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The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1907-02-07

herself before the attendant physician
had expressed an opinion. Then
came the report of other detectives
tending to show that the woman had
purchased rat poison a short time be-
fore the death oil her children and her
arrest was determined upon.
Deep Mystery in Auburn Case.
The poisoning at Auburn, N. Y, was
still more wholesale and more deeply
shrouded in mystery.
William F. Wait of the carpet manu-
featuring firm of Nye & Wait, presi-
dent of the Cayuga County Savings
bank and one Of the most prominent
and respected citizens of Auburn, is
a patient in the Auburn City hospital,
so desperately i'll that his recovery is
uncertain.
His son, w. Byron Wait, reputed to
be one of the wealthiest young men
in the town, is In the same institution
undergoing treatment based upon
symptoms similar to those of his
father.
Rev. Harvey Clements, son-in-law
oi lne elueT Wait, a OF the
Auburn Theological seminary, one OF
the most noted young Presbyterian
clergymen in the country, is in Utica
or Schenectady in a condition similar
to that of his father-in-law and
brotherin-law.
Frederick Hancock, coachman for
the Wait family; Margaret Hartnett,
the cook; Anna Flynn, the waitress;
Mrs. Josephine Watkins, a colored
washerwoman; Miss McFadden of Au-
burn and Miss Harris of Skaneateles,
both trained nurses, are recovering
slowly from an illness precisely SINH,
lar in symptoms TO that which has
stricken their employers.
Catherine Walsh, an elderly woman,
who helps out when the domestic SER
vice In the Wait mansion is overtaxed,
is the only n stricken who has re-
gained her normal condition.
All these persons, together with a
woman guest at the summer cottage
OF the Waits at Lake Owasco and a
boy of all work employed there. are
the victims of arsenic poisoning. In
every instance pulverized or granu-
lated sugar was the medium used.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1907-02-07
All Honor to the Annie,

The apple is a splendid fruit. al
though particular specimens of 1t are
oum. The different varieties have a
pronounced individuality. The per-
sonal equation Is prominent. The diff
ference between the Porter and the
Baldwin-each a genealogical star Of
the nrst magnitI ,e-is as marked as
the difference between a Connecticut
bank clerk and a Kentucky colonel.
n man who invented or discovered
the Baldwin conferred on humanity
a boon and he did more to tickle the
palate h has eve been realized.
OF many uses is the apple capable.
whether 1t is eaten raw or converted
into sauce or made the basic element
OF pie or subjected to other forms Of
artistic treatment by the American
housewife it serves a useful and i'm.
portant purpose. a..
History has never done adequate
justice to the apple. Poets have never
adequately celebrated in song the vir-
tues of the fruit. Political econom-
lists have never fully recognized the
full part that the apple plays in the
affairs of men But apple day is here
at last.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1907-02-07

whom was six years old and the latter
eight years Of age. At the time of
their death the fatality was ascribed
to eating poisonous candy.
1t was quickly discovered that the
woman's husband, two of the children
and two boarders in the house had
died suddenly and that another child,
little Edward, three years old, had
been critically i'll with stomach pains.
Next, according to Captain of De,
tectives Donaghy, came the discovery
that the woman had been buying rat
poison containing a large amount of
arsenic, just before the sudden illness
of her children aud the suspicion be-
came so strong that her arrest was
decided upon.
The first to die suddenly in the
household was Mrs. Carey's husband.
The next death in the Inflated house
was that of Celia Cook, who died on
August IA.
Then in order came:
Patrick Coyle, 81 years old. on Sep
TENDER II.
May 1dlCN, SlShb gSaiS OAht NANN OA
November II.
Anna Carey, six years old, died on
November II.
Edward Carey, three years old, be-
came seriously i'll on November 16,
but was taken away from the house by
an aunt.
Mr.. Carey was insured for $3.50.
Celia Cook was insured for 5000.
Patrick Coyle was insured for s215.
Each of the two children were in
sured for 5000.
In all the five lives were rated at
s1,065.
Two Little Girls Die.
The death of the two little girls
Of Mrs. Carey furnished a days sensa-
ton to the neighborhood. The girls
had received a few pennies from neigh.
bors and had purchased candy at a
store near their home. TheS gave
some of the candy to their little
brother and when they became sud
denly i'll the physician called to at
tend the case, after asking what the
children had eaten, ascrlbed the effects
OF their illness to the candy.
An aunt of the children living in
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1907-02-07

name of Fernando Mackenzie, her ia
Spanish. She was born in France,
came to Spain in 1876 at the age OF
35, and contrived to enter the Madrid
police force disguised as a man.
She married there and pretended
that her wife's child was her own
son. She removed to Seville, still
serving as a policeman, and was en-
gagged there as cook and orderly at
the governors palace at the old con-
vent of San Pablo, which was burned
last July. She served seven success
i've governors, and only lost her sit
uation through the fire, the governor
removing to a hotel.
In consequence of the discovery Of
her sex she has been discharged from
the police without the pension due
to her and is now a helpless cripple
and in great distress. She was found
in a miserable room sitting in a
broken chair facing a large image of
Christ, the only treasure she has left.
She said that her wife died two years
ago, and a neighbor said that Fer
nando" spent all she possessed on
the woman's funeral. Her alleged
son has never been seen since the
death Of the mother.
Mackenzie has a soft voice, a re-
fined face, and delicate features, and
was neatly dressed in male attire.
Asked how she escaped detection SO
long, she replied that she always
lived quietly in her own house with
her wife and did her duty by her en-
ployers so that no one meddled with
her. She owes rem n fears eyic.
ton, her beloved image being her last
resource.
She was speeches. with gratitude
for a small gift of money and then
turned in an ecstasy of thanks to the
image.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1907-02-07
HEN IS HORSES COMPANION.
Biddy Goes With Dobbin to the Fields
and Village.

McKeever, N. Y.-Henry Ransome,
a farmer living near here, has a leg.
horn hen a year and a half old which
is never happy unless it is near a
horse he uses for general farm work.
The attachment is mutual and strong.
and where you find one you are pretty
sure to find the other.
A year ago last spring a biddy
made a nest in Dobbin's manger and
refused to get out. AS the horse
offered no objections, Mr.. Ransome
left the hen undisturbed, and In due
time she Matched out a fine flock of
chicks. 1t was n of this flock that
took a shine to Dobbin. At first the
horse didn't pay much attention to
the little one, but after a time, as he
seemed to miss it when It was shut
up in the hen house, it was given the
u OF the barn.
When Dobbin went into the field to
work the chicken followed, always
keeping in sight of the horse, and
when the work was done 1t returned
and roasted on the headstall. This
kept up for many weeks, and all the
time the attachment grew stronger.
Finally, one day Mr.. Ransome's road
mare went lame, and he drove old
Dobbin to the village. Before starting
he shut up the hen, but she MANAGED
to get loose and start in pursuit.
Helped by her wings she made fast
time. and when Mr.. Ransome was
about a mile from home he found
her trailing at the wheel. Since then
she has accompanied Dobbin on tina
road as well as In the fields.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1907-02-07
WOMAN PASSES AS A
MAN THIRTY YEARS.
Sex Of Spanish policeman" Is Not
Discovered Until Accident
Befalls Her.

Seville.-An elderly policeman who
has been in attendance on successive
governors of this town for 30 years
was badly injured in a street acct
dent here. He was taken to the hos
pital and the doctor there discovered
that the policeman" was a woman
She went by the name of Fernando
Mackenzie, and during the whole Of
her long service no suspicion what
ever was aroused as to her sex. She
was a Frenchwoman, born at Paris in
1886.
She a y that she assumed her
ydale disguise when she was a girl.
and served her time in the French
army before she emigrated to Spain
many years back.
The police have lost a valuable
servant by the discovery of her iden-
tity.
When interviewed the said
that she had always gone by the
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1907-02-07
PHILADELPHIA WOMAN UNDER ARREST
Mrs Bridget Carey Said to Have Been Prompted by Guilty Love
in Commttal of Arocious Ac-WholesaIe Arsenic
Tragedy Has Stirred Auburn, New York.

Philadelphia-Charged with one of
the most horrible crimes on record,
the murder of her husband and two
little children, for paltry sums of in
%surance, with perhaps the added mo-
tive of getting rid of them to facilitate
a marriage with another man, Mrs.
Bridget Carey, of Nineteenth and Ham
ilton streets, is now awaiting trial,
while the evidence is hourly becoming
more and more strong hat may send
her to the gallows. The police say
they will have the woman's lover in
the dock with her when she faces the
Jury.
Not only is she charged with these
monstrous murders of a devoted hus-
band and the children which she bore,
but also with that of d man and
woman who boarded with her and
upon whose lives also she had insur.
nee
And while this revolving tragedy was
being enacted at Philadelphia another
startling case of poisoning, equally
Wholesale, was coming to light in the
peaceful town of Auburn. N. Y, where
William f. Wait, a ~well-known and
respected business man, and one by
n his entire household had been
poisoned successfully in a way so
mysterious that beyond the fact that
arsenic was the deadly chemical used
no clew has yet been found which
may lead to the discovery of the per-
p~etrator.
Attention was called to the alleged
wholesale murder here by the death
a short time ago of Mrs. Carey's two
children, Anna and May. the first of
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1907-02-07

After dinner, at l p. m., Josephine
Watkins ate a spoonful of the saucs
she had made. At 8 o'clock she was
taken with violent cramps and nausea.
She nearly died. The cook ate a piece
of the cake she had baked and so did
Anna Flynn, the waitress. Hancock,
the coachman. took two mouthfuls Of
the frosting. Ninety minutes later
all three were rolling about in agony.
Rev. Mr.. Clements and his wife were
in the same condition upstairs. Mr..
Wait was i'll in his bedroom and Mrs.
Wait complained of illness.
The doctors did not agree as to the
cause. The majority thought it
ptomaine poisoning. DR.. Trip later
said positively that the case of the
eoachman was due to arsenic.
DIR. A. II. Brown, the city health
officer, had DR.. Coe make an analysis
of the cake. He "a not discover
arsenic. By direction of Detective
Graney the cook baked cakes in which
she used sugar taken from the house
hold boxes, which then contained only
a few ounces of material. These cakes
were fed to dogs and guinea pigs.
Some of the dogs showed symptoms OF
arsenic poisoning. while others were
not affected. The guinea pigs showed
bodily degeneration.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1907-02-07
SPIRIT GAVE HIM RHEUMATISM.
Colored Pastor Blames Murderer's
Ghost for His AfHiction.

To being haunted by the spirit of
Isaac Winder, the G murderer. who
was hanged at Towson last March. and
who's spiritual adviser he was at the
time, Rev j. b. Amis, pastor of st.
Matthews Colored Baptist church,
ascribes his failing health. The clergy.
man called on Marshal Farnan to oh.
tain a permit for a Sunday school
parade. While in the marshal's office
he asked permission to examine a
number of photographs of criminals
and the scenes of their crimes which
adorned the walls. This was granted.
ana as Amis caught sight of a picture
OF Winder he literally exploded.
70 de lan's sakes, doan' femme
look at dish year pixture! It's dat Ike
Nlnder, an he's de cause ub NAH rheu.
matiz. Dat yer Ike Wirder done ha'nt
me ever since dey hung him at Tow.
sson. Lemme git outer hyatt" and the
pastor hobbled on his crutches to the
other side Of the room.
DISH yer rheumatic done caused by
Nlnder,' he explained. He done come
D me at night an run his col hands
over nah face, an l hears him brea n
IN hard, jes' as he did dat day at Tow
son One night he come and run his
hdhds over nah face, en- it feel jes'
IKE spidah webs, only co'ser, an den
ne rech down and pull every stitch ub
pea CLOS often me. How did l know
iva Ike Winder? Huhl amt bin
studyin' de Scriptures TO nothin',"-
baltimore Correspondent of the Phila.
delph.a Record.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1907-02-07

down and take off my shoes in order
to rub my feet back to some sort Of
feeling.
'The coyotes made me feel uneasy,
too. They seemed TO be bowling on
all sides OF me, and though l knew
they were cowardly things, they made
me uncomfortable, and then / knew
that there might be gray wolves
around.
II kept on towards the lights of
town, and after hours and hours, it
seemed to me, | got to some buildings
which recognized as the stone quar-
ries, two miles from town, and went
there TO telephone home for some
one to bring a carriage.
"Yes. my brothers went to where
had left the horse and found him still
buried in the drift, with only the
horn of the saddle showing. They
dug him out and got him on his feet,
and he will soon be all right again"
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1907-02-07
Imprisoned in PIT Of Snakes.

Los Angeles, Cal.-Rather than
close the snake show at Chutes park,
f. Coleman. the proprietor, it is al
legged, kept r. r. Andrews, a snake
charmer, in the pit of snakes during
the nights performance after his fin.
ger had been ripped to the bone in
disengaging a gila monster that had
clamped its jaws on him. Andrews,
bleeding and half dazed, begged for
medical attention, but II was early in
the performance when the accident
happened and 1t would have meant the
return Of the box receipts.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1907-02-07
Proof of Birth.

Talk about aristocracy! Were not
our first parents laborers working for
their daily bread in the sweat OF
their BROWSE"
But still you can't deny that they
belonged TO M of our very first
families"
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1907-02-07
Sounds Well.

II have missed your husband for
some time. Mrs. R~aggerty," said the
philanthropic visitor TO the slums. rs
he doing anything now?"
ooh, yes, sir answered the con-
vict's wife. automatically, hes
maxim his Twin now at the 'pen.'"-
Baltimore American.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1907-02-07
Expert Toxlcoloeist Summoned.

The situation became so alarming
that Horace r. Wait, a brother of VIII.
liam F, Wait, employed A. II. Hamil.
ton, toXicologist expert, who came into
prominence in New York by his de-
m~onstration of how contact gunsEo OF
wounds could be determined. He con.
Quoted a series of experiments In
Bellevue, shooting bullets into corpses
at long and short range in Illustration.
Hamilton plunged into the investiga.
ton on October 3. He took what
little sugar was left and analysed IL
His report was that he had discovered
arsenic. He examined the house from
sleeping rooms TO cellar and found
the plumbing in good condition. He
disposed entirely OF the ptomnns
poisoning theory by finding W,
arsenic.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1907-02-07
Confused Emotions.

How is your boy doing at col
lese?"
Well" answered Farmer Corntos-
sci, II don't exactly know whether to
compliment him or make a fuss. He
zane out FIRST in his class, but he
was last in a foot race"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-07
FIVE JAPANESE ARE
 DENIED ADMISSION
FIVE HUNDRED TRYING TO GET IN-FiRST ACTION OF SECRE- TARY sTRAUS ON THE NEW I'M. MIGRATION LAW.

Washington, April 6.-Secretary Straus of the department of commerce and labor, today denied admission to this country of five Japanese immigrants, namely. Hisamatsu Takamoto, Otokiro Hatekay- ema. Mauskichi Yamada. Kenosuke Sad akami and Kanesckichi Takayama. These are the first Japanese exclusion cases which have reached the secretary since the promulgation of the executive order. carrying into effect the new immigration law.
 Secretary Straus' action was based on an appeal taken by the Japanese from a decision of the inspector at Fl Paso. Tex, denying their right to enter this country on passports from Mexico.
 The matter was presented on behalf of the would-be immigrants to the Japanese minister and he advised them that the course of the United States authorities was in accord with the agreement be- tween the two countries and hence sat isfactory to his government. When they represented that they had been compelled to come to the United States in search of food. he advised them to apply to the Japanese minister to Mexico for relief.
 Commissioner Sargent has been ad- vised that about 800 Japanese laborers have recently left Fl Paso going both east and west. and 1t is expected that they will try to find admission into the United States at unguarded points along the international line.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-07
ROOSEVELT
 PILOT" MYSTERIOUS
Great Many Letters Come to
 the Presid ,.
WRITER'S NAMES WITHHELD
Dinner Where Combination Got To- uether Also a Secret-GentIeme of the Press All Wrong,
 Says Loeb.

Washington, April 6.-President Roose- welt is receiving a great many letters from different sections of the country re- garding the combination which 1t has been asserted, was formed to defeat him at the coming presidential campaign. Infor nation as to the Identity of the writers and the precise nature of their communi- cations Is withheld, but those who are close to the President say the disclosures have stirred up considerable feeling.
 The location and date of the dinner and the personnel of the party attending 1t, at which the plot said to have been elab- orated remain secret so far as any in- formation at the White House is vouch- safed.
 You gentlemen are all wrong as to the details of the dinner" is all Secretary Loeb would tell the newspaper men to- day, except to indicate that the affair was of an informal character and that the disclosures came out in an informal manner.
 Senator Bourne of Oregon it has been commonly reported, was the host at the dinner, while the guests included among others, Senator Hansbrough of North Dakota, and Delegate Andrews of New Mexico. Comment was made upon the fact that all three of these gentlemen were at the White House today and talked with the President. None of the callers would make any statement on the subject nor would any of them admit that his call at the White House had any connection with the matter. Secretary Loeb said that Senator Bourne had called on the President to discuss some land office appointments which had been hang ing fire for long time.
 Senator Penrose of Pennsylvania, whose name had been freely used in connectian with the disclosures of the alleged plot has not communicated with the White House since the story became public, &C., cording to Secretary Loeb, who stated today that the only information received there about him has come from the news papers. When a report that Senator Pen rose was going to the White House to talk about the matter with the President, was called to Secretary Loeb's attention the secretary said:
 'I have made no statement about him, and the senator has nothing to deny to me-"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-07
WANTS TO SUPPRESS
 HIS OWN NOVEL
THE REV. MIR. WARREN OF NEW YORK CREATES A SENSATION BY APoLoeIzINc FOR HIS MUCH CRITICISED WORK.

New York. April 6.-On arising to apolo- gize to 800 of his fellow clergymen for a book of fiction of which he was the author, and then amid the plaudits of the gathering, seizing his hat and overcoat to hurry to his publishers to suppress the volume created a sensation at today's session of the annual New York Meth odist conference. The Rev. Dr. R. c. War ren of this city was the preacher in question. His book which was published some months ago was strongly criticised in many churches. Critics of the book declare that it contains a burlesque on a dozen or more preachers. Conditions described in the book are said to be strangely like those existing in a Hudson river town.
 Rev. Warren, after explaining about his book, said:
 Tt appears that I am guilty in having drawn characters too close to life. If I have animadverted any man or woman inside or outside of this conference I am heartily sorry for it. I think 1 can have that book suppressed and the plates de- endeavor in that direction. l do this not in hope of reward or fear of punish- ment, but because of the honor and es- teem in which I hold this body"
 As the minister concluded and with his hat and coat in his hand, started down the aisle, the gathering arose and cheered.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-07
BRYAN BANQUET TO
 BE NOTABLE AFFAIR
Commoner Will Be Guest of Chatta- nooga on the 10th and Received
 By Prominent Men.

Chattanooga, April 6.-Wednesday night the 10th the Bryan club of this city will entertain Hon. William Jennings Bryan at a banquet which will be attended by some of the most notable democrats of the country. An elaborate affair has been arranged for and invitations have been issued to demorcatic leaders of the country Among those who have accepted and will attend are Judge Augustus Van Wyck, ex-mayor of the city of New York; Edward ". Carmack. former sena- tor from Tennessee; Clark Howell of Att Ianta. John w Tomlinson of Birmingham. Senator James B. Frazier of Tennessee. Governor B. B. Conner of Alabama. Gov ernor N c. Blanchard of Louisiana. Hon. R. E. L. Mountcastle. democratic na- tional committeeman, and others promi- nent in the democratic councils of this section. There will be about three hun dred present.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-07
MANIPULATION OF
 GRAIN QUOTATIONS
FORMER OPERATOR AT MINNIE APoLlS BOARD OF TRADE TELLS OF SCHEME IN SUIT OF CHAM BIER OF COMMERCE.

Minneapolis, Minn., April GA. ". Har- ris, former telegraph operator at the Su- perior Board of Trade, today testified in the federal inquiry now on here that grain quotations were there manipulated and then telegraphed to St. Paul. Cincin- natl, Kansas City and Omaha. This evil dence was brought out today In the talk ing of testimony in the suit of the Min neapolis Chamber of Commerce vs. the Board of Trade to restrain 1t from using the chambers market quotations.
 ''If the Minneapolis market was 76A, the operator recording the quotations would so indicate to the brokers In the pit by a system of finger signals. They would immediately run the prices up to 761s and then back to 76i4. That Is the way they were posted on the board" said Mr. Har- ris. MT. Harris stated he telegraphed all these board prices to the cities named.
 How many brokers were In the plt?'' asked Attorney H. V. Meyer for the chamber.
 At first there would be five or six
 And what did they do when MT. Flick son (the operator) signaled?'
 They would offer to buy or sell 10000 bushels of wheat and then laugh"
 Were there ever more than five or six brokers there at once?'
 No. and usually these would all leave but two, soon after the market opened. And at times for q few minutes they would all leave the floor.'
 MT. Harris further stated that he re- eeived instructions to keep his mouth shut at anything he saw or heard
 A very rigid cross-examination failed to shake his testimony.