Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 June 1883 — FOOD FOR FISHES. [ARTICLE]

FOOD FOR FISHES.

Seven Men Drowned in Boston Harbor* A telegram from Boston says: As the tug C. H. Herzey was coming up the harhor this evening, two men were seen in the water, one clinging to an empty beer-keg and the other to on oar. They were taken on board, and found to he too drunk to give aq Intelligible story for some lima When they had goo partly sobered oft they told a pitiful tale. They, with six others, had Btarted in the schooner-yacht Skylark from South Boston to attend the boat-race at the Point of Pines. After the postponement they Btarted home, and in a equatl were capsized, and the other six men were drowned The men lost were: David Butler Matthew Kennedy, James W r ood, James Cleary, Richard O'Brien, one unknown man. In a regatta of the South Boston Yacht Club a small boat got in the way of the sloop Violet, and'was run down. John Cadigan was drowned and two other men thrown into the water, but rescued A 6-yeab-old colored boy living on Sabine river, in Texas, was pursuing a tarantula tb kill it with a iishing-pole, when the venomous insect sprang several feet, fastening its fangs in his right hand, Srom the effects of which it is thought he will dia