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Watery Graves

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Parent Issue
Day
4
Month
August
Year
1887
Copyright
Public Domain
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Chicago, July 30.- John Pacaot, fifteen years oíd, living at 666 Noble street, and John Withkivoki, fifteen years oíd, living at 118 Armitage avenue, were drowned Thursday afternoon while bathing in the river near Blackhawk street. Londón, July30.- Two pleasure-yachts, both well laden with people, were capsized in a squall off Yarmoutn Thursday. Ten psrsons were drowned. Lowbll, Mass.. July 30.- Katy Hallihan, Delia Welen, Maggie Toomey and Lucy Callaban, aged from twelve to fourtoen years, went bathing Thursday afternoon in the Concord river at North Belle. The water being unusually high and strong it carriod them beyond their depth, and before assiatance could be rendered all but Lucy Callahan were drowned. New York, July 30.- Mary A. Karney, aged seventeen years, and her sister Catherinc, aged sixteen, were drowned at Sprins: Valley Wednesday. They were spending the summer with their parents at the house of George Peterson, and went with a party of girls of about their own age to bathe at Distillery lake. They could not swim. Mary slipped from a small raft into fifteen feet of water, and her frightened sister plunged in to save her. Both girls sank together.

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Old News
Ann Arbor Register