leave home. He supported his aged mother up to
the time of her death a few years
ago .After that he went to Battle Creek, Mich., where his
brother secured him work on a
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railway. Last fall he returned to his native place. He
remained during the winter going to
Scriba in the spring.
The murdered man had
been conducting a butcher business in Scriba.
NEWMAN (Detroit) Aug. 28 - A young woman known here as Alice
Grace Newman leaped
from a ferryboat in the river on Friday and was drowned. She
left on the chair on which she
had been sitting a letter from her brother at Hickson, South
Dakota and a note.
It has been learned
that Newman was her maiden name and that she had been married to one
O. J. Dunkelberg, a hotel fireman, but they separated nine
days later. Among her belongings
that she left behind on the boat were Ouida’s “Signa, Folle
Farine” on the page margins of
which she had written comments on the text. For instance;
“Life is fatal and why should we mourn.”
One page of the novel
records the fact that Grace Newman was born in Toronto, Ont., Oct
17, 1872.
A man who had
befriended her since her arrival in Detroit says she showed him
photographs of her brothers and sisters in Canada, and also
a clipping from a Chicago paper
relating how she had attempted suicide before this summer at
a hotel in that city. She had
been in hospital there until recently as a result of this
attempt to end her life.
DERUSH, COMBER, SHYNSKY (Corrunna) Aug. 29 - The rumors
current here last night
that a row boat had been capsized during last evening’s
storm are confirmed. One man and
three women were drowned , their names being Frank DeRush,
of Broomfield, Ont., Mrs. M.
DeRush, Miss Ella Comber and Miss Delia Shynsky all of
Marysville, Mich. Miss Minnie
Shamrock of Marysville, who was also an occupant of the
boat, was saved.
FULLER - Jonathon Fuller, aged 89, an old citizen of
Hastings Ont.,died suddenly on
Tuesday night.
HURLEY - Mrs. Ellen Hurley, one of the oldest residents of
Belleville, died on Tuesday
night, aged 94. She leaves no family.
MANN - Jehiel Mann, senior member of the firm of Mann &
Davidson, barristers, St.
Thomas, Ont., died at his residence on Tuesday night from
paralytic stroke, aged 65.
SHEPHERD (Ottawa) Aug. 29 - Capt. R.W. Shepherd, president
of the Ottawa River
Navigation company, died at Como, Que., at nine o’clock this
morning.
Friday, August 30
REEVES - In this city, on Friday, Aug. 30, Richard Reeves,
aged 53 years. Funeral will leave
his father’s residence, 272 King street west, cor. Hess, on
Sunday afternoon at 3:30. Friends
will please accept this intimation.
Richard Reeves, 272
King street west, was taken to the city hospital last night suffering
from strangulated rupture . Before the ambulance reached the
hospital, however, the
unfortunate man died in great agony. He was about 53 years
of age and a widower. He lived
with his father and was a baker by trade. Last year he was
in St. Joseph’s hospital undergoing
treatment for the same trouble, and last evening Dr. Philp,
his physician, ordered his removal
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to the city hospital, where he was to have undertaken an
operation.
OWENS - James Owens, aged 63, a hotel-keeper well know in
this city was a victim of an
accident at the King street station last evening which cost
him his life some two hours
afterward. It was while he was attempting to board the 5:55
Toronto express for Oakville that
the accident occurred . The train was moving out and Owens
made a jump for a car platform.
He missed it, falling between the track and the station
platform, but not on the track. Mr.
Connell and Chief Hazel saw him fall and caught hold of him,
thinking that they might pull
him out; but he is a heavy man and before they could get him
clear the next car step had come
along and dragged his body under, one of his legs falling
across the rails. As he slipped under
Owens screamed and several ladies who were in the car and on
the platform fainted at the
ghastly sight.
The car wheels badly
mutilated one of his legs above the knee and he was bruised on his
body. In the ambulance he was removed to the city hospital
where he died a couple of hours
afterward..
James Owens, a son of
the deceased, who lives in Woodstock and Mrs. Owens, the wife of
the dead man, were present at the hospital. There are three
other sons and two daughters, all
grown up.
Drs. Rennie, Griffin
and Coleman attended the injured man at the hospital last night and
amputated his right leg near the thigh. At first he seemed
to improve, but shortly after 10
0'clock he became weaker, and death from shock occurred
about 11 o’clock. One of his hands
was bruised and there was a nasty flesh wound on the left
side of his face. He will be buried
in the city.
TAYLOR ( Chesley, Ont.) Aug. 30 - Yesterday afternoon a
young man named John Taylor,
of the township of Bentinick, near Morrisburg, accidentally
shot himself, dying from his
injuries this morning. Taylor, with some friends, was out
gunning in his own woods, and was
lighting his pipe when his gun slipped out of his hands and
went off, the charge entering his
chest.
BARTLETT (Fulton) - On Friday last the only child of Mr. And
Mrs. Bartlett was brought
here for interment. The funeral services were conducted by
Rev. J. Caldwell, of Ker.
MURRAY (St. Catharines) Aug. 29 - The funeral of the late
Capt. James Murray took place
at three o’clock this afternoon from his late residence,
Maple Hill, and was one of the largest
that has been seen in this city in many years. Agreeable to
the wishes of the widow, Capt.
Murray was not buried with Masonic honors, but a large crowd
of people of all shades of
politics and religion turned out and joined the mournful
procession to the cemetery. Among
those present from a distance were; Senator John Ferguson of
Niagara Falls; T. McGaw, W.R.
Brock, D. Creighton, J. H. Temple, chief engineer of the
Toronto harbor works; E. B. Rogers,
Hugh Ryan, F. Cayley, of Toronto; William Gibson, M.P.;
James Hiscott, M.P.P.; John
McLean, president of the Lincoln County Conservative
association, Merriton; James Walker,
Beamsville; E.B. Walker, Hamilton.
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The religious
ceremonies were conducted at the house by Rev. J. H. Ratcliffe, of the First
Presbyterian church, assisted by Rev. Rural Dean Armitage,
rector of St. Thomas Episcopal
church. The casket was borne by six of the deceased’s
employees on the contracts on which
he was engaged at the time of his death. They were : H.B.
Hammel, D. Stuart, J.S. Abbey,
John Cain, J.F. Sheedy and J. Collins.
WALKER (Windsor) Aug. 29 - The Government Detective Murray
is here looking into the
death of Fred Walker, of Guelph, whose body was found in the
river at Amherstburg three
weeks ago. Detective Murray says that he has information
going to prove that Walker was not
alive when put into the water; in other words, that the case
was not one of suicide. The
circumstances were looked upon by his relatives in Guelph as
very suspicious and they made
application to the attorney-general for an inquiry into the
cause. Mr. Murray has spent several
days looking into the circumstances. He is unable to
reconcile the suicide theory with the
facts he has learned about Walker’s doings previous to his
death. He further points out to the
great distance of the spot where the body was found from the
city of Detroit where Walker
was staying the night before, and he can not understand how
it could have drifted out. There
is a probability, he admits, in the theory about the man
having gone aboard a river steamer
and fallen off on the trip, his head coming in contact with
the paddle wheel of the vessel, but
from certain facts in his possession the detective has
formed another opinion as to how the
unfortunate fellow came to his end.
CARLING (Exeter) Aug. 29 - The death of Isaac Carling
occurred at 3 o’clock this afternoon,
after an illness of many years. Mr. Carling was the founder
and first reeve of Exeter, and for
many years was successfully engaged in business here. He
represented this riding in the
legislative assembly in the days of John Sandfield
Macdonald. Mr. Carling was a brother of
Sir John Carling.
AULT - The funeral of Samuel Ault of Aultsville, Ont., who
died on Wednesday morning, in
his eighty-first year took place yesterday. The deceased was
elected to parliament before
confederation, and represented the county of Stormont for
fourteen years and was always an
active supporter of the late Sir. John Macdonald.
Saturday, August 31
REEVES - In this city, on Friday August 30, Richard Reeves,
aged 53 years. Funeral will
leave his father’s residence, 272 King street west, cor.
Hess, on Sunday afternoon at 3:30.
Friends will please accept this intimation.
SIMPSON - At New York, August 30th, Albert Henry, aged 29
years, eldest son of Rev. A.B.
and Maggie Simpson, formerly of Hamilton.
OWEN - At Hamilton, August 28, James Owen, aged 58 years.
Funeral Sept. 1, 1895, from
his son-in-law’s residence, 177 Young street, city.
KILBRIDGE (Parry Sound) Aug. 30 - John Kilbridge, a foreman
employed by William
Heald, contractor, was instantly killed in rock blasting
this morning. The accident occurred at
Rose Point, two miles from here, on the Parry Sound
Colonization railway. Kilbridge went to
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examine a charge that had not gone off, when it suddenly
exploded, killing him instantly. His
relatives, it is thought, live in Prince Edward Island.
GIBSON - Willie Gibson, of Napanee, was drowned yesterday at
Gull lake. He and two
companions were duck-shooting. Ducks may not be killed
legally until next Monday; but the
accident that has cast a gloom over Napanee also shows how
the Ontario game laws are
enforced by the new wardens and deputy-wardens.
Willie Gibson, aged
20, eldest son of Stephen Gibson, registrar of Lennox and Addington,
while duck hunting at Gull lake to-day with two young men
from here, was accidentally shot
and killed. Mr. Gibson was in a small boat alone and in some
way unknown while moving in
the boat the gun was exploded, the charge entering the back
of his head. Deceased had been
attending Victoria university, Toronto, for the last year or
two.
WEIGEL (Teeswater) Aug. 30 - Joseph Weigel, aged about 65,
fell dead at his home here last
evening. Apoplexy is said to be the cause.
STEWART, DOUGLAS (Woodstock) Aug. 30 - At the house of
refuge lie the bodies of two
centenarians, Robert Stewart, born in Armagh, but a resident
of Oxford county from his
youth, and Jessie Douglas, born Sept. 5, 1793, formerly a
resident of Ingersoll.
Monday, September 2
WAKEHAM - John Mitchelmore Wakeham Sr., in this city Sept.
1st. He was 68 years old and
a native of Devonshire, Eng. Funeral will leave his late
residence, 70 Burlington street west ,
near foot of Bay street, on Tuesday afternoon at 3 o’clock.
Friends will please accept this
intimation.
REEVES - The funeral of the late Richard Reeves took place
yesterday afternoon and there
was a large turnout of the members of the L.O.L. 312. The
Victoria flute band led the funeral
procession.
THOMPSON (Troy) - Mrs. Thompson, one of the old pioneers of
Beverly, passed away last
Saturday at the residence of her son, John Robb. She was in
her eighty-eighth year but had
scarcely ever known a day’s sickness until about two months
ago when she was taken with
the grip, and from that time she was continually sinking
till the end came. She was buried in
the Troy cemetery on Monday. The funeral was very largely
attended.
DOUGLAS (Caledonia) - The funeral of the late William
Douglas of Onondaga, the wellknown
importer and breeder of shorthorn cattle, took place to this
village on Wednesday. It
was one of the largest ever seen in this section. He was a
man much respected.
Tuesday, September 3
MCKENNA - In this city on Sept. 1, Mrs. M.A. McKenna, in her
82nd year. Funeral from her
son’s residence 18 Baillie street, this (Tuesday) afternoon
at 2:30 p.m. Private.
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MARKS - George Marks, of Bruce Mines, Ont., one of the
oldest pioneers of Algoma, died
on Friday night, aged 70. He had been a resident of Algoma
for more than 40 years.
CAIRNS (Toronto) Sept. 2 - Whilst sitting on his doorstep at
187 Hamilton street, in this city,
Bernard Cairns, a laborer, 65 years of age, dropped dead at
7 o’clock last evening. Heart
disease was the cause of the fatal seizure. Deceased had
been a heart, healthy man, and had
never had a day’s illness in his life.
RENNIE (Woodstock) Sept. 1 - George Rennie dropped dead on
Saturday. He had attended
the funeral of the late Mrs. Davidson at the Presbyterian
cemetery, and while there walked
over to the grave of his sister-in-law, Mrs. Andrew Pattulo,
where he was found. Death was
due to heart disease.
NICHOL (Montreal) Sept. 2 - A watchman named Robert Nichol,
who came here a short time
ago from Orangeville, was accidentally killed at Montreal
Junction last evening.
Wednesday, September 4
COOKE - At her late residence, No. 11 Oxford street, on Tuesday
Sept. 3, Janet Cooke,
widow of the late W.S. Cooke, aged 75 years and 3 months.
Funeral on Thursday at 3:30 p.m.
Friends will please accept this intimation.
CHAPMAN - Yesterday afternoon Walter Chapman, son of S.
Chapman, a King street east
druggist, went for a row on the bay, and there can be no
doubt that he drowned. Early in the
afternoon he left home, taking with him his camera and
saying that he was going for a row
and would be back about 5 o’clock. He hired a boat from H.L.
Bastien and rowed over to the
north shore, where he was seen later by some boys swimming.
Shortly before 5 o’clock
George Malcolmson, Wm. Coveny and Wm. Dean who were sailing
a smack along near
Carrol’s point discovered a boat floating with a pair of
trunks in it. The trunks were marked
with Chapman’s name and a further search along the shore
revealed the missing man’s
clothing on the bank. A gold watch and some money were in
the pockets along with letters
that confirmed the identification.
Word was at once sent
to the police and policemen Knox and Wark went out to search for
the body. S. Chapman, the young man’s father, was advised of
the affair and he went at once
across the bay. Although several parties had been grappling
for the remains this morning the
body has not yet been recovered. Young Chapman was about 24
years of age and a clerk in
his father’s store. He was an enthusiastic amateur
photographer and held the position of
assistant secretary of the Hamilton association, being also
an active worker in the biological
and photographic sections. He was a quiet unassuming young
man and a general favourite
with all who knew him. It is supposed that he went in
swimming from the boat and taking a
cramp, sank in or near the canal channel.
BRAUN (Toronto) Sep. 4 - The body of Gussie Braun, the boy
drowned in the bay on
Monday night, was recovered yesterday by Esplanade Constable
Williams. Coroner Johnson
will hold an inquest on the remains today.
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Thursday, September 5
LEE - At the residence of her daughter Mrs. D. U. Boothe,
Oakville, on Wednesday, Sept. 4,
1895, Phoebe, relic of the late Thomas C. Lee of Saltfleet
and Angus. Funeral private, at
Stony Creek cemetery on Friday at 1 p.m.
FIELD - On the 4th inst., at the residence of Mrs. George Rutherford,
East Hamilton,
Elizabeth C. Field, daughter of the late John Field. Funeral
notice later.
MCDONALD, WELCH, WHALEN - The body of the tramp tailor who
died near Waterdown
on Tuesday night was buried at Waterdown yesterday. The
man’s supposed wife gave the
names of McDonald, Welch and Whalen.
MARTIN (Listowel) Sept. 5 - The dead body of David Martin
was found lying on the
roadside near the Kincardine branch railway track, this
morning with his head and shoulder
badly cut up. A bottle with about three inches of whiskey in
it was found in his pocket. Martin
leaves a wife and two small children.
FERGUSON (Alexandria, Ont.) Sept. 4 - The remains of a young
man named Norman
Ferguson, from Dunvegan, were found on the Canada Atlantic
railway a short distance west
of this place this morning, badly mutilated.
CAPIN (Staynor, Ont.) Sept 4 - A sad accident happened on
the farm of Thomas Capin,
Staynor, to-day through which his son lost his life. He was
driving a load of hay, when he
slipped and fell from the top, breaking his neck.
SPOONER (Kingston) Sept. 4 - David J. Spooner of Glenburnie,
aged 19, was engaged in
taking a wagon from a barn when it struck him in the abdomen
and so injured him that he
died.
WHITMAN (Burford, Ont.) Sept 5 - Mrs. Whitman, an aged and
well-known lady living at
Mount Vernon, was drowned in a water cistern at her
residence this morning. It is supposed
that she went to get water, and the pump not working, she
attempted to raise the water with
the bucket, and losing her balance, fell in. When she was
found about fifteen minutes
afterwards, life was extinct.
Friday, September 6
PAWFER - In this city on Sept. 5th, Lillie, daughter of
William and Mary Pawfer, aged 1 year.
Funeral from 112 Canada street, Saturday at 4 o’clock.
Friends will kindly accept this notice.
PHILLIPS - In this city, on Sept. 5th, Ethel, youngest
daughter of Joshua and Bella Phillips,
aged 2 years. Funeral from the parent’s residence, 115
Victoria ave. north on Saturday
afternoon at 2 o’clock. Friends and acquaintances will
please accept this notice.
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FIELD - On the 4th inst. at the residence of Mrs. George
Rutherford, East Hamilton, Elizabeth
C. Field, daughter of the late John Field. Funeral from
above address on Saturday at 3 p.m.
Friends kindly invited.
DODGE (Wheately, Ont.) Sept. 6 - Yesterday some Indians
living about seven miles east of
here went with baskets to Leamington, where they secured
liquor and got drunk. After
returning home two of the squaws named Mrs. Jos. Peters and
Mrs Thos. Dodge, got into a
fight, which resulted in the former striking the latter on
the head with a club, killing her
instantly.
(Wheatley) Sept 7 - Mrs Tom Dodge, the squaw who was
reported to have been murdered by
an other squaw, Mrs. Joe Peters, in a drunken row on
Thursday by being struck on the head
with a club, is still alive. The woman was rendered
unconscious by the blow and the other
Indians, supposing she was dead, went to Smith’s dock and
made an announcement to that
effect.
BECKER (St. Catharines) Sept. 5 - Capt. David Becker, who
was seriously burned while
trying to make his escape from the burning steamer St.
Magnus at Port Dalhousie this
morning, died from his injuries about 1:30 this afternoon at
the hospital here. This morning
when he was taken to the hospital the doctors despaired of
saving his life as he was burned to
the bone in many places, the flesh being burned off his
hands, arms face and many parts of his
body. Captain Becker’s sufferings were intense. Deceased has
relatives in Cleveland, and they
have been notified by telegraph of the unfortunate
occurrence. Mr Becker was an old lake
captain and had been employed for many months on the burned
steamer. When the fire broke
out he was asleep and only awoke when all means of escape
appeared to him to be cut off.
Captain David Becker was a member in good standing of Erie
lodge I.O.O.F. Cleveland.
Union lodge 16 of this city has taken charge of the remains
and will have them removed to
Cleveland.
VANSICKLE (Lynden) - The funeral of the late Mrs. B.
Vansickle took place on Tuesday.
The remains were brought to Lynden Methodist cemetery for
burial. Mrs. Vansickle was
formerly a resident of this place. She leaves three sons.
Saturday, September 7
PAWSER - In this city, on Sept. 5th Lillie, daughter of
William and Mary Pawser, aged 1
year. Funeral from 112 Canada street east Saturday at 4
o’clock. Friends will kindly accept
this notice.
DANIELS - In this city on Sept.7th, Mrs Yetta, beloved wife
of B. Daniels, aged 66. Funeral
from 102 Hunter street east, at 3 p.m. on Sunday. Friends
and acquaintances will please
accept this intimation.
Mrs. B. Daniels, who
has been a resident of Hamilton for nearly forty years, died at her late
residence, 102 Hunter street east, to-day. On Tuesday she
was stricken with paralysis, and,
under the care of Dr. Farewell, bore the affliction with
fortitude until the end came to-day.
Mrs. Daniels was 66 years of age, and her kindly nature and
good deeds caused her to be
respected by all who knew her. She leaves a husband, two
sons and a daughter - Mrs. Landau.
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Her sons are Lew
Daniels and Harry Daniels, the well-known comedian and entertainer.
Mrs. Daniels was a Jewess and will be buried in the Jewish
cemetery on Sunday afternoon at
3 o’clock. Rabbi Wohlberg will conduct the services.
LYALL - At Dundas, on Sept.6, Sarah Deige, wife of Geo.
Lyall, aged 37 years. Funeral from
her late residence to Dundas cemetery at 4 p.m. on Sunday.
MCKEOWN - In this city, on Sept. 6th, Hugh McKeown, aged 55.
Funeral from his late
residence, 106 John street south, Sunday at 2 p.m.
Hugh McKeown, who for
years kept a saddlery store on John street, died last evening
LILY (Toronto) Sept. 7 - About three weeks since an old man
named Lily, a cripple, appeared
in the dock at the Toronto police court with an
18-months-old baby in his arms. He had a
dispute with his wife at their home in Keene, near
Peterboro, and left with the babe, walking
to this city. His wife found him here, and they started to
walk home again but had gone only a
short distance when the old man received a sunstroke and
died on the roadside. Farmers in the
vicinity took up a subscription and buried the old man and
gave the woman enough money to
take her to Peterboro, where she arrived with her baby
yesterday.
MACVICAR (Toronto) Sept. 7 - A Chatham dispatch says: James
MacVicar, eldest son of
Rev. Dr. MacVicar, late principal of McMaster hall, Toronto,
was drowned at Mount Clare,
near New York city yesterday. The news of the fatality was
received today by relatives in this
city. Deceased was 33 years of age and had a school for the
business training of young men.
Monday, September 9
CHAPMAN - Accidentally drowned at Carroll’s Point on Sept.
3, Walter S. Chapman, aged
24 years. Funeral from his parent’s residence No. 3 Emerald
street north, Tuesday, at 3:30
p.m. Friends will please accept this intimation.
BROWNLOW - On Sept. 8th 1895, after much suffering, Edward
Brownlow, of the Bank of
British North America, Montreal, aged 38 years. Funeral from
the Grand Trunk station,
Hamilton, to Burlington cemetery, on Tuesday 10th inst. on
arrival of 11 a.m. train. Friends
will please accept this intimation.
E.B. Brownlow, better
known under the nom de plume of Serapta, died in Montreal on
Sunday at the age of thirty-eight. He was employed in the
B.N.A. bank but spent his leisure
moments in literary work, and was a frequent contributor to
The Week, Arcadia and other
journals. The body will be brought to Hamilton for burial.
Mr. Brownlow, was a son-in-law of
Mr. Pecover, of this city.
FAULKNOR - In this city on Sept. 7, Thomas C., only son of
Joseph and the late Sarah
Faulknor aged 49 years. Funeral from his late residence, 239
Bold street, on Tuesday, at 3:30
p.m. Friends and acquaintances will please accept this
intimation.
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SPARGO (Ottawa) Sept. 9 - John Spargo, about 35 years of
age, an employee of Mr.
Caldwell’s, a well-known farmer of Merivale, was found dead
in Mr. Caldwell’s stable early
yesterday morning. His body lay a few feet from the end of a
stall occupied by a horse. It was
thought that death was caused from a kick from a horse. But
upon examination by Dr.
Jamieson of this city, no marks of injury were discernable.
Coroner Mark was summoned and
arranged to hold an inquest to-night. Stories of foul play
got abroad because of a feud having
existed between deceased and another man. Spargo was seen
going into the stable in apparent
good health fifteen minutes before being found dead.. He was
to have been married shortly to
a young woman, also in Mr. Caldwell’s employ, and much
sympathy is felt for her.
BARRETT (Toronto) Sept. 9 - The case against Maurice Moles
and Charles Molson, charged
with murdering James Barrett, formerly of this city, at Buck
Lake was presumed and
concluded before justice Savage at Novar, Saturday.
Charles Warner
testified that the deceased had told him about a year ago that he was
troubled with heart disease. The fact that the boat was not
seaworthy and that it was not fit to
carry three persons safely was also strongly brought out.
Crown Attorney
Johnston, in summing up, spoke at some length on the evidence given by
Dr. Harrington of this city which went to show that every
symptom favored the idea of death
or at least unconsciousness before sinking in the water.
The prisoners were
ably defended by Mr. Tytler, who pointed out the previous good
character of accused , the defectiveness of the boat, the
absence of motive and the possibility
of deceased having received the blow by falling on the boat
on jumping out.
Justice Savage did
not consider the evidence strong enough to warrant a committal and they
were accordingly discharged.
WARD (Toronto) Sept. 9 - Ellen Ward who for some months had
been living with Mrs. Sarah
Chambers at 90 Adelaide street west, fell dead in the
kitchen some time on Friday night. She
was found on Saturday morning by one of the boarders in the
house. Dr. Garrett was
summoned, but pronounced that life was extinct. Deceased who
was an English woman and
had resided for several years in Canada, had been in
ill-health for some time. Her death is
attributed to heart failure.
PUCKERING (Caledon) Sept. 8 - John Puckering, aged 23, was
killed by lightning on
Saturday while out hunting. He went into a vacant stable
belonging to A. Hillock during the
storm, and was found later by Mr. Hillock dead. One of his
dogs was killed also. Deceased
resided with his father at Credit Forks.
JAFFRAY - The funeral of the late George J. Jaffray of Galt
took place on Saturday
FAULKNER - Thomas Faulkner, who was injured by a cave-in on
the Hunter street tunnel
about ten days ago died at the city hospital on Saturday
night. There was every prospect that
he would recover until Saturday, when he took a bad turn and
kept getting weaker and weaker
until he passed away. Besides being crushed by the failing
earth Faulkner was burned by a
gasoline lamp. It is thought that he inhaled the hot fumes.
The deceased had
lived in Hamilton for many years. He leaves a wife and four children.
An action for damages
will likely be brought by the deceased’s relatives.
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DANIELS - Away over the mountain, outside city walls and far
from the noise and bustle, a
little party of Jewish mourners wended their way yesterday
afternoon to the cemetery of their
people to perform the last sad offices of the living to the
dead. The body of Mrs. Yetta
Daniels, a member of the Hughson street congregation, was
there laid in a tomb which might
well be said was hewn from the rock. Rabbi Wohlberg
officiated at the house and grave.
The bereaved husband,
who is a feeble old man, was completely overcome when he had
placed the three spades of earth in the grave. His face
bowed, his body shook and great tears
rolled down his wrinkled face as he was led away by his son.
Tuesday, September 10
OGILVIE - At the residence of her uncle, David Burnett,
Saltfleet, on Monday morning, Sept.
9, Jane Ogilvie, aged 34 years. Funeral from above address,
Wednesday morning at 10
o’clock to Burlington cemetery. Friends and acquaintances will
please accept this intimation
MCLEOD - Norman McLeod, the St. Thomas lawyer who defended
the prisoners in the
Hendershot murder trial, died suddenly at St. Thomas to-day.
His mother and sisters are in
Hamilton.
LYALL (Dundas) Sept. 10 - Sarah Doidge, wife of George
Lyall, died on Friday and was
buried on Sunday afternoon. A large number attended the
funeral.
Wednesday, September 11
CHAPMAN - The funeral of the late Walter Chapman took place
yesterday afternoon and
was largely attended. The pall-bearers were Thomas Morris,
Mr. Morrow, Henry Moore,
Alex. Mann, W. Morgan and Bert Dean.
Thursday, September 12
WILSON - At No. 79 Bold street on Sept. 11, 1895, Margaret
Wilson, aged 79 years. Funeral
private, Friday afternoon.
Friday, September 13
MCDONALD - On Sept. 12, at 200 East avenue north, LeRoy
Taylor, infant son of L.T. and
Aggie J. McDonald. Funeral Saturday, Spt. 14, at 2 p.m.
friends will please accept this
intimation.
WEEKS - At Ancaster on Spt. 12th Lina Virginia Weeks, aged
21 years. Funeral Saturday at 3
o’clock.
MERRITT (Fulton) - Mrs. R. Merritt died on Saturday after a
lingering illness. A few years
ago she spent some time in the south on account of ill
health.
SINNETT (Sheffield) M. Sinnett, formerly well-known here,
died in Guelph recently.
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Saturday, September 14
MAGEN - In this city, on the 14th inst., Grace, beloved wife
of Christopher Magen in the 58th
year of her age. Funeral will take place from her late
residence, 535 Main street east, on
Monday at 3 p.m. Friends and acquaintances will please
accept this intimation. Kindly omit
flowers.
Monday, September 16
BERRINGTON - On Sept. 14, at Springford, Ont., John
Berrington, G.T.R. Station Agent
aged 73. Funeral Tuesday at 12:15 p.m. from Stuart street
station to Hamilton cemetery.
Friends will please accept this intimation.
DONNELLY - Accidently drowned at St. Louis Mo. on the 2nd
inst. Richard, 5th son of the
late Edward Donnelly, Woodmount, Hamilton, aged 53 years.
Richard Donnelly, son
of the late Edward Donnelly, of this city, was drowned in St. Louis
last week. The family were quite prominent and wealthy
residents of Hamilton thirty years
ago and their homestead was the house on John street south,
recently the property of the late
Col. Axworthy, of Cleveland. The deceased was a brother of
Bolton Donnelly, of Ancaster,
and Mrs. Bull, widow of the late Richard Bull, of this city.
He was a railway man and a
bachelor.
YOUNG - Accidentally killed on Grand Trunk Railroad, Sunday
morning Sept. 15, Thomas
Young, aged 55 years. Funeral from the residence of John
Harlow, 555 York st. Tuesday at 4
p.m. Friends will please accept this intimation.
When several boys
were walking along the Grand Trunk track about 11 o’clock yesterday
morning they found the body of a man near the far semaphore
at the west end of the Stuart
street yards. The body was quite warm which was evidence
that the man had not been dead
long. The head was crushed in but the body was not
mutilated. It was brought to the Stuart
street station by Constable Hay and a couple of Grand Trunk
employees.
When the body was
laid out on a stretcher in the baggage-room it was identified by several
men as that of Thomas Young, an elderly man, who boarded
with John Barlow, 555 York
street.
It seems that the
deceased was walking along the track when a freight train for Toronto and
the St. Louis express were passing each other. It is
supposed that he got out of the way of the
freight train which was on the Toronto track and in doing so
he was struck by the St. Louis
express which he did not see coming.
Mr. Young was a
widower about 50 years of age. Twenty years ago he was a heater in the
Ontario Rolling mills. Not long ago he inherited
considerable property in the old country.
A sad feature of the
accident is the fact that Mr. Young was to have been married tomorrow
- the day his funeral was set for. His fiancee, Miss Tessie
Atkins, came out from
Dublin, Ireland, arriving in the city on Labor day. She
procured the marriage license on
Saturday.
Mr. Young leaves one
daughter - Mrs. Joseph McDougall - who lives in Chicago.
In the pockets of the
deceased Constable Hay found $157. It is rumored that the house
furnished by Young was broken into last night. No report,
however, has been made to the
police.
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LUNT - In this city on Sept. 16, 1895, William Lunt,
blacksmith, in his 60th year. Funeral
from his late residence, 36 Chatham street, on Wednesday
afternoon, at 2:30 o’clock. Friends
and acquaintances will please accept this intimation.
HOLMAN - On Sept. 14, at his late residence, 99 James st.
north, John F.L. Holman in the
53rd year of his age. Funeral Tuesday, 17th at 3 p.m.
Friends will please accept this intimation.
DOUGLAS - At the City Hospital on Sept 15, Mrs Sarah
Douglas, widow of the late Samuel
Douglas, aged 97 years and 4 months. Funeral from 116
Markland st. on Tuesday at 3 o’clock
p.m. Friends will please accept this notice.
Mrs. Sarah Douglas,
widow of the late Samuel Douglas, died this morning at 116 Markland
street, aged 97 years and 4 months. She was a native of
County Wexford, Ireland, and came to
Canada in 1849 with her husband and took up their residence
in Binbrook, where for 15 years
Mr. Douglas engaged in farming. In 1864 they moved into this
city, where Mr. Douglas died
in 1882. One son - James Douglas of Chippewa, at the head of
the Ottawa river - survives
them. Mrs. Douglas was a member of the Church of England.
The funeral will take place tomorrow
afternoon at 3 o’clock.
FORREST - In Dundas, on Saturday evening, the 14th inst.,
Andrew Forrest in the 60th year of
his age. Funeral will take place at 3 p.m. to-day (Monday)
from his late residence to the
Grove cemetery, Dundas.
Andrew Forrest, one
of the best-known and most respected citizens of Dundas, died on
Saturday evening after only one day’s illness. The cause of
his death was obstruction of the
bowels. Mr. Forrest was for many years a member of the town
council, and was also on the
Board of Education for a greater length of time than any
other member. He was a Scotchman
by birth and took into his business that caution and honesty
so characteristic of that people.
He was engaged in the flour and feed business. The funeral took
place to-day, the remains
being followed by a very large procession of Templars, Board
of Education and town council.
The interment took place at Grove cemetery.
WATERS (Niagara Falls, Ont.) Sept. 15 - Milton Waters, a
well-known young man residing
in this town, met with a violent death on the cantilever
bridge on Friday night. Waters, who
was employed by the Oneida Community company limited on the
American side was coming
home over the bridge as a train was passing by. He attempted
to jump on but was struck by a
switch and thrown under the wheels. One arm and one leg were
cut off. He also received
severe cuts on his head. The accident happened on the
American end of the bridge. He
survived the shock and haemorrhage but an hour. The body was
brought home late to- night.
GRANT (Toronto) Sept. 16 - Thomas Grant, 172 Franklin
avenue, who was injured by a kick
from a horse died at the general hospital at noon yesterday.
BERRINGTON Sept. 16 - On Saturday evening, John Berrington,
one of the oldest
employees of the G.T.R. died at his residence at Springford,
aged 74 years, nearly forty of
which were spent in the service of the company. He was well
known in the city, especially
among railway people, and had a large circle of warm
friends. He was a Conservative in
politics and a member of the Methodist church. He was also a
member of St. George lodge
No. 47 A.F. and A.M. The funeral will take place to-morrow
at 12:15 from the Stuart street
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depot to Hamilton cemetery under the joint directions of St.
George lodge and the Masons of
this city.
Tuesday, September 17
LEWIS - On Sept. 17, the infant son of J.L. and Agnes H.
Lewis.
LUNT - In this city on Sept. 16, 1895, William Lunt,
blacksmith, in his 60th year. Funeral
from his late residence, 56 Chatham street on Wednesday
afternoon at 2:30 o’clock. Friends
and acquaintances will please accept this intimation.
SNODDY - In this city on the 17th inst. at his brother’s
residence, 627 Main street east, James
Snoddy in his 40th year. Funeral notice later.
James Snoddy, for
twenty-two years a printer in the Times office, died to-day from heart
disease, superinducted by inflammatory rheumatism. The
deceased was forty years of age and
unmarried. Recently he had been in partnership with his
brother, David Snoddy in the
plumbing business.
BERRINGTON - The funeral of the late John Berrington, who
died in Springford, Ont., on
September 14, took place from the Stuart street station at
12:15 to-day. He was buried with
Masonic honors and the following members of the St. George
lodge acted as pall-bearers:
R.C. Lawrason, Geo Waite, James Vanatter, Wm. Robb, C.N.
Bell and M. Horning.
RHEAM (Windsor) Sept. 17 - Jockey Philip Rheam, who was
fatally injured while riding
Lepros Lyon at the races yesterday afternoon, died at the
hotel dieu early this morning.
Rheam had rolled over and under the horse and was badly
crushed from his neck to and below
his chest. He was 17 years old and for two years past has
worked around the stables at Harlem
and Hawthorne at Chicago. His mother, who lives in that
city, was sent for and will arrive today.
Rheam has had ten or twelve mounts at Windsor and was
considered a good jockey.
LISLE (St. George) - The funeral of Mrs. John Lisle, of
Harrisburg, took place to the
Presbyterian cemetery here on Saturday last, and was largely
attended.
Wednesday, September 18
SNODDY - In this city at the 17th inst., at his brother’s
residence, 627 Main street east, James
Snoddy, in his 40th year. Funeral Thursday at 2 p.m.
CHISHOLM - At Denver, Col., on Tuesday 17th inst., Mary
youngest surviving daughter of
the late William Chisholm. Funeral notice later.
WHITE - In this city on Sept.17th, Minnie A. Noyes, beloved
wife of F. White and only
daughter of the late James Noyes, aged 41 years. Funeral
from late residence 270 East ave.
north on Thursday afternoon at 4 o’clock. Friends and
acquaintances will please accept this
intimation.
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HOLMAN - The pall-bearers at the funeral of the late John
Holman yesterday afternoon were
J.C. Harris, James Kenney, C. Robertson, C. Gardiner, H.J.
McAllister and J.P. McLeod. Rev.
VanWyck was the officiating clergyman. The funeral was
largely attended and the ceremony
at the grave was of a Masonic character.
KING (Jackson, Mich.) Sept. 17 - A special from Sturgis,
Mich., this evening says: Trainmen
on the Grand Rapids and Indiana railway, while coupling a
freight train here early this
morning, found the body of a man under a car. No one knows
how it came to be there. The
remains were later identified by means of papers found on
the dead man’s person as being
those of Barney King, a resident of Napanee, Ont.
DAVIS (Toronto) Sept. 18 - Charles Davis, 246 McCaul street,
died in the general hospital on
Monday night from injuries received by being struck by a
G.T.R. train while crossing the
track on the morning of May 7. His leg was caught beneath
the cattle guard and he was
carried about 25 feet. But for his presence of mind in
holding on to the cattle guard he would
undoubtedly have been killed at the time. His left leg was
broken in several places and he was
otherwise injured. Some little time ago he got out of bed
and retarded the progress he had
made. Deceased was 65 years of age and leaves a widow and
four grown-up children.
Thursday, September 19
WRIGHT (Brockville) Sept. 19 - When James Curren, grocer,
went to his store on
Bartholomew street this morning he discovered that burglars
had been at work during the
night. The door of the store had been forced open and the
safe blown up with powder and
about $5 in money taken. He at once notified the police
station and Alexander Wright, being
the only policeman on duty at the station went down. After
viewing the premises he and
Curren proceeded towards the east end of the city in search
of the burglars. Noticing three
tramps some distance away they pursued them. They had gone
about a mile when Wright, in
getting over a fence, fell dead. Curren at once returned to
town and gave the alarm. The body
was brought in and an inquest will be held to-day. The three
tramps that were chased have
been arrested, but it is not supposed they are the thieves
HOOVER (Caistorville) - Elizabeth, wife of Wm. Hoover sr.,
the first and for many years
reeve of Caistor, also ex-warden of the county, was buried
here on Friday last. The attendance
at the funeral was large, many arriving from a distance.
Service was conducted by Rev. H.
Cook, who preached a very appropriate sermon.
CRESSMAN (Norwich) Sept. 18 - Mr. and Mrs.A. Cressman’s
little daughter, Flossie, about
seventeen months old, died from drinking carbolic acid.
Between 2 and 3 p.m. the girl went
down to the cellar to get her some milk, and unknown to her
the child followed, and climbing
up to a high shelf on which were several bottles grasped one
containing a small quantity of
carbolic acid and drank it. The little thing gave just one
scream, then became unconscious. Dr.
Harvey was there in a few minutes, but nothing could save
the little one and in less than an
hour life was extinct.
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Friday, September 20
FESSENDEN - On Tuesday, Sept 17th, Lionel Victor, fourth son
of the Rev. E.J. Fessenden,
age 23 years. Funeral at St. John’s church, Ancaster, 3 p.m.
Saturday.
The body of the
unfortunate young man, Victor Fessenden, was brought home last evening
by Dr. Farmer from Fort Erie and taken out to Ancaster. His
father Rev. E.J. Fessenden
arrived home from the provincial synod at Montreal last
night and was quite prostrated by the
awful news. The funeral will take place to-morrow afternoon
at Ancaster.
The deceased was
engaged to be married to a sister of Dr. farmer and her photograph was
found in his pocket. The visit of the doctor to fort Erie
failed to reveal any reason why the
young man took his life and it is supposed that he was
merely suffering from a fit of
melancholia.
BETZNER - In this city on Sept. 19th, Charles Rodger, infant
son of David and Margaret
Betzner, aged 4 months and 15 days. Funeral from the
parents’ residence, 182 Bay st. north,
on Saturday at 1:30 p.m. Friends and acquaintances will
please accept this notice.
GAULD - In this city on Thursday, Sept. 19th, Mary Fisher,
wife of the Rev. John Gauld, in
her 72nd year. Funeral private.
Mrs. Gauld, the aged
wife of Rev. John Gauld and mother of J.G. Gauld, of the firm of
Nesbitt, Gauld & Dickson, died to-day at their
residence, Duke street of heart trouble.
MCLELLAN - In this city, on 20th inst., at 46 Mary st.,
Trewyn, beloved and only daughter of
William and Annie McLellan , in the 5th year of her age.
Funeral private.
FLATF (Galt) Sept. 20 - Peter C. Flatf, pitcher for the
Alpha baseball team, died here this
morning of paralysis of the spine, the result of a collision
while playing second base in the
Hespeler- Alpha game last week.
PETERS (Kingston) Sept. 19 - William Peters, aged 70, living
on Alfred street, left his home
after dinner to go to the cotton mills, where he formerly
worked. At 4 o’clock his body was
found floating in the bay. His watch had stopped at 3:40
o’clock.
WINTERS (Lindsay, Ont.) - Jas. L. Winters, one of the oldest
and most respected citizens of
Lindsay, Ont., died yesterday. he was a prominent member of
the Orange order, and a lifelong
supporter of the Conservative party.
Saturday, September 21
CHISHOLM - At Denver, Colo., on Tuesday, 17th inst., Mary,
youngest surviving daughter of
the late William Chisholm. Funeral private, at 2:45 p.m.
Sunday, 22nd inst. from the residence
of her brother, 30 East avenue north.
BIRCH (Toronto) Sept 21 - On Monday last, James Birch, a
farmer of the 6th concession of
Whitchurch, North York, who has been melancholic for some
time past, in consequence of
trouble was found on the road side, across a log upon which
he appears to have been
previously sitting with a shot wound. The charge entered
under his chin and went up into his
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brain. He left his home with a gun, borrowed from a
neighbor, ostensibly to shoot ground
hogs. An inquest was considered unnecessary as the
indications all pointed to suicide.
FESSENDEN - The pallbearers at the funeral of the late
Victor Fessenden at Ancaster this
afternoon were Trenholme and Reginald Fessenden, and T.W.,
W.E., D., J.D. and Dr. Farmer.
Monday, September 23
RALSTON - In the Township of Ancaster on the Dundas road on
Sept 21st.J Janet Cline, wife
of Thomas Ralston, aged 65 years. Funeral (private)
yesterday afternoon to Burlington
cemetery.
PARKE - At North Seneca, on 22nd inst. Wm. Parke in his 78th
year. Funeral Tuesday at 2
o’clock.
Wm. Parke, father of
Walter and George Parke of this city, died yesterday afternoon at his
residence near Caledonia at the ripe old age of 77 years. He
leaves a wife and seven children -
George, the well-known druggist; Walter of the Archdale
Wilson &Co; John, of Elkhart, Ind.,
and Wm. and Watson of Seneca and Mrs. T. Hammond, of Seneca,
and Louise, an unmarried
daughter. Mr. Parke was one of the oldest residents in
Wentworth, and had all his life been a
staunch Conservative.
SMITH - On Sunday, Sept. 22nd, T.H. Smith eldest son of R.J.
and Emily Smith. Funeral on
Tuesday afternoon at 4 o’clock from the residence of his
father-in-law, Dr. Dillabaugh, 97
Gore street.
BROWN - On Sept. 21st at his late residence, No. 112 Park
st. north, George Brown, a native
of Staffordshire, England. Funeral from above address on
Tuesday, Sept. 24 at 2:30 p.m.
Toronto papers please copy.
Another old citizen
of Hamilton has passed away in the person of George Brown, 117 Park
street north, who came to this city in 1841. He was a native
of Staffordshire, England, having
been born there 72 years ago and came to this country at the
age of 18. He was employed by
T. C. Kerr & Co., general dealers, for 15 years and was
for 30 years with the late James
Skinner & Co. When the latter firm moved to Toronto, Mr.
Brown retired from business life.
The deceased was an enthusiastic and loyal supporter of the
Conservative party. He leaves
two sons and two daughters - Joseph A. and Geo. B. Brown, of
Toledo, Ohio; Mrs Eliza
Mayberry of Trenton N .J. and Mrs. J. L. Turquand of
Toronto. The funeral will be tomorrow
at 2:30.
MATTHEWS (Welland) Sept 27 - Abner Matthews, an aged and
well-known resident of this
placed, was killed on Friday by being struck by a locomotive
on the Michigan Central, near
the diamond. He was walking on the track, and did not hear
the approach of the train.
Deceased was 67 years of age and leaves a widow, five
daughters, all married and two sons.
LABROSSE (St. Eugene, Ont.) Sept 22 - A boy named Zephirin
Labosse, aged 13, was
killed by the kick of a horse. The unfortunate boy was in
the act of untieing the horse which
was in a shed, for the purpose of taking a drive. He was the
son of Simon Labrosse , an exM.P.
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LANGFORD (Kerwood, Ont.) Sept. 22 - Charles Henry Langford,
the young man who was
injured near here two weeks ago while threshing, succumbed
to his injuries to-day.
PRITCHARD (Chatham, Ont.) - Mrs. Edward Pritchard, of
Chatham, Ont., who had been
married for six months, died last Friday, and was buried
yesterday.
VOGEL (Windsor) Sept. 22 - Joseph Vogel, aged 28, unmarried,
a filemaker but lately out of
employment, committed suicide this morning at the race track
by shooting himself through
the heart. Vogel had been in poor health for some time past,
and this, together with the fact
that he was unable to obtain work, and believed himself to
be a burden on his parents, and
with whom he was staying is thought to have affected his
mind and caused his selfdestruction.
He had lived nearly his whole life in Windsor and was well
known. An inquest
was deemed unnecessary, but a post mortem examination showed
that the bullet from his 32
caliber revolver had passed directly through the centre of
the heart and death was
instantaneous.
Tuesday, September 24
FLATT - On September 23, at 41 Bay st. north, Zulenie
Nadine, infant daughter of Jacob and
Bertha Flatt, aged 6 months and 2 days. Funeral Wednesday at
1:30 p.m. to Millgrove
cemetery. Short service at the home.
EDGAR (Owen Sound) Sept. 24 - Samuel Edgar, secretary for
the Owen Sound Portland
Cement company (limited) died very suddenly at the Owen
Sound General and Marine
hospital yesterday. For the past two weeks he had been
suffering from typhoid fever , but was
thought to be in no danger. Deceased was about fifty years
of age and had been a resident of
this place for many years.
LEONARD (Toronto) Sept. 24 - At a quarter to seven o’clock
this morning Policeman Wm.
Leonard, No 71, was found lying dead in a lane in rear of 43
Henry street, a bullet in his head
and his pistol lying by his side. There being no trace of a
struggle it is evident that the case is
one of suicide. The deceased went out on duty at 7:45
o’clock last night. At four his duty
should have ended and at that hour he could not be found. A
search for him began. The
deceased was born in the township of Innisfil, in the county
of Simcoe. He came to Toronto
eight years ago last March and joined the force. He leaves
an invalid wife and one child.
Leonard was always a
light-hearted man, cheery and talkative and no positive motive can be
assigned for his suicide, if such it was His companions last
night observed no sign of
melancholy or trouble.
MCNAUGHTON - A dispatch from Woodstock says: Mrs Alex.
McNaughton, mother of
Mrs. J. F. Stewart of the James Stewart manufacturing
company, limited died at her
daughter’s residence on Saturday last at the advanced age of
83. Mrs. McNaughton was a
native of Berwickshire
Scotland and had lived in Canada since 1839. She was twice
married, first to N.H. Logan, of
West Flamboro in 1836 and after his death to the late Alex
McNaughton, of Milton, in 1850.
She leaves two children surviving, Mrs. Needham, Hamilton,
and Mrs. Stewart of this town.
The funeral takes place to-morrow to the Morriston cemetery,
via the C.P.R.
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BAKER (Gore Bay) Sept. 23 - Mr. Baker, lighthouse keeper at
Clapperton Island, left the
lighthouse on Friday. Saturday his boat was found floating
off Clapperton Island. Since that
time Baker has not been heard from and there does not appear
to be much doubt that the old
man had been drowned. This is the third lighthouse keeper
drowned in this vicinity within a
few months. Baker was 74 years of age.
FORREST (Dundas) Sept 24 - A large congregation attended the
service in the Methodist
church on Sunday night, as by announcement Rev. John
Wakefield, the pastor, was to preach
the funeral sermon of the late Andrew Forrest. The discourse
was very impressive. H. Cowper
sang “Go, Bury Thy Sorrow”, with much effect.
ANDERSON (Midland, Ont.) - At James Playfair’s saw mill in
Midland, a young man named
James Anderson was caught in the machinery and killed.
LAIDLAW - Murray Laidlaw, of Midland, Ont., who was hurt in
the recent powder explosion
in Winnipeg, died there on Sunday. He and Chittick came
together from Ontario.
Wednesday, September 25
HALES - In this city, at 227 West ave. north, Eliza Milner,
widow of the late Richard J.
Hales, aged 56 years, formerly of Kingston. Funeral will
take place from above address on
Thursday at 3.30 p.m. Friends and acquaintances will please
accept this intimation. Kingston
papers please copy.
BROWN - The funeral of the late George Brown took place from
his residence on Park street
north yesterday afternoon. Rev. Mr. Beavis conducted the
services. The pall-bearers were:
Geo. A. Young, Henry Arland, Capt. Spence. W.R. Pray, Thos.
Parry and C. Parry.
COOK (Toledo, O. ) Sept. 24 - The local police are
investigating the death under suspicious
circumstances here of Mrs. Etta Cook, or Pearson, of Guelph,
Ont. The deceased came here
with her husband three months ago. It was alleged she had
eloped with Cook in 1892. Early in
June she was taken ill and four physicians who were called
to attend her are said to have
quickly dropped the case. A criminal operation is suspected,
but by whom the police do not
know.
SMITH - The funeral of the late T.H. Smith took place
yesterday afternoon under the auspices
of Acacia lodge, A.F. and A.M. and was largely attended. The
pall-bearers were W. Bros.
S.H. Kent, A.E. Manning and A.T. Neill, Bros. R.V. Matthews,
W.L. Cummer and R.
Rodgers. W. Bro. W.W. Greenhill acted as marshal and the
Masonic ceremony at the grave
was conducted by W. Bro. Lyman Lee, R.W. Bro. Geo. C. Holden
and W. Bro. C.S. Kilgour.
GASKIN (Port Arthur, Ont.) Sept. 24 - Mr. Gaskin, brother of
Capt. John Gaskin, of the
Montreal transportation company, Kingston, was washed
overboard from the schooner
Winnipeg off Thunder cape today and was drowned.
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MASTER - John Master, one of the oldest citizens of Berlin,
Ont., died on Monday, aged 85.
Thursday, September 26
BARTON - At her late residence, No. 140 Hannah street east,
on Thursday Sept. 26, 1895,
Elizabeth A. Barton, relict of the late George M. Barton, in
her 66th year. Funeral private.
Interment at Dundas. No flowers.
THORNTON - In Saltfleet, on Sept 24, Lizzie Thornton, aged
14, seventh daughter of the late
James Thornton. The funeral will take place on Friday, Sept.
27 at 2 p.m. from the residence
of her mother, 144 Napier street.
LONSBORO (Port Dover) Sept. 26 - This morning about 2
o’clock the house of Miss Brown,
in the western suburbs of this place was entered by
burglars. An aged aunt of Miss Brown a
Miss Lonsboro, who was sleeping downstairs, hearing the
intruders got up and called for help
to Miss Brown and threatened the burglars, when she almost
immediately fell over and
expired. She had been in rather feeble health for some time.
JENKS (Toronto) Sept. 26 - Alvin Jenks, manager of the
Dominion Paper Box factory
committed suicide to-day in a sensational manner. Last night
he wrote a letter to Undertaker
Ellis of College street instructing him to call at 112
Brunswick avenue this morning and bring
a coroner with him. He also wrote a business letter to his
lawyer and another expressing the
utmost despondency. When the undertaker went to address this
morning along with Coroner
Young, he found Jenks sitting in the bedroom quite dead. The
gas was turned on full. While
he was at the house Jenks’ lawyer arrived in response to his
communication. Jenks was about
25 years of age and had only been married three months. His
wife is away in new York at the
present time. It is supposed the young man had a quarrel An
inquest will be held this evening.
MANSER (Toronto) Sept. 26 - The 23 year-old wife of John
Manser, caretaker for McRae &
McRae 72 Bay street, died suddenly last evening, under
circumstances so peculiar a nature
that Coroner Young issued a writ for an inquest.
Mrs. Manser had
retired to her bedroom about eight o’clock and 15 minutes later called out
to her husband “Oh John, I feel sick”. He ran to her
assistance in time to observe her fall over
as he thought unconscious on the bed. Manser ran for Dr.
W.H. Peplar, 272 Adelaide street,
who on his arrival found that the woman was dead.
As the young woman
was apparently physically healthy and it was learned that she had
been taking a proprietary medicine she had attained from a
friend in Temperance street.
Coroner Young who was summoned, decided to hold an inquest
and a jury will be empanelled
for 3 p.m. Friday. Meanwhile, Dr. Peplar will make a
postmortem examination of the body.
Deceased leaves two
small children, one under two years of age and a babe of five months.
DEAN (St. Williams, Ont.) Sept 25 - The body of James Dean,
formerly of Port Rowan was
found in the bay, twenty yards from shore, by Jacob
Johnston, an old Indian. The body was
entirely nude and there was a deep gash in the right side of
his throat. His clothes were found
carefully placed on a stump on the beach and upon examining
his pockets a letter was found
addressed to James Dean, Port Dover.
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HOLT (London, Ont.) Sept. 25 - John H. Holt, a Grand Trunk
employe, was killed while
working at a new water tank near the Waterloo street
crossing at noon to-day. He attempted to
make a short jump to the scaffold, but he missed his
foothold, and fell headfirst on the rails
beneath. Death was instantaneous, his neck being broken. The
deceased was 35 years of age,
and leaves a wife and several small children. He was sober
and industrious.
MCDOUGALL - The body of the late Mrs. McDougall, daughter of
the late T. Young, was
brought from Chicago today and interred in Burlington
cemetery.
BAKER (Alberton) - Myrtle, the only child of Wm. Baker, died
last week and was buried on
Friday afternoon at Jerseyville. Rev. Mr. Yorston conducted
the funeral service. The parents
have the sympathy of all in their bereavement.
Friday, September 27
WINN - On the 23rd inst., at Altamahaw, North Carolina, and
recently of this city, Tillie E.
Ecclestone, wife of W. Winn, and eldest daughter of Mr. and
Mrs Jas. Ecclestone, 148
Victoria ave. north aged 23 years, much respected by all who
knew her.
The many friends of Mrs.
W. Winn, nee Miss Tillie Ecclestone, whose parents reside at 148
Victoria avenue north, will learn with regret of her early
and sudden demise. Married last July
with every prospect of a happy and useful life before her,
she left here six weeks ago to rejoin
her husband in Altamahaw, North Carolina, who had preceded
her in order to have everything
in readiness to receive her. Two weeks ago she was stricken
down with typhoid fever which
terminated fatally. From early childhood she was a regular
attendant at the First Methodist
church here, and won many friends by her kindly and genial
disposition.
KERBY - At Hamilton, on September 26, 1895, Mary, daughter
of the late James Racey of
Mount Pleasant and widow of the late A.T. Kerby, of West
Flamboro. Funeral private.
WILLIAMSON (Kingston, Ont.) Sept. 27 - Last night, Rev. Dr.
Williamson, professor of
astronomy in Queen’s university, died after a brief illness,
aged 87 years. He joined the staff
of Queen’s in 1842 and was its oldest professor. His second
wife was a sister of the late Sir
John Macdonald. He will be buried in Cataraqui cemetery in
the Macdonald plot.
Saturday, September 28
PATTON - At Oakville, on Tuesday 24th Sept., William Patton,
late colonel 38th battalion, in
the 74th year of his age.
BLAKE - In this city, on Sept. 28, Mary, eldest daughter of
James and Margaret Blake, aged
17 years. Funeral will leave her parents’ residence, corner
of Mary and Simcoe streets on
Monday morning at 8:30 a.m. to St. Lawrence Church, thence
to Holy Sepulchre cemetery.
Friends and acquaintances are kindly invited to attend.
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SHEA - In this city on Sept. 27, 1895, Peter, only son of
Patrick and Catharine Shea, aged 21
years. Funeral will leave his father’s residence, 400 York
street, Monday morning at 8:30 to
St. Mary’s cathedral, to Holy Sepulchre cemetery. Friends
and acquaintances will please
accept this intimation.
MACKAY - At Stratford, on Tuesday, Sept. 24, at his late
residence 172 St. David street,
Angus MacKay, aged 50 years.
BOLES - In this city on Sept. 26, James Boles aged 72 years.
Interment at St. Catharines on
Sunday afternoon.
TEMPLETON (Troy) - Wm. Templeton, an old resident of
Beverly, died on Friday evening
at the residence of his son-in-law.
JONES (Troy) - Martin Jones was buried on Sunday at 2 p.m.
in the Troy cemetery. Rev. Jas.
Masson conducted the services.
HAGER (Hagersville) - Many of the older citizens of
Hagersville will regret to hear of the
sudden death of Mrs. Larence Hager sr. of Palermo, Ont., who
died last Saturday. She had
reached the ripe old age of 79. Mrs. J.H. Hager, Mrs. J.H.
Salter and F.J. Hager attended the
funeral.
MIDFORTH (Hagersville) After a short illness Samuel Midforth
died at his home near the
village on Thursday morning.
WILLIAMSON - Shortly after ten o’clock on Thursday night,
the Rev. James Williamson,
M.A., L.L.D., vice-principal of Queen’s university,
Kingston, Ont., died at his home in that
city, aged 89 years. He came to Queen’s college in 1842,
from Edinburgh, Scotland and had
occupied almost every chair since that date. His last public
address was made on June 6
beside the grave of his lamented friend, the late Sir John
Macdonald.
Monday, September 30
GRACE - In this city, on Sept. 30, 1895, Pierce Grace, aged
41 years and 9 months. Funeral
from his late residence 108 Inchbury street, on Tuesday
afternoon at 2:30 to Holy Sepulchre
cemetery. Friends and acquaintances will please accept this
intimation.
REGAN - At her late residence, Ancaster, Sarah A.H. Regan,
relict of the late James Regan,
M.D., in her 65th year. Funeral private.
JOHNSTON - In this city on the 29th inst., Harold H.,
beloved son of Peter and Carrie
Johnston, aged 7 years and 4 months. Funeral from parents’
residence, 11 Barton st. east on
Tuesday at 3:30 p.m. to Christ church, thence to Burlington
cemetery. Friends will kindly
accept this notice.
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DAVIS (Dundas) - On Thursday, J. Davis passed away at the
ripe old age of 87. For nearly 50
years he had been a resident of the town. He was grandfather
of the Davis brothers, grocers.
His funeral was to the Grove cemetery this afternoon at
three o’clock.
Tuesday, October 1
CARPENTER - On Sept. 30th, Sarah Petit, beloved wife of J.
P. Carpenter, in her 80th year.
Funeral from her late residence, East Hamilton, on Wednesday
at 1 p.m. Friends will please
accept this intimation. Please omit flowers.
DAVIS, BARTON, KERBY - (Dundas) Oct. 1 - There were three
funerals on Saturday -
those of Mr. Davis, Mrs. Barton and Miss Kerby.
LAZON (Ottawa) Sept. 20 - A month ago Saturday, Peter Lazon,
a young man who resided
with his mother on Anglesea square, went off to the Shanties
and told his friends that a month
would do him. It did, though not in the way he anticipated.
Lazon was at work on Saturday
when a limb from a falling pine struck and killed him.
Wednesday, October 2
FRASER (Cornwall) Oct. 1 - Lancaster lost a highly esteemed
citizen in a very sad manner on
Sunday. It was while the majority of the citizens were in
church attending morning service
that the fire alarm was sounded for a fire in the chimney of
Alex. Fraser’s residence. Most of
the male worshippers left the church to assist in putting
out the fire, and amongst those to
come from Knox church was the owner of the house, Mr.
Fraser. He was a big, heavy man,
and when within 30 yards of his own door fell down dead.
Heart failure was the cause. The
fire was easily extinguished. Mr. Fraser was 71 years of
age.
DISCH - Magnus Disch, a painter, fell from the third story
of a building in Walkerton,
receiving fatal injuries.
PLEWES, WELFORD - Wm. Plewes of London Ont, one of the
oldest millers in the west,
died on Monday, aged 67. Another old resident of London,
Gains Welford, rope
manufacturer, also died on Monday, aged 73.
Thursday, October 3
RODUCK - In this city on the 2nd inst., Elizabeth Roduck,
aged 37 years. Funeral from her
brother’s residence 241 John street north, on Friday at 3
p.m. Friends will please accept this
intimation.
BLACKHALL (Toronto) Oct. 3 - Edward Blackhall, an inventor
of bookbinding machinery,
who was formerly manager of the largest book-binding
establishment in the city, committed
suicide at his residence, 91 Wood street, at 10.30 this
morning. His daughter hearing the pistol
shot in the bathroom, ran in, and discovered her father
lying dead with a bullet hole in his
temple. The cause assigned is business trouble and
despondency. Mr. Blackhall was the
Toronto agent for the bookbinders’ machinery manufacturers.
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REGAN (Ancaster) - An old and much respected resident, Mrs.
James Regan, died a few days
ago and will be buried at Burlington cemetery. James Regan,
M.A., was a prominent
Grammar school teacher here and other places in Ontario.
MOONEY, BURKE (Essex, Ont) Oct. 2 - Wm. and Thos. Mooney,
aged 19 and 17 years
respectively and Dennis Burke, 21 years old, were instantly
killed and Miss Addie Jones and
Ed. Mooney, the boys’ father were badly injured at the
Michigan Central crossing here this
afternoon.
The party were in a
wagon driving to the fair grounds. They drove on the tracks before they
saw the approaching express and the wagon was struck before
they got across.
Burke was carried 400
yards on the cow-catcher. The Mooney boys were badly mangled
and cut. Ed. Mooney and Miss Jones were thrown to one side.
Miss Jones is seriously injured
, but Mooney’s injuries are comparatively slight.
Friday, October 4
CARMICHAEL - At Toronto on the 2nd inst., Laura Louise,
daughter of J.H. and Effie
Carmichael, aged 2 years and 2 days. Funeral at Hamilton
to-day.
HOTRUM - In this city on October 3, Olive Rebecca, youngest
daughter of John and Helen
Hotrum, aged 10 months and 5 days. Funeral from parents’
residence, 487 Catharine street
north on Saturday, at 10 a.m. Friends will please accept
this intimation.
MARSHALL - Peculiar circumstances surrounding the death of a
six-weeks-old infant at the
house of Mrs. Pinkett, 311 Hunter street west, caused
Coroner Woolverton to call an inquest
at 10:30 this morning. The jury met at the residence of R.
Spencer, Hunter street west after
having viewed the body. The child’s mother, Miss Isabella
Marshall, gave the infant to Mrs.
Pinkett to keep shortly after its birth paying her $6 a
month for her trouble. Evidence
produced showed that the child’s food had been often changed
and without proper care. When
Mrs. Pinkett got it was in good health but afterward
suffered from indigestion. It died on
Thursday morning, no doctor having been called in and the
mother did not know it until night.
The jury decided that death resulted from natural causes,
but considered that Mrs. Pinkett
should have called in medical aid before the child died.
Coroner Woolverton
explained that his object in calling the inquest was largely to bring
before the public the necessity of having some changes made
in the law whereby all baby
farms shall be under the supervision of the health
authorities. He considered such a change
was very necessary.
CAMERON (Toronto) Oct. 4 - James W. Cameron, the G.T.R.
brakeman who was struck by
the east-bound express at Unionville, Wednesday evening,
died in the general hospital at 4
o’clock yesterday morning. At the home of the dead man lies
the corpse of his infant child,
which also died during the night.
Saturday, October 5
NORRIE - On mountain top, on Oct. 4th, Elizabeth, beloved
wife of James Norrie. Funeral
from her husband’s residence on Sunday at 2:30 p.m. Friends
and acquaintances will please
accept this intimation.
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Mrs. Elizabeth
Norrie, wife of Jas. Norrie, who resides on the mountain top, died rather
suddenly yesterday from the effects of an internal tumor.
She had only been ill a few days.
The deceased was born in Preston, Lancashire. She leaves
three daughters - Mrs. Hubbart,
Mrs. Cunningham and Mis Elizabeth Norrie.
WINLAW - In Chicago, on the 3rd inst., Isabella Winlaw, aged
53 years. Deceased was for
many years a teacher in the Hamilton Public Schools.
Interment took place in Burlington
cemetery this morning.
Many of the older
teachers and pupils of the Hamilton public schools will regret to hear of
Miss Isabella Winlaw, for many years a teacher in the
Central. She died in Chicago on
Thursday morning from cancer. Deceased left Hamilton several
years ago to occupy a more
responsible position in one of the educational institutions
of St. Catharines. From there she
moved to Chicago taking a further course of study in the
University of Chicago, finally
earning the degrees of bachelor of science. She resumed
teaching in the Chicago schools,
remaining there till her last illness. At the obsequies in
that city the teachers and her sixty
pupils placed flowers upon her coffin, a beautiful and
simple testimony of their love to the
dead. Deceased will be remembered by many of the successful
business men here as one of
the kindest teachers ever connected with the school system
and her death will cause sorrow
for many who sat under her kindly rule at school. She was
interred in Burlington cemetery
this morning.
BLAKELY - In this city, on Oct. 5, Eliza Jane, youngest
daughter of J.W. Blakely, aged 5
months. Funeral from the parents’ residence 390 Barton
street east, on Sunday at 2:30 p.m.
Friends and acquaintances will please accept this
intimation.
Monday, October 7
VAN EVERY - Mary Heslop, relict of the late Joseph Van Every
Esq., of Stamford, Ontario.
Born on Christmas day, 1809. Fell asleep sweetly in Jesus,
October 6, 1895. Funeral private,
from Amisfield, Hamilton, on Tuesday, 8th inst.
Mary Heslop, widow of
the late Jos. Van Every of Stamford and mother-in-law of Robert
Thomson, died yesterday at Amisfield, James street south, at
the advanced age of 84. The
deceased had been on a brief visit to friends in Beamsville,
and died shortly after her return.
The funeral will take place to-morrow.
BARRETT - In this city, on Oct. 6, Nellie, second daughter
of Patrick and Ann Barrett.
Funeral from her parents’ residence, 251 Catharine street
north, on Wednesday morning at
8:30 o’clock to St. Mary’s Cathedral, thence to Holy
Sepulchre cemetery. Friends and
acquaintances are requested to attend. No flowers.
MARTIN - Died at Rockwood, Kingston, on Sunday, 6th October
1895, Gwendolen Frances,
elder daughter of George E. Martin, Barrister. Funeral
private.
FLETCHER (Brampton) Oct. 6 - Saturday evening about 5
o’clock, Edward Fletcher, a
farmer living on the first line west, was run over by a down
passenger train on the C.P.R., and
had his head entirely severed from his body and was found
several yards away. It is supposed
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that he stumbled on the ties and, striking his head, was
rendered insensible, when the train
came along, with the above fatal results. The train did not
stop.
SCOTT (Toronto) Oct. 7 - As a result of a wound received in
a stabbing affray in a bar-room
at Severn Bridge last Friday afternoon, John Scott died at
the Toronto general hospital at 11
o’clock on Saturday night. John McKenzie of Severn Bridge,
the alleged murderer, is in
charge of Constable Sloan of that place.
Scott was brought by
his brother to this city on Saturday. When Scott arrived at the hospital
he was perfectly conscious but was suffering terrible pain.
At 7:45 he became unconscious
and died at 11 o’clock.
Scott’s brother, wife
and 4-year-old child accompanied him to the city and are staying with
friends. Deceased was 26 years of age. He was a sawmill employee
and had a good
reputation.
Coroner Johnson took
charge of the body and has ordered a post-mortem examination to be
made by Dr. John Caven. A warrant has been issued for an
inquest at Young’s mortuary tonight
at 8 o’clock when preliminary evidence will be taken. An
adjournment will be necessary
to obtain the evidence of witnesses living in Severn Bridge.
The body will be
taken to Severn Bridge for interment to-morrow morning.
Oct 8 (Toronto) “ We find that the deceased , John Scott,
came to his death from a wound
inflicted by a knife in the hands of John McKenzie at Severn
Bridge on Friday Oct. 4, 1896"
was the verdict tendered by the coroner’s jury.
John Boyd was the
most material witness. He saw the altercation between Scott and
McKenzie. Both of them being very drunk. Scott went away and
then came back to Cleland’s
hotel. He saw McKenzie and then commenced to abuse him and
at the same time rushing
toward him. Boyd stopped him. McKenzie had a jackknife in
his hand and was cutting
tobacco. Scott rushed past witness and clinched with
McKenzie for only a few seconds. Scott
did not know that he was stabbed until he was examined by
witness and others.
Dr. Arthur A. Small,
of the hospital house staff, testified to the treatment deceased had
received while in that institution.
McKenzie will be
brought before a magistrate at Severn Bridge this morning.
MCGRATH (Ottawa) Oct. 6 - A report reached here to-night
that School Inspector McGrath
of the county of Ottawa, fell out of a buggy broke his neck
and died near Quyon.
SCHRAM (Niagara Falls Ont.) Oct. 6 - John Schram, 45, of
Princeton, Ont., was drowned in
the river at 11o’clock Saturday night. His body was
recovered.
JENKINS - At Chatham, Wm. Jenkins, a young colored man drank
a quart of whiskey and
died from the effects.
DEACON - Joseph Deacon died suddenly at Dresden, Ont., from
the effects of siramonium.
He infused the pod and seed and made a very strong decoction
the effect of which was fatal.
An inquest will be held.
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Tuesday, October 8
BARRETT - In this city on October 6, Nellie, second daughter
of Patrick and Ann Barrett.
Funeral from her parents’ residence, 251 Catharine street
north on Wednesday morning at
8:30 o’clock to St. Mary’s Cathedral thence to the Holy
Sepulchre cemetery. Friends and
acquaintances are requested to attend. No flowers.
NELLIGAN - John Nelligan’s two-year-old child was buried in
Millgrove cemetery on
Friday. Rev. Mr. Hockey officiated at the grave. The child
never was well from its birth.
TINKESS (Cornwall) Oct. 7 - John Tinkess, a hunter of
Lunenburg, was found dead in an old
well after being missing for several days. It is believed
that the young man was coon hunting
and that he jumped over a fence and right into the well. He
was stunned by the fall and then
drowned.
Wednesday, October 9
COLE - At Burlington on Tuesday Oct. 8, Margaret Elizabeth,
youngest daughter of Richard
and Charity Cole, in her 24th year. Funeral on Thursday at
10 o’clock a.m.
SCOTT (Severn Bridge) Oct. 8 - The body of the late John
Scott, who was stabbed by
McKenzie at Severn Bridge fair on Friday last, was brought
from Toronto to-day noon, and
taken to his home, where it remained until the arrival of a
number of Masons from
Gravenhurst, who took charge of the funeral. The remains
were interred with Masonic honors
in Morrison cemetery at 5 o’clock this afternoon.
LESTER - (Caistorville) Mr. and Mrs. Lester returned on
Saturday from a visit near London,
where they attended the funeral of Mrs. Lester’s sister.
GILBERT Caistorville) - Ernest Gilbert, while working in the
church last Wednesday
morning met with a simple though fatal accident. He built a
scaffold from which he removed
two of the braces on Tuesday evening, probably thinking them
in the way. On Wednesday
morning when he was moving about, the scaffold wavered and
he was thrown violently
against the wall. On examination his spine was found to be
broken. He died on Thursday
evening. The funeral which was on Sunday was very largely
attended. Rev. Wm. Cook
preached a very touching sermon and Rev. Mr. Scudimore spoke
a few words of sympathy.
The pall-bearers were members of the Society of Chosen
Friends, of which Mr. Gilbert was a
member.
KERBY (Oshweken, Ont.) - One and all will sympathize with
Miss Kerby in her bereavement
in the loss of her mother, who died at the Hamilton
hospital. Mrs. Kerby was well known
among us, being a sister to the late Mrs. C. Elliott, wife
of the late Rev. A.E. Elliott, one of
our most esteemed missionaries, who did a lot of good work
among us.
Miss Kerby will
remove to the village of Osheken She has been occupying the Tuscarora
parsonage. She is an ardent missionary worker and has done a
great deal of good among us.
While at the parsonage, in getting to her work, a river has
to be crossed. In the spring and fall
the river rises so as to prevent her from getting to her
work. Now she will reside about the
center of her work, which will be a great convenience to
her.
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Thursday, October 10
DEAN (Allenford) Oct. 9 - A 10-year-old boy named Dean was
knocked down by a bicycle,
his skull being fractured. The boy remained unconscious for
24 hours when he died.
WALL (Woodstock) Oct. 9 - On Sunday Sept. 29, Cornelius
Wall, a respectable resident of
Mount Elgin, shortly after taking of his dinner fell down in
convulsions and in a short time
expired. Considerable suspicion was aroused in the neighborhood
and at the inquest it was
decided to send the stomach to Prof. Ellis of Toronto, for
analysis.
Traces of poisoning
have been found. The reports of the doctors who examined the stomach
stated that three grains of strychnine had been found
proving that death resulted from
poisoning.
At the adjourned
inquest held in Mount Elgin yesterday afternoon the jury considered their
verdict for an hour and then found that “Cornelius Wall died
by the hands of some party
unknown.”
From the testimony of
witnesses, it seems that the deceased had been treated by Dr.
Lancaster for a cold. He was ordered to take quinine
capsules On the day he died he took one
of these capsules. After dinner he died in great agony, the
inference being that the strychnine
was placed in the capsule by someone bent on getting the man
out of the way.
A neighbor testified
that she had heard Mrs. Wall state on one occasion that she wished
something would fall on her husband’s head and kill him.
Dr. Lancaster, who
attended the deceased, was interviewed and he related the following
regarding the affair:
“On Sunday afternoon
I was summoned by Mr. Wall’s little daughter to come at once and
see her father, who, she said was suffering from cramps. I
immediately left the office and
proceeded to his residence. When I arrived the man was in
spasm and had lost consciousness.
I at once administered an emetic and under its influence he
regained consciousness and said “I
believe that makes me feel better” I then said to him “Can
you swallow?” and he said “Yes” I
at once raised his head to administer a dose of medicine,
when he was taken with another
spasm over which I had no influence and he died in great
agony about fifteen minutes after
my arrival. I suspected poison from the first and administered
accordingly. The man’s pain
however was not in the region of the stomach, as in ordinary
cases of poisoning but was
confined to his muscles, which were all contracted. This,
together with the short time in
which he expired , are almost in direct indications of
strychnine poisoning.
Mrs. Wall, widow of
the deceased related the following story:
“ My husband had
threatened to commit suicide several times and my children have also
heard it. I know people think I did it, but God knows I am
as innocent as that baby” and she
pointed to a bright boy of about three or four years, who
was playing by her side.
Mary Wall, deceased’s
daughter said “ I don’t care what verdict they bring in at the inquest
to-morrow. I will never believe that my father committed
suicide. I know that my father has a
violent temper, but my mother has one also.”
The remains of the
dead man were interred in the Mount Elgin cemetery at half-past ten on
Wednesday morning.
WRIGHT (Toronto) Oct. 10 - Many in Toronto and other parts
of Ontario will learn with
regret of the death of Frank Wright the well-know and
popular comic singer and entertainer.
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He was announced to
appear in the town hall, Newmarket, last night, in company with
Grenville P. Kleiser at the annual fair concert. Deceased
left Toronto apparently in excellent
health and spirits by the 8:30 a.m. train yesterday for
Newmarket, where he registered at the
Forsyth house and dined there. At dinner he appeared to be
in his usual health. The hotel was
crowded and Mr. Wright was not observed in the afternoon.
The following message received
in Toronto at 9 o’clock last night was the first intimation
his relatives had of his death;
“Frank Wright of 101
King street west of Toronto who was engaged to sing at a concert
here to-night was found dead in his room at the Forsyth
house at about 8:30 p.m. Coroner
Scott took possession of the body and gives it his opinion
that he died from an overdose of
chloroform. An inquest will be held.”
Deceased was thirty
years of age, and married about ten years ago a daughter of fireman
Ashfield. There are no children. He was the son of Mrs
Wright, fruiterer, 101 King street west
and was a great favorite of all who knew him.
Several of the
relatives of the deceased proceeded to Newmarket and B. Humphrey,
undertaker, has been instructed to bring the body to Toronto
for interment.
LINDSAY (Tweed Ont.) Oct 9 - Snider station, about 30 miles
north of here, was the scene
of a fire, attended by terrible results, about twelve
o’clock last night. Only meagre details are
as yet obtainable but the following facts are established
beyond doubt. The house burned was
that of Thomas Lindsay. Up till last night Mr. Lindsay’s
family consisted of himself, wife and
eleven children but in last night’s disaster six of the
children were burned to death. Those
who perished were two young, one aged 18 the other 20; twin
babies, one year and a half old,
and two others whose description is not yet known. Besides
the family the house was
occupied last night by Peter Laberge, of this place, his
son, and another young man, all of
whom barely escaped with their lives. Mr. Laberge was
sleeping upstairs, and on being
awakened by the fire jumped out of the window. Immediately
after he struck the ground the
roof of the house fell in. He lost $75 in cash, a gold
watch, besides clothing and blankets.
Friday, October 11
DAVERN (Brighton, Ont. ) Oct. 10 - Oliver Davern, an old
man, a resident of this place, met
with an accident about 2 o’clock at the Grand Trunk Railway
station which cost him his life.
Mr. Davern was assisting John Rankin, of Smithfield, putting
a case of eggs on a train
standing on the siding. While Mr. Davern was under the cars
the train started and he was
unable to get out. The wheels mangled his left leg in a
fearful manner. Being 81 years of age,
the doctor said Mr. Davern could not stand the operation of
having his leg amputated. He died
at 6:30 p.m.
Saturday, October 12
DONNELLY - At Uvaide, Texas, on the 6th of October, Charles
H. Donnelly, M.D.
KENDALL - On the 11th inst., at the residence of her son,
Joseph T. Kendall, 104 Hunter
street east, Rebecca Creech, relict of the late Joseph
Kendall in the 86th year of her age.
Funeral private.
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SALLOWS (Guelph) Oct. 11 - A figure well known in Guelph for
half a century, a man
esteemed and respected by all classes of the community, died
at 10:30 Thursday evening, in
the person of William Sallows. For years Mr. Sallows’ health
has been broken. He was a
sufferer from stomach and liver problems, and these diseases
gradually undermined his
constitution. He had been a resident of Guelph for sixty
years.
WASHBURN (Smith’s Falls, Ont.) Oct. 11 - Jeremiah Washburn,
one of the oldest and most
respected residents of this place, was drowned to-day in
Rideau lake. He had been up to his
summer cottage and was returning in his sailboat. The
upturned boat was seen near the shore,
but the body has not yet been recovered.
PENGALLY (Walkerton) Oct. 11 - John Pengally, lot 28,
concession A, Brant, was instantly
killed by being buried under a falling scaffold on which
were piled three loads of oats.
MCDIARMID (Aylmer, Ont.) Oct. 11 - A distressing and fatal
accident occurred here tonight
at 6:15, when J. B. McDiarmid, manager of the electric light
plant, and proprietor of the hub
and spoke factory and stave works, lost his life by the
breaking of a 30-inch wooden pulley on
a machine in the stave works. As far as can be learned Mr.
McDiarmid and Mr. Goff, an
employee of the works, were fixing an old pulley on a new
heading machine, and the pulley
worked satisfactorily. They put on the belt and started the
machine. The two men were
standing ten or twelve feet in the rear of the machine, Mr.
McDiarmid directly behind the
pulley and Mr. Goff about three to the side of him. The machine
had only been running a few
minutes when, without any warning, one-half of the pulley
flew backward, striking a large
iron wheel of the machine and breaking it, and afterwards
striking Mr. McDiarmid on the left
side of the head, smashing it terribly. He was picked up and
carried into the office, and Dr.
Sinclair summoned. Mr. Goff fortunately escaped uninjured,
although considerably
frightened. Mr. McDiarmid was a well known and highly
respected citizen.
Monday, October 14
ROBERTSON - On Sunday morning Oct.13th, Duncan Robertson,
aged 50 years. Funeral
from his late residence, 37 Pearl st. south, on Wednesday at
4 p.m. Friends and acquaintances
will please accept this intimation.
WEBSTER - On the 12th inst., at the residence of her father,
James F. Webster, on Wentworth
street north, Ethel, aged 19 years 3 months. The funeral
will take place at 3:30 p.m. on
Tuesday the 15th inst.
DONNELLY (Gloucester, Ont.) Oct. 14 - In a duel last night
on the street, Ex-Marshal
Donnelly was instantly killed by Marshal David C. Cooke, and
the latter was mortally
wounded. An old feud existed between the men.
HIFFNOR (North Bay, Ont.) Oct. 12 - P. Hiffnor, a shantyman,
said to have come from
Toronto, was accidentally killed near here on Saturday.
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Tuesday, October 15
ROBERTSON - On Sunday morning Oct.13th, Duncan Robertson,
aged 50 years. Funeral
from his late residence, 37 Pearl st. south, on Wednesday at
4 p.m. Friends and acquaintances
will please accept this intimation.
LITTLE - At her residence, Waterdown, on Tuesday ,Oct. 15,
Elizabeth, relict of the late
Thos. Little, in her 79th year. Funeral on Friday the 18th
at 2 o’clock p m. Friends and
acquaintances will please accept this intimation.
WRIGHT (Toronto) Oct. 15 - “Frank Wright died from an
overdose of chloroform
incautiously administered by himself.”
This was the verdict
of the coroner’s jury at the adjourned inquest in Newmarket last night.
Dr. Campbell, who made the post-mortem, testified that the
stomach showed acute
inflamation, indicative of some irritant, in his opinion
deceased had inhaled chloroform, but
he did not think that the inhalation of that sedative would
produce that condition, yet
chloroform taken inwardly might produce irritation of the
stomach.
MACKIE (Sault St. Marie, Ont.) Oct. 14 - On Tuesday night a
Finlander named Joseph
Mackie was shot and instantly killed at the east end of
Portage road.
Matt Matson, one of
the men who was with Mackie, was arrested by Constable McLean,
and four others were detained in custody as witnesses.
A coroner’s inquest
was held , and the evidence showed that the trouble took place in a
dance house, nearly all the parties being drunk.
The jury returned
this verdict: “That the deceased came to his death by a bullet fired from a
revolver in the hand of Matt Mackie, while fighting with Joe
Mackie. Whether accidental or
not, from the evidence given we are unable to say.
LAMB (Galt) Oct. 14 - Robert Lamb, of Messrs. Caldwell &
Lamb, proprietors of the central
hotel here, was drowned in Puslinch lake this afternoon
while out duck shooting. Mr. Lamb
was an enthusiastic sportsman and a member of the Galt Gun
club. Deceased was unmarried.
MARSHALL - The death is reported at Clayton, Ont., of Isaiah
Marshall, aged 104 years. He
had the use of all his faculties almost to the close of his
life.
STAFFORD (Brockville) Oct. 14 - William Stafford, aged 65, a
Lancaster manufacturer, was
struck by a locomotive near that place yesterday and was
killed. Almost every bone in his
body was broken.
COURIER (Parry Sound) Oct. 14 - Paul Courier, of Parry
Harbour, a log roller at Argue
Bros.’ camp, Ferguson Township, was killed by a falling
tree, which struck a skid he was
carrying, killing him instantly.
CARTER (Toronto) Oct. 14 - A telegram from Clearwater, Man.,
states that W.E.C. Carter,
son of William Carter, commissioned merchant, Huron Street,
Toronto, was drowned on
Sunday evening in Rock lake, about ten miles from
Clearwater. Carter and a companion were
out in a boat which foundered sixty yards from shore. Carter
being unable to swim lost his life
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His companion swam ashore and gave the alarm. The body has
not yet been discovered.
Wednesday, October 16
LITTLE - At her residence, Waterdown, on Tuesday, Oct. 15,
Elizabeth, relict of the late
Thos. Little, in her 79th year. Funeral on Friday, the 18th
at 2 o’clock p.m. Friends and
acquaintances will please accept this intimation.
DIEGAL - Mrs. Robt, John and Mrs. A. Koch went to Waterloo
to-day to attend the funeral
of Mrs. John’s brother-in-law, C. Diegal, who died there
yesterday.
O’CONNOR - Patrick O’Connor, a well-known and respected
young man whose parents live
at 171 Maria street, was fatally injured yesterday in a
railway accident at Boston Mass. This
morning his parents received a telegram announcing his
death. The body is being brought
home by two brothers who live in Boston and will reach the
city to-morrow.
When in the city
young O’Connor worked at the marble cutting business, leaving that to go
to Boston two years ago, and engaged with his two brothers
in a book publishing business.
Though no explanation of the affair has been received , it
is surmised that he was struck by a
train when going to work yesterday. morning. He was about 23
years of age and unmarried.
His father had been an employee of the city works
department.
ROBERTSON - The funeral of the late Duncan Robertson took
place this afternoon. It was
attended by members Acacia lodge 61, A.F. and A.M., G.R.C.
and Minerva lodge 197, I.O.O.
F., the former lodge having charge of the funeral. The
pall-bearers were W. Bros. H.S.
Wallace, W. W. Grenhill, Bros. W. H. Simpson, R. Mackie,
John Lynn and J. Falconbridge.
Rev. J.G. Shearer conducted the services.
Among the floral
offerings were beautiful designs from Acacia lodge, Minerva lodge and
the Stationary Engineers.
HARRINGTON (Toronto) Oct. 16 - About 2:15 this morning,
Thomas Harrington, porter at
Sullivan’s hotel, at Bathurst and King streets, jumped from
the window in the attic of the
hotel to the street pavement, 35 feet below. He alighted
upon his head and hands, receiving
injuries from which there is little hopes that he will
recover. Harrington who is about 45 years
of age, came to Canada about four years ago and has since
been employed as a porter at
Sullivan’s hotel. He is a highly educated man, of a good
family and formerly conducted a
large liquor establishment in London, England. Harrington
has been drinking heavily for
some time.
TREGAWN (Toronto) Oct. 16 - Zephia Tregawn, an old man whose
form had been familiar
in certain down town circles for years past, dropped dead
yesterday afternoon in the drug
store of J. O. Wood, 135 Queen street west; heart failure,
it is thought being the cause.
Shortly after 2
o’clock the old man staggered through Mr. Wood’s store into a back room
and after sitting down cried out: “Oh, God, what is the
matter with me?” then fell over dead.
Dr. Macdonald was summoned, but his services proved of no
avail. The body was removed
to 21 Farley avenue, where deceased has latterly resided
with his wife.
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Deceased about 20
years ago conducted the notorious Vineyard saloon and concert hall in
the Rossin house block. Under Tregawn and his partner, Mead,
the house acquired such a
reputation that the police caused it to be closed. It is
said that the deceased made a fortune at
the Vineyard, which he has since gambled away.
BUCHAN (Paris) Oct. 15 - The remains of William Buchan, who
was burned to death here
last week, were identified and conveyed to Elora yesterday,
in charge of his brother. The
deceased received a pension of considerable amount yearly.
GRAVES (London) Oct. 15 - A terrible fatality occurred at
6:30 o’clock this evening at the
Talbot street crossing of the Grand Trunk railway. Mrs. Mary
Graves, aged 45 years, started
to cross the track as the Huron and Bruce train was
approaching the station from the west,
though the gates were down and the engine whistle had blown.
The crossing watchman saw
her and shouted , but the woman was stone deaf. Two men who
were walking behind her
seized her by the shoulder to stop her, but she broke away
from them, and was struck by the
engine. Her body was dragged some feet, and was crushed
almost into pulp. Mrs Graves
leaves a husband and several children. An inquest will
probably be held.
Thursday, October 17
O’CONNOR - At Newark N. J. on Oct. 15th , the third son of
Daniel and Ellen O’Connor in
the 23rd year of his age. Funeral Saturday at 8:30 a.m. from
residence of parents, 171 Maria
street to St. Patrick’s church, thence to Holy Sepulchre
cemetery. Friends and acquaintances
are invited to attend.
BOLES (Ingersoll, Ont.) Oct. 17 - John Boles, one of the
oldest residents and prosperous
merchants of this town, died suddenly early this morning of heart
failure. Deceased was 80
years of age came to Ingersoll in 1855. He leaves a widow,
five sons and two daughters.
SPINKS (Windsor, Ont.) Oct. 16 - When the Twenty-first
battalion was in camp at London in
June last Private Matthew Spinks sickened and died. His
father is now circulating a petition in
Windsor, addressed to the minister of militia, setting forth
that his son’s death was due to
exposure, that he has a large family, and that Matthew was
its main support. He asks for
reasonable compensation. The petition has been signed by
Captains Cheyne and Dewson,
Lieutenants Laing, Bartlet, Pouting and Gow, and a number of
business and professional men.
Friday, October 18
ROBERTSON - At Ancaster village on 17th October, 1895, Robert
Robertson, a native of
Renfrewshire, Scotland, in his 92d year. Funeral on
Saturday, 19th inst. at 2 o’clock, from the
residence of his son-in-law, Mr. John McMurray to the
Presbyterian Church burying ground,
Ancaster village. Friends will please accept this
intimation.
O’CONNOR - At Newark N. J. on Oct. 15th, Patrick, the third
son of Daniel and Ellen
O’Connor, in the 23rd year of his age. Funeral Saturday at
8:30 a.m. from residence of parents,
17 Maria street, to St. Patrick’s church, thence to Holy Sepulchre
cemetery. Friends and
acquaintances are invited to attend.
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KING (Toronto) Oct. 18 - A dispatch has been received from
Stokes’ bay to the effect that a
body, almost entirely denuded of clothing , and badly
mutilated has been found on Loyal
island by Capt. John McKay, the lighthouse keeper. On one of
the arms of the dead man the
name “J. King” is tattooed and it is believed that it is the
body of James King of Oakville, one
of the crew of the ill-fated Africa. The body has been taken
charge of by Capt. Silversides, of
the Severn, who has spared neither trouble nor expense in
endeavoring to find the bodies of
the lost crew, and as soon as the corpse has been identified
as that of King it will be shipped
to his relatives. It has been ascertained that one of the
unknown deck-hands on the Africa,
was Richard Brennan of Sarnia who shipped out about a month
ago, while the vessel was at
that town. He leaves a widow and three children. His brother
James Brennan, has been
notified of melancholy fact.
GOULDEN (Ottawa) Oct. 17- Daniel Joseph Goulden, the
17-year-old Daniel H. Goulden, of
235 Sussex street, was drowned this morning down the Ottawa
, near Kettle island, through
the upsetting of a canoe.
HARTLEY (Mono Road, Ont.) Oct. 17 - Old Mr. Hartley, of
Bolton, 70 years old, was found
on the public highway about a mile east of here at noon
yesterday. A horse pistol, recently
fired, lay at his side, telling the story. The shot entered
his mouth, passing out through the top
of his head, blowing his brains forty feet away.
SHERRIDAN (Omemee, Ont.) Oct. 17 - Ex-Chief of Police John
Sherridan died suddenly
here today. He was as well as usual, and was in his garden
working, when he fell. A friend
saw him fall, and carried him into his house, where he died
almost immediately.
Saturday, October 19
THORNER - At Buffalo N.Y., on Oct. 17th, 1895, Dr. William
H. Thorner, aged 71 years.
Funeral takes place this afternoon at 4:08 o’clock from G.T
R. Stuart street station.
PEEL - Charles Peel, the young man crushed beneath a falling
wall at the Sawyer-Massey
works yesterday morning, died at the city hospital during
the afternoon and Coroner White
ordered an inquest. The jurymen viewed the body and the
scene of the accident and then
adjourned to meet at No. 3 police station on Monday evening.
There seems to be no
accounting for the accident, as the wall was apparently firm and had
been standing all morning. It was also supported by a wooden
brace at one end.
KYLE (Niagara Falls, Ont.) Oct 18 - William Kyle, the
Toronto man who was arrested with
R.F. Sedgewick, the barrister, on the charge of attempted
bribery here in town in the case of
Alderman Fenwick and a proposed bonding of the town for a
new electric road, died this
afternoon after a two weeks’ illness at the Grand Central
hotel. Ever since his arrest Mr. Kyle
has been prostrated. Nervous disorders and a cold weakened
him and he was unable to rally
when the physicians attempted to pull him through. His
sister, Miss Maggie Kyle, of Toronto
was with him at the last, arriving early this morning. His
wife, Mrs. Kyle, is at Gore Bay Ont.
Mr. Kyle was about 45 years of age and of late years had
been identified with electric road
interests. The remains will be taken to Toronto for
interment.
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FITKINS (St. Catharines, Ont.) Oct. 18 - A sad accident
occurred at dock No. 2, old Welland
canal, this city, about 12:30 this afternoon. Orin W., aged
seven years and eight months, son
of Orin L. Fitkins, after taken his father’s dinner to the
Wellandvale Manufacturing co. where
he is employed, was returning by the float bridge, when he
fell in and was drowned. It is
supposed the little fellow was walking on the railing,
stubbed his foot and fell in. The body
was recovered about 5 p.m.
RAVIGNE (Toronto) Oct. 19 - A woman named Esther Ravigne, a
domestic employed by
Robert Myles, Queen’s park, died very suddenly yesterday
afternoon. She had been under
medical treatment for several days, but she was not supposed
to be dangerously ill. She was
quite able to attend to her duties. About three o’clock
another domestic found her lying dead
on the kitchen floor. She was about forty years of age.
BROWN (Tillsonburg, Ont.) Oct. 18 - The community was
shocked today to hear that J.R.
Brown, one of the most high-esteemed and oldest citizens and
businessmen of Tillsonburg,
had been found dead on his premises shortly after noon, and
that death had been caused by his
own hand. A 32-caliber revolve beside the body and a wound
in the left temple told its sad
tale. Mr. Brown had taken dinner as usual, and appeared in
his usual health and spirits. On
returning to his grocery after dinner he had a moments
conversation with a gentleman in the
store, and asking to be excused for a few moments, stepped
outside to an outhouse at the rear
of the building. The fact that he did not return at once
caused a search to be made about half
an hour after he went out. The body was lifeless when found.
Financial difficulties are
supposed to have been the cause of the rash act, although it
was generally supposed that the
business was in a prosperous condition. The unfortunate man
was unmarried, and about 50
years of age.
Monday, October 21
OLIVER - At Duluth, Minnesota, on Oct. 19th, Kenneth Oliver,
formerly of this city, second
son of the late William and Isabella Oliver, aged 48 years.
Kenneth Oliver,
formerly a resident of this city and well-known to many friends here, died
at Duluth on Saturday. Mr. Oliver was the son of the late
William and Isabella Oliver of this
city. For some time he managed the Turkish baths on James
street. He left Hamilton several
years ago for Toronto, where he remained a couple of years,
going thence to the States.
MULHOLLAND - At the residence of his cousin Wm. Mulholland,
448 King William street,
on Sunday, Oct. 20th, Wm. H. Mulholland aged 33 years.
Funeral Wednesday Oct. 23, at 3:30
p.m. Friends will please accept this intimation.
ZIMMERMAN - “Jake” Zimmerman, a well-known young man in the
city, died last evening
at St. Joseph’s hospital. He had for some time been
traveling for S.S. Ryckman, but a
complication of diseases compelled him to quit work about
three weeks ago. Today his body
was shipped to Winona where his relatives reside.
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PEEL - The funeral of Charles Peel, the young man killed by
a falling wall on Friday last, was
held yesterday afternoon. It was conducted under the
auspices of the Sons of England Naval
brigade and the pall-bearers were W.J.R. Harris, lieutenant
in command; E. Taylor, W.H.
Sones, R. Trimm, G. Tetlow, and J. Hodson. Rev. J.H. Long
conducted the funeral service
and Ald. Hannaford, P.P.D., R. Hannaford and E. Buscombe,
officers of the order, were
present.
HYMES (Toronto) Oct. 21 - Albert Hymes, aged 21, a deckhand,
employed on the sand scow
Ella G., at Detroit, was drowned about 11o’clock Friday
night while attempting to board the
boat, which was lying in a slip between Riopelle and Orleans
streets. Harbormaster McRea
recovered the body yesterday morning and it was turned over
to Coroner Bettinger. The
deceased was unmarried and made his home in Toledo. He has a
mother residing in Brighton,
England, and a brother living in this city.
ROBINSON - An old man named James Robinson was found dead in
a gravel pit between
Sutton and Roach’s point. An inquest will be held.
BENNETT - Thomas Bennett, a highly-respected farmer of the
township of Oxford, died very
suddenly of heart disease in Woodstock on Saturday. He was
68 years of age.
HETHERINGTON (Toronto) Oct. 21- Thomas Hetherington, the
Englishman who threw
himself out of an upper window at Sullivan’s hotel, died
from his injuries at St. Michael’s
hospital last night. Coroner Johnson issued a warrant, and
will hold an inquest this evening.
Tuesday, October 22
WHITMORE - In this city, on October 22nd, at her daughter’s
residence 48 West ave. north,
Mrs. Maria E. Whitmore, relict of the late John Whitmore,
aged 67 years. Funeral private.
Mrs. Mary E. Whitmore
died yesterday at the residence of her daughter Mrs. Pollington
48 West avenue north. She was a native of Grimsby township,
Lincoln, and the widow of
John Whitmore, farmer, but had lived in this city for 20
years. Her age was 67. She was a
kindly old lady and will be much missed by all who knew her.
BOWEN - At his late residence, No. 211 King street east, on
Tuesday, Oct. 22, 1895, Elijah
H. Bowen, late of Stony Creek, aged 56 years. Notice of
funeral later.
HARVEY (Buffalo) Oct. 22 - George Harvey of Chicago, who
came here five weeks ago to
work as scaffolding foreman for the Guaranty Building
Company, was killed this morning by
falling from the seventh floor of the new Guaranty building
to the cellar. His skull was
fractured and his body terribly mangled. Harvey was born in
Ottawa, Ont., and was 45 years
of age.
MCCONNEL (Lanark, Ont.) - The Rev. J. A. McConnel,
Presbyterian minister at Watson’s
Corners, dropped dead of neuralgia of the heart on Saturday
evening while sitting at tea.
JAMISON (Midland, Ont.) Oct. 21 - While the steamer J.D.
Ketchum was unloading corn at
the elevator here George Jamison, aged 18, while attempting
to pass under the rope used on
the steam shovels, was caught by the ropes and instantly
killed.
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CALLAGHAN (Barrie) Oct. 21 - Dr. R.A. Callaghan died very
suddenly in his office here
this afternoon. Until two years ago he resided in Thornton
and was one of the leading
physicians in the county.
FONGER (St. George) - Herbert Fonger died last Tuesday and
was buried in the Methodist
cemetery on Thursday. He had been ill with a complication of
diseases for a year. Rev. D.M.
Mihell conducted the services at the house and cemetery.
COWELL (Tapleytown) - Mrs. Wm. Cowell of Tweedside, three
miles east of this place was
buried on Friday last.
YOUNG (St. Thomas, Ont.) Oct. 21 - The wife of Joseph Young,
farmer, near Port Stanley,
fell through an open trapdoor into the cellar on Sunday
night, fracturing her skull. She died
this morning without regaining consciousness.
WHITE (Mountsberg) An infant child of Jas. White jr. was
buried last week.
BENNETT (Woodstock) Oct. 21 - Thomas Bennett of Trimble’s
Corners was seized with a
choking fit while dining at Bailiff Virtue’s house and died
shortly afterwards of heart disease.
He leaves a wife and ten children.
ZIMMERMAN (Beamsville) - The sympathy of this community is
extended to Mr. and Mrs.
Joseph Zimmerman in the death of their only son “Jake” as
his friends familiarly called him.
The young man was widely known as an agent and commercial
traveler all over the country
and wherever known his genial and friendly disposition made
him a general favorite. At the
time of his death he was traveling for S.S. Ryckman of
Hamilton. It was known here for
some time that he was suffering from typhoid fever, but it
was thought that he was getting
better and the arrival of his body here was a shock. His
parents are almost broken hearted, and
his mother cannot be consoled over the loss of her boy.
Wednesday, October 23
BOWEN - At his late residence, No. 211 King street east, on Tuesday,
Oct. 22, 1895, Elijah
H. Bowen, late of Stony Creek, aged 56 years. Funeral 4 p.m.
Friday. Friends will please
accept this intimation.
DURDAN - In this city on Tuesday Oct. 22, William Durdan in
the 60th year of his age.
Funeral notice later.
One of the oldest
G.T.R. employes in the city was William Durdan, 269 John street north,
who died unexpectedly last night. He had been in the employ
of the company for about forty
years. For years he was engineer on one of the trains
running between here and Toronto. He
worked until Monday last when he complained of being ill.
Last night he went to consult Dr.
Cummings about his trouble. He seemed to be in fairly good
health when he returned home.
The deceased retired
to his bedroom about eleven o’clock. When he was sitting in a chair he
fell over on the floor, and died before medical help could
be summoned . Heart disease was
the cause of death.
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The deceased was born
in England and had lived in Hamilton for many years. He leaves a
wife, three sons and three daughters. Mrs. Durdan is in
delicate health.
TURK - The second fatal accident to occur during the
construction of the Hunter street tunnel
happened this morning. The scene of the accident was at the
corner of Hess and Hunter
streets, where the earth is being removed by a steam
derrick. William Turk, whose duty was
to hook the bucket to the chain, got crushed between a
bucket which was being filled and an
empty bucket which was being lowered into the cutting. He
was severely crushed about the
abdomen.
The unfortunate man
was removed to the hospital in the ambulance. He died almost
immediately after he was carried into the hospital. Death
resulted from internal injuries. The
deceased was about 66 years of age, and was not able to
stand the shock. He lived at 407 Bay
street north, and had a wife and several children.
PRINCIPAL (Toronto) Oct. 23 - James Principal died at Mimico
Monday, his death being the
result of a gun-shot wound received while camping with a
party of friends at Laggan’s Rock,
Muskoka.
Young Principal had
loaded his gun in the tent, intending to go out for snipe. While rising to
reach for his cartridge bag he asked a companion named
Waltman to hold the weapon.
Waltman had just come into camp and did not see Principal
load the gun. While holding the
gun he made a remark about the weight of the pull of the
trigger as compared with his own
gun The next instant there was a report and Principal fell
unconscious.
He was brought to his
home at Mimico, where he lingered several days with a portion of the
charge in his left lung. Several medical men examined the
unfortunate young man but could
do nothing to save his life.
KOCH - (Edited) Anton Koch was dead today at the city
hospital, the victim of his love for
his children. In a fire at his hotel on Stuart street last
night he re-entered the smoke-filled
building in search of his little ones and before he could
get out he was overcome by the dense
smoke and dropped down on the floor to die. The sight that
met the gaze of the firemen in the
upper story as they searched the rooms for the missing ones
was sickening and heartrending.
There on the hall floor near the head of the stairs lay
Anton Koch, the father, three of his
children, and a servant woman. Down at the foot of the
stairs, the cruel flames were licking
their way upward as if reaching for the helpless ones above,
and with the greatest difficulty
the fire fighters and in this case life savers carried the
unconscious ones to the front windows
and down the ladders, they themselves being half blinded and
choked by the heat and smoke.
At about 11:58 last
evening a telephone alarm from the Grand Trunk station took the
firemen to the corner of Stuart and Bay streets, where it
was reported the Queen’s hotel, run
by Anton Koch, was on fire. The alarm was promptly responded
to and in a very few minutes
all the brigade, excepting the Victoria avenue detachment
was on the spot.. To get at the
starting point Chief Aitcheson sent a detail of men to the
basement where a pile of old
shingles was burning. The fire seemed to have started from
that point but where it was
travelling to through the hollow walls, it was hard to say.
In a very few minutes after the
firemen arrived it burst out in the rear of the billiard
room and at the foot of the hall stairs
leading to the second story. Here it went with a rush and
roar that for a few minutes seemed to
defy all attempts to extinguishing. But firemen rushed at it
and with two streams playing one
from outside and one inside the conquest was rapid, hissing
steam and blinding smoke taking
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the place of the hungry flames.
When Chief Aitchison
first reached the scene of the fire he asked if everyone had escaped
from the building and was told that they had. Taking this
for granted he started in to stop the
fire but had been superintending the work for only a few
minutes when the cry was raised in
the street that Koch’s children were still in their room and
that the proprietor himself was
missing. The alarm was given by one of the servant girls,
named Jane Noon, and she located
the children’s bedroom at the front of the house for the
firemen. Three firemen made the
awful discovery in the hallway. Groping their way down the
upper hall to the head of the
stairs at the foot of which the flames were bursting forth,
they saw in their dim lantern light,
five bodies on the floor in nude and semi-nude conditions.
Around Anton Koch, the
proprietor, Mrs. T. Andrews, a friend of Mrs. Koch, who had
been visiting at the hotel;
Bernie, a four-year-old son; Toni, a six-year-old son and
Hattie, a ten-year-old daughter. They
were one by one carried out on the verandah roof and down
the ladders to the street. It was at
first thought that Anton Koch was alive but Dr. Balfe the
family physician worked for nearly
an hour but gave up and pronounced Anton Koch a dead man.
THOMPSON - At 269 Bay st. south, on Tuesday Oct. 22, 1895,
Isabella, wife of D.S.
Thompson. Funeral from her late residence, on Thursday at
3.30 p.m.
Mrs. Thompson, wife
of David Thompson, wholesale jeweller died last night.
YOUNG - Mrs. Joseph Young, Port Stanley, was killed by
falling through a trap door in her
residence.
Thursday, October 24
DURDAN - In this city, Oct. 22nd, William, beloved husband
of Isabella Durdan in the 60th
year of his age. Funeral from Christ church cathedral Friday
afternoon at 3 o’clock. Friends
and acquaintances will please accept this intimation.
KOCH - In this city Oct. 23, Antoine Koch, aged 42 years, a
native of Prussia, Germany.
Funeral from Dwyers undertaking establishment, James st.
north to-morrow at 8:45 a.m. to St.
Mary’s Cathedral, thence to Holy Sepulchre cemetery. Friends
and acquaintances will please
accept this intimation.
TURK - On Oct. 23, William Turk, aged 63 years. Funeral from
his son’s residence, 50
Macaulay st. west on Friday at 2:30 p.m. Friends and
acquaintances will please accept this
intimation.
LAIDLAW - At Elm Grove near Georgetown on Thursday morning
October 24th, Rev. E.J.
Laidlaw, L.L.D., aged 56 years. Funeral services in St.
Paul’s Church on Saturday at 1 p.m.
Burial at Georgetown. Members of the congregation and
presbytery Ministerial association
will be provided with tickets for special train at King
street station.
The death of Rev. Dr.
Laidlaw will be learned with deep regret in Hamilton - not only by
members of St. Paul’s church, not only by the Presbyterians
of the city, but by all of every
religious denomination, who knew this good man. A ripe
scholar, a public-spirited citizen, a
faithful pastor, an eloquent and honest preacher, he
performed the various public and social
duties of life, and those of his high calling as one who
realized his responsibilities to God and
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his fellow men. Those who were the most intimate with him
speak most highly of his
character in the private relations of life. His long illness
prepared his friends for his death; but
he will be missed and mourned.
The deceased leaves a
daughter and two young sons.
The body will be
brought here at eleven o’clock on Saturday and placed in the church where
a service will be held at one o’clock lasting about an hour.
KOCH - Today, Antony, eldest son of the late Antony and
Catharine Koch, aged 8 years.
Also Bernie Koch, aged 4 years. Funeral to-morrow (same hour
as father’s).
The awful results
from Tuesday night’s fire at the Queen’s hotel, Stuart are accumulating.
This afternoon at St. Joseph’s hospital in spite of the care
and attention bestowed by the
doctors, the two little boys, Bernie and Tony Koch gave up
the struggle for life and their
worn-out little bodies are now at rest in death. The smoke
had done its destroying work in the
lining of the lungs too well and that combined with exposure
and exhaustion made their
recovery impossible. Mrs. Koch left the hospital this morning
before the children died and is
stopping with Mrs. John, a particular friend. She has been
told of their death and no word can
express her grief.
Hattie the daughter
is in a most critical condition and her recovery is not now looked for by
the doctors. Mrs. Andrew too has not improved as it was
hoped she would and fear is now
entertained for her recovery.
The funeral of Anton,
the father, will take place to-morrow from Dwyer’s undertaking
establishment at 8.45. The German Benevolent society will be
in charge of the arrangements.
From St. Mary’s cathedral the body will be interred in Holy
Sepulchre cemetery.
PFENNIE - An ancient German named Frederick Pfennie, died at
St. Peter’s home yesterday
from paralysis. He is supposed to have been 98 years of age.
KERR (Brantford) Oct. 23 - A most distressing burning
fatality occurred on Monday night at
the residence of Charles Culham, Greenwich street by which
Annie Kerr, aged four years,
daughter of John Kerr, of the Cockshutt Plow works was so
badly burned by playing with fire
that she died in hospital at 11 o’clock last night. Annie,
with three other girls, was playing in
Mr. Culham’s back yard, when one of them suggested building
a fire. This was done, when a
spark settled on Annie’s dress, but was not discovered until
shortly after, when the children
noticed her clothes burning and cried out “Fire” Mrs. Culham
and her sister ran to the rescue
but could not succeed in extinguishing the burning clothes
until the poor child was fatally
burned.
MORRISON (Brantford) Oct. 23 - J.H. Morrison, of the Mohawk
institution teaching staff,
formerly writing master of the Central school here, died
last night at the institute after a brief
illness, from typhoid fever. Deceased was 29 years of age
and had only been married for three
months. He came to this city from near Georgetown.
SLINGSBY (Brantford) Oct. 23 - J. Slingsby, manager of the
Slingsby mill, died this
afternoon from nervous prostration. He was very highly
regarded.
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BARNES (Port Colborne, Ont.) Oct. 23 - Melinda Barnes, of
Buffalo, about 40 years of age,
visiting her sister, Mrs. Kreiger here, was killed by a car
this afternoon while attempting to
pass through with two pails of water.
WHITTMORE (Fulton) - Mrs. John Whittmore of Hamilton, was
interred in the cemetery
here on Wednesday last.
MILNE - George A. Milne, cashier of the Williams Sewing
Machine company, died this
morning. Mr. Milne was only 33 years old and of exceptionally
robust physique. He was
about his business no longer ago than Friday last, but acute
pneumonia brought him to his
death in the short space of four days.
DONNELLY (Peterboro) Oct. 23 - John Donnelly, an old
resident of Smith, was moving a
chair to sit down and thought he had it in a safe position
when he sat down, but he fell to the
floor and never rose alive. He was 86 years of age.
JOHNSON (Cornwall) Oct. 23 - The section men when going over
the line on Sunday
morning found the body of a man in a badly mutilated
condition on the Grand Trunk railway
track, about a mile west of here. The body was literally cut
to pieces. The unfortunate man
who was about 40 years of age was evidently a Finlander, as
a Russian passport, a Russian
copy of the scriptures and contract of passage from
Guttenburg to Sault Ste. Marie was found
in his pockets, along with several letters and papers, which
went to show that his name was
Henrik Johnson.
SWITCHER - This afternoon Mrs. Switcher, of Streetsville,
with Mrs. W.J. Patterson, of
Glanford, and another lady were driving down the Smith
mountain road on their way to
Winona station, when the horse ran away and threw them out.
Mrs. Switcher was fatally
injured and died almost immediately after. The other two
ladies escaped. Mrs. Switcher had
been visiting Mrs. Patterson and was returning home.
HIND (Caledonia, Ont.) Oct. 23 - The death took place here
today of Daniel T. Hind,
liveryman, one of the most prominent and respected citizens
of this place, and one of the best
know men in Haldimand county. Deceased was in his 54th year,
and came here a few years
ago from Jarvis, at which place him remains will be buried
on Friday. Mr. Hind was a staunch
Reformer in politics, a member of the I.O.F., A.F. and A.M.,
and A.O.U.W., being insured in
the latter for $2,000. He was unmarried.
BRUSSEAU (Tilbury, Ont.) Oct. 23 - The twelve year-old son
of Peter Brusseau, jr., a farmer
of Tilbury East, a short distance from here, was killed this
afternoon and his body terribly
mangled. He was dragged a considerable distance by a horse
which he was leading to the
house by a rope tied around its neck and attached to his
wrist. The horse was frightened by a
passing train.
Friday, October 25
LAIDLAW - At Elm Grove, near Georgetown, on Thursday morning,
October 24th, Rev. E.J.
Laidlaw L.L,D.,. aged 56 years. Funeral services to St.
Paul’s church on Saturday at 1 p.m.
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Burial at Georgetown.
Members of the congregation and presbytery and Ministerial
Association will be provided with tickets for special train
at King street station.
ROBERTS - On Thursday 24th October, 1895, Sarah Roberts,
eldest daughter of the late Capt.
John Roberts and sister of William Roberts of Canadian Bank
of Commerce. Funeral private.
BENT - At his residence in Burlington, Oct. 25, J.C. Bent in
his 87th year.
PIRIE - At Dundas, on the 24th of October, Jane Pirie of
Toronto, relict of the late George
Pirie of Guelph, aged 70 years and 2 months. Funeral on
Saturday afternoon at 2 o’clock to
Grove cemetery, Dundas.
Mrs. Jane Pirie of
142 Mutual street, Toronto, died yesterday while on a visit to her son at
Dundas. The dead lady was in her 71st year and the widow of
the late George Pirie, of Guelph.
She was the mother of Alex Pirie, editor of the Dundas
Banner and for many years connected
with the press of Toronto, as well as Charles Pirie, another
well-known journalist.
KOCH - The bodies of Anton Koch, his two little sons, Bernie
and Tony, and his 10-year-old
daughter Hattie are now resting beneath the sod in Holy
Sepulchre cemetery, across the bay.
Yesterday all the arrangements were made for the interment
of the father and two boys and
about 6 o’clock this morning it was found necessary to
prepare for another grave, for Hattie
the daughter, gave up the struggle at that hour and her body
was brought from St. Joseph’s
hospital to the undertaker’s rooms. From the undertaker’s
the bodies taken to St. Mary’s
cathedral in their coffins and there the funeral service of
the church was conducted.
Rev. Father Hauck
conducted the service at the cathedral assisted by Rev. Fathers Mahoney
and McEvay. Three hearses were used to convey the bodies
from the church to the cemetery
and the attendance of friends was very large.
An examination of the
lungs of one of the dead children showed that they had been badly
burned by the hot smoke so much so that recovery was almost
an impossibility. It was feared
that pneumonia would cause death but there was no sign of it
in the postmortem.
LAIVSOH (Windsor) Oct. 24- Mrs. Lizzie Laivsoh, aged 20, of
Pike Creek, was found dead
in bed yesterday morning. She had retired in usual good
health and it is supposed she was
accidentally smothered by the bedclothes.
COOK (La Relet, Ont.) Oct. 24 - John Cook, 74 years of age,
severed an artery in his foot
while chopping in the bush. He succeeded in reaching his
house but died in two hours.
Saturday, October 26
HARRIS - At St. Joseph’s hospital Oct. 25th, James Harris.
Funeral from his late residence,
306 Victoria avenue north, Sunday, 2.30, leave house at 3
p.m.
BENT - At his residence in Burlington, Oct. 25, J.C. Bent,
in his 87th year. Funeral on
Monday, Oct. 28 at 10 o’clock a.m.
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HELD - On Friday Oct 25th, at 163 Caroline st. north, Maud
Held, aged 20 years. Funeral
from her parents’ residence on Sunday 27th, at 3:30 p.m.
Death in a most
unexpected manner came to Miss Maud Held yesterday afternoon at her
parents’ home, Caroline street north. Miss Held who is 20
years of age, had been with her
mother shopping most of the afternoon and shortly before 5
o’clock they returned home. The
young woman who had been troubled with dyspepsia for some
time complained of feeling
hungry and ate some lunch, going at once to her room
suffering from pain in the pit of her
stomach. Previously she had purchased some chloroform to
ease the pain and saturating her
handkerchief with the liquid lay down on her bed face
downward, with the handkerchief to
her nose. About 6 o’clock her mother called her for tea and
was horrified upon entering the
bedroom to find her apparently dead.
Dr. Philp was called
but before he arrived she was lifeless, having been smothered. The
chloroform had caused sickness of the stomach and retching
and lying as she was and face
downward and in a stupified condition she was choked to
death.
Dr. Philp consulted
Crown Attorney Crerar regarding an inquest and it was decided that one
was not necessary. There was no reason to think that Miss
Held purposely took her own life
as she was a girl of bright spirits. The funeral will be
held to-morrow afternoon from her
parents’ residence.
YOUNG - In this city on Friday Oct. 25, at the residence of
his father, 124 King William
street. Frank H. Young, in the 43rd year of his age. Funeral
from the above address on Sunday
Oct.27, at 1:30 p.m. Friends will please accept this
intimation.
PIRIE (Dundas) Oct. 25 - Mrs. Pirie of Toronto, came to
Dundas a few days ago to spend
some time with her son, A.F. Pirie, editor of the Banner.
She took sick almost immediately on
arriving and died on Thursday evening. The funeral at the
Grove cemetery to-day at 2 o’clock
was largely attended.
MADILL (Toronto) Oct. 26 - Word was received in the city
last night of the death of Frank
Madill, M.P. for North Ontario. Mr. Madill had been ailing for
some time past, but only
within the last past days did his condition become serious.
On Monday he had a stroke of
paralysis and on Tuesday lapsed into an unconscious
condition, from which he never rallied.
MCCLURE (Chatsworth) Oct. 25 - David McClure of Williamsford
and Robert McClure of
this place, died within two days of each other. David was
73, Robert 67. They came from Ayr,
Scotland in 1854 having been neighbors ever since and each
leaves a widow and nine
children.
HURD (Caledonia) - D.T. Hurd died at noon on Wednesday. The
funeral took place on Friday
from his mother’s residence in Jarvis, to the Garnet burying
ground, and was very largely
attended, quite a number from here being present. The last
sad rites were looked after by the
Masons, of which order Mr. Hurd was a member. Among the
numerous flora tributes was a
wreath from the little girls of this village, among whom
“Uncle Dan,” as he was generally
called by them, was a great favourite. Deceased was a
bachelor in his 56th year and respected
by all who knew him.
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WESTWOOD (St. George) - Thos. Westwood, an old resident in
this vicinity for many years,
died at Guelph last Monday. The remains were brought here on
Wednesday for interment in
the Methodist cemetery.
CLINTON (St. George) - Ruby May, infant daughter of Delmar
Clinton, died on Tuesday
morning. She was buried at the Methodist cemetery on
Wednesday afternoon.
Monday, October 28
SHUFFLEBOTHAM - In Kingston on Saturday Oct. 26, Caroline
Russell, beloved wife of
Waler F. Shufflebotham, of Kingston aged 37 years. Funeral
will take place from her sister’s
residence, 67 Locke street north on Tuesday at 9 a.m. to St.
Joseph’s church, thence to Holy
Sepulchre cemetery. Friends and acquaintances are
respectfully invited to attend.
GREY (Toronto) Oct. 28 - At eleven o’clock Saturday evening
Dr. A.O. Hastings, Selby and
Hastings street, was called to 18 Darling avenue, where he
found the infant child of Hamilton
Grey lying dead on the floor besides its mother.
Grey told him that
the child was dead when he left the house, but it would be necessary for
a medical man to see it. The explanation of the child’s
death as given by the parents was
that an overdose of paregoric had been administered.
The appearance of the
body indicated death by smothering. It is thought that the mother
went to sleep with the child in her arms and rolling over
smothered it. The husband was
absent from the house when the child died.
Dr. Hastings notified
Coroner Orr who issued a warrant for an inquest to be held this
evening. Dr. Hastings will make a post-mortem this
fore-noon.
KAVANAUGH (Morrisburg, Ont.) Oct. 27 - The remains of the
unfortunate Ann Kavanaugh,
of Cardinal, who, it is alleged, was the victim of a
criminal operation performed in Buffalo a
few days ago, were brought here Saturday for interment,
accompanied by Mr. Kavanaugh, the
deceased girl’s uncle, and J.W. Lacey, both of Cardinal.
MARCOMBE (Arva, Ont) Oct. 27 - Saturday evening John
Marcombe, of Masonville, was
found dead in the mow of his barn by one of his neighbours,
who was helping him to draw in
corn stalks. Mr. Marcombe went to open the barn door and
prepare for the load coming and
when it arrived he was found lying on his face dead.
DILWORTH (Toronto) Oct. 28 - Mrs. Dilworth, who lives at 264
St. Patrick street,
accidentally killed herself yesterday morning by taking a
dose of carbolic acid in mistake for
cough mixture. It appears that Mrs. Dilworth was suffering
from a bad cold, for which she
was taking drugs. She was a widow, and lived with here
brother-in-law, Mr. O’Hearn.
Yesterday morning she went to her room about 10 o’clock to
take some cough mixture. She
immediately ran out, stating that she had taken carbolic
acid by mistake. Dr. Parry, of
Bathurst street, was sent for, but he arrived too late, as
the poison had done its work, and the
woman died in agony. Coroner Johnson was notified and he
decided to hold an inquest today.
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Tuesday, October 29
ASTLE - Suddenly in Chicago, Samuel Astle, aged 18 years and
2 months, youngest son of
Samuel and Ellen Astle, 32 Railway st. Funeral notice later.
BENT - The funeral of the late J. C. Bent, of Burlington,
took place yesterday morning from
the family residence to the Baptist church, where service
was conducted by Rev. J. Yorston,
former pastor of the church assisted by Rev. Messrs. Kennell
and Abrahams. The body was
interred in the English church cemetery. Mr. Bent was one of
the oldest residents of
Burlington and a former deacon of the James street Baptist
church here. He was 87 years of
age.
NEIL - The dwelling of Francis John Neil, of Lucan, was
burned this morning. Mrs. Neil
perished in the flames and Mr. Neil was badly burned.
BECK (Toronto) Oct. 29 - Coroner Orr has issued a warrant
for an inquest into the cause of
the death of Percy Beck, the six-year-old son of Thomas
Beck, 134 Amelia street. The child
died rather unexpectedly yesterday morning, and Dr. Orr was
called by the parents, who
asked for a burial certificate, but as inquiry showed the
deceased had been under treatment by
the Christian Scientists, he issued the warrant instead.
Last evening, Mrs.
Beck said the child had been complaining for about ten days with a cold,
“I am surprised at the doctor’s action,” said Mrs. Beck, “as
everything that could be done for
the child was done.” No doctor had been called and no
medication had been given.
A lady pupil of Rev.
Isabella Stewart, a Christian Scientist, treated the child and was
present when death came.
DEWITT (Kingston) Oct. 29 - Ira Dewitt died in the general
hospital on Saturday. He was the
son of John Dewitt, Wilton, who came to Kingston to take the
remains of his sister home for
burial and was detained, having typhoid symptoms. He is the
third of the family to die, his
mother and sister preceding him. Another brother in the
hospital is very low and his recovery
is not expected. The father, also attacked, has recovered,
and can walk about the hospital.
GRAY (Toronto) Oct. 29 - The jury empanelled by Coroner Orr
to inquire into the
circumstances surrounding the death of the five months old
child of H. Gray, Darling avenue,
brought in a verdict to the effect that the child had been
smothered while being clasped too
close to its mother, when both were asleep.
Wednesday, October 30
ASTLE - Suddenly in Chicago, on October 28, Samuel Astle,
aged 18 years and 2 months,
youngest son of Samuel and Ellen Astle, 32 Railway st.
Funeral from the house at 8:30 a.m.,
Thursday, to St. Mary’s Cathedral, thence to Holy Sepulchre
cemetery. Friends and
acquaintances cordially invited. May his soul rest in peace.
Samuel Astle, son of
Samuel Astle, 32 Railway street, in this city, died in Chicago on
Monday of inflamation of the bowels. He had been in Chicago
for five months working for an
electrical machine company. The body was brought here to-day
and the funeral will take
place to-morrow.
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HENRY- At the residence of her son-in-law F.H. Hooper, No.
91 Jackson st. west, on
Wednesday Oct. 30, Leah A. Henry, relict of the late Dr.
Walter Henry, Inspector General of
Hospitals of the British Arms and sister of the late Dean
Geddes of Christ Church Cathedral,
aged 86 years. Funeral private.
DAVIS (Lucan Ont.) Oct. 29 - At 4 o’clock this morning, the
dwelling of Francis John Davis,
seven miles from here, in the township of Osborne, was
burned to the ground. Mrs. Davis
perished in the flames and Mr. Davis was badly burned on the
hands and arms.
The fire originated
in the kitchen from some unknown cause and the entire house was
aflame inside before Mr. and Mrs. Davis, who were sleeping
upstairs, were awakened.
Mr. Davis managed to
find his way downstairs badly burned. Not finding his wife, whom he
supposed had followed him down stairs, he made desperate
attempts to save her, but being
alone could do nothing. This morning her charred remains
were found.
Mr. and Mrs. Davis
were married last spring. She was a Miss Crearey and both were
residents of Osborne.
MORDEN (Millgrove) - Died in London, Ont., aged 84 years,
Mrs. Morden, relict of the late
Samuel Morden, one of the oldest settlers of East Flamboro.
Her father, Mr. Baker, settled in
this township in the year 1808 on lot 13, concession 4, 200
acres. He had a family of twelve -
six boys and six girls. There are only two living now -
Jacob Baker of Millgrove and Mrs.
William Morden of East Flamboro.
Thursday, October 31
SAUNDERS - W. C. Saunders, city agent for the Sleeman
brewery, died suddenly at his
residence, 271 Gerrard street east, yesterday. Some days ago
he scratched the palm of his
hand and from this blood poisoning set in, resulting
fatally. Mr. Saunders had been connected
with the Sleeman firm for fifteen years - Toronto World. Mr.
Saunders has many friends in
Hamilton. He used to keep the Terrapin saloon, King street
west.
KEAYES - The sudden and peculiar death of Florence Keayes,
the 15-month-old daughter of
Joseph Keayes, 88 Birge street, will be the subject of a
coroner’s inquest this afternoon. The
child died about 10:30 this morning in convulsions, both
parents being away from home at the
time. Mrs. Keayes is employed at the Screw works near by,
and the father is a teamster for
Heming & Garrett. A little girl had been left in charge of
the child at the house, and she says
that when she went to feed it, it went into convulsions.
Neighbour women were called in, but
before they arrived it was dead. P.C. English was notified
and Coroner Woolverton ordered
an inquest.
SAYERS (Niagara Falls Ont.) Oct. 30 - Dr. Alexander Sayers,
a well-know physician of this
town, died on Monday evening at the Waverly hotel from heart
failure. Dr. Sayers was sitting
in his chair talking when he suddenly his head fell forward.
Aid was immediately summoned,
but he died almost immediately. Dr. Sayers was 56 years of
age, and was born in Hastings
county, Ont.
WHITE (Clarksburg, Ont.) Oct. 30 - T.B. White died very
suddenly last evening at a public
meeting.
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Friday, November 1
ALANSON - At Galt, Oct. 30th, Rose Alanson, daughter of the
late John Alanson. Funeral
private.
TAIT - Suddenly at the residence of M.F. Jones, mountain
brow, on Thursday, Oct. 31, Eva
Tait, age 17 years and 9 months. Funeral at 2:30 p.m.
Saturday. Friends will please accept this
intimation.
Miss Eva Tait, a
young girl, died last night at the residence of M.F. Jones, on the mountain.
She had been ill for only a few days. Abscess of the brain
was the cause of death.
VILA - In this city, on November 1, Mrs. Ann Vila, a native
of Leicester, England, in the 82nd
year of her age. Funeral from her son’s residence, 411 Bay
st. north on Saturday afternoon at
3:30 o’clock. Friends will please accept this intimation.
WEBBER - In this city on Oct. 31, 1895, Maria Webber, relict
of the late Thomas Webber, of
Glanford, in her 84th year. Funeral on Sunday at 9:30 a.m.
from the residence of her son-inlaw
Jasper Hill, 177 Cannon st. east. Friends and acquaintances
will please accept this
intimation.
KEYES - The jury in the inquest on the death of the child
Florence Keyes met yesterday
afternoon and viewed the body, after which the inquest was
adjourned until three o’clock this
afternoon at the city hospital.
NICHOLSON (Cornwall, Ont.) Oct. 31 - Frank J. Nicholson, a
well-known baker of
Cornwall, was accidentally killed by his companion, H.
Yates, merchant, of this place, while
on a duck hunting expedition on Lake St. Francis. This
morning between ten and eleven
o’clock they were about four miles south of Lancaster, and
were moving from one blind to
another, when a couple of ducks flew towards him. Mr.
Nicholson was rowing and Mr. Yates
was standing up, endeavouring to get a shot at the ducks. He
thinks that lurching of the boat,
there being heavy swell at the time, caused the gun to go
off when Mr. Nicholson was in line
with it.
Deceased was about 35
years of age.
Saturday, November 2
FAIRBANK - In this city on Nov. 1, Laura Lawrence, widow of
the late Henry Fairbank, a
native of London, England, aged 65 years. Funeral from her
late residence, 1030 York st. on
Sunday afternoon, at 2 o’clock. Friends will please accept
this intimation.
ANDREWS - Mrs. Andrews died at St. Joseph’s hospital at 4
o’clock this morning. This
makes the fifth victim of the fire at the Queen’s hotel. A
few days ago Mrs. Andrews took a
turn for the better, and it was hoped that she would recover
but on Thursday she became
worse and finally sank until the last spark of life went
out. While at times she was semiconscious
she was unable to speak from the time she was carried out of
the burning building.
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The deceased was the
wife of Thos. Andrews. She leaves three children, all girls, aged ten,
seven and two years. The funeral will take place Monday
afternoon from the residence of the
deceased’s mother, Mrs. Miller, Wellington street north.
BARBER (Madoc, Ont.) Nov. 1 - Allan and James Bronson are in
custody here on the charge
of having caused the death of one Harry Barber of the
township of Rawdon on Sept. 28 last.
The trouble was caused during a frolic at a husking bee in
Rawdon township. Barber died on
Oct. 11.
Monday, November 4
PEARSON - In this city on Nov. 3rd Jane Pearson, beloved
wife of Charles Pearson, a native
of Blaydon of the County of Durham, England. Funeral from
the family residence, 132 Wood
st. east, on Tuesday, at 2:30 p.m. friends and acquaintances
will please accept this notice. No
flowers.
GRAHAM - In this city on Nov. 3rd, Joseph Graham, aged 65
years and 6 months. Funeral
from his late residence, 67 Wellington st. north on Tuesday
afternoon at 2 o’clock to
Burlington cemetery. Friends will please accept this
intimation.
BECK (Toronto) Nov. 4 - Mrs. Beer, the practitioner of
Christian science methods of healing,
who was in attendance of the boy, Percy Robert Beck, when he
died and for whom a warrant
was issued by Crown Attorney Curry, the day after the
inquest, delivered herself up to the
authorities on Saturday and was placed under arrest on a
charge of manslaughter. She was
admitted to bail in $4,000, Messrs. Paul and Perry being her
sureties.
BRIDEN - Rev. W. Briden, late pastor of the Princess street
Methodist church, Kingston, died
on Saturday, aged 68.
BUCK (Woodstock, Ont.) Nov. 3 - William Buck, 14 years of
age, son of Henry Buck,
farmer, of Gobles, was kicked yesterday morning by one of
his father’s horses, from the
effects of which he died last night.
Tuesday, November 5
COLLINS - At Bloomfield, N. J. on Nov. 3rd, suddenly, W. F.
Collins Esq., eldest son of the
late R.B. Collins, of Toronto. Funeral private. Whitby and
Guelph papers please copy.
PARNELL - In this city on the 5th inst. George Parnell, aged
80 years, native of county of
Wicklow, Ireland. Funeral to-morrow at 3 p.m. from 206 John
street south, cor. of Young st.
Friends and acquaintances will please accept this
intimation.
George Parnell, an
old resident of Hamilton, died at 206 John street south last evening at the
advanced age of 80 years. Mr. Parnell was a native of
Wicklow county, Ireland and came to
this city over 40 years ago. He was a bachelor and an
earnest worker in James street Baptist
church. For years he was engaged in the shoe business with
F. Woodley on James street north.
Rev. R.G. Boville will conduct the funeral service to-morrow
afternoon at three o’clock.
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TOWERS - At her residence, 303 East avenue north, on
Tuesday, Nov 5., Jeannie Towers,
widow of the late William Towers, in her 49th year. Funeral
on Thursday 7th at 2 p.m. Please
omit flowers.
PATTERSON (Smithville) - The funeral of A. Patterson took
place on Thursday last.
BERMINGHAM (Toronto) Nov. 5 - J.C. Bermingham, an old
gentleman who for some time
has been rooming at 33 Temperance street, died in the cells
at police headquarters last night.
He was arrested
outside the Bay Tree hotel at 11:10 on a charge of drunkenness. When he
was taken to the police station he was thoroughly
unconscious and was locked up in the cells
after the policeman on duty had placed a coat under his head
and left him apparently sleeping.
When Sergeant Hales
made his usual rounds of the cells he noticed that deceased had a
peculiar appearance, and on looking closer found the old man
dead. Deceased was identified
by pawn tickets bearing the names Bermingham and Nolan, found
in his pockets.
MORNEAU (Windsor, Ont.) Nov. 4 - The 7-year-old daughter of
Ovid Morneau, 233 East
Sandwich street, met a horrible death while visiting her
uncle, Farmer Langlois, in Sandwich
East. Being left alone for a few a short time yesterday she
amused herself by throwing
kerosene into the kitchen stove. Her dress took fire and
although her uncle ran to her
assistance and extinguished the flames with a quilt she was
so horribly burned that she died in
a few hours after suffering terrible agony.
BRADSHAW - There died at the city hospital late on Saturday
night James Bradshaw, an old
resident of Hamilton. Many old citizens will remember him
when he used to keep the Italian
warehouse, James street north. It was the largest grocery
store in the city, and Bradshaw was
considered to be well off. He did not attend to business,
however, and went to the wall. His
bad luck continued, and for the past few years, he was in
straitened circumstances. He had not
been in the hospital long before he died. At the hospital
meeting on Thursday night City Clerk
Beasley, who knew Bradshaw when he was a successful business
man, made arrangements to
have him sent to the house of refuge when he recovered.
Wednesday, November 6
REYNOLDS - A telephone message received here to-day states
that the body of Capt.
Reynolds of Lakefield, who was drowned several days ago, has
been recovered. Capt.
Reynolds recently married Mrs. Hutton of this city.
SULLIVAN - Yesterday morning the remains of Timothy
Sullivan, an ex-convict, were
shipped from Kingston to Dundas for burial. He was sentenced
to four years for burglary, and
had served two. Death was due to consumption.
CASE - Ex-Postmaster H.N. Case died in Toronto Sunday at the
advanced age of 85 years.
He had been a resident of Hamilton until a few months ago
when he removed to Toronto to
reside with his son. The deceased was born on the old Case
homestead at the corner of King
street and Sherman avenue in 1810, and began life as a clerk
in a general store. He moved to
Caledonia, and operated plaster mills there for some years.
Later on he secured a contract on
the Welland canal, and also accumulated considerable wealth
by dealing in real estate here
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during the boom which collapsed with such disastrous results
in 1857. He lost most of his
money at that time, and subsequently engaged in oil
speculation at Petrolia. In 1870 he was
appointed postmaster here, a position which he held until
superannuated at the time of Mr.
Brown’s appointment. The body was interred here yesterday.
MORRIS - Herbert Morris, aged 20, son of M.B. Morris, head
teacher in the public school at
Niagara Falls South, shot himself yesterday with a revolver,
and the doctors say he can not
recover. The reason given for such a rash act is because of
his failure to pass his examination
as a dentist.
Thursday, November 7
CASE - At Toronto, on Sunday morning, 3rd November, 1895,
Horatio N. Case in the 84th
year of his age. Funeral private.
CARTER - At his late residence No. 86 Florence street, on
Wednesday Nov. 6, Stephen
Carter in his 56th year. Funeral Saturday at 4 p.m. Friends
will please accept this intimation.
No flowers.
HARVEY - At Huntsville, Sunday, Nov. 3rd, John H. Harvey,
second son of John C. Harvey,
formerly of this city. Funeral took place on Tuesday
afternoon at Elmsdale.
DAVIS - In Toronto, on Nov. 7, 1895, John Hall Davis
(formerly of Hamilton) in his 71st
year. Funeral Saturday at 2:30 p.m. from the residence of
his son, H.H. Davis, 384 Hess st.
south, Hamilton, to Burlington cemetery.
BYERS (Toronto) Nov. 7 - James Byers, the stonecutter
employed at the court house who on
Monday morning fell from a great height, breaking his right
ankle and several ribs and
sustaining serious internal injuries, died at his residence,
225 Victoria street, at 12:15
yesterday afternoon. There are rather pathetic circumstances
connected with the case. Byers,
who was 32 years of age, came to this country five years ago
from Annan, Dumfrieshire, in
company with Mr. and Mrs. Begrie, and eight months ago
married the niece of the latter, who
is now inconsolable at his loss. He was a very steady quiet
man and had been employed on
the court house ever since his arrival in this country.
Friday, November 8
CARTER - At his late residence No. 86 Florence street, on
Wednesday, Nov. 6th Stephen
Carter, in his 56th year. Funeral Saturday at 4 p.m. Friends
will please accept this intimation.
No flowers.
DAVIS - In Toronto, on Nov. 7, 1895, John Hall Davis
(formerly of Hamilton) in his 71st
year. Funeral Saturday at 2:30 p.m. from the residence of
his son, H.H. Davis, 384 Hess st.
south, Hamilton to Burlington cemetery.
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PIRIE - At Waterdown, on Nov. 7th Maggie J., eldest daughter
of the late William Pirie, of
West Flamboro, aged 25 years. Funeral from her mother’s
residence, on Sunday at 2:30 p.m.
Friends and acquaintances will please accept this
intimation.
MCCARTHY - On Nov. 7th at 283 Main street west, of heart
disease and dropsy, Mrs. D.
McCarthy, aged 47 years, wife of D. McCarthy, storekeeper,
asylum. Funeral on Sunday at 3
p.m. to St. Joseph’s church, thence to Holy Sepulchre
cemetery. Friends will kindly accept
this notice.
JAMIESON - In this city on the 7th inst., Charles Jamieson
aged 63 years. Funeral from his
late residence, 218 Park st. north Sunday at 2 o’clock.
Friends will kindly accept this notice.
Charles Jamieson,
telegraph lineman at Hamilton, died last night at 11:30 of pneumonia,
after a week’s illness, aged 63. Mr. Jamieson entered the
service of the Montreal Telegraph
company in 1850. He was moved to Hamilton in 1857 and
continued with the Montreal and
afterwards with the Great Northwestern telegraph company
till the present date. He was a
native of Ireland.
WELCH (Canfield) - James C., eldest son of L. Welch, of East
Seneca, died on Monday of
inflammation of the lungs.
MCFARLANE (Canfield) - The body of Mrs. Sarah McFarlane,
eldest daughter of Rev. M.
Topp, was brought here from Stratford on Wednesday night by
train. Deceased had been
married about two years.
BOYCE (Port Hope, Ont.) Nov. 7 - John Boyce, an old man well
known about the town,
committed suicide last night by taking morphine. Boyce had
for many years been a drunkard
and had frequently been before the police magistrate for wife-beating.
His first wife, after
experiencing rough treatment at his hands died in the insane
asylum. A short time ago he
married again, and last month, while his wife was out
working, sold all the household
furniture, pocketed the money and left the woman destitute.
He returned to her again,
however and they continued to disturb the neighbourhood with
their rows until they were put
out of the house in which they lived for not paying the rent
they then went to Cobourg. Boyce
returned to Port Hope on Wednesday, when he was given
shelter by a former neighbour, T.
Jenkins. He committed suicide that night by taking morphine,
whiskey and domestic trouble
having caused him to become despondent.
Saturday, November 9
MCCARTHY - On Nov. 7th, at 283 Main street west, of heart
disease and dropsy, Mrs. D.
McCarthy, aged 47 years, wife of D. McCarthy, storekeeper,
asylum. Funeral on Sunday at 3
p.m. to St. Joseph’s church, thence to holy Sepulchre
cemetery. Friends will kindly accept this
notice.
JAMIESON - In this city on 7th inst., Charles Jamieson aged
63 years. Funeral from his late
residence 219 Park st. north Sunday at 2 o’clock. Friends
will kindly accept this notice.
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PEACE - Died suddenly at Detroit on 8th inst., Oliver Peace.
Funeral from Green Bros.
Establishment corner of King and Catharine sts. on Sunday at
2 p.m. Friends and
acquaintances are cordially invited to attend.
HALL - At her late residence 43 Oxford street, Harriet
McColl, relict of the late George Hall
in the 79th year of her age, a native of Argyllshire,
Scotland. Funeral Monday, 11th, at 3 p.m.
Friends of the family will kindly accept this intimation. No
flowers.
DUMORTIER (Guelph, Ont.) Nov. 8 - Father Dumortier, the
venerable priest connected with
the Church of Our Lady, died at 8 o’clock this evening.
Deceased was born in France and
came as a missionary to this country. He arrived in Guelph
40 years ago, and entered
zealously into the arduous labors of visiting and conducting
religious worship amid the young
settlements in the north of the county. A few months ago the
golden jubilee Father
Dumortier’s priesthood was celebrated with great ceremony.
He was very dearly beloved by
the congregation, and highly esteemed by all classes of the
community.
Monday, November 11
BEAVIS - On Nov. 11th, 1895, Caroline Beavis, wife of F.C.
Beavis, aged 35 years. Funeral
from her father’s residence, 80 Cannon st. west, on
Wednesday at 3:30 p.m. Companions of
the Forest and friends will please accept this intimation.
LOVEGROVE - Mrs. Lovegrove, mother of Mrs. Stockwell, of
this city, died in South
Cayuga at the age of 84. She was born in Berkshire, Eng. And
came to this country in 1842. A
family of eight sons and daughters survive her.
DAVIS - The funeral of the late J.H. Davis took place on
Saturday afternoon from the
residence of his son, H.H. Davis. The pall-bearers were:
Major O’Reilly, H.D. Long, C.
Newberry, Edwin Clark, George Lewis (Winona) and C.R. Smith.
Rev. Canon Curran
conducted the service.
COX (Oshawa) Nov. 10 - Gilbert Cox, aged 22, who was in the
employ of Jas. Jackson, a
farmer, residing near Port Oshawa, was found dead on
Saturday morning by Mr. Jackson,
hanging to an apple tree in his orchard. The young man was
worried over a disappointment in
a business he was about to commence and he also imagined he
was a victim of consumption.
A report is in circulation that he was about to be married,
and that the young lady had rejected
him. He was apparently a young man of good health and sound
mind up to the day of his
death.
BICKELL (Bowmanville) Nov. 10 - A very sudden death occurred
here on Friday evening.
Geo. Bickell, aged 68 years had been about all day in his
usual health and ate a hearty supper.
After he had got through he remarked to his daughter, who
had been the only one in the house
at the time, that he had enjoyed his meal, and almost
immediately expired in his chair.
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Tuesday, November 12
BEAVIS - On Nov. 11, 1895, Caroline Beavis, wife of F.C.
Beavis, aged 35 years. Funeral
from her father’s residence, 80 Cannon st. west, on
Wednesday, at 3:30 p.m. Companions of
the Forest and friends will please accept this intimation.
FAWCETT (Peterboro) Nov. 11 - John Fawcett of this town went
out to the stable on Sunday
morning to harness the horse to the buggy to drive to
church. Not answering for some time,
enquiry was made and he was found insensible on the floor,
having received a kick in the
head from the horse. A number of physicians were called, who
pronounced the man’s injuries
fatal, the skull being fractured. He remained unconscious
till death occurred this morning.
MARK (Hamburg, Ont.) Nov. 11 - Samuel Mark of Huron road was
buried at Wilmot to-day.
He was a pioneer of the county, having resided 45 years of
age. The funeral was the largest
that ever took place in this section of the country.
ARMSTRONG - John D. Armstrong of Carr & Armstrong,
estate agents, Toronto, was
accidentally killed yesterday afternoon. Deceased was riding
his bicycle on Yonge street
when he collided with a trolley car, was thrown off,
fractured his skull and died three hours
afterwards. An inquest will be held.
KING (London, Ont.) Nov. 11 - George King, a hostler,
employed at Stroyan’s livery, was
instantly killed at 9:15 this evening on Dundas street,
between Colborne and Waterloo streets.
He was driving westward at a rapid gait when he collided
with a vehicle belonging to the
asylum, which was standing at the curbing. King was thrown
violently on the streetcar rails,
his head striking the track. He lived only a few minutes.
The deceased was about 24 years of
age and unmarried. A companion named Pugh, who was in the
rig with King, was stunned by
the fall but soon recovered.
Wednesday, November 13
SMITH - At Burlington, on Nov. 12, Marion Belle, youngest
daughter of J.C. and Sarah
Smith aged 5 years. Funeral on Thursday at 2 o’clock.
Interment at Greenwood Cemetery.
GUEST - Early last evening a peculiarly sad and fatal
accident occurred on Woodbine
Crescent in the west end of the city. Fred A. Guest, a
four-year-old son of James Guest, who
lives on the crescent, was out on the road with his elder
brother, playing. The two boys had
been riding in the wagon of a farmer named Costello, and
unknown to Mr. Costello, they
went to jump off the back of the rig while the horses were
moving. Little Fred in some way
made a misstep and fell beneath the hind wheel, which passed
over his head , crushing the
skull.
Drs. Philp and White
were called and did what they could for the little sufferer, but his
injuries were fatal. He lingered until about 7:30 last night
then died. No blame could be
attached to the driver of the rig, the affair being purely
accidental.
UPPER (Thorold, Ont., ) Nov. 13 - Bert Upper, a farmer from
Stamford township, while
driving home from here last night in the darkness, took the
wrong road and drove over the
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edge of the Battle cement kiln and fell a distance of about
30 feet. Both he and his horse were
killed.
ALLINGHAM (Barrie, Ont.) Nov. 12 - Miss Allingham, a music
teacher of Hawkstone, was
struck and instantly killed this afternoon by a Grand Trunk
special freight train on the public
crossing south of Oro station. Miss Allingham was a great
pedestrian, and it is supposed she
was walking home along the track, and did not hear the
approaching train. Full particulars
cannot be obtained until the inquest, which will likely be
held to-morrow.
ANDERSON - Yesterday morning, while a young man named
William Anderson was putting
a belt on the pulleys in Howland’s flour mill at Waterdown,
he was caught in the machinery
and almost torn to pieces. When found one arm was torn
completely off, his legs were
dreadfully mangled and part of the feet torn off. His body
was a mass of cuts and bruises. No
person was in that part of the mill when the accident
occurred, but from the marks on the
machinery it was apparent that he had been whirled about in
the belting until his arm was torn
off and then the body fell to the floor where it was found.
He died a few minutes afterwards.
The deceased was 19
years of age and his parents live in Mount Forest.
CAMERON (Thamesville) Nov. 12 - At an early hour this
morning the house of Wm.
Cameron in London street was destroyed by fire, and the
owner and only occupant, Mr.
Cameron was apparently suffocated by smoke. Deceased, when
found, was partly dressed and
although pretty badly burned about the chest and part of the
face, his lower limbs were not
scarred. He had been a respected resident of Thamesville for
several years, a bachelor, native
of Scotland, where all his relatives reside, except two
nephews, Charles Cameron of Chicago
and D. Cameron, Dubuque, Iowa. An inquest will be held.
Thursday, November 14
CRONAN - In East Flamboro, on Nov. 14, 1895, Helen, daughter
of William and Ann
Cronan, aged 27 years. Funeral on Saturday, the 16th at 10
o’clock a.m. Friends and
acquaintances will please accept this notice.
GUEST - The funeral of Freddie Guest, the little boy killed
by a fall from a wagon on
Tuesday, took place at two o’clock this afternoon.
MERRILL (Belleville) Nov. 14 - Peter Merrill, a respected
resident of Deseronto, was run
over on the Grand Trunk about a mile west of this city last
night. He stepped out of the way of
one train and into the way of another. He was brought to the
city and died about two hours
later. He leaves a widow, two sons and three daughters.
MONTGOMERY (Gorrie, Ont.) Nov. 12 - There was a sad and
fatal accident this morning at
the residence of Mr. Marshall, near Belmore, in which Miss
Mary A. Montgomery, of
Wroxeter, lost her life. Miss Montgomery was attending her
sister, Mrs. Marshall, who is very
ill, and upon answering a night call which necessitated her
going into a room, she by mistake
opened a door to an unfinished balcony, and fell a distance
of 14 feet, receiving injuries from
which she died at eleven o’clock this morning.
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SMYTHE ( Kingston, Ont.) Nov. 13 - Capt. Wm. Smythe,
Elginburg, died suddenly on
Tuesday evening. He ate heartily at supper, went to bed and
grew ill. A doctor was summoned
and before midnight Mr. Smythe was dead. His demise was
caused by the bursting of a blood
vessel. Deceased was sixty-eight years of age and lived in
Elginburg the greater part of his
life. He was a well-known pilot and had the honor of guiding
the vessel that carried the Prince
of Wales and party up the river in 1861. He was a pronounced
Conservative, a Methodist and
well-to-do farmer. Two sons and a daughter survive him.
STULL - Henry Stull, a highly respected farmer of Grantham
Ont., died yesterday, aged 79.
Deceased took a prominent part in the war of 1837 and was
for some time detailed to guard
the head-gates of Allanburg.
Friday, November 15
POOLE - At the City Hospital on Nov. 14th , Mrs. Lydia
Poole. Funeral from 76 Hunter st.
east, on Saturday afternoon at 3:30 o’clock. Friends and
acquaintances will please accept this
intimation.
EYDT - In this city, on the 15th inst. Anna G., beloved wife
of John Eydt, aged 65 years.
Funeral from her late residence, 623 King st. west on Monday
at 2 o’clock. Friends will
kindly accept this notice.
AMBERRY (Woodstock) Nov. 14 - Geo. Amberry, an imbecile, was
struck by a G.T.R.
engine at a place known as Maynard’s Crossing, near Embro,
and instantly killed yesterday.
He was driving a herd of cows and had succeeded in getting
all but one over the crossing. In
his efforts to get this one over he was struck by the
approaching train and hurled from the
track. No inquest was deemed necessary.
Saturday, November 16
EYDT - In this city, on the 15th inst. Anna G., beloved wife
of John Eydt, aged 65 years.
Funeral from her late residence, 623 King st. west on Monday
at 2 o’clock. Friends will
please accept this notice.
LUMSDEN - In Dundas, on Nov. 16 at 2:10 a.m., Catharine
Halson, beloved wife of W.W.
Lumsden, baker. Funeral private at 4 p.m. Sunday the 17th.
BAILEY - A Kingston dispatch says: Mrs. William Bailey, wife
of one of Kingston’s most
estimable citizens, died this morning after a brief illness.
She was a lady of a pleasant nature
whose loss will be keenly felt in the church and home. She
was a native of Hamilton.
HOOVER (Caistorville) - J. Hoover, daughter of Wm. Hoover,
died on Sunday after being
very sick two weeks with bronchitis. She was a faithful
member of the Methodist church. Mr.
Hoover is growing old and is left very lonely. In the last
four or five years he has had to
mourn the loss of two brothers and two daughters and just
two months ago his wife was called
away.
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JAMIESON - News comes of the death in Hamilton, on Friday
last, of one who may have
been classed among the “old timers” in Canadian telegraphy,
Charles Jamieson, lineman for
the Great Northwestern Telegraph company. Mr. Jamieson
entered the service of the
Montreal Telegraph company about 1850 as line-builder and
about 1856 was stationed at
Prescott. He was removed to Hamilton in 1857 and there he
has continued to live ever since.
Being connected all these years with the Montreal and
afterwards .the G.N.W. telegraph. A
friend who knew him in Hamilton tells of the following
“Charlie worked on the very first
telegraph line ever put up in Canada., the first old ‘Grand
Trunk’ wire. He started from
Montreal and worked westward.
ELIOT (Toronto) Nov. 15 - Capt. Granville P. Eliot, of the
Grenadiers, died last night at the
general hospital. Deceased had been ill recently and on
Thursday morning took an overdose
of medicine which ultimately caused his death. He was
removed from his home, 293 Jarvis
street, to the hospital late on Thursday night, and he sank
slowly from then to the time of his
death.
Capt. Eliot was a
popular officer and well-known in the city. He has, for a long time, been a
teller in the assistant receiver-general’s office.
CASH - The body of Miss Elizabeth Cash, of Stratford was
found in her apartments over a
store in an advanced state of decomposition.
WALTON - Mrs. Jane Walton, widow of John Walton, died in
Peterboro, Ont., yesterday
aged 86. The deceased was one of the oldest and most
respected residents of the district.
Monday, November 18
REID - On Sunday morning, Nov 17, 1895, at his residence 129
Hannah st. west after an
illness of several years duration, Mr. James Reid, in the
45th year of his age. Funeral informal
at 2 p.m. Tuesday 19th inst. His friends will please accept
this intimation. Interment at
Waterdown.
There died at 129
Hannah street west yesterday a sufferer of consumption, who had for ten
years been slowly dying of the dread disease. James Reid
came here from Waterdown in 1875
and carried on business until stricken down with pulmonary
ailment. He bore his long illness
with fortitude, but his struggle for life proved unavailing,
and death finally came as a
welcome release. He had been a leading member of Hannah
street Methodist church and
previous to his illness held several important office in
that congregation. He was also a
member of the Ancient Order of Foresters.
The deceased was 45
years of age and leaves a widow and one child. At his special request
the funeral will be informal, only the immediate friends
attending.
THOMPSON - Suddenly on the 17th inst. at his late residence
29 Augusta street, Joseph
Thompson, aged 62 years and 5 months. Funeral private.
Bradford and Beaton papers please
copy.
Joseph Thompson, a
retired farmer from Tecumseh township, Simcoe county, who had been
a resident of Hamilton for the past three years, died
suddenly at his residence, 29 Augusta
street, at an early hour yesterday morning. He had been
suffering from a bronchial affection
for some time and about midnight on Saturday he became
unconscious and died at 6 o’clock
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on Sunday morning. It is supposed that a blood vessel in the
lungs burst.
The deceased was 62
years of age. He leaves a widow and one daughter, Mrs. H. J. Gilbert.
He was a life-long Conservative, a member of the Anglican
church and was well known
highly respected in the county where the most of his life
was spent as a thorough Christian
man and a good citizen.
Mr. Thompson since he
came to Hamilton had been a member of the congregation of the
Church of the Ascension and the rector made a feeling
reference to his sudden decease at the
morning service yesterday.
MILLER - At Marine City, Michigan, on Nov. 16, Margaret B.
Miller, relict of the late
Joseph Alexander Miller and sister of late John and Timothy
Brick, aged 88 years. Funeral tomorrow,
Tuesday at 2:30 p.m. from the residence of Chas. J. Bird of
Walnut street south to St.
Patrick’s church, thence to Holy Sepulchre cemetery. Friends
and acquaintances will please
accept this intimation.
One of Hamilton’s
early settlers, Mrs. Margaret H. Miller, widow of the late Joseph
Alexander Miller died at Marine City, Michigan, on Saturday
evening, at the advanced age of
eighty-eighty years. Mrs. Miller was born in the town of
Tralee, county of Kerry, Ireland, and
came to this city with her brothers, the late John and
Timothy Brick in 1834. She was married
to Mr. Miller in 1837 and after residing in this city for
several years sh removed with her
husband to Marine City, where he died some twelve years ago.
The deceased leaves four sons
and three daughters - Captains Alexander, John and Joseph
Miller of Marine City and Robt.
Miller of Detroit; her daughters are Mrs. Capt .John Pringle
of St. Clair, Mrs. Duprice and
Mrs. Allan Folsom of Marine City. The deceased requested
before she died that her remains
be brought to this city to be buried with her parents. The
funeral will take place to-morrow
from the residence of C. J. Bird, to Holy Sepulchre cemetery.
RATTRAY - Thomas Rattray, a former resident of Toronto,
broke through the ice at St. Paul
while crossing Red river and was drowned.
BLANCHARD - Mrs. Blanchard, a daughter of Chief Brant, of
the Indian reserve on
Tyendinaga township, was thrown from a wagon at Belleville
and killed.
SPROULE (Barrie) Nov. 16 - J.T. Sproule, of the firm of
Sutherland and Sproule, barrister
was fatally shot while hunting in the woods near Lefroy
yesterday.
Mr. Sproule came from
Toronto to Lefroy Thursday evening intending to leave there by the
noon train Friday for Barrie. Friday morning, about eight he
started for a couple of hours hunt
in the woods near by. He was last seen in the bush about ten
a.m. walking towards the railway
station. When he did not return in time for the train his
friends thought he had changed his
mind and would go to Barrie on the afternoon train. Towards
evening they became alarmed at
his absence and immediately sent out a searching party to
the woods. The search was kept up
until noon to-day, when his lifeless body was found lying
beside a fence, his gun a few feet
away.
Mr. Sproule leaves a
widow and one child, who are at his late residence, Bloor street,
Toronto, to which place the remains will be sent for
interment. The deceased had been a
resident of Barrie for about 15 years and was esteemed by
all who knew him.
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Tuesday, November 19
WRIGHT - In this city, at 57 Locke st., on Nov. 18th Elijah
Wright, aged 82 years. Funeral
will take place from above address on Thursday at 2 o’clock.
Friends and acquaintances will
please attend. No flowers.
MANSFIELD (Toronto) Nov. 19 - Mrs. Elizabeth Mansfield, an
old lady about eighty years
of age, was found dead yesterday on the floor of her home,
498 Spadina avenue. She was
found by a friend, Mrs. Crompton, who called to see her.
Coroner Orr investigated the case
and came to the conclusion that he died of old age.
PRICE (Windsor Ont.) Nov. 18 - “Bob” Price, a well-known
young colored man of this city,
died in terrible agony yesterday. A week ago he accidentally
ran a rusty nail into his left hand
but paid no attention to the scratch until Friday when his
arm became so swollen that medical
aid was called but it was of no avail death ensuing a few
hours later from blood poisoning.
Wednesday, November 20
WRIGHT - In this city at 57 Locke st. on Nov. 19th, Elijah
Wright, aged 82 years. Funeral will
take place from above address on Thursday at 2 o'clock.
Friends and acquaintances will
please accept this intimation.
PATTERSON - In this city at 277 Robert st., on Nov. 19th
John Mark, son of J.M. and Lillian
Patterson, aged 1 year and 6 months. Funeral from above
address on Thursday at 3:30 p.m.
Friends will please accept this intimation.
COATES - In this city on Nov. 20 at 206 Hughson st. north,
Jane, beloved wife of Henry M.
Coates in the 64th year of her age. Funeral notice later.
WELLS (St. George) - Mrs. Wm. Wells (nee Lizzy Berry) died
on Thursday afternoon last of
typhoid fever at her home on Clump farm. She was buried in
the Methodist cemetery here on
Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Berry had been married only one year,
the day before her death.
COCHRANE (St. George) - James Cochrane, an old and
much-respected resident of the
township of South Dumfries, died last Friday and was buried
on Sunday afternoon in the
Methodist cemetery.
Friday, November 22
COATES - In this city on Nov. 20, at 506 Hughson st. north,
Jane, beloved wife of Henry M.
Coates, in the 64th year of her age. Funeral Saturday at
2:30 p.m. Friends will please accept
this intimation.
RANDALL - On Thursday afternoon, Nov. 21st 1895, Jacob Y.
Randall, aged 73 years and 2
months. Prayers at his late residence, corner of Sanford
avenue and Ida street, on Sunday at
1:30 p.m. Service from Presbyterian church, Grimsby.
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Jacob Y. Randall, a
respected citizen of this city, died on Thanksgiving day after several
months illness. He moved here from Hornelsville, N.Y. in
1884. Since he came here he lived
a quiet and retired life. He was a gentleman of unusual
ability and culture and was a cousin of
the late Speaker of the United States congress. He leaves a
family of three sons and two
daughters, James, of Chicago, Ill., Lorenzo, Walter, Gussie
and Mrs. W.E. Mayhew of this
city.
STEPHENS (Owen Sound) Nov. 22 - A.M. Stephens, aged 76
years, one of the pioneer
settlers of this town, died last night.
Saturday, November 23
GURNETT - At his residence, Ancaster, on Nov. 22, Lemuel
Alfred Gurnett, in his 69th year.
Funeral Monday 25th inst. at 2 p.m.
L. A. Gurnett, of the
firm of Gurnett & Son, storekeepers, Ancaster, died yesterday
afternoon after ten days illness. The deceased was
sixty-nine years of age. He was born in
Ancaster and lived there all his life having kept a store
for a number of years. He was clerk of
the sixth division court. He was taken sick with inflamation
of the bladder ten days ago and
never recovered.
Mr. Gurnett leaves a
widow five sons and one daughter.
RANDALL - On Thursday afternoon, Nov.21st, 1895, Jacob Y.
Randall, aged 73 years and 2
months. Prayers at his late residence, corner of Sanford
avenue and Ida street. On Sunday at
1:30 p.m. Service from Presbyterian church, Grimsby.
MAHONY - Suddenly in Detroit on Nov. 22nd 1895, of heart
failure, Andrew Mahony, aged
29 years and 11months. Funeral from his father’s residence
233 Hughson street north on
Monday at 8:30.
LACONTE (Brantford) Nov. 22 - A very sudden death took place
in the city last night when
Joseph Walker Laconte, aged 27, was seized by heart failure
and died in a few minutes. He
was at the opera house half an hour or so before, witnessing
a performance.
MCBRIDE - Jas. McBride, a resident of Bondhead, Ont., for
about forty years, was
accidentally killed yesterday morning by a falling tree on
the farm of Frank McCarty. He was
70 years of age.
BROWN (Chatham) Nov. 22 - James G. Brown, a well-to-do Dover
farmer came to a
miserable end three days ago on his own farm, but only
yesterday was the fate of the
unfortunate man learned. His body, stiff in death, was found
in the rear of the fine farm on
concession 10. Beside it lay three empty whiskey bottles,
telling their tale of destruction. The
man was addicted to the excessive use of strong liquors. He
went on periodical sprees. One of
these happened a week or so ago. Brown owned a good farm on
which he lived. He was
married, but the one child the couple had died several years
ago. No inquest was deemed
necessary.
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LALOND (Ottawa) Nov 22 - The body of a young man was found
on the Merivale road,
about two miles from the city yesterday morning. It remained
unidentified until evening
when it was found to be that of Joseph Lalond, who had laid
down on the roadside the
previous evening while on his way from a day’s hunting and
died from exposure. A mask was
found beside him that was shown at the inquest to be the one
he had used in a little dramatic
performance. Its discovery gave rise to the story that it
was that of a highwayman.
MILLIGAN (Kingston) Nov. 22 - On Monday last R.J. Milligan
of Tamworth, while edging a
board on a bench-saw, was struck in the abdomen by an
edging, from the effects of which he
died on Wednesday evening. The deceased was about 35 years
of age and the eldest son of
James Milligan, one of the most prominent farmers of
Sheffield township. He leaves a wife
and one child.
Monday, November 25
MASSIE - At Oakland, Cal., US, on Friday, November 22nd,
William Massie, formerly of this
city. Funeral notice later.
SPRINGER - On the morning of the 25th inst. Lewis Springer,
M.D., Registrar of the County
of Wentworth, in the 61st year of his age. Funeral from his
late residence, 334 Main st. east at
3 p.m. on Thursday. Friends will please omit flowers.
Dr. Lewis Springer,
registrar of the county of Wentworth, died suddenly at his residence,
334 Main street east, shortly after 4 o’clock this morning.
As it was not generally known that
he was seriously ill, his death was a great shock to his
many friends. He looked like a man
who would live to a ripe old age. In the summers of 1893 and
1894, Dr. Springer was troubled
with inflammatory rheumatism. Two weeks ago he had a
recurrence of the trouble and was
unable to go to his office. It was not believed that the
illness would prove fatal. Last night Mr.
Springer was visited by City Clerk Beasley and several other
old friends and appeared to be in
the best of spirits. About 4 o’clock this morning he got a
bad attack and died before a
physician could be summoned. It is supposed that his heart
was affected by the malady.
The deceased was a
son of the late Oliver D. Springer and was born in the old Springer
homestead, now St. Peter’s infirmary on October 31, 1835. He
studied medicine when he was
a young man, graduating at a Cleveland college but he never
practised his profession. He was
one of the original promoters of the Hamilton street
railway, being manager for several years.
He did not take much interest in public affairs but was
induced to run against the late R. R.
Waddell at the Dominion elections in 1882. He was elected by
a small majority.
Dr. Springer was
appointed registrar on March 21, 1891. He was of a bright and pleasant
disposition and had a large circle of warm friends. He
leaves a widow and three daughters,
one being Mrs. Colt of New York.
MAHONY - The funeral of Andrew Mahony, who died at Detroit
on Friday, took place this
morning. The deceased died very suddenly. He was sitting in
a chair when he fell over on the
floor and expired in a few minutes. Several floral offerings
were sent by his friends in Detroit.
MURPHY - Maurice Murphy, an old resident of Burlington, died
very suddenly on Sunday
evening. He was a native of Limerick, Ireland, and for the
past forty-nine years has resided
here in Burlington.
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WILCOX (Toronto) Nov. 25 - The body of Hezekiah Wilcox, an
elderly laborer was found in
the bay at the foot of Sherbourne street this morning.
Deceased left home for work a month
ago and was not since seen. He was unmarried. Death is
supposed to be due to suicide
through melancholia..
KEYES (St. Catharines) Nov. 24 - Thomas Keyes, county
treasurer of the county of Lincoln
and past grand secretary of the grand Orange lodge of
British America, died at his home in
this city early this morning after two weeks’ illness. He
was afflicted with jaundice but his
general health had been gradually failing for some years
past, and, coupled with the
infirmities of age this last attack proved fatal. He passed
away quietly, surrounded by
members of his family having been unconscious for some hours
prior to his death.
Keyes was born in the
county of Carleton, Ontario, in 1824 and was consequently in his 72d
year. In Orange circles his death will be a severe blow. He
held the office of grand secretary
of the grand lodge of British America for 17 years and was
secretary of the provincial grand
lodge of Ontario West for 13 years. His death leaves Sir
Mackenzie Bowell the only surviving
member of the first grand lodge of British America..
DOLD (Buffalo, NY) Nov. 24 - Samuel Dold, aged 23, whose
home was in Welland, Ont.,
fatally shot himself while on a drunken spree this
afternoon. The shooting took place at the
house of F.A. Hughson newsdealer, at 133 Broadway, with whom
Dold was employed.
Young Dold lived long enough to say that he had no quarrel
with anybody, but was just
feeling bad.
Tuesday, November 26
SPRINGER - On the morning of the 25th inst. Lewis Springer
M.D., Registrar of the County
of Wentworth, in the 61st year of his age. Funeral from his
late residence, 334 Main street east
at 3 p.m. on Thursday. Friends and acquaintances will please
accept this intimation.
SKUCE - In this city, on Nov. 25th at the residence of her
son-in-law, Samuel Wilson, Clara
Skuce aged 53 years. Funeral will take place from 226 Cannon
st. east on Wednesday at 3
p.m. Friends and acquaintances will kindly accept this
intimation.
YOUNG - On Tuesday, Nov. 26th, Margaret A. Wallace, wife of
Robert Young, of the Young
& Bro. Co. aged 68 years. Funeral Thursday the 28th
inst. at 2 o’clock from No. 7 East ave.
south. No flowers.
An old resident passed
away last night in the person of Mrs. Robert Young, who died at the
house of her daughter, Mrs. Stewart, East avenue south, aged
68. Mrs. Young and her
husband moved to Brampton lately but she was staying here
until their new residence was
ready for occupation. She expected to have left for Brampton
yesterday, but suffered from a
severe attack of congestion of the lungs, which proved
fatal.
WOOD (Brockville) Nov. 25 - A peculiar fatality occurred at
Lombardy the other day. A little
3-year-old son of Albert Wood fell into a can of milk and
was drowned.
CAVANAUGH (Toronto) Nov. 26 - Late in the afternoon Thomas
Cavanaugh, well-known
as a bartender about town, took a fit in the Albion hotel
and died in the ambulance on the way
to St. Michael’s hospital.
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Deceased had been
boarding at the Albion for several days and entering the bar asked for a
glass of beer. He was seen pouring some powder into the beer
and then he drank it. In the
billiard room only a few minutes when he dropped on the
floor in a fit, his legs and arms
twitching violently. The ambulance was sent for and when
Constable Fyfe arrived on the
scene he was still conscious. When the ambulance arrived at
the hospital the patient was dead.
An inquest will be held on the remains to-day. He leaves a
wife and two children.
HOLTORF (Toronto) Nov 26 - Henry W. Holtorf, a young man
connected with a King street
west clothing store, was found dead under mysterious
circumstances in the Kensington hotel,
corner of King and York streets, yesterday morning.
At an early hour
yesterday morning a strong smell of gas was detected in the corridor
opposite his room. Mr. Palmer, the proprietor, knocked on
the door and secured admittance.
The gas was on and Holtorf said “You must think I’m crazy”
Mr. Palmer came to the
conclusion there was more truth than poetry in that remark
and had Holtorf removed to
another room and instructed the night clerk to keep a watch
the room and see that the gas was
kept burning.
In the morning the
chambermaid who could not gain admission to the room notified Mr.
Palmer. The door was forced and deceased was found lying on
the bed lifeless.
UNKNOWN (Toronto) Nov. 26 - Shortly before 10 o’clock
yesterday morning a young man
who was working about Saulter’s boat-house at the foot of
Sherbourne street noticed a body
floating in the water at the head of the slip.
Wednesday, November 27
YOUNG - On Tuesday, Nov. 26th Margaret A. Wallace, wife of
Robert Young of the Young
& Bros. Co. aged 68 years. Funeral Thursday the 29th inst.
at 2 o’clock from No. 7 East ave.
south. No flowers.
KEYES - Wm. Nicholson, P.G.M. of Ontario West, attended the
funeral of the late Thomas
Keyes, P.G.M. of the Orange grand lodge at St. Catharines
yesterday.
PFEIFER - Fred Pfeifer, who was so badly injured at the
tunnel works the other day, died at
St. Joseph’s hospital early this afternoon. He leaves a wife
and several children. Mrs. Pfeifer
is almost an invalid.
Thursday, November 28
MCCULLOUGH - This Thursday morning at her residence, 58
Jackson st. west, Anne
Fitzpatrick McCullough, wife of Thos. McCullough, in the 73d
year of her age. Funeral
private. No flowers.
Mrs. Annie
McCullough, mother of C. R. McCullough, president of the Canadian club, died
this morning at the age of 73.
JONES (Brockville) Nov. 27 - To-day Robert Jones, a mason,
well known in town, dropped
dead in his bedroom. He had not been in good health for a
month or so, but was not
considered dangerously ill, and had at no time been confined
to his bed. He was 51 years of
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age and belonged to the Canadian Order of Foresters. He
leaves a widow and four children.
MCIVOR (Ottawa) Nov. 27 - Hugh McIvor, the reporter supposed
to have committed suicide
last summer in Lake desChenes, has been heard from. He has
settled in Cleveland, Ohio, and
has sent for his wife and family to join him there.
Friday, November 29
BELL - At his late residence, Burlington Plains, on Nov.
28th William Bell, in his 70th year.
Funeral Sunday Dec. 1st at 2 p.m. Burial at Burlington
Plains Cemetery.
BLAKE - In this city on Nov. 28th, 1895, Patrick John, only
son of the late John Blake, a
native of County Clare, Ireland. Funeral from the residence
of his brother-in-law James Ryan,
439 Mary street, on Saturday morning at 8:30 o’clock to the
Lawrence church, thence to Holy
Sepulchre cemetery. Friends are kindly invited to attend.
Yesterday Patrick
Blake, a patient at the city hospital died suddenly. The deceased was
about sixty years of age and had been in the hospital for about
a week. Heart disease was the
cause of death.
SAVAGE (Toronto) Nov. 29 - John Savage, an employee of
Harvey & VanNorman, boot and
shoe manufacturers, dropped dead of heart failure on King
street this morning while on the
way to his work.
ABBOTT (Woodstock) Nov. 28 - Joseph Abbott, for some years
foreman of the Times
printing office, died very suddenly here this morning. He
was taken suddenly ill on Tuesday,
but nothing serious was anticipated This morning his
condition became alarming and he died
at twelve o’clock. The deceased was a highly respected
citizen and well-known newspaper
man. He was a valued member of the first Baptist church and
leaves a widow and three
children.
SMITH (Niagara Falls) Nov. 28 - William Smith, a carpenter
aged 50 years, residing on
Welland avenue here, while working on a two-story frame
house to-day belonging to Pedro
Lorenzo, a contractor, fell to the ground, a distance of 20
feet, on his head, killing him
instantly. Smith was subject to dizzy spells and it is thought
that during one of these he fell
from the scaffold. He leaves a widow and eight children. The
deceased was also a preacher
and often officiated in the Methodist church here.
MOSES (Ohsweken) - Clara, the daughter of Nelson Moses, who
has been an invalid for
some four or five months, is dead. Much sympathy is felt for
the bereaved parents. The burial
took place at St. Luke’s, Delaware and was largely attended.
The pastor Rev. I. Bearfoot
officiated.
MORISON (Canboro) - Died in this place on Nov. 21, Mrs.
Sidney Morison of typhoid fever,
after a sickness of a few days. The deceased came to this
place from near Hamilton on a visit
a short time ago.
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Saturday, November 30
CAMPAIGNE - In this city on Nov. 29th, 1895, Margaret Anne,
beloved wife of James
Campaigne, aged 62 years and 5 months. Funeral from her late
residence, 118 Oak Ave., on
Sunday, Dec. 1st at 2:30. Friends and acquaintances will
please accept this intimation. No.
flowers.
Mrs. Margaret
Campaigne, mother of Constable Camaigne, died last night after a long
illness. She was in her 63rd year.
MONGER - Suddenly, in this city on Nov.29th, Susannah
Monger, relict of the late David
Monger, in the 52nd year of her age. Funeral on Sunday,
December 1st, at 2:30 p.m. from her
late residence, 66 Chatham street. Friends are kindly
invited to attend. Please omit flowers.
Last night at
midnight one of the old residents of this city passed away. Mrs Monger had
been a resident of this city for 45 years and was highly
respected in the community. She was a
widow of the late D. Monger, late of the P.C.O. rifles. She
leaves a family of six daughters -
Mrs. Thomas H. Sutton in Los Angeles, Calif., Mrs. C. Briggs
and Mrs. A.E. Beveridge of
this city, Susie, Maggie and Emma, living at home.
QUARRIER - In this city, on Nov. 30th, at his residence, 80
Wilson street, John Quarrier, in
his 69th year, a native of Fifeshire, Scotland. Funeral
private. No flowers. Glasgow and
Greenock papers please copy.
John Quarrier died
this morning at his residence, 80 Wilson street. For years he suffered
from Bright’s disease, but he was seriously ill only about
ten days.
The deceased was
sixty-nine years of age and was born in Fifeshire, Scotland. He came to
Hamilton about fifteen years ago. For several years he had
been an agent for a couple of large
flour mills. He leaves a widow, one son and two daughters.
Mr. Quarier was a
claimant to an immense fortune in England.
MCCALLUM (Blyth, Ont.) Nov. 30 - A very sad fatality
happened about five o’clock this
morning, by which Mrs. McCallum, aged ninety-two, was burned
to death. It is supposed that
the old lady, who lived alone, had, on going to bed, put on
a big fire, which, during the night,
either by a defect in the chimney or some other cause, set
fire to the house. Her son, who
lived a short distance away, awoke about five o’clock this
morning to find his mother’s house
on fire. Nothing, however, could be done to save it and it
was burned to the ground. When the
ruins were searched the charred body of the old lady was
found.
MARTIN (Preston) Nov.29 - While spending a social evening at
the residence of John Cutler
last night, S.C. Martin was stricken with heart disease and
expired before medical aid could
be called. The deceased was in his 38th year and proprietor
of Speedsville Woolen mills. He
was well known throughout Waterloo county and highly
respected. The funeral will take
place on Sunday afternoon from his father’s residence, Zion,
to Warner’s cemetery.
GIFFORD (Canfield) - William Gifford, youngest son of T.A.
Gifford, died last Monday after
a long illness.
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Monday, December 2
ROWLAND - On Dec. 1, Lovila Elizabeth, infant daughter of
Madison W. Rowland, age 5
months. Funeral from the parents residence, 200 Bay street
north, on Tuesday morning at
8:30, to the G.T.R. Stuart st. station. Internment at
Ridgeway. Friends will please accept this
intimation.
MASSIE - At Oakland Cal., U.S., on Friday November 22,
William Massie, formerly of this
city. Funeral yesterday afternoon.
NUGENT - Ben Nugent, the sailor asphyxiated in Chicago on
Saturday, is a Hamilton man,
and his brother has gone to Chicago to claim the body and
bring it to the city.
MORTIMER - On Saturday evening Alice Mortimer the 4-year-old
daughter of Joseph
Mortimer, stove-mounter, 4 Melbourne street, laid down on
the sofa to take a nap, having
complained of feeling drowsy. Shortly nine o’clock her
parents tried to awaken her and were
horrified to find that she was dead. A doctor was sent for,
but he could do nothing. The girl
had been about as usual during the day and her death was
quite unexpected.
HILL (Niagara Falls) Dec 1 - Andrew Gregory Hill, one of the
most prominent barristers of
the province of Ontario and police magistrate for the counties
of Welland and Lincoln, died at
his home, corner of Queen st. and Cataract avenue, last
evening, after a lingering illness. For
20 years of his life he had presided on the Canadian side of
the frontier as police magistrate,
besides conducting a lucrative at law. He was appointed to
his position by a special act of the
Ontario legislature, giving him special powers and
jurisdiction over the two counties along
the frontier. The deceased was born in Lincoln county, Sept.
23, 1834 near St. Catharines. He
studied law at the later place and was called to the bar in
1864. In Politics he was a Liberal
and contested the county in 1872 for member against Thomas
T. Street and was defeated. He
was a Mason and a past master of Merritt lodge, A.F. and
A.M. of Welland Ont. He was also
a member of the A.O.U.W.
GIBSON (London Ont) Dec.1 - Alice, the three-year-old
daughter of Mr. & Mrs. George F.
Gibson, 802 William street, died yesterday morning from the
effects of an accident the
previous night. The little one fell into a pail of hot water
in the kitchen and her back was
terribly scalded.
Medical skill was unavailing to save her. The bereaved
parents lost their only son 3 years ago.
COOPER (Toronto) Dec 2 - John Cooper, the 15-year-old lad
who on Wednesday fell into a
vat of boiling water at the William Davies Co’s packing
house, died of his injuries at 7:30
o’clock last evening at the general hospital. Cooper, who
lived at 52 Walton street, was
employed in upsetting the hogs when they had been killed
into the hot water vat, and was
pushed against by a live hog and thrown into the vat. He was
rescued as quickly as possible
but his injuries proved to be fatal. No inquest will be
held, the boy having stated that his
injuries were purely accidental.
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Tuesday, December 3
WEBBER - On Dec. 2, at his son’s residence, 173 Catharine
st. south, Thomas T. Webber, a
native of Devonshire, England, in the 70th year of his age.
Funeral from the above address.
Friends and acquaintances will please accept this
intimation.
Thomas T. Webber,
builder, who had been a resident of Hamilton for 45 years, died
yesterday age 70. He had been an invalid for nearly four
years. The funeral will take place tomorrow
at 2 o’clock
DAUSE - In this city on the 3rd inst., John, second son of
Debora Dause, aged 23 years.
Funeral from rear of 263 Bay st. north, on Wednesday, at
8:30 a.m. to Holy Sepulchre
cemetery.
VOELKER - Emma Voelker, wife of Chas. Farr, who had many
friends here, died at St.
Catharines on Wednesday last.
QUARRIER - The funeral of the late John Quarrier took place
in Dundas yesterday, and was
largely attended. Rev. Dr. Fletcher conducted the services.
The pall-bearers were, Gilbert
Quarrier, Robt. Smith, Geo. Milne, Geo. Stevenson, C.R.
Smith, Arthur Back.
WRIGHT - The memorial sermon of the late Elijah Wright, who
died last week, was preached
Sunday evening at Zion tabernacle by the Rev. Dr. Brethour,
pastor of the church. Deceased,
who died in his 82nd year, had been a member of the
Methodist church for over 50 years and
of Zion tabernacle since residing in Hamilton which was
almost eleven years. Deceased was
born in Oxford county, at the age of 10 came to South
Wentworth, where he resided over 50
years, thence he moved to Princeton for about 10 years and
later came to Hamilton to spend
his latter days. He was of the pioneer settlers in Wentworth
county and remembers seeing the
first brick house being built in Hamilton, and also remembered
the old log jail. A widow and
grown up family are left to mourn his loss.
COUBILLON (Windsor) Dec 2nd - The family of Albert
Coubillon, living about seven miles
west of here, in Sandwich township, were poisoned yesterday
by eating bologna sausage
supposed to been infected with hog cholera. Louisa, the
13-month-old child of the
Coubillon’s has died from the effects of the poison. Five
other members of the family were
seriously affected but will probably recover. Several other
persons residing in the same house
were taken ill, but their condition was not considered
serious.
JONES (Toronto) Dec 3 - At the instance of the
attorney-general’s department the body of
John Jones, a farmer living in the township of Clark, has
been exhumed and an inquest will be
held on Thursday next. Deceased died at the residence of his
brother, Henry Jones, on Sept.
24, at the age of fifty-seven. Dr. Aldrich attended him and
issued a burial certificate, giving
inflammation of the lungs and typhoid fever as the cause of
death. He left an estate of $22,000
to his brother and his family, and appointed Dr. Aldrich his
sole executor. After his death a
complaint was made to County Crown Attorney Kerr regarding
the circumstance surrounding
his last moments, and the crown officer, after consultation
with the department, ordered Dr.
Corbett, of Port Hope, to exhume the body and hold an
inquest.
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JONES (Norwood, Ont.) Dec. 2 - John Jones, a young farmer
residing in Asphodel township,
about four miles from Norwood, committed suicide yesterday
afternoon by hanging himself.
Disappointment in love is said to be the cause. He was about
27 years of age.
Wednesday, December 4
MORTIMER - The cause of death Annie Mortimer, who died at 4
Melbourne street on
Saturday evening while sleeping, was an abscess of the
brain. She had been suffering of
severe pains in the head for some time and Dr. Lafferty was
attending her.
SHAW (Toronto) Dec. 4 - Rev Dr. Shaw died at the residence
of his son-in-law Alexander
Mills, 481 Ontario street, last night, from the results of
injuries received in an accident which
occurred on Nov. 15 last. On the evening of that day the
reverend gentleman, who was an
ardent bicyclist, was wheeling across Yonge street, from
Richmond street, when her collided
with a south bound car. The fender prevented him from going
into the wheels, but pushed
along the ground for some distance. He was picked up and
carried into a store on Yonge
street, and after medical attendance was removed to the
address given. He received a severe
scalp wound, and was badly shaken up. From the first little
hope was held out.
COON (Smithville) - S. Coon’s oldest son’s funeral took
place Sunday afternoon at the
Presbyterian church.
KEATING - A fatal accident occurred at the T.H.& B yard
at Welland yesterday. Charles H.
Keating, a clerk employed by the Dominion Construction co.,
in trying his hand in coupling
cars, got his foot caught in the frog. He was unable to
extricate his foot and it and one of his
legs was run over. The leg was afterwards amputated below
the knee and the young man died
from the shock.
The deceased parents
live in Chicago, being neighbours of the family of J.N.Young. Mr.
Keating had been employed by the company but a short time,
being an assistant of D.A.
Young. It was no his duty to couple the cars, but when he
was not very busy he frequently
assisted the yard men.
Mr. Young accompanied
the body to Chicago.
BERNEY (Toronto) Dec. 4 - An elderly man named Thomas
Berney, while shovelling snow
at the Moss park rink yesterday morning, fell in an
apoplectic fit and Dr. Ball was called in to
attend him. Finding the man in a serious condition the
doctor had the police ambulance called,
and Berney was taken to the general hospital, where he
lingered until 2:15 o’clock, when he
expired without regaining consciousness. Deceased lived at
22 Milan street with his wife and
two grown-up sons.
Thursday, December 5
VERNON - In this city on Wednesday Dec. 4th, at 157
Wellington st. north, May, the only
daughter of Henry and Agnes Vernon, aged 5 years 6 months
and 10 days. Funeral took place
at 10 o’clock this morning.
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WEBBER- The funeral of the late Thomas T. Webber took place
yesterday afternoon from
the family residence, 173 Catharine street south, and was
largely attended. The casket was
covered with many beautiful floral designs, sent by
relatives and friends of the deceased. Rev.
Mr. MacKenzie, of the Christian Workers, officiated, the
following acted by pall-bearers,
Robert Griffith, George LeRiche, Samuel Arthur, Jas.
Matthews, John Howard, and William
Howard.
WARNICA (Barrie, Ont.) Dec. 4 - On Monday evening, Albert
Warnica and his son, Dalton,
left their homes in Allendale to bring a trunk across the
bay to Barrie. Before leaving home
Mr. Warnica told his wife if it became stormy they would
remain in Barrie until Tuesday.
About an hour after they left a heavy wind and snowstorm
came up and continued until dark.
It is supposed the boat became unmanageable with the weight
of the trunk and capsized.
When they did not return home Tuesday, friends drove to
Barrie and learned they did not
reach here. A searching party started down the bay this
morning and found the boat and trunk
about two miles from where the unfortunate men had commenced
their journey. The bodies
were found late this afternoon, opposite Glenallen. They
were close together, and had
evidently been helping each other when they perished.
PROWDEY (Kingston, Ont.) Dec. 4 - William Prowdey, aged 40,
a farm labourer, was
thrown from a rig near Kingston Mills last night, his skull
being fractured, and he died in the
general hospital this morning.
RANDALL (Ottawa) Dec.4 - Ottawa has lost another of its
oldest citizens in the person of W.
Randall, who died at his residence on Jane street, in his
70th year.
Friday December 6
KING - In this city on Dec. 3rd, George King, a native of
Nova Scotia, age 54 years. Funeral
from his late residence, 252 Emerald st. north, on Sunday at
3 o’clock p.m. Friends will
please accept this intimation.
MEEHAN - In this city on the 6th inst., Katie Lena Meehan,
second daughter of Mrs. Mary
Meehan. Funeral Sunday at 2:30 from 63 Locomotive street to
St. Mary’s Cathedral, thence to
Holy Sepulchre Cemetery. Friends and acquaintances will
please accept this intimation.
LUEBKE- At No. 97 Smith avenue, on Friday, Dec. 6th, 1895,
Alfred Charles, infant son of
Emma and Charles Luebke, aged 4 months. Funeral Sunday at 2
p.m. Friends will please
accept this intimation.
SHAW - The remains of the Rev. Dr. Shaw, assistant secretary
of the Methodist Board of
Missions were interred yesterday in Mount Pleasant cemetery,
Toronto, in the presence of a
large number of friends.
HAAKE (Markham, Ont.) Dec. 5 - The death of George Haake,
farmer, which occurred at the
Wellington hotel hereon Tuesday, from peritonitis, was
investigated here today by Coroner
Doherty and a jury, the result of greatly exaggerated
reports concerning a dispute the
deceased engaged in a week previously - the day his sickness
commenced - in which it was
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alleged that he had been kicked several times in the body,
sustaining injuries which caused his
death. After hearing the evidence of several witnesses, and
of Dr. Fierheller, the attending
physician, the jury decided there was no evidence pointing
to the fact that death was in any
way attributable to the violence, and rendered a verdict in
accordance therewith.
WARK- (St. Thomas) Dec. 5- At noon to-day a sad death
occurred at Simcoe, a young man
named Wm Wark dying from the effects of an overdose of chloral.
He worked for Mr.
Lawson, harness maker, this morning came down to work as
usual, but did not appear to be
well. He took a dose of medicine and about one and a half
hours afterwards took another. For
an hour he sat in a drowsy condition on one of the horses in
the shop, when he suddenly fell
over and when medical help arrived life was pronounced
extinct.
Dr. Hayes, coroner,
examined the contents of the bottle from which deceased drank and
pronounced them to be chloral. An inquest will be held. Wark
was 27 years old, unmarried
and was the son of Mr. Wark of Carl & Wark implement
dealers. He had been in ill-health
and it is supposed had resorted to chloral and accidentally
took an overdose.
STEELE (Buffalo) Dec. 5 - Joseph Steele, aged 21, well
connected and educated, an hotel
clerk by occupation, ruined by drink, died at the
Penitentiary to-day. He was a native of
Canada.
Saturday, December 7
KING - In this city on Dec. 3rd, George King a native of
Nova Scotia, age 54 years. Funeral
from his late residence, 252 Emerald st. north, on Sunday at
3 o’clock p.m. Friends will
please accept this intimation.
CULLEN (London) Dec 6th - After an illness of eight weeks
the Rev. Thomas Cullen, pastor
of the Askin street Methodist church, died to-night. His
daughter Lily died about two weeks
ago of typhoid fever, and another daughter is seriously ill
of the same malady, which
prostrated nearly the entire family two months ago. Mr.
Cullen who was conscious to the last,
was unaware of his daughter’s death until within of his own
demise. Mr. Cullen is the third
Methodist clergyman to die in this city within three years.
HILSON (Milton, Ont.) Dec. 6 - Mrs. Thomas Hilson of
Nassagaweya, died, it is alleged,
from blood poisoning, caused by using instruments to produce
abortion. She was about 46
years of age and left a family of eleven children, some of
whom are grown up. Dr. Robertson,
coroner, opened an inquest at Campbellville. After the body
had been viewed by the jury the
proceedings were adjourned until today.
Monday December 9
BEAVER - In this city, at 265 York street, on the 8th inst.,
Eliza Jane Beaver, wife of the late
Clark Beaver, of Poughkeepsie N.Y. Funeral at Poughkeepsie
N.Y.
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FRANCIS - On Saturday afternoon, Rev. W.S. Jamieson, of the
Simcoe street Methodist
church, was requested to go to the house of George Francis,
weaver, for 41 Simcoe street east,
to christen a child. The people were not members of his
congregation, but he complied. The
mother was confined to her room, having been ill since her
accouchement a month ago, and
the ceremony was held in her bedroom. Mr. Francis brought in
the child and the baptism
service was commenced, but as Rev. Mr. Jamieson began to
read the first few lines of the
service, the mother suddenly through up her arms and fell
back with a moan.
“She is dying”
exclaimed the minister and the ceremony was stopped, while messengers
were dispatched for medical aid. Before the doctors arrived,
however, Mrs. Francis was dead,
having never recovered consciousness. Death came with
terrible unexpectedness, although
she had been ill she had seemed much better previously, and
such a ghastly interruption of the
ceremony was not anticipated.
Tuesday December 10
NESBITT - Squire John W. Nesbitt, father of J.W. Nesbitt,
Q.C., of this city, died at
Woodstock yesterday, aged 77. He had been a resident of
Oxford county for exactly for a half
a century, was an enthusiastic Conservative and a life long
friend of Sir John Macdonald.
MARSHALL (Orillia) Dec. 9 - Robert Marshall, of this town,
formerly bartender at the Grand
Central hotel for several years, committed suicide by
shooting himself through the head. It is
supposed to have happened on Saturday evening, as that was
the last time he was seen alive.
He had been out of employment for some time and became
despondent. His wife is visiting in
Mara for a few days, and on her return home found the house closed
up. She forced open the
door, and was horrified to find her husband dead, sitting in
a chair, with hie head lying on the
table in a pool of blood, and a revolver beside him.
Marshall leaves a widow and a baby a few
months old.
LENNOX (Welland) Dec.9 - The citizens of Welland were
shocked to hear of the death of
John Lennox, which occurred here this afternoon. Although
quite ill for a few days, it was not
expected his illness would terminate fatally. Deceased held
the position of mathematical
master in Welland high school for seven years and was
universally respected and held in high
esteem both by his students and the public. He leaves a wife
and two sons. The interment
takes place on Thursday.
DUNN (Paris) Dec. 9 - Two children of Thos. Dunn a leading
citizen, have died of diphtheria,
one on Saturday evening, a boy age 4 and the other last
evening, a boy of 18 months. Other
members of the family may die.
HUTCHISON (Birk Falls) Dec. 9 - A young man named David
Hutchison about nineteen or
twenty years of age, from Trenton Ont. was accidentally shot
through the hip, the shot
remaining in the lower part of the body, by a man named
Descheau near Dufferin Bridge at 3
p.m. yesterday. The doctor was called in but could not find
the shot. Hutchison remained
conscious until he died about 9:30 this morning.
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ARN (Brigden) Dec. 9 - George Arn, son of Cornelius Arn,
living two miles east of here was
found dead about 4 o’clock this afternoon in the woods on
their farm. He left the house after
dinner to do some chopping, taking his gun along. It is
supposed the gun accidentally went off
when Mr. Arn was getting over a fence, killing him
instantly.
Wednesday December 11
MCLEOD - Suddenly in this city, on the 10th inst., Gilbert
McLeod, late of Islay, Argylshire,
Scotland, aged 50 years. Funeral from his late residence
near the foot of Wentworth st. on
Thursday at 1:30 p.m. Friend please accept this intimation.
While Gilbert McLeod
market gardener, was assisting his son in loading his wagon with
fertilizer at Lawry’s pork factory on Wentworth street north
this morning, he turned pale and
fell to the ground, and died before medical aid could be
summoned. He never spoke after he
fell. It is believed that Mr. McLeod death was due to
neuralgia of the heart. For two weeks
past he had been complained of neuralgic pains was able to
do his work as usual.
The deceased was born
in Islay, Argyleshire, Scotland, about 50 years ago. He came to
Hamilton twenty years ago. He lived at the foot of Wentworth
st. He leaves a widow and nine
children.
Mr. McLeod was an
ex-president of the Gaelic Society and had promised to instal the new
officers in a few days. He will be buried to-morrow.
HUTCHISON (Niagara) - Dec. 10 - Hugh Hutchison, aged 63, a
retired farmer of means, who
had boarded at Longs Hotel here for the past 15 years,
committed suicide in the hotel stables
about .......o’clock this afternoon by shooting himself. No
cause can be assigned except a
temporary insanity due to illness.
LEARY (Brampton, Ont.) Dec. 10 - yesterday afternoon John S.
Leary, Britannia, was kicked
in the abdomen by a horse, from the effects of which he died
at four o’clock this afternoon.
Mr. Leary was a highly respected and wealthy farmer and his
sudden death has shocked the
whole countryside. Several years ago his son was killed by
falling off a load of hay on almost
the same spot that he received the fatal kick that caused
his own death.
FORSYTH (Hagersville) - After a several illness of six
months, James Forsyth died at his
home near Cheapside on Saturday last.
SIMON (Hagersville) - James W. Simon, of Tillsonburg: J.B.
Park, of Niagara Falls; John
Montgomery and James Park, were in town Tuesday attending
the funeral of Master Louis
Simon, second son of John Simon. The funeral service was
held in the Methodist church and
was largely attended.
Thursday December 12
HUTTY - In this city on Dec. 12, Nettie Langrill, beloved
wife of Frederick Hutty, aged 22
years. Funeral from his mother’s residence 252 Caroline
street south, on Saturday at 3:30
p.m. Friends will please accept this intimation.
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TAUGHER (Teeswater Ont.) Dec. 12 - A sad accident occurred
yesterday whereby James
Taugher, age 15, son of John Taugher, six miles south of
Teeswater lost his life. The
unfortunate young man and his brother were working in a
swamp taking out wood, and they
had taken a gun with them to shoot rabbits in case they saw
any. A rabbit suddenly appeared
while they were working and both made a rush for the gun,
which, by some means had been
left cocked. The oldest brother got the gun, and in this
hurry touched the trigger, discharging
the contents into the neck of his brother James. The only
words spoken by the wounded boy
were “take me home”, when he dropped dead.
ROURKE (Toronto) Dec. 12 - Mrs. Johanna Rourke, aged sixty
years, died at the House of
Providence yesterday morning from pneumonia. In connection
with her case there came to
light the terrible story of destitution and hardship.
The unfortunate was
the wife of Thomas Rourke, and express man, who used to live on Jane
street near Louisa street at Toronto Junction. Last spring
he was placed on trial for a criminal
assault upon a young girl. The evidence was pretty
conclusive against him. His wife, a “grey
haired” quiet little woman, took the stand in his defence
and swore that her husband had
always been good and kind to her. She could not believe the
awful story told about him. They
lived alone on Jane street. Their children were all dead and
he was her sole support. Rourke
was convicted by a jury and sentenced to ten years in the
penitentiary.
On Wednesday last
week she locked up her house and did not visit the neighbours anymore.
They called at the house but failed to secure admission.
They went to the window of her
bedroom and peering in they saw her form on the bed. The
window was broken and when
they entered they found her in an unconscious condition. The
house was cold there being no
fire. There was no food in the house.
Word was immediately
conveyed to Dr. Cotton, who, upon his arrival, decided to have her
removed to the House of Providence. She never rallied and
died at that institution yesterday
from pneumonia caused by cold, hunger, and exposure.
MCCALLUM (Windsor) Dec. 11 - James McCallum, editor and
proprietor of the Windsor
Times, died at St. Mary’s hospital, Detroit, at five o’clock
this morning of a complication of
diseases. He had been a resident of Windsor for about ten
years. He was a member of the
Oddfellows, Workman, and other friendly societies. He leaves
a widow and three small
children, two girls and a boy, the eldest of whom is only
six years of age.
FLEVARY (Ottawa) Dec. 11 - A dose of carbolic acid ended the
life of Alexander Flevary
this morning. In company with a friend, Flevary entered the
saloon at the corner of Panet and
St. Catharines streets, kept by F.A. Chagnon, and asked for
a room. They were shown one and
occupied for a short time, during which they disposed of
several drinks. About 11 o’clock
Flevary left the room and went to another, returning shortly
afterwards. The bartender, a
moment after, heard Flevary’s friend ask “what is the matter
with you? Are you sick?” and
heard a noise as if someone was choking. He immediately ran
into the room and saw Flevary
fall to the floor and a bottle roll from his pocket.
“He has poisoned
himself,” said his friend, “ring for the ambulance”
The bartender
telephone for the Notre Dame ambulance. Upon its arrival Flevary was
removed to the hospital in a state of unconsciousness and he
died shortly after admittance.
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ESFORD (Buffalo) Dec. 11 - John Esford, an iron worker
employed on the Ellicott square
building, fell from the ninth story of the building to the
ground floor and died almost
immediately. Esford has resided here for some years but was
a native of the province of
Ontario, his family belonging in the vicinity of Kingston
Ont.
KILPATRICK (Elora) Dec. 11 - Hugh Kilpatrick one of Elora’s
oldest and most respected
citizens lived in one of the pretty residences of the town.
He is about 75 years of age.
Yesterday a brother of Mr. Kilpatrick called at the house
but could not gain admittance. Mr.
Black a grocer in the town and a brother of Mrs. Kilpatrick
called but receiving no answer
became alarmed and forced an entrance by the back door. On a
bed in the room the couple
usually occupied found the dead body of Mr. Kilpatrick and
Mrs. Kilpatrick in an
unconscious condition. Dr. Nairn was soon in attendance and
did all in his power to restore
Mrs. Kilpatrick calling in to assist him Dr. Robertson and
Dr. Paget and at a late hour last
night the medical men gave it as their opinion that she will
recover.
The doctors were
satisfied that the death of Mr. Kilpatrick was due to an escape of gas from
the stove, and he had been dead since late on Monday night
or early on Tuesday morning.
Deceased and his
wife, who have resided in the town and vicinity for many years, enjoyed
the respect and esteem of the whole community. An inquest
may be held although it is not
probable.
PEER - (Fulton) - The infant child of E. Peer died very
suddenly. Its remains were interred in
the Church of England cemetery.
Friday December 13
STEVENS - At 36 Elgin street on Dec. 12, John Arthur,
youngest son of Thos. and Sarah
Stevens, aged 1 year, 3 months and 2 days. Funeral on Sunday
Dec. 15 and 2 p.m. Friends
will please accept this intimation
HOLTON - On December 13, at his parents residence King
street east, Warren Charles, infant
son of William A. and Frances Holton, aged 1 year and 9
months. Funeral Saturday at 3 p.m.
MCLEOD - The funeral of the late Gilbert McLeod past chief
of the Hamilton Gaelic Society,
took place yesterday afternoon, it was largely attended.
Among those present were the
officers of the society and a number of members of St.
Andrews society. The pall-bearers:
Duncan and Malcolm McLeod, brothers of the deceased, his two
sons, A.D. and John Ewing
and Mr. Robertson. Rev. Mr. Murray conducted the services at
the house, and Rev. Dr. Fraser
officiated at the grave.
SMITH - A coloured woman named Emily Smith died at St.
Catharines yesterday. There is
conclusive evidence that she was over 100 years old.
SAGER - (St. George) Mrs. Mal Sager died on Thursday
afternoon. She had been sick for
many months.
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Saturday December 14
TRUMAN - In this city on Dec. 14, Minetta, infant daughter
of George and Mary A. Truman,
aged 1 year and eleven months. Funeral to-morrow Sunday at 3
p.m. from 302 King street
east. Friends will please accept this intimation.
KENNEY- On the 13th inst. at his late residence, Vineyard
hotel, Waterdown road, James A.
Kenny, aged 62 years. Funeral on Sunday at 2 p.m. Friends
and acquaintances will please
accept this intimation.
James A. Kenny , who
for many years kept a hotel on the Plains road, but had latterly
resided on the Waterdown road, died yesterday aged 62.
COLLINSON - At “The Grange” near Burlington at midnight
a.m., Dec. 14, Elizabeth
(Bessie) Hough, relict of the late John Collinson in her
85th year. Yorkshire papers please
copy. Funeral on Tuesday at 2 o’clock.
CARTER (Toronto) Dec. 14 - Yesterday morning, between nine
and ten o’clock, Arthur
Carter, a former employee of the Massey-Harris company,
dropped into Weese’s carriage
shop, corner of Tecumseh street and Mitchell avenue, to have
a friendly chat with the
proprietor. A few minutes after his arrival he complained of
a pain in the region of his heart,
and was given a chair, in which he sat for a moment, when he
suddenly dropped forward on
the florr, and before medical aid could be summoned, he
expired.
Monday, December 16
CLARKE - In this city on Dec. 15th, Benjamin Clarke, aged 52
years. Funeral from 153 James
street south, on Tuesday afternoon at 2 p.m. Friends and
acquaintances are respectively
invited to attend. Simcoe papers please copy.
Benjamin Clarke, who
was injured during the tearing down of a building on the line of the
T.H. and B. on Dec. 3, died at the city hospital at midnight
last night. Mr. Clarke had his
ankle fractured. On Thursday it was deemed advisable to
amputate the leg just above the
fracture. The patient failed to survive the shock.
The deceased came to
Hamilton from Simcoe. He had been out of work for some time and
had just started work the day he met with the accident. He
was fifty-two years of age. He
leaves a widow, five daughters and one son.
FOX (Gravenhurst Ont.) Dec. 15 - On Saturday was buried at
Gravenhurst Catholic cemetery
Dr. Fox, dentist and physician, one of the most
extraordinary men of the times, who, between
thirty and forty years ago, held a responsible position in
the dental profession in London,
England and by whose persistent efforts the profession
became a corporate body, and for
which he received a testimonial signed by the whole of the
leading dentist in Great Britain,
accompanied with a purse of one hundred guineas.
Some fifteen years
ago, he came to this country with his son and a female assistant, and
took up free grant land in the township of Wood, trying his
hand at farming, but his skill as a
dentist becoming known, his services were sought after by a
large number of people in the
town, which ultimately necessitated his removal to
Gravenhurst.
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Shortly after, he
received the honorary diploma of physician, and lately he bought the old
Campbell property on Royal street, which he named after the
old family residence in London,
“Holland House”. His first wife did not accompany him to
Canada and on her death a few
years back he married the assistant that came out with him,
and for a few years they lived
happily together. Last winter, having administered to
herself an overdose of chloroform to
relieve her pain, she died, and, singularly, on Wednesday
last, Dr. Fox died from a similar
cause: aged 66 years.
CURRIE - Claude V. Currie, a farmer of Neepawa, was fatally
wounded on Saturday while
cleaning his rifle.
CHAUNCEY (Markham Ont) Dec. 15 - G.B. Chauncey, postmaster
of Markham died on
Saturday morning after a lingering illness. The deceased,
who was in his forty seventh year,
was a native of St. John’s Nfld. He had been a resident of
this village for more than fourteen
years and had occupied the position of postmaster for about
ten years.
KENNY - The funeral of the late James A. Kenny, of the
Vineyard Hotel, Waterdown road,
took place yesterday, and a long cortege followed the
remains to St. Matthews Churchyard on
Burlington plains. The pallbearers were: David Blain, David
Fonger, John Raspberry, John
R. Hopkins, Robert Sinclair, and David English. Rev. Mr.
Courtney officiated.
The deceased was the
son of the late Aaron Kenny, of Trafalgar, one of the U.E.L. stock
and was born in that township 62 years ago. He kept a hotel
on Plains road for a number of
years, .but latterly was the proprietor of the Vineyard on
the Waterdown road. He leaves a
widow, three sons - James, and Robert Kenny, of Detroit, and
Peter N. Kenny, of Hamilton.
Mrs. Thomas Gilland, of Buffalo, a sister of the deceased,
was here to attend the funeral.
Tuesday, December 17
EDWARDS (Merriton Ont.) - Dec. 17 - Richard Edwards,
employed in the Canadian cotton
mills, was drowned in the old Welland canal here last night.
He had been at the depot to meet
a lady relative, who, however, did not arrive on the train,
and he was crossing the lock gate on
his way home, when he fell into the canal, some 15 feet
below the walk. His hat was seen on
the ice by a passer-by, and a search was made for his body.
It was recovered at 1 a.m.
Deceased was highly esteemed in the community, and leaves a
widow and five small children.
SAGER (Troy) - Mrs. Malachi Sager died on Thursday Dec. 12
after a long and painful
illness, in the fifty-third year of her age. She was widely
known and very highly respected.
Her geniality and kindness of heart made her a great
favorite in social circles. Her husband
and four children survive her. The funeral took place on
Saturday and was very largely
attended.
GORDON (Tweed Ont.) Dec. 16 - Mrs. Robert Gordon dropped dead
on the street here this
evening while talking to her son. Robert Gordon is the
manager of the banking house of
Murphy, Gordon & Co. here.
MORPHY (Belleville Ont.) Dec. 17 - A death of remarkable
suddenness occurred at Hotel
Quinte yesterday. A lady boarding at the hotel in attempting
to get into a closet on the second
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flat, found a man lying on the floor. She at once gave the
alarm and he was to be found to be
Arthur Morphy of Napanee. He was at once taken to his room
and Drs. McColl and Youker
summoned. They worked at him for over two hours in an effort
to restore consciousness, but
without success. The unfortunate man by some means fell and
his head and neck were twisted
so as to impede the entrance of air to his lungs. The
deceased friends in Napanee were
notified of his untimely end, and will arrive on the evening
train to take charge of the remains.
No inquest will be held.
The above dispatch
will be read with sorrow by the many Toronto people to whom Arthur
Morphy was well known. He was a son of the late Henry
Morphy, of Morphy & Morphy, in
their day one of the legal firms of this city. Arthur was
born in Toronto about 35 years ago,
was educated here, entered his father’s office and in due
time was admitted to the bar.
MONTGOMERY - Reeve Montgomery of Rowdon, died at Belleville.
PETTIT - Mrs. Mary Pettit, of Paris Ont, died suddenly at
midnight, rupturing a blood vessel
in a fit of coughing.
SCHULTE - Rev. John Schulte, professor of German and Italian
at Alma college, St. Thomas,
died suddenly at Bismarck, where he was conducting Sunday
services.
SAVIGNY (Fonthill) - Miss Annie Savigny died on Sunday
evening after a long illness.
Funeral on Wednesday.
Wednesday, December 18
NOTT - In this city on the 18th Elizabeth Nott, aged 54.
Funeral will leave the residence of
her son-in-law, Edward Callahan, 18 Albert road on Thursday
afternoon at 3 o’clock. Friends
and acquaintances will please accept this intimation.
WOODLEY - In this city on the 17th inst., Elizabeth, beloved
wife of Ernest Woodley, aged
28 years. Funeral from her late residence, 186 Market
street, on Thursday at 2 p.m. Friends
and acquaintances will please accept this intimation.
Thursday December 19
DUNSMORE - On Dec. 19th, at 174 Queen st. south, Joseph S.
Dunsmore 5th, son of Wm. S.
Dunsmore, aged 9 years. Funeral from above address on
Saturday 21st, inst. at 3:30 p.m.
ALLEN (Allan)- David Allen, an old resident of Guelph, died
yesterday. He was 88 years of
age.
The most striking
figure in Guelph’s early history passed away from the scene of his
labours at noon today in the person of David Allan. With his
father, the late William Allan,
deceased came to Guelph in 1832. Mr. Allan was one of the
oldest residents of Guelph, and
probably the oldest man in it, being 88 years of age at the
time of his death. He was
personally a fine old gentleman, free, warm-hearted,
generous and upright.
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SEANOR - A young woman named Mrs. Mary A. Seanor, daughter
of Mrs. O’Neil, 57
McCauley street, in this city, committed suicide at
Tonawanda N.Y. on Tuesday by taking
carbolic acid. She had been living for some years in Detroit
and Tonawanda.
GUNSTON (Mountsbersg) Mrs. Thos. Gunston, who had been
confined in a Guelph hospital
died at that institution. Deceased was a daughter of Wm.
Emmans, Mountsberg, as was much
esteemed by her friends. The remains was followed by a large
cortege to the Methodist
cemetery where they were interred.
Friday, December 20
ALEXANDER - Rev. Thomas Alexander, the oldest Presbyterian
minister in Canada, died at
Brantford, aged 91 years.
MALONE (Markham) Dec. 19 - A very sad fatality occurred here
last night when an old
woman named Nancy Malone was burned in her home. Mrs.
Malone, who was a well-known
character of this neighbourhood was seen on Main street
about 4:30 o’clock evidently under
the influence of liquor. That was the last seen of her
alive. About 9:30 o’clock the house on
James alley, in which she lived alone, was found to be on
fire.
The alarm was
immediately sounded and the brigade responded promptly. They found the
interior of the house burning fiercely and could see the
body of Mrs Malone on the floor. The
fire was soon extinguished but when the body was taken out
it was found that life was extinct.
It is supposed that when she went to get into bed she in
some way upset the lamp. The floor
was burned through where the lamp was found.
Saturday, December 21
MURRAY - At Arlo house, Hamilton, on the 20th inst., Mary
Fraser, wife of Alexander
Murray. Funeral private. Kindly omit flowers.
Mrs. Murray, wife of
A. Murray, 206 Main street west, died last evening after a lengthy
illness. The deceased leaves two sons and two daughters -
John Murray, A. Murray jr., Mrs .
C. J. Jones. The funeral will take place to-morrow.
MUNRO - At her late residence , No. 90 Guise street, on
Saturday, 21st Dec.,1895, Mary
Munro, eldest daughter of the late John Munro and sister of
Colin Munro, Murray st. east.
Funeral Monday at 2:30 p.m. Friends will please accept this
intimation.
HUTTON - In this city at 179 Cannon east, on Dec. 21, John
Milford, son of John Hutton,
aged 9 months and 3 weeks. Funeral will take place from
above address Sunday afternoon at
2:00 o’clock.
FLUKE - Miss Fluke, a school teacher, was drowned while
skating at Desert lake in
Frontenac county.
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DAVIS (Buffalo) Dec. 20 - A woman about forty years of age
who was known as Mrs. Davis
died of heart disease last night in furnished rooms at No.
995 Fillmore avenue. Mrs Davis was
born in Canada. She had no friends or relatives in this city
so the body was taken to the
morgue.
KAY (Paris, Ont.) Dec. 20 - A young lad named Ballantyne
Kay, about 10 years of age, eldest
son of D.A. Kay, while playing on the banks of the river on
Main street this afternoon, missed
his footing, fell into the river and was drowned
MORPHY (Grimsby, Ont. ) G.W. Myer was in Toronto on
Wednesday attending the funeral
of his brother-in-law, A. Morphy.
Monday, December 23
ENGLISH - In this city, at midnight on Saturday, Dec. 21,
1895, Maria Freed, wife of
Ephriam Land English, of Waterdown, Ont., aged 55 years and
10 months. Funeral from the
residence of Mr. Grossman, West ave. south, Tuesday, 24th
inst. at 2 p.m. Interment at
Hamilton cemetery. Friends will please accept this
intimation.
JACKSON - In this city on Dec. 23, Ellen, the wife of Robert
Jackson, aged 67, a native of
Glasgow Scotland. Funeral from her late residence, 325 John
street north, at 2:30 p.m., Dec.
24. Friends and acquaintances will please accept this
intimation. Glasgow papers please copy.
Mrs. Robt. Jackson,
who has been ailing for the last five months, passed away peacefully
yesterday at the residence of her son, Robert Jackson, 325
John street north. The deceased
came from Glasgow, Scotland 23 years ago, and had been a
resident of Hamilton and vicinity
ever since. She leaves a grown-up family of five daughters
and one son.
Tuesday, December 24
STEVENSON - On the morning of the 24th, Isabella Doylan,
daughter of Thos. Stevenson,
harnessmaker, 122 John street south, aged 2 months and 11
days. Funeral at 4 p.m. on the
25th. Private.
SMITH - At Danbury, Conn., on Dec. 23, Mary Smith , relict
of the late George Smith, aged
70 years. Funeral from her son’s residence, 70 Wentworth
street north, on Thursday afternoon
at 1:30 o’clock. Friends and acquaintances will please
accept this intimation.
Thursday, December 26
SHEA - In this city on Dec. 24th, Mary, wife of Thomas Shea,
in her 75th year. Funeral from
her late residence, 211 George street on Friday at 2 p.m. to
St. Joseph’s church, thence to
Holy Sepulchre cemetery.
USHER - In this city, on the 24th inst. Sarah Usher, at the
residence of C.E. Newberry, 66
Hess st. south. Funeral Friday, 27th inst. at 2:30 p.m.
Friends will please omit flowers.
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HOLMSTED (Dundas) - Mrs. Holmsted, mother of F. W. Holmsted,
manager of the Bank of
Commerce here, died at her residence in Toronto on Thursday
last. The old lady was in her
83rd year.
HUNT - A most melancholy and fatal accident occurred at the
Stuart street station yard at the
close of Christmas day, the victim being George Hunt, night
station agent. About 10:40, Hunt,
who besides being station agent has charge of the freight
yard, walked from the station
platform down into the freight yard to a yard engine. There
he gave some orders to the
engineer and started on westward in the centre of the
tracks. He had no light with him and the
night being very dark , the engineer did not see him. The
first intimation the men on the
locomotive had that anything was wrong was when Hunt cried
out and the big wheels jolted
over his body. The unfortunate fellow must have thought that
he was walking beside the
tracks instead of between them.
When the body was
picked up, it was seen that both legs were terribly crushed and his head
badly bruised. P.C. Fenton removed him to the hospital in
the ambulance and Drs. White and
Mackelean attended him. But their efforts were to no avail
for he died about fifteen minutes
after reaching the hospital.
Hunt was an unmarried
man , about 28 years of age and lived with his aunt on Murray
street. His parents live at Branchton. He had ben at the
Stuart street station for about six years
and was highly regarded by his employers and the men
generally. About three weeks ago he
joined St. John’s lodge A.F. & A.M.
Coroner White ordered
an inquest on the body and at 11:30 T.C. Fenton called the jurymen
together to view the remains at the morgue. The inquest was
then adjourned till Monday
evening next at the city hospital.
KIEVELL - On Dec 18, at Staten Island, New York, after a
long and painful illness, Charles,
youngest son of James Kievell, formerly of Hamilton.
SAVIGNY (Fonthill) - Great inconvenience and delay was
caused at the funeral of Miss A.
Savigny on account of the Rev. G. Johnstone mistaking the
day, thinking it was Thursday
instead of Wednesday. Rev. J.H. Kennedy, Methodist minister,
assisted by Rev. W. Dolmas
of the Baptist church, performed the ceremony.
MOORE (Burford, Ont.) Dec. 25 - This morning the body of
Albert Moore, of Harley, was
found dead lying in a railway culvert, about a mile west of
Burford station. It is supposed the
unfortunate man had stated to walk home last night by the
track and was struck by a passing
train. The coroner was summoned but did not consider an
inquest necessary.
MCGUIRE (Orangeville, Ont.) Dec 25 - To-day was to have been
one of joy and happiness at
the residence of Mrs. McGuire sr., on East Broadway. Her
sons, Wm. McGuire of the
Tillsonburg Liberal, and J.B. McGuire, manager of Mr.
Marter’s store of Meaford and B.
McGuire of the Banner, of this town with their wives and
families, were all here to spend
Christmas with their mother and sisters. Ernest, the
youngest son, was to be home from
Ottawa to join the family and a few days ago he had a severe
attack of inflammation and his
mother left here on Saturday evening to attend his bedside.
This morning the family here
received a message acquainting them of his death. Deceased
was 23 years old, and was a
player in the Dufferin lacrosse club.
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WHITELAW - William Whitelaw, an energetic and successful
farmer of Guelph township,
died on Monday in his 80th year. He was a Reformer in
politics and was for years convener of
the South Wellington Reform association.
Friday, December 27
MACNAB - In this city on Thursday, 26th inst. Hannah Macey
MacNab, last surviving sister
of the late Sir Allan Napier MacNab, in the 94th year of her
age. Funeral on Saturday at 3 p.m.
from Christ Church Cathedral. No flowers.
Miss Hannah Macey
MacNab, the last surviving sister of Sir Allan MacNab died yesterday
at the residence of her niece, Mrs C. J. Harvey, 12 Barton
street west. Eight weeks ago she
had the misfortune to fall and break her hip, and she never
recovered from the accident.
Previous to that she was in good health, and frequently
attended of Christ Church cathedral of
which she was the oldest member.
The deceased was born
at sea, in 1802, and had been a residence of Hamilton for many
years. During Sir Allan MacNab’s lifetime, she lived at
Dundurn castle. For a number of
years she had lived with Mrs. Harvey.
The funeral will take
place from Christ Church cathedral to-morrow. Interment will be in
Hamilton cemetery, next to the grave of the deceased’s
sister, Mrs. Hatt. Sir Allan MacNab
and his wife were buried at Dundurn park.
MACLELLAN - At St. Helens, Blairgowrie, Scotland, on Dec.
11, in his 74th year, John
McLellan of 12 Newton Place, Glasgow.
CREEN - In this city at midnight, on Thursday Dec. 26, 1895,
John Creen in his 76th year.
Funeral from his late residence, 542 Main street east, on
Sunday at 10:30 a.m. to Millgrove
cemetery.
SCOTT - In this city in 26th inst. the Rev. John Scott, D.D.
in his 79th year. Funeral to-morrow
(Saturday) at 8:30 a.m. from his late residence 109 George
street to G.T.R. station.
PACE (St. George) - John Pace, an old resident of this
village, died last Monday of after a
long and painful illness. He was buried on Tuesday in the
Baptist cemetery. He leaves a
widow, three sons and two daughters.
WELLS (St. George) - The infant child of William Wells died
on Christmas day and was
buried in the Baptist cemetery on Thursday.
MCCAFFREY (Windsor) Dec. 26 - A young man named McCaffrey
was killed on the Lake
Erie road last night by the 6 o’clock train going south
while walking on the track. Coroner
Casgrain will hold an inquest. McCaffrey was 25 years of age
and unmarried. He was
employed at Walker’s camp in Colchester.
FOLGER (Kingston) Dec. 26 - Mrs. F.A. Folger, sr., aged 80
years, died to-day from heart
disease. She was mother of Henry, Benjamin and F.A. Folger
of this city. Deceased was a
niece of Senator Jacob Collamer, once post-master general of
the United States.
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CARNEY (Windsor, Ont.) Dec. 26 - There is a sad story in
connection with the death of Miss
Edythe Carney, which took place two days ago. She had been
assisting her mother in nursing
Charles Kent, her fiancée, when he was lying ill with
typhoid fever at his hotel. The loving
ministrations of the two ladies undoubtedly saved the young
man’s life. When Miss Carney
fell ill, Mr. Carney was moved to the Hotel Dieu, as Mrs.
Carney was needed at her
daughter’s bedside. He was kept in ignorance of the serious
nature of her illness until a day or
two before she died , when she became conscious and asked to
see him. He was brought to the
house but the exertion of being moved had exhausted him and
it was some time before he
recovered. Miss Carney then became unconscious again and she
remained so until she died.
BREEN (Tweed) Dec. 26 - Three lads, one of whom was Freddie
Breen, about 12 years of
age, went skating on the lake near here to-day. Breen broke
through the ice and was drowned.
A rescuing party endeavoured to recover the body, but were
unable to find it.
Saturday, December 28,
CREEN - In this city at midnight on Thursday Dec. 26, 1895,
John Creen, in his 70th year.
Funeral from his late residence, 842 Main street east on
Sunday at 10:30 a.m. to Millgrove
cemetery.
STRATHY - At 341 James st. south, on Friday 27th inst. Ada
Kord, infant daughter of Stuart
and Elizabeth Strathy.
WINN - At Altamawha, North Carolina, Tillie Eccelstone, the
beloved wife of W. J. Winn
and eldest daughter of James and Sarah Eccelstone. The
funeral will take place from her
father’s residence 148 Victoria ave. n. on Sunday the 29th
inst. at 2:30 p.m. Friends and
acquaintances will please accept this intimation.
The remains of Mrs.
W.J. Winn eldest daughter of James Ecclestone, 148 Victoria avenue
north, will arrive here this afternoon from Altamawha, North
Carolina, for burial. The funeral
will take place at 2:30 tomorrow afternoon. Mrs. Winn died
nearly a year ago but her body
was embalmed and placed in a ------ vault until it could be
------------ southern railways -------
----- during the -----.
CROWTHER - In this city on Dec. 27 at No. 413 King st. west,
James Fitzgerald, only and
beloved son of Frederick A. and Jane B. Crowther, aged 7
months and 17 days. Funeral
private on Sunday afternoon.
LAMSTED - On Christmas night the nine-year-old son of Josiah
Lamsted of Burlington was
so severely burned by the explosion of a lamp that he died
the following morning. The little
fellow was in bed with some of the younger children, it is
supposed, upset the lamp, which
exploded and in endeavouring to put out the fire the boy’s
nightgown was ignited and he was
terribly burned about the lower limbs and face.
SCOTT - The funeral of the late Rev. John Scott took place
this morning from his residence,
George street. The body was taken to the Stuart street
station and will be interred at port
Elgin. Prof. McLaren of Knox college; Rev. James Black and
Rev. Dr. Fletcher were the chief
mourners, along with Rev. Peter Scott of Cromarty, a brother
of the deceased.
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Rev. Mr. Scott
accompanied the remains to Port Elgin, where the Presbyterian ministers of
North Bruce and Mr. Scott’s old congregation took charge of
them.
FITKIN (Toronto) Dec. 28 - Mr. and Mrs Henry James Fitkin,
189 Howland avenue, lost one
of their interesting little triplet children by death
yesterday afternoon. Another one of the
triplets, also a little girl is in very feeble health and
her mother is afraid she will not remain
behind her sister . The children are seventeen months old.
Prior to the death of
little Evelyn, on Friday the family of Mr. and Mrs. Fitkin consisted of
ten children, of whom the eldest was but thirteen. Mr.
Fitkin is a poor but honest
harnessmaker, who last summer found it very difficult to
keep so many mouths and stomachs
supplied with healthy food so he was accustomed to take the
little trio across to the island and
make human curiosity contribute more or less to their
support. It was while at the island that
the little ones took cold from which little Evelyn never
fully recovered.
Monday, December 30
CUMMER - On Monday 30th Dec.,1895, Flora Ann, wife of L.A.
Cummer, aged 65 years.
Funeral from her late residence, 51 East avenue south, on
Wednesday next at 1:30 p.m.
Interment at Waterdown. Kindly omit flowers.
COOPER - At Bartonville, Dec. 29, Christopher M. Cooper,
aged 73 years. Funeral will take
place from his late residence, Bartonville, on Tuesday, Dec.
31, at 1:30 p.m. Friends will
please accept this intimation.
VAN EVERY - In this city on Dec. 29, Abraham Van Every, aged
66 years. Funeral will take
place from the residence of his son-in-law Wm. Payne, 47 Tom
street, on Wednesday at 10:30
a.m. to Barton church cemetery. Friends will please accept
this intimation.
WARR - Canon Warr, formerly stationed at Oakville, died at
his residence near Liverpool
BROOKE - Dr. E. Brooke, a well-known physician of Windsor
Ont., was found dead this
morning in a room adjoining his office. His death is
supposed to have been caused by the
rupture of a blood vessel.
MACNAB - The funeral of the late Miss Hannah MacNab, the
last surviving member of the
late Sir Allan MacNab’s family, took place from Christ
Church cathedral on Saturday
afternoon. The pallbearers were: R.C. Lucas, Adam Brown,
W.F. Burton, R.L. Gunn, J.J.
Mason and J.E. O’Reilly.
Tuesday, December 31
CUMMER - On Monday, 30th Dec. 1895, Flora Ann, wife of L.A.
Cummer, aged 65 years.
Funeral from her late residence 51 East avenue south, on
Wednesday next, at 1:30 p.m.
Interment at Waterdown. Kindly omit flowers.
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HENDERSON - George E. Henderson, Q. C., Belleville, is dead,
aged 77.
YOUNG - Geo. S. Young, a well-known and much-respected
resident of Brockville, died on
Sunday, after an illness of only a few days. He was the
sixth son of the Rev. William Young,
a pioneer Methodist minister.
BROWN (Toronto Junction, Ont.) Dec. 30 - B. Brown, private
banker, of Schomberg, died at
the home of his father-in-law, John Merrill, of this town, last night