Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 July 1879 — Over Niagara Falla. [ARTICLE]

Over Niagara Falla.

Buffalo, N. Y. f June 21, 1879.—Another sad catastrophe occurred at Niagara Falls this morning, which resulted in the going over the falls of Mrs. A. Rowland. Mr. and Mrs. Rowland arrived at the Falls on the 18th inst. from the West. They registered at the Falls Hotel as Mr. and Mrs. A. Rowland, 24 Rue Magnan, Paris, France. They took rooms at this house, but had their meals at J. B. Romain’s French Restaurant, on the corner of Main and Falls street. They had visited the various points of interest at the Fails several times, and seemed to have enjoyed themselves vary much. It was their intention to leave fit noon to-day for New’ York. Tickets by railroad had already been purchased; thence they have been intending to take the first steamer for France. After breakfast this morning thwr thought they would like to see the Jfills once more, and started oat. They Walked leisurely to Goat Island Bridge, which they crossed, taking the right hand road on the opposite side, which led them to Luna Island. They stopped at the Cave of the Winds, but concluded after reaching there not to go through. They then wentouton the point w’here Terrapin Tower used to stand, thence they turned to the Three Sister Islands, which they reached about 9:30 o’clock. They crossed to the third island, went down the steps to the right, where they met two gentlemen coming up. They also saw’ a boy getting water out of the river at the end of tne third island, where the bank is a little more than a foot above the water and Where the rapids are exceedingly swift. At tliis point they stood for a few moments enjoying the scenery. After the two.gentlemen and the boy had left Mrs Rowland asked her husliand for her ocket cup, saying she wished to get a drink. Mr. Rowland took a small silver cup out of a leather case that he had in his pocket and handed it to her. He then walked away a few steps and took a view’ up the river. His wiie in the meantime went to the place where she had seen the boy dipping up water and attempted to fill her silver cup. In doing this she must have lost her balance and fell into the seething rapids. „ As she fell she uttered a frightful scream, which caused her husband to turn about, and, seeing his wife struggling in the water, he rushed to the bank, but she was out of his reach and beyond all human aid. After seeing his wife pass from his sight in the boiling. seething rapids, he turned and ran lieariy the whole distance to the French restaurant, where he dropped completely exhausted in a chair. He groaned and wrung his hands when tiie proprietor, Mr. Romain, came up to him and asked what the matter was. He replied, “My wife is gone under the water,” and, when he nad recovered his breath sufficiently to talk, related the sad occurrence. Mr. Rowland is a manufacturer of firearms, his place of business being at No. 51 Boulevard De Arroy, Liege, Belgium. He is about forty years of age, tall and in delicate health. His wife was about thirty-five years of age. They were married two years ago, and after visiting the Paris Exhibition, started, in October last, for a pleasure trip around the world. Going through the Suez Canal, India, China and Japan, they crossed the Pacific Ocean to San Francisco, visited Chicago, and, as mentioned above, reached the Falls on the 18th. Mr. and Mrs. Rowland could only talk English a very little. They were noticed to be quite loving, and the theory that was first started, that fhere was a suspicious look about tbe affair, finds no credence among his French friends. Mr. Rowland seems to suffer intensely from this sad affliction, which, in a moment of his great happiness, deprived him of his faithful and loving wife. He will remain at the Falls for a week in the hope of recovering the body of his wife. He will use every effort to fiudxhe body, and, if found, will take it to France. —[New York Herald.