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Show POISONED HASH KILLS A SOLDIER ; MAKES MANY ILJL ' LEAVENWORTH, Kan., March 25. One death resulted -today among the S0O old soldiers at the National Soldiers" Home here, who were poisoned by eat-' Ing tainted hash Saturday. .Tha victim waa William J. Cook, aged -64 years, a member of the Fourteenth Missouri cavalry. cav-alry. He leaves a widow at Mexico, Mo. About seventy-five of the veterans are still In a serious condition, but It la not thought any of these" will , die. The majority ma-jority of the others 'made 111 have en- ' tirely recovered. rJ-N . - A report that some of-those affected were missing was amphatically denied at the home today. The Government physician physi-cian stated that only , tho who were already suffering' from" disabilities and were in a weakened condition were seri-oumlv seri-oumlv affected. - - . |