Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 October 1885 — POISONED GUESTS. [ARTICLE]

POISONED GUESTS.

They Attend a Swell Wedding and Eat Something Not Down on the Bill. [Honesdale (Pa.) special.] A decided sensation is produced here tonight by the discovery that a dozen or more guests at a swell wedding have been poisoned by some food that was furnished by a Scranton caterer for the wedding breakfast. At noon to-day Miss Hattie Weston, daughter of a prominent merchant here, was married to Harry S. Battin, Superintendent of the Consumers’ Gas Company of Chicago. The couple left on an afternoon train and had hardly been rolled to the depot before it was noticed that guests began to depart with unseemly haste. They were afflicted with intense pain in the abdominal region that increased so rapidly that some of them had scarcely time to make their adieux properly. At their homes physicians were summoned, and found it necessary to treat for mineral poisoning. Either the lobster salad or the ice-cream absorbed some compound of lead from cans in which it was brought from Scranton, and serious Jesuits are anticipated in some cases. At 8 o’clock tonight fourteen persons were under treatment, and all the doctors in the town were busy. _____