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Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1907-01-02

West Philadelphia took the youngest
child to her home, where after hard
struggle he survived the effect of his
illness. The two girls, however, were
treated at home and died the next day.
While the physician at first announced
his opinion that candy of a poor sort
had caused the trouble, he notified the
coroner that the case should be looked
into.
The first part of the investigation
that followed was devoted to testing
the character of the various kinds of
candy in the neighboring stores and
especially at the store where the chill
dren had made their purchases.
Poison in ChiIdren's Bodies.
1t was with little surprise that the
detectives received the report of the
chemists that the candy appeared to
be practically pure, for by the time the
chemical tests were concluded the de-
tectives had become interested in the
stories they had learned regarding
the other sudden deaths in the house
within short time
Inc pouIeS OIL Ine TWO cn1lQren were
then quietly exhumed and examined
and it was found that a large amount
of arsenic was in the stomach of each.
Other investigators had meanwhile
brought to light the fact that all the
persons who had died suddenly were
insured in the same insurance COM
pany.
In looking up the story of the illness
of the two children it was found by
the police that the story that poisoned
candy should be blamed for their
death was made public by the woman
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1907-01-02

The case is one of the most per.
picking and mysterious ever known
in the history of the state
About two years ago Mr.. Wait, now
in the SOS, and always a man of
robust health, began to lose weight
and to complain of stomach trouble
He lost his appetite and suffered from
nausea. He was treated by the fam
lily physician, DR.. Snodgrass, but did
not improve. Last summer he went
to his country place on the lake with
Mrs. Wait and the servants. Rev. Mr.
Clements and his wife were with them
part of the time
They had many visitors and it is
recalled by one of the maids that
scarcely anyone who ate dessert at
the lake cottage escaped illness The
boy of all work became so sick that
he had to be sent home, moaning with
pain. Anna Flynn and Margaret Hart
nett, maid and cook, were SO pros
trated they could not work.
Mr.. Waits condition finally became
so alarming that it was decided to
return to Auburn. He grew steadily
worse. The suggestion was made that
the sewerage of the house might be
defective and responsible for the
strange malady which afflicted the en-
tire household. Plumbers ands drain
filters were called and all the pipe
ripped out. Not the slightest trace of
sewer gas was discovered.
Suspected Ptomaine Poisoning.
Then came the theory of ptomaine
poisoning and to treat this more sue
cessfully Mr.. Wait was taken to the
Auburn City hospital and placed under
special treatment.
The climax came one Sunday hight,
when the elder Wait was returned to
his home. The several witnesses who
were sufferers as well, are not specific
as to the exact date, but Margaret
Hartnett, the cook; Mrs. Josephine
Watkins, the motherly old washer
woman, and Catherine Walsh, the gen
eral utility woman, place it as six
weeks ago.
When a sponge cake was baked the
sugar used in the frosting was taken
from a box in the pantry where three
boxes of sugar were kept-the pulver-
lied nearest the door, the granulated
next and the brown sugar next to
that.
The old colored woman prepared
some hard sauce for pudding. She
used the pulverized sugar. Margaret
Hartnett, the cook, used the granula-
ted sugar for the frosting which she
beat up with eggs.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1907-01-02

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 short time be-
fore the death of 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
of the elder Wait, a graduate of the
Auburn Theological seminary, one of
the most noted young Presbyterian
clergymen in the country, is in Utica
or Schenectady in condition similar
to that of his father-in-law and
brother-in-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 one 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.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1907-01-02
The "PoIiceman" Was a Woman.

name of Fernando Mackenzie, her IA
Their being English and her mother
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 man.
She married there and pretended
that her wifes 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 miserable room sitting In q
broken chair facing large image Of
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 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 rent and fears evic-
ton, her beloved image being her last
resource.
She was speeches. with gratitude
for small gift of money and then
turned in an ecstasy of thanks to the
image.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1907-01-02
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 80 years
was badly injured in street acci-
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 Frenchwoman, born at Paris in
1886.
She says that she assumed her
male disguise when she was 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-
ity.
When interviewed the woman said
that she had always gone by the
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1907-01-02
Prison of the Tree load.

Mrs. Rebekah Baker, the. widow of
a civil war veteran, keeps several
large sea shells as ornaments on the
front piazza of her home on Foster
avenue, Sayville, L. l. The shells are
close a. the feet of the old woman
when she sits in her armchair on the
piazza, as she does the greater part OF
each day.
Mrs. Baker and a neighbor were
chatting together on the piazza. Pres.
emily the neighbor remarked:
Listen, There's a tree toad"
NO. said Mrs. Baker, I've heard
that noise all summer; it's inside one
of those shells. 1t must be a cricket
The caller turned up one of the big
shells which had been lying opening
downward on the piazza all summer
and out hoped tree toad. 1t was
mere skin and bones, but alive. 1t
evidently had been imprisoned in the
shell for the three months the shells
had lain in one place on the piazza
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1907-01-02
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 year and 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 nest in Dobbin's Manager and
refused to get out. AS the horse
offered no objections. Mr.. Ransome
left the hen undisturbed, and In due
time she Matched out fine flock OF
chicks. 1t was one of this flock that
took shine to Dobbin. At first the
horse didn't pay much attention to
the little one, but after time, as he
seemed to miss it when it was shut
up in the hen house, it was given the
run of the barn.
When Dobbin went into the field to
work tie chicken followed, always
keeping in sight of the horse. and
when the work was done it 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 startin9
he shut up the hen, but she managed
to get loose and start In pursuit.
Helped by her wings she made tart
time. and when Mr.. Ransome waa
about mile from home he found
her trailing at the wheel. Since then
she has accompanied Dobbin on The
road an well as In the fields.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1907-01-02
SPIRIT GAVE HIM RHEUMATISM.
Colored Pastor Blames Murderer's
Ghost for His Affection.

To being haunted by the spirit of
isaac Winder, the negro murderer, who
was hanged at Towson last March, and
whose spiritual adviser he was at the
time. Rev. ]. B. Amis, pastor of st.
Matthews Colored Baptist church.
ascrlDes his failing health The clergy.
man called on Marshal Farnan to OBJ
tain a permit for a Sunday school
parade. While in the marshaI's Office
ne asked permission to examine a
number of photographs of criminals
and the scenes of their crimes which
adorned the walls. This was granted,
and as Amis caught sight of picture
OF Winder he literally exploded.
70 de lan's sakes, doan' lemme
look at dish year pixture! It's dat Ike
Wlnder, an he's de cause ub NAH rheu-
mat1z. Dat yer Ike Winder done ha'nt
me ever since dey hung him at Tow
son. Lemme git outer hyah!" and the
Pastor hobbled on his crutches to the
other side of the room.
DlSn yer rheumatic done caused by
Nlnder," he explained. "He done come
d me at night an run his coli hands
over nah face, an hears him breath.
III hsrd, Jes' as he did dat day at Tow
son. One night he come and run his
hands over nah face, en- it feel jes'
IKE spidah webs, only co'ser, an den
ne re'ch down and pull every stitch ub
oeu CLOS often me. How did know
twas Ike Winder? Huh! I amt bin
sludyln' de Scriptures fo' nothin',"-
baltimore Correspondent of the Phila.
delph:a Record.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1907-01-02
Her Pony Fell Head Foremost.

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 1 knew
that there might be gray wolves
around
81 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
thore to telephone home for some
one to bring carriage.
Eyes, my brothers went to where I
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 This feet,
and he will soon be all right again.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1907-01-02
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. E. 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 gila monster that had
clamped its jaws on him. Andrews.
bleeding and half dazed, begged for
medical attention, but it was early in
the performance when the accident
happened and it would have meant the
return of the box receipts.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1907-01-02
Sounds Well.

Il have missed your husband for
some time, Mrs. Raggerty." said the
philanthropic visitor to the slums. Us
he doing anything now"
ooh, yes. sir answered the con-
vict's wife, automatically, hes
maxim his Twin now at the pen -
Baltimore American.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1907-01-02
Proof of Birth,

talk about aristocracyi 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 one of our very first
families.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1907-01-02
Confused Emotions.

How is your boy doing at coll
lege?v
Well" answered Farmer Corntos-
sci, Il don't exactly know whether to
compliment him or make a fuss. He
came out first in his class, but he
was last in a foot race"
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1907-01-02

After dinner, at l p. NJ, Josephine
Watkins ate spoonful of the sauce
she had made. At 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
DR.. A. H. Brown, the city health
officer, had DIR. Coe make an analysis
of the cake. He did 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
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.
Expert Toxicologist Summoned.
The situation became so alarming
that Horace r. Wait, brother of Will
liam F. Wait, employed A. H. Hamil-
ton, toxicologist expert, who came into
prominence in New York by his de-
monstration of how contact gunshot
wounds could be determined. He con-
Quoted series of experiments in
Bellevue, shooting bullets into corpses
atslong and short range in illustration.
Hamilton plunged into the investiga-
ton on October 9. He took what
little sugar was left and analysed it
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 ptomains
poisoning theory by finding u,
arsenic.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-10-18
PUBLIC COMMISSION
IS YET UNASSAILED
New York's New Law to
Handle Corporations Is
Approved. .

NEW YORK. Oct. 1s.-The Public Ser
vice Commission law. under which the
most powerful Wall Street interests have
been placed ~upon the red-hot griddle.
stands unassaiIed today, after three and
a half months Of operation. In spite of
countless threats that II would be at
tackled on the question OF constitution
atty.
No one has the nerve to make good
now that the commissions have won
popular approval" said an Official to-
day.
The Law. which gives complete con
troll aad- supervision Of all public-serviee
corporations TO two commissions an
pointed by the governor, marked a new
era. Other State officials have watched
II closely and hesitated TO take similar
steps until the question OF constitution
aity was settled. Now. after the great
traction interests OF Manhattan have
been ripped open, revealing even more
rottenneSs than was suspected the law
Is believed by the commission members
10 be absolutely immune from such 4
tacks- II was framed under the dlrec-
ton OF Governor Hughes.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-10-18

Found Home
In BROOKLYN

NEW YORK, Oct 1S-When six Car
melite nuns left Baltimore TO eFtablish
a community Of the Asture order in
Brooklyn the occasion was Mother
Theresa's first visit out OF the cloistei
in twenty-five years. She had forgot
ten which door in the Baltimore house
led 20 the street.
Bishop Mcdonnell purchased a house
for the nuns In ST. Johns place. between
Rogers and Bedford avenues.
The nuns arrived Saturday and at once
requested that the work Of barring
the windows be hurried. No outsider.
not even a clergyman, except the bishop
OF the diocese is permitted to pass with
IN the bars and gratinBs.
Rising al 8 a. m. sleeping on board
on which a bundle of straw is thrown
with constant prayer and abstinence,
form a part Of the Carmelite discipline.
Every Friday there Is mild flagellauon.
beating the arms and shoulders with
switches.
The number OF nuns in a Carmelite
cloister Is limited 20 twenty-one. Elk
ceedilE OF that number in Baltimore
community allowed a foundation IN
Brooklyn.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-10-18
SENSE ABOUT FOOD
Facts About Food Worth Knowing

II is a serious question sometimes TO
know just what 10 eat when Il persons
stomach is out of order and most foods
cause trouble.
Grape-Nuts food can be taken at any
time with the certainty that II will di-
Ecst. Actual experience of people is
valuable TO anyone interested in foods.
a Terre Haute woman writes: Il had
suffered with indigestion Tor about
four years, ever since an attack of
typhoid fever, and at times could eat
nothing but the very lisktest food,
and then suffer such agony with my
stomach I would wish 1 never had to
eat anything. was urged to try Grape
Nuts and since using it 1 10 not have
TO starve myself any more. but can
ee. 1t at any time and feel nourished
and satisfied. dyspepsia IS thing OF the
past. and I am now strong and we'll
MY husband also had an experience
with Grape-Nuts. He was very weak
end slckly in the spring. Could not
attend to his work. He was put under
tie Doctors care. but medicine did not
seem to do him any good until he began
to leave of ordinary food and use Grape
Nuts. 1t was positively surprising to
see the change IN him. He grew better
right of. and naturally he has none but
words Of praise for Grape-Nuts.
Our boy thinks he cannot at a meal
without Grape-Nuts, ana he learns so
fast at school that MS teacher and
other scholars comment on II. 1 am
satisfied that It is because of the great
nourt-hing elements in Grape-Nuts."
THE IS a Reason"
II contains the phosphate of potash
from wheat and barley which combines
with albumen to make the gray matter
to daily refill the brain and nerve CEN
tiers.
1t is a pity that people do not know
what TO feed their children. There are
many mothers who give their youngsters
almost any kind OF food and when they
become sick begin TO pour the medicine
down them. The real way is to stick
to proper food and be healthy and get
along without medicine and expense.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-10-18
STRIKE GROWS WORSE.
ITALIANS ARE ALARM Ed

ROME. Oct. ls-The strike situation
is rapidly growing more serious. At
Turin the strikers are becoming more
reckless Practically all business is
stopped and Il has been decided to pro
long tho general strike. Troops are
stationed throughout the city on guard
before stores and railway stations.
The peaceful citizens are greatly
Alarmed and Disguised at the acts OF
barbarism which the state does not seem
able to stop.
II is feared that buildings may be
stoned and sacked, as they were two
years ago.
At Bologna laborer named Campana.
suddenly crazed, thinking himself fol-
lowed Tor being a "scab." went TO the
city court. attacked DELEGATE Nfsis.,-,t'
ErlBadler ArnatiT, and several guards
inturing them severely. He was iinstis-
ium. '
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-10-18
COLUMBIA STUDENTS
HAVE EARNED 100000

NEW YORK, Oct 1s.-That students
Of Columbia who are working their
way through college have earned more
than 500 900 Is set forth In a report OF
the committee which finds employment
for the collegians. There were last year
749 students who supported themselves
while attending the university.
The students employment includes va
rious trades and professions. from that
OF chauffeur 10 stereopucon lecturer.
Unlike other colleges. very few OF the
students are employed as walters in the
mess hall. only two Of them applying
when the positions were advertised.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-10-18
Marriage Licenses.

Irwin 3. Catlingham of Ottoman.
Va. to Edith NJ. Sanford. Of Washing
ton.
Clarence c. Mullen to Sadie FitzhuEh.
John II. Tripplett 70 Clara A. Cook.
john L. McAllister TO Mary S. Run
nels. both of Staunton, Va.
Charles +. Schurtz, Knoxville, Nd,
to Grace z. Caller, Dickerson, Md.
Loren NJ. Sparou8h 70 Mary ". Wat
Z. L. wicl,s to Grace Hotten. both Of
New Market. Va
Harry P. Baker TO Bessie McKim
Joseph Levy to Sarah Rosenthul.
John D. Lane, Mt. Rainier, Md, TO
Rose z. Lynch. OF Washington.
Elmer r. Martin to Alice NJ. Vermil-
benjamin s. Via. Clifton Forge. to
Cora a Thompson. Craigsville, Va.
Charles 3. Smith 10 Lotue McCook-
J. Cooke Jones, Summer Duck, Va, to
Jennie Helm. Elk Run, Va
Samuel Nicholson to Rose Shiparo.
James z. Daniels to Bessie Hurdle.
LydCall C. Jenkins to Emma 4. Plain
field. both OF Richmond Va.
Blaine G. Ebert to Elizabeth Strobel,
both Of Philadelphia, Pa.
John Thompson 10 Victoria E Lam
dram, both Of Richmond, Va.
Keary Hill to George y. Clogett both
MerTeIi t. Shafer 70 Catherine r.
Valbrecht, both Of Waynesheld, Ohio.
John F. Willett, Tennleytown, D. 9,
20 Agatha Allison. of Washington
Samuel e.: Gray to Emma J. Golden,
both of Ballston. Va
James II. Wilson, OF Philadelphia, 70
Blanche NJ. Fritz. OF Washington.
Evan W. Hoax. OF Baltimore, to Kittie
MadduX. of Oak Hill, Va.
Raw W Hatinser TO Ora II. Montgom-
cry. both OF Collierstown, Va.
Edward II. Howard. Washington, 10
Elizabeth L. Boyd. Middletown, n. Y.
10Y J. Allen to Lillian 3. Williams.
both OF Richmond, Va.
Samuel F. Hudgins to Grace NJ
IIudgins. both OF Newport, Va.
George w. Mckee to Leah NJ Shana-
man, both OF Harrisburg, Pa.