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S,.!."J!7J":B r&G&'W'&E&sBF1? &SSgrT?y7 CTS '."S s r-e r-Hf' -r THE WASHINGTON TIMES i 1 5 J VOL. 1. XO. 4. WASHINGTON, D. C, WEDNESDAY MORNING, MARCH 21, 1894. ONE CENT. ?"Kr- J-Sy?"2"? v" V? MOVED EVERYMAN IN COURT Madeline Pollard's Story of Her Devo tion and Its Frightful Cost. SHE GAVE UP HER CHILD FOR HIM The Most Dramatic Incident in the Famous Trial Story of Her Threat to Kill CoL Breckinridge Her Life in Washington j The Defendant Will Testify To-day. When the shrill voice of the bailiff cried adjournment in the baro old Circuit Court jesteruay afternoon the veiled face of Madeline Tollard was buried in her arms upon the rough board top of the witness box, behind which sho had sat for threo days. The only sound which had broken such a silence as seldom falls on a courtroom was a sobbing that seemed to come from her inmost heart. Threo jurors wero fumbling In an uncertain way with their handkerchiefs, tuo judge w .is staring toward tho ceiling abstractedly, even the lawyer whose cross-examination had led up to this passago woro a look of unwonted gravity on his fatherly benevolent face, with something remarkably like moisture about his eyes. If there was a man among the curious hundreds in tho courtroom unmoved ho was inconspicuous in tho majority of sympathetic faocs. Madeline l'ollard bad bcn telling tho most tragic episode of her un happy hie. t "A woman can't do more than that for a man; more than Riving up her child for him," she h.id said. "I laid my baby in its coflln bocauso it needed tho mothers caro I could not give it, because ho had made mo put it away from myself. I never let him seo mo crv over it because" ihe sentence was unfinished, nnd no more que-tlons were asked. The men trooiied from tho courtroom awed from their cus tomary chorus ot speculation nnd criticism. When Mi'-s Pollard had begun tho long story, of which this was tho abrupt close, oj posing lawyers badmido ajnovement as if to iuterrujt her, but the silv cry haired de fendant, leaning forward, had adjured them anxiou-ly: "Let hr go on; !et her go on." All day 'ho had ntalned bcr composure up to this dose, telling her story with such re markable clearness of language, such a per ceflion of the strong lights which certain phrases would throw upon her case, that gentlemen experienced at the bar wero eon strained to comment tin t sho was cither tell JLg tho truth or was the most ccusummato actress who had evcrcomo under their ob servation. The trial reached its climax early in the afternoon when Judge Jero W ilsou, facing Ma,crBattcr.vorth. bad thrust nt him direct tne question whether nis client admitted tne secret marriage to Mrs. Wing .VOW lOrk. and had a.ter a flery passage at arms received April abounded in the most sensational Inci uu.uim..u.u .m....... " . " ": expeditions to Jni an. Java, and Demorara. point the testimony of tho p alntilf regarding Gcn- ij00th statcs th Jt ho has ju3t receiv ed a the turbulent dnj-s of j. sto s and 1 romises ' ieKac) rrora a hiy or 20,000, wit, which following the secret marriage on the 20th of ! ,,-, -,i ,1,., r.i .! r -n ruin t, dents of the entire story . From the questions prompted in part by the Kentucky Congress man it developed that following that mar riage, on tho 29th of April, Col. Breckinridge had stopped at the Hoffman House with Miss Foil ird registered as his daughter, that sho had threaten id to shoot him there, and he renewed his promise or r-.arria-re; that she had taken him from the presence of his wile in V ushington to the ollleeof the chief of poller, vhero he had aga'n promised to marry her. Tho pliintiXs attorneys raised tho conten tion that tho secret marriage constituted the brea h of promise on which the suit was based, and that all foilo.vlng events were ir relev ant and to bo excluded from consider 1 tion, but w"re overruled. Mot of the day up to the final interesting hour had been con sumed in rra ling the letters of 3Iiss l'ollard rto James lthodes. calling upon him for "" "money, and although interesting points wero ra sod, tho subject had been comparatively lifeless To-da the cross-examination of tho plaintiff will Ljeompleteil early, and public expecta tion, which now is raised to white heat, turns to tno forthcoming version o.f tho orator-defendant. "Miss Tollard. when did jou first meet Mrs. B'aekbiirnr"' was the first question askeil by cx-Congrcssman Ben Butterworth. Miss roll ird said she had met the widow of the i-x-govcrnpr of Kentucky in the winter of ISM. when she 1 Miss Pollard) was stopping In Vi asbmgtoii with Mrs. Fillettc. Mis. Blackburu had called nt'tho house, and the hostess had presented them. Next after the question about Mrs. Black buru, a letter v as handed to tile plaintiff, which sho said ha 1 been written by her to her rotector, Mr. llhodes. Arter looking at it. she inquired why tho heading had been torn off. Mr. Butterworth replying that ho did not know, and her lawyers cautioning her that it was not her place to ask questions. Mr. Butterworth read tho letter to tho jury. It was la'oJ Lexington. November 20, 1S31. "Miss Hovt li.a) just asked me for my board," it said. "Please, dear, get that 510 beforo Saturday without fail. Iknowanyono with as m my ."riends as ou can get it. You can come Saturday evening at 7 and stay until S.30. He careful in talking, and wo can have a pleasant ti ue. Put the money in tne tn vcloi e, and hand it to n.o at tho door as you go.' "Yours truly, Madeline," was tho signa ture. There was a long succession of the letters, running through 18SJ and 1SS0. the most of them asking for money, describing tho minor happenings of her existence, tho ordinary letters of a young girl, but written in a rather brighter v ein tuan mo-t correspondence by a young woman of that age. Throughoui tho reading Miss Pollard seemed comjiletely at hrr case, smiling broadly, with a half ex pressed feeling of triumph, as though cbal li ngiug h"r opponeuis to find anything dam aging in the corresjiondence. In regard to her life in Washington, tho fc "iwin interesting testimony was educed. Ml ye u ever represent that you wroto for tho c- ,ii ci" sr liuttrrworth asked. C-4 rOlllPSClttr, Hint T Vrir.fn riranTnrnl Mr l(r- kiatfileo mid I had tomikoupthesoile- c to account for ourselves, becaue liasi y -nc cnnii hem ui.Jer his protection with no vuIMe mraiu ol uiL.ort. Those things ret to bo aimost n ha tilt afli-i -ti-i' Then these deceits, fraud, were practiced by youaiidCoL Breckinridge t.vovcr yourreli- tic -' -rr- " cs, and there was a Rreit deal more." ' 011 visited houses of assignation together In Wnshineton'" " o aid up to tho 17th dij ot May, i!03, after the so ret marriage, which is said to have taken plaro ou tho .Sth of AprlL" A heated argument between Judge Jere Wil ton and Mr. Butterworth on the televancy of Col. Brecklnrldgo's secret marriage took plai-e. in which tho former was the victor. Ou tho subject of her threatening to kill Col. Breckinridge she told tho following story: "On tho dnj following his secret mnrriare to ilrs. Ing, ou Sunday night, he came to tell mo, with a j.reat flush of triumph, that a company had botn foraied, to include Mr. Nbltnej and Mr lalrrhlli! nnd nil tho prominent capitalists, Ith a cnpltal of fa O0o,(mo, for some urt of rail road schem'!. llu was to represent them, and might Lavo to go to Kurcpe right away. Ho voul out and, came back near noon tho next day, saving. Madeline', how soon can ou get lc-idyto marry ' I may liavo to Ieavo to inorro for Europe suddenly." I said: 'vlllle, I can marry j ou right away ' " "After he hail gone again I found a revolver la his traveling sact. and It awakened myra.pl cions l.'e,-nuso ho had told mo so many lies. I lint teleihoued to hitney and Fairchlld and round that they had not seen him and did not expect to; hid found that there was no private car on iho track where he said there was one S for blm. He acted so queer, toa" i m. "u" """h-Uld he act as though he were In his right mind? "AS mill ll tn an I... ,.. j , .. I fLaughter " " f uuy 'nc8 lncn- icuiiuiuuibi -un octea so queerly a- susnl ciens were aroused. I am not surprised now considering the position he was in. I was preg nant then 1 -.aid. 'Art. sou going to keep your solemn promise to marry mc If not. I am golag tp shoot you anl myself with the revolver I found Ih 5 our La.' Ho nald. -yiy darUng, I am going to marry yo a, and that on the lastof this month.' After thnt hew rote me a solemn letter renewing his promise to marry Jue." .; Mr. Butterworth (Interrupting) Bars you that letter? Miss Pollard raised her arm impressively, while every man in court leanod forward to catch her reply. "He took It nway from me," she said, "on the JTth day of Slay with the vilest, vilest lie" a rising Inflection in her voice. W hen she was asked what wore the things which Col. Breckinridge had said of lire. Wins, Miss Pollard refused to repeat them, saying she would not talk that way of another woman and could not bo pressed. Again when asked if he had not suggested that they break off their relations, sho struct the wit ness box with her open hand, exclaiming, "No, nev er; thero was never such a word llintf.fi nf nti h!a Tm ' ..! thnn efiit ei.ntltl- j ued in n oice choking with sobs: "I cave up my babies for him, bocause he In sisted on It. lie said that if I kept thorn they would surely bo traced to him. A woman can't do more than that; sho can't do more than Elve up her child. I laid my baby lu Its coflln, because It needed a mothers care, which I had cot been able to Rive it, bocauso be roado me put it away from me, I never let him soe me cry orer it. 1 nev er " The sentence was not finished, for Madeline Pollard's head was bowed on her arms on the witness bos, her slender framo was shaking with great sobs. There was a suspicious raoisturo in many eyes. No man in tho court room broke the silence bv a w hlsper, until Mr. Wilson suggested that" tho court should adjourn. Mr. Butterworth, speaking in a low tone, said that ho had but few more questions, but perhaps they had better bo asked in the morning. The harsh voice of tho crier broko tho solemnity of the scene, adjourning court. Col. Breckinridge turned around nnd smiled, what was pro'iably a forced smile, for he walked from the court bouse to tho ofllco of his lawyers with his held bent in a dejected way, his hit In his hand, letting the cool breczo strike his silvery locks, which caught tho eyes of all passers, who turned to follow him with their glances as lie strode ahoad of his little parry , speaking to no one. -. WORE GREEN COODS VICTIMS. Tlicy Y cro Greatly Surprised to Learn They Had Been Duped. JnnsEV Cm, X. J., March 20. Tho police last night ran across two more victims of the green goods men. Detective MeNnlly saw two men acting rather suspiciously in the Central railroad station and questioned them. One of tho men had a box under his arm, which bo guarded with great care. McNally took them to tho polico station. Hero tho contents of tho box was examined '. and tho men wero surprised to Had a lot of green paper in the box instead of t3,000 worth of money, which they supposed they had purchased for -300. They were put on a train ami sent nomo. SALVATION ARJAY JUBILEE. Gen. Booth Issues an Appeal for Funds to Celebrate It. London, March 20. An appeal has been issued for the purpose of ra'slng a fund of -iCO.000 in order to celebrate the jubilee of the Salvation Army. In connection with this jubilee, Gen. Booth proposes to inaugurate a four months' Salvation Army campaign in tho United States next Autumn, tho opera tions to bo conducted by tho general in per- . ann TnA l-lnnr-ll tllcl m-nnncfe. un Intnr. national Salvation Armvcongressin July.and intends to pay part of the Army 's debt. DENVER SOCIETY SCANDAL. A Hocky Mountain Parallel to the Pol-lard-Urcckinridgc Case. DENvrn, Colo., March 20. Denver society is discussing n sennd il similar to the famous Breekinridgc-Poll ird case. n. E. Sims, n member of the Ninth General Assembly from Arapahoe county, has for some time been en gaged to bo married to tho daughter of a prominent Capitol hill jesident. Tho date of tho wedding hal been s't for March 10. After deceiving tho girl, Sims induced her to go to Pueb'o on a visit. While she was there he married Mics Harriet Laudou, a teacher in ono of tho city's public schools and a most estimable lady. 1 he couple are now in California on their bridal tour. It is understood Sim's wife is unconscious of her husband's dup'icity. The betrayed girl knew nothing of the secret marriage until her return homo to prepare for her own wedding. -1 FOR A FERRY TRANSFER, tlcctric Knilvvay Officials Press Their Bill Before the District Committee. Tho House District Committeo yesterday give a be-inngontho bill for tho maintenanco of a ferry transfer across the Totomac river for uso of tho eleetrie railway between tho Baltimore A Totomac depot and tho Center market to Arlington, Aiexandrii and Mount Vernon, Officers and counsel of the railway com pany and other interested parties were pres ent in support of tho bill, and stated the only point at issuo was tho objection of tuo War Department to any railway cros-ing a portion of the reclaimed Hats. Major Anderson, the general counsel of tho company, and Vice President l'.eed explained that tho plan pro posed by tho War Department of crossing the river at the foot of E street would bo an engi neering impossibility. 3Ies-rs. Mnrbury and King, representing the citizens of Georgetown, spoke in opposition to tho project of the railway eomp-iny, and at their request Chairman Heard appointed an. other hearing for to-morrow morning at 10.30 o'clock. -1 Insurgents Still righting. Bcfnos Ayecs, March 20. Advices re ceived hero from Porto Alegre, capital of tho Brazilian state of liio Grande do Sul, nro to the effect that tho insurgents in that state appear to bo determined to continuo their stmgglo to overthrow tho federal govern ment. The leaders of the rebels declare that they havo sufficient resources to carry on the war. and they add that the prestige of tho republican revolution has been increased by tho flight from P.10 de Janeiro of Aciiniral Da Gama, who was in command of tho former insurgent f!i et thpro nnil who is siiftnnMoH ! tho southern insurgents of having monarchi cal tendencies. - Order of Tonti .Meeting. BALTiJiont, March 20. Tho Southern dis trict representative convention of tho order of Tonti met here to-da. Delegates wero present from tho counties of Baltimore, Md.. nnd from ltichmond and Lynchburg, Va. Tho conv ention instructed tho supremo repre sentatives to vote to amend tho law so as to admit those who aro engaged In tho jsnlo of alcoholic stimulants and aleo to curtail the questions in the medical examiner's blank. Commodore Ivlrkland's Movements. Denveb, Col., March 20. Commodore Kirk land, recalled from Honolulu, arrived in Den ver last night and left for tho West. Ho has beenordered to llio de Janeiroto succeed Ad miral Benham in command df tho South At lantic squadron. - f I dvvard .M. Iicld Itclcnscd. Nrw York, March 20 Edward M. Field was released from Ludlow street jallto-dav. He gave the S3,C0O bail required in the action brought ngainst him by Charles Xette. dentist. His bondsmen Is the Lawyers' Surety Com pany. Britannia Took the Prize. Casses, March 20. The President of tho Itepublic and Minister of Education prize was raced for to-day. Tho Britannia, having tho Princo of Wales on board, won, with the Oretta second. Secretary Hamlin in New York. Assistant Secretary Hamlin, of the Treasury Department, left Washington yesterday even ing for New York and Boston. He is ex pected to return next Friday. , -... ..... ... r.vrv .umv. . WV,VVW SWARMING WITH THE LOBBY The Capitol, the Hotels, Even the Halls of Congress, Overrun. ALL FOR 'SPECIAL INTERESTS Tariff BUI Exposed to Delay While the Whole Country Suffers The Sugar Trust, Etc. A Eight for Silver Coming, Whatever Mr. Cleveland Does. Tho very air of tho Capitol corridors is laden J with tho breath of tho lobbyist. Ho is lying in wait at tho doors of tho committeo rooms.and perambulating the long halls, is seated in tho galleries watching with interested eyo every mov e upon tho iloor. Ho is found in the hotels, nt tho cab slands, or slowly pai-ing tho street near tho residence of somo member or Senator he desires to "meet by chance." no is in Washington not alone; Is found in almost every Congressional district. Iho morning mall of tho members is largely mado up of appeals to vote for or against this or that measure. Tho tariffbillsupports the greatest number and tho most persistent of the lobby ists. But lobby ing is by no means conllnod to that measure, lhcro is hardly a bill on the calendar of more than privato Importance that has not somo friend "at court" to urge its passage. Tho lobbjing is not confined by any means t those who customarily cool their heels on the outside. Tho rings and truts that aro interested in proposed Jegisla tion are almost numberless. Coal, iron, lead, silver, sugar, whisky, tobacco, beer, glass, cotton goods, agricultural implements, nnd half a hundred smaller industries are repre sented in the ranks of the promoters, to say nothing of tho railroads and tho shipping in terests: and later along will como tho river and harbor lobby, one of tno most persistent and energetic of all. Even civil service re form has its lobby both for and ngainst, and while it is not strong in numbers, it makes an unusual amount of noise. The raihoad ring has now joined hands with the iron and coal interests, on the ground that the destruction of either would greatly cripple tho railroads by reducing their nmount of freight. Tn return, tho iron and coal peo ple arc helping tho railroad lobby In its light to prevent obnoxious amendments to tho in terstate commerce law. Tho sugar and whisky trusts are in open and undisguised war, and tne sugar trust is al-o flglitlug tho iron nnd coal combines, for if tho duty is re stored on iron and coal thero will bo less ne cessity for a tariff on sugar. Tho whisky trust, feeling assured of at least a very ma terial advance over tho present tax, is not particularly hostile to any others except the sugar people, and in its light on sugar it pre tends to net simply on tho defensive. Yester terday's Tmes sounded this alarm. Almost every member of the two branches saw the paper early in tho morning. Most of tho Stnators feel r-asonablv sure of keeping their C laces, no matter how they vote on tho tarill ill, for those vvhoso seats "ml,;ht otherwise bo douotful have terms that aro expected to carry them ov er till the tide of publio senti ment changes again. Among the members of tho House the greatest uneasiness is plainly manifest. Ono of the Representatives said to a Times man yesterday : "For thirty years," said a managing poli tician nt ono of the hotels, "I liavo known more or less about Congress, but nover in all that timo has tho pressure of the lobbyist been so great as now. It seems as If almost ev ery industry of the country in which any great amount of capital Is invested has formed it self into a ring, and either through Its repre sentatives here or by pressure from home is trying to influence legislation- The farming interest is about the only one that is not so representee!. Coxey 's army, if it should mako its appearance, would only bo on a larger scale what is already here, only his army w ould represent the unemployed, whilo tho army already hero represents combined capi tal. Wo are told on tho one hind that tho present depression is owing to the system of protection that has governed so long, and on the other that it grows out of tho uncertainty as to what Congress will do on tho tariff ques tion. If cither supposition is correct, the whole thing could be readily settled. The enactment of a new bill, on tbo reduction in rates, would not only do away with tho evils claimed to exist in tho protec tive system, but It would at thu same timo end the uncertainty complained of. The trouble Is tint you you cannot touch the tariff bill in hardly any point that will not affect somo interest in somo way. and tho icry moment it is known that such" a move Is contemplated tuoso tnus anecteu ucgin to bring pressure to bear, and tho larger tho in terest affected the greater tho pressure. The lobbyists have even invaded tho White House and every conceivablo method is being used to influenco tho action of tho President on the seigniorage bill. The plea that they aro working for tho Interests of tho partj does not mako them any tha less lobbyists." This is the kind of talk heard continually, and there is talk of reviving the resolution recently introduced by Senator PcfTcr, and of widening its scope so as to investigate to w hat extent the influenco of the lobby has been successful. And a silver light is coming on. Said a prominent silver advocato yes'erday: "If the President vetoes tho Blind bill, tho fight will begin nt once, and will be most lit ter. If he signs it. the friends of silver vv ill at onco begin tbo light for free silver. They will bo content with nothing els?. The feel ing in favor of free silver is continually growing." That the fight for free silver will bo con tinued was foreshadowed in tho speech mado bv Senator Pcttlgrovv list Thursday, and tbo Hgures ho gave at that timo are attracting 1 tho careful thought ot both tno mends and op ouents of Jree silver anl nro mak ing 11 deep impression. They aro especially calculated to rouse the attention or agricul turists, anel its they have the controlling voicoin most d the western and southern stntes, the reflex influence may soon be seen in Congress. Amoug tho sta tistics given by tho Senator was a table showing the pneo of wheat, cotton and silver each year, beginning with 1872 and ending with 18UJ. This tnblo shows that wheat and silver have been on tho most sjmpathelie terms, and the fluctuations in price bin 3 been on an exact parallel. Sen ator Pettigrevv pointed out that, notwithstand ing tho wheat crop of the world was 114,000,000 bushels less in 1SC0 thin 1837, tho decline in price had been C cents a bushel; that in 19S2 tho crop was 01,000,000 bushels les and the decrease was four cents; in 18D3 tho crop was 81,000,000 less and the decreaso in prico was 13 cents. In 1801 the price of silver was 7 cents less than in 18s7, 11 cents less in 18J2, and 22 cents less in 189J. The silver men are preparing to circulato the Senator's speech throughout tho whole country, but especially in tho South nnd West. They expect largely to increase the silver sentiment in those re gions by this means and make it too powerful to bo overcome by any opposition that may be organized in tho East. "Tno refenl of tbo Sherman law," said one of tho western Senators jesterday, "has wholly failed to restore eonfldence and bring the prosperity promised, nnd several friends of silver, who voted for it underpressure nnd who hoped by its repeal to revive tho de pressed industries of the country, aro now vexed that they did so, while others who had been led to believe silver to bo tho cause of all our troubles aro now beginning to cha-.go their views. Before tnis session ends a free silver bill will bo passed, and passed by such a strong vo'o that an executive veto will not affect it. Vv hen the price of whent went down the farmers were told it was the result of overproduction; yet when the crop of the world was reduced by nearly 100,000,000 bushels tho price was less by almost twenty cents a busljel, and at the same time the prico of silver was decreased by over twenty cents. According to the ordinary rules of business supply and demand the prico of wheat ought to havo been greater. The fact is, just as the gold interests push down silver, whether it is done by adverse legislation or by whatever other means, they take just that much from thn farmer also, and this the farmer will know and realize before another campaign." f ,-., Si . 1 1 && klrJSt2-Mi,tZ-rZ ,4.-..!. ,'..' IS HE A BRITISH SUBJECT. Rnmor that William Waldorf Astor Has Renounced His American Allegiance. Lomjon, March 20. The election of Mr. William Wul lorf Astor as a member of the Carlcton Club is still a subject of inuchdlscus-t sion. Hundreds of names for candidates for election to the club are on the waiting list. It is only for powerful reasons that what is known as selection is made. In the present case, on tho nomination of tho Marquis ot Abergavenny, tho committoe selected Mr. Astor over tuo heads of hundreds of waiting candidates. This is the first time that an American bas ever been complimented. It is nsserted that Mr. Astor will become a naturalized British subjoet. t ACTIVE OFFICER COOK. He Has a Large Experience for Saving At tempted Suicides. Special Oftlcer Cook, of the Agricultural grounds, snatched a woman from a watery grave yestorday morning, and a few hoars later pulled a young man from in front of a railroad train. In both cases suicldo was at tempted. As Mr. Cook was standing at tho north end ot tho Long bndgo about 9 o'clock this mornln' a young, well dressed, colored woman dropped off the bridge into the water, j Without an instant's hesitation Mr. Cook ' dove after her and bore her up. The water I come up to his shoulders, but the would-be I suicide fought for death, and it required the I efforts ot two other gentlemen to carry her to a patrol box. Getting her off his hands, tho oHlcerchangcd his clothes and returned to tho bridge. While ebnttlm- Arlth n frli nil nn t ni'inn nm. rnni.lii.it Ajouugman. who was seated on the track! calmly arose and laid himself across tho rails about ten feet, in front 01 tho Mm and draped him from the traekTust an lol.l V...n,l Instant beforo tho train passed by. The young man was Charles Hammond nnd lives at 220 'twelfth street southwest. He attempted to commit suicide once beforo by taking poison, but was saved. Tire in a evv York Tenement. J EwYonn, March 20. riro broke out at mid night in tho tenement No. 22 Hubert street, occupied by fort-flvo families, consisting of 250 persons. Ihe wildest excitement pre vailed, and it is feared some loss of life will result. Tho flames forcod their way down tho air-shaft, and many of tho ten nnts wero com elled to jump from tho win dows. The police made several gallant res cues. Tour fiersons liavo been taken out of tho ruins injured. The police aro still search ing for bodies. Their search is rendered difficult by the panic-stricken inmates, who render the ascertaining of tho injured almost Impossible. I itcrnlly Cut in Two. Westjhnstlu, ,Md., March 20. Jabez A. Bush, a prominent and wealthy citizen of Car roll county, Md., while sitting on a log to-day through which a circular saw was passing, was literally cut asunder, the two halves ot his body falling on either sldo of the siw. no sat don n on the log to make somo calculations, when his elothing was caught by the teeth of the saw and tho horrible accident ensued be foro ho could extricate himself. Mr. Bush w.is a well-known Democrat und had filled several important offices. Ho has numerous relativ cs in Baltimore and Washington. o Increase on Cignrs. Txehe Haute, Ind.. March 20. Tho Terre Haute Cigar Makers' Union has received tho following telegram from Chairman Voorhecs, of the Sennto Committee ou Finance: "I am very glad to bo alio to answer your dispatch by informing you that there will lie no Increase in internal revenue tax on cigars in the bill w hen reported to tho Senate." This. was in reply toamessago protesting agaiast tbo incrf? lse from ?3 to ?5a thousand for cigars, as proposed in tho bill when re ported to the full committeo by the subcom mittee. Mother .Mandclbuuin's Booty. New Yoiik, March 20. When Madame Man dclbaum, the notorious "fence," went to Canada a fugitivo from justice ten years ago, tbero wero 3,000 yards of silk found In her trunk. Tho gDods were placed in the Ameri can Safe Deposit vaults to bo disposed of after tho trial. As the trial never took placo and the defendant is now dead, the district attorney issued an ordT to-day for the silk to be sold. The proceeds will go to the police pension fund. Jem Burge Defeated. New Yonic, March 20. Tho following cable was received herefrom London to-day: The fight between Jem Burge, of Australia, tho '-iron man," and Arthur Valentine, the light-weight champion, was fought in lleg lau hall last night. The men fought at catch weights for .100. Twenty desperate rounds wero fought, w hen Valentine was de clared the winner. Bnru hnd three rits broken during the light and was frightfully punished. - Silk Culture Stations. The Committeo on Agriculture yesterday made a favorablo report upon the bill for tho establishment of silk experiment stations in the United States. Tho bill as amended pro vides for live stations in different sections of tho country to lie eondm ted in connection with the agricultural exjicriment stations. The bill makes an annual appropriation of i 3.000. Chorister Breaks Down. Lexington, K, March 20. Chorister, the great three-year-old who, in compiny with St. Leonard, ran in tho American Derby Inst summer, has broken down, nnd will arrive there in the morning to enter the stud at Cas tle ton farm, tho Kentucky breeding plant of tho Keencs. A Thespian Marriage. Sas4 Francisco, March 20. Arthur F. Warde, manager of tho Warde-James com bination, was married last night to Miss Polly Stockwell. dauchtcr ot Comedian Stock well The groom is tin- eldest son of Fred erick Warde, the tragedian. Tho attachment was formed a year since in this city. - TI.I.I GRAPHIC BREVITIES. Emperor William left Berlin yesterday for Abbazzla. on tho Adriatic, where ho will join his fa mil. A special to tho London Times from Athens savs that a violent earthquake has occurred atltarissa. Mill houss w ere destroj ed. The Brazilian minister nt London denies tho report of an insurgent victory at Itavare, and says that Do Mcllo's cause is utterly hopeless. The Droxel pier, in Lincoln Park, Chicago, across the right of way claimed by the Lin coln Park commissioners, was j estcrilay de stroyed by dynamite. Wallace Burt, of Doylestown, Pa , charged with tho murder of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Ilightloy near Newtown last September, yes terday confessed his crime. The remains of Leander Simonea. tho ex mjjor and ex-register of deeds of Saginaw, Mich., who disappeared suddenly January 20 last, were found yesterday. The entire family of Herman Tliurow, a German farmer living five miles southwest of Piano; III, is critically ill from eating trichina-intcsted Summer sausage. The British steamer Alberanda, of Now Castle, England, arrived in Baltimore yester day alter a run of thirty days, auring which she met with a fearful storm, and was almost lost. Four hundred men started to work at the Benwood steel and iron wfjrks at Wheeling, W. Va., yesterday, and over twice as many will resumo work to-day. Tho works have been Idle several months. It is announced that the Lehigh Valley railroad has settled with its coal shippers for the month of February, all on tha basis of freight tolls, 40 per cent, of the selling price of cool in New York harbor. ,. tJk --. Wr.Mtif! - ,-VSi- taz-s DID MA6EE KILL MISS FULLER Startling Developments in the Case of the Pretty Typewriter. MANY SUSPICIOUS EVIDENCES Editor Kiernan's Testimony and Magee's Ac tions Seem to Point to His Omit Expert Testimony and the Coroner's Inquest Po sition of tho Body When Found. New Yobe, March 20. Tho development of the day in (ho shooting of Miss Martha J. Fuller, tbo typewriter slot in Mullen's law ofllco on Saturday, was tho result of tho sec ond autopsy made by Dr. O'Hnre, ot tho coro ner's ofllco, and J. S. Phelps, of the staff of Bellovuo and Sf. Vincent's hospitals. It shows that sho was shot In tho right side of the head, not tho left, as formerly reported. In several other directions skilled and patient investigation is gradually dissipating the fog of mystery with which tho shooting has been surrounded, and the more clear it becomestho less reason thero seems to be to consider it a suicide. Editor Klcrnan was tho first to respond to the cries of assistance uttered by Magec, and ho thinks it was not more than three minutes 1 afler tho 3hot Wd3 flrod- Ho determines the 1 moment when tho explosion occurred by the I noisa made on tha stenmnlnes. which was ..,--- i Ujr tho bullet striking them. He thought at first that tbero was something wrong with tho pipes, because he had never heard such a sound before. From the bullet mark on the steamplpe in the corner and on the wall Miss Fuller would have been compelled to stand against the radiator within six inches of the window vvhensho fired theshot. In that caso she could do nothing but fall over the radiator, her faeo toward the window, or back wards w ith her feet against tho radiator, her head toward the door. She was found by Kiemnn with her back against the radiator and her feet toward tbo door. Her head, surmounted by a hat, hung a llttlo forward and to tho right side, but tbo strangest part of it nil was that from a bole in tho right side of her head tho blood at that moment was flowing freely. The frontal bone on the side ) uldged out, indicating that it had been broken, and blood on the sido did not run to the floor, but tnkled from the chin and was absorbed by her clothing. On tho leltsideof her head Mr. Kiernan saw no bullet hole, detected no traces of blood, yet on that side ot the body, and nonoof it beneath her clothing, was" the thick pool of blood already referred to. and thero was no other blood on the floor near tho body at thnt time. There was no trace of it even beneath -"' J""-"f ........... . .-... ..a......... ... ft. -..a..., clso when he pa-sed his arms under her and raised her up he would have detected it on the floor or perhaps have got some of It on his clothinn. The second pool of blood came from tho wound on the right of tho head after Kiernan had straightened out tho body on the floor. Even after he done that he did not know there was a. wound in the left side of her head, because the hole there was hidden by the hat or hiir of the young woman. To Mr. Kiernan it appeared as if Miss Tuller had her back to the radiator when theshot wa3 fired and had slid down gradually and against tho radiator. Her clot Ing was bunched be neath her, and tho hem of her dress had been drawn above her ankles. Sho had not dropped quickly, else sho would havo rested on the base of the radiator. She was a woman of good wcUbt and the radiator is compara tively frail. She was most likely placed in that position after tho bullet 1 .tsoed through her head. Mr. Klcrnan is certain, too, that there was no revolver near tno right hand ot tho woman w ben ho was there, and tho instinct of an old nowspaper man prompted him to look about for it. It wasnot untillio had gone fornpolice man that the revolver appeared. Lawyer J. F. llllev , who had b.en in tho room for some timo up to that point, agrees with him. Lnw ver ltiley heard Magee reproving the boy Brnnnin for having removed tho revolver from beside the Lody, but ne.ther he nor Kier nan siw it there, nnd thero win any nmount of day light in the room. Another singular fact, which bad escaped observation, is that blood spots were on the wall of tho offlce and also on the partition opposite, and across the room, and hair was sticking in tho latter. Deputy Coroner Dr. Conway, who his ha J more or less expeneaco examining pistol wounds, wn3 of the opinion on Sunday that tho fact that there was no baming of the flesh und no powder marks on tho left side of Miss TuIIer's head was evidence that the revolver had been held close up against her bead. He ' Slid that tho shattering of tho skull at tho point where the bullet entered was another ovidenca ot this. Other physicians in the coroner's offlce. and men who nro experts in gunshot wouuds. say that Dr. Conway was entirely wrong. Dr. Weston, who has Icon an army surgeon, said yesterday that it the pistol had "been held within eighteen inches or two feet of Miss Tuller s head when tho shot was flrod there w ould havo been powder marks. If it bad been held as close as an inch or two the flesh would have loer. burned about the wound. If it hal been held closo Up to tho head when flred tho burning would haye been very marked and there could havo been no mistaking it. Dr. Weston siid that be had male several series of experiments to Ieirn the extent of burning and marking by pistol-shot wounds nt var.ous distances, from a fraction of an inch up to two feet. He never had known of a ea-o where tho pistol was llred within eigh teen inches where there were not powder marks, anil within one or two inches that thero were net severe burns. As to tho frac turing or shattering of tbo bone at tho point where the bill catered Miss Fuller s head, he said that a rifled pistol held from three to live ieet from her head and firing tho elon gated bullot used in all pistol cartridges would have mado exactly that kind of n wound. Long bullets w biri alter they ieavo tho mouth of a revolver, the Doctor said, as tho "key hole" marks they frequently mnke on n tar git indicate, and the woundin Miss Fuller's bead looked as if it bad been made by u bullet that had tnrncd. That would Indicate tint thu shot was flred possiblj from a greater distance than Ave feet. If the pistol had been closo to her head, the bullet would havo left a cle ir-cut small bole. Dr.Sauer.who istbeEulIerfamily physician, said that Miss Fuller had often spoken to him about tlio-mannger of tho ofllee. She nover mentioned Mngeo by name. Tho references, the doctor said, were not complimentary to Mr. Mngec. They were of tho same mturt as Miss Fuller had made to her mother and her relatives. Tho fact printed in tho papers that Magee hnd Lcen married and divorced was a sur pr.se to his friends and relatives. His uncle, Mr. Thompson, said: "He never told mo that be was married, and I never would havo be lieved it. He never mentioned such a thing as wife to ma." Mr. Mullen said that Magee had always represented to him that he was a single man. Ihedistrictattorney took up tho caso to day, and will push it to tho end. what seems to be an important link in tho chain of facts came to light to-night in an in terview with H,enry C. Vett, bartender in Timothy TI v nn's billiard roorrs, 117 Nassau street, on the opposito side of tho street to tbo Nassau chambers whero Miss Fuller met her death. Vott said: "Shortly after 5 o'clock on Satur day evening a man alont 27 or 28 sears ot age, of medium height, wearing a derby hat, and who had 11 small, short-cropped black moustache, suddenly rushed in the saloon. Ho was in an exceedingly ex cited state and hurriedly called for a glass of whl3ky, saying 'make it a big one, there Is a young lady sick across the street.' "I gave him the whisky. He picked up tho gloss, placed h.3 hnnd over the top of it, and rushed out again without paying for it. I am confident that there was no ambulance in sight when the man ran into tho saloon. He did not return for at least an hour after ward. He then, came in and brought back the empty glass, and said, 'That girl is dead; she was shot' "I am positive he did not say that she had tSMSi. ,- shot herself. I know the man perfectly well by sight, and havo seen him in and out hers frequently during the past six years, though I have never known hi3 name. "When tho man who took tho whisky over tho way brought back the empty glass he was accompanied by a friend. It was then after C o'clock, but I cannot say how much, though I think that tho ambulance had been and gone again. Miss Fuller at one time workod in an ofllco In this building und I knew her very well by sight. I had never spoken to her." The story told by Vett suggest3 the idea that some one knew of Miss Fuller's condition be foro an ambulance call was sent out and had time to run for the whisky before alarm was raised. Tno time the call for tho nmbulanco was received at Chambers street hospital is reg istered on tho books as 5.rt o'clock, and tho timo of the return as C32 p. m. Vett says ho could easily identify tho man who came into tho saloon with tho empty glass. " TROY ELECTION MURDER. .Michael Dclaney, a Witness, Committed to Jail for Perjury'. Tnov, N. Y., March 20. In tho Pujss elec tion murder inquest here to-day tho sensa tion was the commitment of a witness named Michael Delaney for perjury. Ho swore that Boland, the Itepubhcan watchman, was tho only man who had a revolver ami that ho shot Ross. He contradicted himself several times and admitted that be had been to jail to Ree the aect'sed men, obtaining admission by making false statements to the warden. His arrest created considerable excitoment in tho court room. He was sent to jail. E. M. Tartridgo saw Kobert F.oss throw up his hands when a man shot him. Tho man also shot P.oss when he was down. Witness was positive it wasnot Boland who did the shooting. Tho inquest then came to an abrupt closo. the assistant district attorney saying all tho evidence was in. The coroner ordered an adjournment until tomorrow morning, when ho will charge the jury and await the verdict. KATE TERRY'S CAREER. -in Adventuress Tamous in Many Lands Buried A'cstcrday. New Yobz, March 20. The body of Kate Terry was laid in the grave yesterday. She died last Friday, ending a career remarkablo in many ways. Sho was an English barmaid in her youth, yet died worth many millions. When sho first appeared in this country it wa3 as the wife of JimVarley, an English burglar, better known as "lieddy the black smith." They opened a saloon in Houston street near Broadway, which soon became a resort for the Tammany heelers or the district. Vuney killed a man and was sentenced to prison for twenty years. His wife immedi ately secured a divorce, sold out the saloon, and went abroad. In Pans she met Juant Terry, a young Cu ban planter. She was s.ill pretty. Terry married her, and they went to Cuba to live on his father's plantation. The eider Terry learned who she was and repudiated the pair. The yGnnger Terry died about ten years ago, lenving his fortune, estimated at -;9,000,000, in trust fcr his two children. There was a long suit over the will, Mrs. Terry being suc cessful She traveled through Europe again, and it vas reported was about to be married to a Spinish grandee, when he learned of her previous record and broke tho engagement. For the last few yeara she lived quietly in thi3 city, lcokins after tho education ol her chil dren. THING THEY HAVE Hlft. It Looks as Though George Taylor and the Slasher Arc One. George Tayloralias Jones.who was arrested Monday morning whilo attempting to saw the blinds of Jud.;e Hunt's residence on the Biver road, has leen proven to bo the Jnck the Slasher whose depredations so many citizens have good cause to remember. From the number of knives on his person the police judged that he was concerned in something of tho kind and set to work to investigate it Detective Horn called at the station houso with Cbarhs Kobertson. an uncle of Taylor's. Horn represented himself to bo a lawyer, and was engaged by Taylor to defend him. When the detectivo asked for his pay in advance Taylor said he hud no money, but could tell him where the stuff wa3 and he could sell it. This the detective agreed to, and the stutT was found concealed in an old sleigh in a stable where Taylor spent most or his time. A number of articles were found, which havo been identified as having been taken from the places visited by the slasher. Jones seems to have had a mania for sloshing, and it is thought he is mentally unbalanced. He was shrewd enough to take tho jewelry away f rom here before attempting to dispo-e of it. It is thought to be sold or pawned near ltich mond. ratal Row Among Italians. White Plains, N. J., March 20. The jeal ousy and drunkenness ot anltalian Iaboreren gaged at work on the Byram lako tunnel led to the death ot two men and the wounding of two others to-nuht. Thomas Colsino drank heavily this eveningandwhenhereachedhcme commenced to bent his wife. Visitors de fended her, and in the fracas which followed Colsino was instantly killed, two bullets striking him. Joseph" Domeinnt died a few hours later, having been both shot and stabbed. Joseph Somina was stabbed, as was also BaHailo Somino, his brothor. --. Fraudulent Naturalization. Philadelphia, Pa., March 20. James W. Shlnn, of Media, a clerk in the Cheater county prothonotary's ofllee, w-as bofore Magistrato Pole, of this city, to-day, charge I with iss aing fraudulent nituralizition papers to residents of this city. A large number of Itaiians were on ono occasion tiken to Media, and it is al leged that Shinn fraudulently issued the nec css try papers. He was held for a further hearing. Uncle Sam I oscs a Cnsc. Baltimore, March 20. Judgo Thomas G. Morns, in tho United States court, filed hi3 opinion in tho caso of Secretary of the Treas ury Tester agilnst ClaisVocko & Co., of Bal timore, which caino up on an appeal by col lector of customs marine from the decision of tho board of general appraisers at New York. Judge Morns held that tho United States court had no jurisdiction, and dis missed the bill. D.i Gnma's W hereabouts. Lisbon, March 20. It is considered possible hero that tho Portuguese warships on which Admiral Da Gama and somo of his followers escaped from the bay of Itlo Janeiro will take the refugees to tho'Azoro Islands, where they will bo interned by tho military commandant. ""! An Inventor's, Illness. Mr. George D. Baker, tho inventor of tho submnrino boat, had a surgical operation per formed upon him last night. He has been v ery ill, and is not expected to liv o. . --. ALL OVER THE WORLD. Arthur Ash, a British subject. Ins been ap pointed United States marshal of tho consular court nt Tien Tsin, China. Dr. Joso A. Terry, the minister of finance of tho Argentine Confederation, has ordered.the inspection of six free bnnks.With the object of withdrawing iheir privileges and abrogating the froc-bsnking law. Tho Italian minister of foreign affairs, Baron Blnnc, is conferring with the Italian ambassa dor at Washington, Baron Fuva, as to tho means of establl-hlng colonics ot Italian emi grants in the United Statcs. The Bnsso-German commercial treaty rati fications were exchanged at the foreign office in Berlin yesterday morning between Baron Marschall Von Bleberstem, tho secretary of state for foreign affairs, and Count Schouva loff, the Hussion ambassador. The trial in Prague of the murderer of Mr. Va, tho police spy, has resulted as follows: Dolezal, Kriz, and Dragoman sentenced to ten years imprisonment with hard labor; the other accused person;, including Cizek.secro retary of the Young Czech's party, have been acquitted. TARIFF BILL IS TINKEREB Presented to the Senate Yesterdaj Without a Committee Report. SUGAR INTERESTS CARED FOB Senator Jones Explains Just What the Tras Gets and Why It Oets It Change ii Other Schedules Are Hot Very Harked, bsj Are Hany. The tariff bill was yesterday fairly launched on its way in tho Senate, Mr. Yoorhees, thi chairman of the Financo Committee, report ing it to tbo Senate and giving notice that 01 April 2 ho would move to take it up for con sideration. Tho principal change was in tht sugar schedule. Among the other changes are that cans or packages, madeof tin orothermetal, contain Ing shellfish admitted free of duty.not exceed, ing one quart in contents, shall be subject te a duty of 8 cents per dozen cans of packages, and when exceeding one quart shall be sub. jeet to an additional duty ot i cents per dozes fpr each additional half quart or fractional part-thereof: Collars and cuffs nro 10 per cent, over the subcommittee bill, making the rato 53 per cent.. Instead of 35 per cent, but shirts and all-otrer articles of every description not spe cially provided for composed wholly or in part ot linen is JO per cent, ad valorem, 'instead of 33 per cent., the Wilson bill rate: playina cards are restored to the Wilson rate of 1C cec.3 per pack, instead of 2 cents per pack, as fixed by the Senate subcommittee; pipes, pip bowls, and all smokers' articles not specially C vided for in tbU act. including cigarette ks, cigarette book covers, pouches for smoking or chewing tobacco, and cigarette paper in all forms, the Wilson rate of JO per cent, ad valorem Is restored, tho Senate sub committee rate having been 40 per cent, ad valorem, and the remalnderof this paragraph is mado to read as follows: "And pipe bowls of clay, ID per cent, ad valorem." The pro vision of the Senate subcommittee bill for a duty of 20 per cent, ad valorem on bananas and pineapples is stricken out. The lead and lead ore duties are left un changed from the Senate subcommittee rates, as are the Iron and coal duties; tin plate, terne, nnd tagger's tin, ono cent per pound, instead of ono and one-fifth cents, as In the Wilson bill. In the internal revenue schedule the com mittee strikes ont the provision which the Senate subcommittee inserted flrst taxing cigars and cigarettes weighing more than three pounds 5 per thousand, cigarettes in paper weighing not more than three pounds 31 per tbonsand, and when wrapped in tobacco fifty cents perthousand, thus leav ing the taxes on these article3 unchanged from tho present law. The provisions in the income tax amend ment relative to a tax on building and loan associations, which was exempted by the House and stricken out when the Senate sab committee reportod the bill.has been restored, with the proviso that the tax shall not ba levied upon those institutions who mnke no loans except to shareholders for the purpose ot enabling them to build homes Complying with a request for an explana tion of the committee's reasons for making tho changes in the sugar schedule, Senator Jones, of Arkansas, said: 'The bill is changed in making the increase at the rate of 2-100 of a cent for each degree apply to all sugar testing from 90 to 93 de grees, instead of from 90 to 96 degrees. The reason for this is that on aceount of the im proved methods of sugar making by vacuum pans n great deal of sugar now imported for tho purpose of being refined Is above 96 de gree test, and is In fact a raw sugar, to which it would ho inequitable to apply the tax on refined sugar. "The reason for putting the color test in the schedule is that there are considerable qunntities of sugar which ore improved in color, made in fact almost white, which really contain a low percentage of saccharine matter, which might bo imported und enter into consumption as refined sugar, easily de ceiving tho public by reason of their high, color." Flourished a Knife. A colored man gave the citizens near Bright wood a hard fight last evening. He appeared in Wood's saloon with a bundle on his arm and demanded a dnnk. Being refused, he started down the road. He wa3 followed by two colored men, and when he stopped in front of 3Ir. Cuvier Green's residence and went to the door the men called to Mr. Green. A crowd soon collected, and seeing he was surrounded the negro drew a knife, which he flourished In a threatening manner. He was captured after a struggle and taken to station No. S. Hero he gave the namoot Preston Lewis. He is being held for exam ination as to his mental condition. tVouIJ-he Burglar Caught. About 4 o'clock yesterday morning a young man who gave tho namo of Harry Thorn and claims t3 be from Philadelphia, broke a pane of glass in Harry W. Teters' jewelry store at 1721 Seventh street northwest. The noise awoke Mr. Peters, and he came to the front to see what was going on. The burglar dashed away, followed by Mr. Peters, who discharged his revolver several times. Ho caught the man at Sixth street and turned him over to Policeman Steer. Judge Miller held him in S500 bonds for the grand jury, in default of which he was committed to jaiL - .Newsboys" Entertainment. A la-go number of nowsboys were given a delightful entertainment last evening at the Newsboys' Home, S27 E street northwest, and it was highly appreciated by the youngsters. Mls3 Laura Chamberlain, of Boston, who has recently returned from a missionary visit to Turkey, told of her many interesting and amusing expenenccs in that country. Gen. Browne, of the reguhr army, told of his life in tho Mexican and civil wars. Tho arrange ment of tho affiir was in charge of Mrs. M. C. Merchant, and Mrs, A. C. Atwater acted as accompanist. 4--l Bomb In nn l.lcvntcd Car. New Yonc, March 20. An iron bomb four inches long was found last night In an elevated railway car of tho Eighth avenue road by a trainman. It was taken by Ed ward M. Cox. dispatcher, to the Ono hundred and fifty ccond street police station, whero experts will examine it to-day. Watching American Importations. TonoNTo, Ont, March 20. Tho customs department has Issued an order to its collect ors nt various ports to take every precaution to discov er attemj ts to place American goods on the Canadian market at a price under tha face value. This order was issued because of the enormous quantity of hardware being shipped to Canada. m b Aid for Confederate .Monument. At tho conclusion ot 3Ir. George's speech yesterday the Senato passed a bill authorizing tho Secretary ot War to lend condemned can non and cannon balls to the association hav ing in chargo the monument erected on gov; ernment land at Chicago, III, to tho Confed erate dead thero buried. Sundry Civil Bill Passed. Tho sundry civil appropriation bill was passed by tho Houso yesterday without divi sion. The four appropriation bills passed by tho House (IH-tnet ot Columbia, pension, for tification, and sundry civil) carry a net reduc tion of e:M,3J4,9o8 as compared with tne tame bills for the current fiscal year. Treasury- Cash Balance. Tho cash balance in tho Treasury at tbo close of business yesterday was $13G, 530,566, a I0S3 since Monday ot $793,035. Tho net gold was $106,996,014, a loss ot 164,532. 4l I ll 4 M f ? :-l 51 b$kk& ar?i'i-n!v.?. s. j sjj-' rrr t -1 n 1 r .--sf'J';SrtWV.- , -' r ...nj.fc-., .- VJS.- (ii H .- .- -- -.. 1