Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 December 1902 — Laks Claims 140 Victims. [ARTICLE]

Laks Claims 140 Victims.

In the navigation season of 1902 140 lives were lost on the five great lakes. This is the largest death harvest recorded. Last year the number was 182. In 1900 there were 110 persons drowned, and in 1889 the list numbered an even hundred. Prior to that year less than a hundred persons were lost on the lakes each season. Statistics show that Lake Michigan was the safest of the lakes this year. Lake Erie leads with fifty nine. Lake Superior comes next with forty, Lake Ontario with fire, Lake Huron twenty-two and Lake Michigan fourteen. Ten sailors were lost in Detroit and St. Clair rivers. The death of Luke McLaughlin of Muscatine, lowa, ends an existence of 103 years. His wife, whom he married seventy-eight years ago, survives him. Mr. McLgughlin was an eccentric Irishman known to almost every resident of Muscatine. He was bora in Galway, Ireland, in 1799. “Sing" Doyle, city marshal of Platte City, Mo., committed suicide by shooting himself. Domestic trouble is given as the cause for his act. Although a bullet pierced Doyle’s heart he lived from 6 o’clock Sunday evening until 0 o’clock Monday morning. A London dispatch says it is stated that Maj. Rosa, principal of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, will be awarded the Noble malaria research brine of f 15,000, Maj. Ross conducted several expeditions into the mosquitobreeding districts of West Africa.