Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 October 1884 — Poisoned Her Children and Herself. [ARTICLE]

Poisoned Her Children and Herself.

[Wheeling (W. Va.) dispatch.] A terrible tragedy is reported from Calhoun County. Mrs. Johnson, while laboring under a fit of temporary insanity, poisoned herself and two of her step-chil-dren with arsenic. The poison was mixed with sugar. One of the children refused to eat, but she succeeded in inducing the others to partake of the compound, and they died in a few minutes. Mrs. Johnson then swallowed some of the mixture herself and soon died. Mbs. A. H. Reed, of Oshkosh, Wis., has begun suit against the Central Wisconsin Railroad for $10,060 damages, for injuries received by her husband a year ago, from his team taking fright at Mme. Modjeska’s private car, which blocked the street crossing. Alexander Graham Bell hopes to introduce generally into the deaf and dumb institutions the entire substitution of articulate conversation for the present system of sign language. Mr. Frelinohuysen denies the story that his daughter is to wed the President