Copyright USGenNet Inc., 2024 All Rights Reserved USGenNet Data Repository Please read USGenNet Copyright Statement on this page: Transcribed and submitted by Linda Talbott for the USGenNet Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ =========================================================================== Formatted by USGenNet Data Repository Chief Archivist, Linda Talbott All of the above information must remain when copied or downloaded. =========================================================================== Detroit Free Press Saturday, 29 November 1879 A Child Poisoned to Death - An Old Man Dies of Neglect and Hunger. Special Dispatch to The Detroit Free Press Grand Rapds, November 28, An infant child of M. P. GILL died at Newaygo yesterday of a dose of laudanum, given by mistake for ague medicine. JOHN B. GIBB, aged 70, died at Sheridan, Ne- waygo Co., yesterday. He lived in a hut alone, and being taken ill, had no assistance or food for four days. He could not assist himself and died from neglect and hunger. ===========================================================================