Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 August 1887 — Waded Across the Mississipi. [ARTICLE]

Waded Across the Mississipi.

Quinsy, 111., Dispatch, Aug. 16. A few days ago George McCroue, public administrator of Adams county, waded the Mississippi a few miles above the city. This is the first time the river has been crossed this way since 1846, when a Frenchman from St. Louis performed the same feat. McCroue, by the way, is something of a character. In 1878 he swam from La Grange, Mo., to Qpnicy, a distance of ten miles, in two hours and thirty minutes. In 1879 he repeated the performance, and again inlMl.