The Champaign Daily Gazette from Champaign, Illinois • 2

THE CHAMPAIGN DAILY GAZETTE WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 30 1895 r'totfojwzo eyr ABBREVIATED TELEGRAMS HE SOON WEARIES One Day as Counsel and Accused Enough for Holmes (Formerly known as the Champaign Commercial College Shorthand Institute and Select Writing: Academy Champaign Illinois aHnni institution owned controlled and managed by men of brains enterprise A live wide-awake educational in nprformin1' it The following branches of bookkeeping practicallv and capital We teach business bLc llf fict ii i Commission Banking combined with expert taught: Retail holesal Man Companies Arithmetic Commercial Law Spell in corration accounting and limitelp ner Pitman) All standard typewriters Business practice in mg Letter rtttng I tehorl Vetice offices In the State Send for catalogue and specimensof aWU Campaten IU BulMta 2Vo vacations Students can enter at any time School open all the year Paints Brushes Wall-Paper Glass were pointed as a general tning although several times it looked as though i they were asked to kill time Both doc- tors agreed that Pitzel died of chloroform poisoning and did not administer the chloroform himself Dr Henry Leffman testified similarly It was at the night I session that the climax of the day came and the prisoner gave tip his own case and turned it over to counsel This was looked upon as that is what the prosecution calls all moves The taking of testimony was about to be resumed when Holmes arose in the dock and addressing the court said: your honor please I have a request to make In consequence of the severe physical strain to which I have been subjected and also because of the criticism leveled against my former counsel Messrs Shoemaker and 11 tan I have within the past lull: hour sent for them and asked them to again assume charge of my defense I should like to ask if the court will permit them come said the judge A moment later the two counsellors looking pale and worried entered the courtroom and Kotan going up to the bar was about to enter into a lengthy explanation when Judge Arnold curtly interrupted with: apology is necessary Go on with the William Moebins bartender in a saloon near the Callowhill street house testified to drinking habits A good deal of other testimony was given showing the presence in Phila- delphia and their intimacy of Holmes and Pitzel the former under a false name but I much of the interest of the ease has gone with return to the box DITKEY TOO WEAK TO STAND The alleged nitro glycerine bomb found at Madison Wis was only a section of railway signal fuse Arthur Moore was convicted by a jury at Chicago and his punishment fixed at twenty-five years in the penitentiary for the murder of Frank Horton Dr Carpenter a brother-in-law of ex-Governor Flower committed suicide at Gouverneur Despondency due to ill health was the cause Obituary: At Fairbury Ills Thomas A McKenzie 54 At Stillman Valley Ills Miss Adelaide Patrick 58 At Kenosha Wis Rogers 04 At Denver Father Michael Sullivan 30 Sixty-two-year-old James Walker who lives on a farm near Scottville Ills was garroted by two men and robbed near the road in Twelfth street Chicago Physicians who have constantly attended the case of Mrs Annie Walker who has been unconscious at Chicago for three weeks have come to the conclusion that she is insane Chicago is in such a tight place for ready money that the only way she can make both ends meet is to go into wholesale discharge of employes so it is said The lowest temperature for the United States reported Tuesday morning was 4 degress below zero at Williston Ex-City Treasurer Boggs who held office from 1890 to 1894 at Tacoma is an embezzler to the 6xtent of $109 000 and the sheriff is on the road to Jacksonville Or to arrest him Alfred Austin according to a London dispatch has been chosen poet laureate pf Great Britain George Smith murderer of an old man and Charles Davis violator and murderer of a t-year-old girl were sent to eternity by lightning in the New York state prison at Dannemora James Van Alen the co-respondent in the Colt divorce case has been put under the enormous bond of $200000 It is reported at Kington Jamaica that Carlos Cespedes son of the first president of the Cuban republic of twenty years ago has landed in Cuba with 109 men and a large quantity of war munitions from the United Suites Varnishes Window Shades Room Mouldings etc All the Leading Brands of PATENT MEDICINES Perfumes Powders and Druggists Sundries Best Mixed Paint on the-Market at the Leading Wall-Paper and Paint House ot WIMI PRICE Neil and First South Streets Opposite City Building ONR ENJOYS Both the method and results when Syrup of Figs is taken it is pleasant and refreshing to the taste and acts gently yet romptly on the Kidneys Liver and Bowels cleanses the system effectually dispels colds headaches and fevers and cures habitual constipation Syrup of Figs is the only remedy of its kind ever produced pleasing to the taste and acceptable to the stomach prompt in its action and truly beneficial in its effects prepared only from the most healthy and agreeable substances its I many excellent qualities commend it to all and have made it the most popular remedy known Syrup of Figs is for sale in 50 cent bottles by all leading druggists Any reliable druggist who may not have it on hand will procure it promptly for any one who wishes to try it Do not accept any substitute CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO SAN FRANCISCO CAL LOUISVILLE KY NEW YORK 1 If I 1 i PORTED WOOLENS Close of the Defense in the Case of Theodore Durrant Sax Francisco Oct 3u The close of the arguments for the defense in the trial ol Theodore Durrant was marked by the greatest crowd that ever fought for admission to a murder trial in this city Judge jurors court officers and attorneys struggled for nearly an hour in a surging throng of men and women who crowded through the corridors leading to the court room The sheriff and his deputies were not able to control the mob and a requisition was made on the chief of police for a squad of twenty men Dickinson for the defense closed his speech at noon and when Attorney Du-prey appeared at the afternoon session to make the closing argument for the defense he was accompanied by his wife a nurse and his physician He looked weak from the effects of his recent illness and by permission of the court addressed the jury while seated impaired physical condition was apparent in his argument which was a disappointment but he made one remarkable statement that the defense had proved more than he had promised Illinois Miners Decide to Strike Springfield Oct 30 At a mass meeting of 400 miners held here addressed by President and Secretary Guy-man of the state union the miners at Trutter Sc No 1 and Sangamon No 2 who have been working for 35 cents per ton decided to strike Miners at Riverton shaft No 1 struck because Archie Neal was discharged without cause as they allege Killed by a Chicago Cable Car Chicago Oct 30 Cole president of the and association was run over and fatally injured last night by a North Clark street cable car He was taken to a hospital where he died in a short time We show the Largest Stock of-Imported Woolens in the city and at prices that defy competition all things being equal Only high grade labor employed Yours for Stylish and Perfect Fitting Garments jT RAILWAY WRECK AT ST LOUIS Make Your Feet Glad Like a Slipper In comfort like a rubber in fit and the most durable of all is Selz Nu-Shii 'You're overlooking a good thing if you wear it 8ls Royal Blue $400 Shoe is the best you can Et Both made by Selz Schwab Co Chicago rgest makers of shoes in the United States AT YOUR DEALERS oor West of First National Bask Illinois Odd Fellow Appointment Springfield Oct 30 Grand Master Henry Phillips of the Illinois Odd Fellows has appointed the Rev Hiram Luther Bowen of Hamilton grand chaplain vice Rev Martin Luther Bowen deceased of Literberry Altgeld Commutes a Sentence Springfield Ills Oct 30 Governor Altgeld has commuted to ten years the sentence of Frederick Hehrling sentenced in 1889 from Belleville to twenty-five years in Chester penitentiary for the murder of Peter Liezy Illinois Central In connection with the Southern Pacific Co will on and after the night of October 29 1895 run from Chicago a Pullman Somebody Throws a Switch and the Result Will Be Four Dead Men St Louis Oct 80 Two suburban trains on the Missouri Pacific road one loaded down with suburbanites returning home from the theaters of this city and the other coming into town collided within the city limits about midnight A bad wreck resulted both engineers being killed and both firemen True and Dunbar being fatally hurt The collision took place at the Kings Highway and Manchester road Thj two trains dashed into each other around a sharp curve and without warning the engines were ditched by the fearful force of the collision Somebody threw the switch at Grand avenue throwing the east-bound train onto the west-bound track without notifying cither of the conductors The names were John Harper and Ed Cattrin Conductor Feldott and two passengers were more or less injured Ambassador Fava Sues a Eiheler Washington Oct The trial of Cesar Celso Moreno charged with criminally libeling Baron Fava the Italian ambassador was held in the District court Baron Fava was accused of being con-eerned in the importation of padrones Tlje publisher of the paper in which the article appeared testified that Moreno was the author of it Correspondence between Fava and the government officers urging the suppression of the padrone system was put in evidence and other testimony introduced to show that the ambassador had endeavored to kill the padrone system The verdict was given for Fava BUFFET SLEEPER EVERY TUESDAY AND SATURDAY Dr Deane Davenport The Successful Optician Treats successfully all casesof Eye Strain Headache caused by eye strain cured Satisfaction and Honest Treatment for all Children given especial attention EYES EXAMINED FREE night after fighting tooth and nail single-handed against the tremendous machinery of the commonwealth and the apparently complete chain of evidence which has been forged around him he throw up his hands and sent for his lawyers Shoemaker and Kotan Then he told the court what he had done and a reluctant consent to their continuing with the defense was given Star Witnesses Yet to Come The big work of the trial taking testimony was begun promptly and with the exception of brief intermissions at lunch and supper time was continued until nearly 9 last night It had been the intention of the court to sit until 10 but the absence of a witness hindered this and an adjournment was taken The star witnesses trial Mrs Pitzel Detective Greyer Agent Berry of the swindled insurance company and the arch-criminal himself yet remain to be heard as also nearly two score of others District Attorney Graham remarked that there was a likelihood of the trial outrivaling the Durrant case in point of time but that if night sessions wero held regularly it might l)e concluded within a month or less Holmes made a plea last evening asking the court to hold but two sessions a day Took Too Large a Contract In plaintive tones he said that his physical condition was such that he felt unablo to continue his cross-examination of the witnesses and besides he was subject to sick headaches Judge Arnold insisted however on holding an extra session last night at least and said tomorrow could be attended to when it came During the supper recess which followed this incident Holmes privately said that the preparation of his case in his coll Monday night hail kept him up until 4 in the morning and that he was roused from bed two hours later In addition to this he had not eaten anything from Monday night until 1 yesterday afternoon It was after making this statement that he sent for his counsel Prisoner an Extraordi nary Man But though Holmes concluded to recall his counsel because the ordeal was too heavy for him alone he had borne himself remarkably during the day With a man of less nerve-force and brain-power than Holmes acting the composite role of jjris-oner at the bar and counsel for the defense the spectacle would have been farcical But not tor an instant did this extraordinary specimen of abnormal genius the genius to commit crime with wonderful skill and daring lose control of himself Be it thrust or parry from the court or from the keen and scornful officers of the commonwealth Holmes was equal to the emergency and the listener somehow felt that he did not get altogether the worst of the argument PERMITTED TO SEE HIS WIFE Hus a Three-Mtnute Interview and Wants More Incidents of the Day The day's proceedings were begun by District Attorney Graham who arose and said to the court: desire to say to the court in view of what was said last night before the adjournment of court that the lady known as Miss Yoke and Mrs Howard was senr for saw the prisoner and had ample opportunity for an interview with This is the woman concerning whom there was a warm pass-at-arms Monday evening between Graham and Holmes the latter declaring that the woman was his wife and that Graham had done all in his power to separate them When Graham concluded Holmes said that he had only had a three-minute interview th the woman and asked that it be renewed during the noon recess His request was granted The first witness was Jeannette Pitzel who was only wanted to identify a portrait of her father Then Eugene Smith who found body in the Callowhill street house in 1891 told what he knew Holmes wanted the corpse cremated When Dr Scott was called Holmes objected to the arrangement by which one witness was allowed in court while another was testifying and renewed a plea he had made earlier to have all but one witness at a time excluded Graham objected to this and Holmes without a change of expression but with infinite sarcasm said: would like to know whether you Mr Graham or the honorable court is to make the ruling in this case I have been anxious to know this since the trial Judge Arnold upheld the district attorney and Holmes asked for and was granted an exception to the ruling Holmes compromised by asking that the witnesses connected with the murder of Benjamin Pitzel be excluded This was granted him and us Holmes called out the names of the witnesses they left the room After the witnesses had all left the room Holmes asked if his wife was to be a witness I must said the district attorney wife you responded Holmes with a flush of anger woman you see fit to designate as Miss Yoke thereby casting a slur on her and myself That woman is my cast a slur on Graham retorted you married her with two wives living 1 call her by the name she gives me which is Miss is for her to said Holmes ell she is not in the court concluded the prosecutor I decline to sav whether or not she will be a witness There were two physicians called Scott and Matte rn the coroner physician and Holmes showed that he had not forgotten lus medical education for his questions Death of Edward Binns Springfield Ills Oct 29 Hon Edward Binns ex-member of the state board of equalization and a member since 1890 of the Democratic state central committee died at his home in Pittsfield aged 55 years The Weather We May Expect Washington Oct 30 The following are the weather indications for twenty-four hours from 8 yesterday For Lower Michigan Generally fair weather slightly warmer in eastern portion variable winds For Upper Michigan Fair weather preceded by local snows winds shifting to southwest erly warmer in western portion this evening For Fair slightly warmer weather variable winds For Wisconsin and Iowa Fair slightly warmer weather winds shifting to southerly For Illinois Fair weather except local showers in western portion slightly warmer variable winds THE MARKETS night to connect direct at New Orleans with the Southern Pacific's fast solid vestibule train the for Los Angeles and San Francisco On these cars for rjALIFOKNI 4 VIA NEW ORLEANS THROUGH RESERVATIONS Chicago to the Pacific Coast can be made In addition on and after the night of Wednesday October 30 195 there will te run a Pullman Tourist Sleeper Every Wednesday Night THROUGH WITHOUT CHANGE from Chicago to San Francisco via New Orleans by the same route Through double-birth rate but $6 00 'l his is the only true winter route to California owing to low altitudes and the absence of snow and severe cold weather Also good connection to the JITYT OF MEXICO via New Orleans by the Illinois Central and the Southetn Pacific Railn ads Ticket Rates ms Low ms by Any Other Route Ask for Special Folder of I They as well as tickets and full information as to rates and specific train time can be had of agents of the Central Route and connecting lines or by addressing A HANSON Gen Pass'r Agent Chicago FORGET THE NUMBER Only a After All London Oct 3J The Russian embassy announces that it has received an official telegram from St Petersburg completely denying the stories from Hong Kong to The Times and Globe about the alleged secret treaty between China and Russia by which the latter is said to have been granted extraordinary concessions The Russian officials here add that the visit of Prince Wong Chi Chuan to St Peters burg about which so much has been said recently was solely undertaken with the object of congratulating the czar upon his accession to the throne Dr Deane Davenport Drug Store 1 Main St Champaign 111 For a Cold Frosty Morning Of Interest to Congressmen Washington Oct 30 Comptroller of the Treasury Bowler had decided that eongressmen-elect are not entitled to government stationary until they have taken the oath of office Heretofore members-elect have been allowed to draw on their stationary allowance as it became due monthly after March 4 the beginning of the term but the comptroller now holds that the right is not vested in a member until he is sworn in CflLESDflRS NEW SAMPLES LATEST DESIGNS LOWEST PRICES THERE IS NOTHING LIKE A New Financial New York Oct 29 Money on caff nominally 22 per cent prime mercantile paper per cent sterling exchange was firm with an advance of actual business in bills at 48s 2f5'43894 for demand and 487''a487 for sixty days posted rates 488(0488 and 489(a) 489 commercial bills 4bt4 Silver certificates 1000 at 68 bar silver 67 Mexican dollars 54 United States government bonds steady new reg 121 do coupons 122 2: x-eg 114 coupons 115 reg 111 coupons 111 reg 97 Pacific of 100 Chicago Grain and Produce Chicago Oct 29 The following were the quotations on the Board of Trade today: Wheat October opened 59c closed 58c December opened 60c closed 59c May opened 64c closed 63c Corn October opened 30c closed 29c December opened 29c closed 29c May opened 29c closed 29c Oats October nominal closed 18c December nominal closed 18c May opened 20c closed 20c October opened $792 closed $795 January opened $902 closed $895 Lard October opened $545 $560 Produce: Butter Extra creamery 21o per lb extra dairy 18c packing stock 9(0) 10c Eggs Fresh stock 16(airc per doz Poultry Spring chickens 7c per lb: old hens 6 roosters 5c turkeys ducks geese $5 (XX 06 07 per doz Potatoes Burbanks 20(t23c per bu sweet potatoes Illinois $150(01 65 per bbl Apples Fair to choice $125(tJi30J per bbL Honey White clover 1-lb sections fancy 15c broken comb 1314c extracted 5(2Jc per lb Cranberries Cape Cod $5 50(08 00 per bbl Chicago Live Stock Chicago Oct 29 Live Stock Prices at the Union Stock yards today ranged as follows Estimated receipts for the day 3 5000 sales ranged at $2(Xa360 pigs 75 light $325:08 35 rough packing $335(0370 mixed and $340370 heavy packing and shipping lots Cattle Estimated receipts for the day 7500 quotations ranged at $485a530 choice to extra shipping steers $42X0480 good to choice do 3 70a 415 fair to good $354aJ8j common to medium do $31tXg360 butchers' steers $215(0290 Stockers $30j(a383 feeders $130(0-350 cows $240OiJ 70 heifers $L75(g 5 bulls $270(0330 Texas steers $290405 w-ern range steers and $300 525 veal calves Sheep Estimated receipts for the day 18009 sales ranged at $200 0315 westerns $175(0 240 Texas $175:03 4 natives and $26U(cJ) 435 lambs SEE THEM AT THE TO RAISE THE TEMPERATU A DISPUTE AS WHO GETS UP A KD MAK THE FIRE Young Murderer Caught Topeka Kan Oct 30 Abe Coulter who has been arrested at Valley Falls twenty miles northeast of Topeka appears beyond doubt to be the murderer of Edward Illston Coulter is 19 years old and lives with his father at Valley Falls He arrived at his home five days after the murder He left the horse and wagon which belonged to Illston with his father and went out into the country five miles to work Came to Tlieir Senses in Time Oshkosh is Oct 30 The marriage by telegraph of Miss Liddie Kluth of Oshkosh to Duncan Edwards of St Cloud did not take place according to Belied 1 In the first place it was by no means certain it would be legal and in the sect -n Mis Kluth shrank from the notoriety involved The marriage will how Taac pi ace in the good old way where the couple can join hands GAZETTE OFFICE Wis DO TH A 7 GIVE US A CHANCE Cas Light and Fuel Co CALENDARS agenda Hotel Burned ELD Oct 30 The Lagon-da hotel caught lire and burned to the ground The guests escaped.