Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1883-08-25


HOW EDDIE LITTLE LOST HIS LIFE IN ATTEMPTING TO
SAVE TWO YOUNG LADIES ON oGUNQUIr BEACH.
telegram from Portsmouth, NH, dated yes
terGay, gives the following sad details OF the
drowning accident in Maine, mentioned in yester
days STAR: party OF children, guests OF the
Bald Head Cliff house. seventeen miles from this
Beach. two miles distant. In a barge which runs
daily for the accommodation OF the bathers. The
shore at the cliff Is rocky. and Ogunquit is level
The barge contained thirteen persons: Miss
Marsh OF Andover, Mass: Edward Gould. a
ter Emma. and young son: the Rev. Dr. Little Of
Washington; Mrs Little. their sons Eddie: Arthur
and Norton; Greenough Thayer: aged 20. eldest
Harvard sophomore; Miss Kittie Stafford, daughter
OF Prof. Stafford OF Andover; gentleman from
They ogu
Thayer. Miss Stafford, Eddie Little. Miss Marsh,
blew stiff from the southwark and eastward. and
the G surf was very high Mr. and MIS- Little Miss
In the mean time, the tide. which was young
flood, was sweeping the entire party into pit OF
recent formation, near the mouth OF the river. It
was then half-past eleven. and the tide ceased,
making strong undertow short distance from
the shore. This the bathers did not realize. The
young ladies were in high spirits and pushed
panlona Mr.. Little. becoming strangled, broke
"A
swept his wife against him and both were washed
into shoal water Miss Marsh was also washed
ashore in an exhausted condition The other
young ladies. finding themselves in great danger,
called for help. Thayer and Eddie Little hurried
TO their assistance and endeavored to drag them
Of the four human beings and the power OF the
thoroughly selI::possessed. but the ladies lost
nearly caused the deaths OF themselves
and those who attempted to rescue them:
ne liver to where the bathers wers and ASSESSED
Mr.. and Mrs. Little and Miss Marsh ashore. ne
glecting the Others one OF them remarking: 'They
can SWIM" When he looked again four had disap-
peared Miss Marsh and Mrs Little were lnsensi-
e taken ama not
cred, but Miss Marsh is still In precariOus condi
ton. None OF the bodies have been recovered. and.
the Nv Wind hauls in shore. Prof. safrord arrived
early in the afternoon. only to learn OF the loss OF
his daughter, whom he ido!iZed. Mrs Little her.
sell rushed into the water to save her eldest son.
TRANSFERS OF REAL EsrArE.-Deeds in fee have
bell Darlington, lot 2 So. 967; 5000. N. j. Wine
to A. c. Clark. lot g. So 965 part 8, So $685. lots to
ana TO- So 81, 1911 II lots to ioi TO and Is
So 1862, part 8, SO. 1868; $.
NOT CASE OF sMALLpox-A sensation took
place near the health Office about As to-day by
the report made by a letter-carrler that he had
discovered case or smallpox near Dy. Or. Pool
went over to near the Gunton building and found
cOlOred man seated by fence asleep, with the
traces OF chicken-poX on him.
WANTED TO CARVE HIS WIFE.-George B. Reed,
OF No. 904 9th street. officer OF the steamer Jane
Moseley, was before Judge Mills at the Police
Court this afternoon on complaint Of his Wife,
Alice P. Reed. Mrs. Reed stated that her husband
Is in the habit OF coming home Intoxicated and Of
beating her. Yesterday while drunk he beat her
severely He tried to cut her with a carving knife,
but she escaped. By a mutual agreement he was
for six months.
DURING THE ABSENCE OF the Judge Advocate
General, Major G. N. Lieber judge advocate, will,
by direction OF the President, take charge of the
ONCE OF the judge advocate general and perform
his duties.
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