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VOL. XLII NO. BOSTON. FRIDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 2. 1892 TWELVE PAGES PRICE TWO CENTS.

ra IE! YORK. Judge Blaisdell Finds liss Lizzie A. Borden Probably Guilty of the Her. CONTENTS OF T00ATS GLOBE. Paw 1 Miss Lizzie A.

Borden bound over to the grand jury; dramatic scene mark closing day of the hearinir: argumentsof counsel in full Judge BlaisdeiFs up. Two cases of cholera in New York city. Pace Politic in Rhode Island. Entries for city of Boston Labor day games. democrats rally at Sebago lake.

Me. Page ft. Martha Wilkes races against time and gets a mark of 2.08. Republican caucuses in Cambridge and Revere. Page 4.

Pepperell farmer kills his wife and tries to kill himself. Annual meeting of the Rockingham County Republican Club id New Hampshire. Fistic fever lias overtaken New Orleans; departure of Boston am New York trains. Revival of the Black Crook in New York. Interpreted to mean that Canada has backed down.

H.ate lair at Worcester. Page 5. Very large attendance at the Eastern Maine State fair. Sensation at the O'Donnell hearing at Pittsburg. Page 1.

Mr. Cleveland entertains guests at Gray Gables Editor Matthews of Memphis.Tcnn., on the outlook in the South. Police think they have Beacon hill burglar. Pnge 8 Steamer "Western Reserve sunk; 22 persons drowned. Central Labor Union marshal issues his manilesto; labor news.

Candidate Stevenson in Indiana. Page lO. Two confidence men arrested in Maine. Page 1C. Census facts on tenement houses, rents and living in Boston.

Bostons put an end to Ansons victorious march other national league winners. Results of games in New England league. Prof. Dickering gains fame by recent observations of Mars. Medallion NeitaearSale Our New Fall Neckwear, SI.

00. nr representative production of Gentlemen's Sew Fall Neckwear exhibits a surpassing variety of beautiful and artistic effects in new and attractive cedars ft net shapes, etmong which are the Medallion patterns, eliversitcd figures, dots and variegated designs, which have been manufactured expressly for us from silk, satin anti Jostillion cord materials iti all the original Fall and Winter shades, Including MATELOT BLUE, PIVOINE, C0QUELIC0T and FLOXINE NEDS, VARECHE GREENS, FRONTIGNAN, MARR9N and LOUTRE BROWNS, Castiiie, Beige, Castor, Garre! and Dahlia Tints, Correct Shapes, Ascols, Tecks, Puffs and Four-In-Hands. Also an extensile array of Hoys' Neckwear, in fresh and novel colors and patterns, at Twenty-pre anil Fifty Cents. if he was certain that the disease on board the steamship Moravia was the genuine Asiatic cholera He replied that there was not the slightest doubt but that it was. "Let no one hope, he said, "that the disease is anything of a milder nature.

It is the same stamp as the disease which appeared in Philadelphia a few years ago, and no'ody doubled tiie nature of that. It was pure, unadulterated Asiatic Cholera. I do not know why the ships surgeon called the disease cholerine, unless it was that the germs of the plague did not develop fully until the vessel reached this port. Dr. Israel made his examination several days prior to the examination made by me.

Dr. Jenkins was asked why Capt. Theall of the plague-stricken steamship was permitted to go ashore. lie was not permitted to go. replied Dr.

Jenkins; he went ashore without permission. I dont think any harm will result, because he had not associated with the sick persons on board tbe ship and was therefore not likely to be infected with the germs of the disease. I have ordered him to remain on board and not to leave the ship again without my permission. Dr. Edson agreed with the diagnosis of Dr.

Jenkins. He said that nothing milder than Asiatic cholera could have killed 20 out of the 24 who were taken ilL It is the intention of the health board. said Dr. Edson, "to procure some of the germs, if possible, and develop them by imbedding them in gelatine. By this method the character of the disease can he actually ascertained.

Consternation prevailed for a time when it was reported today that bedding from the Moravia had been thrown overboard, and was floating with its death-dealing germs among the bathers along the Narrows and at Coney island, but it was not definitely shown that the floating material had come from that ship. The agents of the transatlantic steamship companies had a conference today. All the companies were represented. They met to discuss tne present Quarantine regulations and to talk over the general demoralization. due largely to the cholera, which at present exists in The Steamship Basinets.

"We are somewhat dazed at the new phase this question has taken, said Agent Underhill of the Guion line. are. in fact, astonished at the reading of the circular letter sent out by tbe Treasury Department with the Presidents approval. "According to the wording of tbe circular, a quarantine of 20 days is ordered against all steamers carrying immigrants from any foreign port. This is broad and sweeping.

It pertains to infected as well as to healthy ports. Do the authorities realize what that regulation means if literally enforced? It means untold damage to our commerce; its effects will be felt every branch ot our commercial and, in fact, drives commerce and immigration away from the great commercial port of thiscountry. The infected Moravia lay at her anchorage in Gravesend bav, this morning, and the circumstance was not pleasing to the people who live on the adjacent shore. Col. Loomis Lundon, the commandant at Fort Hamilton, wrote to Msj.

Boody of Brooklyn reminding him -of the fact that the yellow fever spread to Brooklyn in 1866 from ships anchored in the same locality, and begging that steps be taken to cause the Moravias removal. But it Was not necessary to wait for the Brooklyn authorities to act Dr. Jenkins, tbe health officer of the port, had already ordered her removal to lower quarantine, and by 9 oclock, the tug E. A Stevens of the Hamburg Steamship Company had her in tow and headed Across the Bay. She now lies anchored about two miles from the nearest land and out of the way of all shipping that does not yolnntanly seek her society.

There was a more subdued air among the throng of immigrants on the decks than prevailed yesterday. In the earlV morning hours this was particularly noticeable. The unfortunate peoDle on board seemed to have awakened, on tbe second day of their detention, to a realization of the gravity of their position. There were no new cases, and the two convalescents, the sole survivors of the 24 who were stricken down, were on the road to full recovery. King Cholera dominated everything Wall st.

lie was a bear of the most vigorous type, and a very powerful one. too. Continued on tho Fifth Page. had been aroused to tumultuous excitement at a masterly effort, an argument that arose to the heights of oratory, the eloquent plea of the defendants attorney. It had just listened to tbe plain, unvarnished, cold statement of alleged facts, the governments reasons for asking for her committal.

Then tbe justice spoke that sensational epilogue to this great drama. On either side of tbe bar enclosure there were seated men and women spectators, representing every social position, while in the five rows of elevated settees aegoss the rear of the room several hundred more sat or stood, crowded between the seats and in the aisles. The aisles on either side of the bar between it and the witnesses seats were completely packed with people. upper part ot the old stone central polio station in Court as District-Attorney Knowlton sat down beside the attorney general. Tbe time was 3.30 p.

m. By a striking coincidence the sun, which had been streaming into the room during the early afternoon, wont under a cloud as Mr. Knowlton was concluding his argument. and a chilling draught at tbe same moment came in at tbe open window. Judge Blaisdell twisted nervously In his chair, and, stooping over, wrote a moment on a large piece of legal paper which the officers, bending over at his side, could see was the murder complaint.

When he was through be fingered it nervously a moment and then let his kindly eyes fall upon the prisoner, his friends daughter, whom be had long held In high esteem. His ordeal, his trial bad come, and bow he shrank from it! But he performed it with what an effort no one in tbe entire court room could know or conceive. In a voice which betrayed bis emotion said: After this long and protracted examination I am constrained to say there is only one thing to be done, and that is for tba magistrate to do wbal he deems to be his duty. Miss Lizzie Borden raised her eyes, which she bad lowered as tbe prosecuting attorney concluded her counsel paused in their consultation, and Mr. Knowlton desisted In hla occupation of gathering his papers.

Rev. Mr. Buck bent affectionately over towards tbe defendant as if he would fain save her from what was to follow. Attorney-General Bilsbury did not avert his gaze from tbe prisoners face. Tbe judge continued, but that pause had shaken his sclf-Dosseasion.

With husky voice, aimGst inaudible, he continued slowly, and with its impressiveness enhanced by tbe palpable reluctance with which it was uttered. Sympathy must in tbe discharge of this duty he laid aside, and the judgfe paused on that sentence. Sympathy would say not to follow thu evidence or to treat it as it appears to me it requires to he treated upon this testimony. Having been discussed as it has been, the witnesses having been so closely examined it seems to me that there is but one thing for the magistrate to do. on the Sixth Pas.

ordan, A2JX) arsh GO. HEADQUARTERS FOR Fnrnitnre, Camels, Kitchen GooSs, Bags, Brass Goals, Glassware. Courteous salesmen, modern business methods and well lighted floors of mammoth proportions no'; only secure customers, but hold them ever afterwards. litU aiXA Two Gases of Cholera in tlie City. One Recent Arrival from Hamburg.

Living in a Crowded Tenement. Moravia is Moved Away From Shora Rigid Regulations Ordered by tbe President. London Reported Rut One Death Yesterday. Prompt Precautions Talon All Over the Country. New York.

Sept. 1. Dr. Hirschbeck of 94 Rivington st. reported to Police Captain Cross tonight that he had diagnosed a case of cholerine at 9 p.

in the honse 6 Orchard st The victim was Joseph Etusinlz, who arrived by the steamer Russia from Hamburg last Sunday. The man said that he felt pains in his bones, that his stomach ached and that he bad been vomiting freely. As soon as the doctor heard that his patient arrived in this country Sunday by way of Hamburg he at once came to the conclusion that the man was suffering from cholera. He went to the Elbndge st. station-honse and reported to Capt.

Cross. Capt. Cross promptly notified the board of health. The house at 95 Orchard st is a five-story tenement occupied by about 20 families. There are over 100 people living there.

Tbe peoDle became greatly alarmed when they heard that Etusiniz, who was living with his sister, was believed to be suffering from cholera and many of them preferred to walk the streets rather than go to bed. An Inspector of the hoard of health was sent to the house. The bureau of contagious diseases was in charge of two sanitary inspectors. They said that about 9 oclock tonight they were summoned to examine a sus-pected pa.se in the 11th precinct, but the inspector who had been sent Had Not Returned. Dr.

Hirschbeck also reported that at midnight he was called to attend Frank Haeuser, German, a plumber, living at 142 Orchard who was found to be suffering from cholerine. Haeuser has been in this country a number of years. Neither of the patients was removed. The doctor said the cholerine was the first symptom of cholera. There were no new cases of cholera on the Moravia or other ships arriving yesterday.

Every possible precaution was taken by the health authorities at quarantine and in the city to prevent the infection Irom coming up the bay. Some alarm was occasioned by the close proximity of the death ship Moravia to Brooklyns shore, which was allayed when the vessel had been towed away into wide sea room. Several steamers arrived at quarantine today. The Gallia arrived from Liverpool with 275 Russians and 140 Poles in the steerage. Deputy Tallmage found no signs of cholera, but nine of the passengers were down with the measles and two had chicken pox.

Tbe Gallia was ordered to join the quarantine fleet which is riding at anchor just this side of the Narrows. The Lhn. too, arrived, as did the City of Washington, from Havana, and the Olinda from Oporto. The Circassias passengers have been fumigated, and Have Passed Quarantine. Tbe Teutonio was also allowed to proceed to her pier this morning.

The residents of Staten Island are becoming alarmed at the proximity of tbe cholera ships, and policemen were sent to patrol the beach today to prevent the surreptitious landing of pe'rsons from them. At noon today President Wilson of the health board, accompanied by Dr. Cyrus Edson, met 10 of tbe directors and trustees of the St. Johns guild In the private offices of the Central National Bank. The gentlemen were in conference for an hour.

Arrangements were made for the transfer of tbe floating hospital of the guild to the health department for use as a refuge for cholera patients. The $ffer of the hospital was.voluntarUy and formally made by tne doctors and trustees. The post office department decided today on a rigid inspection of all foreign mails from infected countries. The step was considered necessary by reason of the large commercial correspondence constantly going on between the I nited States and those countries, and oy which cholera germs could be communicated. Mail matter of this description is to be thoroughly fumigated before being delivered for distribution and the utmost pains taken to prevent the introduction of tbe disease in the United States through mails.

At the nyeeiing of the health board this jv.xrx,,..,. TEE WEATHER. Washington, Sect 1 8 p. m. Forecast for Friday: For Maine.

New Hampshire and Vermont. fair, warmerby Friday night, north winds. For Massachusetts. Rhode Island and Connecticut, fair, slowly rising tern, perature, south winds. For eastern New orth winds, becoming YoiX, fair, warmer, variable.

Local Forecast. For New England, Friday Fair, cooler, followed Dy rising temperature, west and northwest winds. Saturday, fair and warmer. Sn nopsis: Fair weather generally prevails oi er tlio United States, except local showers nave fallen on the South Atlantic coast. A storm is developing in the vicinity of Montana.

but has not yet been accompanied bv rainfall. The temperatures have in general fallen, except over the lakes and the region to the west as far as the Dakotas. H. IL Clayton. Temperature Yesterday as ind.cated by the thermometer at Thompsons Spa: 3 a 0 a.

61: 9 a. 66 I 2 725; 3 P. 71; 6p 67; 9 p. fil: 12 56 Average temperature yesterday, 2-71. ANDOVER HERESY AGAIN.

Famous Case Postponed Until 10.45 A M. Tuesday. Andover, Sept. 1. The famous Andover case was revived here today, when, in response to a summons by the board of visitors, Irof.

E. C. Smyth appeared before this body to answer to certain charges of heresy preferred against him by Dr. J. W.

Wellman and Ir. O. T. LanDhear. The charges against Prof.

Smyth were just the same as those upon which he was tried before. When last October the Supreme Court set aside the verdict of the board of visitors, it was generallv thought that the matter of six years duration was ended. Dr. Walker presided at the hearing in Bartlett chapel, which opened at 11 oclock this morning, and said that as the court had held that there had been a mistrial on account of the absence of proper parties, the visitors had decided to give a hearing in which all should be represented. Prof.

Simeon E. Baldwin of New Haven, counsel for Prof. Smyth, spoke first for tne defence, as the complaints were already known by the visitors. After some feeling remarks by Prof. Smyth and some discusson the board of vim tors decided to take llie case under advisement and adjourned the hearing until 10.45 a.

in. next Tuesday at the same place. READY FOR THE CAMPAIGN. Haverhill Democrats Prepared for Active Work. Haverhill.

8ept. 1. The Democratic City Committee has made all arrangements for a vigorous campaign this fail, and bare appointed the following officers I ircutlve committee Ward J. P. Dearborn; 2, C.

W. Morse; 5, Lorenso Erost; 4, Isaiah W. Tit-comb; 6. Frank H. Gerrlsh.

William T. Dwyer; 0, John 4. Q-Unn, Lott F. McNamara, the present secretary and treasurer and ex-offlclL Finance committee Ward 1, Erastur W. Landers; 2.

Charles Kellwy; 3. Andrew X. Way; 4, Wlilard H. Woodbury; 5, George P. Mansur, William E.

Kelson; 6. W. H. Underbill, P. J.

Pitrger- aiil. Check list committee Ward 1. John B. Brosnan; 2. Melltn A.

filigree; S. Fdward J. Donahue; 4, Harry L. Cook; Desire 11. Houle, Louie F.

Loaf; Joeeph Either, Thomas F. Ryan. Committee on printing Rodertik OConnor, John X. Hunkios, W. H.

Mam, John M. Roche, E. B. roller. Rumor with Many Tongues.

Woburn. Sept 1. Two young men this afternoon asked the city treasurer to cash a check. He refused. Someone who heard the conversation started the report that the city treasurer had been robbed at the muzzle of a pistol.

It as hours before the citys shattered nerves were soothed. Total Creeping Upward. New York, Sept. 1. The subscriptions iodav to the orlds Democratic Western campaign fund were $670.48.

making the grand total to date $23,723.99. Welcome Soap Is not Advertised to preserve The clothes, but will Do Less Injury And give better results Than any other Soap in the world. Fall River, Sept. 1. I adjudge the defendant probably guilty, and hold her to await the action of the grand jury.

In this manner, at 3.33 tnis afternoon. Judge Blaisdell informed Lizzie A Borden, and 600 eager spectators, that she would he committed to Taunton jail, not, however, as proven a murderess, but as one against whom, in the opinion of the justice, tbe government had shown sufficient evidence to warrant the consideration of the case by tbe grand jurors. Miss Lizzie beard the solemn declaration, but gave no indication that the significance with which the decision was pregnant had impressed itself upon her, and sat calm and apparently Unmoved, Five hundred people In a small court room heard and held their breath. Judge Blaisdell was deeply moved. Strong men bowed their heads.

Weaker men wiped tears from their eyes. Every woman In tbe court room sobbed and wept except one this one, beside whom the interest of others was nothing, to whom the decision meant practically little she sat there with the natural color on her cheeks, with her eye nndimmed, her head poised indifferently, and with no sign that she had understood. It was the dramatic scefle of the trial, the culminating sensation of a day which bad been fraught with intense and ill-suppressed excitement, the supplement to two able and scholarly arguments of counsel, and came with surprising rapidity after the closing of the district attorney. It was not expected, at least not so soon. District Attorney Knowlton had just finished and prepared to gather up bis notes, and every one anticipated an order to adjourn over until tomorrow, to give his honor time to consider tlie case and weigh his decision before he gave it.

Consequently when his honor at once ottered his ooening sentence, referring to his painful duty, a tremor rah through the court room, for in that sentence was foreshadowed the annihilation of Mr. Jennings hopes of a discharge for his client from custody. The judges first sentence told the story. What he later said had already reached the understanding of his auditors. Lizzie A Borden was committed.

They read it in the judges harassed features and the pathetic ring to his voce. And so the Borden examination ended. When this decision was given, all circumstances conspired to give it a dramatic effect. A crowded court room earlier in the day Ginger SO ESSENTIAL to the preservation of health, so pure in its composition, so delicious to the taste, and so potent in saving doctors bills, that it has become domesticated in countless households, as well as in ships, factories, public and educational institutions. Containing among It Ingredient the pnr-eetof menlolnai Freueii brand, and Uie be Imported ginger, ia vaatl? anperior to tbe cheap, wortbleaa.

and oiles dangcrona ainrnra nrip-d aa aebai tutoa. Ait for SAN FORDS nlXGER, and look for owl trademark oa tba wrapper. Sold ary where. A.SHUMAN S3 a Men's ana Boys Clctaiars and Outfitters, liumauA ornot Washington and Summer Sts. A a to IUMANITY Is the expression of an eminent physician regardin': When you can obtain a more delicious beverage, and be assured of no ill effect its use, why not us8 it? Health Luxury combined.

Sold only in one pound airtight cans. CLARK COFFEE CO. li TK52I j)12 DgTou Smoke tN THE WORLD CJ6-4K 5 rCJACCO CO Sold Everywhere. CL.M a I s-ole Miter. 130 Water Bwton, 1 UMUf nll Tiaeht be per ie need teacher it COMER'S COMMERCIAL COLLEGE, 6tt Wwhtngton II, oion 1 dSntn iuSS blue-serge garment, and on her head a low black bonnet, trimmed with small black feathers.

She wore no veil, but black gloves covered her bands. She was sitting upright with her bead raised so that her eyes rested upon the court, or occasionally shifted to the arguing district attorney or her own counsel. John V. Morse occupied a chair on her right, while on the settee at her left sat Rev. E.

A. Buck, who has been with her a great deal since the murder occurred, with his venerable look, his snow-white hair and whiskers, wearing a black broadcloth frock suit and clerical white bow tie. Mrs, George 8. Brigham. Miss Lizzies companion during the trying days immediately preceding the arrest, was an eager listener a Beyond Mr.

Buck and at his left sat Mrs. Adelaide Churchill, also Miss -h Lizzies friend, hut who had in a single 10 minutes on the stand give more testimony adverse to the defendant than almost any other witness. The prisoner has not. however, since manifested any resentment towards this lady. Ia front of the people on the settee were seated the counsel.

Two tables had been arranged in the form of an obtuse angle right in front of tbe prisoner, for there must be a continual economizing of space. Right in front -of the defendant and on the courts left at a small table, CoL Melvin O. Adams and Andrew J. Jennings occupied chairs, while just beyond them City Marshal Hillard and Detective George Seaver were seated. On the courts right District Attorney Knowlton Lad sat or stood all day, and at the same table Attorney-General Pillsbury was seated.

Lis keen eye fixed on the prisoner's (inexpressive face. In front of them in bis slightly elevated enclosure sat the clerk of the court, Mr. Leonard, his face kindly in its expression. Beside him was Miss "White, the court stenographer, a brunette of pleasing appearance, wearing a black skirt, a aist of delicate pink with black suspenders. Then came tbe judge, seated on the bench overlooking the entire court room and visible from its every part, a man esteemed for integrity and sincerity of purpose throughout Fall River.

Wealing a black frock suit. Judge Blalv dell sat erect upon the bench. Lis usually florid face somewhat paler than usual, and the muscles of his face twitched nervously as be allowed bis keen eyes to wander about tbe court-room. This was the scene in tbe court-room of tb n-rnnff of t'riitol eonntY, in tba No copperas flavor. Cured two years before using.

ASK FOR TOBACCO. The purest and best. Be sure to get our plugJ It was a heterogeneous gathering with one common purpose and no distinction of classes. This city has seen nothing approaching it in many years past. There were mill hands who had left tlieir work for the afternoon, and in rough dress had hastened to the court.

But there was. all through the crowd, that noticeable sprinkling of elegance of attire, refinement ot manner and appearance that at once betokened the higher grades of society. Some of the best people in Fall River braved the crush of the afternoon who had not done so upon any previous day. Silks stood beside calico, satin in close proximity to fancy cambrics. Church people, members of tlie Congregational churches of the city.

Lizzie's friends, those who knew her so well, were in evidence all through the court room. At the main door of the court room, which opods just to tba judges right, the interest of police officers was concentrated. Blue uniform piled tlie doorway and aisle, while, pressed for room, a number had ascended the few steps leading to the bench, and. grasping the rail of the small enclosing partition, leaned over to catch the closing words of the district attorney until they almost obstructed the judges Tiew of the room. inside the bar.

grouped at numerous tables, were reporters and artists who had sat through the entire case- They occupied nearly the entire bar. Across the front of the bar enclosure a common settee extended, and on it sat tbe person wbe was tbe observed of all eyes, and they were kindly ones. On the farther end sat the defendant, Liz-'c smtipI 7ra204 CIGAR I.t AMflOETUCB OS I'l M. K1T..

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