Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 March 1894 — WHOLESALE POISONING. [ARTICLE]

WHOLESALE POISONING.

a Jewish Wedding Feast and Its Unpleasant Results. At Boston, Mass.. Tuesday nfght,eighl hundred guests participated in the wedding festivities of Henry Feinberg and Ida M argol les. Out of that number fully three hundred were victims, Wednesday, of poisoning, caused, it is thought, by eating food that was cooked in two old copper boilers. The principal articles oi foodeaten were chickens, chicken giblets and pickled tongue. Over ninety chickens were killed by, Rabbi Margoliei on Saturday and Monday, who is positive that the chickens were fresh and pure and that the fault was in the cooking, which was done by a local baker.* ‘The Hebrew sections of the community are all excited and in a great number of cases 11 is the opinion that the«poisoning was caused by using copper vessels to prepare the food which had not been properly Cleansed before using. ; There was an exciting wolf chase near ,Montpelier, Wednesday, in which ovflr3(K men and twenty-four hounds participated. One lonesome wolf was caught.