Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 July 1879 — The Fisherman Caught by the Fish. [ARTICLE]

The Fisherman Caught by the Fish.

Lawrence, Kan., July 2 —A singular case of drowning happened here this morning. A colored man named Charles Williams, was engaged fishing in the Kansas river, near the falls, and 'While assisting to land a large catfish, he was drawn into the flood below, and all attempts to secure his body have been unsuccessful. It has been the custom of the fishermen to wade into the stream, and when they hdvt* found a large fish, a spear, connected with s rope which is attached to the wrist, is plunged into the back. Sometimes the fish, if he be a large one, makes a desperate struggle before he is landed. This was one of those cases. Williams failed to slip the loop which was about his wrist and let the fish go. Catfish have been taken from the Kansas river here weighing from 150 to 200 pounds.—[St. Louis GlobeDemocrat?

A seven-year old daughter of J. C. Peabody, commission merchant of Chicago, visiting at Fulton, was drowned in a cistern the other morning, while the fiunily were at break Cast.