People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 July 1894 — FOUR WATERY GRAVES. [ARTICLE]

FOUR WATERY GRAVES.

Quartet of Boys Meet Death by Drowning in Western Rivers. Osawapomie, Kan., July 11.—George Gear, 13 years of age, son ot State Insane Inspector Dr. Gear, and Frank Shortz, 14 years of age, while bathing in the Osage river got beyond their depth and were drowned. Kansas City, Mo., July 11.—Johnnie Wyler, aged 8 years, and Otto Winters, aged 5, were drowned while fishing in a pond in the southern part of the city. They were sons of prominent business men.