Morning journal and courier., 1893-05-12
urer was referred to the executive com.

urer was referred to the executive com- mittee. The following supplementary resolutions were reported and adopted. Since the last national assemblsge of re- publicsns the patriotic citizens throughout the land have met an irreparAble loss in the deaths of R. B. Hayes and J. G. Blaine. Resolved, That. e committee be ap- pointed to investigate and report the con-
 dition of the party in the southern states.
 people and the purposes of its creation
 was the destruction of slavery and the
 greatest possible expansion of human lib-
 erty within the land. It knows no sect or
 creed. Therefore the exclusion of any
 person from any republican club or or
 ganization on account of religious belief
 merits the condemnation of the league.
 The league adjourned to meet in Dem
 yer in May next.
 LATEST RATCHET STORY.
 Disbelief That it is the one Used in
 Borden murders-Preparation for
 Lizzie Borden,s Trial-At Least one
 Hundred Jurymen Will bc Called.
 NEW BEDFORD, May 1.-The Evening Standard printed e rumor that another hatchet, closely connected with the Bor- den case had been found in Fall River, and displayed the story with so much scare head and apparent importance, that for a minute the community was led to believe that there was really something in 1t. The most surprising part of the story, how ever, was the faot that the Standard should be misled into attaching so much import ance to it.
 Since the killing of Mir. and Mrs. Bor- den there have been hatchets and hatchets found, some covered with chicken blood and some with rust, in fact 1t is stated that no less than ninety hstchets with which the murders might have been com mitted, have been laid away on the shelf, apparently labeled, but that there is proof that any of them is the identical hatchet with which the double murder was done remains to be disclosed at the trial.
 going forward rapidly. Already nearly has been engaged for the judges, the jury and those who will be obliged to attend this important session of court, and the other hotels have advanced engagements.
 Notice has been sent to this city to Sim con Borden, 6, assistant clerk of the courts, that lists would be sent him at once, from which he could make up ven- ires for jurors to be used in the Borden case. Because of the peculiar circum- stances attending this case, 1t is estimated that over 100 jurors will be summoned into court. As is probably we'll known, each side in . capital case has the right to challenge twenty-two men. This disposes of forty-four out of the number which may be summoned. They have then a right to challenge for cause any number they may see fit to, and when this | fact is taken into connection with the fact l that large number of those summoned | may have decided opinions ss to capital | punishment and may have formed ideas of | their own in regard to the innocence or | guilt of the prisoner, 1t can be readily seen | that large number of jurors will be need sd.
 Already the remarks "They will never convict her" "They can't get jury that will agree" are heard on every side. | Court officials of long experience predict | that the trial will last three weeks surely, | and perhaps four. The court house will | furnish rather indifferent facilities for the | army of reporters and typewriters who will | attend the trial, and the county commis- sioners are rackipg their brains for ways | and means for accommodations.