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The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-11-04
NOVEMBER ELECTIONS
Where Ballots Will Be
Cast Tomorrow
POSSIBILITIES AND PROBABILITIES
AS Seen by Politician and
Lay Spectator
WHO THE CANDIDATES ARE
Tie Various Issues Arising in the
Several States
Speculatons Based Upon the Results Of
Previous Contests
Democratic strengholds to Be Assaulted and
Republican Fortresses to Be Demol.
ished-The PopuIists and Sill.
Yerites Not Exnected tn IA
WHO THE CANDIDATES ARB
Tie Various Issues Arising in the
Several States
Speculations Based Upon the Results Of
Previous Contests
Democratic StronghoIds to Be Assaulted and
Republican Fortresses to Be Demol.
ished-The PopuIists and Sill.
verites Not Expected to Be
Particularly in It


ASSOCIATED frSss special wire.
NEW YORK, Nov. 3.-Tha elections in
the state Of New York this fall are not Of
such an important nature as those Of
last year, so far as the filing of state
Offices is concerned. The offices to be
balloted for on November are a secretary
of state, comptroller, state treasurer,
a state attorney-general, state engineer
and surveyor and associate justice of tho
court of appeals, three judges of the su-
preme court for the First district, three
judges of the supreme court for the Sec
ond district, one judge for the Third dis
trict, one for the Fourth district, two for
the fifth district, one for the Sixth dis
trict, two for the Seventh district and
three for the Eighth district. There are
also to be elected $50 Assem- blymen and
fifty senators, the assemblymen to serve
for one year and the senators for three.
The candidates for the state Offices are
as follows:
For Secretary OF State-Repu blican,
John Palmer; Democratic, Horatio G.
King; Prohibition, william w. Smith;
Socialist Labor. Erasmus Pollenz; Peo-
ple's, Thaddeus B. Wakeman.
For Comptroller-Ke blican, James
n. hoDertS, DeHiocrHIiC, john ID. y uusOnS
Prohibition, Frederick b. Devendorf; So
cialist Labor, Patrick Murphy; Peoples,
David Rosseau.
For Treasu-er-Republican, Addison B.
Colvin; Democratic, Dewitt Clinton
Dow; Prohibition, William R. Rathb bud;
Socialist Labor, William f. Steer; Peo.
pies, HerbertL. Case.
For Attorney General - Republican,
Theodore E. Hancock; Democratic, Nor.
ton Chase; Prohi bitlon, Elias Root; So.
cialist Labor, John H. Moore; Peoples,
Lawrence p. McParlin.
For State Engincer-Republ blican, Camp
bell W. Adams; Dem ocratic. Russell R.
Stuart; Prohibition, Walter A. Miles; So
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-11-04
FRICK FILLED WITH SHOT
The Lone Highwayman Lead Did Not
Pan Out
Escapes From Jail on Friday, Holds Up q
Stage Sunday and is
Promptly Captured

KLAMATH FALLS. Or, Nov. g.
Adolphus c. rrick, who was arrested in
August last for horse stealing and bound
over to the November term OF the circuit
court, broke Jail Friday night by saving
off two iron bars.
This morning about o'clock. ten miles
south of this place, the stage from Ager,
CAL, was held up by Frick. District
Attorney Benson and Deputy Sheriff Newt
Gordon were passengers on the stage.
Frick stood behind a telegraph pole on
the 9th ,r side of fence and ordered q
halt. pointing what afterwards proved to
be a stick. The driver threw the mail
sack to the ground and Friok said to
drive on. Gordon got out of the stage
lust as it started and fired a load of buck,
shot at Frick, who was elm bing the
fence to get the mail sack. Frick started
TO run and Gordon s1ed again. Frick
ran to the tules. chased bv Gordon, who
overlook him and made him come out.
Gordon has taken Frick to Grants Pass
for examination before the commission
er. Frick has several Duckshot in his
body, but is not seriously in njured. Frick
is an old offender having served one
tenn in San, Quentin for nearly killing a
man with rock few years ago in Cal
iforna.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-11-04
NEW MEDICAL TREATMENTS
TIE Surgeon General Makes His An-
nual Report
Strychnia and Anti-Toxine Said to Be OF
Vaiue-The Playing of Football
i Condemned

WASHINGTON, Nov. BIN his annual
report to the secretary of the navy, Sur
zeon-General Tryon discusses new med
ical treatments at length. The favorable
opinion entertained of the value of
strychnia in the treatment of pneumonia
has been further strengthened by the ex-
perience of its use during the wear. For
ty-six cases of acute lohar pneumonia
have been treated IN the New York hos
pital in two years with three deaths. a
mortality of 6.5 per sent. Attention is
ca He'd to the numb of casualties at the
naval academy. resulting from the pres
ent method OF PLAYING football, and it is
recommended that unless the rdles be
materially modified rival games will not
be perm itted.
Anti-toxine, the now serum treatment
for diphtheria. has been tried at the
Washington naval no pta in two serious
cases with the most favorable results and
reports to the bureau from the heath de-
partn ent of New York shuw that the
mortality under this treatment is only II
per cent.
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ELECTION RETURNS
Ohio Politicians Cannot Agree Upon Systems
of Comparison

CINCINNATI, Nov. 3.-There have
been heretofore agreements between the
Republican and the Democratic state
committees in Ohio on the comparing of
the vote for gains and losses. The West
ern Union Telegraph company will pre-
pare it's bulletins here as fast as the pre-
cincts are heard from. Superintendent
I. N. Miller conferred with the state COM
mittees this year as usual. The Dem o.
Gratis wanted to compare the vote with
that OF 1894, when the Republican plural
Ity was 1877 900 for secretary OF state. The
Kepp hlicans wanted to cOmp pare the vote
with that for governor in 1893, when Nc
Kinley's plurality was 81, 900. Mr.. Miller
has decided to compare the vote with
that of 1893, because the tickets are the
same as two years ago for governor, etc,
while last year only minor state officers
were elected. Tie Democratic state COM
mittee will, however, compare with 1894,
and there will be two sets of reports next
Tuesday night.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-11-04
DURRANT KNELT IN PRAYER
With a Young Woman Formerly a
Friend
And a Salvation Army Man-"There's Sun.
shine In My SouI,' They Sang
to the Prisoner

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 3.-Durrant
knelt on the hard floor of the county jail
on Broadway today and prayed. A jury
of twelve men had decided that he was
not entitled to mercy and must die, but
Salvation Army warrior told him that
when men were denied mercy and for
giveness, the Father of all-of sinners as
we'll as of saints-would not turn deaf
ear to any supplication. Cold, hard, I'M
panetrable, Durrant seemed. His heart
was hard as flint. 1t may he hint-like
still, but a wearer of the Salvation Army
unlfrom struck a spark from it today.
The man who persuaded Dnrrant to
pray was Harry Parks, one of the editors
of the War Cry. Shortly after noon
quartet of Salvation Army preachers and
singers visited the Jail. They stationed
themselves in the:yard at the rear of Dur
rants cell, in which is little window.
Prisoners who are confined for petty
offenses were permitted to join in the SER
vic, When the first hymn was sung the
little curtain over Durrant's window was
pulled aside and his pale face appeared at
the opening. He gazed penslve!y at the
enthusiasts.
"Theres sunshine in my soul today"
they sang. There was none in Durrant S.
His soul was apparently as gloomy us THE
dark sky. He dropped the curtain. but
the eXhortations of the army workers
reached him through the window. When
Parks. who had made an appointment to
see Durrant, called after the departure Of
tn. other Salvation SITS, he found the way
to Durrant's sensibiitles paved for him
Parks Introduced himself in a manly,
considerate way. He told Durrant that
he was his friend whether he were guilty
or innocent of the crime of which he had
been convicted since he was minister of
God whose duty it was to give spiritual
comfort. Parks was evidently sincere,
and Durrant expressed bis thanks. Then
Sparks spoke of God and of the eternal
life beyond this world. He asked Dur
rant to devote his thoughts to that other
life He did not rant bit spoke with
feeling. While he was thus engaged. a
lady belonging to the Society OF the
Christian Endeavor. to which organiZa-
tiOn Durrant belonged when he was an
attendant at the Emanuel Baptist church,
entered the room. She had been visiting
the prisoners, and after making the
rounds of the cells she paused at the door
of the jailer's Office, listened and fnding
that there was no objection to her pres
ence, she joined in the religious talk.
The three converssd earnestly for some
time. 4
"Let JUS prav," said Parks, when he felt
thai the proper moment for kneeling had
come.
NH. Durrant, will you join with us in
prayer?" The lacy went on her knees
ard Durrant needed no urging. The
three looked in each others faces and for
fully ten minutes Parks continued his IN
vocation. the others following him.
When the invocation was over, the
three sat and exchanged few words.
Then Durrants visitors shook him by
the hand anu bade HIM good bye. He re-
turned to his cell.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-11-04
A BROKEN FLANGE
Causes a Frightfui Wreck Of the Cincinnati
Pittsburg Express

Causes q Frightfui Wreck Of the Cincinnati
Pittsburg Express
WHEELING, W. Va, Nov. 3.-The
worst railroad wreck in the I'm nj ed late
vicinity of Wheeling for many years oc-
Cured shortly before 10 o'clock this morn
ing at Elm Grove, five miles east on the
PIttsburg division of the Baltimore ani
Ohio road. The Pittsburg. Cincinnati ex-
press, commonly known as the Cannon
Ball." jumped the track on bridge over
Whee ling creek. owing to broken fange
on wheel of the smoking car. The en-
gine. tender and baggage car kept the
track, while the mail car, smoker and
Pullman paror car went over bank
about sixteen feet high. rhe day coach
turned completely over and the other two
lay on their sides. The cars were COM
pletely demolished, seeming to have been
thrown some distance through the air.
So far only two deaths have happened.
A woman, thought to be Mrs. Miranda
Hare of Kittaning. Pa. but not positive
ly identified. owing to the way she was
disfgured. jumped from the car and was
instantly killed. The S-months' -old baby
at Lawrence Burtley OF PittsbIrg was sit
ting on It's fathers lap when the accident
occurred. Ii was so badly njured that it
died IN few minutes, while neither
father nor mutheriwere hurt. q
The exact number of injured is hard to
get reliably. Nine were taksn to the city
hospital and three to the Wheeling hos
ptal, while number are at houses near
the scene OF the accident. Ten or q dozen
surgeons and the wrecking crew were
summoned at once. Not less than 10, 900
people visited the scene OF the wreck.
the Wheeling and Elm Grove railroau
running special excursion trains, all of
which we're crowded. Of those who were
hurt several will die.
The killed are:
Mrs. Miranda Hare. KIttaning, Pa,
Eieht-months' old baby of Lawrence
BARLEY OF Allegheny.
The seriously injured, so far as they
can be found, are:
Ella Vance, Wheeling; spine probably
broken; may die.
G. j. Garvev Marietta, o.; head
crushed and back wrenchsd; will prob.
ably die.
WIN. Rose, Chicago; right arm broken.
+. W Gilbert Sharpsburg, Pa. thigh
broken, head badly cut.
J. N. Gouchnow. Pittsburg; left elbow
broken.
J. W. Foster. Beaver. Pa; right foot
broken.
W. J. Chapman, West Bridge ater. Pa.
right leg and hand broken.
Mrs. George Croux knee dislocated.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-11-04
THEY FOUND HIM GUILTY
There Was No Lack of Corpora
Delecti
Canadian Triple nurderer Escapes Lynchlng.
but Plea Of Insanity Of
No Avail

BEAUHARNOS, Quebec, Nov. 8. -
Francis Cuthbert Valentine Shorts. who
killed John Loya and Maxine LIE BoIef
in the Valley Field cotton mill on the
might OF March ], 1895, was today found
guilty OF murde. in the first degree.
Argument in the case was concluded Sat.
urday evening and the Jury was tten
locked up until this morning.
The plea set up by the defense was that
of insanity. Shorts was sent out to
Canada in the latter part of 1894 by his
parents from Watertown, Ireland. with
the hope that he would settle down to
some business. He obtained position
in the Montreal cotton mills at Valley
Field, Quebec. He had frequent dis.
agreements with the manager, which
finally endsd in his severing his connec-
ton with the company.
On the night of March he entered the
Office Of the mills, ostensibly to pay
visit to his former co-lab aborers, but in re-
ality, 1t seems. TO possess himself OF some
SIS. 900 in silver and bank notes which he
knew would be there, as it was the night
the pay roll was to be made out, and the
pay put up for the hands of the mill. As
ne entered there were present John Lowe,
paymaster; John Loya, son of the mayor
OF Valley Field; Arthur lie Bouef and
Hugh Wilson, all employees of the mill
Loya had a revolver next to him on the
desk, and Shorts. who always hao craze
for revolvers, took it up and playing with
it. shot Wilson, apparently by accident.
LOya rushed to the telephone to call for
medical help, but before he could ring
the bell Shorts had shJ. him dead. LIE
Bouef and Lowe then grabbed the money
and shut themselves in the safe, while
Shorts fired several more bullets at Will
son. who finally managed to escape. In
the meantime one of the watchmen of the
mill, Maxine Lo Bouef, had come to the
office on his regular rounds and was shot
and killed also. After that Shorts made
frantic efforts to get Lowe to open the
door of the vault, and finally, after Will
son had managed to crawl outside and
get help. he surrendered himself. Friends
of his parents, who are very wealthy. i'm
mediately obtained the best criminal
counsel and no monev was spared to save
him on the plea OF insanity. A deter.
mined but unsuccessful attempt was
made to lynch him at Valley Field. and
for that reason ne was brought to Mon
treal for safe keeping. Shorts is only 25
years of age and does not STOW the slight
est feeling for what he has done.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-11-04
GOOD WEATHER GUESSING
Secretary Morton C0ngratuIates the
Storm Observers
The Greatest Percentage of Notifications Ever
Recorded Was Realized During
the Last nonth

WASHINGTON, Nov. g. Secretary
Morton expresses his satisfaction in the
accuracy of recent weather bureau fore
casts in the following letter to Professor
W. l.. Moore, chief of the bureau:
4 Sir: I hasten to congratulate you and
the weather bureau forces upon the fact
communicated to me yesterday from your
office, that the average percentages OF
verifcatiops of the official morning
thirty-six hour forecasts of weather and
temperature made by the weather bureau
for the country east of the Rocky noun
tains during the month Of Septem Der,
1895. was $50.
That is the highest percentage of verifi-
cation ever officially recorded since the
weather bureau was established. The
present chief and the force under him
may justly be proud of h,ving obtained
the highest record of verification up to
date.
Hoping the improvement may continue
as visibly for the next three months as it
has in the last three, remain. etc.
J. STERLING NORTON,
Secretary.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-11-04
MATTERS IN OLD MEXICO
Contemplated Improvements in
Railway Facilities
NEW NEWSPAPER PORJECTS
Silver Bonds Firm, With Good Eu-
rOpean Demand
Proposed Reorganization and Rearmiing of the
Army-No New National Indebted
ness to Be Created


Associ ated Press Special Wire.
MEXICO CITY, Nov. 3.-It is stated
that the Mexican National RAILROAD will
soon shorten its line in competi tion with
the Mexican Central and Huntington's S
Internalonal railroad for st. Louis, Chi
cago and New York business. Railway
men are already anticipating reduction
of time between here and New York to
four days.
Several new newspaper projects in
the Spanish language are maturing for
January 1st. 1t is reported that the Mex
ican Herald will establish an evening
paper soon.
Mexican silver per cent bonds are
firm at 50 and in active dsmand fr om
Europe. These bonds are now hold in
England, Holland, France, Belgium,
Austria and Spain, principally by small
Investors, and European bankers say the
demand will continue, as it is generally
tellevei that silver tends to rise rather
than fall and a war in Asia would send
silver up rapidly.
The Mexican government is not Great
ing any new indebtedness and it is not
true that the government will revive the
policy of subventionine railways, as the
country now has all the trunk lines re-
auired and when Hampson's Mexico.
Cuernavaca e. Pacific road is com pleted
to Acapulco and the CentraPs Guadala-
lara brancn to the Pacific coast is
completed there will be perfect system
OF roads, and all that will be needed for
a long time will be short feeding line.
American railway men and capitalists
who have been investigating the raj way
situation here say that the roads built
in the coffee, gar and tobacco regions
will pay best in tho future. as trend OF
enterprise is in that direction.
There is much speculation as to i'm.
pending changes in the army when Gem
eral Mena shall have returned from Eu-
rope and begun to introduce Contem'
plated tactical reforms and troops are
provided with new arms. Military ex-
perts, however are hoping for much from
the Introduction of Mansur rifles. The
old Remingtons will probably be sent to
the National Guards in the Southern
states, esp ecially to Yucatan, Tobasco and
Cniapas. The English military expert
now there studying the army says the
morals Of the troops are excellent and
| whsn the men receive their new weapons
| and are oganiz5G on new basis Mexico
! Will have one of the strongest armies in
the world, capable OF resistii g much
larger bodies of troops unaccustomed to
the climate aud unacquainted with the
IN )untainous topography of the country.
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New York Sweatshop Workers Hemmed
in by Flames
And the Number Of Dead Men Is Not
Yet Known
Bodies Mashed or Burned Beyond Recogni.
tlon Are Taken From the Ruins and
Others Still Remaln-The
Names Of the Killed
and Wounded
Associated Press Special Wire

NEW YORK, Nov. 3.-Several lives
ware lost in the fire which started about
o'clock this morning on the second
floor Of the six-story brick building at
2 Pelham street, owned by Well 4 Myer
and used as a sweat shop. Three charred
and almost unrecognizable bodies were
taken from the ruins today, and one man
who jumped to save his life from the
flames was SO badly injured that he died
In Gouverneur hospital. He suffered
from fractured skull.
The dead are:
JACOB SHAPIRO. watchman, found
In the ruins, As years old.
ISAAC BENSON. found IN tfe ruins.
Unknown man, found in the ruins.
MORRIS DIRSCHAUER. 40 years of
sse, who jumped from second-story
window and died today.
The fire originated from some un-
xnuwn cause on the second floor OF No.
7, and spread with great rapidity
throughout the building and those i'm
mediately adjoining.
Five alarms were sent in, and although
a large number of streams we're playing
on the flames for hours, nothing could be
done to save the structures, and the four
buildings numbered 3, s, and Pelham
street were destroyed.
The buildings burned were fitted with
sweat shops, and several watchmen and
others slept there; how many cannot yet
be told. Two OF these people were Dir
schauer, who died in the hospital, and
Samuel Isohowitz, janitor OF No. 7. They
jumped from windows to save them
selves. ischowitz is still in the hospital,
with both legs broken.
The first body taken out, totally un-
recognizable mass of charred flesh and
bones, was found about 9 o'clock today in
he doorway OF No. 7. 1t was SO burned
beyond all sem blance to human being
that it was al first supposed to have been
Newfoundland dog which was kept
about the place, but doctor declared it
TO be the remains of a man. Two hours
later another body was discovered, on
the third floor of No. 7. This, too. was
practically unacceptable. but was iden-
titled as Jacob Shapiro by relatives. At
pm. still another charred form of i'm 8.
mense stature was found. This proved
to be the remains Of Isaac Benson, who
was six feet four inches tall in life. The
remains were identified by his son.
Tho loss on each building is estimated
at SIS, 900, while the loss to the different
tenants is thought to be about $500 each,
making a total OF about S75, 900.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-11-04
LIKE THE DURRANT CASE
A Nebraska Girl Ravished an(
Murdered
Arrest Quickly Follows the Discovery Of the
Crime, ana the Miscreant Ie
Now in Custody

OMAHA, Neb., Nov. Sat 2 o'clock
this morning the police found tue dead
body of Lena Gaskin, aged II, in vacant
room on Howard street. She had been
ravshed and choked 10 death. She had
been missing since evening. A man
named Booker is under arrest.
She had been outraged and murdered.
Within an hour George Morgan, Ed Day =
ton and Henry Booker, three young men,
were in custody charged with the crime.
Ida Gaskin was II years of age. Her
mother, widow. lives in the third floor
of tenement house at 1914 Howard
street. Ida was missed from her home
early in the evening. Her mother
searched for her. out failed to find any
trace of the missing girl. At about IL
o'clock she reported to the police station
that her daughter was missing. When the
police searnh developed the murder
tion led to the arrerst of Booker on sus-
picion While all were out of the room
save Mrs. Gaskin, her little son and a
Bee reporter, the little boy remarked: 81
know who killed Ida." On being ques-
toned he said that during the after
noon George and Ed. sent me upstairs
to tell Ida they wanted her"
u1 TtpOTttE thub oeOASo uI !
Ed" were Morgan and Dayton and th, Y
occupied rooms on the floor below. Hur-
iiedlv calling an ooffier the reporter Sc
cured the esrrrest of the Hpair. At the
station most damning evidence was
found on Norgan's person. Neither he
nor Dayton were undressed when FAR
rested. o., Morgan's u derclothing fresh
blood stains were found and he refuses to
say word. Both men are nervous.
This little girl was choked to 6eath, her
throat showlingyplainly where the cruel
fingers squeezed her tender windpipe
shut. Booker Is a driver of a coal wagon
and friend OF the Gaskin family. Nor
gan is collar maker by trade. but has
been out of employment for some time.
Dayton works for the Crane Elevator
company.
1t is the. opinion Of the police that the
case is conclusive against Morgan.
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The Indian Question

SOUTH MALESTER, /. r., Nov. s.
The Dawes and Choctaw commissions
have met and adjourned with no better
understanding than before the meeting.
The Dawes commission has returned to
Fort Smith and will soon return to Wash
ington to make its full report. which will
tionship. 1t is reported that the Dawes
com mission will recomn eli the forma-
tion of q territorial ,oIm OF government,
the territory to be controlled exclusively
by agerts appointed by the United States
govern ment,
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CRIPPLE CREEK, Col. Nov. 3.-The
air shaft of the Anchoria-Leland proper
ties at depth OF 235 feet, has come into
the richest ore that has yet been found
in that wonderful vein OF wonderful Gold
Hill. Some of the ore assays $4,000 to
the ton. There is a big body of ore, but
how much of it cannot be told at this
time
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PACIFIC GROVE, CAL. Nov. 3.-The
greatest storm of the season occurred
here during the afternoon. lightning
flashed ana thunder pealed loudly. Rain
and hail fell IN torrents and tore up roads
and sidewalks in many placs. Consid-
eiable damage was done. The farmers
are rejoicing over the prospects of good
grazing and pasture lands.