Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 August 1887 — WEEKLY BUDGET. [ARTICLE]

WEEKLY BUDGET.

THE EASTERS STATES. A Lowell (M* m.) dispatch says that Katy Halhhan, Delia Welch, Maggie Toqmey, and Lucy Callahan went bathing in the Concord Hirer, at North Belle. The water was unusually high and strong. The current carried them beyond their depth. Before assistance conld be rendered the three first named were drowned, Lucy Callahan being alone Bared. The girls’ ages ranged from 12 to 14 years. Mary A. Kearney, aged 17 years, and her sister Catherine, aged 16, were drowned at Spring Valley, N. Y., while bathing. A most appalling accident took place on the Pennsylvania Railroad at Ridgewood section, four miles below Reading, Pa. A team containing a pleasure party of five was run into by a passenger train making forty-five miles au hour, and four of the party were killed and one injured. The names of those killed are; Mrs. Hettie Frietz, aged 23; Miss Amanda Frietz, aged 35; Charles Frietz, aged 3 months; and Minerva Frietz, aged 18months. The losses by the floods in Eastern Pennsylvania aggregate SIOO,OOO in Philadelphia and over $150,000 in and about Reading. Shaw Sc Co„ extensive lumber dealers at Towanda, Pa., have mads an assignment, with preferences of SIOO,OOO.