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Show THREE MEX SWEPT OVER I SIAGARA FALLS. At a quarter past 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon three well dressed young men, whose respective ages were from about twenty to twenty-five years, presented pre-sented themselves at Walker's boat house, about half a mile above the Cataract House, at Niagara Falls, and asked Mrs. Walker, who was in attendance, attend-ance, to let theui hae a boat. She at first refused, but upon their assurance that they were only foing to a small island in the river to take a swim, and that they would keep near to the shore, they were allowed to depart. The boat they selected was a fiat-bottomed fiat-bottomed seow, and in it they rowed to the island. From there they started straight across the river, with the evident evi-dent intention of reaching the Canada shore, never once showing any disposition disposi-tion to head up the stream. The current, cur-rent, as a matter of course, swept them toward the rapids of tho horse-shoe fall, and soon afcer striking them the boat capsized, and the three men were carried over the cataract. The names of the unfortunate men are unknown. One of them wore a blue suit with a light-colored soft hat; the second had on a brown suit with a brown cap, and the third wore an oid overcoat, but had a respectable suit underneath. Ooe of the party, just before starting in the doomed boat, said to a little boy, "If an old man comes alonj; and aks if you have seen anything of us, tell him no!" It looks very much as if the young men were escaping into Canada lo evade the vigilance of the officers of the law on this side, and had neither the time nor the courage to use the ordinary means of transportation, Buffalo Courier. |