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POISONED HER Family TO
/ Get INSURANCE MONEY
PHILADELPHIA WOMAN ALSO
TAXES THE LIVES OF
TWO OTHERS.

Bridget Casey Within Eleven Months
ALLEGED to Have Sacrificed Five Per-
sons-Beueftted $1,000 by ThieT
4 Deaths-First Victims Her Husband
4 and Two Little Daughters-Rat
Poison Probably Used--Arscnic in the
Children's stomachs.
Philadelphia, Nov. T.-The most re-
0narkable case Of wholesale poisoning
bf persons to secure insurance money
that has ever been unearthed in this
s eity is charged tonight against Bridget
Carey, aged thirty-two, who was ar
Fested at late hour. The woman is
charged with having poisoned her hus-
band, Patrick; her two children, Mary,
hged eight years, and Annie, aged six,
who died week ago, and Patrick and
Cecilia Cook, tenants in the Carey
house at 1912 Hamilton street,
All Of the alleged victims died with
n eleven months, and the police al
lege that MRS. Carey benefited by their
! leaths to the extent of $1,000 through
.he collection of insurance.
The woman's arrest followed an in
Eestigation made into the death of her
.wo children, which occurred last week.
t was said at the time that their
eaths were caused by eating poisoned
{ DANDY or candy that contained dele
Y erious substances. An analysis Of
handy such as the children are said to
s have purchased showed that it contain
d no poisonous substances, and when
*yoroners Physician Wadsworth made
4 4n analysis of the stomachs Of the
hildren he found the little girls died
rom arsenical poisoning.
According to Captain of Detectives
bonaghy it was learned that the chill
iren were insured for $125 each and
HAT Mrs. Carey collected this amount
fter their deaths. The police officials
ay that they learned that the woman
had secured rat poison and on further
Investigation it was found that Patrick
Ind Cecilia Cook, brother and sister,
Who lived with Mrs Carey had died
{ within a few months under suspicion
circumstances.
4 Miss Cook had been the lessee of the
Rouse and Mrs. Carey was a tenant.
Fhe police officials say that Miss Cook
yas insured for 5000 in favor Of Pat
ok Cook, her brother, and that on
s august 10 she died. Patrick had been
Insured for $500 in favor of his sister
q @ collected the insurance on her pol
1y after her death and Mrs. Carey
box up the lease Of the house. There
pom Patrick Cook made his insurance
favor of Mrs. Carey and shortly
hereafter was stricken i'll and died
II When Miss Cook died a physician
(. Who had attended her was visited by
tegrs. Carey, the police say, and asked
Vi sign death certificate 70 rinsur-
ota!ce, attesting that she died of heart
ts,ease. AS he had previously attend
Xtad her for heart trouble and knew
hat she was liable to die at any mo.
lent, he signed the certificate, though
S. b had not been in attendance on the
oman just prior to her death. Miss
ook died on August 10 and on Sep
ember II her brother died suddenly
much the same manner as his sister
The bodies of Patrick Cook and his
S tster have been exhumed and that Of
he womans husband will also be dis
hterred.
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Church and state in spnin.

Madrid, Nov, 27-The chamber of
deputies to-day, by a vote of 161 to 4,
decided to devote half the session to
the discussion of the law of associa-
tions, and the other half to the budget.
The conservatives abstained from vot-
ing
The cabinet has resolved that it is
its duty to retain office until it is voted
out.
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NOW ADMITS HIS RUMsEY


Kansas CITY, Mo-, Nov pa tele-
phone message from Marshall, Mo, this
afternoon says, The man who on sum
day night robbed the passengers on the
East bound Alton-Burlington passen-
ger train, near Glasgow, No, here to-
day admitted that his real name is
Claude Rumsey, and that he is the man
fwho robbed the passengers. on the east
bound Rock Island overland limited
near the same point on the night Of
November S. Yesterday Rumsey said
It was his brother who committed the
Rock Island robbery.
"Rumsey said also that his home IS
In Chicago, where two brothers and a
sister live. He refused Ito give his
home address in that city
"Rumsey admitted that he recently
served term at the military prison at
Fort Leavenworth
Secret Service officer Cain Of Chica-
60 and Rolla Green of Marshall, in the
employ of the Chicago & Alton, ques-
toned Rumsey for four hours before
his preliminary hearing began this aft
| ernoon."
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GRECIAN AING LEAVES ROME
His Hesitation in Calling on Pope Due
to Politics.

Rome, Nov. Fixing George OF
Greece, who has been visiting King
Victor Emmanuel here, left Rome to-
day for Greece by way of Brindisi.
Rnmors are current to-day that the
Grecian kings hesitation before finally
calling upon the pope at the Vatican
resulted from an international struggle
in the matter France, it is declared
urged him not to go and in this she
was supported by Great Britain and
Russia, while the Vatican pressed the
adlisability Of the visit through AUS
tria-Hungary and Germany. Italy was
the only power Indifferent.
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InsanIty in New London 1ncrea.ing.

New London, Nov. 2Z-The Day. saws
t'is afternoon: Insanity seems to be
increasing in New London, Judging by
the records of the selectmen for the
past year or two. During that period
the board of selectmen has had many
fore applications for commitment pa
pers for people who have become in
sane than in similar periods in the past,
and the city is now. keeping fin the two
state Institutions between forty and
fifty patients.
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WANT RECORD OF SERVICE.
What Discharged Negro Troops VIII
Ask of President.

Oklahoma City, Okla, Nov. 27.-ser-
geants Israel Harris, Jacob Frazier,
Mingo Sanders, Thornton and Holly, of
the negro troops, discharged at Fort
Reno, were in this city to-day on their
way ITO make an appeal to President
Roosevelt.
Sergeant Harris said: We do not GO
so much to ask for reinstatement as to
ask that our discharge papers carry
with them a record of service Some Of
the men have served twenty-five years
and we believe that much is due them,
We do not believe the president would
have discharged the troops had he beer
In Brownsville at the time of the trou-
Bile"
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CANNOT GRANT DhMANDS,
Engineers of Railroads West and South
Refused.

Chicago, Nov. 27-At a conference to-
day Of the railroads entering Chicago,
ST. Paul. Minneapolis, st. Louis, Kan
sas city, and also of the Texas roads,
it was decided that the demands which
had been recently received from the
engineers could not be granted.
The engineers asked for an additional
day, an eight-hour day and modification
of physical tests.
Those present at the meeting declar-
ed their willingness to meet and confer
with committees of the engineers, pro-
vided committees which had power to
decide upon questions were sent to
them,
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MISSING GIRL FOUND.
Afflicted Ethel Ross of North BranfortA
Did Not Commit Suicide.

Branford. Nov. 27-Ethel Ross
daughter of w. ]. Ross, Of North Bran
ford, was located here tonight and is
now on her way back to her parents in
charge of her uncle, Charles Todd, who
came here to get her. Search had been
made for the girl all day. She put on
her mothers black dress when she left
home some time during the night. and
left note saying that she was going
to kill herself The couse taken by the
girl was easily traced, as she is lame
and has been using q crutch. The
tracks led through fields and woods
over a river, and at one point in the
journey circled a well. It is believed
that continued ill-health has affected
the child's mind.
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pnnhurr Residence DESTROYED.

Danbury, Nov. 27.-The residence of
Frederick A. Judd, in the aristocratic
section Of the city, was practically
burned to the ground to-day. result
ing in a loss of about $4,000. with par
tial insurance, Two other houses in
the close vicinity took fire but on these
the flames were extinguished with
nominal damages. An oil stove in a
conservatory, overturned by a small
dog. caused the fire. Mrs. Judd was
alone in the house at the time.
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Raise for Santa Fe Men.

Topeka, Kan, Nov. 27-The Atchi-
son, Topeka and Santa Fe railway
company here to-day granted an in
crease of four cents an hour in the
wages of its trainmen on the main line
from Chicago to Ell Paso.
Springfield, ILL.,, Nov. 27.--The Chica-
go, Peoria and st. Louis railroad to-day
announced that it has granted the
switchmen an increase in pay of four
cents an hour.
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DHMISSLD BY RooSLVfLE
District Attorney of Porto Rico Conn
mitted Grave OfYense.

washington, Nov. 81. President
Roosevelt to-day directed the dismissal
from office of Noah B, X. Pettingill,
United States district attorney for
Porto Rico. 1t was alleged that While
district attorney he had In the capacity
Of a private attorney enered suit
against another governments official
charging gross misconduct in office.
The action Of the district attorney,
the president said, amounted practical
ly to malfeasance in office.
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w.fe of wealthy OIL Operator.

Pittsburg, Nov, 27-while hospitals
were being searehed and the police
were seeking for Mrs. Addison H. Glib
son, forty-cne yean old, wife of q
wealth oil operator of this city. the
woman lay dead on the third foor NJ
the handsome residence on Fifth ave
nue., where she had committed suicide
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ARRESTED AT sAYBRoOK.
i've Men Taken Into Custody by Rail-
road Detectives.


saybrook, Nov. 27.-Railroad detec-
lives of the New York, New Haven and
Hartford railroad tonight arrested five
hen at Saybrook Junction charging
hem with trespasslng on railroad
property. Owing to the depredations
which have been going on about
|reight cars, it is stated, the detectives
o-night are stopping every freight
rain which goes through here and are
|naking search for trespassers. The men
hnder arrest gave the following names:
prank Connolly of Pawtucket R. L.;
bis brother, John Connolly Of Provi-
lence, R. l.; Thomas Riley of Delavan,
n, j.; James Quinn of Boston, Thomas
Durham of Nova Scotia.
On John Connolly, who is about
alineteen years old, was found putty
knife, while on his brother Frank were
! razor, 3S-calilbre revolver and 64 cart
Sidges Frank is about twenty-three.
.rhe brothers say that they were in
putnam earlier in the day and found
I he revolver there.
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TO APPEAL TO WORLD.
Aid to be Asked for Ten Million StarvA
ing Chinese.

Shanghai, Nov. 27-An international
committee composed of the consuls,
merchants, missionaries and Chinese
officials has decided to appeal to Eu-
rope and America to assist in relieving
the distressed inhabitants of the prov
ince of Kiang-Su, where the fioads
have completely destroyed the crops in
an area of over forty thousand square
miles, resulting in 100000 people be-
ing on the point of starvation, Thou
sands of these people are migrating
south towards Yankehow, Chinkiang,
and Suchow, selling their children, cat
tie and tools and leaving the country
in the hands of lawless elements.
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Shipping News.

New York. Nov. 27,-Arrived: steams
er Madonna, Marseilles and Naples.
Sailed: Steamers Main, Bremen; Carpas
thia, Naples, Trieste and FIume; Smo-
lensk, Bibau via Rotterdam.
London, Nov. 27.--Arrived; Steamer
Minneapolis, New York
Cherbourg, Nov, 81. / a. m.-Sailed;
Steamer Yorick, Bremen and Southamp-
ton for New York; a. m, steamer
Rhein from Bremen and Southampton,
New York.
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FIGHT FOR GILLE7TE'S LIFE
DEFENSE GETS MINISTER TO RE-
TRACT STATEMENT.
Rev. Cuthbert Frost Not Certain That 1t
Was the Accused who Broached the
Subject of the Big Moose Tragedy to
Some Guests Mt Arrowhead Inn--Con-
ditions Found i'm Bodies OF Drowned
Persons.

Persons.
Herkimer, N Y. Nov. M.-An abun-
dance Technical testimony along the
lines Of conditions ordinarily found in
the bodies of persons who have met
death by drowning, marked to-day's $
sessions Of the Gillette murder trial.
Four Of the five doctors employed as
experts by the state to perform the au-
topsy on the body OF Grace Brown,
Gillette's alleged victim, were on the
stand during the day, the fifth testify
ing yesterday. When court closed to-
night DR.. S. S. Richards was on the
stand.
Some of the questions put to the ex-
perts by counsel brought out further
confirmation of the claim that there
We're blood clots on the girls brain and
under the scalp. Other questions were
put to the doctors by Mr. Mills, Gill
lette's senior counsel to bring out opin-
/ ions tending to show that the conditions
found in the dead girls body were SIM
| liar to those sometimes found In the
bodies of drowned persons, and that
the conditions they found ait the autop-
sy are recognized by medical authori-
ties as indications of drowning. The
doctors examined were: E. H. Douglas,
NJ, f. Hayes and George w. Smith.
| A wordy war between opposing coun-
! sci resulted from the district attorney s
effort to introduce in evidence the foe
tus taken from Grace Browns body at
the time of the autopsy, District At
torney Ward succeeded in getting the
exhibit admitted in evidence, although
1t was shown to no one except DR. E. H
Douglas, who identified it.
An interesting point was reached
when Attorney Charles D, Thomas Of
the defense extracted from Rev. Cuth-
bert Frost, a Lowville clergyman, q
contradiction of very important
statement made by him ON the witness
stand last week At that time Mr.
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FOUND DEAD IN his ROOM.
Patrick Corcoran of Ansonia Asphixi.
ates Himself.

Ansonia, Nov 27.-Patrlck Corcoran,
an employe of the S. o. & Co., was
found dead in his room at 20 Front
street to-day. The room was filled
with gas which escaped from an open
gas jet Corcoran, who was forty
eight years old and single lived all
alone. He had not been seen since
Sunday afternoon and not appearing
at his work yesterday and to-day an
investigation was made. Both police
and medical examiner believe Corcoran
turned on the gas accidentally and
there is no suspicion of suicide or foul
play.
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some LITTLE HOPE FOR
CERTAIN NEGRO Soldiers
PRESIDENT HOLDS HE HAS
POWER JOREINSTATE ANY
OF THE MEN,

Whether He Avails Himself OF This
Depends Entirely on Evidence Pre-
sented to Him by Amy of Dismissed
Tending Clearly to ExcuIpate Them
From ANY Participation in Browns
Vile Shooting Afgair-Wants Facts
and Not Deductions.
Washington, Nov, 27. - President
Roosevelt holds that he has the power
to reinstate in the army any Oh the
members of the three companies Oh the
Twenty-ffth regiment Of colored ln1an-
try who were discharged without nom
or as a result of the trouble at Browns
VILE some time ago if the circumstances
Of any individual case Justify such ac-
ton Whether he will avail himsef oil
that power, according to the president,
will depend on the evidence that may
be presented to him in the case Of any
soldiers that will tend clearly TO excul-
pate them from any participation in
The incident.
This is in conformity with the an
nouncement he made while away to
Secretary Taft, who had telegraphed
the president stating that application
had been made by a number Of persons
for a re-hearing. The president wants
some of his callers to-day, of non-par-
ticipation before anything may be done
Those who talked with the president
to-day on the subject found him un-
WELDING in his original stand in the
matter. with the exception that in in
diYidual cases, where the facts war
ranted it, he said the man might be
reinstated.
Some statement is expected from the
White House soon, defining the presi-
dents attitude and clearly outlining his
reasons for ordering the discharge Of
T. three companies of men. He Is
aN aiting certain data bearing on the
subject, and some communications from
persons Interested before making any
statement. e
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LLGAL FIGHT TO THE FINISH.
Attorney General and Railroads in
Contest Over Employers Liability

Contest over Employers Liability
Bill.
Memphis, Tenn, Nov. 27.-The News
sclmltar this evening announces that
William H. Moody attorney general Of
the United States, and the attorneys of
the leading railroads of the country
Will fight to finish in the United
States court in Memphis a legal contest
involving the constitutionality of the
employers liability act passed by the
last congress, based upon the suit of
Damselle Howard for $4,000 damages
against the Illinois Central Railroad
company as a test case.
1t is expected here that Attorney
General Moody will appear personally
in the case when it is called December
I2s.
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ENTITLED TO CITIZENSHIP.
resident Believes People of Porto Rico
Should Have 1t,

Washington, Nov. 27.-The president
|elieves the people of Porto Rico are
htitled to American citizenship, and
ill recommend that this be granted to
hem, in a special message to Congress.
|he president has expressed the opinion
bat it is lamentable that they do not
hjoy this right. In this connection he
|oted that although Porto Rico had
bnt a delegate to the Pan-American
bngress at Dio Janeiro, that delegate
build not even say he was an American
Etizen, and this also is the case if he
lisits Europe or any other country.
The president was much pleased with
lis visit to Porto Rico, which he says is
fine country, is prosperous, and her
|overnment excellent. The people, he
hys, are prosperous.
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FRENCH soUADRoN SAILS.
Leaves Toulou for Morocco-spanish
Troops Ready.

Toulon, Nov. 28.-The French squad
ron commanded by Admiral Touchard
left here at 1890 o'clock this morning
for Tangier, Morocco, upon the receipt
of Instructions from the ministry of
marine The fleet is composed of the
battleships Suffren, Saint Louis and
Charlemagne, and is accompanied by
the transport Lanive.
Madrid, Nov. 27-According to dis
patches received here from Cadiz, a
brigade of 1000 men is being organized
there ITO be ready for any development
in the Moroccan situation.
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ANOTHER PRoBEFoR oILTRUs1
Government omcial in st. Louis to OBJ
tain Further Data.

St. Louis, Nov. 27.-John Porter Hol-
lis. special representative Of the bu-
reau of corporations under James R,
Garfield, is in st. Louis to secure ma
terial for a second report on the meth
DDS pursued by the Standard and other
Gil companies in Missouri The first re-
port, concerning transportation alone,
was secured by Mr.. Garfield The re-
port Of Mr. Hollis probably will be
submitted to congress and will con-
tain statistics upon the marketing OF
o..
Mr.. Hollis has just completed a tour
of Texas. Kentucky, Tennessee and
J6atsas
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TWEN1Y-SIx LIVES LOST.
Canadian steamer Jones Wrecked in
Lake Ontario.

Cleveland, Nov. PA dispatch from
.Collingwood, Ont, says that the Cana
dian steamer Jones has been wrecked
in Georgian bay and that twenty-six
lives were lost. A number of bodies
have been washed ashore at Colling-
wood
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Fire in VVestviIIe.

|. Early this morning fire destroyed the
boiler Shed of C. w. Blakeslee & Sons
ON Springside avenue, Westvtlle. There
was but one boiler in this shed, used
to generate steam for the steam drills
at the quarry.
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ToUNG WOMAN FINALLY PAYS.
Settles Hotel Bill in bridgeport and is
Allowed to Go.

Bridgeport, Nov. 27. "Dr. Eiyvian
Clarke or Chicago" or Millicent D. La
France, who was arrested here satur-
day charged with attempt to defraud
the Atlantic hotel of a $50 board bill,
was released from custody to-day.
Friends in Boston, to whom her lawyer
wired, sent on money by telegraph and
the woman liquidated her debt. She is
said to be eccentric and a member of a
well known Boston family. LaFrance
is said to be the womans maiden
na:.sa and she is married.
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Toxic Not to Purchase Steel railways.

Toxic, Nov. 27.-In the municipal
assembly here to-day the proposition
that the city purchase the street rail-
ways and manage them as a municipal
undertaking was defeated, the assem-
bly, deciding not to proceed with the
schame for the pgesent
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ENTIRELY FREE OF DEBT.
Catholic University of America shows
Good Report.

Washington, Nov 27.-Trustees of the
Catholic University Of America met in
semi-annual session at MacMahon han,
at the university, to-day. The treas
urer, Michael Jenkins, of Baltimore,
reported that the university Is entirely
free of debt, despite the fact that the
endowment amounts to only $780, 900,
and that its only other source of reve-
nue. is from collections taken in the
various Catholic churches throughout
the country for this special purpose.
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CHEAP CoLONIST RITES 10 CALI
FORNII.

Via Washington-Sunse Route Per-
sonally conducted excursion. Sleeping
cars without change from Washington.
Berth, $780, Southern Railway, No.
OBS; Southern Pacific, No. 10 Wash
inztan street. Boston,