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Show at'rt his family sat down to 'heir een i'ig meal, -among other edible- u;nn tlio table being ire cream. The fi.-si. partaken of was the ice cvpnm. aud 1 elore the meal was-finished all those around the table were -seized with an unaccountable Illness, the wife and children experiencing a milder form of illness. But within a very .short t!in- Mi. Noble lapsed into a spasmodic condition and became unconscious Doctors Fred G. Clark and Ernest P. Mills were hurriedly called "o the medical aid of the stricken fanilly. Tho wife and children not bomg so riouslv affected by the aliment, the attention of the doctors was imniedi-iitely imniedi-iitely turned to Mr. Noble, who was then in an unconscious condition. Tho fclomach pump was brought into requisition requi-sition and tho contents of th stomach stom-ach removed. This, with other med-leal med-leal treatment, brought relief aud within an hour's time Mr. Noble re-1 gained consciousness and was coi.i-fortably coi.i-fortably placed In bed where, at last I reports, he was resting lulte easily I and pronounced out of danger by the 1 hysicians. Mrs. Noble, with her little gul and a little niece, two little tots, weio quite ill from the effects of the poison, but were not in a serious or dangerous danger-ous condition. The doctors pro-nounced pro-nounced the ailment tyrotoxlcoe. poisoning, pois-oning, a form of ptomaine poIsod that Lad ovldently been caused through tho taking of something Into the stomach from the evening meal, the moet likely like-ly of which would bo the ice cream Members of the medical profosstcn itate that ofttlmcs ice cream for the general trade Is made , of a certain kind of moss that is gathered and. after being placed through a compressed com-pressed and chemical formul i. turns into a sort of glucose substance. U afterwards being mixed with skl.nmen miik and water, forming v. sort of cieamy substance. This is mixed w;th eggs and s.asoned to taeto and afrr-wards afrr-wards frozen Into lee cream. The doe- I tors also state that at -this time of jtar cold storage egRs ofttimes have to be used. Tills glucose, an.l ako the cold storage eggs, are readily (susceptible (sus-ceptible of poisonous substances which, when taken into the stomach, cause a poisoning of the system This tort of poisoning Is very violent In its j attacks and frequently death comes j within a very short period of time. It Is thought that had not medical J aid been secured within a very si ortj time after Mr. Noble ate tho ioo cream, death would have ensued. Mr. Noble Is foreman at the Corey livery stable in this city. U. S. GUNEOAT SAILS FOR BLUEFIELD, NICARAGUA. Havana. Jan. 3. Tho United States gunboat Dubuque sailed today or. tele-tTuphlc tele-tTuphlc Instructions from the navy do partment at Washington for Blu-'fieli. Nicaragua, by way of Key West. While nothing definite is known note concerning the mission of th? Dubuque, Du-buque, it Is reported that the rumored revolutionary activity m Central America was responsible for the order. Washington, Jan. 3. Reports of ex-1 ex-1 pftditlonary movements in Central America have led to a close watch of POISONED AT EVENING MEAL LAWRENCE NOBLE CAME NEAR I LOSING LIFE FAMILY ILL. Ice Cream Thought To Have Produced Tyrotoxlcon Poisoning Prompt Work Saved Life- Lawrence Noblo came near losing los-ing his life last night ot tyrotoxlcon poisoning. About 9 o'clock Mr. Noble tho situation by tho American government, gov-ernment, and. acting under orders firm the navy department, at the request re-quest of Secretary Root, the gunboat Dubuque today sailed from H.nni-a for Minefields. The Dubuque will touch at Key Wot for supplies, iter presence in the neighborhood of Nfe-arfjgunn Nfe-arfjgunn territory will have a reassur- ing effect hi the event that any trouble occurs in that section. . Literary Hardships. "Llteraturo Is very trying, isn't It?" said one woman. "Yes." answered tho other. "If your book doesn't sell, you are dlshppoh.t-ed, dlshppoh.t-ed, and if It does It has to be so shocking that you are embarrassed." ' Washington Star. i n. |