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BATTLE OF THE BALLOTS. Results of the November Elections in Various States, SEVEN GOVERNORS SELECTED.! , The Republicans Successful In Xcsrly all i the States?New York and New Jersey J Itepnblican by Large Majorities?A i Repnblican Governor lor Maryland? J Tammany Wins in New York City. j The November flections of 1S95. although held in what is called "an off year," excited unusual iarerest in all the thirteen States and in the one Territory in which the battle of the ballots was fought. In nearly every Stite there was a flerco flght within the party that is usually predominant, because of some local issue and this made it almost impossible to successfully forecast the result! Good weather prevailed all over the , Union and because of this heavy votes were polled everywhere. In many places new methods of voting were tried, all of which worked successfully. New York. The weather throughout New York State was fine and favorable to the Republican ticket. Full votes were polled in the oities, and about two-thirds of the vote seems to have been brought out in the country. Not one county went Democratic above Harlem River. There was a marked tendency to vote Btraight tickets in handling the blanket ballot. The number of spoiled ballot wa3 surprisingly small.The State re-elects the present State officers and elects Judge Celora E. Martin to the Court of Appeals by pluralities of about 90,000. The same ticket was carried in 1893 by about 24.000 plurality. Rochester is the only city showing Democratic gains. Republicans carried Rensselaer and Albany Counties, electing Senators in each. Raines SECEETABT OF STATE PALMER. was elected to the Senate in the Forty-second | District, and Coggeshall, independent was elected in Oneida. Nobody but Republicans were elected in Erie County. \ Senator Clarence Lexow was re-elected in j the Thirty-second District by u reduced ma- ! a.? r% . lOrny. vvesicaesier c>uuuiy weui wnu mo Republican wave. J. Irving Burns was } ohosen Senator against Charles P. McClel- ! land. The county went about 1750 Republi- j can on State officers. The Senate and Assembly are now Republican by good working majorities. In eaoh House the Republican majority has been largely increased. The New York State Sen ate, which will hold for .hree years and vote for a United States Senator in 1897, will probably stand: Republicans, 86; Democrats, 18; independent, 1; Republican majority, 24. The Assembly will stand: Republicans, 106; Democrats, 44: Republican majority, 64. The Republican State officers were reslected by an average plurality of about 65.000. In New York City Tammany Hall elected ? ? "-a a? i'fo nonHl^ofaa fr\t* Mftr onH CWiy UUC Ui. ikO vnuuiuuiw.7 v??. j county offices, ten out of twelve candidates for the State Senate, thirty out of thirtv-flve candidates for the Assembly, and Amos J. Cummin^s, its andidate "for the United States House of Representatives. Out of n total registration of 281,008, Horatio C. King, Democratic candidate for Secretary of State, received 138,961 votes, against 97,379 . for John Palmer, the Republican candidate. I Of the entire vote for all the city and county | officers Tammany Hall had a large majority. Tammany Hall elected its entire city and | county ticket by pluralities varying from | 16,000 to 24,009. It was estimated that the . Steckler vote would not exceed 7500, I and that the Good Government ! ticket vote would not exceed 1000. ! The plurality in New York City for Horatio | C. King, Democrat, for Secretary of State, j over John Palmer, Republican, is 41,162. For County Clerk. Henry D. Purroy, Tammany, has 17,000 plurality over Thomas L. Hamilton, Fusion. For Register. William Sohmer, Tammany, defeats Thomas F. Keating, Fusion, by about 24.000. Contrary to all expectation, the new ballot caused practically no trouble at all, and except in a few instances it seemed to give per- j feet satisfaction. A uniquo feature of the j day was the presence at some of the polls of women, who invited voters to cast ballots j for some particular candidate. Brooklyn and Kings County gave the head i of the Democratic State ticket, General I Horatio C. King, a resident of Brooklyn, I about 9000 majority. Fourteen out of twen- j ty-one Republican Assemblymen and possi- j blysixteeu; at lea9t flvo of the seven Rspub- j lican candidates for Senate were elected. ! The Republicans, it was said, had elected a ; majority of the Board of Aldermen. F. W. Wurster, the Republican candidate, was elected Mayor oi Brooklyn by a small plurality. The vote for Shepard -was smaller than was anticipated. Later the authoritative statement that the entire regular Republican city and county ticket had been elected in Brooklyn and Kings County was made by Wurster's Chairman of the Campaign Co-nmittee. In Long island City corrected returns showed the election of Patrick J. Gleason's friends by a plurality of about 200. The proposition to expend$9,000,U00ontho canals of the State was carried. New Jersey. For the first time since 1865 New Jersey elected a Republican Governor. John W. Griggs, of Paterson, was victorious over Chancellor Alexander T. McGill by a plurality estimated at a late hour from fairly complete returns of 27,993. I Hudson County.the home ot the Democratic candidate, gave him a plurality of about G000; but Essex, in which is the city of New GOYEUXOU-ELECT OBIGGS, OF NEW" JERSEY. ark. aad the rural districts went heavily against him. "The Senate will remain Republican, as last year, and so will tha House of Assembly. The Democrats made gains in the latf ter body. Las: winter taay had but six ol the sixty members. Next winter they wilhava a membarship of w than one-thlr.!. - - * v 4jf?m . . *'r. Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania has elected Haywood, publican, for State Treasurer, by a maj 175,030. against 135,146 I jority ia I3U; .'or Jackson. Republican, i ' Treasurer. The six R epublican candic , for Superior Judges are ele -t^d l>v major i slightly below that for Haywood. Maryland. Maryland went Republican by a plur i of over 18,000. The Republican tnajori Baltimore will be nearly 10.0 JO. Lowndes ran ahead of his ticket, bu others are not as far behind as it wa? I lieyed they would be. Senator Gorman's own county?iiowa has gone against him. The Republican t jority there will probably reach 500. In it crave Brown, Democrat, about 400. The Herald (Ind.) concedes tho electic [ Lowndes, Republican, and says his maj< in the State may reach 20,000. It also ceds the election of a Republican Leg ture, which means a Republican successi Senator Gibson, and says the entire Repi can State and city ticket is elected by $ majorities. Lowndes carried Allegheny, his county, by a majority of about 1500, a crease of 1000 over Van Nortz's majority Brown in 1891. Caroline County, which Brown (Dem.), a majority in 1891, has g Lowndes a majority. 00VEBS0R-ELECT LOWXDES, OF MARVL At 11 p. m. the Democratic State Com tee conceded the election of Lowndes (P for Governor, and Hooper (Rep.) for ill of Baltimore. Ohio. Ohio is Republican by a big majority. Republican State Committee claims 9( plurality. The Repubiicans will have a large mi ity in the Legislature, insuring the elec of a Republican United States Senator to ceed Calvin S. Brice. This will be the time in many years that the Republii will have both Senators. The size of the vote was surprising t< parties, being the largest ever polled iE State. Campbell's hopes of gains in cities of Cincinnati, Cleveland, Toledo Columbus were dissipated by the first turns. These cities more than equalled t former pluralities, and the counties ind ed little change. 00VE27IOR*ELECT BCSHNELL, OF OHIO. Governor McKinley said that Ohio given 100,000 plurality to General Bush General Anderson, Chairman of the D< cratic State Committee, admitted that v the face of the returns it looked lil plurality for Bushnell of at least 96 Campbell admits his defeat. Coxey, the Populist candidate for < ernor, polled 40,000 votes, many more 1 either party creuuea to mm. vuau Anderson, of the Democratic State Com tee. attribute? this as one of the cause Democratic defeat. James R. Garfield, son of President i fleld, is elected State Senator by 13,00 the Akron District. Massachusetts. A very large vote was polled in ila chusetts aad Frederic T. Greenhalge wa elected Governor by a plurality estimate 70.000, against 65,000 lost year. The vote in Boston gives Greenhalge 786 and Williams 33 237; Williams's plura 2501. "TT GOVERNOR GREENHALGE, OF MASSACHCSJ I Th? defeat of the woman suffrage refc dum is pronounced. The cities and t< are both arrayed against the movem Ninety-one towns out of 333 voted a; I lows: Yes, 12.505; No. 22,2(j2. Weill College favored woman suffrage. 1 hundred and ton votes ware cast in the af ative, 14'J in the negative. and 93 of t registered did not vote. Of the forty Senators, not more than are Democrats, and of the 240 Repress tives all but about fifty are Republicans. Colorado. The elections in Colorado wero for >'.o officers. A light vote was cast in counties, due to a snow storm lasting of the day. In the three large coun Arapahoe, El Pasf> and Pueblo, the Re lican party seems to be defeated. ID uenver uie luicicsi m mc circuvu intense, and the fusion ticket will prol: win. Armstrong for Sheriff is certi elected over Webb, the Republican ci late. The women voted about as gene astir; men. Illinois. il'*:urns indicate that W. F. fl:i il<n\ pubiicau. has carried every county in Eighteen;'.! Congressional District of III over Ed war.! Lane, Democrat. His niaj will bo at least 250which is nearly greater than of Remann.-, Republican, a ago. Lane ran on a free silver platform the Democrats cut him mercilessly. Republicans have carried the eleetio pluralities oi about 30,00) on the ei ticket. Ball, the Republican candidal Judse of the Supremo Court, has deft Mnrrici-m I)i>mncral hv il fiOO Tho R > iieans elected fiv? of the trustees fo 550,000,000 drainage caaa!. Michigan. Mayor Pingree carried Detroit. Mich ' 10,000 majority, au increase over liis last torv. He is tne only man to bs Me Mayer of Dstroit lour times. Kentucky. Re- Louisville has sone Republican by 5597 ority Bradley (Rep.) has carried Kenton County, ma- and Republicans have elected a Mayor Id State Covington. iate.-< iff GOVERNOR-ELECT BRADLET, OF KENTUCKY. Returns from ninety-five counties and towns, mostly incomplete, give Hardin 32,155. Bradley 28,536; Hardin's majority, 3619. ; The Legislature is probably Democratic. The final returns showed that the Republicans had elected Brad ey Governor by a majority of about 12,000. Iowa. i The Iowa Republican State Committees claim the election of their ticket by a plu! rality of 75,000, while the Populists double I their vote of 35,000 last year. The Legislature, which will elect a Senator to succeed Allison, will be strongly Republii can in both branches. The Republicans . claim at least 70 out of 100 representatives and 35 out of 50 Senators. Late newspaper . estimates, based upon returns from all e ver VK the State, place Drake's plurality at 30.000, ? H as ??? m and : re- governoh-elect dbake of iowa. heir icat- with the xest of the ticket running from 5000 to 10,000 ahead oi him. The contest was for the Legislature and State officers, the successful ticket being as | follows: Governor, Francis Marion Drake; ; Lieutenant-Governor. Ilatt Parroti; Superin tendent of Public Instruction, Henry Sabin; Railroad Commissioner. George W. Perkins; Supreme Court Judge. Josiah Given. I Virginia. The election iu Virginia was for members of the House of Delegates, and for half of the State Senators, the Democrats, and the Republicans combined with the "hones electionists" having tickets in the field. The returns show that the Democrats will have a three-fourths majority in the Legisla? ture. ____ Utah. Statehood has been secured in Utah. Early indications pointed to a Republican success in the Territory and the election of two P.?publicau Senators from the new State. s. MUslnsippi. / Mississippi has elected ex-Senator A. J. McLaurin. with small opposition from the nell. 7 Wl &**** *?J? 1. J. JI'LAURIN", GOVEBNOB OF MISSISSIPPI. People's party candidate. Frank Burkltt. There was no Republican candidate. The Democratic majority will be aboui 35,000 la the State. Kansas. The only State contest in the election in Kansas was for Chief Justice of the Supreme Court to fill the unexpired term of Chief Justice Horton. The election of David Maitin, Republican, is conceded. | In the county electioas generally throughout the State the returns so far indicate R"| publican success and show that the Populi' have lost ground. Nebraska. It is conceded that the Republicans have ^ elected their State ticket ia Nebraska. A - Justice of the Supreme Court and two ! Recounts of the State University were the offices to bo filled. The successful candiwas ably | _T J*- *0 ; ^ x. t ^ (ilIII V j ^iccicuoupreaif uuur*. j usucc ui n'.'unwau,/ riflv 'lutes are T. L. Noval for Justice, and C!i;irlc3 If. Morrill aud IT. S. Gould ior Regent*. Tin: flu{>ublic:ia.-? oarrie I Omaha by aoout 1909 plurality. | T2i? I.:ilior YVorltl. inoi- I -^e n:i" Ir'"sari-* liuairnin-'. ?rity 1 Iron worker.- iu Lyau. Ma--. Inyo quit 1030 . work. year j Class Mowing has been re.-;umo l at Bridgei a'Jd : ton, N. J. ? ' There are 75,000 railroad otDoloyes in New Wk State. > f0r Irou inolder.-j iu No .v Jersey are gaining lateJ their strike. pub- ! A general reduction of cloaiaiakors' wasjej r til'; is t ireatened. New York City bakers are agitating for a tea-hour work day. !)y The coal miners' strike in Pennsylvania 'yjc_ has been declared off. sotod ! Tii<? garment workers in Philadelphia ara winning their strike. - r ATLAN" Dimensions: 100x500 feet. Machinery ! sntire industrial field. SHAIENBYEABTHQPAKBS Extensive Disturbance in the Central South and West. FOURTEEN STATES TREMBLED. It Followed the Course of Leading; Rivers and Stopped at Lake Erie on the North* east and Charleston, S. C., on the Sontheast??<"o Serious Damage Reported? Louisville Saw a Strange Sight. The great Mississippi Valley and several States east and west were shaken by earthquakes. The most severe effects were felt in the States of Illinois, Indiana, Ohio. Kentucky and Missouri. Fourteen States in all, the District of Columbia and a part of Canada experienced one or more quakes. The J reports from the various localities agree ap proximately as to the time of the disturbances. They occurred between 5 and 6 o'clock a. m. All reports agree, however, that the quakes were accompanied or followed by low, rumbling sound?. While no lives were lost and no serious damage caused, the earthquake left a trail of broken window glass and cracked walls. The Government AVeather Bureau reports that the shock of earthquake was felt at Washington at 6.033^ a. m. Professor Marvin, who has ehar?e of the Zismogranh, found the record of the earthquake on his instrument. It showed that the vibration was very feeble. It began at 6.03# and continued for three-quarters of a minute. At Louisville. Ky., a strange phenomenon was witnessed during the quake. A peculiar light like the aurora borealis appeared in the heavens and continued to glow until the quaking ceased. The shock wns felt In Chicago at 5.11 a. m. It lasted about forty-five seconds. It was accompanied by rumbling. The vibration was from north to south. The shock was most severely felt on the north side. In the wooden houses of Buena Park and other north side suburbs the shaking up was so perceptible that many persons dashed out of their houses in scanty cloth- ' ing. During the shock and for several hours after the electricity in the atmosphere was more than oppressive to persons of a nervous temperament. At Cairo, 111., the quake was felt at 5 a- m., and lasted thirty seconds. Vibrations north and south. People left their houses for safety. Many chimneys were shaken down. There was a second shock fifteen minutes later. The public library building was badly damaged. The quake was felt throughout the southern and western parts of Illinois. St. Louis. Mo., felt the quake at 5.15 o'clock. The vibrations lasted fully fifteen seconds, and were accompanied bya rumbling sound resembline a heavy train passing through a tunnel. The trembling of the earth was so great that many clocks were Btormwl. dishes rattled, and at the Dower house of the electric car lines the current was temporarily interrupted. The wave passed from west to east In Kansas City, Mo., there were two shooks. The second shock at 5.20 was much more severe than the ono which preceded it a few minutes. Houses along the r.ver front were severely shaken and many residents fled from j their buildings in their night clothes. Further up on the hills in the business part of the city the shook was not so strong. Milwaukee, Wis., reported the shock as occurring shortly before 5 o'clock. It lasted for more thau a minute. The shock at Three Rivers. Mich., was felt at 5 o'clock. In Michigan City, Ind., the time was 5.12. Many windows were broken in the place. In Dayton. Ohio, the shock lasted about one minute. Buildings in Cleveland, Ohio, were severely shaken. The disturbance did not seem to go much further on the south side of Lake Erie. It was reported from the noith side at Chatham, Canada, shortly before 6 o'clock. In Indianapolis, Ind., the shock was from north to south, and the vibration in three story buildings was at least two inches. Many tall chimneys were damaged. The shock at Anderson. Ind., was severe enough to throw people off lounges, throw articles out of cupboards, and stop clock3 in every part of the city. Several small structures were moved off their foundations. The shock did not reach Pittsburgh and McKeesport, Penn., until 6.1C a.' m. The vibrations then were from west to east. Throughout the South the shock was mild. On the coast it was not felt much beyond Charleston, S. C , where only a few persons noticed it about 6.30 a m. In Alabama. Georgia and Louisiana the shock was noticed between 4.30 and 5 am. In North Carolina the reports say it was noticed at 6.15 a. m. In West Virginia the shock was felt at 6.13 a a. m. At the Indiana Prison, South Jeffersonvllle, wi\ere upwards of SCO convicts are confined, the greatest excitement prevailed. The massive cell houses swayed, the foundation shook and the ponderous iron bars in front 0f the cell doors rat tied. ?sunaings rocicea ana me hotels many of the guests rushed panicstricken from their rooms. Shocks were felt in Richmond. Fort Wayne, Princetown, Columbia City, South Bend and other citie3. In some places only one shock is reported, and in others two and three. At Terre Haute the shock was so severe that the bell on top of the county courthouse struck lour times. Several Iowa cities felt the shock. At Iowa City there were three shocks, lasting several minutes. Four distinct shocks were felt in Empofla, Kan. Houses were shaken and a low, rumbling sound accompanied the quaking, which appeared to be from ea3t to west. Southern reports indicate that the shock was felt all over North Georgia, Eastern Tennessee and North Alabama. At Jackson, Miss., the vibrations are said to have lasted nearly sixty seconds, ami appeared to bo from east to west. IVar3 wiro entertained for the old Capitol Building, but no damage was done. It was a curious fact that heavy rains followed the shock in many places. A Womnn and Two Daughter* 15urne;l. I A fire which started in Laydon A. Burdick's drugstore at West l'awlet, Vt., burned to death Mrs. Thomas Knowles and her two daughters, Kate, about twenty years old,and Anna, about fifteen years old. The Postofflce block, Copeland & Nelson's store. Beeeher Brothers' hardware store, F. Johnson's dwelling and R. J, Robert's block, neartho railroad crossing, were burned. Nine families were made homeless. A large portion of the business part of the town was destroyed. England fipf* Little TrlnldivJ, Brazil will permit the Brazilian Submarine Telegraph Company to use the small Island of Trinidad as a cable statlOD. This ends the Trinidad controversy vith England. fA EXPOSITION?MACHINERY BUILC Hall contains the latest and best Inventions, botl CREAT DROUGHT BROKEN. A Storm Which Proved a Godsend to the ' Parched Sections. The storm which advanced from the Gulf ' region northward with most extraordinary I rapidity proved a godsend to the droughtstricken section of the country east of the Mississippi River. For many weeks the continent has been al- , ternately subjected to parching sunshine and J drying "cold waves," with only now and then the semblance of a shower. Much anxiety has been felt lest the wheat crop sown in September should laneuish for want of water. So arid has been the soil in some portions of' the Southwest that the sowing of wheat hae been delayed to the present time. And from almost every quarter have come distressincr accounts of watercourses running low. reservoirs scarcely able to supply the towDS with water for domestic purposes and mills closed because the streams q on which they depend were exhausted. The storm, however, has changed the whole L aspect of thing's in the regions over which it t< threw its beneficent cloud-masses. It first appeared distinctlv in Western Texas when its showers extended over most of that State y and Arkansas. Then the cyclone broad- E ened out and carried its precipation jj over the West Gulf States and parts of Kansas. Southern Missouri, Mis- " slssippi and Western Tennessee. The good o work went rapidly on until the rainstorms e reached theupper Ohio Valley, the South Atlantic and the Middle States. The birth of this timely cyclone probably d marked the beginning of the end of the great ei drought which, with slight intermissions, j has been more or iess severely felt in the United States and Europe since the summer hi of 1893. Though the drought still continues in some a States west of the central and upper Missis- jJ' sippi, and though more rain will soon be D needed even in the eastern half of the coun- 'c try, it may with good reason be hoped that the baneful spell of the continental drought ti is effectually broken. ai fc SATOLL! A CARDINAL r< ? il The Papal Delegate Elevated by His Holi- j1' nets Pope Leo. Mgr. SatolH. Papal Delegate to the United States, stationed at Washington, has been si made a Cardinal by the Pope. ? The Beretta will be imposed by Cardinal n Gibbons in Baltimore early in December. a; di CARDINAL 8AT0LLI. J] d It Is stated at Rome that Mgr. SatolH will e< probably remain in Washington for some D time after he is raised to the dignity of Car- T dinal, with the title of Pro-Dalegate Apo3to- w lie. ol NOTHINC LIKE IT AFLOAT. b( Ram Katahriln Condncts Herself nan J- g; Homely In Her Official Spin. SI The new United State3 harbor defence ram ^ Katahdin had her official trial over the Long E Island course, New London, Conn., and, al- pi though her aotual tlm<) did not bring her time within the specified limit, it was confl- jj( dently expected tbat allowances for currents a, would raise her average above the required j0 seventeen kuots. sc .ine naranain neraen una hh ner aiwmuucal devices can be operated from below the w deck, so that in action none of her officers s0 or men need be exposed. From the conning-tower her commander can direct tb all her movements by electric signals. 5., Even at a speed of only sixteen knots jjJ an hour the Katahdin could sink the ?] largest battle ships now afloat and cut ja some of the smaller ones completely in w halves. Most of the faster war cruisers and m battle ships now in commission by the various <j( naval Powers could very likely distance the Katahdin in an open sea. straightaway race. b( but at close quarters they could not be Li maneuvred so quickly as to avoid her If she jj( attempted to ram them. ac TheKatahdinwas built at Eath. Me., by th the Bath Iron* Works, and wa3 launched w February 4,1893. She wa3 designed by Rear cj Admiral Daniel Am men after many years of thorough research and practical experimentation. TERMS OF THE MALACASY TREATY. T1 France's Protectorate and Her Control Over Internal Affairs R?c<jznized. Newspapers at Paris publish the full text of the treaty of peace concluded by France tb with Madagascar upon the occupation of An- T1 tananarivo by the French expedition. The nc treaty comprises seven articles. Iu the first jw article tho Queen of Madagascar accepts the protectorate of France, and that Power ac- th cepts all the consequences of such protec- bt torate. thus putting an end to the hopes of te the parties who are advocating the annexaHon nf thi! islnnd. OJ The other articles stipulate that tho French )u Resident Generai shall control nil relation? *u between Madagascar ami foreign Nation?, 'n Franco reserved tli<; ri:;ht to maintain mili* tary forces on the island, and the French SQ Resident is to coutrol the internal Govern- W1 inent of the island, The Hova Government S1 is not allowed to contract loans without the fW authorization of France, which assumes the tn financial responsibilities which Madagascar has heretofore contracted, but will assist in the conversion of the loan contracted in 18SG and also fix the limits of the Diego Suarez l,r( territories at the earliest possible time. ~ im To Stop the Grade Crossing Slaughter. 03; ba The Pennsylvania Company has decided ^ to elevate its tracks in Chicago and steps to of that end are now taking by the engineer Gc department. The work will be made under cej the supervision ot the Chicago authorities lat ' WW?*? * > ' " , ' IING. I i i American and foreign, pertaining to th IlAMMLTi Jonvict3d of Murdering Blanche La mont in San Francisco. URY OUT ONLY FIVE MINUTES t* Verdict Reache:! "Without Dlscussio: and Applauded by a Great Crowd?Po thetie Scene In Court?His Mother Kt coine* Hysterical, Hnj?s and Kisse nirn, Shrieking All the Time. Theodore Durrant was found guilty a an Francisco, Ca!., of murdering Blanch lamont. It took the jury only Ave minute > render a decision. The verdict was a surpriso to the -stoli< oung prisoner, his relatives and counsel fis mother who <?<it with him evarv hour c le time since the trial began, had hoped t le last moment that one, and perhap3 tw< f the jurora would vote for acquittal. Th istrict Attorney, on the contrary, said pri ately before he begaa his three days' ad ress, that he was satisfied the jurors hai rich decided on conviction when the evi ence was all in and before the argumen eeran. District Attorn*"* Barnes closed his argu lent for the people witha powerful and elo uent appeal for justice. Suoerior .Tudgi J. Murphy delivered an elaborate charge > the jury touching the law of circumstan al evidence and matters of legal presump ons in the afternoon. Tho charge occupiec n hour and a half. Attorney Dickinson, for Durrani", made i >rmal exception to the charge. The iur; stired at twenty-six minutes of four o cloc 1 charge of two deputy sheriff*. They wen iross the crowded corridor to the rooms o ie Grand Jury, which had adjourned to ac immodatethem. The jury took sixteen minutes to settle it ilf, and promptly at ten minutes of fou 'clock deliberation begau. Exactly fivi linutes thereafter a rap on tho door sura ioned the deputies to learn the verdic greed upon. As the jury filed into the court room tn risoner turned around in his chair, as dii is mother, who sat next' to him. Botl ere pale, and Mrs. Durrant seemed on th erge of collapse. Foreman Warren Duttoi ose. wiped his tear dimmed eyes. adjustei is elasses and read in a'clear voice: "We. the jury, find the defendant. Williac [enry Theodore Durrant, guilty of murde i the first degree." The prisoner made a convulsive start an: alf rose as if to address the Court. Hi lother, with a cry that begau in a muffle" ariek and ended in deep sobs, threw he rms about his neck and pulled him back. From the densely packed court room cam t the same moment a sound that was thrill ig in the last degree. It was the fierce cr f the crowd. Women laughed and cried nd all struggled for a better view of th1 risoner. He sat. pale, but seemingly un loved, while his mother pressed her chee! gainst his, with her arms about his necl od wept pitifully. Durrant s father. wh< ad been smoking a cigarette in the corrido ushed his wav in and helpel comfort the >bbing woman. The Judge quicklv restore I order and an ounced that on Friday, Novanibjr 8, sen lace would be passed, and that on thesam< ate the trial of Durrant for the murder o linnie Williams would be set on the calen ar. The deputies then began clearing th iurt room, and, 1n the wake of the crowd urrant and his stalwart guardian, filed out he prisoner's pallor had vanished, and hi as twirling the end of his small mustache A sensational incident was the demeano f the murdered girl's relatives. Her sister !aud Lamont, a mora school girl, jumpe; ) her feet when the verdict was announced sat her black gloved hands together an< ?ve a shrill cry of approval. The aunt !rs. C. G. Noble, likewise clapped her hands Briefly stated the prosecutiou charged tha urrant decoyed Blanche Lamont into thi manuel Baptist Church, in Bartlett street robably assaulted her. strangled her ripped her body and laid it out carefulh i the belfry, hid her clothes and schoo )oks in the dark, dusty corners of the lor id steeple, and then helped in tho searcl >r tho missing girl. Mi3s Lamont was s ihool girl, and attended the Sundav-schoo i which Durrant was a leading spirit, bhf as en route from school when a young mar ined her. They were seen in a streei ir by her schoolmates, but that wa1 ie last time she was seen aliv< r persms woo knew her. Later t an and a girl were setjn to enter Lmanue tiurcb. Tho dead body of Minnie Will ms, another acquaintance of Durrant as found in the Emanuel Church irary on April 13. She had been mur sred the night before. A search of t it lurch was then made, and in the dfry was found the body of Miss imont. Suspicion pointed to Durrant, a: 5 was conspicuous in the church work, wa? iquainted with the girls and had access to .e church. He was arrested, and for se veral eeks the trial has been in progress. Much rcumstaatial evidence was introduced auJ ie positive evidence was strong. NATIONAL FINANCE. > he Public Debt Statement for tlio Month of October. The debt statement for October shows a it increase in the public debt, les- cash iu e Treasury, during October, of *5,321,472. ne interest-bearing debt increased '5740. The jn-intorest bearing debt decreased $116,632, lu cash in the Treasury decreased i5.437.3tj4. ? .1... ?.1 itf (iebt ftt 10 DUIAQC8S 01 rue .iDYQUM e closo of business October31 were: interest(iirinij debt, $74,361,560: debt on which in. rest has ceased since maturity. Sl.681.670j ;bt bearing no interest. $377,335,876. Total, ..120,379,106. The certificates anil Treas y notes oflVet by an equal amount of cash tli" Treasuryoutstan lini^ at th? en 1 of the onth were 7.591.102,673. a <Ieereas? of >,123.020. The total cash in the Tr>a~ry was $>*12,137,610. The j?oi<l reserve is $02,943,179. Net cash balance. $87,004.0. In the month there was a decrease in ild coin and bars of $196,673, the total at e close beiut,' $113,360,83$. Of silver there is a decrease of $4,594,383. Of the surplus ere was in National bank depositories $15, 3,185. against $16,047,105 at the end of the eceding mouti:. The National ban!: note circulation cutmding on October 31 was $213,79$.228, an iroase during the month of 0,-tober of $J.5,991. The increase during the month sed on bonds was $1,534,081. Com executnt United States mints during the month October aggregated $8,059,20), as follows: dd, $7,215,700: silver, $820,000, and oneit pieces, y23.590. No standard silver dels were coined at any of the mints. ^ IB. HOLMES TO EM The Noted Criminal Guilty of Murder! in the First Decree* VERDICT DAZES THE PRISONER.)J ' Decision Quietly Rendered?It Took the ?j Jarymen Only a Few Moment* to D?? clde Against the Prisoner?To Ask tot a New Trial?Ghastly Belles Exhlblt-I , ed 1>y ihe District Attorney. . I V-r i * H. H. Holmes, the most remarkable crlmK nal America has ever produced,.must die on! the gallows for the murder of his fellow! swindler, Benjamln F. PitezeL The jury as tjt Philadelphia, Penn., after onl* > one ballot, brought in a vew diet of murder in the first degree. Without having called a single witness tff testify in his defence Holmes's case was 9 given to the jury at forty-flve minutes part 5 o clock on the afternoon of the sixth day , of the trial. The jury were out only a few . _ hours when they came In with their verdiof.'! f Judge Arnold, in his charge to the Jury, said the evidence was entirely circumstantial, '' but that was not unusual in a murder case.]'-. He said there was no doubt Piteael was .. murdered, and his charge, on the whole, was.'':; unfavorable to the prisoner. District " Attorney Graham. In his closing adkVs dress to the Jury, argued that it was lm*f possible for Piteael to have committed ?ui-< clde and that the evidence pointing t? Holmes's guilt was clear and concise. Mr. Botan. In pleading for the life of the pris-j oner, said he had decided to offer no de* fence, having confidence that the Commons wealth had not made out its case, and that n the reasonable doubt in the matter had not! been removed by the prosecution. J U-# ' After tho retirement of the Jury from the( court room, the spectators streamed oat .Into the corridors ana eagerly discussed what the 8 veraict would probably be. There was oonV slderable difference of opinion, 4s many "be* lieved the Commonwealth had not ?8tab-< t llshed its case against Holmes, but the! , I mAi'nvitv nrarn IncHnfirl to hnllftVfl that thr Jury would convict. 3 At 8.85 word was sent to Judge Arnold that. the jury was ready to return the verdict/ /. j Tie prisoner was brought in and placed 1ft ' , the dock. He wa?impassive as ho took hlrf Bfat. The jury came In and took their places, 'f The Coort^ordered Holmes to arise, iand 0 then, in teply to the question ol the Court,"' . . ' . the foreman of the jury pronounced the verj. diet: "Guilty of murder in the first degree.^' [4 9 The verdict was greeted with absolute i- silence. The oharge of the Judge must.V . have foreshadowed what his. fate would be,' it . but the word "Guilty" fell upon Holrnea; ; f , with stunning force. He made no outer/ a - and exhibited no emotion of any kind. ,t He sat down, and while the jury waa polled and each man answered to his name _ and gave his verdict Holmes stared vacantly. before him. His face was like that ot al . ; 1 corpse. It was absolutely expressionless. a As the effects of the blow began to pass '-.V away Holmes slowly recovered. He realized ' that his counsel was making a motion for jat' j" new trlaL His under lip fell and he ran hi* yri tongue over it. - Clasping his hands together he leaned fory v ward to liken to the Judge's decision. When! i. Judge Arnold said tbat he would hear the' '2 application for a new trial on November 18J an expression of something like hope cam# V-v: ,m over his dull face. Turning to the oourt . A officers he said In an eacter whisper: "Monday, November 18?" These were the only words he uttend*! ? Judge Arnold then expressed to Mr. Botaa; and Mr. Shoemaker his appreciation of their! -> : difficult task, and complimented them oft' a being able to make as good a defence as they; ,j did. He intimated that tbeir withdrawal j from the case was a device of the prisoner. ) . In a manly, honest way, Mr. Botan gay?; cj the Court to understand that their withdrawal was no device of their own, but was don? i from a sincere conviction, r.ecause they be lleved time had not been given to them to ijg . prepare their case. Judge Arnold then or?i.aa dered that the prisonerbe removed. By this ' 3 time Holmes had recovered much of his comj posuro and he walked from the room with a quick, springy step. The Judge thanked l the jury for tbeir attention and discharged * them, and so ended the trial. The jury was never in doubt. When they 3a . retired from the court room they had sup* per, and then a brief discussion took place< ~ One ballot was taken, and every man voted '/ , to convict. They consumed three hours tor a their retirement from the court room, but they could have found a verdict in fifteen . minutes If they had wished to do so. Holmes v was returned to prison and placed In a oeU ' u for condemned murderers. After the Court was closed District At- . > torney Graham took the jury into his office and showed them the mass of evidence coU , lected under the direction of Attorney Thomas W. Barlow, but excluded from the ; " trial. This lnoluded the stove In which . Holmes burned little Howard Pltezel'a body near Indianapolis, the fragments of skull * and the teeth found in the chimney, and t; many other ghastly relics. ; FOUR FIRE VICTIMS. r Tliey Were Burned to Death In m Sweat* " hop Blue.' ' When the smoking ruins of the sweatshop? [ In Pelhara street, New York City, which were ' . I destroyed by Are, were searched during the | day, it was discovered that four lives had! j 3 , been lost in the blinding smoke and flame.! | The dead were as follows: JosephJDeusehl,! . > ' j tailor, jumped from the _third story,, ;'1 j of 207 Pelbam street. Jie aiea in I Gouverneur Hospital from the effects of a t fractured skulL Isaac Pensen, tailor, > i charred body found in doorway of 7 Pelham k ' street, Jacob Shapiro, watchman, body. -/ ' I found badly burned on tne third floor of7i : , Pelham street. Unknown person, sexln-,1 i distinguishable, found in the' basement of t 7 Pelham street. I 3 The position of the bodies and the hor> rible condition in which they were found.1 i showed how bard bad been the struggle ofj I the unfortunates for life.. The three tralld-| . ings which were buxned took Are from floor . to floor, as though their walls had beeal [ soaked in kerosene. All avenues of escape . were cut off. Cannot Be Bailt on the La Ice*. i A few days ago Secretary Herbert decided i that it would be a violation of treaty oblige 1 tions to permit one of the new gon- jjj | boats to be built upon the great laces. The Hon. Don M. Dickinson, of Michigan.1 1 appealed to the President for a reversal of ' Secretary Herbert's decision. The President announced his approval of the portion' taken by the Secretary of the Navy, and the contract will not, therefore, be given to thej Detroit Dry Dock Company, the lowest bidder. .; Immigration In 1895. The report of Commissioner-General of Immigration Stump shows that during the fiscal year ended June 30,1895,258,586 Immigrants arrived in the United States, 27,095 i less than the preceding year, showing the smallest immigration since 1879. Of these 256,117 were upon examination per- "? mitted to land, and 2419 were debarred and1 deported atthe expense ofthe various steam-) ship lin2S transporting them. Of those deported S94 came in violation of the alien 1 contract labor laws. The CommissionerGeneral estimates from present indications,! owing to the revival of business and oonse-1 quent demand for labor, that immigration next year will exceed 3JU,UU0. The Katalidln Rejected. The official speed of the Ammen ram. Katahdin is 16.13 knots as reported toj Secretary Herbert by the Trial Board, andj the vessel stands rejected under her contract J which calls for a speed of seventeen knots under penalty of rejection, bearing the dls-J tinction of being the first vessel of thai X new navy failing to reaoh confraotj'V^ requirements. Unless special provision] is made by the next session of Congress,! the Bath Iron Works of Maine, whtoh fcullfl the hull and machinery, must rely upoasell* ing her to some foreign Government to wJ coup their expenditures, in which cats a> complication would arise, as $400,000 worthj of armor belonging to the United States M fastened on the vessel, and Is valuele* for. other purposes, . '*/'V vr