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Show SAT DOWN TO A POISONED DINNEft Nin. I'rsiiTi. I, ring t in. Point of D.ath In k I.itrlR Sit. IRK Town. I'KU.l'.viu.K, Kan., Sept. 9. Nine people, of tiiis place nro at the point of death as a result of having partaken of poison in food. Ceorgo ( iregg returned return-ed from Jowa last Saturday, where he bad (joiie to bring homo his wife and children who hail been visiting there. A j .. ling lady accompanied Mrs. Gregg. ( in "-iiieiay Ira Johnson, a neighbor, called on his way borne from church mid accepted an invitation to dinner. Light persons sat down to the table. Soon after dinner they ail became violently ill, exhibiting all the symptoms symp-toms of poisoning. Shortly afterward a servant, who had in the meantime eaten dinner, became ill. showing the same symptoms. Since then all grew i Meadiiv wor-e, and the recovery of none of the victims is expected. What the nature of the poison was and how it was adminibtered is unknown. |