Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 February 1885 — CENTIPEDE COFFEE. [ARTICLE]

CENTIPEDE COFFEE.

Carious Case of Poisoning In Texas. [Dallas (Tex.) special.] George Starling brought news to the city to-night that seven wood-choppers were poisoned at dinner to-day on Bois d’Arc Island, about twelve miles from this city, and that William Stroud, John Haynes, George Tripp, and Bob McCall were in a dying condition when he left, nnd that three others, James Smeed, Thomas Lawrence, and William Bell, were suffering violently. The poison was in the coffee that they drank, and on investigation a worm was found in the dregs which was pronqjxnoed by the men in the camp to bo a centipede. It is presumed it had been dipped up in a water vessel from the creek near the camp. Physicians with drags, etc., have hastened to the unfortunates.