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Show WASHINGTON NOTES. Sllrer Ballion Up to $1 ao Ounce. Electrocution Argument. Argu-ment. MCCTINS OF THE WORLD'S FAIR BOARD. Th Body or a Murdered Woman Foand in a Barrel or Kara. S. K. CASTON'S DUAL BUSINESS LIFE. Bemirkatitc Surgical Operation: The Sacrifice cf a Devout SUtcr. ty Te'riraps to the NEirs.1 SILVER IJCI.LIO.V cr. II May co Illcher lVteil Clio Crista In Oi-rr. Washington, Nov. 21. "Silver bullion rau up to$l an ounce today." saiJ Miut Director Leech this evening, "and I expect to see It partially recover from tho slump it got in during tbe flurry on Wall street. Tho decline In bullion was due eolrly to the fact that tho heavy holders wero large borrowers, and when tbe bankers demanded settlement settle-ment an enormous amount of liullion was thrown uiou the market Tho incipient influence which brought about thcslump ws located In Loudon, tabere our financial troublts rtrose. As soon as the present crisis Is over, bullion will appreciate steadily till it readies tbo point it foUnd some time ago, and may go higher." MAX FRANCISCO ILINKSC31IPLAIX. The Treasury Deparment Is Informed In-formed tbat $J0J,0J) was transferred from San Francisco to New York to-lay, making tbe total amounts of transfers recorded to date $3,IG0,-00). $3,IG0,-00). T'i its transfers wero m ide by telegr .It through the sub-treasuries, r.io of charge, under the prlvl-leg prlvl-leg a ixtcnded by Secretary Win-dam Win-dam fur tho purpoae of facilitating the business -of the bankers and merchants lu New York during the present trouble. Complaints have recently been made by certain San FrancI-cobanks,a;ainst a contiuu-aoca contiuu-aoca of tbe practice, as tending to reduce their available reservu and to contract the currency on the coast Secretary Wlndom is considering con-sidering the matter. TIIR JAPANESE aiURDflRca. Tiiocase of tho Japaneso murderer, murder-er, Juiiro, MrntpQcni to death by electricity, In New York, was argued ar-gued before tiie Supremo Court UiJay. Sherman who was counsel for KrsTimler. reprcsintej Juglro, baMng his application for a wiitof n&caC5r7ion Ihcgrcund that the cxecutiou of Kemmitrdemjnslrated that electrocution was cot an in-stantaiii-ius aud painless death, and that It violates the provision of the Federal Constitution forbidding cruel and unusual uuishment. Sherman spoke at length, reading fie nswp.iper report about the death of Ivs.-nmlcr. He asserted that there Is grave doubt whtthtr the artlllzal electricity generated under tho present conditions Invariably Invari-ably causes Immediate death. Sherman w.s frequently inter-rupted inter-rupted with questions by Justices Field and Brewer. When the fai-nitT fai-nitT ed.jgested that persons IiaJ been killed iu a short tiaio by the accidental acci-dental contact of electric light wires, Sherman narrated the case of a llntnnn wh-adld not die for some time, although receiving a shock of 2G00 volts. Attorney-General Tabor cf New York replied. He declared the ICemm'er case was a practical execution exe-cution of the law, and settled tho whole question of coiHtitutiotiality, nsl.e Understood It Either hani;iug or electricity had toa much cruelty Iu it to suit the counsel. |