Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1886-05-13
TERRIBLE RETRIBUTION.
Chicago Anarchists who sacked n
Drag store Dying From Poison.

Chicago dispatch; II Is said that many OF
the rioters who demolished Rosenfcld's drug
store have died from the effects OF poisoning,
and scores OF others are either dying or dan.
gerously Ill. II Is also said that many chill.
drcn are suffering from the effects of eating
lozenges OF modica,ed candy containing OPT
UNI "The dose those fellows got In that drug
store" said the officer who stands ON Eight
eenth and Centre avenue, "dId moro to quell
| the disturbance In this neighborhood than all
other things combined, II looks rs though
the whole ward had been put to sleep" As
the officer finished speaking u man with dark
whiskcrs and u sallow face hurried past the
corner, He was Bohemian doctor, ~ am
ina hurry" he said to the reporter, "but
since YOU have asked me about the truth OF
| the report that several persons were poisoned
| In the raid on Roscnfcld's drug store, | must
say that people have but vague Idea of
| things In this neghborhood, The rioters were
| for the most part ignorant Bohcmians Ger
mans and Poles, When they had drunk up
all the liquor In the domiiohnS mud bottles,
they pounccd upon the indicated wines,
which have the flavor of liquor A bottle filed
with wine OF colchcum, probably did more
mischief than any OF the others. Three Of my
patients are paying the penalty for having im-
bihed too freely OF the stun, They have So
we're gripping Ia the stomach and manifest 9th
or symptoms Of collie When called to treat
them thcy denied having attempted suicide,
then asked what they had eatcn with great
hcsitancy one OF the boys said they had drank
some "brown stuff" IN the building which had
been wrecked. | then concluded that they
had swallowed either dlgitalis or calchlcum,
How these people could swallow these
tnctures aud mcdlcated wines without dis
covering their mistake ! cannot understand,
except possibly accept the theory that they
were SO drunk that they lost the senses OF
taste aud .m-lL On Throop street thor, are
two young men suffering from all the symp,
toms OF aconlto poisoning, They have had
commissions ever since the night OF tho riot,
aud have never once rogained consciousness,
They are lumber showers, and are Wowed
socialists. | have no doubt, indeed know II
10 be fact that many OF these sufferers have
received no attention from physicians, They
are afraid that should II become known that
they had been posonod they would be arrested
for sscktng the drugstore. know OF several
deaths In the neighborhood, but do not dare
give you the numbers Of houses where they
have occurred. lwili say, however, that none
Of my patients have died, although many Of
them arc very low learn OF the lactS OF the
others through relatives and frlends Of my
charges Where the corpsos have been buried
cannot imagine. | think though, that those
that have not been inferred In the back yards
have been taken 10 the cemeteries under AS
| sumed names, and without having the true
| cause OF death stated ON the burial permits
| This Ia a risky business for the doctors and
| undertakcrs, but you must know II means
bread and butter TO many Of them. There II
| no doubt, however, but that most Of tho vie.
! tins are buried In the back yards.
From this physician, who positively refused
10 give his name for publication, and other
sources quite as trustworthy, II Is learned that
the following pIllagcrt Of the Rosenhelds drug
store have found shallow gravcr.
Joseph Hudos, Y. Nowek, Carl Wllthclz.
Peter Turtnek, Jacob Zahnan, AVIAN DeiIe,
Joseph MunznIcl, Franz stormlnslSy.
While all these men are said TO have lived on
Seventeenth street, Newborry Avenue, Twenty
frst street and Brown street, the directory falls
10 give address OF one OF them. This fact,
however, does not stamp the story IA romance
as II Is notorious that the lumber men lead
migratory lives, and are often overlooked by
the census cnnyassers, Besides those reported
dead, the following are said to be suffering
from too much aconltc and colchlcum:
Herman IIubachek, Autonio Ritz, u pcddlor
Throop street, near Twenty first; Frank Petosk
Paulina, near Seventeenth, and Hubert Mass.
The police officer at the corner Of Eighteenth
street aud Center avenue Is authority for the
statement that there were four funerals from
st. Procopius (Bohcmian) church IN one day,
which Is at the corner Of Eighteenth street and
Airport aycnue-thc center Of the anarchist
nest, and but few steps from Ros.nhelds
drug store. This district Is credited with bat
one burial for "a hours that OF child said "
have died OF scarlltIna.