Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 December 1901 — Drowned While Skating. [ARTICLE]

Drowned While Skating.

Court and fashionable circles at Ottawa, Ont., were overwhelmed with grief by the sad intelligence that Miss Bessie Blair, aged nineteen, third daughter of Hon. Mr. Blair, minister of railways and canalß, and H. A. Harper, assistant editor of the Labor Gazette, had been drowned while out skating with a party from the government house on the Ottawa river.