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Show Pres. Isaac Smith's Child Drowned. About four o'clock jesterday afternoon after-noon the little baby boy of Isaac Smith was drowned In a ditch in front of the lesldence. There Is a culvert about two feet wide bv one deep at the crossing of the lane at the south of the residence. The supposition Is that the child fell from the upper end of the culvert or bridge Into the water and the current cur-rent carried him underneath where he was found after tearing up thebiidge. The child being missed a seaich was made aiound at the neighbors, a pole was urn under the bridge and the little body was found lodged against some cross pieces. Phjsiclans were summoned and everything possible was done to restore life, but it was too late. The poor mother is frantic with grief. Kind friends by the score gathered at the home. The sympathy sym-pathy or all Is extended to the bereaved. be-reaved. The baby was fouitccn months old. |