Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 March 1894 — VERY SUCCESSFUL JOKE. [ARTICLE]

VERY SUCCESSFUL JOKE.

Cornell University Students’ Sharp Trick and Its fratal Result. At Cornell University, Rochester. N. Y., Tuesday night, tho sophomores, in attempting to play a trick on tho freshmen, generated chlorine gas. Several students wore overcome by the fumes and carried off unconscious. A negro woman employed as cook died from tho effects of the gas. The sophomores obtainod possession of a side room and situated a generator of tho deadly gas so that it was connected with the banquet hail by means of rubboi tubes.