Frankie, aged thirteen months, son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Lakieher, boarders at the Palmer House in this village, fell from a front window in their room, in the third story of the building, between seven and eight o'clock on Monday morning last, striking upon the plank walk a distance of some thirty feet below. The fall was witnessed by several in the vicinity who were horror stricken, and the limp and apparently lifeless body was taken up and carried into the hotel parlor, when it was found that life still remained. Dr. Avery was called, who found that one side of the head was crushed, which with other injuries must prove fatal. The unconscious little sufferer survived its fall about half an hour. The parents are almost strangers in town, having removed to this place from Ithaca a few weeks since. Mr. Lakieher being employed in the cigar shop of Schorn & Follett. They have the sympathies of the community, in this their sudden and fearful bereavement. The remains were interred in the Catholic cemetery on Tuesday afternoon. --Union. [Bainbridge Republican, Aug. 12, 1876]
Westcott Rockwell, son of C.W. Rockwell, of Mt. Upton [Chenango Co., NY], was found dead in his bed, on Thursday morning last, having retired the night previous in his usual health and spirits. The cause of his death is supposed to have been a fit, he having been subject to such attacks for some time past. [Bainbridge Republican, Aug. 19, 1876]
Joseph Kromer, of Mineral Springs, was killed on Friday night of last week by being struck by a passing train and knocked from the railroad bridge near the Central Bridge station. Mr. Kromer was about seventy years of age and on account of a slight aberration of mind, was accustomed occasionally to wander away from his home, straying into various parts of the county, so that he had to be watched and kept at home. It was while straying away and doubtless while in the act of crossing the bridge across the Schoharie creek, that he was struck by a passing train on Friday evening and killed either by the blow received from the cars or by falling from the bridge and striking the ground, where his body was found on Saturday--Unadilla Times. [Bainbridge Republican, Nov. 11, 1876]
The Morris Chronicle says: Oliver Somers, of Bainbridge [Chenango Co., NY], formerly a citizen of Morris [Otseog Co., NY], died at his home Oct. 24th, aged 83 years. A good old man has gone to his rest. [Bainbridge Republican, Nov. 4, 1876]
James A. Engle, of Nineveh [Broome Co., NY], who has been very ill of Typhoid fever, died Monday, aged 29 years. His remains were taken to Carbondale for burial. [Afton Enterprise, Mar. 19, 1891]
A North Norwich Mystery: On Tuesday afternoon of last week the mangled remains of three bodies were discovered on the farm of one Reese, two miles north of North Norwich [Chenango Co., NY] supposed to be those of a man, woman, and a child aged 12 years. They were covered partially by straw and an old buffalo robe, and had evidently been there a long time. The remains were all headless, and the right arm of the female missing. The flesh of the bodies had entirely disappeared, and the cords alone remain, dried and clinging to the bones of the skeletons. Coroner Lyman, of Sherburne, took charge of the remains and removed them to Sherburne. It has not been ascertained what further disposition has been made of them. The farm has been unoccupied for some time past and at present, no authentic account can be given of the mystery, but it is thought that the remains were deposited by medical students [Bainbridge Republican, June 17, 1876]
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