Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 January 1882 — The Tarantula Can Kill. [ARTICLE]

The Tarantula Can Kill.

Little Rook Special. Oliver C. Waddell, who recently removed to this State from Texas, settling along White river, in Stone county, was fatten yesterday by a tarantula. He was on a hunting expedition in the mountains and had cam ped under a large pin** tree. Some time during the night the insect crawled in between the blankets which enveloped him as he lay before the fire, and hit him twice,once on the finger and again on the arm near tLe elbow.. He wasawakened bj 7 a tingling sensation iu that part of his body, and, rousing: himself, discovered the cause and succeeded in killing it. It was as large as the of an ordinary man. Waddell’s hand and arm began to swell rapidly, and before he could get to the nearest house, some four or five mile® away, the poison had spread to, ail parts of his body. It was some timebefore he could get medical skill, and when the physician arrived Waddell was found to be beyond hope. He lingered for some time,however, dying in the afternoon. The case is a singu* lar one, from the fact that it proves' that the tarantula is capable of inflicting a deadly wouud.