SAD CASE OF POISONING.
Thursday, shortly after dinner, the people of the town were startled by the appalling news that Master Pat Kinney, a lad of the age of 14 years had suddenly died and no one seemed to know the cause of death. Various stories were put in circulation, but the real cause was not made known to the public until late in the afternoon, when the following facts were ascertained. Pat had been complaining of not feeling well, and his ever devoted sister Celia, a young lady of 19, proceeded to make him some ginger tea, and wanting it to be pleasant for the little fellow to take, she put in the cup what she supposed to be sugar; but alas! her mistake proved a fatal one. The brother left a portion of the compound in the cup and Miss Celia drank it. In about an hour after he partook of the liquid he died. During the afternoon the sister also felt a sickness of stomach, caused by the excitement of the occasion and probably in part to partaking of the mixture, and she, too, sought relief in the same "medicine" she had given her brother. Shortly thereafter she became violently sick and while in this condition it flashed across her mind that it was probable she had mistaken Rough-on-Rats for sugar. Investigation proved her surmises to be correct, and everything that was possible was done for the relief of the young lady, but she was past medical aid and died after suffering intense pain, at 2 o'clock Friday morning. It seems that the custom in the family had been to keep sugar in a cloth and when the rat poison came to the house it was also placed in a cloth and in the closet beside the sugar. This double poisoning is a most terrible and sad affair and the sympathy of the entire community is extended to the almost distracted parents, brothers and sisters. The double funeral occurred from the Catholic Church on Friday afternoon, t he Rev. Father Byrne officiating. The remains were interred in the new cemetery.