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, ure as soon as he left his mother and pre-
pared to return to the county Jail. With
his overcoat swung carelessy over his
arm, he walked lesurely out of the room,
tw!rlng his slight moustache with APP
merely a spectator of, instead of the prin-
cipal figure in the exciting scene.
Aside from the spectators, Mrs. Noble,
Blanche Lamont's aunt. aud Maud La
mont, the dead girls sister. were appar-
emily the happlest persons in the room.
When the verdict was announced Maud
Lamont sprang from her seat, clap ped her
hands anu then cried out of sheer e1-
element Mrs. Noble mixed smiles with
J,ars and shook hands with mum Der of
friends who crowded aroi nd to congratu-
late hel.
As soon as Durrant left the building
the crowd sureen out of the room ana
gathered around the door ut of which
the prisoner usually came TO re- Gu the
prison van. Fearing that some violence
might be offered the prisoner, he was
taken out of another door and driven by
circuitous route to the county Jail.
The yerd CT fell with all its force on
Durrant and MS family, who had banked
AL their hop = on Engagement. While
Mrs. DurIr k lew that II was not among
the rossii ties th"r her son would he
&C tiled, her friei said she steadfastly
maintained that n snauow of doubt would
rest in the mind OF one of the Jurors and
that her s,r wru mot hs convicted She
wa, Therefore, wholly .Unprepared for
the lury t. ID her son guilty in twenty
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out twenty minutes and arrived a. the YER
dict on the first ballot. AS there was no
recon- m endatiop of mercy the punishment
was fixed at death.
IL was exactly twenty one minutes from
the time tho jury left the court room t.
the time the verdict was announced, but
that time was not ell taken up in deliber-
alton. In fact, there was 20 elaboration
at all. The jury had evidently decided
upon verdict before they lef. the box.
1t was 1874 when they fled out Of the
court room into the grand jury room,
which had been placed at their disposal.
1t took the twelve men until 1850 o'clock
before they settled themselves comfort.
ably, and at 500 knock on the door an
nounced to the anxious walters that a
verdict had been found. 1t took Just Eve
minutes of actual time TO elect foreman
and take the one ballot necessary
The scene in the court room when the
verdict was announced will never be for
gotten by those who were present. Judge
Murphy finished his charge at $3.50 and
the jury at once retired. Although there
was supposed to be little prospect of a
verdict being returned before 7 or 8
o'clock IN the evening, the throng of
spectators who had remained in the OVER
crowded court room all the afternoon to
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THE ETERNAL CITY SHAKEN
The Earthquake Is Severely Felt in
Europe
Considerable Damage Is Done to Buildings
and Several Persons lnjured-The
Vatican Buildings Injured

ROME. Nov la severe and pro-
louged earthquake shock was felt here at
:GS this morning. Many houses swayed
badly, walls cracked, and pictures fell
from the walls. People ran panic.stricken
into the streets and serious disaster was
apprehended. Happily, the first shock
seems to have ended the yubterraneous
disturbance, without serious damage.
Some idea Of the alarm created may be
gathered from the fact that the prison of
Regina Cecil was go badly shaken the
terrified prisoners broke into open revolt
and tried to escape. Troops from the
neigh oorIng barracks were summoned
and the prisoners we're driven back at the
point of the bayonets. The vatican
buildings were severely shaken, but the
pope was perfectly tranquil. He sent to
thu nearest police depot to inquire il
there had been any loss of life or serious
damage.
The shocks lasted eleven seconds. Two
clocks in the observatory slapped and the
old tnwer on the Roman college cracked.
Two houses collapsed. ana 1t is reported
several persons were injured. Four pal
aces and the hank Of Italy are uninhabit-
able. The PalaZzo Odescalchi and five
other palaces are seriously injured. Tie
vatican buildings, the main railroad sta
ton and ministry offices are also reported
to have sustained some damage.
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No Agreement rlade

NEW YORK. Nov. 1.-Negotiations
between the Panama railroad and Pacific
Mail Steamship companies have again
broken off. Action to this effect has been
taken by the executive committee of tn
Panama railroad. The following state.
ment has be given out:
The Panama Railroad company has de-
finitely decided not to enter into Joint
contract for operation of the Panama
railroad in connection with the Pacific
Mail steam. ship company which has been
unter consideration for long time. The
Panams officials have always been d is
pose to encourage fair and businessliks
arrangements with the Pacific Mail,
but they have also made it an ihdispen-
sable condition that the Panama road
should be kept open as an Independent
and active competitor with the transcon-
tinentai lines. The decision of the Pam
ANA comnany insures to American COM
mefce the continued and active compe-
tition of the Panama road. While the
officials of both companies separate with
cordial feeling for each other the Panama
company terminates the negotiation and
is proceeding TO consummate other plans
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oench. Clerk Morris asked. the usual
question as to whether the jury had
agreed upon a verdict. Foreman Warren
Dutton arose and replied In the atfirma-
tive.
"We. the jury" said he, "hnd the de-
PENDANT, william Henry Theodore Dur
rant. guilty of n urder in the 9rst degree"
As the aged foreman, pale and trem-
bling. read the words that fixed Durrant s
fate, a low rum bling noise like the roar
OF mob arose from the rear Of the court
room The next moment men were cheer
ing wildly, while women wept hysteric-
ally in excitement. The bailiff raped
loudly for order, but the tumult con.in-
ued for a minute before anything like
quiet could be brought out of the dis
order. Then District Attorney Barnes
arose and asked that day be set upon
which the sentence of death should Re
passed upon the prisoner. Judge Murphy
said that sentence could be passed next
Friday, upon which day he would also
set the day for the trial of Durrant on the
charge of numbering Minnie Williams.
During the tumult that followed the
announcement of the verdict, DurIant
and his mother were lost sight OF except
by the few who sat nearest tn them. As
the last words of the verdict were uttered
Durant made a spasmodic effort to rise
to his feet but before he could do 80 his
mother with half sigh, half moan.
threw her arms around his neck and sunk
into her chair. His mothers grief
seemed 10 make Durrant forget his own
position and for the next few minutes he
sat with his arms around her neck try
ing to soothe her. The strain of the trial,
however, had completely shattered her
self-control, and it was some time before
Mrs. Durrant could lave the courtroom.
Durrants father was not in the room
when tie verd ct was returned. AS soon
as the jury retired he went into the cor.
ridors, not believing the inrv would re-
turn for several hours, and he fir learned
that his sen had been convicted when a
cheer went IN from theg crowd in the
building as he news read.
Durrant recovered his old-lime compos
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hear the judges charge settled themselves
back in their seats to await the return of
the jury. Mrs. Durrant ana the prisoner
talked and laughed together "a if an ac-
quittol we're a foregone conclusion. They
we're joined by half dozen friends and
the conversation was becoming animated
when it became whispered about that the
jury had agreed upon verdict. In an
instant a nush fell uron the little circle
that had gathered around the prisoner.
Durrant's face, always pale, assumed
CHASTITY hue, and his mother was speech.
less. Then the big doors at the rear of the
room opened and the bers of the jury
filed in and took their seats in the box.
In Ethe intense excitement that fol-
lowed, tbs room, although il was filled to
its utmost capacity. was almost as quiet
as If it had been vacant. Judge Murphy.
who had retired to his cham bers, was
summoned and took his place upon the
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Mr.. MUTSUHITO'S MISSIVE
Japan's Emperor Whites TO United
States President
Expressing in FIowery Language His Apprecia-
tion of Good Offices rendered During
the Late Unpleasantness

WASHINGTON, Nov. 1.-Accompanied
by Secretary Olney, Mr.. Kurino, the jap
anese minister, and his secretary of lega-
ton, called upon President Cleveland at
the White House today by appointment,
just before the cabinet meeting, and pre-
sentad to him an autograph letter from
the emperor of Japan, expressing in
grateful and sincere terms his apprecia
ton OF the good offices exercised by the
United States government TO bring about
the restoration of peace between Japan
and China, and for the protection accord
ed to Japanese residents in China.
The letter is as follows:
Mutsuhito-By the grace of Heaven,
emperor of Japan and seated on the
throne occupied by the same dynasty
from time i'm mem orial.
To his. EScellency, Grover Cleveland,
President OF the United States:
Great ana Good Friend-During the
war between our empire and that of
China. which now has been happily
brought to an end Nv the conclusion of
treaty of peace, the diplom attic and
consular officers OF the United States in
China. with your excellencys permission
direction, extended their friendly offices
to our subjects in China, and on many
occasions afforded them succor and assist
ancs.
Again as the war was nearing its final
STAGE the rel resentatives of the United
Safes at ! okio and PekIn, by your excel
lency's auth rization, provided the way
whereby China was able to approach di
rectly our government on the subject of
peace. and it was through the fac lii es
aft, rded by tn ose two representatives for
direct eciprocal commun cation between
the governments of Japan and China that
all the preliminaries looking to the open
ing of negotiations for the definite term
ination of nostili,ies were adjusted. The
manner in which III Ise delicate services
in the interest of pe'ce were performed
left nothing to be desired.
And We take this opportunity to ex-
press to your excellency our high arpre
citation Of those acts on the part of your
eXcelency, as we'll as on the part of your
exceIlencv's officers, acting under your
excellencv's WISE direction, which not
only tended to mitigate the seventies
and hardships of the war and finally to
promote the successful issue of the nego-
tiations for peace, but served to draw
still closer the bonds of friendship and
good neigh borhood, which happily unite
our two countries.
We assure your excellency of our high
est regard and esteem.
(Signed) MUTSUHITo.
Done at our palace at Kioto, tie 18th
day of the fifth moth Of the 2Sth year
OF MeIJi.
Commissioned: Viscount Mutsu None
mltsu, Minister for Foreign Affairs
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minutes. When the verdict was an
nounceu the whole weight Of her sorro -
seemed to fall upon her, ana he gave way
to uncomfortable grief. Only once during
the whole trial mad sic shown any
anxiety or feeling. When District Attor-
ney Barnes was yesterday in the midst Ct
one of his most bitter arraignm ents of
the prisoner, who he characterized as the
mosl brutal murderer in the history of
American Jurisprudence, Mrs. Dnrrant
threw her arms around the neck of her
son and wept. A recess of five minutes
was taken to give Mrs. Durrant an op-
portunity to recover her composure.
BY common consent District Attorney
Barnes IS given must OF the credit for
convicting the greatest murderer that
was ever tried in California. While the
police department did excellent WORK. it
IS be ievea that Mr.. Barnes' address,
which consumed two days and half in
its delivery. had mucn to do with re.
moving any lingering doubts from the
minds of the jurors, II at any time there
Continued on Fo nth psge.
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An UNNELC0AE RECEIVER
The Mortgage Bond Committee
Docs Not Approve
PANAMA RAILROAD MATTER
No Agreement With the Pacific Mail
Company
The Agreement to Disagree Insures TO Amsris
can Commerce the Continued Co;npeti.
tion Of the Panama Road

NEW YORK, Nov. I'm view of thu
published statement that certain interests
in Northern Pacific have approved the
appointment OF Mr. r NJ. Galloway as
receiver, the statement is positively
made that the Committee Of the second
and third mortgage bonds do no: approve
OF Mr.. Galloway's appointment and
will not. They will oppose any addition
al receivers. do not think that New
York receiver is necessary, and believe
that the solution of the problem is for the
appointment OF one receiver each by the
Judges OF the seventh, eighth and ninth
circuits. This the com mittee will con-
tsnd for.
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WANTS TO RESIGN
The Sultan PeremptoriIy Refuses to Change
His Grand vizer

z
His Grand vizier
LONDON, Nov. IA dispatch to the
Times from Constantinople which Will
be published tomorrow says that having
put the Armenian question on the track
of settlement, Kiamet Pasha has asked
the sultan to relieve him of the grand
viziership, which has exhausted him and
which demand the physical and mental
energies Of younger man. The sultan,
in reply, perem ptorily declared that he
conld not dispense with his services.
The dispatch adds that official news has
been received in Constantinople of fresh
disturbances in Erzeroum. Orfah and
Zeitun. Fifty persons have teen killed
and wounded at Erzeroum.
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Advertisers Reach the People

crew of the British seaing schooner Wall
ter Earle, which was lost IN Alaskan
waters last spring with ten persons. 1t
would appear from the note, which was
brought here by the steamship Al-ki
from Alaska today. that two OF the crew
mounted the keel after the accident. The
note reads as follows:
I'VE have lost our vessel and do not
expect to hang on much longer. Henry
Butler. Charles Forest, schooner Walter
Earle, April II, 1885,"
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Baptist Convention

SACRAMENTO, Nov. AT the meet.
ing OF the Baptist convention this after
noon the committee on obituary reported
sixteen deaths in the association during
the past year. Among these were Mr..
and Mrs. f. II. i. W brl who were M r.
uered in Sacramento last Decem Der. ard
whose suspected murderer Uvan kova-
levi will be brought to trial next week.
Rev. Mr.. Stephens offered prayer for
the deceased members, in which all pres
ent ferventlv took pat.
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SACRAMENTO, Nov. 1.-The police
are very indignant over the release OF
Fred Ingham from the county Jail on
hnpeas corpus. They intend to re.arrest
him and send him back. He had been
held to answer on a charge Of receiving
stolen property while employed az bar
tender The police claim to have some
new evidence, and will make SO strnng a
case againsng him that it cannot be
shocked QUO BY habeas corpus.
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Ia ,niua'S Ex-IreasIrer

TACOMA, Wn., Nov. 1.-City Treas
Juror James McCauley. who was reno I'd
from office on Wednes day for inability 10
give 500, 900 additional bonds demanded
by the city council, was arrested today
on the charge OF having loaned $1,000 of the
city money for his personal profit con-
trary to law.
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SUGAR BOUNTY
Two Cases to Be Taken Into the United
States Courts

WASHINGTON, Nov. 1.-Represeuta-
tive Myer and Colonel Hill, representing
the Louisiana sugar producers, haze Sc
lected two cases, which, it is thought, can
be brought up for trial before the United
States circuit court at New Orlea rs.
These are the claims of Andrew J. Gay,
under the $500, 900 appropriation, and the
Realty company under the 1898, 600 an
preparation. 1T IS understood that the at
torney general has consented to have the
cases tried on an agreed statement of
facts, which will involve necessarily q
fair, square test OF the question of the
constitutionality of the bounty appropria-
ton act.
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His Plebeian Origin

LONDON, Nov. 1.-The Pail Mall Ca
zette's correspondent at Rome telegraphs
that Baroness Giana Sobrero has OBJ
tanned divorce from II. W. Wilcox, the
Hawaiian revolutionlst, upon the grounds
that the latter imposed upon her prior to
the marriage by representing that he was
the heir to the throne of Hawaii, whereas
he was the son of carpenter ana q
kanaka woman.
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BOUT THE ClTY.-Serious nuts to
crack; the new primary election law
is worrying city officials; the act APP
pears to have been amended to death
Its passage is recon- mended; the or
dinance for the second telephone fran
chise- Yesterday with the board of
publi1 works--An inspection of the
city bridges will occur on Tuesday;
all of them are in bad shape--High-
land park street will be sprInkled to-
day; benefits derived from annexation
"A number of boys pay for their
Halloween fun-The second day of
baseball; Los Angeles again goes
down before Oakland-'' Elbow tick
ets'' will be in order on and after No.
VEN Der 5th more on long hauIs and
short Unconstitutional Republican con-
vention; the official call for the big
mass meeting; the project is on the
top of the wave-A busy day in de-
partmeut one; Judge Smith disroses
Of much criminal business-A dog
case from Sierra Madre--A Pasadena
preacher arraigned for criminal liz
bel-The Beauty Wonder case-Gov.
ernor Budd goes north with health
greatly i'm proved-The California linz
tied which arrived last night world
beater-The Friday Morning Gibbs
session-Mrs. Ballngton Booth; the
two great receptions III her honor
At the races yesterday; Riversides
the champion polo play Ehrharetl
tried suicide; forger attempts hang
ing-News from the oil ield.
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THE NEWS

'Y TELEGRAPH Durrant found guilty
of the murder OF Blanche Lamont:
the punishment fixeu at death-Re-
port of the Nicaragua canal commits
sion--The Canadian police in Alaska
Sporting notes; an International
rowing regatta; Jack Dempsey dead;
racing results-The big fight is still
possibility-ReIorts of business con-
ditions - The japanese en- peror
writes letter to President Cleveland
RAPID progress In the Holmes case
the defense offers no testimony-A
severe earthquake at Rome-Raiiwsy
litigation; the Panama road COM
peting llne-Progress in constitution
making in South Carolina-Intima.
tions of a big strike on the North Elm
Pacific railroad-The London Post
pays its respects to Senator Chandler
An account of the Trebizond riots
Riverslde-S. C. Evans banqueted-
Pasadena, Rev. Ward arrested for IL
bel; Halloween fun: Brownie club
entertainment; brevities-Santa Paula
Rivera; the walnut crop.
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Pacific Practice Grounds

PORT ANGELES, WASH. Nov. l.
The United States cruiser Philadelphia,
Rear Admira! Beardsley, sailed this aft
ernool for Victoria and the up-sound
cities, after thirty days of practice in this
harbur. Admiral Beardlsey has issued
a / order designating Port Angeles harbor
as the permanent practice ground for the
Pacific squadron.
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No Damaye Done

SACRAMENTO. Nov. 1.-According to
the monthly report issued by 9. T.. Law.
ton, the observer IF the state weather
bureau. but little damage was done by the
rains OF October. In sumo counties there
will be an increased acreage sowr to
grain, while in others there will be
decided decrease,
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HAMBURG, Nov. 1.-The report that
the Hamburg American steamships here
after will call at Plymouth, Eng laad, on
their eastward journey, instead of South
ampton, thus saving twelve hours, it is
claimed, is confirmed.
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CONVICTED 0F MURDER
"Guilty as Charged" the
Jury's Verdict
No RECOMMENDATION OF MERCY
The Punishment of Durrant Is
Fixed at Death
SCENES IN THE COURT ROOM
Will Never Be Forgotten by Those
Taking Part
SCENES IN THE COURT ROOM
The Verdict Greeted With Cheering and
hystericaI Weeping
OF All the Great Throng, ,he Convicted
Criminal Was the Most Composed.
The Sentence Of Death VIII Be
Passed on Friday Next
Associated Press Special Wire.

Associated Press Special Wire.
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 1.-Theodore
Durrnnt, assistant 81 oerintentent of the
Emanuel Baptist church Sunday school.
was today convicted Of the murder of
Blanche Lamont, for which he has peen
on trial since July 22 last. The jury was
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WHERE YOU MAY GO TODAY

ORPHEU M-Matinse and at s pm;
vaudeville.
BURBAN K-Matinee and at s pm; The
Enslsn.
Los ANGELES THEATER-At s PM;
ErmInie.
AGRICULTURAL PARK-At 8 q. n
race meeting.
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An Archbishop Dead
SEVILLE, Nov. 1.-Cardinal Benlto
Sanzy Fores, arch bishop of Seville, 10
dead. He was born in 1928 and was Gre
ated cardinal in 1893.
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y. Message From the Dead

PORT TOWNSEND, WASH. Nov. l.
Encased in hottie en- the shore of
Prince OF Wales island, Alaska, was found
a note cast INTO the sea BY the ill-fated
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CALIFORNIA WINS
A Gold Medal for the Best State Display at
Atlanta

Atlanta
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 1.-The hron-
icle gays that California has been award
ed gold medal for the best state display
at the Atlanta exposition. A number
of other states were awarded silver med.
ais, but California alone received the
Lonor OF a gold medal.
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LONDON, Nov.i.-Antoinette Sterling,
(Mrs. John MacKinlay), the well.known
contralto, will sail on the American line
steamer New York tomorrow.
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Gets More Titles

LONDON, Nov. 1.-The duke of Cam
bridge, upon his retirement rom the post
of commander n-chief of the forces, has
been gazetteu chief personal aide de camp
to the queen and honorary col?nel-in-
chief 10 the forces.
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