Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 August 1886 — NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

NEWS CONDENSED.

Concise Record of the Week. EASTERN. A yacht containing eight persons was caught in a sudden squall off Portland, Me., and capsized, seven of the unfortunates being drowned. Five of the victims were children and two adults. Iheir names were: Wellington Masters, aged 70; Jane Masters, bis wife, aged 09; Benjamin Whitten, aged 7; Maud Whitten, aged 12; Harry Cleveland, aged 7; Emma Cleveland, aged 11; Jane Masters, aged 9. All were related, Mr. Masters being grandfather of them all. Litt!e James Cleveland, aged 15, leaped overboard and escaped the suction that carried the party dowD. His father rescued him. When the yacht capsized Mrs. Cleveland, in the other yacht, fainted, and when her husband got on board again he found that the shock had deprived her of her reason. Two coopers, William Potts and George Hazlitts, navigated Niagara’s whirlpool rapids in a barrel-shaped boat. The feat was accomplished in the presence of 15,000 people. A landing was made at Queenstown. Canada, five miles from the starting place, the Maid of the Mist's dock. The voyage occupied fifty-five minutes. I’otts and Hazlitt were fatigued with the heat and excitement, and bruised by being thrown against each other. The craft was unharmed. The remains of the late Samuel J. Tilden were laid to rest in the cemetery at New Lebanon, New York, on Saturday, the Otli inst. Impressive funeral services were held at the residence in Yonkers. Among the distinguished persons presold were President Cleveland, Secretaries Manning, Whitney, and Endicott, Governor Hill, Congressmen Randall, Hewitt, and Morrison, General Schofield, Charles A Dana, and others. The pall-bearers were: Samuel J. Randall, John Bigelow, Daniel Manning, Smith M. Weed, Charles A Dana, Dr.. George L. Miller, Wili am Allen Butler, Daniel Magono, J. B. Trevor, Dr.’Charles E. Simmons, and Aaron J. Vanderpoele.