SAD ACCIDENT.

Child Drowned Near Officer's Mill.

A little daughter of Frank Farrell living near Officer's mill about seven miles south of Austin was drowned in the Cedar river Friday about noon. The little girl was out playing and is supposed to have become bewildered and wandered into the water. She was about two and one half years old. The water at the point where the accident occurred was shallow, being only about a foot in depth. The little girl was seen not over twenty minutes before the sad occurrence.