Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 February 1885 — CENTIPEDE COFFEE. [ARTICLE]

CENTIPEDE COFFEE.

Curious 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’Are 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, and that threa 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 pronounced by the men in the camp to be a centipede. It is presumed it had been dipped up in a water vessel from the creSk near the camp. Physicians with drugs, etc., have hastened to the unfortunates.