Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1889-06-26
POISON At A PICNIC.
Death Lurked in the Luscious
Lemonade.
VENGEANCE on ZEE DRUeeIsT.


A1fty Were Poisoned and FIfteen sIay
Dle-The Store Of Care !. Druggist
who sold Sugar Of Lead o. TartaEle
Acid Quilted by an InfarIa Mob.
ToRoNTo, June 20.-The details Of q
fearful story Of criminal carelessness
arrived from Woodstock. Fifty persons
in the town are Frustrated and fifteen
are not expected TO live. The unfor.
tnnate wretch at whose door this
calamity Is laid Is would be druggist
who recently opened store in the town,
bat now has fled 10 escape the fury Of
the citizens, who threaten II they catch
him To discount even Judge Lynch's ex-
peditious methods.
Woodstock Is situated in the township
ct Lorra. On Saturday the farmers of
that county gave monster picnic IN
Willis Grove, about two miles from the
town. The weather was close and
6ultry, and great rush was made for
cooling refreshments, the lemonade in
particular being consumed in large
quantities. All was jollity until the
picnickers were about to start for
home. when suddenly Miss Shaw, who
was dancing on one of the platforms
fell IN fit Friends had hardly started
10 apply restoratives when two other
young ladies were similarly seized. This
sudden interruption Of the festivities
caused very general alarm, which was
intensified to horror when almost inn
mediately others Of the gathering to the
number of fifty were stricken and lay
rolling on the sward in terrible agony.
Poisoning by wholesale.
Several doctors were with the pic
nickers, and these, with others who were
hastily summoned from the town. at
tended the sufferers. Noting the symp-
toms, the doctors administered hot milk,
mustard and other emetics at hand, ex-
press wagons were brought out from
Woodstock and In them the sufferers
were moved to their homes.
An investigation proved that only
those who had partaken freely of the
lemonade had been attacked, and the
poisoning was readily traced to this
eource. 1t was discovered that the COM
fecfioner who had furnished the drink,
inorder to save lemons, had used in its
connection what he believed to be tar
faric acid. Fortunately, some of the
powder which no had purchased from
the new druggist remained and on ex-
animation it was found to be sugar of
lead, which he had sold in mistake for
the harmless ingredient
Vengeance ON the Druggist.
The news Of this discovery quickly
spread oil over the town. The rage Of
the townspeople almost amounted to
madness, which they determined to vent
upon Druggist Alexander, who was q
stranger, having been only a short time
ii the place. A crowd quickly gath
cred and marched in q body to his store.
The shop was locked. A plank was torn
from the sidewalk and used as batter
ing ram. The door was quickly broken
down and the maddened men entered.
There was no one in the store, but this
did not decrease their rage and in a few
minutes the stock ia trade of the drug
pist was scattered all over the street.
Then thorough search OF the premises
was made to find the man who had UNI
willingly brought sorrow to so many
happy homes. The search was rruitless,
however. The house was empty. Al
exander having seen the crowd APP
preaching, had made good his escape
from back entrance and fled TO the
woods.
Cutting the Store.
Baflied at not finding their intended
victim. the crowd proceeded to demolish
things generally, and quickly wrecked
the entire premises. They would have
gone further and burned the building
had not the ruinor spread that Alexan-
der had been seen in another part of
tom. where the whole mob quickly
started to hunt for him. He was not
found, however.
Although the majority of those pois-
oned are slowly recovering from the
effects of the deadly mineral, fifteen of
the number were reported to be dying,
yill being III state Of collapse, from
which all efforts of the physicians so far
have failed to revive them.