Evening Star Newspaper, March 15, 1894, Page 2

i -v ENING STAR, THURSDAY, MARCH TWELVE VA young lady. Witness had no occasion to! remained until some time in February so into the room. Mr. Bi ed on the door of the middle room, where witness was, for her to unlock the door and et him out, and witness did so. Mr. Breckinridge kissed the young lady bade her guod night. The young lady undressed and in bed. Mr. ireckinridge came again Saturday night and Sunday | night, and the same performance was Fr peated. The witness described the furni- ture of the room, which was furnished ag an ordinary bed chamber. Had to Take a Train Ei Sunday night Mr. Breckinric witness to have Miss Madeline's breakfast | ready early Monday morai 9 she would meet a train. She heard her tell Mr. Preck- inridge, who was hard of hearing, that she | must “get down there early in order to | meet Mr. Rhodes.” Miss Pollanl got her | meals from witness. Mr. Breckinridge paid the witness for the use of the rooms. Wit- ss said w he first saw Miss Pollard that young woman wore short dresses that came to the top of her shoes, und wore her hair sometimes in a plait down her back. | Witness thought she was between seven-| teen and eighteen years old. Miss Pollard had never visited her house before. ck- en Mrs. Bert Testiiies. “Had the defendant, Col. Breckinridge, aver visited your house before that time asked Mr. Farreil. “We object to that,” said Mr. Shelby. The witness, however, answered the «ues- tion in the affirmat “She has just state: ‘aid Mr. Thompson, “that he visited her house prior to that to arrange for the coming of Miss Pollard.” | ‘The objection was ststained and the ques-| on and answer given were stricken out. Had Been There Fifty Times. The examination proceeded, and the wit-| mess said that Mr. Breckinridge had come | there with Miss Pollard about a year after-| ward and tly had been there about fifty times. About a year ago last} summer Mr. Breckinridge came to her house | and asked her if she would keep Miss Pol-| lard, and witness refu: y he would | | ul th: Rot rec any company li ; that her sister and brother and niece were and She could not take her. Mr. Breckinridge | said that Miss Pollard trusted her ond! would not go anywhere else. Mr. Breckinridge’s Visit £ Last fall Mr. Breckinr’ paid witness another visit, asked if witness had heard of this Pollard. Witness | said, “Ye pape He said he not w. s to nave anything to do with said she did rot; Want anything to do with it, but ff she was sworn e wouli have to i the truth. He asked her where Mary Scott and Mary Wilson were, end witness said, “In Chi-| ago," and then he said he wanted her to keep them out of the way, so they would Mot get them. The: women, the witness / said, had been in the house at times when | Bir. Breckinridge had been there. In that] conversa: toid Mr. Breckinridge | that he ought not to have deceived the| girl; she put all confidence in him, and he ought not to have deceived her. She did Rot remember that Mr. Breckinridge made any response to Afterwar? Mr. Breck- dz- hal asked her as to whether Miss Pollard had ever come there with -Col Swope and she told him he was the enly | man who was ever there with her. She had | learned where Miss Poilard lived in Lexing ton, in a house on Church street, by home with her one night at Mr. Bre ridge’s request. These visits of Mr. Bre Inridge and Miss Pollard to witness’ house covered a period of three or four years. Cross-Examination. The witness was cross-examined by Mr. Shelby. She said she left Lexington Tues- fay night to come to Washington, in re- sponse to a telegram from Mr. Farreil, who asked her to come. as they would not take! her deposition. She made a deposition at Mr. Farrell's r had known Mr. Farrell sir up. Mr. use was naa named on thet Sh did not know what street the hou It was at the house of a wo Mrs. Richardson. They stoppe Miss Pollard is Recalled. way to Mrs. Richardson's at the office of Mr. Johnston, where they had a consulta- tion. Witness’ expenses here were paid. She was told she would be paid $1.50 a day for her time in coming. Mr. Johnston made this agreement. Hefore she came a young man in Lexington, Mr. Ellis, told her all her expenses would be paid. Mr. Ellis came to her house to see her, and read Mr. Far- I's telegram. He sald he would get @ round-trip ticket, and that all her ex-) Penses would be paid. | Uncertain as to Dates. | The witness could not reme r the ex- act year in which Mr. Breckinridge «nd Miss Pollard first visited her hou: She knew it was warm weather, and she be-| Heved it was in August, because she was fixing to go to Chicago. She went to Chi ago in the latter part of t. SI knew that it was Friday they first ¢ it was fixed in her mind ‘because thought the girl was at school, Yangement was m be out from Friday he 1 the ar- de because school would night till Monday. The witness repeated that a vear elapsed be- tween the first visit of the defendant and the plaintiff to her house and the second. After the seCond visit they came pretty Fegularly, sometimes twice a week, but) sometimes they would not come for two or three weeks. Witness was away some- times a month at a time. She went to thi races at Chicago, Louisville an? Cincinn: Mr. Shelby read from Mrs. Gu 3 dey sition, taken in Lexington, + statement to the effect that it was last summer that Mr. Breckinridge last came to the house and asked witness to take Miss Pollard fm her house again. The witness said that there must have been a mis:ake made in putting down her testimony, as it was the summer before last he came. Th: gaid that Mr. Breckinridge toll her to talk louder to him; that he could not hear well, as he was a little hard o” 1 That was the first she knew tha mot hear well. On redirect examination by Mr. Farre! the witness said she had not kept a hou of assignation for six years. Mrs. Ninear’s Evidence. The next witness called was Mrs. Lucre- | | | | tia Marie Ninear, who resiies at 25 La fayette square, in this city. She said she! knew the defendant and the plaintiff. Mi led a room in house a| She had seen de-| the plaintiff together at her} five or six times. On two] bro’ her - from house, Mi saw them Mas we to 4 not knov anit to New Y as witne witness a, to mer, 1302, | rate of $20 a month. | Miss Pollard, but never heard anything of | those from Mr. Rhodes. | that | hot say what was her bearing when with men. Mi | house. ri following. Witness believed that a | Breckinridge then lived on Capitol Hill. On redirect examination witness said that when Mr. Breckinridge brought Miss Pollard home on the two occasions named it was about 9 or 10 o'clock at night. Mrs. Kate Burt. | The next witness placed upon the stand after Mrs. Minear was Mrs. Kate W. Burt, | @ rather portly lady, stylishly gowned.! Stated that at one time she resided at the | hear or see anything that led her to believe that Miss Pollard was anything but a chaste and well-behaved young woman. Mrs, Ketcham testified that she kept a ladies’ fi ishing store, and Miss Pollard bought goods from her, running up two bills. The first, for $29, was paid, all but $9, and the second, something over $30, was left unpaid. Miss Pollard occasionally bor- rowed money from deponent, but it was al- ways in trifling sums, a dollar or so. When Miss Pollard first came to the house she Deponent has no knowledge of the source whence Miss Poliard received the money Trouble With Striking Street Rail- way Men, She was examined bf Mr. Wilson, and, wore short dresses, or just to her shoe-tops. ' POLICE FORCED 10 USE THEIR CLOBS corner of 13th and F streets, in a house kept by Mrs. Hemingway. She was asked if Miss Pollard had at any time lived at that house, and, if so, under what name. | This, she said, she could not answer unless she saw Miss Pollard; and the plaintiff had left the court room only a few minutes be- | fore. Mr. Wilson explained that she was| feeling unwell today. Mrs. Burt said she understood that Miss | Pollard lived at that house at one time, but) this answer was excluded, and the witness | Was excused until 2 o'clock, when Miss Pollard was expected to be back in court | again. | it was found after a few minutes’ waiting that Miss Pollard had not left the court) house, and she was brought back, aad then! Mrs. Burt was found and put on the stand | again. “I would ask, Mrs. Burt, If you recognize the plaintiff sitting here? “I do. 3 she ever at that house? sir; in issi, and remained seven ! } ‘nder what name?” “Mrs. Foster.” “Did you ever see Col. Breckinridge | there? “Where was Miss Pollard’s cr Mrs. Fos- ter’s room?” “On the third floor.” “Did you notice her condition? ‘That is, did it seem as though she was likely to be- come a mother?” “Yes, sir.” Then Mr. Thompson on cross-examina- tion asked if there was not a u at thet house—Sam Walton of Kentuck: She an- Swered that he did live there, but was not at home at the time. She uniersiond that Col. Breckinridge asked for Mr. Walien. On redirect examination Mrs. Burt stated that Col. Breckinridge was in the house fer more than a quarter of an hour; did not know how much longer. Deposition of Mrs. Ketcham. Mr. Carlisle then read the ‘leposition taken by the defendant in Lexington, Kk., of Mrs. M. A. Ketcnam and offered in evi- dence by the plaintiff. There was considerable confusion and noise at this point, due to tne fact that many spectators had risen and were mak- ing their way to the do stopped Mr. Carlisle, who was reading the deposition, asking him to wait until the noise ended. “It is a fortunate circumstance,” said the judge, ‘that the general auditor is not in- ed in depositions. It gives us beiter ington was then read by Mr. Carlisle. Mrs. Ketcham stated that in 1884 Miss Pollard e and was a scholar at the Took drawing and music lessons at intervals for several years. Miss Pollard was in the house from Cctober, | "S4, to January, 1885. Miss Pollard first went to the hous? Set tember, ISS4, stayed until Janus iss came back in the summer of 1885 and re- mained until March, 1886, and left the house finally in the early fall of 1887. She was in atiendance at school «Il this time, and paid board for the first two years, the last year's board being unvaid. Deponent was hot very strict with her, a3 she not seem to have mach of ‘the wo: goods. The first two years she paid at Rhodes a Regular Visitor. Deponent saw Mr. Rhoces at the house a number of times as a regula? visitor upon the relations existing between them. She got the impression that Mr. ithodes was xes- sisting Miss Pollard to get her educaticn. On one occasion Miss Pollard asked witness whether if both she and her mother rut their names to a contract both parties | would be responsible. Did not explain what the contract was, nor with whom it w made. In the latter part of 1% iss Tel- lard was seriously ill. Mrs. Ketcham cou'd not say how often Mr. Rhodes cailed, but it was at frequent and rather regular in- tervals. Deponent did not know why Miss Pol- lard left schoo!, but her impression was iss Pollard’s funds were running s Pollard had a room to herself first oor, and usually spent the evenings in her own room. It possible to enter the room from the side ‘ad with- out going through any other rooms. The house was a lodging house, and other rooms on the first floor were occupied. ition went on to :2y that at iss Pollard was a studicus, In- girl, with lots of ambition and the feeling that her early education had been neglected. On the second winter of ber stay Miss Pollard occupied a room on the second floor. She came back to the house in Jui: S85. A number of others vecupied roo: in the house. Deponent stated that she did not at any time notice anything In Miss Pollard’s ap- pearance to indicate that she was likely to become a mother, and there was no change in the style of her dress that would look as though she was trying to conceal her During the first two years of with deponent Miss Pollard did not receive any visits from men other than The deposition went at great length into Miss Pollard’s daily life while at that house, her doings, her friends, her contributions to news- papers and things of that sort, and Mr. Carlisle was still deep in the reading of the bulky document when Judge Bradley ad- journed court for the noon recess. The Afternoon Session, For some reason or other the afternoon sessions of the trial are coming to be very poorly attended, and when the court recon- vened after recess today the newspaper re- porters comprised by far the larger portion of those present in court. ‘The plaintiff | Was not present, and it was stated that she Was too unwell to return. The defendant, however, was, as usual, about the sirst son to enter the court room after being soon followed by his counsel, the exception of Messrs. Thompson McKenney. Mr. Carlisle for some Was the only one of the plaintift’s counsel present, and he at once resumed the read- ing of Mr. Ketcham's deposition. The con- tents of the deposition was hardly very :n- teresting to Col. Breckinridge, tor he paid little attention to it, occupying inimselt with a bundle of correspondence and in conversation with gis counsel. Miss Pollard's Movements, From this deposition it appeared that Miss Pollard left school in June, 1887, and Mrs. Ketcham's house in September, 1887. In the meantime she was in an office, and in the fall left for Washington. Miss Pol- lard's whereabouts during the vacations and at other times when she was away from Mrs. Ketcham’s were went into at considerable length, but there was little in the deposition to interest the audience, and the crowd dwadied about, paying but little attention to the reading, and evidently | hoping that something would transpire | ald be really worth listening to. Mrs. Ketcham stated that apart from the change in her cloching incident to leaving short dresses and mourning there was | no change in Miss Pollard’s appearance. | When Miss Pollard first came in 1ssi_she | was in deep mourning for the death of a/ sister, who had died in the summer of 1ssi_| Mrs. Ketcham said that when she first knew Mi rd the latter was a modest, retiring irl, and well behaved. She had little gentieman company, and witness could with and | time ff Miss Pollard was a bright, sprightly , but she did not consider there s any impropriety or danger in her o upying a room on’ the ground floor. She | saw Miss Pollard asain after she had been | in government employ in Washington, and was st by the fact that Miss Pollard was much thinner and looked as though she had been sick. Mr. Breckinridge oc- cupied 2 room at Mrs. Ketcham's house about March Iss, but she could not say for what length of time. Nothing Against Miss Pollard. In answer to questions put to her by the) Mrs. Ketcham went on to tell of the people who oc 1 rooms in her} Mr. inridge occupied room No. | and to get from that room it was neces- | all om to Miss ry to go thr a passag Was over the stor i is in the ho r Breckinri iss Pollard as she was & when Mr. ew time b froin at this Deponent haticall siss Poilard she did rot he knew | the re |the republican su with which she paid her board bills. Mr. | Rhodes used to come to the house on an average of once in two or three weeks and was always received in the general sit- ting room. Miss Pollard’s mother came to see her several times during the time of her stay, and was with her in 1SS7, when she was sick. Deponent never had any idea of Miss Pollard’s going astray. She was a lively school girl, but was modest, and spent a great deal of her time over his books. So far as deponent knew Col. | Swope was never in the house during ail the time Miss Pollard was there. The di- rect route from the house where he took his meals to his rooms led by the Ketcham house, but on the opposite sidewalk. As to the books that Miss Pollard read during her stay, deponent stated that she did not have many books of her own, but borrowed a number of standard novels, Thackeray's among the rest. She did own, however, a set of Irving's works, compiete in three large thick volumes, which she jd Mr. Rhodes had gtven her for a Christ- {mas present, probably Christmas, 1SS4 ‘The impression of deponent was that there were three volumes, bound, she thought, in morocco, and rather nicely gotten up. At one time when Miss Pollard left the house she took the books away with her and did not bring them back, though she did not say what she had done with them. Puzzled Over a Woman's Bills. At the conclusion of the reading of Mrs. Ketcham's deposition and the copies of the unpaid bills which were attach to it, Mr. Farrell went on to read the deposition of Miss Mary S. Hoyt, taken in Lexington, February 22, 1804. The bills which Miss Pollard contracted with Mrs. Ketcham were for such articles as ruching, ribbon, gloves and things of that sort. It took Mr. Far- rell, Mr. Carlisle and Mr. Stoll, all three, to decipher the various items and charges, which were noted in rather bad nandwrit- ing, and as they stumbled through the list of articles more than a little amusement Was created. An item, “one bustle, sixty cents,” carried the audience back to the styles that prevailed several years ago. Miss Hoyts Deposition. Miss Hoyt gave her age as sev2aty-nine years, and stated that in company with her sister, Mrs. Ketcham, she kept the lodging house and the store beneath it. They rent- ed rooms, but Miss Pollard was the only one who took her meals in the house, Miss Pollard came from Wesleyan College to Lexington to go to school there, giving as the reason for her change r desire to be nearer to her mother. Did not any- thing to deponent about having spent the summer in Cincinnati after leaving Wes- jeyan. During the first term of Miss Pol- lard’s schooling in Lexington deponent un- derstood that a wealthy aunt in Pittsburg was defraying her expenses. Miss Follard spoke of a prospective trip to New Orleans and the Mardi Gras with another aunt, who would pay the bills. The deposition of Miss Hoyt went over much the same ground as that covered by Mrs. Ketcham’s, and developed few new facts. Numerous questions were asked con- cerning the works of Irving, but the an- swers were about the same as those of Mrs. Ketcham. Mrs. Hoyt stated that Miss Pollard spoke of Mr. Rhodes, explaining to deponent that she had promised to marry him in con- sideration of his payment for her education. ‘r. Rhodes often cailed upon Miss Pollard, he receiving him in the general parlor. Once she left the house for some time in 1885, and upon her return explained that she had been traveling with her wealthy aunt. Describing the room occupied by Miss Pollard, Mrs. Hoyt state’ that the room eculd have been entered from the street without observation and without passing through any other part of the house. The deponent stated that Miss Pollard left the house upon another occasion to visit a sister In Kentucky, she explained. Beside Mr. Rhodes a number of school boys visited Miss Pollard, calling to hear | ker sing and play. Some elderly men also called upon her. While it was possible, it Was not probable, said Mrs. Hoyt, sister being aware of it. Reference was made by the deponent to Mr. and Mrs. Morgan, who lived at the house for a time while Miss Pollard was there. They left the house because a male friend of Mrs. Hoyt informed her that Mr: Morgan was not a_ proper person. Breckinridge occupied a room in the house for about three weeks while Miss Pollard was there He stated that he had a case on hand and that he disliked hotel life. De- ponent observed no intimacy between Miss Pollard and Col. Breckinridge. Mrs. Hoyt stated that she never observed any change in Miss Pollard’s physical con- dition. Never even suspicioned that she was in a delicate state. Miss Pollard ex- plained that she left Sayre’s Institute be- cause she felt humiliated that Mr. Rhodes was paying for her tuition. Miss Pollard finally left the house about September 1, 1887, saying that she was go- ing to Washington. Washington Irving's works again play@d an important part in the deposition, but nothing came to light. Maj. MeClelland’s Depo jon. Mr. Farrell then proceeded to read the deposition of Maj. H. B. McClelland, prin- cipal of Sayre Female Institute. He stated that Miss Pollard became a pupil of school about the Ist of September, 1sS4, coming to the schoo! alone. She failed to respond to roll call several times in the following months. On the other days, said the deponent, she answered the roll call twice a day. Miss Pollard paid in cash for her tuition. He knew nothing against her character. He saw nothing wrong about her, ani knew nothing of her acquaintance’ with Col. Breckinridge. Mr. Rhodes told him that he was providing for her. Miss Pollard entered the school the next ‘all, that of 1885, she having left in the preceding February. Deponent had no reason to belleve or imagine that she was in a delicate condition in February, 1883. She finally left the school in the spring of 1886. Had Miss Pollard shown any indica- tion in February, 1885, of being in a dell- cate condition he would, he said, have ob- served it. At the conclusion of the reading of the | deposition Mr. Carlisle asked for an ad- journment, and the court was, at 2345, ad- journed until tomorrow morning. —_ THE TARIFF The Committee Discussing the Ad- ministrative Pentures of the Mensure. The finance committee of the Senate de- voted itself exclusively today to the con- sideration of the administrative feature of the tariff bill. The democratic members have made many important changes in this part of the bill which the republican mem- bers consider unwise, and which they con- BILL, tend will, if adhered to, result in many complications that will materially affect the collection of the revenues. They as- sert that many of the changes suggested are theoretical and that at best they can only be regarded in the light of experi- ments. The democratic members committee contend for the mos ention of the pro’ have inserted, but have shown themsel inclined to grant a full hearing to the rv publicans on this point and have indi- cated that they may for good reasons given make changes in accordance with estions Senator Ailison clause in the bill granting heari upon appraisers’ valuations, his arsument being to the effect that such he s8 would lead to much confuston and great delay in the collection of the revenue and that if the course provided for should be pursued ft would open the door to every importer to ecure delay in the settlement of his ae counts. The democrats reply to this t a man who is dissatisfied with the ap- praisement of his imported coods should have some appeal and a chance to be heard. The question of an agreement as to the time when the biil shall be renorted ¥ not discussed at the meeting this forenoo! Members of the committee of both partic express the opinion that the bill will go to the Senate next week, but are indefinite as to the day. ‘rhere is apparently a tacit understanding | | that when thi adn inistrative portion of the vill 1 have been disposed of the bill will be reported, Some of the rep:b! mebers n not agree to t r s they wish to go o fs s ut a majority of them prefer time for ation for the debate to an ineffectual wrangle in committee. The committee adjourned to meet again at 3 o'clock this afternoon, ©. Admiral Benham Goes. This afternoon it was learned thet Ad- miral Benham has been ordered to proceed that In all the|at once to Bluefields ia the flagship San I:.ternal re Francisco, for Miss | Pollard to be visited without she or her | Col. | taken exesption to the | at} a Strike of Mill Operatives at Phil- lipsburg. AFFAIRS AT PATERSON, N. ee eee NEW YORK, March 15.—The employes on the Steinway street railroads, runaing from Hunters Point to Steinway, Long Island City, went out on a strike early | this morning. Assistant Superintendant Cosgrove re- ceived a severe scalp wound from a pistol shot fired into the offices of the Steinway T-aetion Company this morning. At the time of the shot Superintendent Moulton and Assistant Superintendent Cosgrove were standing in the office talking. A noisy crowd of strikers was without and struck Mr. Cosgrove on the Fortunately the shot was a glancing one, and he may survive. A physician was and after bandaging up his head sent him home. More trouble is feared, and the police are held in reserve, as the strikers threaten violence if there is any attempt to move the cars, The company was taken unawares this morning, when 100 men struck and cut the trolley wires and tore up the track in some places, others blockading the road with yaece paving stones and other obstruc- ons. An effort to cut down expenses was the cause of the trouble. Some men were dis- charged and the rest had their wages re- duced. Employes were obliged to work ex- tra hours and were given but fifteen min- utes for lunch, ‘This afternoon the strikers cut down more trolley wires, and the police had to use clubs to scatter them. PHILLIPSBURG, N. J., March 15.—The strike among the mill hands in this city Tuesday night continued today with more threatening aspect. At least 1,000 men, wo- men and girls are row out. This morning twenty-tive deputy sheriffs were sworn in at the request of the mill owners, as they feared trouble before night. The strikers stand firm and claim they will resist with force any attempt on the part of the owners to fill places vacated by the strikers. The mill owners have adver- than they have pail to the old hands. Super- intendent Larned said this morning that he intends to win the strike at any cost. Few hands went to work unmolested this morn- ing, several of the workingmen being set upon by the strikers and severely handled. Mayor Davis has instructed the police department to have a competent force of men in readiness in case assistance is needed by the deputy sheriffs, should there be trouble in the mill: PATERSON, ing sili weavers are quiet this morning. They have made no disturbance thus far today, They cre loitering about the strects discussing the situation and are out in full force. So are the police. The strikers are in an ugly mood, and it will not require much to cause another out- break. No arrests have been made since last night. ——.__ IT SURPRISED HIM. Horatio 8. Sprague Informed by the Pension Office of His Own Death. AURORA, IL, March 15.—Mrs, Julia | Sprague of this city has just received the | information from the pension department | at Washington that she ts a widow and that therefore the pension claim of her late hus- band cannot be allowed. About three years ago her husband, Horatio S. Sprague, a | of June 1890, he being then blind and | permanently disabled. That was the last heard of the application until last night, | when Mr. Sprague, who fs alive but dis- ; abled, received word that he is dead and | hence he fs rejected. | The pension authorities were shown the | Sprague dispatch by The Star man. It was | the officials with whom the reporter spoke lexpressei themselves as being confident | that there was some mistake in the matter, and that It did mag lie with the pension office, There was no such thing known in the pension burean as civiliter mortuus. | admitted no death excepting physical death. | They did not recognize such a thing as civil death even in states where this species of demise was known to the statute. - COMPLETING THE CENSUS. | | It Will Be Two Years Before the Work is Finished, It will probably be two years before the is the general expectation at the Interior Department. Seventeen or eighteen vol- umes, involving 15,000 or 16,000 quarto pages of statistical matter, will be given to the public printer before July 1 next. To bring out this mass of material will require a large amount of labor and involve great labor in proof reading and revision. Of the twenty-four volumes of final re- ports, three volumes have already been ; made public. These were Part [, of Pub- lic Debt, published in October, 1801; Alas- ka, February, 1803, and Part I of the Com- | pendium, December, 1802, The matter for | Part I of the report on population is ecom- pleted, and that for Part I wiil not be ready until midsummer. There are three | sections of the vital statistics report. : bles for the first are in type. he second lig three-fourths ready, but its completion | depends on the finai_ popuiaticn volume This is also true of Part III, though, so far as it relates to social statistics of cities and to the insane, feeble-minded and deaf and dumb, the “copy” is ready. work for the report on crime, pauperism and benevolence is in type, with the ex- ception of the text analysis of parts I and Il, which is practically finished. The vol- ume on churches and parts I and II of Manufactures are at the government print- ing office. Most of the second part of the latter is already in type. The reports of special agents for the third part are half completed, and dle of May. Part II of Valuation and Taxation is all ready for the printer. Part I ot Insurance is in type, and “copy” for Part II is fintsh- ed. Parts I and I] on Transportation are in type. Matter for the report on Agriculture will be finished before the ciose of this month, and that for Indians and for Real | Estate and Mortgages is completed. Copy | for each of the two volumes on Farm and tlome Proprietorship and Indebtedness ard the Statistical Atlas is one-half ready. ‘The | balance fer the former cannot be finished until the final reports are completed. The digest, which, by law, is to consist of not more than 200 pages, cannot be finished before the final reports are completed. ee ANOTHER THEATER. ‘The H Street Plan May Be Carried Out After All. 1t now looks as if Manager Albaugh would be allowed to build his theater on H street between 13th and Mth streets. For several days past the Commissioners have been considering several amendments to the building regulations, one of which pro- vides for a change in the regulations re tive to theaters. The new amendment pro- vides that when a theater fs to be built the signatures of the property owners in | the square in which the theater is to be located shali first be obtained. The old ation provides that not only are the natures of the owners in that square ary, but also those in the oppo: 84 hall first be obtained. A majority | of ihe Commissioners at least are in Yavo of this amendment, and unless somethin interferes it will pass. Building Insp, visle Says he is reilably informed t sig nec New York parties will build a theater on | this site, if the amendment suggested ts adopted. ee eS Treasury Balances. National bank notes received for redemp- tion today, 20. Government recelpts— nue, $499,564; customs, $647,909; ‘ miscellaneous, LATE NEWS BY WIRE.’ when a bullet crashed through the window | head. | Summoned, who dressed Cosgzove's wound, | Used for hands, offering to pay more wages | N. J., March 15.—The strik- | member of the second Massachusetts in- | fantry, applied for a pension under the act | too late in the day to hunt up the case, but | They | last of the printed results of the work of | the eleventh census is made public. This | All the | ill be finished in the mid- | Its Consideration Occupied Nearly the Eu- tire Time of the House, Rending of the Mensure Completed and a Return to Paragraphs Passed Over. At the opening of the session of the House . Stone (y.) asked unanimous consent for the consideration of a bill to pay Miss Jane Lynn of Gaiaway county, Kentucky, $159, the value of 2 horse confiscated by the | Union army during the war. Mr. Kilgore (Texus) objected. Mr. Caruth (Ky.) asked | unanimous consent to consider a bili to amend the act to organize the life saving service so as to have the stations on the |Aulantic and gulf coasts manned from August until June and “lakes during the season of navigation.” Mr. Sayers (Tex:s) objected. Mr. Flynn (Oklahoma) sought unanimous |eonsent for a bill to ratify the reservation \of certain iands for the agricultural col- |lege in Oklahoma. Mr. Sayers (Texas) ob- jected. Mr. Black (Il) asked unanimous con- sent to consider a bili to authorize the man- agers of the national soldiers’ homes to | employ medicai officers other than soldiers | disabled in the service as now required by jaw. Mr. Black explained that the bill was recommended by the managers of the ‘homes to increase the efficiency of the | Surgical service. The soldiers upon whom these surge.ns were in attendance were all disabied, and the surgeons should be men in the front rank of their profession. Surgeons disabled thirty years ago were invalids. They now needed attendance themselves. The bill was opposed by Messrs. W. A. Stone (Pa.), Dingley (Me.) and Cannon d.), who insisted if this change were to be made that the statute should be re- stricted to soldiers. Mr. Black contended that the best interests of the inmates of the homes would be subserved if the man- of energy, trained in the most modern methods of surgery. Mr. Stone objected to the consideration of the bill. Yhe objection to Mz. Flynn’s bili was then withdrawn and it was passed. The Sundry Civil Bill. Mr. Montgomery (Ky.) made the point of no quorum on a resolution authorizing the appointment of an assistant clerk for the committee on commerce, whereupon Mr. Paynter (Ky.), who offered the resolution, withdrew it, and the House went into com- mittee of the whole and the consideration of the sundry civil bill was resumed. Disbursing Officers of Soldicrs’ Homes Mr. Black (IL) raised a poigt of order against the following parageaph on the ground that it was new legislation and did not reduce expenditures: “That all disbursing >fficers of the Na- tional Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers shall, before entering apon their duties. give good and sufficient bonds to the United States, in such sums as the Secretary of War may direct, faithfully to account for all public moneys and property which they may receive. They shall render their ac- counts monthly, direct to such bureau of the War Department as the Secretary of War may designate, and, after exan:ina- tion there, the fiscal accounts shail be pass- ed to the proper accounting officer of the treasury for settlement. “That section 4834 of the Revised Stat- utes of the United States be, and the same is hereby, amended to read as follows: ‘That the board of managrs shall meke an annual report of the condition of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Sol- diers to the Secretary of War, to be sub- mitted by him with his annual repert to Congress at the commencement of cach regular session thereof, and all laws or parts of laws that require the board to audit and examine or authenticate the ac- counts of the treasurer and visit the home quarterly are hereby repealed. Mr. Sickles (N. Y.) argued in favor of sustaining the point of order. The man- ner in which the disbursing officers of sol- diers’ homes should render their accounts Was now covered by existing law, and he was unwilling that the soldiers’ homes should be placed under any bureau ot the War Department, high as was his confi- | dence in that department. Mr. Cannon (Ill) maintained that the homes should in no wise be interfered with, but that the disbursing officers of the home should be placed under bond to the United States and their accounts should go regu- larly through the Treasury Department, as all other accounts did. Passed Over Temporarily. Mr. Cogswell (Mass.) also sustained the | clauses in the bill against which Mr. Black made the point of order. These officers, he | said, dispensed $3,000,000 of the people's |money annually, and every safeguard should be used to protect that disburse- ment. Without ruling on the point of order, an agreement was finally reached to pass over these two paragraphs temporarily and return to them later, ‘An amendment appropriating $300 for printing the decisions of the United States | district court of Alaska was agreed to. The chairman of the committee then offered an amendment, the purpose of which was to permit the Secretary of the Treasury to |setde the accounts of United States super- | visor of elections of New York for expenses incurred in the special congressionc] eiec- tions in January, previous to the passage of the bill to repeal the federal election law, and it was agreed to without debate The items relating to the expenses cf | United States courts were passed over tem- porarily to permit the judiciary committee to formulate certain contemplated armend- ments. | | Some Criticism, Mr. Black (Ga.) criticised in a general way some of the appropriations in the2bill. That for public printing be considered yeck- lessly extravagant. Hundreds of thousands jof dollars, in his opinion, were wasted in the publication of useless documents. He referred humorously letins and pamphlets issued by the Agricul- tural Department, ostensibly in the inter- jest of the farmer, and read extracts 1rom them replete with technical terms and adorned with Greek and Latin root nomen- clature. He read the descriptions of sume of the experiments made by field operators for the benefit of the farmers and for ten minutes kept the House convulsed with |laughter. He characterized the expendi- ture of money for such purposes as utterly indefensible and outrageous. Mr. Richardson, chairman of the printing committee, said in reply to Mr. Black that | a bill reported by the committee was de- | signed to correct the abuses of which he complained, especially by limiting the dis- cretion at present lodged in the Secretary of Agriculture and other heads of depart- ments in the publication of such special | reports. Mr. Bowers defended the experiments and publications. The extermination of | the gopher was a great problem in the southwest some years ago, and by means of these experiments in the orange orchards of California millions were saved. The Coast Survey. The reading of the bill was completed at 2:15 and the committee then returned to the paragtaphs relating to the coast and geodetic surv Mr. Enloe (Tenn.) offered an amendment to strike out all provisions for the main- tenance of this bureau and its transfer to the Navy Department. Mr. Sayers made a point of order against the amendment that it changed existing laws. discussion the s nounced to the He silver seigniorage bill. The announcement was received with many manifestations of approval on the democratic side. Mr. En- loe contended that his amendment came clearly within the rule, inasmuch as it was both germane and retrenched expenditures. pees Personal Mention. Maj. Gen. John C. Robinson, U retired, is visiting his son, Lieut. J. Mar- thal Robirson, U. S. at the Milton fiais, H street between 17th and streets northwest. Controller Eckels has resumed his duties av the Treasury Department afier a few days’ sojourn at Fort Menroe. Col. Ainsworth, chief of the record and pension office, I sturned from a visit to his home in Vermont. Mr. John Tweedale, chief cierk of the Department, left here ure trip to Florida, and ary of the Senate an- sence. — + e+ Marriage Licenses, Marriage licenses have been issued by the clerk of the court to the following: Glenmore Morton and Mary Poindexter; Daniel Cooper and Annie Turner; F. Brown and Louisa M. Craig. not the men now to wait upon a camp of | agers were allowed to employ young meq to some of the bul- | While the point of order was under} se the passage of the| 8. A. 18th | Walter | SUNDRY CIVIL BiLL/FINANCE AND TRADE! Wali Street Hoping for Bland Biil’s Veto. TT WOULD HELP SPECULATION ———_—+—_—_ Probable Consequence of Such the an Event. GENERAL MARKET REPORTs. Spectal Dispatch to The Evening Star. acly Mgures re- t sW YORK, ch 15 flected no significant chaages ‘from night’s closing, but subsequently suceu ed to selling by arbitrage orokers and un unsettled feeling produced by the probable passage of the Bland bill. The defeat of this measure is most earnestly desired by eastern operators, and while its passage in the Senate is conceded, it is noved that it will be returned lacking the presidential autograph. Should the bill ve vetoed specu- lation would revound far beyond the recert- ly reached high-water mark. in the © t of the bill's defeat from any cau: the west will naturally be dissatisfied and re- taliate by instructing its representatives in Congress to vote against the tariif bill, and thus defeat a measure framed for the pur- pose of fulfilling party pledges. The effect of such action, while disastrous from a political standpoint, would be de- cidedly advantageous to speculation, and the industrials would be given an impetus \far beyond anything that is likely to be grafted into the bili should it become a law. With so much urcertainty as to the out- {come of both these measures, it was not | surprising that the market was left in ihe ‘hands of a few room traders, who exerted ali their energies in favor of a reaction. The railway list relapsed into dullness, and fluctuations were meaningless and con- fined within very narrow limits. Missouri Pacific was worked up 2-4 per cent, and Burlington proceeded in an opposite direc- tion the same distance. Atchison sold down to 15 on the belief that yesterday's advance was due to inside manipulation in anticipa- tion of foreclosure proceedings soon to be instituted by dissatisfied bondholders. Without a stock assessment or the float- ing of a new loan it now seems utterly im- possible for the company to meet its inter- est_ obligations maturing between April 1 and July 1. Chicago Gas sold up 11-8 per cent on early trading, but later reacted to opening figures on renewed attacks by parties be- \ lieving in the success of the new company. The new concern is composed of many of the most wealthy and influential men in Chicago and the chances of their wishes be- ing granted are considered exceptionally good. General Electric lost 11-2 per cent on realizing assisted by room selling. Sugar sold up 1 per cent on moderate dealings and reacted a similar amount after midday. This stock sells ex-dividend 3 per cent tomorrow and then what will be done with it is known only to the elect. Sugar men are confident that their interests are being carefully guarded in Washington and are hopeful of securing all that they originally asked for. A protest against the inefficiency of the present schedule, signed by nearly all of the larger dealers, has been sent to Wash- ington with the intention of influencing the Senate's action in the matter. The supporters of National Lead are ap- prehensive of some curtailment of their present tax rate and are making a deter- mined effort to keep it intact. The market for sterling 2nd continental bills was tairly active and firm. The sur ply of bills continues scarce,and indications point to a continued decrease in rec This scarcity of bills has orongat banker: into the market as buyers, and unless their wants are satisfied it is highly probe- ble that gold will be shipped by next Satur- day's steamers. So far none has been engaged, | and no can be made. The last hour was marked by no signifi- cant feature beyond the announcement of the passage of the Bland bill, which. be- yond a fractional decline, had no effect on prices. The closing was irregular and mod- erately active. > . FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL, The following are the opening, the highest and the lowest and the closing prices of the New York stock market today, as reported by Corson & Macartney, members New York stock exchange Correspondents Mesars. Moore & Schley, No. $9 roadw: Stocks. American a American Sagar, pi Amencan Te American Cotton Of. Atehison ....... Canada Southern Canada Pacitic... Chesapeake and Ohio. . vd _ St. L. hicago. B. and Choc Sa Bortire casa Chicago Gas... e nd St. Par i Delaware and Hudson... Denver and Rio Grande. Long Island... A. and Chicago Manhattan Elevated. Mictigan Centrat Missouri Pacific National Lead ¢ National Cordage ew York Central .... . ¥-and New England, Y.. C. and i jorthern Pacific... orthern Pacific, pid. | North American Pac: Phila. and Re Pullman P. C Ki Southern Pacific. Texas Pacitie. . ‘Yeun. Coai aud Iron! Pacitic a Wabash, pid: Wheeling & Lake Erie.? Wheeling & L. E., pfd.. | Western Union i Wisconsin Central. | Silver... | Reported by Metropolitan Bas High, Wheat—Mar. Sty i March, 4153 steumer imix Washingt Sales—regular tock Excharge. o'clock m.—Distriet toa, Ww, 500 at 105. Cy tre Tnsuranc of reliable estimate of the probable amount | Chicago Grain and Provision Markets. | District of Columbia Bonds.—20-year 107% bid. 30-3ear Funding Gs, v ‘k currency 7s, 1901, 117 bid. ‘y Ts, UMS, 120 bid. 3.655, FPund:ag ‘a bid. Sys, reg. 2-108, 100 bid. ‘neous Bonds. Washington and «eonge- ,Kativoad coov. @, Ist, 130 bid, 145 asked. asbington and Georgetown Railroad couv. Gs, 2d, » bid, 145 asked. Metropolitan Railroad conv. id, Belt Railroad Ss, 80 bid. Kington Ratlrond 6s, SO bid, 9 asked. Washington Gas Company Gs, series A, 116 14. Weshbington Company Gs, series B. 117 bid. pany conv. Gs, 127 bid. Unit * conv. Ss, 122 bid, 125 asked. tomac Telephone fs, v7 bid, American Security and Trust 5s, ’ =e hy American Secarity ond 4 “ Punding Ss. gold, 316 bid. Water 300 bid. Waxtington bid. Wash Light ‘a Washington Light In- Stock ¢ Rank of Washintgon, 200 a . nal Ramis asked. “> eposit and ‘Trust « Westingion Lean and Aincrican " Gas and Ylectric Light “ks. Washington Gas, bid. 2S es Gee on — wr vid. 1 etrie LL) 122_ bid. Insurance ——— Piremy 48 bid, 46 naked. bie. German American, "163 ou, 10 bid. 26 ached. Columida. ie vid. S asked. People’s, wid, asked. ia, 47 asked. Chesa- 47 Wid, 48" axked. American phone. 3. Mid, 5 asked. Pneumatic Gun 33 asked = neons | Stocks.— Washington Markt, — parent Fatte re, 120 bid. Bull Ron Inter-Ocean Building, 00 amen: oa srs ——— QUICKLY STRUNG UP A Pei unsylvania Murderer Who Had Tried sto Eeoape, Richard Puryear, the Colored Des- perado, Captured by One of His | Own Race—A Hard Run. | —_— STROUDSBURG, Pa., March 15.—Richan@ Puryear, the colored desperado who several Weeks ago brutally killed Christian C. Ehier, and tried to murder the entire Ehler fam- ily, was lynched by a mob this morning. By some means Puryear had secured @ Stick, with which he pushed back the bolt of his cell door during the night, and the out-r cell door being unlocked, through gross carelessness on the part of some one, he gained access to the hall of the jail. He then tried to force his way out through an upper window, but failed. He next secreted himself in the bath room, and waited until the sheriff should come in the morning. About 7 o'clock this morning, as Sheriff Kresge unlocked’ the jail door to take break- fast into the prisoners, and stepped into the corridor, he noticed that the outer door of Puryear’s cell was open. At the same moment Puryear jumped out from his hiding place and sped out of the open jail door, closed it quickly and locked the sheriff in the jail. He then went out through the kitchen of the jail building and running across some vacant lots, was soon outside the borough limits. The sheriff on finding that he was locked in shouted loudly and attracted the atten- tion of his wife, who had s:en the negro run through thekitchen, she unlocked the jail door and set the sheriff free. A general alarm was at once sent out and immediate pursuit made sf the escaped murderer. As he had but a few feet the start of his pursuers there was no possi- bility of his getting away. The desperate man swam McMichael's creek, which is about six feet deep, closely pursued by a big negro, who caught him just as he landed on the opposite bank. Puryear resisted, but the sight of a re- | volver in his captor’s hand caused him to yield quickly. He was then brought back sross the creek, where he was seized by @ crowd that had gathered. Some one in the mob had a rope, which was quickly attached to the limb of a tree and willing hands swung the desperado up. From the time he escaped from the jail till he was hung only nineteen minutes elapsed. —— WANTS THE CHILDREN. Mr. Cl A petition for a writ of habeas corpus has been presented by Wm. R. Chipley for the production of his children, Anna G., Wm. R. and Eugene B. Chipley, and their custody, and the writ has been served on | the mother, Anna Laura Chipley, and made returnable befcre Justice Hagner on the jst instant. The papers have not been made public, but it is understood that the petitioner represents that his wife so con- ducts the house as to make it an unfit place in which the children should be reared, and he therefore seeks to remove them from their present surroundings. Both parties have been employed in the government printing office and have not, on account of domestic infelicity, been living together for some time, the wife and chil- dren residing in Southeast Washington ané the father at 8th and D streets northwest. About ten days ago the husbaad took Possession of his oldest child, a thirteen- year-old girl, and carried her to his iodg- ings, and the mother called on Inspector { | Hollinberger for police assistance to enable her to regain possession of the girl but such assistance could not be given. The father had in the meantime reported the condition of affairs at Mrs. Chipley's place, with a view of getting: possession of the other children, to Officer Wilson of the Hu- mane Society, but Mr. Wilson had not fin- jished his investigation and Mr. Chipley took the course noted above. —_——_ SOLD AT A SACRIFICE, ents of the Hotel Cochran Dis- posed of for 827,000, ‘There was quite a gathering of hotel | men and furniture dealers in the office of | the Hotel Cochran at noon today attend- | ing the sale of the entire contents of the establishment, which were held to satisfy deed of trust executed by the Paige Hotel Company and Mr. Frederick T. Hart to John C. Randall and William P. Mon- tegue. The furniture, carpets, curtains, bedding and bed linen, table damaskry, crockery, cutlery, silverware and kitchen utensils, together with the bar room ai leundry furnishings, were put up as a single lot and after spiritiess bidding were bought in by the trustees for $27.50. The price was regarded us sacrificial by all in attendance, the cost of the articles abcut two years ago was $84,000. The pur- chasers, who are really the dealers who oriet sol4 the furniture and fittings, will, it is understood, remove their prop- erty from the premises immediately. — DISTRCT GOVERNMENT. License Statisies, The report of Lice Clerk Wiliams fo year ending March 3, 1894, will soor ued. It will show,among other things that 561 retail Nquor licenses were granted during that period and thirty-six were re. ted. One hundred and seven applica- ons for wholesale Hquor licenses were al- lowed and five rejected. Last year there retali liquor licenses granted and 320 wholesale. Ordered to Pave. “[ hope this order will be obeyed, for the District has had trouble enough to collect its debts.” said an official of the District government this afternoon, as he read the following order to the Metropolitan Rail- road Company: “The Commissioners direct me to inform you that they have ordered the paving of 28th street, Georgetown, with asphalt, and to request that you will provide for the pay. ing reqpired ¢ to be done by your com. said sireet between Dumbarton Full particulars concerning the contemplated work will be furnishea | upon application to the engineer deparunent of the District government.’ — Range of the Thermometer, The following were the readii thermometer at the weather }