Evening Star Newspaper, April 4, 1894, Page 2

LATE NEWS BY WIRE./ACTS OF DECEPTION |ssisistzisczat Stat Pitched Battle With Coke Strikers in Western Pennsylvania. RIOTERS TRIED 10 CAPTURE WORKS Were Driven Off With Powder and Ball. EXCITEMENT PREVAILS UNIONTOWN, Pa., April 4.—At the May- field and Donnelly plants of the McClure Coke Company, on the Mt. Pleasant branch, was the scene of a pitched battle about 10:30 today. The rioters had assembled in large numbers and were parading about the Works with colors flying. The men were ¥orking both on the yards and in the pit nd the strikers asked them to come out. No response was given. Superintendent Boyle and fifteen armed @eputies were in charge of the works and warned the strikers not to trespass. The Fioters paid no attention to it and made a rush on the works. The first move called forth a volley of shot from the guards and one Hungarian fell mortally wounded. The Invaders turned and fled, carrying their wounded companion with them and leaving the plants in operation. About fifteen shots were fired. It is said some were fired by the strikers, but they deny it, and say it was an un- provoked assault upon them by the guards. ‘The rioters returned to their place of ren- dezvous, and are rapidly massing men for enother attack. The greatest excitement precails, and a pitched batle of greater magnitude and with more serious results is expected. Sheriff McCann of Westmoreland was telegraphed and grrived on the grounds at noon with a posse of deputies. ‘The coke region’ is now in a more critical condition than ‘at any time since the famous riots of 1391, when so cany depre- dations and so mich shooting was done. Tomorrow morning an immense mass Meeting will assemble south of Uniontown and march from one end of the region to the other for the purpose of forcing a sus- pension everywhere. Killed by Strikers. ‘The war between the coke mine strikers and the workmen {s now on in earnest, and a number of serious outbreaks are re- ported. The worst of these was a murder- cus assault on Andy Miller, a Hungarian, Rear Trotter, shortly before midnight. He was attacked by fifty rioters, and being taken for a workman, was horribly beaten with clubs and stones. He was released only when thought to be dead. He will not live The southern end of the region was the Beene of numerous raids today, but no lives ‘were icst. About 300 men from the works north of here marched to the Leith and Brown- field works of the Frick Company, to the Fairchance works of the Fairchance Fur- nace Company, and drove the men from the yards. Very little resistance was offered, and now all the plants south of Connells- ville are shut down. The men were found going to work, but Feturned without making a fight. The workmen at the Mount Braddock works of the W. J. Rainey Company were driven form the yards today by rioters, and the plant is now shut down, as are all the Plants of the Rainey Company. A delegation of rioters also visited the Wheeler & Morrell works of the McClure Company, and compelied the men working to lay down their tools and vacate the grounds. It was later developed that the women from the Leisinnigs took a hand in the beating of Andy Miller last night. The news has just reached here that a ‘workman from the painter plant of the McClure Company was assaulted by wives of the strikers last night and clubbed into Insensibility. He was carried home, and has not been able to move himself since. pa cab ere LIBERALS WIN AGAIN. @ Slight Gain Made an English Parliamentary Election. LONDON, April 4—The liberals won another parliamentary victory in the con- test yesterday, for a representative for the Rorth or Wisbech division of Cambridge- | Shire. The'result of the poll was as follows: A. Brand, liberal, 4,363; Mr. Sackville, con Bervative, 4,227. Liberal majority, 136. At the last election for the same division, the liberal majority was A feature of the campaign just ended was the singing of Mrs. Brand at the Gladston- meetings and the active work done by canvassers on behalf of Mr. Sackville. eeepc Army Orders. Capt. George Ruhlen, assistant quarter- master, is relieved from duty at El Paso, | Texas, and will take station at Detroit, Michigan. Capt. Robert R. Stevens, essistant quartermaster, recently appointed, will take station at Little Rock, Arkansas. ‘The following transfers in the fourth in- fantry are made: First Lieutenant Silas A. Wolf, from company H First Lieutenant George B. Davis, from company E to company H; First Lieuten- ant George B. Duncan, from company G@ to company K; First Lieutenant Stephen M. Hackney, from company K to company G; Second Lieutenant Herman Hall, from company H to company K; Second Lieuten- ant Frederic T. Stetson, from company K to company H; Second Lieutenant Eli A. Helmick, from company A to company I; Second Lieutenant William Brooke, from company I to company A. An army retiring board is appointed to meet at Fort Keogh, Montana, for the ex- amination of such officers as may be ordered before it. The detail for the board is Lieutenant | reasons, but asked where he and his bride | 2&me a day. Colonel John H. P: econd in- surgeon ; twenty-second Major Emerson H. Liscum, fafantry; Captain Charles L. Cooper, tenth cavalry; First Lieutenant Alexander S. Porter, assistant surgeon; First Lieuten- ant Frank B. Jones, adjutant, second infar try, recorder. Captain William Conway, twenty-second infantry, will report to the board. The following-named officers will report to the examining board at Fort Leaven- worth, Kansas, for examination for pro-| motion: man, d Lieutenant John A. Har- venth cavalry; Second Lieutenant Thomas Q. Donaldson, jr., seventh cavarly: Second Lieutenant George McK. Willian: eavalry Second Lieutenant | h, Sixth cavalry; Second an Hall, fourth infantry Lieutenant Marcus D. Cronin, twen- tieth infantry; S aieutenant Cha: Farnsworth, t Second Lieutenant wentieth muel Seay, ond Lieuten- leventh infant- - third infantry nt — @ McAlexander, twenty-fifth infantry. a Texans Preparing for a Great Cele- bration. The local Texans are making great prepa- Fations to celebrate the fifty-eighth anniver- sary of the battle of San Jacinto on April 21 next. This is always a gala event in the and the celebration of it there cor- erhardt, Second Fesponds pretty closely to the Fourth of | Juiy ions in this part of the coun- try e ne Star State Society bas the matter in hand, and Congressman Joseph C. Hutch: in whose district is located the historic battle ground, and Judge Seth Shepard of Texas, associate justice of the Court of Appeals of the Distric of Colum- bia, will make the addresses. A fine pro- gram has and a most en- doyable time ts anticipated. There is to be @ final meeting of the society on Friday @vening at S p. m., at its hai & 4 Borthwest, to complete the pro celebration, ‘am for the a __. Edward H. § er of the Trenton, N. J., Typographical Union, No. 71, ‘went away two weeks ago and has not re- tacued, to company E;) twenty- | (Continued from First Page.) “all those things which are necessarily the accompaniments of such relations ag ex- isted between us.” The witness went on to distinguish what, in his mind, was the difference between love and the feeling that existed between them and love. He said his relations with her were not wholly sensual. She was, he said, at times an unusually good colloquist and at times very attractive. There had been times protestations of ardent love for him on her part. His own feeling toward her was not that of love. “It wasn’t love,” he said, “in the sense we would usually use that term. Sometimes there was a very great kindness on my part, and sometimes @ very great anger and fierceness of re- The Subject of Marriage. The defendant said the subject of mar- riage was first broached, he thought, when she spoke of the proposed trip to Berlin. His attention was called to a subsequent conversation, to which he had testified, in which he had spoken of the impossibility of a marriage between them and had men- tioned as one of the impediments his knowledge of what had occurred between herself and Mr. Rodes. Mr. Breckinridge, at Mr. Wilson's request, repeated that conversation, saying he had told her that after what she and he knew of Mr. Rodes it was impossible for him to marry her. He had a contract with her, he said, much more binding than that with Rodes. He admitted that she was a bright, intellec- tual woman and had undoubtedly been as- sociating with some of the best people of her state; that she had lived among most reputable people, among people of high a number of persons, were concealed from the world in which they moved. The Marriage Certificate. Mr. Wilson then asked if, so far as that was concerned, there was any impediment | to their marriage. The defendant said that this was only the small dust in the bal- ance. There never was, he repeated, in answer to a question, any contract of imar- riage or engagement between them. The Arrangement Between Them. Mr. Wilson then asked what the arrange- ment was between them. He said that | there was no understanding that they | should have the semblance of an engage- ment, or an appearance of an engagement, except to one person, and that was Mrs. Blackburn. On the 17th of May there was an agreement that they should go to Maj. Moore and make a certain statement agreed | upon. The agreement as to a semblance of | an engagement related to Mrs. Blackburn. The agreement in going to Maj. Moore was only that he should make a certain state- |ment, and not that they should assume there a semblance of an engagement. As to Maj. Moore, the agreement respecting | Maj. Moore, there was nothing as to their dying out of each other's lives, for the rea- | Son that he had been informed by her on the 13th of May of her condition, and he | had determined to take care of her and of the child, if it was born at the proper time. The witness said they went to Mrs. Black- burn not solely for the purpose of deceiving Mrs. Blackburn. Their purpose was to sep- | arate this woman and Mrs. Blackburn and to get this woman out of Washington. In | order to do that he had agreed to this de- | ception. He denied that he had asked Mrs. | Blackburn to take this woman under her charge for the summer. He said his recol- | lection and Mrs. Blackburn's, though both | were probably honestly trying to testify correctly according to their memories, disa- greed. He said he had seen Mrs. Blackburn after that, he thought, two or three times and had spoken to her of the matter. The agreement j he had with the plaintiff was that she was | to go to. New York and the relations be- | tween them were to be permanently sus- pended. The defendant went to New York April 29. He understood plaintiff arrived there the night after, went to the Hoffman House and represented herself as his daugh- ter. The 29th of April was the night Le was married. His Marriage Certificate. Here Mr. Wilson handed the defendant a paper which he said was a marriage certifi- cate. The witness said he filled out the cer- tificate. There were signatures on it and dates that were not in his handwriting. These signatures were those of Dr. Paxton, his present wife and the witnesses of the | marriage. The defendant said he had been married twice before that. “Then,” asked Mr. Wilson, “why do you | write in this that it was your second mar- riage’ | _“When I started to write that,” said Mr. Breckinridge, “I asked if I should write there all my family htstory, and Dr. Pax- ton asked if I had been married before, and upcn my saying ‘yes,’ he said to write then that this was my second marriage.” The witness, going on, described the coi- versation further, stating that he told Dr. Paxton that this was his cousin’s second marriage and his third. “Did you make any request of Dr. Paxton to keep this marriage secret?” “Tt did.” “Did you request him not to put this cer- tificate on record?” “I cannot recollect about that. I asked inae he would not keep this quiet until fall. “Wh pl | did your public marriage take 2? ‘he 18th of July, following.” ‘Did you not then telegraph to Dr. | Paxton to suppress this record?” | “I did not,” said Mr. Breckinridge. “I | think I wrote to Dr. Paxton and asked him |to suspend the announcement of the | marriage for the reasons I had given him at the time of the marriage.” | _ “I believe you gave those reasons,” said Mr. Wilson, “in your examination in chie! “I did not,’ the witness. Mr. Wilson, however, did not ask for the went after the marriage. “We went,” said Mr. Breckinridge, “to a hotel on the European plan, at 18th and Broadway—the Logerot.” Registered Under a False Name. ‘Did you register there under your right name?” | “We registered,” said Mr. Breckinridge, | under the name of Wm. Campbell and wife.” | “And where did Wm. Campbell purport to come from?" asked Mr. Wilson. “I do not now recall. The name of Campbell was one of my middle names. Mr. Wilson then returned to the defend- ant’s acvount of the first interview he had with Mrs. Blackburn in Miss Pollard’s | presence, when the engagement was an- nounced, and Mr. Breckinridge said he had, jin his direct examination, given the sub- stance, so far as he could recollect, of all that was said between them about his re- lations with Miss Pollard. Mr. Wilson then quoted from Mrs. | Blackburn’s account of the interview. Mr. Breckinridge said that the form in | which he put it was that he had decided | to give the plaintiff the protection of his name, and what he said about Mrs. Black- burn's protection had past, and was an expression of gratitude for what Mrs. Blackburn had done. He no recollection whatever of saying in stance that he would marry the plaintiff |@s soon as a sufficient time had elapsed | after his wife’s death. | His Conversation With Mrs. Black- burn. He did intend to cor vey the idea that he | was engaged, and to leeve her under that impression, but he could not recall any reference made by him to his former wife. He thought Mrs. Blackburn had confused | this conversation with one held by him- self with Mrs. Blackburn by the defendant on a subsequent occasion. The defendant |did not recall having in that conversation asked Mrs. Blackburn if she did not think | he was doing an absurd thing, on account of the disparity in their ages. As to this matter also, it was his belief that Mrs Blackburn had got a subsequent intervie’ | confused with this. As to Mrs. Blackburn's | statement that defencant said that he was between thirty and thirty-one years older than the plaintitf, the defendant said that is impression was that in this matter Mrs. Blackburn had confused with his some character; their relations, though known to | reference to the | THE EVENING STAR, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 4, 1894—TWELVE PAGES. ment. The substance of Mr. Breckinridge’s recoilection and that of Mrs. Blackburn's was identical, though as to the form the conversation took their recollections dif- fered. That substance was that he went there, notified Mrs. Blackburn of their en- gagement and expressed his gratification at the kindness Mrs. Blackburn had already thown the plaintiff. The 8 equent Interviews. Coming to the second interview with Mrs. Blackburn, at which the defendant was not accompanied by Miss Pollard, the defen- dant said that he could not recollect saying what Mrs. Blackburn testified to, that he had noticed she was shocked when he had announced his engagement; he did not re- call her saying that this was a poor return | for so mych devotjon as he received. His recollection was that Mrs. Blackburn said that he had been fortunate in the devotion he had received and hoped in this second marriage he would be no less fortunate. He did not recall that he had told Mrs. Blackburn that he had thought he had dis- covered Miss Pollard’s feelings toward him, and as a man of honor there was nothing for him to do but to offer her his hand. Defendant believed he had spoken of Miss Pollard’s friendless condition. He was do- ing, he said, all he could to carry out the agreement he had made with the plain- tuff. As to the next interview with Mrs. where Miss Pollard should go, and what would be best, the defendant said Miss Pol- lard had spoken of going to Europe. In that conversation Mrs. of her own intention of going to Europe. In that conversation witness had said it might be pleasant if the plaintiff could meet them in Europe, and Mrs. Blackburn had thereupon said that she and her sister pre- ferred not to be hampered or travel with a party. He did not recall the words Mrs. Blackburn testified to having used warning him that she could have nothing to do with their affair, if he was too attentive or did anything likely to make.a scandal. The witness said that in the conversation Mrs. Blackburn had spoken of the talk that might be excited, and then the defendant had urged Mrs. Blackburn to aid him !n getting the plaintiff to leave and remain away from Washington until their marriage ~for he was constantly leaving Mrs. Black- burn under the impression that he was go- ing to marry the plaintiff. “I was honestly,” said the defendant, “If I can use such an expression, trying to carry out my agreement with the plaintiff.” “You were honestly trying to deceive Mrs. Blackburn?” said Mr. Wilson. “Yes,” said Mr. Breckinridge with a sigh, “I was honestly trying to deceive her. I therefore do not blame Mrs, Blackburn for feeling some acerbity about the case.” His Recollection in Different. Mr. Wilson continued to go over other statements made by Mrs. Blackburn in that and other interviews. As to the statement that Mrs. Blackburn had made that the defendant had told her that Miss Pollard was worrying herself and | himself by her jealousy, and asked her to endeavor to allay her jealousy, the defend- ant sald that the form in which Mrs. Black- | burn put the conversation did not accord Blackburn, when they were talking about | Blackburn spoke | said, “implies a certain mental condition, which did not exist.” At this point the usual recess was taken. After Recess. ‘When the court resumed this afternoon Mr. Breckinridge was again put in the wit- ness box, and his cross-examination contin- ued by Mr, Wilson. He was asked first as to certain details of Maj. Moore’s evidence given on the first day after testimony was begun on behalf of the plaintiff. The visit to Maj. Moore's office on May 17 was taken up, and the defendant was asked as to whether the statement was true that was made by Maj. Moore as to what was sald by the defendant about their coming mar- riage, and the impressive scene when all three clasped hands. Mr. Breckinridge said that this was about the gist of what had cecurred on that occasion. Maj. .foore, he said, had made no attempt to be accurate as to every word spoken, but his testimony, as read from the record by Mr. Wilson, Mi Breckinridge characterized a boiled Cae report of what he had said during the visit. There was nothing in the conversation about her dying out of his life, for the agreement then was that he was to take care of the child that might be born, ard for the mother for an indefinite period. His purpose was to carry out an understanding | between them that these statements should be made for the sake of removing from Maj. Moore’s mind the idea that Miss Pol- lard was a suitable person to turn cver to the police. The visit was made for the sake of placing her in a better light with Maj. | Moore, and not because they feared he was likely to make public what he knew. The necessity for saying that they were going to be married, Mr. Breckinridge said, arose from the fact that it was the only condition upon which she would go to Maj. Mcore’s office. He had agreed to make precisely the statement that he did make, that she was pregnant by defendant, that she was going away until the child was born and that they were to be married as soon as _her condition warranted it. There was no agreement about the clasp- ing of hands, and it came about through the plaintiff taking defendant's hand. This Was an interpolation, he said, whether | thought out beforehand or spontaneous he | could not say; but it was not done by any | prearrangement with him. He agreed with Maj. Moore that the scene must have been an impressive one. “It was,” said Mr. Brecginridge, “an oc- currence that Maj. Moore had probably never seen before, and I trust will never see again. My purpose throughout was, if I may use the phrase, to rehabilitate the plaintiff in the estimation of Maj. Moore.” The Desire to Separate Not Mutual. Continuing, Mr. Breckinridge said that the desire to separate was not mutual. He was anxious to bring about a separation and to break up the relations that existed between them, but Miss Pollard was not willing. She wanted to marry, and if he refused in that she wanted to keep up the same relations that had existed for nine years, with the understanding that he was not to marry any one else. Mr. Breckin- ridge again stated that at times she seemed anxious to keep the relations a secret, but at other times he was not so sure of her wishing it. ‘with his recollection. He had spoken of Miss Pollard’s being worried and in bad | health. The defendant said if the word | jealousy was used it was used by Mrs. | Blackburn. Mr. Wilson read over the long | statement made by Mrs. Blackburn about | the matter of jealousy, in which the de-| fendant was represented as disclaiming that | any word of affection had passed between | | him and Mrs. Wing, and had declared his | intention of going to Kentucky when Con- | gress adjourned and arranging for his fu- ture marriage. The defendant said Mrs, Blackburn had | put together two or three conversations as occurring at one time. Some parts of Mrs. | Blackburn's statement, he said, was en ab- solute mistake of Mrs. Blackburn's recol- lection. No such conversation as a whole had occurred. Mr. Wilson desired the witness to answer more directly, and objection was made by | Mr. Thompson to his requiring the witness | to answer in a word, after reading to him a long deposition. Mr. Wilson said all he wanted was to have | the defendant answer the question and not to make speeches. Mr. Breckinridge said he was willing and desirous of answering the questions. Some More Denials. He denied that he had ever told Mrs. Blackburn that he was not going to marry Mrs. Wing and had no intention of marry- | ing her. He had not spoken to her of Mrs. | Wing until after his marriage with Mrs, Wing, and that was after Congress ad- journed. “Do you deny the truth of Mrs. Black- burn’s statement?" asked Mr. Wilson. “I do not deny their truth, in the sense of | saying that she has testified falsely. I do | say that she got several conversations com- | mingled and that she has been led into| error by faulty recollection. He thought Mrs. Blackburn had also coi fused statements he had made to Miss Pollard with statements she had made w | im, He did not think Mrs. Blackburn had or would make use of the word “villain” | to him, when he was a visitor there in the manner descrived. He did not think a lady | would do that in her own apartments. Mr. Wilson asked if he did not think the word could appropriately be used by a lady if the circumstances justified it, and , called for such a term, and the defendant said it might, he thought, be used. ‘The conversation in which Mrs. Black- burn testified that she had said as he had not kept his agreement with her, she with- drew her protection, the defendant said oc- curred substantially as Mrs. Blackburn had told it, except at another time and under | other ‘circumstances. Hig recollection of | Mrs. Blackburn's language was that she | said, “I wash my hands of the whoie | transaction.” Some Superb Acting. The interview at which Miss Pollard ask- ed him to name a day for their marriage occurred, the defendant said, the night of | Sunday, May 14. Mrs, Blackburn, he said, had given an account of a scene which did really happen, but not exactly according to defendant's recollection. There was some superb acting. - “On whose part,” sald Mr. Wilson, “Miss | Poliard’s, Mrs. Blackburn's, or your own?” “On Miss Pollard’s part, and some, un- doubtedly, on mine. Miss Pollard, however, introduced some things which ‘were not down on the bills.” The defendant then went on to describe how Miss Pollard had come over, kneeied down beside him and asked him to name the day of their marriage. The defendant had said: “I will not name the day.” | Mrs. Blackburn had said: “Take your seat,” and the defendant said: ‘No demonstrations | here, in the presence of Mrs. Blackburn.” — | He said the plaintiff had gone a step fur-| ther than their agreement called for, in un-| dertaking to have him name a day for their | | marriage. He resented this and declined to Mrs. Blackburn's recital of this interview quoted herself as saying that she had said | to the plaintiff that as Mr. Breckinridge had stated he would come back and arrange with her (Mrs. Blackburn) the day of their marriage, that should be satisfactory to her. | | The defendant that that did not accord with his recollection. The defendant had Stated that he had a good deal of business! to arrange, family affairs, &c., and Mrs. | Blackburn had told her that that must be so and the plaintiff ought to be satisfied. ‘The defendant's recollection of what he had sald to Mrs. Blackburn after she said she would wash her hands of the whole af- fair was: “Ll am extremely sorry. I cannot make an explanation now, but I hope at some time to make to you a full explana- tion.” He had, he said, in his direct ex- emination given as full an account as he jcoulg of these interviews—as full as he |} could without cross-examination. The First Visit to Maj. Moore. Mr. Wilson then called attention to the defendant's first account of the first visit | to the office of Maj. Moore, May 13, 1803. | He also called attention to Maj. Moore's ac- ‘count of the interview. Maj. Moore's ac- count said that the plaintiff said that he ‘should name a time to marry her, and the defendant said “the 3ist of this month.” The defendant said the plaintiff said: “Marry me; marry me this month,” to which the defendant said: “I will marry you the Sist of this month if God does not interpose,” or “if God, in His wisdom, does not interfere.” “God did not interpose?” said Mr. 80! Wil- didn't interfere,” said the defend- ant t if He did, I thank Him from the | very bottom of my heart. He probably fur- | nished a mode by which I got out.” The defendant said he and Col. Moore did not much disagree in the accounts of that interview. Mr. Wilson then went to the statements made by the defendant re- specting the first interview with Maj. | Moore, at a later period in his direct ex- amination. In this accou! the defendant said the plaintiff stated won't kill you if you will marry me.” The defendant said he would not undertake to say that his tes- tumony had covered everything that was said. It was an excited conversation; sometimes they were both talking together. He didn’t, he said, promise to marry the plainuff. “To use the word promise,” he further | “Then you wanted to push her out into | the world, in the sense of breaking off with her?” asked Mr. Wilson. “Most emphatically, yes,” answered Mr. Breckinridge. The defendant in answer to further ques- tions stated that the plaintiff always re- fused to settle her claims against him by the payment of a certain sum by him, on the condition that they separate. “She realized,” he said, “that she had me capitelized for a good, steady income. A mode of settling was discussed at var- ious times and the understanding was that he was to supply her with funds as she needed them, Miss Pollard Indignant. These answers of Col. Breckinridge un- doubtedly angered Miss Pollard, for her face flushed a deep crimson and her eyes flashed with unusual brilliancy, as she glanced indignantly at the defendant. For a moment she was about to rise in her seat, but she did not, and she soon recovered her composure. Mr. Breckinridge was asked if he knew of a man in Lexington by the name of Alex Levescue, and said that he did. Asked why they had not taken his deposizion, notice of which they had given the plain- tiff, he said that so far as he knew, it was merely because the fact that what they had expected to prove by him had sub- stantially been proved by Miss Hoyt. It was with reference to certain dates and matters of that sort. Mr. Wilson then left this topic and went back to the occasion upon which Miss Pol- lard had threatened to take her life. The plaintift had given away some of her be- longings, destroyed the manuscript of a novel she had written and which had been rejected. Miss Pollard, he said, had also written out a story of her life and her re- lations with him as an explanation of her suicide. Mr. Breckinridge was asked if he had not gone with Miss Pollard in a cab after the conversation in which she told of her inten- tion to commit suicide, and driven to an express office to get out the box in which she had sent her clothes off to a friend. He said he had no recollection of any such performance, nor could he recollect that she ever spoke to him about the reports that were coming to her of his relations with colored women, which reports worried her greatly. Mr. Breckinridge denied that he ever vis- ited the plaintiff at Mary McKenzie's hous on 2d street, nor had he ever been in the house. He did know, though, where the house is said to be, but he did not visit her there in 1888, nor did he know of his own knowledge that a child had been born there under the care of Dr. Parsons. “But I do mean to say,” continued Mr. Breckinridge, “that I understand there is such a person. I am given to understand that persons connected with this case have been to see her, to train her as to testi- mony she is to give in this trial. I am in- formed that she is going to testify that I visited her house, but if she does swear to that she will swear to a falsehood. “Has anyone been to see Mary McKen- zie on your behalf?” “Yes; my son.” “How often? “Once. I heard that there was such a per- son in this case, and I sent a person to her in whom I have every confidence and whose loyalty to me is unquestioned.” As to Notices in The Star. “Did you not have an arrangement by which notices printed in The Evening Star would give you information as to the condi- tion of the plaintiff while she was at Mary McKenzie's?” “I did not,” answered Mr. Breckinridge. “Did you not,” continued Mr. Wilson, “have written typewritten letters, in which you outlined a plan by which veiled notices printed in The Star would give you in- formation of Miss Pollard’s condition, the birth of a child and the condition of the child, if one was born?” “I most certainly did not; and if any such notices had ever appeared in the press they would have conveyed no meaning to me.” “That is all,” said Mr. Wilson, and then turning to Mr. Butterworth: “You may take the witness for further examination.” This came rather in the nature of a sur- prise, and at 2:05 o'clock Mr. Butterworth took up the redirect examination. Redirect Examination, To Mr. Butterworth the defendant said he had no knowledge of any such notice be- | ing written or published. Mr. Butterworth then asked when and where he had conversed with the plaintiff as to her relations with Mr. Rodes, and Mr. Breckinridge said that it occurred once in December, 1892, at his rooms here, and dur- ing a walk from his rooms to a house on H street. She had been found at his rooms when he came in, and she told him that since her return from Kentucky she had been cut or snubbed on the streets; that she had no girl friends, and that he must marry her. He spoke rather harshly to her, tell- | ing her that he would never take her into | his family, She then said that she would be willing to be his mistress, keep out of sociecy and do his works She was, she said, a good typewriter, when he replied that he could never have her do his work. She xrew quite excited, saying that she would not leave him, and that she would follow him wherever he went. He then told her that she was pursuing a blackmailing scheme, when she said that he should not talk in that way to her. She grew still more ex- cited, and exclaimed that unless he then promised to marry her, she would create a scene. He replied, “Very well. Go on, then we will both be turned out on the street.” The defendant then recounted at great length how she calmed down some, and that they went down to the H street house,where they talked the matter over in a more quiet way. Gradually, she again grew more excited, and he also became somewhat ex- cited and angry. He told her again that he could not, would not marry her. He told her that she had been the mistress of Rodes, and that he would never consent to | take into his family the mistress of another | man, or even a former mistress of his own, ‘Thereupon, explained the defendant, the ntiff became sull more excited and an- and told him that if he did not then there promise to marry her, she would the window and alarm the neighbor- | an open hood. SOME TARIFF TALK How Senator Quay Explained a Petition as to Sugar. SENATOR ALLISON RESUMES HIS SPEECH The English-Hilborn Contested Election Case Settled. HILBORN UNSEATED In the Senate today the report of the Sec- retary of Agriculture relative to the visible supply of wheat, in response to the resolu- tion of Senator Pettigrew, passed yesterday, was read and referred to the committee on} agriculture. Among the petitions and memorials pre- sented was one by Senator Gordon of Geor- gia, being a protest of the Baptist Churches of Atlanta, Ga., against the constitutional amendment proposed by Representative Morse (Mass.) recognizing the Deity in the preamble to the Constitution. It was re- ferred to the judiciary committee. A Tariff Peiition. A lively debate was precipitated by the presentation of a memorial from the Phila- delphia board of trade praying for adequate duties on sugar, Senator Quay, who pre- sented the memorial, sent it to the clerk’s desk to be read, but Senator Harris, carry- ing out the threat made yesterday that he would object to the interposition of any business which would delay the tariff bill, objected to the reading of the memorial, whereupon Mr. Quay withdrew the me- morial and began to read it himself. Mr. Harris objected to this also and re- quested that the rule regarding petitions and memorials be read. He said that they could- not be read at length either by the clerk nor | by the Senator presenting them. Mr. Aldrich’s Hint. The rule was read, when Senator Aldrich | Suggested to Senator Quay that upon any} question coming up in the morning hour he| could address the Senate upon it and read the memorial as a part of his remarks. Mr. Harris agreed as to the correctness/ of Senator Aldrich’s hint, but characterized | it as an ingenious method of violating the rule. Senator Vest took the same position as Senator Harris and asserted that if all pe- titions were to be read the entire time of the Senate would be fully taken up. Senator Aldrich said that the committee on finance had heard certain interests, while others had been precluded, This practically amounted to a denial of the right of peti- tion. The disc jon was further taken part in by several other Senators on both sides of the chamber. The Vice President held that the purpose of the Senate in enacting the rule was evi- dently in the interest of economy of time, and he was compelled to sustain the point of order of Senator Harris. Senator Quay asked if it was the decision of the chair that he might make a brief statement, and the Vice President assented. Mr. Quay’s Statement. Mr. Quay then explained that the peti- tion was from the Philadelphia board of trade, one of the greatest commercial bod- jes in the country, composed of men of high intelligence and wealth. It dealt with the duty on sugar imposed by the pending bill, holding that it would result in the importation of loaf and granu- lated sugar. The petitioners urged that all sugar of 98 degrees polariscope test or No. 16 Dutch standard should be sub- ject to a tax of $1.36 per 100 pounds and 1-4 of a cent per pound additional on re- fined sugar, or $1.51 per 100 pounds. The duty proposed in the bill would en- danger the $3,000,000 invested in ibe | business in Philadelphia and the 6,000 | men employed in the industry there. The incident was thus closed, and, on, mo- tion of Mr. Gallinger (N. Ii), the Senate took up the bill to more effectually sup- press gambling in the District of Columbia. The bill as amended was then passed on a yea and nay vote of 32 to 11. The resolution offered by Senator Peffer some time ago dirccting the finance com- mittee to report a bill repealing all laws authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to issue bonds without specttic authority from Congress was laid before the Senate and Mr. Peffer began a speech in favor of his resolution, At 2 o'clock Mr. Peffer asked unanimous consent that the resolution should lie over until tomorrow morning, when he would continue his remarks. It was granted. Mr, Allison Resumes His Tariff Speech The tariff bill was then laid before the Senate as the unfinishel business ani Mr. Allison took up the thread of his argument at the point at which it was dropped yes- terday, arguing against the substitution of ad volcrem duties in p'ace of the specific. He pointed out the iifticulty—almost the impossibility—of accurately ascertaining the «iue of an article in the exporting coun- try. Contesting the assertion of Senator Voor- hees that prosperity under a tariff for rev- enue only continued until the war, he point- ed out that the Morrill tariff was signed by | a democratic President in 18¢1, repealing the tariff of 1846, before the war cloud settled upon the country. As to Specific Duties, He said he understood the duty had been made specific on tin plate in this bill at the | request of tin plate importers who feared dishonest appraisement at their expense under the ad valorem system. The duty on | coal had been made specific, he said, be- cause American coal producers knew that an ad valorem duty would practically be no duty at all. The same was true of fron ore and sugar. He said the cutting down of the duty on lead ore was to the detriment of silver, lead | and silver ores being found commonly in| juxtaposition. While asserting that ad valor- | em_ duties were the only just duties, they | had made specific duties on the products of | states whose representatives had access to the committee that fixed the schedules, THE HOUSE, As soon as the House met this morning the republicans resumed their filibustering tactics to prevent the unseating of Mr. Hilborn (Cal.). They resisted the approval of the journal and forced the yeas and nays upon the demand for the previous question The democrats failed to secure a quorum on the demand for the previous question on the approval of the journal, the vote being 168 to 0, and to avoid the tedious and complicated proceedings involved in a call of the House Mr. Springer moved to adjourn, with the understanding that the democrats would vote down the motion. Mr. Springer’s Point of Order. One hundred and sixty-five democrats vot- ed down the motion to adjourn, and there- upon Mr. Springer made the point of or- der, a quorum having appecred, that the demand for the previous question on the approval of the journal was an interven- ing motion under the terms of the order under which the House was operating. The Speaker sustained the point of order and refused to entertain an appeal from his decision, He stated the question to be on the latter half of the substitute resolu- tion offered by the minority of the elections committee, on which the House was divi ing when an adjournment was had last night, declaring Mr. English not elected | and not entitled to his seat. |_ This half of the resolution, declaring Mr. English not elected, was disagreed to—12— 1 67. ‘The following voted in favor of the reso- lution: Democrats—Bartlett (N. Y.), Breckinridge (Ark.), Coombs (N. Y.), Crawford (N. C. Hall (Minn.), McLaurin (8. C), Shell (. c.), Ryan (N. Y.) and Harris (Kan. Populists—Bell (Col.), Hudson (Kan.),Kem (Neb.). Hilborn Unse: Mr. Reed demanded a division of the majority resolution, and the next vote was | taken on the following: _ “Resolved, That Samuel G. Hilborn was not elected a Representative in the Fifty- third Congress from the third congressional district of California, and is not entitled to a seat therein.” The resolution was adopted—170—13. ‘The last vote w taken on the resolution to seat Mr. English: Resolved, That Warren B. English was elected a Representative in the Fifty-third Congress from the third congressional dis- trict of California, and is entitled to a seat therein, | torily without loss we will make the follow- | due to interest and appropriation amcunts _ably reported by a subcommittee, and the THE COMPANY’S PROPOSAL. The Garbage Sureties Make an Offer to the District. The Commissioners spent a large portion of the afternoon discussing the garbage problem with Manager Baily representing the sureties of the defunct National Sant- tary Company. Manager Baily submitted the following letter from President War- field of the Fidelity and Deposit Company, which is the surety of the failng contrac- tors: “Referring to our several interviews in regard to the contract for the destruc- tion of garbage I beg to submit the follow- ing statement of facts in reference to the contract which you made with the Na- tional Sanitary Company: That contract allowed the destruction of the garbage within the limits of the District of Co- lumbia at a plant erected upon a site se- lected and located under and by your au- thority. The plant was finished at a very great cost and the National Sanitary Com- pany was performing the work in a satis- factory hee agroag Heed will fully appear from your report to Congress. *On December 1, 1893, the plant of said company was destroyed by fire. Arrange- ments have been made by which the factory can be rebuilt and the contract carried out, but we are advised that it is your desire, as well as that of the people of your city, that the plant should not be rebuilt upon its pres- ent site, but that it should be removed be- yond the limits of the District. To do this involves great cost and loss to the parties interested, but if you deem it best to tsoiate the factory at a point where there can be no objection upon the part of the citizens of Washington we are prepared to say that if you will arrange to give a just compensa- tion for the destruction of this garbage in a manner not to create a nuisance to the peo- ple of the District and will make a contract for such a period of time as will justify the large expenditure necessary to erect a plant to perform the work properly and satisfac- ing proposition: The Proposition. “We will transport our garbage, dead ani- mals and condemned food beyond the limits of the District of Columbia, and destroy the same by reduction or cremation for the sum j of $29,000 per annum for a term of three} years, or, if the contract can be made for a period of ten years, we will be willing to perform the work for $25,000 per annum; provided, however, that a reasonable time | be given to erect a factory, and until said | factory is built, or in the event of the sus-/| pension of work at the factory by fire or from any other cause, we shall be permitted to dispose of the garbage otherwise, with- out creating a nuisance. “We further agree to give a daily garbage service within the limits of Washington city and Georgetown, for the months of May, June, July, August and September of each year, for the additional sum of $16,000 for said months in each year, resepctively, during the existence of this contract, which expires June 30, 1897."" —_ > THE MAYOR OF FLORENCE. What He Says of the Recent Conflicts in South Carolina. Mayor W. W. Hersey of Florence, N. C., one of the centers of conflict over Gov. Tillman's dispensary law, was at the Cap- tol today, in company with Representa- tive McLaurin of South Carolina. The mayor is not apprehensive of further trou- ble at Florence. He says the militia are standing by the governor. Mayor Hersey is convinced, however, that the recent con- flict has demonstrated that the dispensary law cannot be executed and must be re- pealed. He says people who have hereto- fore supported the law now recognize its futility and are urging its repeal. —— BILLS REPORTED. The House District Committee Acts on Several Measures. The House District committee today in- structed Mr. Richardson of Tennessee to report favorably to the House the bill to amend the charter of the Belt Line Rail- road Company in accordance with the Richardson bill amended, as suggested by the Commissioners. The road is permitted by the bill to run its tracks from Boundary and L street «ast along L street to 20th and thence to M and from M to Rock creek. The bill authorizes the road to abandon those tracks in South Washington and connections, the abandonment of which the Commissioners recommended, and in addition the committee adopted a “clause permitting the abandonment of the tracks along O and P streets between 4th and ith streets, concerning which the Commissioners made no recommendation. The committee also reported favorably the Senate bill to promote anatomical science and to prevent the desecration of graves in the District of Columbia. The question of the suburban railroad and the proposition to extend the steam railroad along Water street in Georgetown were discussed, but no action was taken upon them. —_———_ CAPITOL TOPICS. Venezuelan Awards. ‘The Senate committee on foreign relations had under ccnsideration today a bill to pro- vide for the disposition of the accretions upon the funds received from the Venezue- lean government through the Caracas awards made under the treaty of April 25, 1866. These funds were invested in United States government bonds and the increase to $117,502. The bill under consideration provides that the Department of State may apply this amount to the payment of other awards of Venezula claims made subsequent to those on which the money has accumu- lated and credit the Venezuelan government with this amount. The bill has been favor- discussion today indicated that it would re- ceive the sanction of the entire committee at an early day. nion Pacific Reorganizatt The Senate committee on Pacific rafiroads today had under consideration the question of the reorganization of the Uniol Pacific railroad. The discussion was largely in- formal. Chairman Brice informed the com- mittee that the Attorney General had a plan of organization under consideration and that he thought the proper course of the committee would be to await his report before attempting to take definite action. ——+2+—_______ The President's Condition, The President is still suffering with the gout and has not yet wholly recovered the use of his right foot. He was eble, however, to hobble into the cast room this afternoon and shake hands with about 800 excursionist: ———___- e-_____ From the Kearsarge. At the request of Assistant Secretary McAdoo the United States consuls in the neighborhood of Roncador reef have been instructed to keep a sharp lookout for the bell and memorial plate of the Kearsarge, supposed to have taken by wreckers and sold. Chicago Grain a: Provision Markets. Reported by sady & Co., bankers and brokers, siding: Metropolitan Bank 2: CHICAGO, April 4, 1894. Open. High. Saw. Close. Wheat—April Gor, 6% 2 May. ey July. Corn—April May. goseesZeh, BsaRnAasase k Cott Month. © High. Low, Close. Per Tes Tl 7.68 7% 770 7.00 1 17 1:74 77% 7S 7.79 Baltimore Market BALTIMORE, Md., April 4 Flour quiet od and un- changed—receipts, 11,502 barrels: shipments, 23,505 pattie Apel, o2acey: May, eous July. Graces: 2h; 2: May, Mi iy. = steamer No. 2 red, 59% bid—receipts, 19,987 bush- stock, 910,400 milling wheat’ by on strong—spot, 42% bid: April, 424 Did; steamer mixel. 41041 shipments, 95,528 bushe sales, 57,000 bushels— south: 48n43%. Guts steady- No. 2 BSaRsy; No, 2 mixed western, 6,000 “bushels; stock, 91,214 | 2. Baa! 2 rec ar quiet and $14.50as15.00. choice to tim. FINANCE AND TRADE It Was Dull and Listless in Wall Street. OPERATORS INCLINED 70 BE HOPEFUL Missouri Pacific Scores Another Gain, GENERAL MARKET REPORTS Special Dispatch to The Evening Star. NEW YORK, April 4—There was noth- ing of interest to any but the professional operator in today’s dull and listless market. The disinterestedness at times approached dangerously near the stagnation point, leaving prices in many instances almost unaltered. London, too, was dull and ir- regular, with a slight tendency to further realize on last week's purchases. The gen- eral narrowness of speculation led to some realizing by the room which the bear party at once made the most of, in order to force a reaction Despite the energetic efforts of the latter class of traders, no long stock of any importance hes been dislodged. The bears have consequently come to realize that they have done ail the selling and can- not control the situation. They are confronted, too, by their lack of ability to depress prices under cover of ex- treme dullness, which suggests a buying back of their recent sales a few eighths in vance of the original transaction. This rod of 4 _ soon become discour- aging, an en the bull the front as leaders. ree Reactions are both natural and desirable after a continuous use, and one at this time would do no harm, but beyond that there is little iikelihood of any natural set- back in prices. The market responds easily to good news and attaches little importance to bad, in the belief that it can be only temporary in the face of improved conditions. Missouri Pacific scored another gain of 1 per cent to 32 after a rather weak opening on reported improvement in traffic. The recent 10 per cent rise in this property 1s said to than one-half in to be finally recorded. -2 wine Deiaware and Hudson reflected the popu- = worming | ea gilt-edged investments by advancing 3 1-2 per cent on comparatively small transactions. New is expect- ed to show a net loss for last quarter of nearly $50,000 notwithstanding the fact that the most severe economic measures have been resorted to in order to curtail operating expenses. Rumors of aprobable sale of this road serve the temporary pur- pose of holding the price up. @ General Electric sold down 2 per cent on published report that = of the brokers report a commodity, re- re- for that brighter outlook sulting in an advance in the rates for fined and a slight reduction in the price of raw. The market for sterling and continental bills was strong at a fractional advance over yesterday's rates. There is some in- quiry from arbitrage houses for bilis to cover sales of stocks for foreign account. The continued scarcity of all classes of commercial bills and the selling of stocks by London has given rise to some speculation as to the probabilities of gold exports, The leading down-town banks say that none will go out this week unless French houses come into the market. Prices rallied fractionally during the last hour, but closed dull and irregular. FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL. ‘The following are the opening, the and the lowest and the closiag prices of the New York stock market today, as reported oy Corson & Macartney, members Ni York stock exchange. Correspondents Messrs. Moore & Schley, No. 5) Broadway: Stocks. American Sugar... American Sugar, pfa. American Tobaceo. American Cotton Oil. Atchison Canada Southern Canada Pacitic Chesapeake and Onio €.C. C. and St. L. Chicago. B. ana @ Chic. ana Nortawestern. Chicago Gas .... CaM. and St. Paul. 2M. and St. Pani, pfd. RI. and Pacific “Del, Lack. and W.. Delaware ana Hudson. 8. and Cattle 4 General Electric ational Cordage Co National Cordage, pta. New Jersey Central... New York Central. La i &LE pta.. Western Union Te! Wisconsm Central. Sales—regular call—12 o'dock m.—Colum>ia Fire Insurance, 30 at 14. verninent —United States 4s, rezistered, 1907, 1134 bid, 114% asked. United States 4s, ygpom, 1007, 113% bla. United States Gs, 117% District of Columbia Tonds.—20-year Funding 5s, 108 bid. 30-year Funding Gs, gold, 116% bid. Water stock currency 7s, 1901, 117 bid. Water stock currency 78, 1003, 120 bid. 3.65s, Punding currency, 111% bid, 113 asked. Sigs, reg. 2-103, 100 bid. Miscellaneous | Bonds.—Washingtos and Geonge- town Kaliroad conv. Gs, Ist, 125 Did, 135 asked. Washington and Georgetown Rafiroad ‘omy. 6a, 2d, 125 bid, 135 asked. Me! tan Railroad conv. Gs, 101 ‘bid, 106 asked. Belt Raflroad 5s, 8 bid, 90 asked. Eckington Railroad Gs, x8 ih 300 i ington Gas Company’ Gs, 114 bid, 125 asked. Washington Gas ¢ series B, 115 bid, 125 asked. Washington Gas Company” conv. 5, 127% bid, 140 asked. United ates Electric Light couv. 5a, 122 bid, 125 getet A. & 0. 100 bid Gs, 105 bid. Washington 165 bid. Washington Market bid, Masonic Halll Association Se 103 id ington Light Infantry Ist 6s, 103 bid. Washing- ton Light Infantry 24 7s, 100'bid, tional Bank Stocks.—Bank of Washington, 300 Rank of Republic, 220 bid. Metropolitan, 270 4. Central, bid. Farmers’ aod “Mechanies 191 bid. Citizens’, 130 bid. Columbia, 125 bid) Capital, 115 bid. “West End, 104 bid, "107 asked. Traders’, 104 bid. Lincoln, 91% bid. Safe and Trust Companies.—National Safe D it and Trust, 130 bid, 135 asked. Waxb- ington Loan and Trust.'120 bid, 126 asked. Amerl- “133 bid, 134 asked. ai Metronet a 300 10 asked. Metropolitan, SS Ws asked. Columbia, Belt, 20 bid, 30 caked. Eckington, 25 bid. Gas and Blectric Light Stocks.—Washington Gre, 45% bid, 47 asked. Georgetown Gas, 48 Wid. United States Hlectrie Light, °117 bid, 121 asked. Insurance Stocks.— Firemen’s, bid. Franklin, 43 bid, 50 asked. Metropolitan, 75 bid. Corcornn, 60 bid. Potomac, 74 bid. Arlington, 154 bid, 162 asked. German American, 165 vid. Nattonal Union, Columbia, 13% bid, 13% ani nae Le bi Heal Extate Title, 112 Title, Gi, bid, Ty asked. od yivanin, 47 asked. Chesa- 7 vid, 48 asked. Ai Pueumatic Gun Carriage, « Grahonbone, t bid. Naignellaweses oeks. — jing? ket, 33 bid, 15 asked. Great Falls Ive. bid. Bull Ren Panorama, 15 bid. Norfolk aud Shington Steam- boat, 90 bid *Ex. Dividend. —_— Range of the Thermometer. The following were the readings of the thermometer at the weather bureau today: am., 46; 2 p.m., 54; maximum, 54; sain!- mum, 41. y A . frelghte dull and ‘unchanged. Sugar. duli nged. Butter very firm—fancy creamery, imitation, 18020; do. ladle, IGal6; good lie, I8alS; store packed, 13814. Eggs weak— fresh, 1\gall, Cheese unchanged. John Swigart, proprietor of the Illustrated Century, died aonday evening in Chicago of peritonitis.