Greenfield Evening Republican, Greenfield, Hancock County, 2 November 1895 — Page 3

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Local and Personal.

Isaac Davis was at Indianapolis (sc'iiy. New York counts at J. H. Bragg's T6Stft*uicliibi

Miss Belle Peters will spend 3unday with Knightsiovrn frienrls. Chesapeake Bay oysters at J. H. Bragg's.

L«t there be a large attendance at the Sunday schools tomorrow.

The fines*, oysters in the market at Bragg's restaurant. J. F. Reed and wife were at their fram near Carrolst yesterday.

The .quire meal iu the city is found at T. H. Bragg's restaurant.

Mr?. Joeseph Baldwin and Mrs. Lizzie lid win went to Indianapolis today. Mrs. E»i Gi in^ham, who has been very sick with typhoidjfever, is reported better.

Tvro furnished front rooms, with jw. Desirable location. 42 N. State St. 288t6 gFor rent, t.wo newly ^furnished rooms, centrally located. Inquire at this* office. 63tf

A child of Mrs. Oliver Nigli is very sloK of typhoid fever in the northwest part of the city. """Fred, tafe little son of Richard Curry, who has been sick with typhoid fever, 1s much better.

Luther Polen and wife, of Indianapolis, will spand Sunday with her parents, D. H. Goble and wife.

Miss Hattie Eitle, of Indianapolis, is visiting Mi-=s Lou Crawford, Miss Bettie Poulson and other friends here.

We h*ar that some of the cement sidewalk on South State street has cracked, and that it will have to be relayed.

Just received a large shipment of sulphur, carbolic acid, asofostida and copperas at Qui play's drug store. 4w

W. H. Hendricks will return tonight from Madison county, where he hps been delivering his fall supply of fruit trees.

A. J. Banks delivered two fine heating stoves to the Cirrollton schools today. They were taken down by Squire Griffey:

Mrs, A. P. Conklin went to Jonesboro today to visit her parents, Rev. Thomas Stabler and wife. She will be gone a week.

Mrs. Gea. W. Rhodes and her daugh-ter-in-law, Mrs. A. M. Rhodes, of Rush county, are visiting D. H. Goble and wife.

Miss GraceGray was at Indianapolis today to see Walter Whitesides the great actor in Shakespear's magnificent play £h« Merchant of Venice.

Mrs. Beaumont and daughters, who taught a dancing class here recently, the various figures of the German, is now teachiug a class in Alexandria.

Eld. E. M. Thomas, of Danville, Ind., is vsiting his cousin, Eld. R. W. Thompson and family. He will preach at the Christian church today and tomorrow at 2 o'clock p. m.

Rev. W. L. Martin and wife were in attendance at the County Sunday School convention at Mt. Comfort yesterday. The subject of

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School Efficiency." The nightstown Banner in speaking of Kendall's "Pair of Kid," which was played there last Monday says the show was a fake. Instead of a pair of kids there were a whole drove.

The reason the bloomer has not come to stay is that no woman looks pretty in a bloomer. Just let the fashion aloua and it will regulate itself. American women have good taste and will dress becomingly.

One of the old-time football teams which has playeil a Thanksgiving game every year for thirty years now declines because "all the members have grown baldheaded, and there is no sport at football with no chance to pull hair."

To sell liquor in Georgia one is required to get the names of two-thirds of the voters of bis ward or precinct to sign his petition for a license, which if graitei costs him $1,000 a year. The license only grants privilege to do busineas from 5 ft. m. to 10 p. m., and for anyone to •nter a saloon during prohibited hours, •nbjocts him to a One of $1,000 and imprisonment.

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HARRY STRICKLAND.

THE OLD RELIABLE

HAND LADNDRY.

Is now in running order and I would thank you all for your patronage.

First-class Work Guaranteed.

59 W. Main]St., Gant block.

LOUIE L. SING, Prop.

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T. J. Orr, vviio moved to a aaai ntorfciieast of the city sctne time ago, has returned here audjjwill make this city bis lilture home.

The great attraction in Indianapolis next week will be on the great sale of cloaks and furs by H. P. Wasson & Co. The stock of three cloak manufacturers and two furriers of New York City, which owing to ^depression in business, caused by continued warm weather had to be sold. They were bought by Wasson & Co. and will be offered for sale as advertised. The sale begins Tuesday, Nov. 5th.

CHURCH NOTES.

PRESBYTERIAN.

Services at the Presbyterian church tomorrow at 10:30.'a. m. and^7:15 p. m. Morning subject—"The Great Protestant Reformation—Why was it? In the evening—"The Fruits of the Reformation."

FRIENDS' CHURCH.

Sabbath school at 9:15 a. m. C. E. prayer meeting at 6 p. m. Preaching at 10:o0 a. m. by W. G. Hubbard, of Coiumbus, Ohio. Everybody invited.

LINDLEV A. WELLS, Pastor. M. P. CHURCH.

Sunday school at 9:30 o'clock followed by class meeting C. E. prayer fmeeting 6 p. m. Sermon at 7 p. m., subject, "Eehoes from the State Convention of Christian Endeavor." A* ppecial invitation to young people is extended.

W. L. MARTIN, Pastor.

FIRST M. E. I CHURCH.

Preaching at 10:30 a. m. and 7 p. m. Morning subject—"At the Grate Beautiful." Evening at 7 p. m. Rev. Wm. G. Hubbard, of Columbus, Ohio, President of the "Peace Association of Friend in America," will deliver an address on "Higher lifo for nations, through Peace and Arbitration.

M. E. NETHERCUT, Pastor, Deaths.

As reported by C. W, Morrison & Son undertakers. Mathew L. Willett, age 73 years of paralysis Friday afternoon, Nov. 1st, at his late home 3 miles Northwest of city. Funeral Sunday at 11

m. at Sugar

creek church by Rev. Campion, Frank Baily, age 23 years of consumption Friday night, Nov. 1st, at residence of his mother, Mrs. Mary Baily,|73 Walnut street. Funeral at residence Sunday at 2 p. m. by Rev. Soader Interment at Park cemetery.

DDRANT IS GUILTY.

The Jury So Decides on First Ballot.

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OUT BUT TWENTY MINUTES.

At There Was No Recommendation of Mercy, the Punishment Was. Fixed at Death —The Case Will Be Appealed to the Supreme Court—The Verdict a Satisfactory Oue.

SAN FRANCISCO, NOV. 2.—Theodore Durant, assistant superintendent of Emanuel Baptist church Sunday school, was yesterday-convicted of the murder of Blanche Lamont, after he had been on trial since July

last. The jury

was out 20 minutes, and arrived at the verdict on the first ballot. As there was

In an instant a hush fe$ upon the littl3 circle that had gathered around the prisoner. Durant's face, always palid, assumed a ghastty hue and his mother was speechless. Then the door at the rear of the room opened, and the jury filed in and took their seats in the box. Intense excitement followed. The room, although filled to its utmost capacity, was almost as quiet as if it had been vacant. Judge Murphy, who had retired to his chambers, was summoned, and took liis place upon the bench. Clerk Morris asked the usual question as to whether the jury had agreed upon a verdict. Foreman Warren Dutton arose and replied in the affirmative. "We, the jury," said he, "find the defendant, William Henry Theodore Durant. guilty of murder in the first degree."

As the aped foreman, pale and trembling, read the words that fixed Durant's fate, a low, rumbling noise like the roar of a mob arose from the rear of the courtroom. The next moment men were cheering wildly, while women wept hysterically in excitement. The bailiff rapped loudly for order, but the tumult continued for a minute before anything like quiet could be brought out of the disorder. When District Attorney Barnes arose and askr^hat a day be set upon which the sentence of death should be passed, Judge Murphy said that sentence would be passed next Friday, upon which day he would also set the day for the trial of Durant on the charge of murdering Minnie Williams.

During the tumult that followed the announcement of the verdict, Durant and his mother were lost sight of, except by the few who sat nearest them. As the last words of the verdict were uttered, Durant made a spasmodic effort to arise to his feet, but before he could do so, his mother, with a half sigh, half moan, threw her amis around his neck and sunk back into her chair. His mother's grief seemed to make Durant forget his own position, and for the next few minutes he sat with his arms around her neck, trying to soothe her. The long strain of the trial, however, had completely shattered her self-control, and it was some time before Mrs. Durant could leave the courtroom. Durant's father was not in the room when the verdict was returned. As soon as the jury retired, he went out in the corridors, not believing that the jury wrould return for several hours, and he first learned that his son had been convicted when a cheer went up from the crowd in the building as the news spread.

Durant recovered his old time composure as soon as he left his mother, and prepared to return to the county jail. With his overcoat swung carelessly over his arm he walked leisurely out of the room, twirling his slight moustache with apparently as little concern as if he were merely a spectator instead of the principal figure in the exciting scene.

Aside from the spectators, Mrs. Noble, Blanche Lamont's aunt, and Maud Lamont, the dead girl's sister, were apparently the happiest persons in the room. When the verdict was announced Maud Lamont arose from her seat clasped her hands and then cried of sheer excitement. Mrs. Noble mixed smiles with tears and shook hands with a number of friends who crowded around to congratulate her.

As soon as Durant left the building the crowd surged out of the room and gathered around the door out of which the prisoner usually came to reach the prison van. Fearing that some violence might be offered the prisoner, he was taken out of another door and driven by a circuitous route to the county jail.

The verdict fell with all its force upon Durant and his family, who had banked all their hopes on a disagreement. While Mrs. Durant knew that it was among the possibilities that her son would be acquitted, her friends said sire steadfastly maintained that a shadow of doubt would rest in the mind of one of the jurors and that her son would not be convicted. She was, therefore, totally unprepared for the jury to find her son guilty in 20 minutes. When the verdict was announced the whole weight of her sorrow seemed to fall upon her, and she gave way to uncontrollable grief. But once dining the whole trial had she shown any anxiety or feeling. When District Attorney Barnes was Thursday in the midst of oue of his most bitter arraignments of the prisoner, whom he characterized as the most brutal murderer in the history of American jurisprudence, P'lrs. Durant threw her arms around the neck of her son and wept. A recess of five minutes was taken to givfe Mrs. Durant an opportunity to recover her composure.

By common conscnt, District Attorney Barnes is given most of the credit for the conviction of tho greatest murderer that as ever trieu in California. While the police department did excellent work, it is believed that Mr. Barnes' address, which consumed two days and a half in its delivery, had much to do with removing any unger-

no recommendation of mercy the punishment was fixed at death. The scene in the courtroom when the verdict was announced will never be forgotten by thi:*e who were present. Judge Murphy finished his charge at 3:20, and the jury at once retired. Although there was supposed to be little prospects of a verdict being returned before 7 or 8 o'clock in the evening, the crowd of spectators who had remained in the overcrowded courtroom all the afternoon to hear the judge's charge, I settled themselves back in their seats to await the return of the jury. Mrs. Durant and the prisoner talked and laughed together as if an acquittal were a foregone conclusion. They were surrounded by half a dozen friends, and the conversation was animated when it became whispered about that the jury had agreed upon a verdict.

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injjf-doubfc from the minds of the jurors, 'it at any time there was j•••••«•• ^»o was not convinced of Durant's go.it.

Barnes' address is considered one of the most logical and eloquent efforts that was ever made before a California jury. He Ts given greater credit for the verdict from the fact that the evidence was entirely circumstantial.

The case will be appealed to the supreme court and it is expected bom-! a year will elapse before a decision will be obtained. While it is not thought that any error had been committed, the defense has embraced every opportunity to take exception to the rulings of the court. General Dickinson took exception to three features of the uistrict attorney's argument yesterday. He also took an exception to the judge's charge.

POSTPONED AGAIN.

Poor ProspecM of Corbett and Fitusiinmons Meeting in the King. LITTI.E ROCK, NOV. 2. Governor

Clarke, through his attorneys, Rose, Hemingway & Rose, with the attorney general, executed another flank movement yesterday. An application was filed in Pulaski chancery court for a temporary order restraining the following parties from engaging in, aiding, or abetting a fight with or without gloves:

Corbett, Fitzsimmons, the Hot Spring Athletic association, Brady, Julians Vendig, A. K. Wheelock, "W.

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cock, Reb Houpt, W. W. Waters, Peter Maher, Steve O'Donnell and William Delany.

Supoenas were issued for all of the defendants named, citing them to appear within 20 days. The affidavit is a lengthy one, citing all the facts in connection with the match from Jacksonville, Fla., to Hot Springs, Ark. It is within the power of the court to grant the applications upon the affidavit alone.

Julian and Fitzsimmons were brought into court at 2:15 p. ni. Judge Hemingway, for the state, wanted to know what response had been made to the charge. Colonel Murphy, for the defense, said that none had been made, nor would any be made. It was not required in such proceedings.

Attorney Martin stated that the defense was ready to go ahead with the hearing. The state then, through Judge Hemingway, asked that the case be continued in order that the necessary witnesses, who are now in Hot Springs, might be brought to this city.

Judge Murphy stated that the defense did not controvert any allegation made by the state. His clients had been arrested and brought into court for the purpose of being required to give bond to keep the peace. They were there, he said, ready to give the bond. The defense would neither concede nor affirm any of the state's allegations. Judge Martin held that the state had aright to introduce testimony and the case was continued.

Corbett and Brady were brought before Chancellor T. B. Martin at 5 o'clock in the afternoon. The defense entered a plea of former conviction and submitted certified copies of the bonds issued by Justice of the Peace Rapley of Hot Springs. At this point Chancellor Martin said there was no need of mincing words that it was commonly known that a prize fight was contemplated at Hot Springs. This fact had become notorious. It was a matter though to be investigated, and as a conservator of the peace and dignity of the state, he proposed to give full and ample opportunity for a thorough investigation. It was currently reported that the peace officers of Hot Springs were openly aiding in the effort to bring about this prize fight. "If such a state of affairs exists," said the chancellor, "I do not hesitate to stigmatize it as an infamous outrage upon the good name of the state and a disgrace upon the community that tolerates it. I think little enough of men who engage in prize fights, but I have a higher regard for them than I have for some of the men engaged in bringing about this affair."

The state wanted time to bring witnesses from Hot Springs. Chancellor Martin said that the men were being deprived of their liberty and were entitled to a speedy hearing. He intended that both sides of the case should have a fair opportunity to present whatever testimony they had in the matter. A continuance would therefore be granted until 2:30 o'clock Saturday afternoon.

The prisoners were remanded to the custody of Sheriff Houpt of Garland county, the court remarking that the pugilist and his manager were not now in jail and would not be sent there until the case had been investigated.

S Corbett and Fitzsimmons Meet. ST. LOUIS, NOV. 2.—A special to The

Republic from Little Rock says: Fitzsimmons and Corbett came together here in the Capitol hotel yesterday evening, but no serious consequences followed. Fitzsimmons was seatted in the dining room when Corbett entered. To get by the Australian Corbett had to walk within a couple of feet of him. As he neared him Corbett poked his finger at Fitzsimmons in a derisive and insulting manner, at the same time muttering some unintelligible sound. Every one expected to see a fight, but Fitzsimmons was not game. He hastily looked up, flushed and Corbett walked on. The peacefully inclined breathed easier while the sporty element collapsed. It was a chance for the pair to have one round at least.

Gasoline Explosion.

STEUBENVILLE, O., NOV. 2.—By an explosion of gasoline in the basement of W. L. Sharp & Sons' stove store Joseph Wannemaeher was burned to death and Fred Moselle was badly injured. The store burneu, entailing a loss of $50,000. The men were draining gasoline in the cellar and the fluid ignited from a torch. Wannemacher's body was burned almost beyond recognition

Captain Bassett's Condition. WASHINGTON, Nov. 2.—The report

that Captain Isaac Bassett, the veteran doork' v-er of the senate, was dying, is not comirmed. He is suffering from stomach trouble, but his physician states he is not dangerously ill. Captain Basnett is 76 years of age, however, and qnit' feeble, and the physician does not think he* will be able to perform his duties much longer.

Farmer's Boy Accidentally Killed. PIQUA, O., Nov. 2.—William Stein, Aged 17, son of Farmer Stein, met with

fatal accident while out hunting with a companion. While young Stein was ji the act of crossing a log his gun was accidentally discharged, the ennre load jf No. 4 shot entering under the chin, Searing away almost all of his face. He *ras taken to his home, where he only ived two hours.

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SATURDAY we put on sale 200 suits Egyptian Rubber Underwear at

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Same tliins that orlier dealers get $1.50 for. All

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Kitchen Queen (cook) No. 8 Never sold before for less than $12.00. Farmers' Friend, with reservoir like cut

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