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Show A LITTLE FOUR-YEAR-OLD GIRL FOUND DROWNED BY HER FATHER. The particulars of a sad case of drowning come to us from the little town of Midway, which are about as follows: Mr. J. Hower, the father of the drowned child, lives on the banks of Snake Creek, near where it runs into the town. On Wednesday morning he left his house and started to work. He had to pass over a bridge crossing Snake Creek near where he lives. While in the act of crossing the bridge he happened to look down into the water, where he saw what appeared to be a drowned child. He climbed down the bank for a closer inspection of the object, and what must have been his feelings to find that the child was his own little daughter. The little girl was only about four years old, and the supposition is that the child had been playing on the bank and had fallen into the stream. The house is some little distance from the creek, and it is hardly probable that the parents of the little one would have heard her if she had screamed on falling into the water.<br><br> The funeral took place Thursday afternoon in Midway, and was largely attended by the friends of the family.-Friend |
