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HOLMES GUILTY.
"Verdict of Murder in the First
Degree.
s&Jury Thinks that He Killed B. F.
PHILADELPHIA, Pa. Nov.7—Hermana W.
Mudgett, or, to use the name by which
he 1s better known, H. H. Holmes, has been
convieted of murder in the firstdegree for kil
ling Benjaman F. Pitezel on Sept. 2,1894. Theju
"l!b:““lt: one ballot to reach this decision.
y reti at the conclusion of Judge Ar
nold’s eharge, and the .:Socutors streamed
out into the corridors eazerly discussed
what the verdiet would probably be. There
was considerable difference of opinion, as
many believed the commonwealth had not
thoroughly established its case against
Holmes, but the majority were inclined to be
lieve that the jury would convict him.
Word was sent to Judme Arnold that the
jury was ready to return the verdiet. Judge
Arnold entered and the prisoner was brought
in and placed in the dock. He was as im
passive as ever, as he took his seat. The jury
came in and took their places and it took
bat little skill as a mind reader to know what
the word would be that the foreman would
pronounce. The court ordered Holmes to
arise, and then, in reply to the question of
the court, the foreman of the jury pro
nounced the fatal words, “Guilty of murder
in the first degree.” The verdict was re
ceived in silence,
The charge of tho’-dgo must have fore
shadowed what his fate weuld be, but the
word “Guilty” fell upon Holmes with stun
ning force. He made no outery nor exhibited
emotion of any kind. He sat down while
the jury was polled, and as each man pro
nounced his sentence Holmes stared vacant
ly before him. His face was that of a corpse.
It was as oxgmi.»nlcss as « mask. Only a
nervous twitching of the eyelids and the con
traction and dilation of the eyes showed that
it was a living man that sat in the dock.
As the effects of the blow began to die away
Holmes slowly recovered, and he realized
that his coursel was making a motion for a
new trial. His under lip fell, and he ran his
tongue aeross it, moistening the dryness,
and clasping his hands together, leaned for
ward to listen to the judge's decision. When
Judge Arnoid said that he would hear the
application for a new trial on Monday, Nov.
18, an expression of something like hope
broke across his dull face. Turning to the
ecourt officers he said in an eager whisper,
“Monday, Nov. 187" These were the only
words he uttered,
Dist.-Auty. Grabiam said that e a 1 not think
the court would grant a new trial of Holmes,
as there was nothing upon the recoris that
would show an ergor sufficient to warrant
such a proceeding.
GIVES THREE MILLIONS MORE
Another Munificent Offer From John
D. Rockefteller.
CHICAGO, 11., Nov. 7 Mr. John D.
Rockefeller has given #3.000,000 more to
the University of Chieago. The follow
ing letter, received at the meeting of
the board of trustees of the university
proved a most pleasant surprise :
To the Trustees ¢f the University of Chn
cago—Gentlemen: T _-ill contribute to the
University of Chicago 21.000,000 for endow
ment, payable Jan. 1, 1896, in cash, or at my
option in approved interest-bearing securi
ties at their market value. I will contribute
in addition #2,000,029 for endowment or
otherwise as [ may design, payable in cash
or at my option in approved interest-bearing
securities at their face market value, but only
in amounts equal to the contributions of
others, of its equivalent, not hitherto pro
mised as the same shall be received by the
university.
The pledze shall be void as to any portion
of the sum herein promised which shall prove
not te be pavable on the above terms on or
before Jan. 1, 1900, Yours very truly,
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER.
The total of Mr. Rockefeller’s donations to
the Chicago University to date is $7,600,000.
In faet, the institution owes its existence to
him,and there is no doubt that the donations,
in time, will amount to fully £10,000,000.
JThe trustees have no doubt they can raise
the £2,000,000 stipulated in Mr. Rockefeller's
letter within five years although the task will
be a girantie one, but among the trustees are
some of the shrewdest and keenest business
men in the city. None of the trustees knew
anything whatever of the donation until the
Jetter was read in the board meeting by Sec
petary Goodspeed.
MADE A CARDINAL.
Papal Delegate To the U. S Satolli,
Receives New Honors.
Mgr. Satolli, papal delegate to the United
States, has been mado a cardinal by the pope.
The berretta will be imposed by Cardinal
Gibbous in Baltimore, early in December.
The information of the pope’s lutention was
conveyed 1o Mgr. Satelli in a confildential
letter from the pope. Cardinal Gibbons re
ceived the following cablegram from Rome :
“I am bappy to inform you that the boly
, father having decided to confer the cardinal
ate on the ap swlic delegate, Mgr. Satolli,
your eminence will be deiegated to impose
the cardinalatal beretta, his holiness in this
way intending to perform an act gratifying
to vour holness,
“Rampolia, Cardinal, Seeretary of State.”
The elevation of Mgr. Satolli to the cardi
nalate, it is stated at the legation,will not at
feet his relations. He will remain in Ameriea,
but after the imposition of the beretta he
will tako the title of pro-delegate, the prac
tics of the ehurch not warrant ng a cardinal
in ceeupy ng the position of delegate,
NEW INDUSTRY.
SignsofShip Building Being Revived
in the Bay Near New York.
NEW YORK, Nov. 7—A new ship building
industry is to be established in Brooklyn.
For many years New York bay has not been
a ship building centre, although the metrop
olis was the greatest owner of sbifs in the
western hemisphere, and when the civil war
closed the ship-bullding yards were thick
along the East river front. Now a yard is to
be established at she Erie Basin.
The new shipyard will be estahlished by J.
M. Robbins of the Boston dry deck in the
Erie basin, and a ship house will be built
north of the east doek. Not since the man
of-war Dunderburgh was built on the East
river and soid to the French government as
the Rochambean, has there been a ship
building enterprise of any magnitude started
in New York bay. It remains to be seen of
eourse, to what the preseat enterprise will
amount,
TWO BANKS CLOSE DOORS.
Suspension of One in Washingtoa
State Causes a Run on Another.
NEW WH BA‘TL:)!. n‘:;‘;.h"k Nov, 7—The
Bellingham Bay Natio wnk has closed its
doors by order of the directors, being unable
to meet the county treasurer's demand for
the county’s deposit. No statement of assets
and liabilities has yet beea given out. The
cashier reports the liabilities approximately
at .1“,&;:) of which $77.000 is due deposi
tors. The m! are O:fl,m. e -
President Morgan says sus on
due to a steady withdrawal of deposits and a
geperal feeling of distrust since the recent
Tacoma Bank trouble. The suspeasion of
- the Bellingham Bay National Bank precipi
tated a run on the Beannett National Baak,
which coatinaed until the close of banking
hours. The directors had a meeting and
adopted a resolution noi to opea
Pitezel,
NEw York, Nov. 7. 1895,
~No. 26 Broadway.,
IN NEW ENGLAND.
Interesting Items of News From
Maine to Connecticut Shores.
At Norfolk, Ct.. Michael Kirby and an un
known Swede were buried in a trench. Kirby
will recover, but the Swede's condition is
eritical.
Fire in the city yard of the public works
department at Providence, R. 1., destroyed
a large shed and some lumber and tools.
Loss £l,OOO.
John Warren Brown, 70 years of age, a
carpenter emploved on the construction of
the People’s cnurch in Greendale, Mass., fell
from the roof and was killed, his skull being
fractured.
Two freight trains on the Norwich & Wor
cester division of the New England road met
in eollision a mile south of Putnam, Ct.
Both engines were completely demolished
and seven cars were destroved.
The so-called ‘‘bottomless” pit on the New
England raiiroad at Towantia, Ct., has been
finally brought into control by dumping into
it nearly 6,000 carloads of gravel and many
abandoned freight cars. The embankment
has stopped settling, and trains now pass the
point with complete safety.
In the probate gourt at Exeter, N. H.,
George W. Sanborn of East Kingston was
ehosen assignee of George N. Proctor & Son,
milk contractors on the Boston & Maine
route, against whom insolvency proceediugs
are pending. The claims of 200 creditors
range from S 5 to $l,lOO each.
Orrin Currier, whose death occurred re
cently at East Kingston, N. H., was a re
markable man in more ways than one and
aiso a peculiarone. He left a wife and no
children, and the clause in which he leaves
his widow his house reads as follows: *“‘The
house shall never be closed nor left a night
without an oceupant.”
AN ORANGE TRUST.
Southern Californian Growers Are
Forming an Organization.
SACRAMENTO, Cal., Nov. 7—The orange
growers of Southern California are forming
na organization which, whea completed, will
to all intents and purposes be a trust. A
committee representing the Southern Cali
fornia Fruit Exchanges is visiting all the big
gities to arrange the details for handling the
erop Thomas Morehouse, a member of this
committee said :
*“T'he growers are merely pooling their in
terests to preserve a good market for Cali
fornia oranges. In the past we have had %
trust to luck, and our losses became so heavy
that our orange groves were not worth the
ground they occupied. We intend to estab
lish agencies in all the principal eities, and
there our representatives will sell in earload
lots to wholesale dealers only. We are not a
trust, or a corporation, but we are working
on the co-operative plan.”
Ounly the other day the cotton growers of
the Southern States made an attempt to get
up a trast, but their efforts, they tfeclarod.
failed. Then they decided on what they
called a co-operative scheme, in which all
agreed to use no fertilizers, which will prac
tically decrease the crops. A safe estimate
of this season’s orange crop ie 16,000 ears, or
3.000,030 boxes. The failure of the Florida
erop gives the California growers an excel
lent opportuaity to build up this co-operative
system, or trust.
HANDS ARE TIED.
Navy Department Cannot Accept
Ram Katahdin.
Secretary of the Navy Herbert and Gen.
Hyde president of the Bath, Me., iron works,
bhad a conference regarding the disposition of
the ram Kathadin, which failed to come up
to the contract requirement of 17 knots. -
'l‘l: result of the conference was practicak
ly a deeision, on the &m of Sec. Herbert, to
appoint a board of officers who shall deter
mine whether the ram shall be aceepted b
the governmeant, aud if so at what price. {t
is believed Sec. Herbert will thea report all
the facts to the president, who will undoubt
edly make a recommendation to congress, im
accordance with the recommendation of the
board.
It is believed that the board will recom
mend the acceptance of the vessel at a reduo
tion of Letween #525,000 and £50,000 on the
coatract price. Owing to the stipulations of
the act of congress, that the vessel should
make at least 17 knots an hour, the navy
department cannot accept the ship without
the speeifie authority of congress,
MEMORIAL IN BRONZE.
Rochester, N, H., to Erect a S tatue
of Rev. Amos Main.
ROCHESTER, N. H, Nov. 7. City of.
flcials met for the purpose of examining
sketches fol a monument to perpetuate the
memory of Rev. Amos Main, the flcst sestled
mjaister of the Pirst Congregational church,
from May 9, 1737, to April 8, 1760, when he
died at the age of 51 years,
On a granite pedestal will be placed a
statue in dronzs of Rev. Mr. ldn,'glch will
‘be nine feet high. The indcription will be
on a bronze tablet to be set in a block of
granite. The site of the proposed memorial
is in the square for which the eity of Roch
ester paid #£lo,ooo. The sum of $lOO is to be
paid for the best sketch presented.
BODIES IN THE RUINS.
Fatal Fire in a New York Sweat
Shop.
The buildings, 3,5 and 7 Pelham street,
New York,used as sweat shops, were burned.
The loss is #lOO,OOO. Morris Deuschi, a
tailor, jumped from the third story during
the fire and fractured his skull. He died
later in the hospital. The bodies of Jacob
Shapiro, a watchman, and Isaac Pensen, a
tailor, and the body of an unknown person
were found in the ruins.
The three butldings took fire from floor
to floor as though their walls had been
soaked with Kbrosene, and ali avenues of
escape were quickly cut off. No one knows
how many persons were inthe darkened
sweat shops.
NO HANGING IN KANSAS.
It is Stated That Death Sentences
There Are Never Carried Out.
Gov. Morrill of Kansas, has been petitioned
by 5,600 cilizens of Edward county tc sign the
death warrants of Carl Arnold and William
Harvey, sentenced to death by Jadge Van
Divert of Kinsley about 18 mouths ago.
Arnold and Harvey, wbile drunk in Kinsley,
deliberately murdered Mavor March.
Governor Morrill intimated to friends that
he would deny the petition. No Kansas gov
ernor has ever signed a death warrant. Crim
inals sentenced to death are permitted to
serve in the penitentiary for life, and are not
hanged as the law contemplates. There are
5 convicis in the Kansas penitentiary under
sentence to death.
Were Arrested in New York.
Robert Charles, a traveling agent of the
Metropolitan life iosurance company near
Ruatland, Vi., and for a few months resident
there, has not been seen for some days and it
is alleged that whea he de ed he went
directly to Troy by way of mluu» and
there met Mrs. Floreuce Becker, of Ballston,
N. Y., from which they went to New York.
Charles and Mrs. Becker were arrested on a
& complaint sworn to by Mrs. Charies,
Colored Woman Turns White.
Dr. Giles of Tewksbury, Mass., almhouse,
sa.l at the meeting of the Ilddlo&x Nortb
society that a colored woman at the alms.
bouse had turned white with the exception
of ber bair, which retains the characteristics
of the colored race. The change, it was
thought, was due to skin disesase,the pigment
losing its color.
Oldest Most
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| House Furnishers and Clothiers in New England.
'W'E are prepared to furnish estimates for Hotels, Public Buildings, Lodges,
Clubs and. Private Residences with designs and prices of durable and
serviceable goods that cannot be duplicated. Agents for Derby Desks, Model Ranges,
Standard Folding Beds, Brewster Baby Carriages, etc. Attend our
Baroain Sale Tis Week of Kitehen Goods, Carpets, Houseiurisings;
BRADFORD SQUEALS.
Convicted Counterfeiter Turns
on His Old Comrades.
Secxots of the Brockway Gang in
Possession of Chief Hazen.
NEW YOREK, Nov. 7—Dr.o.E.Bradford,the
convicted coun*®-feiter, has ‘*‘squealed” on
the Brockway gang. As a result of his admis
sions, Chief W. P. Hazen of the Secret Ser
viee, is now in possession of nine plates, ex
cellently executed, for counterfeiting bills
and bank notes; partially flnished bills for
©lOO,OOO of spurious money, and very valu
able information regarding the workings of
the gang. Dr. Bradford received a sentence
or s:x years imprisonment, instead of the
maximum of fifteen years.
When Dr. Bradford was arraigned before
Judge Brown at Philadelphia Pa.,for a light
sentence as a reward for having given the
government important information. Chief
Hazen, after Dr. Bradford had been sen
tenced. said that Dr. Bradford had practical
ly confessed to him that he had been a con
federate of the arch-counterfeiter Brockway.
Hazen's men had found the plates buried
near the headquarters of the gang at Scheut
zen Park, Union Hill, not far from the house
at 242 Ann street, West Hoboken, where
Brockway and his gang had been.
Ohief Hazen said he now had in his pos
saession six plates that had been used by the
gang. They consisted of three plates for
countefeiting $5OO gold certificates of the
United States, two plates for counterfeiting
$lOO notes of the Bank of Montreal, and one
plate for a vignette of President Lincoin, to
fit into the centre of the £5OO plates, and
spurious bills for $£1,000,000, Dr. Bradford,
he said, had also told him shat there were
three plates for £lOO bills at the bottom of
the Harlem Biver, where they had been
thrown in to avoid detection.
The agents have just recovered, together
with genuine flore paper sufficient to print
another 81,000,000 of counterfeit bills. Dr.
Bradford has been taken to Kings’ County
penitentiary to begin his term of imprison
ment,
GUILTY IN FIRST DEGREE.
Jury Quick to Convict Theodore
Durrant For Murder.
SAN FRANCISCO, Cal.,, Nov.7—The Dur
rant murder trial which has been in court over
four months and which has excited greater
interest than any other criminal case in the
country has eome to an end with a verdiet of
murder in the first degree against Theodore
Durrant, who was found guilty of killing
Blanche Lamont in the Emanuel Baptist
chureh.
Although public opinion was unanimously
against the prisoner, the jury was expected
to stay out some hours, and, perhaps, dis
agree. The fact that they were out only 25
THEODORE DUBRANT.
minutes and agreed on a verdict on the first
ballot, shows the force of the prosecution
and the strength of the district attorney’s
closing speech. It was a great triumph also
for the police, and especially for Capt. Isaiah
W. Lees, chief of detectives, who personally
attended to the gathering of all the evidence
against Durrant.
Dist. Atty. Barnes will move for the im
mediate trial of the Minnie Williams case.
His idea is that should Durraat escape death
by appeal to the supreme court, he may be
hanged for the murder of Mionie Williams.
The police say they have more convinelng evi
dence against Durrant on this crime than in
the Lamont eass. They have been arranging
this with great care as they feared a disagree
ment in the ease just ended.
REVOLT AT ZEITUN.
26,000 Armeniansin Arms—Turkish
Reserves to Muster.
CONSTANTINOPLE, Nov. 7—The Porte
has sent a circular note to the Turkish
representatives abroad in regard to the
recent disturbances in the provinces, in
which it is declared that the Armenians were
the aggrossors. Order prevails everywhere
now, the circular says exocept at Balburt,
where 400 armed Armeniens are menacing
the Mussulmans there.
According to Turkish sources of informa
tion, 26,000 Armenians have revoited at Zei
tun. The Porte has decided to call out part
of the reserves, but lack of funds renders
mobilization of troops difficult. The Porte
is endeavoring to obtain another advance of
150,000 Turkish pounds from the Ottoman
Bank,on account of the conversion loan, A de
mand will be made upon the British Km
bassy and the United States Legation that
the relief operations at Sassoun shall cease.
MILFORD WON THE “SQUIRT.”
Rival Granite State Hand Tubs
Play for a Purse.
The rivalry between the Milford and Wil
ton, N. H., band tubs reached a climax at
Lawndale, when they played for a purse of
§7OO, divided. The snow storm prevented a
very large local attendance, but the enthusi
asts from Milford and Wilton were present
in large numbers. The snow and wind inter
fered with the playing.
The play was to be made in three heats,
The first was declared off because neither
reached the 175fcot mark. In the second
heat Wilton threw 170-ft. 9in.. and Milford
176 i.. 3in. In the third Milford reached 170,
while Wilton could not pass 158 ft. 4in. This
euded the contest, and Milford was declared
the winner in two straight heats. Milford
took $550 and Wilton $l5O. After the
“squirt” the Miifords paraded the city with
brooms and, amil much cheering, departed
for home.
FIREMEN IN DISHONOR.
Sensational Hearing'at Nashua End
ed and Foreman Discharged.
The fire commissioners of Nashua, N. H.,
finishel a three days’ hearing on charges
that officers of the Ambherst street engine
company refused to respond to a general
alarm, even whex notifled by an officer by
telephone,’ when the Holman block was de
stroyed by fire.
Foreman John M. Harris, who answered
the telephone, was dishonorably discharge-l.
Drivers Hobart and Melendy were fined five
days’ pay each and assistant Frank A. Bean
reprimanded. The affair is the most sensa
tional that ever occurred in the department
in this city.
NEWS CONDENSED.
Terse Dispatches From All Over the
. -~ Country. &
Grandma Blackburn of Fond du Lae, Wis,,
is just 100, and saw Queen Victoria when she
was but three years old.
The house of Hayner Dick, of Troy. N. Y.,
a demented man who lived about hall a mile
from the city line, caught fire and Dick was
burned to death.
Sir Jchn Moore, son of the late Duke of
Leinster, is reportad by Ohio papers to be
dying in Middletown, that state, where he
has long lived a recluse.
The safe in the Washington, D. C., Post
business office was rifled by Frank Jones, 16
years old. an employe of the establishment,
of severa!l hundred dollars. He escaped.
A St. Lawrence Co., N.Y.,merchant,bearing
the euphonious name of Salem Town, is won
dering wnoether he has rendered bimself
liable to fines agzregating nearly $7OO for
expressing a package of game.
Cap, the traveling dog, is going the rounds
again. He has stayed in Minneapolis for six
months, but was receatly deadheaded thence
to Staples, Minn. Cap has traveled many
thousand miles 1n his day, and never pays
fare.
George T. Cartelvou of New York. has
be«n appointed eteznozrapher at the White
House, in place of Robert L. O’Brien of
Massachusetts, resigned. Mr. Cartelyou has
been confliential ¢ erk to the Fourth Assist
ant Postmaster-General. The salary ef his
noew position is $2,000.
LIFE’'S POEM ENDS.
Eugene Field Joins the Great And
Silent Majority.
CHICAGO, Nov. 7—Eugene Field, the poet,
died in his bed of heart failure. He retired
in usual health and apparently slept soundly
till daybreak, when his son, who occupied
the room with him, heard him groan, and,
putting out his hand, found that death had
already taken place. Mr. Field leaves a wife
and five chiidren.
It is not generally known that while
Eugene Field was born at St. Louis, Sept. 8,
1850, his father, Roswell Martin Field, was a
native of Newfane, Vt., and Eugene Field’s
younger days were passed at the home of his
g)usin, Miss Mary Field French, in Amherst,
m.
Available Assets $1,2532,736.
U. 8. Commissioner John A Shields flled
his report as s%eolal master of the accounts
of Thomas C. Platt and Marsden J. Perry as
receivers of the New York & New England
railroad company. The commissioner finds
ecash in the hands of the receivers $129,
713.65 on July 1. The money received from
all soutces to Aug. 31 amounted to 1,876,
451.80, making a total of $2,006,164.95.
Money disbursed §1,809,434.92; cash on
hand of $106,730.58. The available assets of
the road at the time of the flling of the re
port were $1,252 636.58.
Bank Watchman Found Dead.
Joseph D. Decelle, night watchman at the
Marine Savings Bank, Portland, Me., was
found dead in the bank. He had evidently
been dead nearly all night. Heart disease
was the cause of his demise. Mr. Deceile
was city marshal under Mayor King, was 56
years old and leaves a family.
Hancock Treaty Case Next.
CHEYENNE, Wyo.. Nov. 7—The Federal
court heard arguments on the application for
a writ of habqas corpus, made by the United
“tates attorng‘tor Wyoming, on behalf of
Race Heorse, the Bannock Indian. It is a
test ase to determine whether Indians bave
a right to hunt game in Wyomiug in &coord
ance with the terms of treaty, despite the
laws of Wyoming prohibiting them from so
doing. A decisiou will be rendered on Nov.
23.
Virginia University to be Rebuilt.
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va, Nov. 7—The
Board of Visitors of the University of Virginia
met here today and desided to rebuild the
rotunda, annex, reading rooms and chapel as
they were before the fire of a week ago.
Man May Die.
BOSTON, Nov. T—Frank C. Dowd, aged
23, a medical student and son at Richard
Dowd, a well-known Charlestown, Mass.,
man, was shot about 9 o’clock by George
E. Johnson of 23 Adams street, Medford.
The affair occurred at the liquor store
known as the Rutherford exchange at 566
Main street and 511 and 513 Rutherford
avenue, Charlestown, One shot was fired,
the ball entered the back just over the righ:
hip, and striking a rib glanced upward and
lodged. Dowd will probably die.
Rain is Badly Needed.
Many of the ice cutting companies in the
Kennebec valley, Me., are making improve
ments on their buildings. The past season
has been a fair one, but the prospect for a
good cro%.tbe coming winter is not very
bright. in is badly needed, as the rivers
and lakes are lower than for a number of
years. The amount of ice on hand on the
Kennebec April 1 was $73,000 tons. Of this
573,000 tons have been shipped. The com
panies on the Penobscott river will carry
over about 80 000 tons.
Contracts For Six Gunboats.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. T—Secretary
Herbert awarded the contracts for the six
composite gunboats authorized by last Con
gress. Two ofthe of the vessels, the twin
screw will be built by the Union Iron Works
of San Francisco, one by Dialogue & Sons, of
Camden, N. J.; one by Louis Nixon, the
Crescent SBhipbuilding Company, Elizabeth
&)‘r& Nl J., and two by the Bath Iron Works,
th, Me.
Congress Soon to Meet.
It is understood in Washington, D. C..that
Representative Warren B. Hooker of New
York, Secretary of the republican ecaucus of
the house, bas issued a eall for a meeting of
& caucus and the republican members of the
54th congress to be held in the hall of the
house on the evening of Nov. 30. Nomina
tions will be made for speaker, clerk of the
house, doorkeeper, sergeant-at-arms, post
master and chaplain.
Tobacco Trust's New Scheme.
PHILADELPHIA, Pa, MNov. 7. —The
American Tobaceco Company has issued a
new form of agreement for its customers to
gign, which is said to be an attempt to get
around the illegal diserimination clause of
the Anti-Trust law. Under the new scheme
the Trust offers a ocommission of 24 per
cent to all dealers who handle the goods, and
an additional commission of 71§ per eent to
dealers who handle the Trust cigareties to
the exclusion of all competitive brands.
Col. Prescott Dead.
BOSTON, Nov. 7—Edward Prescott, well
known in business circles for the past 40
years, is dead. Pneumonia was the cause.
Col. ““Ned” Prescott as he was familiarly
called, was best known through his long ser
vice with the Globe. Col. Prescott was a
Charlestown boy. born beneath the shadows
of Bunker Hill 62 years ago. Daring the
peace jubilee in 1869 he brought out the for
eign baads, a triumph in musical achieve
ments.
Providence Census Returns.
The Rhode Island state census office has
jssued a bulletin showing the population o!
Providence and Cranston. The former is
145,472, In 1890 is was 13%1“, and in 1885,
118,070. Cranston has 10,575, In 1890 it had
8,099, and in 1885, 6,005. The increase in the
last ten years in Providence of 27,402, is the
largest of any locality in the state under the
present census,
NEW FASHIONS.
THEY ARE RAPID, FANTASTIC
AND CHARMING.
Skirts Are Immensely Wide—Sleceves
as Voluminous as KEver
Styles in Cuffs and
Collars.
ALIENT alterations in shapes
and outlines do not take place
in the middle of a season, and
at present changes are chiefly
seen in matters of detail. People of
good taste who wish to be nicely
dressed and exercise a little ecouomy
would do well to occupy their time in
renovating their dresses of last year
to make them smart enough for every
day wear at home, or out of doors in
the morning.
Evening toilets, says the Season,
should also pass review, and may be
freshened up in the most charming
styles, now that fashions are so rapid
and fantastic.
Sleeves appear as voluminous as
ever, and are still set out with horse
hair and other stiff stuff;, yet do not
answer the skirt or even the bodice of
the dress, but are made of another
stuff aud color. The sleeve is sewn to
an underblouse of a perfectly differ
ent hue, or blouse shape draped in
various ways, or a round or fichu col
lar is put on. The latter form will
probably take a prominent place in
the fashions for winter, either as a
cape with long scarf ends, widening
the shoulders considerably or fitting
close to the same, so that the puff of
the sleeve is slipped nearer to the el
bow in the Marie Antoinette style.
A new style of bodice has appeared
for the evening. ‘This is a slashed
blouse worn over another blouse of a
light thin meterial and in a different
color. Some of these elegant blouses
are trimmed round the slashings with
tiny buttons, beaded bordering, or
passemeterie, and she chiffon, lawn or
lace of the underblouse puffs ont
through the openings.
Dark woolen dresses are made up in
the same way, only that the founda
tion bodice must be of light colored
silk, and the slashes trimmed with
black or dark braid set on plain, as
also in a small fancy design; indeed,
the idea is excellant for remodeling
ocorsages of all kinds to be worn with
plain skirte.
Eton jackets have made way for the
half-wide-open jacket with small
pockets, and close-fitting backs fin
ished off with a very short circular
basgque, the top of the shoulder being
cut out in a long or rather epaulet
point.
A dainty model of this kind has the
back and epaulets made -entirely of
one piece stretched across.
Another plainer jacket is embroid-
ered except the sleeves with cord of a
dark eolor sewn on in close rows on
one side, and the hem of the skirt or
namented to answer with a border ala
Grecque.
The fashionable skirts which are
cut so immensely wide are beginning
to lose their plain appearance, the
hem is stitoched out twoor three times
with silk in a contrasting oolor, or a
border answering the trimming on
the bodice is worked in chain and
fancy stitches halfway up to the knee.
The skirts of handsome walking
costumes are alsb trimmed to meich
the broad pointed epaunlets and lower
tight-fitting part of the sleeve. A
pretty costume for youug married
ladies to be worn in the country is
made of dark cloth, and has the skirt
and loose, double-breasted jacket
ornamented with appliques of light
cloth of the same color.
Young girls may adopt the same
style by choosing a tight-fitting jacket
with sailor collar instead of the sacque
coat.
FASHIONS IN CUFFS AND COLLARS.
Among the many things so small and
yet so significant which help to make
a plain toilet a very sattractive one
are the white coilars and cuffs which
at present are in such high favor.
They are worn all the year round
Sometimes there is only the narrow
edge of the cuff showing from under
the sleeve, but the wide ones tarned
back over the sleeve are worn the
most. They are made of the plain
white linen or the yellow, and some
are edged with different colors, and
others are in stripes or figured.
Daintier ones are of linen and edged
with embroidery and rows of insertion,
and others are of the finest cambric
and the most costly lace. With all of
these they have collars to match, and
all of themare turned over. We have
not yet come te the plain little stand
up collar, which shows just the edge
above the neck of the dress. No,
they are wide and deep. The sailor
collars are very popular and are made
in a dozen different ways. There are
square omes in the back and front,
square ones in the back and pointed
in the front, and those that reach
clear to the belt, and some forming
wide revers, and then some cut in
poiats all around and cut square in
the back and front, and with points
on the shoulders and extending over
the sleeves. Some of them have ruf
fles around the edge amd some have
lace and embroidery and insertion,
and some are scalloped and button
bole stitsched. Then there are others
which are entirely of lace, varying
from very pretty but quite cheap ones
to those of Irish point and Duchesse
lace, costing a fabulous amount and
only to be looked at by the little wo
man with an anlimited amount of pin
money.
HATS OF FELT OR VELVET.
Hats of felt or velvet are to be al
most- exclusively worn this winter.
The shapes are large or else quite
small toques. Picture hats of black
velvet are profusely trimmed with os
trich feathers- Black ococks’ plumes
are very fashionable. They are pret
ty, too, with their shimmering gleams
of durk green, besides being suitable
in all weathers.
A charniing black velvet hat for the
sutumn is raised at one side with a
bandean of steel studded with emer-
MISSES' WAIST.
ald cabochons, while knots of black
satin ribbon rest upon the hair.
A new cape is made in three sections,
hes an extremely high collar, extend
ing, in faot, almost to the top of the
ears. This turns back from a plain
inner collar that fits around the
throat. This cape is made of cloth,
and the three sections are out in
scallops and bound with wide braid
stitched on and pressed flat; the lin
ing is of tartan silk and is bound in
with the outside material
NEW CAPES.
Corner Broad and Eddy =Strects.
WHERE OUR MAMMOTH VARIETY OF
BOSTON LETTER.
[SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE. ]
Prison Sunday.
It would be a serious misfortune if
the people of Massachusetts should
ever become indifferent to the gues
tions which arise in dealing with the
criminal classes. Crime may not be
an attractive subject for study, but it
must be studied. On the first day of
this moenth there were 7,610 persons
in confinement in our penal institu
tions in Massachusetts, and each year
sees 100,000 arrests and 26,000 com
mitments to prison. Discharged cou
victs leave the prisons at the rate of
100 each day. The magnitude of
the subject should be impressed
upon not only the philanthropist, but
the taxpayer. The cost of the police
and courtsin this Stateis over $2,000,-
000, the expense of the prisons is
over $300,000 annually. One must
see, from even these barren figures,
that there is a great demaud
for the intelligent treatment of
crime and for prison methods
which aim at nobler ends than the
mere confinement and employment of
the criminals. Men and women should
not leave our prisons to repeat their
offences, and when their term of con
finement is over, they should not
become dependent upon public or pri
vate charity. This commonwealth is for
tunate in the existence of an energetic
Prison Association, which is doing a
grandwork in spreading popular inter
est in the scientific study of erime. This
association urges the churches of Mas
sachusetts to join with those of other
States in the observance of the fonrth
Sunday of this month as Prison Sun
day. It hopes that in this way the
attention of intelligent persons will
be freshly turned to the causes, pre
vention and punishment of the refor
mation of the ecriminal and
the duty of the church, communi
ty and State toward the lawbreakers.
If the criminals themselves were
the only ones concerned, the problem
would be less pressing, hut the 100,000
arrests made in this state each year
represent hundreds of families, from
whom the pangs of hunger and the
stimulus to erime must be removed.
An Important Decision.
William A. Sweet and other heirs of
Peleg Tallman, Sr., of Maine, who
died in 1840, brought suit in the fed
eral court in Boston against Christian
Rechel, to recover possession of a
certain lot in the city of Boston, for
merly owned by the deceased Tallman,
and which they claimed had been de
vised to them by his will, subject to a
life interest therein by Henry Tall
man. In his defence to the suit
Rechel set up a title derived from the
city of Boston, and this defeuce gave
the supreme court of the United
States at Washington, D. C., to which
tribunal the litigation was finally car
ied, in disposing of the case, an
opportunity to aflirm the validity and
constitutionality of the law of Juane
1, 1867, under the operation of which
so great improvement has been made
in the condition of the Back Bay in
the city of Boston. The court says:
““We are of opinion that, upon both
principle and authority, it was com
petent for the Legisiature, in the ex
ercise of the police powers of the
commonwealth, and of Its power to
appropriate private property for pub
lic uses, to authorize the city to take
the fee in the lands described in the
statute prior to making compensa
tion, and that the provision made for
compensating the owner was adequate
under the coustitution. It results
that, as the title to the lands here in
question passed to the city of Boston
when such lands were actually taken
in the mode prescribed in the statute
of 1867, the persons who were then
the owners, whoever they were, had
thereafter no interest in them, but
were only entitled to reasonable com
peusation.”
Mercantile Library Association.
An pstitution which has reacued
its seventy-fifth year and bas been
identified with the merchants’ clerks
of Boston through its entire history
has a claim to be remembered. It was
begun by young men who came to
Boston as poor boys, and who, by
dint of industry and honesty and abil
ity have made positions for them
selves in all the ranks of life. It was
the first to begin a large circulating
library, and it inaugurated a system
of public lectures which had a great
deal to do with the development
of public spirit in this ecity. It
is stated that three-fourths of
the bank presidents of Boston came to
town as poor boys,and that most of them
were once members of the association.
It led the way to the Public Library
and its work, though greatly dimin
ished in its extent by changes in our
social and business life, is continued
down to our own time. It is now
vigorously carried on by young men
who chiefly have their homes at the
South end. Few institutions have a
record of more substantial service to
the community, and there are many
men among us who look with grati
tude to their connection with it
Want a Car Tax.
The board of aldermen unanimously
concurred with the common couneil in
the passage of the resolve ¥equesting
the mayor to petition the next general
court for the passage of an act com
pelling street railway companies op
erated in Boston to pay a tax of $25
for each cer per annum, and also to
care for the streets through which
their tracks run, from curb to curh.
By the passage of the resolve it places
both branches of the Boston city
government in favor of the scheme
and it will undoubtedly have some
weight with the legislature.
OUR STORE,
Adding the Library to the Schools.
No more important step in publie
education has recently been taken in
this city than that which the Public
Library and the school board are now
taking for establishing a proper rela
tion between this institution and the
gramiwar and high schoolss. In many
other cities the publie library has al
ready been connected with the com
mon schools, so that 1t has
become a part of the edueation
of the people. Some slight attempts
have been made toward it in
this city in former years, but they
have been simply experimental and
have led to no important result. It
is gratifving to the friends of educa
tion in Boston that the trustees of the
library are ready to take the iniative
in bringing aboat this chauge,and the
intelligent sympathy of Mr. Putnam,
without whose co-operation nothing
could be done,is of the greatest service,
The library is to furnish books for ref
erence and books for general reading,
and it is intended by this means to
give certain facilities to all youth in
the schools who are beyond twelve
years of age. They will not come to
the central library unless attended by
their teachers, and then only in small
companies, so that they shall not be a
disturbance to other parties, but the
library will furnish a list of a
thousand works in history trave
els, science, biography and fiction.
of each of which it will have
about fifteen duplicate copies, so that
& proper supply ean be furnished to
each school for supplementary read
ing. These books will be sent out by
the library and will be returned at its
expense, The work will be in the
hands of a special custodian, who will
hold the teachers responsible for the
books distributed to each school. It
is estimated that about $lO,OOO will be
sequired for the special purchase of
books for this purpose, and that it
will cost $5,000 to put the plan in
operation.
Artists Object.
I The decorations by Puvis de CkLa
vannes at the publie library arg the
' subject of no end of comment amosg
Boston artists, Opinion is pretty
]evenly divided. Some arfists pro
nounce them bad, others good, bat
'very few say that they are any
l thing out of theordinary. Nearly all
pronounce the figures bad in drawing
but this has been a weakness of Cha
vannes. He never seems to care par
ticuiarly for close drawing of forms.
He seems to regard them as a part of
his color scheme, and as such he takes
the same liberty with them that he
does with his straight trees and their
impossible leaves, every oue of which
is almost exactly the same size, as if
stenciled. The artists of this country
believe in accurate drawing of the
human figure. Sargent and
Abbey and Vedder are wonders
in this respect. They do not neg
lect anatomical details. The Freuch
‘artists are the closest draughtsmen in
‘the world, ordinarily, but Chavannes
seems to be an exception in this re
‘spect. He pays much more attention
to the harmony of his coulor scheme
than he does to the details of draw
ingg When it is considered that
Chavannes’ work will cost the city
$50,000, it would seem as though the
very best work, both in drawing and
painting, might be expected. When
it is further considered that suchsmen
as Sir Frederick Leighton and Alma
Tadema offered their services to the
library§the present result will appear
all the more unsatisfauctory. 'l'rue,
the decorations harmouize with the
surroundiugs in & manner that a few
artists in the world could ever hope
to realize. They seem at a distance a
part of the glorious whole that was
in the mind of the architect when he
Jaid out the general scheme for this
part of the building, but they wounld
look ever so much better if the draw
ing of the figures would bear any kind
of analysis,
Only One Woman in Ten.
Only one woman in ten wants to
vote in Massachusetts, ¢h? Well,
that is rather discouraging, and iu this
particular state, too, where knowledge
and good semse are supposed to be
rampant. But, nevertheless, they will
all come to want the franchise some
day. Idon’t know that it’s a particu
lar pleasure to vote. I amyacquainted
with one man who says just before
election: *“‘Ob, I'm mnot going to
register this time. It's a perfect nui
sance, aund I won’t be bothered. One
side 18 composed of knaves and the
other of fools and I won't vote for
either party. I've had enough of It.”
S5O when aman like this is induced to
vote it comes under the head of an act
of duty and not pleasure. Well,why
can’t women vote in the same way? Let
them look on it as a daty to be doune as
much as they go to the dentist oncea
year and have their teeth looked after,
They don’t really enjoy it,but it’s a du
ty that they owe to ourselves and to the
community. Same way with voting.
The woman who will be ‘‘unsexed” or
“lowered” by going to the poils for ten
minutes or 80 in every year or- two
must be an ethereal creature who
should be put in a glass case and sent
to some dime museum. If she will
be any more knocked than she is at a
bargain counter table, or be hustled
by a tougher throng than pack the ““L”’
cars during the ‘‘commission hours”
she must be unfortunate indeed.
Boston’s new town and country club
proposes to lend umbrellas to its
members, Itis needless to say that
the club was organized by women.
Men would never have conceived such
& bright idea.
The number of people who want a
fax on street cars is large, but the
number of people who want seats on
the street cars is larger still, !
Bex Marcaro, °