Show AT HOME AND ABROAD new 11 X rays were used in court for the first time in this country in a damage suit before a jury in the brooklyn superior court martin hutchinson 9 years of age was subjected to ray examination for several minutes he was injured on christmas night 1895 by being S ejected from a car the plaintiff contends that the head of at the left was fractured from the boys fall from the car when the conductor threw him off A dynamo was placed in front of the jury box and near the lawyers table and a lare large e crookes tube was used soon after the case had been resumed young jacket and outside shirt sere removed the arms and should wo Ss were were exposed before the elamin aton the question as to whether any Sofi aible injury would result from the was discussed J stew rist ross who represents the plaintiff sur faSl a sted ed that a limit as to the time of ifie lamination examination should be set it was sed that it should be three hen the boy took his seat with his shoulder about six inches from e crookes tube he smiled at the jury D aad und the physicians and lawyers dr LAW km 3 morton looked at the boys last shoulder through a fluoroscope 9 essl judge johnson who presided at 46 4 e t trial rial stood up and timed the pro ar ge 0 L fowler then took the irose ope and looked at the boys left ija and shoulder until time was called morton and dr fowler will tell 9 go the stand the result of the exam 14 bation ilton they are witnesses for the previous to that in court vase s e ased eh ad been examinations of the a 9 left shoulder photographs of r A bones had been taken these pho alphs were in the possession of the tiff the examinations were made lashow la to show the result of the fractures V I 1 tsi francisco nov 11 ll joseph M twell manager of the merchants hane a we e of this city died suddenly of nieby ex S shortly artly after midnight at iSI Shome h e in sausalito Sau marion county a was a native of new jersey and years of age e he e came to california 1849 1949 soon became prominently iden led d with the mercantile interests of ial CI city he has at various periods of B career been president of the local oance uce and stock exchanges and was vice ce president of the california deposit and trust company and eodore of the pacific yacht club few york NO nov 11 A dispatch to herald gaerald from lima peru says A which legalizes non catholic marges tn in peru and which makes legal civil ceremonies perfected by the i sailors oro of the town in the presence or of witnesses was sanctioned by con lust before adjournment there i ahal great excitement when the meas was taken up for final action the ais tried to sustain a motion to apone ne consideration but on vote the otann ann was lost then the president it the motion to close the debate and Is nas was carried amid great applause te passage of this measure is a great ph for the liberal ideas and for aft government grovern ment louisville ky nov 11 ll A etrain if train on the louisville hender n st louis road which left st Ws s last evening and was as due in this yat at this morning was railed led and entirely consumed by fire f our 0 this morning near lees T I 1 rt ot nine miles from louisville no were lost and so BO far as is known was seriously injured fabso fB ejr SO winds last night overturned a box car standing on the lewisport Lewi sport siding the car fell directly across the main track on a sharp curve it was not seen by the engineer of the passenger train until it was too late to stop his engine washington nov 11 secretary alger has approved the estimates for the coast defense work submitted by gen miles and they will be submitted to chairman cannon of the house committee on appropriations some days before the opening of the sessions in accordance with law the expenditures at the different seaports are itemized but the secretary will ask for authority to spend the money in lump sums so that any particular defense may be hurried to meet emergencies gen cies general miles divides the fortification appropriation as follows mouth of penobscot river mouth of kennebec river portland maine portsmouth N H boston harbor new bedford mass narragansett bay defenses of long island sound eastern entrance new york southern entrance new york approaches to philadelphia approaches to baltimore approaches to washington D C hampton roads approaches to wilmington N C charleston harbor approaches to savannah ga key west fla pensacola harbor approaches to mobile ala approaches to new orleans galveston texas san diego cala san francisco columbia river puget sound lake champlain in his report to the secretary gen miles makes no reference to possible complications with spain but says although the general desire of our people is to maintain a condition of peace with all nations and the policy of the government is one of good will and peaceful relations with all others yet nothing could be more injudicious than to remain in a condition of insecurity and permit the lives of millions and the accumulated wealth of many generations to be destroyed or endangered by any foreign power with which we are liable to come in contact conta et and the general plan for defense which has been adopted by the government should be steadily pursued until the nation is in a condition of security and safety which a due regard for self preservation would demand san Franci francisco nov 11 william henry theodore durrant will not be hanged at san quentin friday morning after all the supreme court oil of this state having granted him another respite at the eleventh hour up to the time this afternoon when the news flashed over the wires from sacramento that the court now in session there had granted a writ of probable cause and instructed warden hale not to carry out the execution of durrant until further orders there was apparently no further hope for the condemned murderer of blanche lamont lament and minnie williams as his attorneys tor dickinson board man had made a futile effort to secure another writ of habeas corpus in the united states circuit court and had not even been granted permission to appeal from the decision to the supreme court odthe united states meanwhile however attorney deuprey hastened to sacramento and applied to the state supreme court for a writ of probable cause for the purpose of staying the proceedings against his client upon the grounds that no official knowledge of the action of the supreme court of the united states in the matter of currants Dur rants appeal from the decision of the federal court had yet been received that the superior court had acted too hasuly hastily in sentencing durrant to be hanged tomorrow as the law required that he be be given at least sixty days grace and consequently eon that the of another appeal in the supreme court affecting the condemned was of itself sufficient cause of a stay of execution the matter was partially argued in chambers and later argued before them the full court and taken under advise ment shortly afterward the court an bounced its decision granting the writ applied for in which all the justices concurred san quentin prison cal nov 11 this has been a da day ar of great but sup pressed excitement in and about the penitentiary the preparations fortha execution of theodore durrant had all been completed and the prison officials M were to in readiness to carry out the death sentence from which there seemed no further appeal the man alone was hopeful that he might yet obtain a longer lease of life he spent the greater part of the dey in reading and had little to say tor to any one 1 at p m the news that the supreme court had granted a reprieve was received at the prison in a message to warden hale haje from chief justice beatty capt edgar who opener the dispatch in the absence of th the ewar warden immediately wrote a note conveying the information to the condemned man the message was sent to the death cell by a guard durrant quickly read it and without any great display of emotion fell on his knees and prayed silently for several minutes mrs durrant the mother of the prisoner was a passenger on the boat from san francisco when she reached the prison the news was waa told to her she was cheerful on the way over saying that she had bad put her faith in god and felt that he would not desert her on arrival at the prison was informed that her sons life had been spared and that she might see him later thank god she said then she went to a hotel for rest and refreshment at 7 this evening she returned to the prison and was admitted to C capt apt edgars office where her boy bor was waiting to meet her the death veil was removed when durrant was waa brought down to the office and it witt will not again be placed over the prisoner unless required by future developments develop menta in the case mrs durrant remained with her son in close conversation for some time san quentin cal nov 11 an associated press reporter was admitted to the prison office where durrant and his mother were seated on a sofa in each others arms durrant had expressed a desire to make a statement to the associated press and in the course of an interview said naturally I 1 was greatly elated at the news of the reprieve although my first intimation based on a telephone message was not positive soon afterward the news was confirmed all I 1 could do was to thank god was the reprieve a surprise durrant was asked not exactly all along I 1 have had perfect faith in my god this afternoon I 1 was visited by two sisters of charity and I 1 believe that their prayers and the prayers of all those who have in merceded ter ceded for me have been instrumental in bringing about this result then thee durrant remarked that he could not understand why christian people should beg him in letters to confess 1 I am innocent he said and would never confess to such vile crimes sooner or later the truth will be known I 1 have faith that the real perpetrator perne will yet be discovered and punished all of these little stays bring us nearer it I 1 know that the lord will sooner or later set all things right I 1 shall never give up the fight because the lord is with me he added embracing and kissing his mother on mrs currants Dur rants face was a smile ot of contentment but the son looked sad his hie eyes were dull he earnestly repeated many times that faith in god would save him in the future as in the past you may say I 1 am innocent said durrant in conclusion 1 I will never yield and god is with me after half an hours riva talk with her son mrs durrant returned witt to her er hotel and durrant was taken back to dell cell 21 in the murderers row which he had occupied before the death watch was set over him chicago nov 12 A special to the times herald from washington D C fays ratification of the hawaiian annexation treaty by the united states senate is assured the administration ma has made a poll of that body and as a result president mckinley is satis lied fled that more than two thirds of the seni senators tors will vote for ratification when the treaty was submitted to the senate on june last fifty seven senators were depended upon to cast thear votes in favor of the instrument eleven senators more were doubtful and twenty rone one were opposed to its ratification since that time the administration has taken steps to ascertain the views of the men who were then in doubt As a result president mckinley is depending upon sixty one senators who aiu wih certaine cert alny tainy cast heir votes in favor of the treaty with prospects of the additon of several votes to this number the treaty Is in excellent shape for prompt action it was fully considered by the Senate committee on foreign re aliens reported to the senate and placed on the calendar with practically the unanimous indorsement endorsement indor of the committee there were no votes against it though senators and daniel retrained from voting because they had not fully made up their minds as 68 to what position they would take in the matter it Js said to be the purpose of chairman davis at the first executive san mon to ask that a day be fixed for taking up the treaty ratification during the early part of the year Is confidently fi expected president mckinley in his message to congress will present as strongly we as possible the arguments for annexation he will show chow that the treaty has already been ratified by the hawaiian Awni eri ate and only the action of the senate of the united states is required to add dd the islands to our territory the president does not expect annexation hlll 11 result in complications with any foreign power both utah senators are included among those who will vote for the treaty these ate are the sin senators who it to Is said will vote for the treaty aldrich allen alien baker bur BOWS wo cannon carter chandler dark clark wilbanks feul loni daniels davis deboe elkins banks foraker boraker Po raker frye ballinger er owe hale hanna hansbrough hawey hoar jonee ones nevada kyle morrill murphy nelson pen robe irose perkins Perk lne pettus platt con J platt new york pritchard proctor quay rawlins roach sewell shoup smith spooner stewart teller thurston turner turpie warren wellington wetmore wilson wolcott those believed to be opposed to the treaty are bacon bate berry caffery Caf Cery chilton clay cockrell Cockrel lp faulkner george gray jones ark lindsay mcenery mills pascoe pettigrew tillman vest walthall white the treaty is in excellent shape for prompt action st petersburg nov 11 A terrible accident has occurred near bialostok Bielo stok russian poland resulting in the death of thirty persons A wedding party was returning from froin the church to the house of the bride all were in one wagon a huge vehicle drawn by eight horses the road along which they drove crossed the railway track on the level and the driver either through carelessness or ignorance of the train schedule pushed his swiftly moving horses upon the crossing just as the express was coming up the locomotive struck the vehicle squarely killing many members of the party outright and maiming others so that they soon expired in frightful agony not a member of the party escaped chicago ill L bov ov 11 miss ruth amanda colvin of bonus ill a student in the school of liberal arts at northwestern university stepped on what was supposed to be a signal torpedo on the sidewalk on emerson evanston last night causing it to explode with force sufficient to almost sever her foot from the ankle the injury may result fatally the police have many theories the most plausible of which is that a torpedo of the kind used in railroad signaling was dropped carelessly on the sidewalk st paul minn nov 12 miss mathilda anderson a young woman who has been kept alive at the city hospital for six weeks by artificial respiration pi ration died late last night of congestion of the lungs for forty two days the nurses and physicians have been filling miss andersons lungs by artificial means at first by raising and lowering the arms and when that became painful by operating on the I 1 I 1 chest by this method however the lungs were partially filled at best and had the nurse stopped even for five minutes miss anderson An deYson would have strangled and died and yet the young woman had become so used to the manipulation that she ate and slept almost naturally and could carry on a conversation the young girl was a victim of paralysis when received at the hospital and when the disease was complicated with congestion of the lungs it was i impossible to save her the case has attracted the attention of many emli nent physicians cape henry va nov 12 the british steamer governor from galveston for newport news passed cape henry at 8 am she signalled signal led the weather bureau office that her cargo was as on fire st louis nov 12 in the united states circuit court judge elmer B adams has caused some surprise by sustaining a demurrer to an 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