Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 August 1882 — Case of Water Cure. [ARTICLE]

Case of Water Cure.

Ban Francisco Post. Some witty Frenchman excuses his devotion to wine by saying that He doesn t like water because ever since the flood it has tasted of sinners. Up at the McFlippeys boarding house, on Tine street, they recently found the same objection to the liquid with which they washed down their daily hash. In fact so objectionable the sinner ingredient became that an examination was made of the tank on the roof, in which was discovered the body of Mrs. McF.‘s worser half, who had fallen in and been drowned. The widow said she had noticed a singular odor of whisky about the water pitcher for more than a week, but, as she had supposed the “old man” had been locked up for another month, she hadn’t suspected anything out of the way.