The children were playing in the garden Of Mr. and Mrs. Hartjes, Helens’s parents, on the west side, when the little girl was suddenly taken sick and began vomiting. Dr. Goggins was immediately summond, but she was beyond human help and died in a few minutes after the doctor’s arrival. He at once turned his attention to the little boy, son of Cornelius Hartjes, of Kaukauna, who was visiting at the home of his brother, and by means of stomach pumping extracted the poison from his stomach and saved his life.
The little girl vomited profusely, ejecting in the vomit several pieces of a bluish colored flower. Pieces of the same flower were taken from the stomach of the little boy, from which it is supposed that the children had eaten of this flower and had been poisoned. We have been unable to learn the correct name of the flower as it is recognized by several terms, but that it contains deadly poison is beyond question.
The funeral occurred this morning, with service at St. Anthony’s church by Rev. Fr. Loose.