Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 119, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 May 1914 — BRIDE AND GROOM DROWNED IN CANAL [ARTICLE]

BRIDE AND GROOM DROWNED IN CANAL

Canoe in Which They Start on Their ' Bridal Trip Capslxes and Both Lose Thrir Lives. Chicago, May 19.—Gordon H. Higgins, a student at Northwestern university and his bride of a few hours, Mrs. Verle Stewart Higgins, daughter of Dr. Harj-y Stewart, of Kewanee, ID., were drowned today when the canoe in which they had started on a honeymoon trip overturned in the Chicago drainage canal. Mrs. Higgins had been a student of voice culture here and she was about to return to Kewanee today after completing her course. She met Higgins, whom she had known tor a year, and they decided to wed. ’C: They were married by Judge LaBuy in the city hall, and started on their canoe trip at once. The canoe was being towed by a barge, When it overturned, according to bargemen. Neither body had been recovered tonight.