Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 April 1912 — GENERAL AND STATE NEWS [ARTICLE]

GENERAL AND STATE NEWS

Telegraphic Reports from Many Parts of the Country SHORT BITS OF THE UNUSUAL Happenings in Distant and Nearby Cities and Towns—Matters of Minor Mention from Many Places. Purdue Student Drowns. Lafayette, Ind., April 6.—Christopher Gates, Jr., son of Christopher Gates of Toledo, phio/ and a junior in the class of mechanical engineering at Purdue, was drowned in the Wabash River tonight. He and Maxwell Johnson, also a student, went out in a canoe and a high wave capsized the boatC Johnson succeeded in reaching the east bank, but Gates lost his hold on the upturned boat and went down in twenty-five feet of water. His body has not been recovered. '