People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 June 1894 — LOST AT SEA. [ARTICLE]

LOST AT SEA.

Forty-Five Members of a Russian Pleasure Party Perish. Berlin, June 20.—A terrible disaster is reported from the Russian government of Samara. A party of young people, numbering about seventy, were returning from a fete on the River Jek. The boat which was carrying them across the water was leaky and overcrowded. When near Bugulme, the boat sank. The drowning people, few of whom could swim, clutched frantically at each other in their efforts to keep themselves above water, and forty-five out of the seventy paasengers were drowned.

Stanley Brown, who was private secretary to President Garfield and who married his only daughter, has resigned an 81,800 clerkship in Washington to accept a position with the Seal company on the Pacific coast. It is rarely the case that the daughter of a president is so utterly lost to sight in the Social world as was the daughter of Mr. Garfield. Mrs. Brown lived in Washington for two years so obscurely that her presence there was known to only a few personal friends. Her simple tastes and limited means doubtless combined to prompt her to a life of comparative seclusion. I