Daily Republican., 1885-07-13
Drank SuIphuric Acid.

Drank EuIphurfe Acid.
There came hurried ring at the door
of DIR. William ID. Robinson, 2lOO Mt.
Vernon street, Philadelphia, at 10 o..
clock Friday night. The doctor an
swered the call himself, and found .
well dressed, elderly man standing pale
and gasping in the doorway. The
doctor recognized his visitor as Eek iel
Come at once," he said. "I've poi
soned my wife-my accident" Hardly
had he got tho words OUT of his mouth
whom he clutched the door casing for
support and vomited violently. ~
took . half wineglassful myself" he
explained. "Irs battery fluid"
"Good, God !" cried the doctor,
come at once r. He knew that the
stuff was q compound of sulphurio
acid, sulphate of copper and tichromate
Of Zinc. which Is used to dissolve zinc
in order to create electricity. On the
way to his house, which was but 3
square and half, Mr.. Beatty vomited
ten times. His wife was found In o
worse condition than himself. From
10 O'Clock until 4 O'Clock Saturday
morning the doctor Administered eggs
and milk to his patients in the hope OF
healing as far as possible the mem
branes, W hich had been destroy
ed by the fiery liquid. At the. latter
hour both seemed to be doing we'll.
at . O'Clock, when the doctor called
again, Mrs. Beatty was beginning TO
suffer from the collapse Induced by the
shook OF the violent poison. She lin
gered through the day and died ut
O'Clock at night, twenty three hours
after taking the poison. Her hus band,
though not entirely out Of danger on
Sunday, was in fair way towards
recovery.
From him IL was learned that Mrs.
Beatty had been taking a patent tonic,
which was of the Rine color and kept
in the same sort Of q bottle as the bat
terry fluid, which her husband had been
using with a medical battery for q
sprain. He had handed her winegla
full of the supposed tonic on Friday
night. Mrs. Beatty tasted it and said :
That's not my medicine. Is tastes
like poison"
No." said the husband, it's all
right" and to prove it he drank half
wineg lassful OF the stuff His wife,
thus assured, took the dose. It's violent
action room proved the mistake. The
case was reported to the Coroner on
Sunday. Mrs. Beatty was 81 years OF
age. Neither she or her husband, who
is the superintendent of Broad street
carriage factory, had living atives,
Destructive Fires.
A fire In Albany, New York, early
yesterday morning, destroyed A. w.
Burch's stables, James A. Gray's plano
factory and several frame buildings.
By the fall of wall of the factory seve-
raj firemen were buried, one of whom,
Daniel Wheeler, was taken out dead.
John A. Luby was 30 badly injured
when extricated that he died in IN hour
Two others, Frederick w. Allen and
Rufus H. Townsend, were In a criti-
cal condition at last accounts. Twenty.
eight horses persisted in the stable
The loss on property is estimated at $75,.
600.
A FIRE in Belfast. Maine, on Sunday
morning, destroyed the Belfast Livery
Company's stables, Howe's block, oc-
cupied by several business firms the
American House, the leading hotel in
Belfast; the carriage house Of the livery
company, and a wooden carriage shop.
TWenty horses perished in the stable,
buu LWO hcu--- w 6blty i lWOmUly duu
John Casey-who were in the second
story of that building lost their lives.
A companion, named McCabe, escaped
from the building with hands and face
badly burned. They had returned to
the stable after being on q spree, and
the fire Is attributed to their drunken
carelessuess. The Chief Engineer of
the Fire Department was also badly
burned in the face while fighting the
fire. The losses are estimated at ABOUT
$4,000.
Several days ago the Bradford House
at Waverly, New Yo X, was burned.
A large quantity of goods were saved
from the burning bnilding and stored
In the hotel barn. Last night the barn
with its contents was destroyed by fire.
When the firemen undertook to use
their hose they found the nozzles stuff.
cd full of gravel. The people are look.
ing for the supposed incendiary.
The plant and works of the Vincen.
nesl Company at Vencen-
mes, Indiana, now u used in the heading
and stave business, were burned on
Saturday afternoon. LOSS $4,000.
The two.story hennery of DIR. Dio
Lewis, at Smithtown, Long Island, was
burned on Saturday, with 400 fancy
fowls. The fire started in the incuba-
tor.
The buildings and machinery Of the
Crump gold mine, near Charolette,
North Carolina, were burned ON SatuF-
day morning.