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Found Watery Graves

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Parent Issue
Day
9
Month
June
Year
1887
Copyright
Public Domain
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Davenport, Ia., June 7.- Three boys named Beek and two naraed Hingle, all of Maquoketa, and none over sixteon years, were drowned while bathing in the Maquoketa river, near the city of that name, yesterday. CniCAOO, June 7. - On Saturday anumber of boys went bathing in a pond in Singer & Talcott's stone quarry, Lemont. Andrsw Szapanay, aged thirteen, got beyond hi3 depth and cried lor help, His brother Peter, aged eleven, could not swim, but he jumped in with his clotheson to save Andrew, and both were drowned. Shawnketown, 111., June 4- At noon Thursday James Smith, ayoungman nineteen years oL age; a daughter of Henry Muer, aged six years, and a child of John Muer, aged one year, were drowned hora by the capsirinp of a boat.

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Subjects
Old News
Ann Arbor Register