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Drowned While Bathing

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Parent Issue
Day
28
Month
July
Year
1887
Copyright
Public Domain
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Galena, 111., July 26.- John H. Thomas, Clinton Thoma9 and Walter Hooble, all of Hazel Green, Wis., members of a party of campers who passed through here yesterday morning for Crooked slough, near the mouth oí the Galena river, were drowned at four p m. at Smith's ferry on the Mississippi while bathing. The three unfortunatis were drawn into an eddy. Search 13 being made for the bodies. Cleveland, O., July 26.- Oliver and Elmer Brumbaugh, cousins, aged twenty and twenty-two years, sons of wealthy farmers living near Congress lake, were drowned Sunday afternoon while bathing in the lake. Neither could swim, and they jumped from a boat into ten feet of water. A companion tried, but failed, to save them. Clinton, Ia., July 26.- A boy named James Harrison was drowned in the Mississippi river here Sunday while bathing. He is the sixtn victim this summer.

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Old News
Ann Arbor Register