St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 21, Number 16, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 9 November 1895 — Page 2

I THAT blessed pudgy idol The creature was a baby, and I imagine maybe the youngster was t Bald-headed, just because it was so wise; It has a glance judicial, seemed to scorn ( things superficial, and reincarnate Socrates looked gravely from its eyes. It had to suffer kisses from demonstrative . young missa^ it was cuddled. Hugged and rumpled in the most regardless way. And I think the little wizard in its very inmost gizzard was Inclined to look with scorn upon such gushing things as they. It would sometimes deign to frolic, be at seasons melon-colic, would Entwine itself in bow-knots without reason or command, And the way it crowed and cackled with its high-C voice unshackled, Was a living exposition to the roosters of the land. Its provender was various, its appetite precarious, its way of Tucking things inside a mystery obscure, And a wonder was its plastic-’cordion-pleated and elastic Way of getting around eatables with flanking movements sure. It was sometimes like a dummy, sometimes like a living mummy. Often like a wheel gyrating on a pivot or a point, And its quick back-action plunging—swiftly rotating or lunging— Seemed to prove that each bone in it was a tumbling toggle-joint. Yet this wrigglesome young sinner was the winsomest heart winner. It was cuddlesome and huggable, a package of sweet joy. And it really didn’t matter—nor could fact its value shatter— Whether mamma's popsy-wopsy was a little girl or boy. You cannot magnify it—the vast treasure which could buy it—for the Baby is the monarch of the fireside and the world; And within that little cradle, hugging bottle. luck and ladle. Is the gem of all the universe in dreamland snugly curled. —Ram's Horn. JETHRO S STOVE POLISH. The drowsy sun of an August afternoon shone upon hill and valley, tinging the long swaths of cradled oats on the hillside with a bright yellow, gleaming brightly from the slender leaves of the maturing corn and resting on the long, dusty road with a somewhat dreamy glow that seemed to invite repose in the shade. On the porch of the country store at the “Center" sat two old and graybearded men. Around a bend In the road beyond a third old and gray-beard-ed man had just come into sight. “He’s a-comln’,” said Isaac. i “So he is," said Uriah. The two old men turned In their chairs to watch the other’s approach. As he drew near they could see that be carried some round and shining object In bls Aand and that his face and <?othe« were streaked with black. before them, his face beaming with smiles, and with an air of conscious pride held out for their inspection what proved to be a highly polished stove lid. “There she is!” lie cried. “The prettiest and cheapest stove polish ever invented. I know’d the minnit I’d put that tailer and vinegar in the last batch that I’d got it." "Thunder!" exclaimed Uriah in admiring wonder. “It does look nice.” said Isaac, blinking from one to the other. “Nice!” echoed Jethro, the inventor, scornfully. "Why, it beats anything of the kind I ever see. Just you try these stove polishes you git our of the stores and you’ll see the difference. Why, this one shines brighter, polishes easier; there haln’t no dust about it. and won’t wear off for six months. Nice? Umph!" “Now. Jet." said Uriah, taking an extra chew of fine-cut and leaning back In his chair, “as you’re the one that has got this thing up, what’s your idea of getting it out? How has it got to be made and soltj?” “Well, - ’ said Jet, squaring himself back, “my idea is just to take some of the stuff and go out and sell it.” "Why, yes. of course,” returned Uriah slowly, as if the idea had not occurred to him before. “But what’s it going to cost?” Jet sat down on the porch and “got down to business" in away to excite the admiration of his listeners. ( “I’ve figgered the whole thing out and it just amounts to this: It will cost just 1 cent a cake to make the stove polish. We sell It for 10 cents. That gives us a profit of $12.96 a gross. Now, each one of us ought to sell a gross every day, mebbe more, but we’ll put it at one gross, to be on the safe side. Now, say our expenses are $3 a day. That leaves us $lO a day profit, all but 4 cents, and that beats farming all hollow.” “Jet, old boy. we’re with you!" cried Uriah, slapping the other on the back. “What’s the first thing to be done?" “Well, the first thing is to order some siuff to make up into polish, and I thought I’d order about SSO worth. Then we must have some printing done.” “Well, I'm going to the Forks tomorrow. and I’ll see to that,” said Uriah. “Then we must get some place to make It,” continued Jet. “If my wagon shed was cleaned out It would do first rate," said Isaac. “I'll attend to that.” “That’s the ticket." cried Jet, enthusiastically. “I tell you, gentlemen, we’re bound to make something out of this. Just to think, $lO a day is nearly S3OO a month more money than we take in now in a year.” “That’s so,” said Isaac, rising slowly to his feet. “Well, it’s getting along; I’ll have to get back and do chores.”

Th® other two watched him ent of sight. “Fire fellow, Ike,” said Uriah. “First rate,” answered Jet. “A little slow, though, sometimes,’’ continued Uriah. "Hardly the man for this kind of business?” “Well, I don’t know. Ike’s a good fellow.” “Good fellow? Why, of course he Is. Nobody thinks more of Ike than I do. “Now, I tell you, Jet,” continued Uriah, hitching his chair up to the other, “between you and me and that lumber wagon, Ike is the wrong man for this business. You want a man that can git up and git and ain't afraid to hustle, and Ike will never fill the bill; you mark my words.” “Well,” said Jet, slowly, “I reckon I never give it thought whether he would or not So you think he won't do?” “Do? Os course he won’t do. I tell you. Jet, just what’s common sense for you’n me—we’ll make up the polish and start out together and let Ike sell what he can around here; that’ll let him down kind o’ easy; but we'll take the big business, for there ain't anybody but us can handle it” Jet rose to his feet “I’ll think the thing over,” he said. “Os course. If Ike won’t do we'll have to drop him.” Jet walked slowly homeward, rubbing his fingers caressingly over the stove lid and shaking his head in accompaniment to his thoughts. As he turned ihe bend tn the road ho discovered Isaac sitting on the bank ahead of him. “I knew you'd be along pretty soon,” said Isaac, rising awkwardly, “and I thought I’d wait for you. No chance to talk business when Uriah is around. A good fellow, too, first rate; only he blows too much." "Blows quite a bit, that’s a fact,” assented Jet. "Well, you know what he is and what | his folks were before him as well as I do, and you know just as well that he's no man for this business. You see what you want is a man that has some, dignity about him and knows how to approach people in the right sort of way. Now. Uriah don't know what dignity is. Why, he'd go into a man's parlor Just the same as he'd go into a cow stable. Well, sir, that may do around here, but it won't do in the big towns, and that's where you'll make your money. Mighty good thing you’ve got. Jet; mighty good, but be careful and don't throw It away on a man like j Uriah. I don't pretend to be no great i shucks myself, but if I can't sell more ! In a day than ho can in a whole week I'll eat the samples. Hut then, if you think I won't do, just say so, and I’ll drop out at once.” “Oh. I ain’t afraid but what you’ll i do all right,” answered Jet. anxious to i conciliate. "But 1 allow I hev got my j doubts of Uriah.” “Os course you have; you're a Qian of sense and couldn’t help but have doubts. I'll have to cut aerpas hero, but think the matter over. Jot; think It over.” “I’ll do that.” answered Jet. emphat- । Ically, as he started on alone again. He walked on rapidly until he came ■ to an old barn along the road. The roof of the barn had been blown off and never replaced, and the whole thing looked very dilapidated but very familiar to Jet, for It was his barn. He noticed the hole in the roof and made a mental vow that some of his profits should go to repairing it. Beyond the baru was a little tumble-down houn® and the yard between was filled with remnants of lumber wagons,»hay rake, reaper, buckboard and several odds and ends of old buildings. A tall, thin and melancholy looking woman was bending over a washtub i at the pump. She straightened and stopped her work as Jet came up. He went on Into the house and put I the stove lid he had been carrying on the stove. Then he came out and sat down near his wife. “They say there’s $lO a day in it for a sure thing; that's what they say.” “Well. I’m glad if there is," said the ; woman, sighing softly. “The Lord knows we need it. Is Uriah and Ike goin’ to take hold of it with you?" "Mebbe they are apd mebbe they ain't. I know them fellers better than to trust either of them. I know what they'd like—they'll shiupy up to me and let on they hate each ether like pisin tiil they find out how to make the polish. and then you'd see them together again thicker’n hops, and I’d be left. Not If I know It. I can make $2,000 a year out of and go It alone." “Can’t you get me that wrapper tonight. then; It's only 70 cents?" “Only 70 cents? Confound It, don't you know that it will take every cent I can rake and scrape to get the thing started? I'd rather get you a dozen silk dresses two weeks from now than spare a cent to-night." "I don’t see,” she began when there was a yell from the kitchen, followed by the loud voice of a man “Phew! Judas! What the devil's up here, anyway? Are you trying to burn the house down?” Jet made a jump to the door and stopped aghast. The stove lid, so highly polished but a moment before, was now a dull, dirty red, while above it curled a thick, dingy smoke, bearing with it an odor strong enough to knock down a horse. “Is that the way your polish works. Jet?" asked a young man coming around the house holding his nose. Jet gave a snort of disgust “I suppose you’ll have to blab It all over town,” he growled, and turning away sulkily, went to the barn. “What do you think of it?” asked the young man of the woman. “I think It’s a good thing I saved eggs enough to get that wrapper,” returned the woman, as she tried to blqw the ; smoke out of the house with her aproa. —Philadelphia Times.

CLEVELAND AND CUBA GROVER EXPECTS THE | NSUR gents to lose. Attitude of the President in H ia Com . iu« Message W IU He Conservative -Members of the Cabinet A rc Now Very Busy Preparing Th e l r ft. porta Capital City Chat. Washington correspondence: TIIE members of the Cabinet uro

- u °w very busy on their annual reports. Mr. Adee, the .Second Assistant Seciatm-y o f 81 ate, who has written thufforeign affairs portion of the 1’ r e sli d ent’s I message f<Jr a gvn . 0 eration, hk. s been buried fori several r days in Ids room ' building tl^e foun- (■ d a t i o n so r the President no erect a foreign Jolie- - It is hisl n~ ,lu >d dutytoW"^ 1 11, 1 "

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brief, reciting wonts of impo^SK’'* V 1 ' 11 have occfirred in the civilized stnee the hist uiesMtgo to Cofigrem waSKWritten and such facts relating tneretenns may interest the President. It is Uliieratood that the message will be parncularly strong on the Monroe doctrine §nd conservative on Cuba, notwithstanding the opinions and predictions of the Hon. Don M. Dickinson. 1 have it straight (hat the President doesn’t expect the Cuban revolution to survive the winter. He thinks it will be crushed out us soon as the weather will permit an active campaign by tin* Spanish army. Secretary Carlisle's report, at the time this is written, has not been beyun, although several bureau officers of the treasury are preparing material for it. 1 he first copy of Secretary Morton’s report is finished and is being revved. It will be longer than usual, and packed with information of interest and value to farmers, live-stock growers, packers, fruit men. anA particularly to these who are seeking foreign markets for agricultural products. I lie report of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue will show that the total consumption of beer in the United States for the last fiscal year, ended June 30. was 33.469,661 barrels, which was an in crease of 191,000 barrels over the consumption of 1594, but a decrease of 353,211 barrels from the consumption of . 1893. Therefore, it would appear I that hard times have something to ‘do with beer drinking. A barrel of beer in brewers’ measure contains 3U 4 ■ gallons. The people of the United States, : there’ frank 1.045,926.906 gallon* «d : beer lust year. The largest consignptipn I of beer in the Unites! States was hi New York. Pennsylvania, Illinois ami Wiscon । sin. The total sale* in the eity&f Milwaukee alone were 2.t**M»*f hazels, m about om^-aixtwnth of the whole. Jxansa-. : is credited with only 6.00<> bnrralse>f l»s r The rei*>rt of the Secretary of tie iinijr will be of unusual interest tbyt^/tir for the reason that it will e«>ut■uav * rt J review of the work of r«4»uq|p«g TB" American marine, which has wf- been practically completer! upon the pan* that | were adopted at the end of thmArthur administration ami the beginnini of the ’ Cleveland administration ten jTa> ago. England Must Fight. It is the unanimous opinion among diplomats here that England must fight <<r lose her foothold in the East, nml that ever since the close of the Ju|>an#sc war she has been seeking a pretext for di*sccndmg upon China to conntetfeet the suo e*s of Russia and restore her own i prestige, it is believed to be tlrt inten tion of Great Britain, sooner or later, to occupy Nanking, just ns she veiled ami | held Hong Kong forty years inov Nan j king is the greatest city in the interior of i t'hina and commands the cvmmcrev of ( the Yang ’tze, which is the greatest river ami furnishes transportation for the most ; ro’-active and prosperous |x>rtiuu of th- - Ami ns soon as Russia takes । po-.se-.sion of Manchuria, tin- lArthcm province, and starts her railroad down i tin- Liao Tung Peninsula, John Ball will | find an excuse to o< ’ upy Nanking and ■ organize a provisional government of his • own there, supjsnteil by a British fleet, j It matters not what the. pretext may Is l , England will demand exactions which the Chinese Government cannot comply with. ! and nothing but the combined powers of Europe can compel her to loosen hfr foothold when it is once obtained. Commercial disaster threatens England both in Japan ami China. Those countries have been the largest and most profitable markets for British manufacturers, but her trade is decreasing rapidly and before many years Japan will supply the Asiatic market with almost everything it needs. The enormous increase omcotton factories in Japan and their rapiajbitroduetion into China will soon be felffc the manufacturers of Manchester, 8 'he treaty of peace between Chinn ann^fep” l was signed four companies. wKL^Hk l ’ l ^ ~f not timu .< 1.000,01 hj eacUnpave been organized in Shanghai to coiXruct cotton mills: two in Nanking, one in tlankow and two more at Hong Kong, which will get their raw material from America and eat a great hole into the English trade. It is true that three-fourths of the capital to be invested in these mills comes from England and is largely furnished >y the cotton manufacturers of that country. who realize the evolution in trade and will move their mills from England to Asia as rapidly as they can. India has practically ceased to consume British cottons and is able to furnish almost her entire supply. Japan will be in the same situation within the next two or three years and China will follow rapidly after. THANKSGIVING APPOINTED, By Proclamation the President Names Thursday, Nov. 28. President Cleveland has issued a proclamation designating Thursday. Nov, 28 as Thanksgiving Day. The proclamation follows: “The constant goodness and forbearance of Almighty God which have been vouchsafed to the .American people durin r the year which is just past call for their sincere acknowledgment of devout gratitude. To the end, therefore, that we inav with thankful hearts unite in >?xtolli n <. the loving care of our Heavenly Father’ I, Grover Cleveland, President of the United States, do hereby appoint ami set apart Thursday, the 28th day of the present month of November, as a day thanksgiving and prayer, to be kept and

f observed by all our people. On that day let us forego our usual occupations, and in our accustomed places of worship join In rendering thanks to the Giver of every good and perfect gift for the bounteous returns that have rewarded our lalxirs in the fields and in the busy marts of trade; for the peace and order that have prevailed throughout the land; for our protection irom pestilence and dire calamity, and lor the other blessings that have been showered up o n us from an open hand. And with our thanksgiving let us humbly beseech the Lord to so incline the hearts Os our people unto him that he will not leave us nor forsake us as a nation, but will continue to us His mercy and protecting care, guiding us in the path of na tional prosperity and happiness, enduing us with rectitude and virtue, and keeping alive within us a patriotic love for the ft t-e institutions which have been given to us as our national heritage. ~nd let us also on the day of our thanksgiving especially remember the poor and needy, and by deeds of charity let us show ;l,e sincerity of our gratitude. In witness whereof l have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the I nited States t.> be alfixod. •GKoVER CLEVELAND. “By the President: “KICHARD OLNEY, “Secretary of State.” Site Kilted si Hoy. While public sentiment at the national capital cordially supports the action of the Grand Jury of the District of Columbia in indicting Miss Elizabeth M. Flagler for shooting and killing Ernest Groen, it colored boy, who was stealing pears from the premises of her father, there is a strong current of sympathy for the young lady running through all classes of sociidy. Her whereabouts at present are unknown to ail except her family ami intimate friends, but it is believed that she is in Baltimore undergoing a course of treatment for nervous prostration brought on by the tragedy. It is not likely that the ease will be brought tb trial before January, and there is no necessity for her appearance in court until then. Miss Flagler is the daughter of Gen. I). W. Flagler. U. S. A., chief of the Ordnance Bureau of the War Department. Sh<» was born and reared in Ro-k Island, 111. Sim is tall, dignified and graefuh and has refined and ph asant features and 'i ft j •' ; - Ul*s r f t/ * 111 TO 11 vO i » 11. soft brown eye*. It is n-<nlhd that when the terrible n suit of her recklessness was br-m^ht to her notice she nas the first to run to the womi led boy’s assistance. and she riibb- I his hands and applied ice bandages to the blc<*ling wound. When itiionm-d that the boy win dead she refined to believe the lillll doW truth and <• ntimied her efforts to revive !:ii:i. Ihe f.db.u Jay she offered which had been set aside for her summer va. ate n. to the parents of the boy to defray tbe expetne^ f tin-funeral. Some i years ng », while living at Watertown, Mass . she vas seized with pm-nimuiin, fn>m the effects ■ f which she never fully rv oi red. iiu I sim-e wb: I time she has been somewhat of an ini lid. • hie of the effects • f tie- malady is tin instability and ungovenmbli temper when nroined, and t-> this is nsi-rib-d the unfortunate cirrumstaiKs' which will culminate in her trial for manslaughter. Notes of Current Events. The Sn retary of War has relieved Maj. Henry J. Now lan. Seventh Cat airy, from duty at Fort firant, Ariz., and transferred him to I’ort Sheridan. 111. Alison Crisler is being held by the Kansas City iM >.t police, charged with murdering Edward Illston, who.-u- body wns found in a clump of bushes near Topeka. Mr-. Mary Frotumin. aged 7”. living eight miles wa st of Nashville. Tenn., on her farm, was robbed of sl..s<hi by a masked man. She always cherished a hatrtsl for banks and kept hi r cash in her Louse. Commissioner General Stump, of the Immigration Bureau, say s there is no reason to fear an influx of Japanese into the I'nited Sraas. mid denies that the alien contract labor law has been violated by them. Probably the most dramatic scene of the kind ever seen in a Brooklyn church occurred in the Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church on the occasion of the farewell sermon of the Rev. T. De Witt Talmage. At Elwood, Ind., the combination of local gas companies to prevent the establishing of pumping stations in the gas licit by foreign syndicates has been made effective, and the matter will be taken to court. Miss Bob Tansey Myers, daughter of the millionaire tobacco manufacturer of St. Louis, has suceeded in marrying the man of her choice, Graham E. Babcock, of Coronado. Cal. They* eloped to Glenwood Springs, t 'olo. Hugh Woods, the best ball player in the Elwood (Indj team, in a spirit of bravado, on a'wager, ate a handful of gum camphor. He became unconscious in a short time and remained in that condition over five hours. The new woman certainly has very lofty aspirations. Orders have had to be issued by the commanders of United States men-of-war that henceforth women visitors will not be permitted to climb up the rigging to the mastheads. In the disbarment proceedings brought by J. H. Crist, district attorney of Santa Fe County. N. M.. against T. B. Catron, delegate to the Fifty-first Congress, and C. A. Spiess, his partner, the New Mexico Supreme Court handed down an opinion dismissing the charges ami holding the evidence for the prosecution untrustworthy.

SHAKEN BY A QUAKE TERRESTRIAL DISTURBANCE FELT IN MANY STATES. The Tremor Had an Eaat to West Dl* 1 rection, Turned Sleepers Ou t of Bed, Shook Dishes Off of Shelves and I‘crformed Other Antics. Many Were Frightened. The central part of the United States experienced a well defined earthquake ( shortly after 5 o’clock Thursday morning. The shock and vibrations were felt in several States, the dispatches showing that the disturbance extended from Kentucky on the south far into Wisconsin and Michigan, throughout Missouri, Illinois, Ohio, and Indiana, and even as far as West Virginia, where the shock was also perceptible. The shock and vibrations were of but a few seconds, but created the greatest alarm, and in some instances terror among residents of some of the cities. There was no doubting the nature of the disturbance which shook building's, slammed doors, rang door bells, and caused articles to topple from shelves, tables, and mantel pieces. In the telegraph otliees of Chicago* the vibration* were strongly manifested, and for a few minutes after the shock telegraphic communication was entirely suspended. Thousands of persons were awakened from their sleep by the shock. In the public library, on the top floor of the city hall, books were shaken from the shelves, and in many of the oilices in skyscrapers similar circumstances were noticed. On the street the milkmen and the policemen feeling the unusual commotion sought shelter in the belief that there was a possibility that one of the tall buildings might fall. The operators in the Western Union Telegraph room became alarmed and left the building. Clocks were stopped and windows rattled, but no serious damage was done. The shocks were not accompanied by any rumbling dis turbance. In St. Louis the trembling of the eartb was so great that many clocks were stopped dishes rattled, am! nt the powerhouses of the electric-ear lines the cur rent was temporarily interrupted. At Indianapolis the shock was preceded by a rumbling noise. The shock was from north to south, and the vibration in threestory buildings was at least two inches. Many tall chimneys were damaged. Reports received state that the shock was felt as far away as Arkansas and Kansas, and that the wave passed from west to east. — LINCOLN MONUMENT UNSAFZ. : Parts of the Structure Thought to : Have Been Marble Are Brick. The Lincoln monument at Oak Ridge 1 Cemetery, non Kpringtield. which has j for the last twenty years been admired | by thousands upon thousands of people l from all over the world, will have to be • torn down. It is too far gone to be repiired, and. besides, its construction is such that it will not admit of repair. Instead of being it substantial pile of solid granite, ns external appearances would indicate, it is n rickety structure of brick veneered over with sinhs of granite. This is the verdict of State trustees who have ohnvj.;*’ I' Ihv iHiUluiin During the last session of the General Assembly the historic pile was turned over to the State, S3O,tMM> was iqipropri"M —H .gjgjßh. THE I.IXCOI.X MONIMEN'T. ated for repairs, and a law passed making the Governor, State 'Rreasurer, and State Superintendent of Instruction trustees of the monument to care for it and make the much-needed repairs. When the trustees set about to arrange for the repairs they discovered that the magnificent monument erected to the memory of “Honest Old Abe” was a sham and a fraud. What appeared to be huge blocks of granite were nothing but thin slabs laid over brick. “The Limoln monument is simply a shell,” said Governor AJtgeld. “It is a brick monument and has a veneering of granite slabs three inches thick. This veneering is coining loose, just as all veneering will.” “Can it be repaired?” was asked. “It would be impossible to repair that monument and make it permanent.” "The other two trustees and I feel that the great State of Illinois should have a monument.to Lincoln that is not a shjtm, but a solid structure, and that in order to get this, this brick and veneered monument should be taken down and in its stead build a monument of solid granite from bottom to top, so that it will last for all ages and require no attention from anybody. AVe have almost enough money to do this. However, the trustees do not feel like taking so radical a step unless they should be requested, to do so by the surviving members of President Lincoln's family.” The Lincoln monument was completed in October, 1874, and cost $206,500, which amount was raised by popular subscription. Freight traffic managers of all but four of the railroads which had a membership in the Western trunk line committee met in St. Louis to make an effort to revive and reorganize that committee. Owing to the absence of the four representatives nothing was done. Now it appears that even the Texas, a. second-class battle-ship, cannot be docked at New York without waiting for a big tide. This has caused some speculation among naval officers as to what would occur if the ship met with an accident at sea and came into port in a sinking condition. Mrs. G. M'. Billings, of Ligonier. Ind., was found lying unconscious on the grave of her mother. She had attempted suicide by placing a cloth saturated with chloroform over her face and wrapping s shawl about her head, but will recover.

DURRANT IS DOOMED. FOUND GUILTY OF THE MURDER OF BLANCHE LAMONT. End of the Trial at San Francisco— Vendict Falls with Crushing Effect Upon Prisoner and Friends —Extraordinary Scene in the Court Room. Death the Penalty. Theodore Durrant, of San Francisco, assistant superintendent of Emanuel Baptist Church Sunday school, was on Friday convicted of the murder of Blanche Lamont, for which he has been on trial since July 22 last. The jury was out twenty minutes and arrived at the verdict on yie first ballot. As there was no recommendation of mercy the punishment (was fixed at death. There was no deliberation at all. The jury had evidently decided upon a verdict before they left the box. It was 3:33 when they filed out of the courtroom, Wn -j 1/ « 1/s a pLi-. DURRANT IN HIS CELL. and at 3:55 a knock on the dbor announced that a verdict had been found. It took just five minutes of actual time to elect a foreman and take the one ballot necessary. As the aged foreman, pale and trembling, read the words that fixed Durrant's I fate a noise like the roar of a mob arose j from the rear of the courtroom. The next ‘ moment mon were cheering wildly, while i women wept hysterically in excitement, i The bailiff rapped loudly for order, but j the tumult continued for a minute before ; anything like quiet could be brought out lof the disorder. Judge Murphy named : the day for sentence, and said he wbuld ■ then also fix the date of Durrant's trial for the murder of Minnie Williams. During the tumult that followed the announcement of the verdict Durrant and his mother were lost sight of except by the few who sat nearest them. As the last words of the verdict were uttered Durrant made n spasmodic effort to arise JW ® fIP BLANCHE LAMONT, THE VICTIM. to his feet, but before he could do so his mother, with a half-sigh, half-moau, threw her arms around his neck and sunk back into her chair. Durrant's father was not in the room when the verdict was returned. Aside from the spectators Airs. Noble» Blanche Lamont’s aunt, and Maud La’’mont, the dead girl’s sister, were apparently the happiest persons iu the room. When the verdict was announced Maud Lamont sprung 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. The case will be appealed to the Supreme Court, and it is expected nearly a year will elapse before a decision will be obtained. THE EARTHQUAKE COT. 31, IBSS. .^'l As it will be sixty years hence, when the obi settlers tell about it.—Chicago Record. A boycott, indorsed by the I nited Trades and Labor Council, has been declared by the Malsters and Brewers’ Union of Buffalo against beer manufactured by breweries taking their malt from the local private maltsters. The maltsters have refused to concede the demands of the union, hence the boycott. Secretary Smith has denied the application of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad Company for refunding $15,335 deposited by the company to pay for the right of way across the great fiioux reservation in South Dakota.