Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 38, Number 9, Jasper, Dubois County, 8 November 1895 — Page 6
WEEKLY COURIER.
C. DOAJfK, I?ubliHher.
JASPER. - -
INDIANA.
Mou. Satou.i, papal ablegate to the united States, lias been created a cardinal by the pope. Hvmn is prevalent in London that Queen Victoria is again suffering from taint of hereditary insanity.
At 5:10 o'clock, on the morning of
me 3It, severe shocks of earthquake
were experienced at St. Louis.
hKXATOtt Sherman says that pub
lished extracts from hin forthcoming book misrepresent his statements in respect to the national conventions of 1SS0 and 13.i
NOVEMBER-1895.
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Thk contract for tin construction of f
the new ti.l neoo and cigarette factory
of Llgget fc Meyers in St. Louis, ha-. Iteen let to Thomas Clark .t .oiis, of Chicago. The cost will exceed SIJAO. 000. There will K sixteen buildings, I mostly of huge proportions, ranging . from two to six stories luuh. ami nil
9 jt ' eonnecteil. J. I Dl'lll.VU tho iwrfirii!iii.rnf tint i-P-iti.
IG ; l''inl" company, on the night of iL tili Until, lit tin. ltiimi tlir 1 r tn f il.
J2t C , wauuee. ot tie User, the gunner of
, The detail of oflJcers for the cruiser Host on has been completed, and she will be put in commlvsion at Maro Island (CaL) nary yard. Capt, Frank Wilds commanding.
A heavy snow-storm set in at gaunce, Mich., on the morning of SSth. and continued until fully
inches of snow had fallen. Sleigh
were in use for the first time this sea
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CURRENT TOPICS. THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.
TiiKportchas sent a circular note
lo the Turkish representatives abroad
in regard to the recent disturbances in
the provinces, in which it is declared
that the Armenians were sors.
tne aggres
Ox the 30th Mayor Oakley of Fort
ayne, Ind., issued a call to the citi
,zens requesting them to assemble in the circuit court, on the Ttli, to express sympathy with the cause of Cuban lib
erty.
Celso Cjesak Moreno, who was con
victed in Washington citv, on thc3üth,
of criminally libelling Baron Fava, the
Italian ambassador, was sent to jail
pendinjr a motion lor a new tnal.be ing unable to procure bail.
It is officially announced that the xational revenue of Italv for 1S95
amounts to 21,000,000 lire above that
for 1S94. The general situation, it is said, is improved, and the government will impose no fresh taxation. It was rumored in London, on the Slst, that the prince of Wales contemplates building a yacht to challenge for the America's cup next year, the new boat to be designed by Watson and constructed by the Hendersons. Mns. James H. Ktvns, wife of the United States ambassador to France, died suddenly at the residence of her son, George Enstis, near Dublin, Ireland, where she was visiting, on the roth. Ambassador Enstis is seriously ill in Paris.
Tun supreme court of South Dakota, on the 20th. decided in effect that the Western Union Telegraph Co. is not compelted to accept a message for transmission unless written on the company's blanks. The case was a test from Sioux Falls.
Cot Ivan N. Walker, commander-in-chief of the G. A. R.. when asked what he thought of the proposed inasseeting in Indianapolis, Ind., to express sympathy with the Cubans, said: "For forty years I have hoped for the annexation of Cuba to the United States."
Fox Lake (Wis.) republicans are rejoicing over the recovery of a cannon which was unearthed, on the 30th, by Joseph Good while digging a trench. It was stolen and buried by local democrats in 1SG0. to prevent republicans celebrating the election of Abraham Lincoln.
TnE Mount Olympus volcano exploring party returned to Port Townsend. Wash., on the 25th. from a five-days' trip into the heart of the range. They reported that while the outburst is not a regular volcano, there is good rronnd for the impression that a fierce
ubterranean convulsion is in ress.
prog-
Senator Holmes Coi.nr.p.T, of the Chickasaw nation, chairman of the committee to receive the Dawes Indian commission, in answer to the address of the commission, said: "I would rather be a citizen of the Turkish government, subject to Armenians, than a citizen of the United States government."'
A dim'Atcji from Kingston, Jamaica, on the 2Sth. said: Official adviecs report a small uprising in San Domingo, near the town of Harnlca, on the frontier. President Hereatix promptly sent troops, who suppressed the revolt. The rebels were all butchered. General discontent prerails throughout the island."
The stage of water in the lakes, which has been extremely low nil season, has recently dropped to the lowest point in the history of the latterday marine. The effect has been disastrous to shipping, and losses aggregating large sums arc being rolled up by long delays in the connecting waters between the great lakes. Out of the S10.000.o00 which Miss Consuelo Vanderbilt will receive from her father a a bridal present, she will give 2.000,000 to the former Mrs. Hamnierslcy, now Lady Heresford and step-mother to the duke of Marlborough, her fiance, to reimburse her for expenditures in restoring Idenheim castle and settling the liabilities of the estate.
Ci-sauCklso Mohe.vo was convicted In the District of Columbia criminal court, on the 20th. of having libeled Uaron Fava, the Italian ambassador, in having caused a publication which accused the ambassador of being connected with the padrone system. Moreno's bail wan Increased to 3,000. The punishment is within tin; discretion of the court.
A I.ATK dispatch from Trebizondsuid j it was reported that Turks had attacked the Armenians in the moun
tains near that city. The reports that j fresh disturbances had taken place at ,
Moosh were denouueed as untrue.
At a meeting of Chinese represent
ing four states, held at the joss house
111 Cleveland. O., on the'-'Sth, a branch of the Lun Wo Tong, a Chinese secret society generally designated as the Chinese Free .Masons, was formed. There were 120 delegates in attendance. The states included in the district are Ohio. Illinois. Minticsotu and Missouri. It was officially announced, on the 2$th, that Princess Maud of Wales, ycungest daughter of the prince of Wales, is betrothed to Prince Charles of Denmark. The princess was Itorn November 20, 1SR9, and the prince was born August::, 1ST Prince Charles is the second son of Prince Frederick, the
heir appareut to the throne of Den
mark.
United States Comisionci: Lokknzo Skju-u:, of New York citv. on the
2Sth, forwarded to Secretary Oiney the memorandum in the cae of Ivan Voltechor Kibiteki, a Uussian, re
cently arrested in that city for forgery and theft Kibitcki is the first sub
ject of the czar to be arrested under
the terms of the treaty of extradition between Hussian and the United
Mates.
Texas was again disgraced, on the 9th, by the slow roasting at a stake.
in the public square at Tyler, in Smith
county, of a negro charged with a revoltiug crime culminating in the murder of his victim. Fully 7,000 per
sons witnessed the burninc and tho
husband of the brute's victim applied thu match.
It is reported that ex-Queen Liliuo-
kalanl of Hawaii has bought two es
tates 111 Italy, near the Austrian frontier, where sue is expected to arrive in
the autumn of lSlM), after a long stay in London.
Sm Mackenzie Howell, premier of
Canada, and Sir Charles Tupper, min
ster 01 justice, who are in Washing
ton to attend the Mehring sea confer-
nee, were p-eseuted to Secretary
Oluey on the 25th. Thev were accom
panied by Sir Julian Pauncefote and
the stall of the Hritish embassy. Two l'KltsoNs, the engineers of the colliding trains, were killed, two
fatally and several severely injured in a collision at St Louis, on the night of the 20th, between two passenger trains on the Missouri Pacific railroad. Hoth trains were badly wrecked. Herb Luokr, leader of the antiSemites, was elected mayor of Vienna, on the 29th. by 93 votes to 41 in the municipal assembly. Di'iu.NO the absence of Samuel Robinson, a homesteader, living some miles from Tower, Minn., recently, Carel Lesure, also a homesteader, ami a former friend of the family, went to the former's cabin and at the muzzle of a ritle compelled Robinson's wife and two daughters to accompany him to his cabin, where he held them prisoners. Robinson appealed to the counts authorities for assistance in recovering his family. A dispatch received from Seoul, on the 29th, says that the Japanese officials have announced their intention of evacuating Corca at the time of the evacuation of the Lino-Tung peninsula. A passenoeb train from Paris to Toulouse came into collision between Lexos and La Guepie, in the department of Tarn et Garonne, France, on the 20th, with a train from Toulouse for the north. Two passengers were killed and eight injured. The house of Francis Neil, of Osbom. Ont, was burned to the ground on the 29th. Mrs. Neil perished in the flames and Mr. Neil was badly burned. The couple had fiecn married only a fen months. GnoitoEjW. Itooos, city treasurer of Tacoma, Wash., from IS93 to April. 1591, is charged with the embezzlement of 109,000. The safe of U.-H. Leach's general store at Vaulue.-O., was blown open and robbed of 1,100 on the morning of the 29th. Rki'Oiits on the progress of the civil war reconls show the completion of
His right leg was shot off, anil he di
lti n short time. TiiorSAXPS of tons of hay hare been burned by the marsh fires in Porter, Laporle. Jasper and Stark counties, Ind. Some farm houses have nlso Wen burned, and many head of cattle. In some places the ground i said to be burning u a depth of three feet.
iiiK fotiin Carolina convention, on j
tue 29111, voted down the woman's suf. frag amendment by a most decisive
vote of 121 to2tL The whole morning session was given up to the discussion of the question. George I). Tillman made a great speech in advocacy of the idea. Tun l!el fast and Slign ship builderhave conceded the demands of thcit employes for an Increase of .' per cent, in their wages, to go into effect February 1 next.
Two sti'Pkxts have been expelled from the Slate college at Relief on te. Pa., and fourteen indefinitely suspended for hazing. Tun treas ury deficit for Ootober, from figures otllcially announced, on the 1st, is approximately 5.300.000. The receipts show S2;.9OO.ü00, and the expen
ditures in round ngures $3,2vo.OU0. J. Lowextisa fit's roller and ice skate factory, a four-story brick structure at Newaric. N.J.. was burned on the 31st. Thousands of gross of skates were destroyed, along with ST-nOO worth of machinery. Los-, 20,000; insurance, S7-.0Oa Three hundred and fifty employes were thrown tint of
work. A dispatch from Trebizond. on the 3ist. said that three Armenians of prominence, one of them a notable ec
clesiastic, had been summarily tried and condemned upon charges connecting them with the recent disturbances there, and it was reported that the government intended to execute them without delay. Sin Ciiaei.es TiTPEn and Hon. Mackenzie Howell, who had been in Washington for sereral days in the capacity of advisory counsel to Sir Julian Pauncefote, UritUh ambassador, returned to Canada, on the zitt, hav
ing concluded their mLssion in connection with the Mehring sea negotiations. Tun body of Mrs. James R. Eustis, wife of the United States ambassador to France, who died in Ireland re
cently, left Queenstoivn for New York, on the Slst, on board the steamer Majestic, in charge of her son, .Mr. J. R. Eustis, Jr. It was announced in Su Petersburg, cn the 31st, that the condition of the ezarowitz was steadily growing worse. He was confined to "his bed, and remained in a completely apathetic state. Nt'MEnofs cattle have died in southern Kansas from a disease pronounced to be dry murrain, caused by feeding on dry cornstalks. Tin: business portion of Miller's Falls, Mass., was burned on the night of the 31st Loss, 75,000; insurance partial.
INDIANA STATE NEWS. I starving islanders.
Ft. Wavm; council will t-pend 500 to suppress diphtheria. At" South l.Vnd Kph Hrlck shot Saloonist Adam U under! ich three times. Adam may recover. Gov. .Matthews will choose the men who are to select the battle-ship Indiana's $,:.00 silver service. Tun It. A a wants to buy 73.000 jrallons of water a day from" North Vernon with which u supply its engines. Raxkkk Com. v. of Indianapolis, has
been admitted to bail until the United States itipreniu court can pass on his case. Mns. Gkcikok W. Rr.i.t.ixos, of Ligonier. had trouble with her husband, and then attempted suicide on her mother's grave. The Chieksmauga commission will an-
peat .o congress tor permission to
place the Ninth Indiana regimentmoaument on top of Snodgrass lull. At Elkhart the residence of .lohn Ii. Comstock, together with all his barns, outbuildings, farming implements, grain, hay and furniture, burned. Loss $10,000.
The Winona assembly is preparing to widen the canal and add new boats between Warsaw and Eagle lalie. The Home Telephone Co.,of Wabash, has commenced to do business. The rates are 2 a month for business houses and l. .10 for residences. Tin: Jackson county seat war has been transferred to Scottsburg. Indiana Christian endeavor people will meet at Muncie next vear. The C. C. C ,t St. L. lialiway Mutual association has 1,3S members. Jkssk Johnson, of Tintoa oountr.
j who disappeared fifteen years ago, is
an heir to .r.0,000 left br his father.
The Cleveland 0.) board of trade will visit Muncie in November, and will be entertained by the Commercial club. Rit.vzii. has extra coppers out, lookins: for that firebug. Roi.li.v Stiiiiiins, the young painter, who feil from the roof of a factory in Ivokomo the other eveninjr. died a few .
j cays later.
I l he barn of Cleve Cook, near DarlingI ton. Montiromery countv, burned the
uiuer nignu The Model clothing house, of Hammond, is in the hands of the sheriff, on an attachment suit brought by a Chi
cagofarm. Liabilities, 5,000,
Direful KfTrrt ttf tlu I'.Triit Storm 11
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Siimi ut Tin-in Oh Iii Wruu of Strv-
tiim hihI iit-Kiilue 1 mm ralu ship.
t-Ai.VKsro.. Tex., Nov l.Cupt.
Hudson of the Itrittsh steamer Honl-
lun, which arrived here Wednesday,
iweutj-seveii days out from Antwerp,
reports Unit while pn.vdug ltoinini
islands on October 25, three tluvs uftor
the terrific storm which swept thu
ll;ihainas, he was hailed In two boats
Dying distress signals. Thu boats
son mined ten inen, white und colored,
wiio eliiline.l to be pilots and Itshermeti, and who stated that they were destitute. The stonuof October 21 hud made it necessary to ask ussistauce of
pa-sing vessels. Capu Hudson sim-
piien tiiem with what nrovi-
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null- hi; viiuiu spare, ami pro-
cieueil on Ids way, but hud not
Sftme far befoiu he was again spoken
oy several ooats which hud the same poverty-stricken story to tell. Thu
captain was uuable to render any fur
iiicr ussistaiicc, However, ami saw
that the men in the buut. told him the storm had blown down all their
houses and destroyed all the crops, anil i i. . . . . .
l,w- i w..ier ua.s inren iiimuiv so
long that it was impossible to catch
Ush. and that the inhabitants of the
island of Reuiiui were actually starving.
j DUHRANT
4flnr i slmrt
DOOMED.
Altriiri from tint
mi
conclusion.
GEN. MARTINEZ CAMPOS
No:
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obtained ply in
LATE NEWS ITEMS.
the first volume of the first series.
covering the campaign of the war In Virginia and the Carolinas, and in the transmississippi region. The remaining volumes of this Series will K in type before the close of the current calendar year. A.v explosion, supposed to have been caused by escaping gas. wrecked a house, reducing it to atoms, on New Church Court, Mrand, Loudon, on the evening of the 2th. Six persons were killed and many injured by the collapse of the house. The building cor. sihted of three floors and its tenant, were mostly Covetit Garden matket porters. The Lagonda hotel at Springfield, O., caught fire early on the morning of the 30th. The guests escaped. The Western Union Telegraph Co.. ti clothing store, the hotel anil a drug store were burned out The loss is about 200,000. Die Om.ANim F. RiiADroito. a NewYork city dentist, recently convicted of having in his possession plates for counterfeiting SKX) bills, was, on the KOth, sentenced to six years in tha Kings countv Dcnitcntlarv.
The province of Home was visited by violent shocks of earthquake, ou the 1st, at 5:40 a. m. In Rome people were aroused from their slumbers and lied to the open squares, and the greatest consternation prevailed. The convent of Santa Maria Maggiore was greatly damaged. A portion of the outer wall was overthrown and part of the ceiling f -11. One of the inmates, a monk, was injured. At the close of the caj for the prosecution in the Pietzel murder trial in Philadelphia, on the 1st, the defendant, II. 11. Holmes, without offering any testimony, submitted his cause, clainimir that the prosecution had failed to make a case, and throwing liimself upon the mercy of the jury. A pisi'atcii from Constantinople, on
the 1st, said that eight Albanian
guards connected with the Yidliz kioük had been executed and twenty-
tour others imprisoned as the result of i. .it ....
ine tuscovery ot uieir complicity in a
plot against the palace. Apteii deliberating twenty minutes the jury in the Rlanche Lamont murder case in San Francisco, returned a v.-.-dict. on the 1st. against Theodore Durrant of murder in the first degree
without any recommendation for
mercy. Mus. nitMAiiKi. StT.vcEn, daughter of Mrs, Mary Cunningham, of Sedalia, Mo., has been appointed county physician of R'tley county, Ivas. She is said to be the lirst woman ever appointed to a like position in the United States. The national debt statement, issued on the 1st, showed a net increase in the public debt, less cash in the treasury, during October of 5,321,172. Total cash in the treasury, 312,137,010. The Edgar Thomson steel works at liruddoclr. Pa., were closeil down, on the 1st, temporarily, for alterations throwing nearly 2,000 men out of employment. The Swiss federal council at Herne gave a farewell dinner, on the 31st, to J. 0. ltroadhead, of SL Louis, the retiring United States minister. The St. Paul (Minn.) Gas-Light Co. has bold out its plant to eastern parties, including its gas and electric works and franchises. Tin: German ministry of marine has ordered the German Asiatic fleet to concentrate at Swatowand Amoy. Tm: Herlln Kmci- Zeitung announces that the next session of the reichstag will open on Decembers. The public schools of Richland, Mo., have been suspended because of the prevalence of diphtheria.
ALL debts of the Terre Hr.u
works have been paid and the plant will pass out of the hands of an assignee and be put in readiness to begin work by the first of the year, which will mean the employment of about 1.000 men. The prosecution of the llin'haw case cost Hendricks county about ?3.O01
Attobxky Huxr.v Spaan's fee for prosecuting Rev. Mr. llinshaf.- for wifemurder was 00. The stockholders of the Indianapolis. Decatur fc Western Railway Co. a few days ago passed a vote authorizing the issue of 1,524,000 iti bonds. Gcstav RoCKEA-mtA.Mir. aged 41. unmarried, residing with his sister near Middle Fork, ten miles north of Madi-
o'ju, u Kiueu oy a tree tailing on him and breaking his neck the other day. Mohawk Cycle Co. has incorporated with 30.C00 capital and will erect a big factory at Indianapolis. Ft. Wayne's diphtheria epidemic proved a false alarm. Ca it. James Ditky's coal ileet, at Jefferson ville. took fire the other day and one barge was destroyed. Lois SC. 000. A milk wagon was run down by a Pan Handle passenger train at a grade crossing at Hartford City a few days ago. Driver John Scott" was fatally and Roy Henderson severely injured. Roth horses were killed. At Miwcie. Mrs. Isaac Martin, aged 23 years was burned to death by natural gas. She was lighting the ;j-as in the cooking stove and her dress became ignited and all of her clothes were burned from her body. Pieces o tlesh dropped off in chunks. Twenty-five miles of street railwav
tracks are to be laid at JefTersonville. Kaolin of a superior quality has been found in Lawrence county. At Elwood Mrs. William ICramer was terribly scalded by the accidental spilling of a pot of Iwillng coffee upon her left side and limb. She will recover.
Mcncie is going to have a special messenger service. State Stati?ciax Tiiomi'jon will bring suit against county officials who have not complied with the laws regarding statistics. West Ixmanai'Olis schools arc closad. Diphtheria. The Indiana Trust Co. was appointed receiver for the Indiana Suspender Co. The indebtedness is estimated at 1'J,000. Wholesale grocers of the state have organized for the establishment of the "equality plan," by which suj-ar and
pacKnge coffee are sold at uniform prices by retailers. Ovi'.t: fifty miles of free pike, cost
ing 120,000, will be built in Greene-
county. Some of Shelby county's schools closed on account of scarlet fever.
Ci:AWFoitii.sviLi.r."s First M. R. church has ordered -SCO individual communion cups. Daniix McDonald will write a history on Indiana Masonry. Pf.ofle arc driving across the Ohio at New Albany. A nociiLi: burial occurred at Yorktown, the other day. the deceased being the children of Mr. and Mrs. Henrv Stauffer. twu little girls, aged 3 and C, of diphtheria. Their son, aged S. died two weeks before, leaving the parents only a baby now. The militia court of inquiry has made its report on the looting of a Peru eating house by soldiers last July. The civil courts may take the matter up. A. Foktneb. for thirty years a teach
er in the public &chook of Hnrr.ir.1
countv. died al his home in New Lon.
don. He was principal of ths Wvt
nulluni to Iiiwut the CoiHiiH-at n( tm
lul. nit Willi a ltti'.y llur.
MAlinii), ov. 1. The report of thu
interview with Gen. .Martine. Cam
pos, recently published la-re, has been
severely criticised in Madrid, owing to its moderation and somewhat pes
simistic tunc. In cou&cUciice of tills
criticism the Impareial's corres'KJinloiit in Havana paid anotli-
visit to Gen. Canities and
... . .
irum mm lite re-
respouse to his iutiuirics
that the interview as published wns in all essential respects absolutely accurate. In the interview mentioned Gen. Camios expressed his belief that the L'uited Mates, would recognize thu insurgents as belligerents, though he had uu fear as to the ultimate results. He also declared that a policy of leniency towards the insurgents must prevail, or lf.0,000 troops would be necessary to quell the rebellion and even then 7.1.0DO men wouid perish. THE MURDERERS OF LENZ
L'liilur Arrit mix) la he Trift! ut Erruuii. I "or tilt? Oritur. Washington, Nov. 2. The state.departmeat yesterday aftrnu.jii received the gratifying iu format ion by eable from Minister Terrell at Constantinople tha; certain Kurds and Armenians have 'een arrested for the murder of Frank Lenz, the j'oung Pittsburgh
bicyclist, who was engaged in making a tour of the world on his wheel for "Outitig," when lie was killed. Mr. Terrell says iti his dispatch that the alleged murderers are to be tried ut Erzroum and that the United States government will Iks represented at the trial by the Hritish consul. It is presumed that Mr. Robert Chilton, of the state department, who was sent to Kr.roum to establish a consulate there, has not reached his post, and for that reason the Hritish consul, who has been very zealous in attempting to bring the murderers of Lenz to justice, will act. CONSUELO VANDERBILT
IVIII Holmburao Her fr inner ' StrpOiothrr fur Money Spent In ttir Ita-Morwtluu of lllrlllirllll Cnalln Mini l.ntnl,.. New Yoiik, Nov. 1. The announcement s made that out of the 10.000,OO'i which Miss Consuelo Vanderbilt will receive from her father she will give 2,000,000 to the former Mrs. Hatiiniersley, now Lady Heresford. This is to reimburse the duke's step-mother fur her expenditures in restoring Hleuhehn castle and settling the liabilities of the estate. This step has been prompted purely by sentiment, for the young lady who has joined her fortunes with the duke knows to what length Mrs. llamtnersley went in clearing the Marlborough estates of indebtedness. Kuuwing this and the kindly feeling
existing- I'etween tne tiownger Uuehess and herself has led Miss Vanderbilt to
insist that this money will be returnee
to lue lormer duchess.
'' . I Im! n Vrr.li. t r Atimlrp III the I Im Itrgrru ultll No lUntuiiu,,.. tUtlitii fur .Hf n-jr - T ! s.-in,iii-,., i rl
nay III Im Trim! for tho JUiinl,, 11 llituiH .Munlxr. S.VN Fhanciwo, Nov. a. -Theodore Ihirraut, assistant superintendent of Liniimiel Haptist Suiidiiy-school, was to-day convicted of the murder of lllanelie Lamont. for which he htd been on trial since July 22 last. Tj jury was out twenty minutes, mid arrived at the verdict ou the first ballot. As there was no recoiumendat ion to mercy, the punishment was fixed at death. The scene in the court room when the verdict was announced will never be forgotten by thosu who were present. Judge Murphy finished his charge at 3:40 o'clock und thu jury at once retired. Although there was supposed to bo little prospect of a verdict bring returned before 7 or a o'clock in t evenlne-. the thronrr of
huil remained In t u .v - i
""'ii-nin lieu court room all the afternoon to Jier the judges charge settled themselves back in their seats to await tl...
of the jui v.
Mrs. Durrant and thu
t..ti,...i i i i , . . 'n'""-'
'm liiugllt'll l("etlll- !!; if
ucipiiitui was a fore-rutm
in- nciu 111111111 Hl- n 1...' .1 ..
, . - - -j Hi titizen friends and the courorsatiiin tvn. in
coming unlimited. wh..i. i i
, - . (-.:. lino whispered about that tdie Uirv lm.t
agreed upon a verdict. In an bist-,,,
a hush fell upon the little ein-:. i im
had gathered around the nrls..ii..i-.
Du rra ii t's fact;, always pallid, nssnmd
a gutistly lute, and his mother was
speechless.
Then the big doors at the rear of the
room opened mid the inrv tiled in and
took their seats in thu bnv. .in.i.,..
Murphy, who had retired to his el. am.
her, was .summoned and took his pktca
upon uie Denen. Clerk .Morris n-died the usual question- If the jury had
igreed upon a verdict. Foreman War
ren Dtttton arose and replied in theaf-
uriuuiive.
We. the jury," said he. "lind thede-
fendant. William Henry Theodore Durrant, L'uilty of murder iu the lirst
degree."
As the aged foreman, nale and trem
bling, read the words that lixed Durrani's fate, a low, ruinblinir noise, like
the roar of a mob arose from the rear
of the court room. The next moment men were eheerlny wihlUv tvhil
women " wept hysterically. Radius
rapped loudly for order, but the tumult continued for fully a minute.
I hen District Attorney Harnes arose
and asked that a dnv be set mum
which the sentence of death should be
passed upon the prisoner, dudgu .Murphy said that sentence would be passed next Friday, upon which day he would also set thu day for the trial of Durrant on the charge of murdering Minnie Williams.
SHOT A SenftMtloiixl
BY ROBBERS.
t.ilfi!r In a M. LotaU
subtirh.
.vr. l-otis, rsov 1. The quiet little
hamlet of Renton was thrown into a
fever of excitement Wednesday night.
jwo wiutc men, with their faces
blackened, entered William Wagner's
saioon. b'JVJ .Manchester road, and
uiter robbing Wagner of shot
Jottn O'Goritian, who slept in the rear
of the saloon, in the left breast, seri
ously injuring him. The robbers es capud.
are
A BONFIRE
IJratruetlnn
OF SKATES.
Iaclorj at
of I.imont r.-iul,'
r w.irlt, i. .).
Jvkwaek, N. J., Nov. 1. J. Lowen-
trattbs toiler and ice sltate factory, a
lour-story brielt structure, is in ashes.
The fire originated iu the engine, room mid swept through the stair walls to the roof. Thousands of gn-ss of skates
were uestioyed, along with 7",0OJ worth of machinery. Loss 210,000; inMirauce 7!,0tK. Three hundred and tifty employes ure thrown out of work.
After Thlrt.Fitf Yrur. Fox Laki:, Wis., Xov. I. Fox Lake republicans ure rejoicing over the recovery of a cannon, which was tinearthed Wednesday by Joseph Good while digging a trench. It was stolen and buried by local democrats In 100, to prevent republicans celebrating LitiLolu's election. The t'znrowltx tiro win;; U'urir, St. 1-EiEitsiitiui, Nov. 1. It is announced that the condition of the ezarowitz is steadily growing worse, lie Is now confined to his bed and rc-a-ulns iu a cratuletelv atuthetic stat.
FISCAL STATEMENT. Unrip Sum' ( atli Ai-.-muit for tlio Mo.itli of Ont oh; r. Washington, Nov. 3. The debt statement issued yesterday afternoon shows a net increase in the public debt less cash in the treasury during October of S.-..321.472.0S. The interestbearing debt was increased S740; the noninterest-bearing debt decreased Snr-,032.ii., and cash in the treasury decreaseil S.i,4rT,t0,l::0. The balances of the several classes of debt at the close of business October 1 were: Interest-bearing debt, $7!7,3W,fG0: debt on which interest has ceased since maturity, S1.0S1,C7O.20: debt bearing no interest. S:J77, 33.b70.0l. Total. SI, 120,:i7.-, 10(5.90. The certificates and treasury notes offset by an equal amount of cash in the treasury outstanding at the end of the month were 5591,102,07.'!, a decrease of 51,RT,0-J0. The total cash iu the treasury was S812,17,I0.S7. The gold reserve was S0J,913,179. Net cash balances, SST.00 ,blt. 4$. In the mouth there was a decrease in gold coin and bars of S15'i,r7;i.S:;, thu total at the close being Si -i::.310,StS.02. Of silver there was a decrease of 51,594,3.. -10. Of the surplus there was iu national bank depositories, S15.A1S.1S5.S1, against 510,047,105.04 at tho end of the preceding month.
MRS. WALLER DESTITUTE Save for Contrlhutloii of I rlcndt SrrkInc Kiniluyiiu-nt. Washington, Nov. .1. Secretary Oiney yesterday morning sent Mrs. Waller, wife of the ex-consul at .Madagascar, now in prison in France, Silt), which had been sent to the state department in small sums by charitable persons in various parts of tho country, one contribution coming from Nova .Scotia. Mrs. Waller ami her children nro practically without means of support o.vceptsuch are derived from the hospitality of Washington friends. .Mrs. Waller is endeavoring to obtain employment iu some capacity that, will afford a means of living for herself nnd her children.
DESPERATE POSITION
I'tir.
Of tlm Hlurlc l lit-jt In the IrIiukI of
IIIIIKIt. IIono-Kono. Nov. 3. The Jnpaneso have captured ICatchi. a great Inland town of Formosa, which has been in possession of the llhtclc Flags and tho position of the latter Is now desperate.
A SLICK OPERATION liy Which Tlioinmul-t of fiolium' Worth of IilnmiiniU Wuro Srcurntl. Cincinnati, Nov. 3. At noon yesterday Herman Keck, the Fourth-street
diamond dealer, was called upon by two men. otto of whom engaged him in
conversation while the other sntin-
tered nround the store and flnrtlly
stepped out on tho sidewalk, presumably to wait for his friend. After rho other man loft, Mr. Iveek discovered
that he had been robbed of SU.OOO
wort- or loose diamonds. The mut
Middle ton high ohool.
ter was reported to the nollce.