Show TIPS TAKING OFF The ManEating Elephant Poisoned Yesterday New York May HThe elephant Tip is unquestionably a great sinner in his day but he is being greatly sinned against In taking off A carrot in which two were ounces of cyanide of potassium was given him He swallowed swal-lowed and then ejected it An apple with a similar dose was given After half an hour Tip began to vomit His legs wabbled a little and the park commissioners grew weary of the job Dr Spitzka advised against the use of cyanide of potassium A later report says Tip only munched the apple containing poison and then spat it out and refused all other poisoned poi-soned morsels I The doctors say Tip has certainly got enough poison in him to kill a dozen horses but it seemed to have little effect on the elephant except to produce weakness in the legs After a short while he regained his wonted vigor Tip died at 419 this afternoon after swallowing several balls of bran in each of which had been secreted sIx grains of cyanide of potassium Eight dissectors went to work immediately and into sections by tomorrow Tip will S be divided S f |