Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 137, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 December 1903 — POISON KILLS FOUR. [ARTICLE]

POISON KILLS FOUR.

MYSTERIOUS KILLING IN PULASKI, INDIANA. All Who Partook of Sardine* Become Deathly Bick—lmproper Canning; la Snapectad Nebraaka Posse Pound* Yip Bank Robbers from Agra, Kansas. The Tillage of Pulaski, Ind., is greatly excited oxer the poisoning of the Miller and Johns families. Hard, white specks that resemble granulated sand have been fonnd mixed with vinegar and mustard of the canned sardines eaten by the Millers and Johns. Friday four burial caskets stood side by side in the home Of the Millers. The caskets contain the remains of Jacob Miller, Frank and Kate Miller, husband and wife, and her father, John Johns. They had eaten from a can of mixed vinegar, mustard and sardines. Later the two Miller brothers complained of a 6trange blindness and retired to their rooms. They died from strangulation. Later Mrs. Kate Miller and her father wete attacked In a similar manner and they died. Three of the Miller children rejected the sardines on account of a bitter taste. Public opinion is divided as to the cause of the deaths. Physicians state that it wat from ptomaine poison; others claim it was poisoning caused by muriatic acid mixing with the vinegar and mustard during the tinner’s process of sealing the cans. Examination of the can and contents show the Inside of the can to be ' rust eaten. The sardines appear to have been decayed before they were put into the box and sealed. Jacob Miller some time ago made a will bequeathing his portion of the farm lands to Ills brother's children, nnd Mrs. Kate Miller had done likewise for her children.

ROBBED BY OFFICEHOLDERS. Stealing on a Stupendous Scale la DU* closed at St. Lottie. From the progress of the investigation that is being pursied by the grand jury to reveal irregularities that are alleged to have been carried on for several years in the management of the city institutions in St Louis it is believed that indictments will be returned. The health department has been conducting the investigation and making reports to the grand jury, which body would then summon witnesses. It is stated that stealing on a stupendous scale has been discovered and that in money and goods the city has been defrauded out of several hundred thousand dollars during the past four years. KANSAS BANK ROBBERS CAUGHT. Two Men Suspected of Crime Surrounded on Republican River. The capture of two men suspected of bank at Agra, Ivan., Was effected by the citizens of Bloomington, Neb. They were followed by a posse to a place two miles south of Bloomington, on the Republican river, where they were suriA-a.s€ed, and after a lively fight the supposed robbers were taken into custody. A search of the river near the scene of the capture disclosed a number of altleCon keys, a box of dynamite, a bottle of nitroglycerin, and a quantity of jewelry which the men had thrown into the river before their arrest. Perry Heath on the Rack. Ferry Heath is declared seriously involved in the postal scandals in the report of Fourth Assistant Postmaster General Bristow, just made public. The Department andjhe public are shown to have been swindled out of large sums through the aid of trusted men, who cured only a small proportion of the profits. President Roosevelt says all eases will be prosecuted with* thoroughness. 1 t . Will' Manage Big Railway. H. S. Storrs, at present general superintendent of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railroad, will Jan. 1 become general manager of the Michigan Central Railroad. It cannot be ascertained who will succeed Mr. Storrs on the Lake Shore. •

Review# of Trade. Trade has been stimulated by cold weather, according to Dun’s Weekly Review; November railroad earnings gained 5.2 per cent; better tone in iron -is reported by Bradstreet's. _ |-V *” .T f Claim Valuable Land. Title tO f lond worth $1,000,000,000 in the upper part of Manhattan has been claimed by 17,000 hejrs of the members of the old corporation of New Harlem. A suit will be begun to secure possession. German* Annex Territory. It is announced at Cape Town that the Germans have formally annexed the .territory of the Bondelzwarts tribesmen In German southwest Africn. The surrender of the Bondelzwarts is Iron Worker* Thrown Oot. Thirty-five hundred iron workers in the Calumet district, near Chicago, arc mad« idle by strikes or shutdowns. The International Harvester Company plans •till further retrenchment. Ware May Retire. It is reported that Eugene F. Wnre vrijl retire as commissioner of pensions about the middle of November next year to take up the practice of law. Harriett Hubbard Ayer Die*. » Harriet Hubbard Ayer, the wellknowu writer, died in New York of pneumonia after a four daya' illness. Croeee* Ocean In a Shell. y The Columbia 11., a sailing boat 19 feet long and 6 feet beam, in which Captain Ludwig Eisenbraun left Boston Aog. 11 aloue for Marseilles, soiled from Gibraltar the qther. afternoon lor its des, , tination. j * *«• Aldermen round Guilty. Alderman John J. Brepuan and two co-defendants have been fouuiijLguilty of •lection fraud* in the Eighteenth Ward, in Chicago. Under the Verdict punishment may be a jail sentence or a fine, nr both, at the discretion of t>>* court-