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Show IAN UNIQUE LAWSUIT. Pennsylvanlans Sue Water Company For Causing Sickness. Franklin, Pa. Charging that a recent re-cent typhoid epidemic was duo to the water supplied, a number of residents of this city aro attomptlng to collect damages for sickness In their families from tho Kenungo Wator company. Suits woro filed on Wednesday by Hov. Dr. Maurlco Pcnflcld Flkos, pastor pas-tor of tho First Baptist church, and . James D. Borland, editor of tho Frank lin Evening News. Tho amount of damages claimed Is not stated In the petition, but it will bo suniclcnt to ! cover Uio charges of physicians and nurses and other expenses, as well as ' remuneration for physlcnl and mental distress. Theso aro to bo mado test cases, and if thoy provo successful it is said more than fifty other suits will bo instituted. |