Abbreviations used
Date May 12 1875
County Northumberland
Place Newcastle
Newspaper Union Advocate
The language of the text is the original used in the newspaper entry and as transcribed by Daniel F. Johnson. Records acquired by the Provincial Archives are not translated from the language in which they originate.
Campbellton, May 11 - A young man of this place named Frank THOMPSON while returning home on Friday, fell into the river from a raft a few miles below Mill Stream and was drowned. Great sympathy is felt for his widowed mother, whose main support he was.