Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 August 1906 — Drowned in Geneva Lake. [ARTICLE]

Drowned in Geneva Lake.

Williams Bay, Wis., Aug. B.—Miss Ruth M a cumber, a popular young woman of Beloit, was drowned while bathing in Lake Geneva at Camp Collie and Henry D. Smith, general secretary of Beloit college, nearly lost hir life attempting to rescue. Physicians who worked over Mr. Smith for several hours after he was taken from the wnter said that while ids conditon was critical he probably would recover.