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Birmingham age-herald., 1895-06-04
MOBILE.
A Negro Arrested for Whose Death Another
 Is Serving Sentence.


 Mobile, June 2-(Special Correspond ence.)-A rather interesting story evolves from the finding and arrest of a negro named William Burrell by Chief of Police Burke and Detectives McGovern and Morris.
 It seems that about year ago Hem ton Rice, a negro, was tried and con victed at Livingston for the death of Burrell these two. With Walter Rice having gone swimming in the Bigbee river at Moscow landing some time in the early part of the summer of last year. Late in the evening the two Rice boys went home, but Burrell failed to show up at the home of his half brother, Ben Jones, who, becoming alarmed, in stituted a search for him.
 Jones knowing that the three boys had gone swimming together, had the Rices arrested, charging them with his death by drowning. Walter Rice's release was secured by habeas corpus proceedings, but Henton Rice was held. The grand jury returned an indictment against Henton Rice, charging murder in the first degree.
 In the trial it developed that Henton Rice had been known to assert that Bur Tell was too intimate with his QHen- ton's) best girl, and that somebody was going to be drowned the first thing anybody knew.
 Walter Rice on the stand stated that Henton and Burrell while in the water began ducking each other, and finally Burrell sank out of sight and failed to reappear. The jury brought in a ver- dict of guilty, and the defendant was given two years in the penitentiary.
 Some time ago Chief Burke got a let ter from Louis Rice, father of Henton, in which he stated that he had reason to believe that Burrell was alive and living somewhere in Mobile county, an1 asking the chief to try and find him. The case was turned over to Detectives Me- Govern and Morris, who began a search, together with Chief Burke. They finally got a clue and eventually. as stated above, secured their man. The only explanation given by Burrell of his leay-
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-06-04

silver dollar and the greenbacks at par is first. the limited quantity; second receivability for government dues; third, the promise of the government to redeem them, or to keep all its issues at parity with gold. As long as. these conditions last and the government is able to full fill it's promises parity will continue. But let these fail and the silver dollar will drop to 50 cents both in Liverpool and in New York
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-06-04

The Atlanta Constitution and other 16-to-1 newspapers are publishing cur rency literature from the pen of John P. Jones, formerly a Republican, now a Populist Senator from the little State of Nevada. Jones, he doesn't want to pay the freight, but has gotten immense ly rich out of his silver mines. The Constitution and other silver organs have a difficult task in trying to infiu- ence. Southern Democrats with this Jones rot.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-06-04

NcrExcLUsIvE SOUTHERN ASSOCIATED PRESS, UNITED PRESS, NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATED PRESS, NEW YORK Asso- CIATfD PRESS, C LIE NEWS FROM ALL PARTS OF THE WORLD AND SUPERB SPE- cIAI STATE SERVICE.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-06-04

ay-Tiae present management of the A GE-H E R LID has no claim against advertisers or SubSorib- CTS prior to February llt1, lSSo. Under decree of court accounts LID to that date have been sold and transferred, hence cancelled as between the debtor and this paper.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-06-04
DEATHS IN ALABAMA.

At Alexander City, May 27, w c. Da- wis, aged S4.
 At Jacksonville, May 27, Mrs Fannie FullinWider.
 At White Plains, May 20, Jack Reeves. At Lodi, May 26, Marshall Cooper, aged TO-
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-06-04

utterances like the above may have upon the party. It evidently forgets that 1t will be impossible to have any change in our currency system before 1897, and that ammunition is liable to give out if used too freely before that time.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-06-04

"The use of both gold and silver as standard money under restrictions, etc., l" means nothing, unless you say under what kind of restrictions.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-06-04

How many lives has Jose Marti, any how? He has discounted every cat on the back fence in the number of times he has been killed.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-06-04

Henry Irving, Walter Besant and Lewis Morris were among the gentlemen lsnighted by Queen Victoria on the oc- casion of her recent birthday
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-06-04

Lowelrs days in June may have been rare, but these of ours are certainly well done.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-06-04

This is the sort of weather that inspires Sydney Smith with the desire to take off his flesh and sit in his bones.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-06-04
COLD WEATHER.

Wards coal yard is prepared to furnish you with Carbon Hill or Galloway coal on short notice. Buy your coal from them once and you will have reason to become regular customer. Supply of stove and kindlipg wood on hand. Telephone 4s7.
 11-29 If
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-06-04

India is a silver country. Her labor ing people get 75 cents to $1 per day, accepting silver in payment, worth 35 cents in gold, and buy the necessities of life at inflated silver prices In India the premium for gold is about three to bne.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-06-04
HERE IS ANOTHER.

10 Per Cent, Biddeford, Me-, June 3.-An increase of 10 percent in wages of operatives of the Pepperell and Laconia mills went into effect today.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-06-04

The single silver standard nations are such from necessity, not choice. They are too poor to raise themselves in the financial scale. Every silver nation is a Cinderella among her, sister nations. She sits among the cinders of the kitch- en while her sisters roll in luxury. If she ever emerges from the ashes it will be through the touch of the golden wand that turns a yellow pumpkin into a coach of gold.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-06-04

Thousands of new patrons will take Hoods Sarsaparilla this spring and real ize it's manifold benefits.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-06-04


 speaker at the silver meeting Fri
 day night referred to the enormous
 amount of silver produced by Mexico,
 but added that only $50000000 in silver
 remained in that country. Mexico ships her silver to other countries That's just the danger this country would have to face under free coinage Mexico would stop shipping her silver to the
 Eastern countries. and would transport it across the border into this country.
 She has shipped as much as $16.000, 900 in silver per annum into this country. which is more than a third of the silver production of the United States. Some people seem to think that Uncle Sam is running a mill-they want the privilege of taking their silver bullion to | the mint and having it coined into dol | lars just as they take their corn to mill and have it ground into meal. They are willing to pay Uncle Sam his mintage, as they pay toll to the miller. But they want Uncle Sam to make their 5O-cent l dollars equal to a 100-cent dollar. It would be just as preposterous If they should demand of the miller that he | make every half bushel of meal equal | in value to a bushel.
 | The 16-to-1 advocates want the govern- | ment to coin silver bullion on individual account. That is to say, man with
 bar of silver bullion can take it to the mint and have it coined into dollars. If this is done the government will not
 be responsible for the value of the silver dollar, as at present. The silver dollar will then sink to its bullion value, 50 cents in the dollar At present the gov
 ernment buys the bullion and coins it
 into dollars, and is responsible for it's 1 parity.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-06-04

wound was not necessarily fatal. though an ugly one.
 Daughtry was found at the hotel late at night and arrested.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-06-04
BIRMINGHAM AGE HERALD.
FRANK P. o'BRiEN, Editor and Proprietor
GE, Vol. 21 tAeE.HERAID. Vol. 2

Entered at the postonice at Birmingham Ala, as second-class matter.
The San Francisco call., 1895-10-12

"Did you know what his duties were as
organist of the church,"
ayes, sir" e
"Did you know what time he was at liberty pr
mo, sir. He had no occupstion."
"He had no occupation at that timer
mo, sir"
"If you knew he would be at the church on
April 3. why were you going to call at his
house?"
"To let him know I would be there so he
would be sure to come"
"Why didn't you call to see George King on
your way to church,"
81 was not sure that he was at home, aud 1
wanted to be there at 5 o'clock
"Didn't you know there was lecture at the
college between and 5:30?"
"No, SIR
"Did not DR.. Pond lecture there that after
noon?"
'No, sir'
Look at your card"
CDR. Pond did not lecture there"
'Did any other doctor lecturer
Eyes, sir"
"Was it not included in your course?"
"No; my course was ended"
'Could you have stayed if you desired?"
If / desired"
How ,ong have you had that card?"
Ever since last February"
"Did you have it at the time of your arrest?"
'No, sir"
"Where was it?'
at was at home"
"Wh hen did you get it?"
about a month ago.
''Why did you get it?'
~ got it to refresh my memory as to the time
of the lectures"
And you have been enabled to refresh your
memory from that card for month past?"
81 could if l so desired; yes
Barnes called the attention of the wit
ness to the testimony of George King,
where he said the folding-doors were open
and that Durrant paused and stood a
moment in the space and then passed
through.
ais that testimony correct ?" asked Barnes.
mo, sir
"Is it not a fact that you stopped in the door
way?''
81 did not STOP
"Not moment?"
The San Francisco call., 1895-10-12

II know of none that does
Did you ever attend any lectures in which it
was explained?"
"No, sir"
about it?"
with DR.. West"
"Do you mean the DR.. West who murdered
Ada Gilmore?"
Yes, SIR
When did you discuss it with him?"
Last night in the JAIL
April?"
Not to my recollection"
w w hat was your idea in taking it?"
stono too ooh1s,y ai1ay my headache and settle my
Did you read the adver tisement when you
opened the bottle?"
81 did not"
..Did You ever read the advertisement"
NOT OF oromoseltzer."
"Was there paper like this Showing an ad-
Vertlslhg e1rcular) in your bother?
tie"
"Was that conversation with DR.. West in the
county jail the only one you had about it?'
'fWith whom else?"
"With DR.. Perkins,
''When2"
"On the evening of April L."
where does he reside?'
"On Post street."
'Is he doctor of medicine?'
mo, sir; he has been druggist for years"
81 do
How long have you known him?"
''Six months"
,"Did you ever discuss the subject with
him.
''I have"
(Handing witness his notebook). care these
the notes of DR.. Cheneys lecture of April 3
taken by you at that timer"
Were they taken by you at that timer"
''They were"
''ls this the notebook Won used at that tim 2'
cit isl
Are these notes in your handwriting"
'They are"
care these notes in the same condition now
that they were on April 81
SIN the same condition?" repeated the wit
ness.
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THE PRISONER DENIES IT.
Mr.. Barnes Asks if He Said
He Saw Blanche Lamont
Murdered
DURRANTs CURIOUS DENIAL.
The Long Cross-ExamInatio Ended
With a Series of Startling
Questions.
THE DURRANT TRIAL IN A MINUTE-MR.
BARNES SURPRISE,

The DURHAM 1hlAL IN A MIN 1E-Mh.
BARNES SURPRISE.
In the trial OF Theodore Durrant, charged
with the murder of Blanche Lamont, the long
cross-examination OF the defendant was con-
cuded yesterday afternoon with a most sur
prising series OF questions.
Mr.. Barnes began them by asking again about
the letter written TO his lawyers TO be opened
only in the case of his conviction.
Durrant denied any such letter.
Mr.. Barnes fixed the date and place and
asked Durrant If he did not show an envelope
addressed in this manner TO Miss Carrie Gun
ningham, the newspaper reporter.
Durrant denied il.
Mr.. Barnes then asked the witness il on Oc-
tober l, in the County Jail, he did not tell
Miss Cunningham that while he was working
at the sunburners he heard noise and went
TO the opening in the belfry and there saw the
dead body OF Blanche Lamont.
Durrants answer was rambling and irrele-
want Judge Murphy ordered him to answer
yes or no. He then said mo-
When he left the stand Witness Lenihan was
recalled, but told nothing he had not already
testified TO. Court then adjourned till Tues
day morning.
The San Francisco call., 1895-10-12
OF DIS.

"The 11th?"
81 think So"
''How about the 18th ?"
~ think remembered it then"
"The 13th?''
eyes, SIR
"The 14th?"
''Part of that day."
"What part?"
"Until was arrested"
"You forgot it then?"
Eyes, sir.'
"Did you forget it on the 15th?"
"on the 16th?
"Yes, SIR
'eThe 17th?"
81 didn't pay any attention to it, think l
remembered it on the 18th"
"In the afternoon.'
What timer"
"When Mr.. Deuprey called"
What time was that?"
"Between and o'clock-probably that
time"
What time on the l4th did you forget it?"
~ the time was arrested say"
Didn't you state to DR.. Graham that you did
not know whether you had notes?"
II didn't know if they were FULL
DIDN'T you know you had written in some
notes on the 10th of April from Glazier's
notes?"
Eyes, SIR"
you had gone over the lecture of the Sd on
the loth to see if you had left out anything?"
"You knew the Sd was the day that Blanche
Lamont disappeared"
81 think SOL am not certain"
Didn't you know 1t from your conversation
with Mrs. Noble?'
"Well, yes"
at was well known to you By report and
IRON reading 1t in the papers?"
"Yes, sir"
And you had gone over your notes on the
'.And yet on the 14th you didn't know
whether you had notes-and you knew that
your name was connected with Blanche La
mont's disappearance?
"Only as to seeing her on the morning"
"And this recollection about the notes came
back to you on the 17th?
Eyes, sir; that is right"
"You knew how important it was to you in
establishing an alibi?'
81 didn't know what an alibi meant at that
time'
"Do you know now9"
Ibid you know what 1t was by any other
name-a man proving himself in one place
when he is accused of being in another
placer"
"No, SIR"
"Did you receive copy of Glaciers notes?"
''No, SIR"
WAS ava nota copy handed to your"
"Were they handed to any one else for your
use ?''
"No, SIR,
"were they sent to your lawyers 2"
"Not to my knowledge"
w HlcH Ierry-nOuse QlQ you go TO on the
afternoon of the 18th of April when you were
searching for Blanche Lamont ?'
"At what time ?''
"At any time, or all the time when you were
there" said Mr. Barnes.
Dickinson-We object to that. 1t has already
been gone over.
The court-The objection is overruled.
Witness tanswering)--I walked back and
forth from one ferry-house to the other, watch
ing the boats come in.
"Your information was that she was going
out. not coming in-was it not ?''
swell, couldn't stand there without seeing
those who came in."
.Did you watch the people coming in ?''
az suppose did"
"Don't you know for a fact that you were
there to watch the arrivals, and not the de-
partures q?
"Fdo not know that"
"And during this time was your heart still
filled with this same glad spirit of happi.
ness 2"
'9Wel, it gradually died out.'
lit sank, did it p"
at did"
"3ut you were very glad and happy when
the stranger tapped you on the shoulder and
gave you the elew?"
ayes, sir'
Chow did you manifest your happiness; by
yelling or throwing your hat in the air?"
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pare them with mine; had no idea of an alibi
then'
What idea did you have in wanting the
notes?"
"I was following instructions"
What were these instructions?"
"To get notes of DR.. Cheney's lecture aud
complete my own notes and compare them"
Whose instructions were these?"
zone OF my lawyers"
"When?'
when my college things were sent to GEN
Ibid . you get any ones notes to compare?"
"Rn "Rid 70 you get Graham's nOtes9"
did you speak to any one about getting
"No sir'
"Did you speak to Gallagher about them?"
Eyes; spoke to him"
"What did he say?"
"He called at the City Prison and asked me If
had notes."
What did you say?"
81 said l didn't know"
Whist else was said about notes?"
The subject was dropped then"
had notes?"
''My attorneys notified me-"
You knew that you attended the lecturer"
eyes, SIR"
You knew that you took notes?"
/, HOW do You expect me to remember all
those things in all that Excitement"
81 don't expect anything, merely ask did
your" said the District Attorney.
Dickinson-I object to that way of question
ing the witness.
The court-There has been no impropriety,
general; will correct it when there is.
witness (answering)-I did not know at tn at
time whether had taken notes. In the ex-
element had forgotten.
''Did you know on the 4th of April that you
had taken notes OH the 3d."
"Yes, sir.''
"Did you know it on the 5th?"
'4es, SIR"
"On the 6th?"
eyes, SIR
"On the 7th?'
eyes, sir.''
"On the Sth?"
''Yes, sir.'
"The 1Oth"
"Yes. sir"
The San Francisco call., 1895-10-12
WHAT DURRANT SAID To- MISS CUNNINGHAM.

question "yes" or mo-" and Durrant
finally used the simple negative.
This was the sensation of the day, If not
the beginning of the sensation OF the whole
case In rebuttal Mr.. Barnes will offer to
prove the truth of the question which Dur
rant denied.
All this came out at the close of the
afternoon session. Then the witness left
the stand, and in a short time court ad-
iourned till Tuesday morning.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1895-04-09
WOULD SET. A PRECEDENT

why Nicaragua Dislikes to Concede In
demnity Demanded by England.
WASHINGTON, April 9.-The answer
of Nicaragua to Great Britain's ulti:
matum is being a~nxiously awaited by
officials and diplomats and until it is
made known there promises to be no
further developments in this contro-
versy which has indirectly involved the
United States. The answer is due al
most any day now, although it is an
ticipated that Nicaragua will take the
full limit of time accorded by the Brit.
ish ultimatum.
One of the diplomats connected with
the matter says:
''If it was simply a matter of paying
Great Britain So, 900, that would be
quickly done. But an agreement to
pay this amount carries Nh agreement
Of much more. 1t tacitiy> admits that
Consul Hatch was enormously elected
frola Nicaragua, and is at liberty to re
turn. If he goes back he will foment Z
further disorder, and be a source of If
ritation to Nicaragua. And if $4,000
is paid Consul Hatch. there will be
much larger amount demanded for the
other British citizens elected at th'
same time. The Hatch Sc is merely
test for a large number, and il Nicar
aqua yields to this one, it comedies TIL
Justice of ALL"
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1895-04-09

HELENA, Mon, April 9.-Judge Hi
ram Knowles of the United States
court fell down an elevator shaft from
the first floor to the basement, probably
10 feet. He sustained a fracture of the
right hip joint and will be laid up for
several weeks. Judge Knowles is over
60 years of age and weighs 22O pounds,
and it is remarkable hat his injuries
were moi more serious. He unlocked
the door to the shaft himself and
stepped in without looking to see if the
cage was in place.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1895-04-09
JAPAN'SPROPOSA
The Independence of Korea
and Cession of Import
ant Territory,
PAYMENT OF OO,0OO,O 900 YEN,
And Opening Of Chinese Ports
and Rivers to Commerce,
the Terms.

PARIS, April a.-It is stated on reli-
able authority that Japan has proposed
the following conditions for the con-
clusion Of peace:
The independence Of Korea, the ces-
sion of Southern Manchuria, including
Port Arthur, the cession of the Island
of Formosa. the opening of Chinese
ports and rivers to commerce., the pay.
ment of an indemnity of 400. OOO, OO(
yen and the occupation of a number OF
strategic points until the indemnity
shall have been paid.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1895-04-09

power to borrow before it is exercised and
has a sensible influence on the contract,
and therefore such a tax is a tax on
the power of the states and their instru-
mentatalities to borrow money, and
consequently repugnant to the consti-
tuition.
Upon each of the other petitions
argued at bar, to wit:
First-Whether the void provisions
as to rents and incomes from real estate
invalidates the whole act.
standardization as to the income
from personal property as such, the act
is unconstitutional, as laying direct
taxes.
Third-Whether any part of the tax,
if not considered as a direct tax, is in
valid for want Of uniformity ON either
of the grounds suggested.
The justices who heard the argu-
ments are equally divided and there
fore no opinion is expressed.
The result is hat the decree of the
circuit court is reversed, and the case
remanded with directions to enter a
decres in favor of complainant in re-
spect only of the voluntary payment of
the tax OH rents and income of its real
estate, and that which it holds in trust,
and on the income from the municipal
bonds owned Or SO held by it.
The delivery Of the opinion consumed
Just n hour. Chief Justice Fuller
began at 1905 and concluded at LOS.
He was followed by Justice Field, who
read the first dissenting opinion, speak.
ing in a low tons that contrasted no.
ticeably with the loud delivery of the
chief justice.
The decision applies to three cases
the first Of which was brought into
courts of the District Of Columbia by
John e.. Moore, to enjoin the commits
sioner of internal revenue from the
collection of the income tax, while
the other two were those Of Charlie.
Rolleck versus the Farmers Loan
and Trust company, and Levi:
H. Hyde versus the Continental Trus'
company. Both appealed from the de
cision OF the United States circuit cour
for the Southern district OF New York
The action i'll these two cases wa
brought to enjoin a voluntary compli
ance with the law i'll the payment .
tax and when the circuit court sus
tanned the law, Pollock and Hyde ap
pealed to the supreme court OF tn
United States.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1895-04-09
PENSION DECISIONS.
Assistant Secretary Reynolds Makes n Few
Ruling>.


Ruling>.
WASHINGTON, April 2.-Assistant
Secretary Reynolds. OF the Inferior de-
partment. has recently rendered a few
decisions of more or less interest. In
sustaining the decision Of the commits
sioner of pensions in the case of Hannah
Chapman, widow of Samuel Chapman,
who claimed enlistment in the Sixtieth
Indiana Volunteers, he holds that the
question whether a man is enlisted rests
with the war department and where
the war department shows that the
soldier was not enlisted, it is final; also,
that an offer of enlistment by a soldier
must be completed by its acceptance
by the government.
In the case of Susan Landgraff,
widow of John Landgraff Of illinois,
the secretary affirms the decision of the
commissioner rejecting her claim for &
pension under the act of 1890, on the
ground that she had an income consid
erably in excess OF the pension allowed
widows.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1895-04-09
St. Paul Union stock Yards.
SOUTH ST. PAUL, April 8, 1896

SOUTH ST. PAUL. April 8, 1895.
HOGS-Market so lOc higher. Prices
ranged "a. 15d4.95.
CATTLE-Market steady o N good fat
butcher stuff: light stockers dull.
Prime cows. S4.O0G4. so: good steers,
s.. 50I4.O4; prime cows, $h75@3. Is; good
cows, 2.2o@2. IS; common to fair cows,
s .50@2.25; light veal calves, 50. OOa4.O 20,
heavy calves, s2.O0@3.Q0 stockers, 81. 700
so; feeders, $.25@3. OF.
-SHEEP-Steady IN good sheep; com
mon dull.
Muttons, S2.O)64.25; lambs, 50. 75d4. -:
~. 25(02. 80.
Receipts: Hogs, 1000; cattle, 800; sheep.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1895-04-09
TO ATTACK CANTON.

Forty Japanese Transports Now
on the P~escadores.
Hone KONG, April 9.-Forty Japan
csc transports are anchored of the Pes
cadore islands. 1t is rumored that an
attack upon Canton is contemplated.
Torpedoes have been placed in the river
for the defense of the city.