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MADELINE’S STORY.
The One That She Had to Tell
<■ Before the Jury.
VOICE STONG AND CLEAR.
She Began Her Statement With
a Bit of Family History.
A Tough Story.
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Washington; March 16.—‘Madeline
Pollard, attired in the same neat/fitting
blue gown and the little chip bonnet
which she has worn every day at the
trial of her suit against Colonel Breck
inridge, was an early comer to the crim
inal coqibKjom. None
were present when MisePellard had
made her appearance. Miss Bllis, her
motherly looking'companion from the
House of Mercy, was with her, as usual,
and arranged Miss Poljdrd’s chair for
her. J ;’f el
Whbn Judge Wilson, the principal at
torney for the pluiiplifE entered. Miss
Sollard gave him a sad little smile and
harejas flown,} rpsumipg her'
haMtuarlopk of dbjectioA. l WhenXW*
nel Breckinridge entpred Miss PpUard
looked'ap, but apparently did hot see
him. There was a whispered con
sultation for |a j rainnte .»r two be
tween Sawyer, Ckrilsld awl hlsfcliepi,
and b rumo# went abound thVcohrt
room that Mias Pollard would bp placed
on, the scans aaril/e fiitti ‘ wnhesd. / TflAn.'
Judge Wilson and Mr. Carlisle held a
confidential talk' during Which'they ex
aminpd, a nuipber of lettjers, and the ru,--
mhr-began to* be Mated “as a-fact. There
was a wait, of 20 minuses and then Miss
Pollard, at}<hp word Iro.il| Ji(oge Wil
son rose from her seat and made her
way to the*witness stand.
uSflence, said the criers as a buzz of
excitement went up. Miss Ellis F took
Lor'seat next to Miss Pollard, who gave
her name in a firm manner, and an-,
■wered Mr. Carlisle’s questions in a
steady vqice that sometimes became al
most too loud. Mr. Carlisle’s prelimi
nary questions were about Miss Pollard’s ‘
parentage.
Her father was a saddler. When he
died, in 1886, all the Odd Fellows and
Masonic lodges in Kentucky sent dele
gates to Frankfort to attend the funeral.
She told of spending some time with her
Pittsburg aunt after her father’s death.
Her use of the broad “a” was noticea
ble, so Was her pronunciation of the
word “maina.” In answer to Mr. Car
disle. Miss Pollard said:
“In the very last days of August, 1892,
Mr. Breckinridge met me at the Balti
more and Qhio railway station,”
“How did he greet yonj’’’
“He drew me to him, tossed me, and
Sut me In a carriage, and we were
riven into the country.” .; •
“What did he say in the carriage?”
“He told me that he hful something
to tell me,,and he said that he was vain
enough- to think I would be glad to
hear it. He said his children were aH
grown tip now, and that there was nO
reason why he should not indfry. He
asked me if I would marry h ; >, and I
told himJ would,” * <-»
She hkd stopped' at Lafayette
square for a few days during that visit;
had seen Breckinridge every day and
added he said that, he had married his
second wife 14 months after the death
of his first wife, land a year after the
death ’of his second "wife would not be
too Soon to rparry me. .’' ■ o
I told him we ought nottb mhrry for
two yeaas and proposed to go with Miss
Willard on a school trip for young la
dies in Europe.
lie said I must not go and leave him
living in the rooms, a thing he bad not
done for 80 years. He put it oil. the
f round that I would be selfish to go, and
did not.”
A letter which was < dated at-
Gray .Gables, BuZzhrd’s Bay., Mas
sacbushtts, in October, 1892, from Mfcs
Catherine Willard, and which referred
to a proposal that Miss Pollard join her
European party, was read-to the jury.
Colonel Breckinridge had paid the ex
penses of Miss Poliard on her New York
visit in the fall of 1892 c
When C6lonel Breckinridge was in
Washington she ispw-Ihjim every few
days.
The question of marriage was resumed
at this time, and although no date was
fixed, the colonel always insisted that a
year after his wife’s death, which would
be in the spring of 1893, would be the
time most suitable for him. .
Misa Pollaxd said that opce.cn a lets,
taring trip to New England, she had
accompanied Colonel Breckinridge.
She had spoken of her engagement to
Mrs. Thomas, and she repeated the cir
cumstances related by the witness,
Claude De La lioche Francis, pronouno- -
ing the name FraAvncis, as did the youiig
man. The visit to Mrs. Blhckburn’s
was also rehearsed by Miss Pollard, who
declared that Colonel Breckinridge had
introduced her to Mrs. Blackburn with
these words:
“I want toplace this young lady uiU
der your protection, for I intend to
make her mr wife. She is a great deal
to me now and will be a great deal more.”
She' repeated the circumstances of
Breckinridge’s visits to Mrs, Blackburn
when he had explained to her the en
gagement and spoke also of an instance
when Colonel Breckinridge had placed,
his arm around her saying:
‘‘He was most ’affectionate and most
kind.”
“I asked Mr. Breckinridge then, as he
was talking of going to Chicago, to name
the day whan he would marry me. I
think I knelt down beside him and pnt
one firm over his shoulder, but Mrs.
Blackburn objected/!
This was Sunday, May 14, 1892. Sat
urday. May 13, the day before, she had
visited the office of Dr. Lincoln with
Colonel Breckinridge, and on the same
day went to the office of Chief of Police
Major Moore, a visit which that official
had described on the stand. The second
visit was May 17 to Major Moore.
Miss Pollard then testified as to her
relations with Mr. Rodes; her meeting
with. Mr_ Breckinridge in a railroad w
p Vi trjr /j/i . ja- j < ui, i kudh .hi
THE ROME TRIBUNE.
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nis visits to tne seminary; neb visits to
Sjarah Guest’s with Mr. Breckinridge;
Ser going to see Dr. Mary Street in Cin
innati in 1885. by the of > Mr.
I Breckinridge, to make arrangements for
the birth of her first child.
Miss Pollard gave her testimony
Without any noticeable marks of
nervousness except in a rising tendency
J’ her voice at times and an inclination
talk too fast. Her story was told
With minute detail -as if she had re
hearsed it time and again.
Shp looked Bfqckftpjidgp equally . ip
the eyes without appearing to do so. Iu
answer to tjtiestions «he. testified, that?
Breckinridge was thp father .of a chjra
born* May 29, 1885? and l at’ ho ; time
plac? prior to, meeting Breckinridge or,
alter ineettogdiim Had sH6 ’had 1 sdxiiar
relations with, any otfipi; man.
A Bomb In the Camp. ,■; ■I;
■ ffEW March fo.-sThq
Post says the certificate of marriage of
C. 'P. BrfetkiArfdge to Louisa'B; B.'
Wing,-dated April; <3893, hits bbrih
sent to the health department from the
EtfeneS til this ’ Ret,-Dr. John-
Paxton, formerly of the,First Presby
an church. It sets foitti that Dn.
tton officiated anfttoit tfie ceremony
Was witnessed m r Eleanor N. Collier
aiid Mary L. Paxton. -Jt'ffi'thought that
the document may play, an important
part iu Mif® Pollard’sjsujt against Cato
grhSsman Breckinridge. The congrer •-
man was publicly Wing
listululy;;-' .j r .j,, ;-
ALLIANCEM : i-,GATHER.
A unimportant Conference Being Hold in a
, Southern City.
Birmingham, Ala., March i/1.-Leafl
ing Ifarmeri AUiincemen ardjgatherihgl
hero firepafatory tocflnferbncl. Among 1
those already arrived are Ex-Governor
I uchanan of Tennessee, 2t. C. W. Mc-
Cune of Washington, R. W A Kolb .of
Alabama, and others. .* ,
Dr.-MeCuhej dud 4f the first prorni
NatidnatEpoiipniist,' and aata. .Um pur
pose of ’the conference is - to endeavor to
reorganize “too ’ Fanhers’- Alliance', -the
sucdbss bf wiiiih waJ ha£fii6kppeU-froik }
the date the organization got into poli
tics.
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REEF YOUR SKIRTS.
Telephone Girl* Cannot Wear Long Skirts
in the 'Chicago Office.
Chicago, March 16.—-The local mana
ger of the main Chicago telephone ex
change has issued an order which reads:
“Hereafter the girls employed in the
main office shall wear their skirts so
that they will clear the fiqqr by three
inches? 1
There were. many impromptu indig
nation meetings field ip the cjpak rooms,
but no ptb tests wefe offered to the order.
. “It would, ba of no-use,’’ said one of .the
gjrls.' "The times ard Hard, arid we can’
better afford to put off our skirts than
to cut off our wages.
j Manager Tetu explains that this new
. move is to prevent the raising of dust
iri the office, which settles upon and
impairs the working of thq instruments..
i "The girls walk briskly about;” he
added, “their skirts sweeping along the
floor and -stirring up the dust. This:
lodges in the instruments and causes
ttouble. Dur patrons are annoyed find'
.delayed. We have to think of our pat
rons, you know, as well as of our em
ployes. r i • .
/ TOP MUCH WILDCAT.
Qhio WilLßot L«t the Lamont and WMf-
[ ney Concern Da»Business.
| COLUMBUS, 0., March ,16^—The Qpay
and Accident Loyds, a sTe\y York
ipsttranee concern composed of ItfOprom-.
inent cit’zens of New York, among theifi'
C. S. Fairchild, William C. Whitney,
Daniel ■CI Lamont . and T. P. Morton
was barred from doing business in this
state.by a dfidsion-in the supreme court'.
Tfie 100 persons interested in tfie.con
cern contribute the capital under an in
dividual agreement.. It is, not a corpo
ration, rior a partnership; and they caii
not be pned,colj^ctiyely.
' The'corirt 'fioliL' that the- insurance
Statutes of Ohio dp not' contemplate
licensing AuCh a concern. :As a result;
the department of insurance will notify
all the, concent's agents in Ohio to cease
doing business at once.
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ANOTHER CONVICTION.
A Gravesend‘Justice -Uranounred Guilty
- ; dr ifiection'Prauifs: ‘ - . .
! New Yore, Mardh Ifi.A-The second
tfi-ial .of Kenneth F. Sutherland, justice,
of the peace of ,Gravesend, for’ -'
tog 14 copyists sent'down there by
Judge Gaynor to copy the registration
j lists to Novenlbpr last, resulted in the
Brooklyn court of uoyer and terminer in
A verdict of guilty.
i The penalty is one year in jail and
|SOO finepr .both. It- pres, learned when
£e’ verdict was* arinotiWced that Sutherh
tid had left the court Midi gone to' New
York with Coloh-,l* E.-'C. Jani.es, hih
counsel. Mr. Backus, of counsel, no
tified tip* court ■ that the detei.dunt was
under bull far a lia woul d pro !ncs b m
whenever th» :eonrf was ready to pro
nounce sentence. O i th,, previous iriaL
, the jhry aisacr-ip-},.
WAht Protection on'Glass.
Bridgetown, N. J., March 16.—Sixty
telegrams were - sent : by windowglasi
Workers of this city to United States
Senator John R. McPfierson at Wash
ington. The dispatches read: “Be sure
and secure protection on wipdowglass.”
Fifty similar telegrams went over the
wire from Quinton.
A Chief of Police Arrested.
Huron, S. D., March 16.—Mrs, Sim
mons, leader of the crusade against sa
loons, gambling dens and houses of ill
fame, caused the arrest of Chief of Po
lice Crippon charging him with failure
to enforce the law.
ROME- G A.. SAT Ulf DA Y MOKNING, M AKCH 17,
, COLORADO’S' WAR.
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Excitement In Denver Over the
Removal of Officials.
GUNS CALLED IKITO USE.
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Two A med Forces Eatih Other
While a Third Tries to
Preserve Peaofi.
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t Denver, March 16.—A1l is quiet and
■business has ‘been resumed. . Advices
from over the fctate say that the coin pa
pies of militia are assembled at |heir ar
mories awaiting the order to home to
Denver. Governor Waite has declared
advice that he will again at
to take the city hall by force if
Commissioners Martin and Orr do not
retire peacefully. The governor is now
in consultation'with General McCook.
The Cause at Trouble.
The history of this trouble dates back
some weeks. To understand the situa
tibn it must be known that some years
ago, the citizens of Denver asked the
legislature to give them a new charter
that would take the police, fire and
public works departments out of the
hands of the municipality, and put
them to the hands of boards appointed
by the governor. It was believed that
this would result in removing the mat
ter from the corruption of politics.
Governor Waite had shown a desire to
make these departments subserve his
toolitictil .* An bitioa*,T and hat tf iAk to
bhiake I »llf|thero pllitical boards, fif&d
Ukittt poptAlet The board dt
fire and police has .been’ changed re
peatedly-toraitihis whims.
Two Iririmbert’ resisted, but the gov
ernor won h» case before the supreme
court* wk’ch'/<l«jlartffl that' he could ye
.move for oatise.' When he .demanded
the remqyakpf-Martin and;Orr recently,
they refused - -to go until - tfie . courts’,
should fto decide. Waite’,. tji-'
lying ppqn the decision of. the
‘court in tne first case, dld'nof ask of’fht/
courts'how to proceed. ,Her declared/
that th® members , had violated their
trustffby ’‘plficirig special policemen at/
gambling houses contrary to law. and
he appointed two new members.
The deposed members applied to the
district court-and obtained a temporary
injunction to restrain the governor; the
mayor and to 9 uew members from
taking possession of the office' of the po
lice and fire board by force. This was
objected to. but, after arguments had
been heard, Judge, Graham declined to
remove the injunction. •Then, after
several days’ deliberation, the governor •
decided,to ignore the Injunction and so
issued his Order to the, military.
; Upon the ordering ,fiut rof the militia
‘the situation became alarming with the
‘-state ttoopfe occupying cetqmanding i •-
Bitions with thely Gatling, guns pointi.. '
toward tfie entrance of' the oily fiali,
while inside, ?rmed .with Winchester
were the sheriff and chief of police, sur
rounded by a strong force of policemen
and special deputies; and only the word
of command was needed to precipitates
bloody struggle.- frits was averted bk
i the prompt action bf cool-headed busi
ness men who stopped business for the
time and shut up tfieir houses while
they. Jent dll their energies to bring
aboutan,agreement.
L»mont Hears from McCook. •
Washington, March 16. General
McCook, at Denver, has informed the
war department that he has been called
upon by the governor of Colorado for
troops to assist in preserving order in
Denver, and he has complied with the
request. The action of General
McCook was referred to the war de
partment for approval, but Mr. Lamont
fias not yet advised General McCook as
'to the position of the department in thp
matter. Oolqhel • Lamon£ regards t.A
question as a political one upon which
he is unwilling to take action without
the formal 1 absent lof'fhe president and
the rest of the cabinet, anti he has takeq
the question over to the cabinet meeting
for decision. ~
, Calls on MeCook to Withdraw. .
Djenver, March-16;—Governor Wiate
has addressed a letter toi General Mc-
Cook, asking that the government troops
be withdrawn from the city, because the
latter refuse to assist in carrying out the
governor’s purpose; but will simply con
. fine himself to maintaining peace.
George Gould Lost His Doff.
Minneapolis, March 16,—Walter A.
.Locke, of NeW York, has just arrived
;hcr| to search Os a St. Bernard puppy,
valued at SI,OOO, which has been stolen
from the kennels of George Gould. The
dog Was taken while being given exer
cise three weeks ago. Search was made
throughout the east, without success,
except in finding a clue which led to
Minneapolis, where the dog had been
shipped after being dyed black.
Eighty-Four New Cases In Buffalo.
Buffalo, March 16. Eighty-four
new cases of typhoid fever and two
deaths from the disease were reported
to the health dep irtment. , This is a to
tal of 236 cases to date. The health de
partment has ordered that no city wa
ter be used in public or parochial
schools without first being boiled or fil
tered. The board of public works is
being severely censured.
Governor Morris explains.
Hartford, March 16.—The procla
mation of Governor Morris for the ob
servance of Good Friday this year has
caused much comment because of a sen
tence which reads: “O Jesu hoininum
salvator, with thy gracious light illu
mine tne minds of thy children, who,
groping in darkness, are unable to see
the truth when it is prespnted to them.”
Governor Morris’s explanation is that
the present ages are not observing tho
anniversary properly,
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ARE THEY LOST?
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, Jqhh Anderson and Ch’hs. Ben
nett, Twp Youpg Romans
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WHO CANNOT BE FOUND.
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They Went Boating Thursday
Evening and Have Not
Been Seen Since.
“What is the latest news?"
“Any new deevlopmenta?”
Do you think they have been drowned?”
These and hundreds of other questions
were huriredly and anxiouly asked by 1
many people yesterday over the entire
city.
Johp Anderson and Charlie Bennett,-
two employes of the E. T. V. & G. R.!
R. fcvent boatihg Thhrsday* afternoon I ’
andjhaVe not |een or heard from'
sinoe. v . t I I r . ■,
last seen of the young men was
I
hortiy after five o’clock; Gregory Om
berg and James Carey Were fishing just
aboveVt’rintnp’s wharf When the young
; came down to the river with their
boat. They at op.ee launched it, and,
rowed 'around the bend into the Coosa
boat ’ was borrowed from
Yancey'Harris and Dick Cothran.
The boys took no guns, only going out
; ' .for a short - row, they said. When the
■"yj(ung men failed to show up at!
1 supper, nothing' was thought of it, but j
when the hours glided by'and still.no j
signs’of'the missing bbys, Mr. Bennett
y bdcamejalarmed, and began making in
f quiries. Nothing however could be I
/ learned. He then secured a horse and 1
/ made a long search which proved fruit- !
less. Charlie is the son of Mr. and!
Mrs. S. B. Bennett, of Cincinnati. Thej
family Jeanie o Rome some time ago on j
i Mr. Bennett securing the position of'
master of trains of the E. T. V. & G. R.
R. here. Charlie is their only son and i
his disappearance has near broken his
parent’s hearts.
John 3? Anderson, train dispatcher of ;
' the E. T. V/& G. R. R. at this place;
. fias been ‘here nearly four years. He
‘ first went train dispatchers.
office as an operator, but by hard work t
' and close attention to business, Was pro
moted to£l;i>? present position. He came
from Lowreysville.S. C. His father died 1
several years ago. His mother was tele-1
’ graphed yesterday evening the sad news ■
of his disppearance. Mr. Anderson was;'
. a man Jwhp never failed to be at his,
1 post promptly, and his failing to show;
up yesterday morning is what cast suclfi
i a gloom over the hopes of his 1 friends,
i 'Ah elpctirc car conductor stated to a,
■’ Tribune ’[reporter] that ’he carried the
yoqjig .men to. East Rome to ‘the after
noon, and heard Bennett ask .Andertbri'
tojgo boating with him. . Bennett - told,
i’ Anderson they could go seven rriilesi
I down the river and return by nightfall.
•Hit*seems that Anderson did not care to.
i go,- but on Bequet’ts insisting decided to
[’ go aS/a matter of accommodation, Yan
.' cey Harris stated that he gave his boat
; | to the boy's and' them Leave for
I j the boat house. [This- was o’clock
jAqthe afternoon., Wheii the boys, did
II not appear yesterday moniing a crowd 1
of young' men organized a search, and
1' dividing into two payties secured two
boats and shortly after 10 o’clock left
Printupfc’ hvlkrf Iri the
fitst boa 1 ! was J. Wzßoo't/nigit'cie&lof
tlye Central.hotel, J, M. Jones and T. D«
' Crimp. In the other boat was Sam
’ Hardin, John Ledbetjter, Louis Bass
1 and Oscar McWilliam's. When the boatM
’ .got just beoynd Black’s bluff,they found
’ the rudder to the boat. A little further
down they found an ere which-had
lodged in some overhanging bushes.
When about ten miles from the city
■ they came upon an upturned boat which
1 proved to be the one the boys left Rome
’ iri. The party went on to Cposavville,
' but no traces of the missing pair could
be discovered. An engine was sent to
i bring the search party back to the city.
. The question that now agitates their
’ friends is: Are the boys drowned? We
cannot say. It has not been proven.
A capsized boat does not necessarily
signify that the boys are drowned.
It must however be admitted that the
' appearances look very bad.
It was thought that the steamer
Clofford B. Seay, which left here early
yesterday morning had picked the wan
dbrers up, but in answer to a telegram
. sent to Cedar Bluff, it was stated that
■ nothing had been seen of either boys
op boat.
Captain Coulter was telegraphed to re-
■ turn to the city and take charge of the
steamer “Resaca”, which will leave
i the wharf this morning at 7 o’clock
with a crowd to search for the missing
boys. All who know the young men
are now compelled to face the facts as
i they stand. Two young men’who had,
j more true friends, or who boasted the.
' , confidence of their employes to any |
greater extent could not have been ’
found. Mr. Anderson only a few days
ago took out a life insurance -policy for
$5,000, which he sent to his. mother.
He sat for his pictures at Lancaster’s
studio just before going boating. Mr.
Lancaster showed the proofs to many of
his friends yesterday. , , ,
) The sympathy of a sorrowing com
munity goes out to the suffering parents
jin this hour of agonizing uncertainty;
Many friends of the young men, who,
up to late last night, had kept a hopeful
heart, broke down, and are now
mourning the boys as lost. Charlie was
an expert swimmer but Anderson did not
know a stroke. It is.now thought the
boat capsized, and ip efiarleys’ manly
efforts to save his friend, was carried to
the bottom.
GREAT GUNS!
First Installment Delivered’ at the Gov.
eminent Proving Grounds.
■ Washington, March 16.—After many
vexatious Relays, due, to the' insufficiency
of the'apparatus for handling such great
weight,' the first of the big 13-inch rifles
has been successfully delivered at the
1 naval proving 'grounds at Indian Head.
Several weeks have been consumed to
strengthening the appliances to meet the
strain of this 60-ton monster, which is
the largest gun ; yet completed in this
country, and if present ordnance prac
tice. ia apt modified beyond expectation,
it will never be surpassed in size or
poweijon boay'd warships.
The new hydraulic carriage made to
receive tin's gun was designed by Lieu
tenant corgmandtog the tor
pedo boat Cushing, and is already in
position at Indian Head. Several (lays
must elapse before the gun is mounted,
but it is confidently pnnounced that the
first shots- will be fired early next week.
The preliminary firing will be for the
purpose of finding out what amount of
powder is necessary for a “reduced
charge” wich will give a 1,100 pound
projectile a muzzle velocity of 1,700/
feet. ‘
It is estimated that the “full charge”
imparting to a similar projectile 2,100
feet velocity will amount to about 500
pounds of the new brown naval powder.
At this velocity the shot will have
! a striking energy of 33,627 foot tons and
should penetrate 27 Inches of steel, nei. r
ly three times as thick as the armor of
the highest class battleships. With the
Fletcher carriage the shell and charge
are placed in the chamber, and all ma
nipulation of the gun is performed by
' hydraulic pressure controlled by sea
men.
THE MARION HURT.
The Veiled States Warship in a Chinese
Typhoon.
S?a’n Francisco, March 16. —The
. United States man-of-war Marion,
I which should have been well on her
I way to this port, is at Yokohama un
, dergoing extensive repairs. The steain
i eri Gaelic brings news that the damage
wps very seriotls.
Two days after the Marion left Yoko
hama she encountered a terrifle typhoon,
■which nearly wrecked her. At one
tinie shtf'was on her. beam ends. A
portion of the rigging was carried away
and heavy s-as swept over her, gutting
tho deckhouses, while everything on
.deck’ was- -awash.' The water noured
into the cabins and flown into The en
gine rooms. The boilers were loosened
fijoin their fastenings. The fires were
extinguished as quickly as possible, and
tfie maiirof-war scurried upder bare
poles. The full ; extent of the repairs'
-necessary, was nbt known when the
Gaelic sailed, but it is estimated she
will.be On dock for at least two months.
A Chart Showing.the Buried Treasure.
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Boston, March 16.—A story from St.
Paul of a'; buried ' treasure in the West
Indies has a Boston end. Jn, 1892 Cap
tain Buckman, of the whaleback Joseph
H. Colby, helped an old woman who
Was dying to Velasco and she gave him
tfie chart showing the place. He went
to the island and found all the marks as
Iqid down in the chart. Returning to
Boston he chartered the schooner Addie
Winthrop and went back. He found a
lot of Spaniards on the island and there
fore did not attempt to dig. CaptH'iy
McLeod, now in command of the Colby;
is one of the men who took part in the
expedition and he is now on. his way to
HeW York.
Thurston to Wed and Settle Down.
! San jFrancisco, March 16. —lt is
stated that Hawaiian Minister Lorin A.
Xhurston, whose intended marriage to
Miss Harriet W. Porter, of St. Joseph,
Mich., has been announced in Chicago,
WiU sail from this port tbi Honolulu
lifter- the wedding, instead of resuming
his residence at Washington. It is
further stated that Minister Thurston’s
marriage will probably in effect mark
the termination of his diplomatic career
in this country, but this cannot be con
firmed. ,
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’ A Test for Tuberculosis.
■ Minneapolis, March 16.—Professor
Otto Lugger, formerly Os Baltimore,
jiow in charge of the Minnesota Experi-'
inental Station at St. Anthony park, has
discovered whgt likely to prove a val
uable test for tuberculosis in cattle;
Numerous experiments Show that if the
animal is healthy no rise in temperature
will follow the injection of Koch’s
lymph, while'if afflicted with tubercu
losis, even in its incipient stages, there
is an instant rise in temperature.
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Weatner .Forecast,
Washington, March 15.—Forecast till
8 p. m. Saturday. For North Car
olina, South Carolina, Georgia, Eastern
and Western Florida: Fair variable
Winds. Alabama and Missi? - ppi:
I Threatening weather, light showers in
t interior and southerly winds.
PRICE >IVE CENTS.
: AD VALOREM TAX.
‘ Senator Mills Defends the Pol
; Icy In a Letter.
MAKES HIS POSITION PLAIN
1—
He Says That the Democratic
Masses are Today for an -
Ad Valorem Tax.
New York, March 16.—1 n response
to a request from The World, Senator
Roger Q. Mills, of Texas, has given his
views at length upon the imposition of
rates uppn imports according to their
standard, values.
Mr. Mills’ active work on this particu
lar line of legislation has familiarized
him with the tariff question to an emi
nent degree, and few men in this coun
try are regarded as as well informed on
the subject as is Senator Mills. His.
reasons for advocating an ad valorem
tax are set forth in the following com
mimication: r:i
To the Editor of The World: ~
JThere arri two opposing policies about
tariffs. One is that the principal object
Os theddty should be to Protect the do- - j
itfebtic- product against foreign competi
tion. Tne other is that the duty should
be laid for revenue, and for that alone.
Those who, have advocated the protection
theory have clung with tenacity to the
specific duty; or the duty ou quantity, as
yfar<ls, pounds, dozens,, or other. The
friends of the revenue policy have clung
to the rate by vahies, ad Valonojn as it
is halled. The ad valorem System informs
every citizen of' the amount of • tax. im-r
posed on each article. The specific sysfoni
cqnceals it. Horses may be taxed S3O per
head. If the horse 'were' worth tlO.it j
Would be 300 per eei)t and an unreasonable,
tax, which would bring no revenue, be
cause such horses could not be Imported,
but It would protect- the domestic ; raiser
of such stock.
We have that tax now under the exist
ing law and it excludes all cow ponies,and
> the government loses the revenueit would
get with a revenue duty. The tax on the
quantity—tfie specific article conceals
reom the people the factjthat it-is 300 per
cent on the value. These instances might
be extended indefinitely. I will give one
more instance. Pearl buttons are taxed
2il-2 cents per line. Who knows what the
tax is on this little necessary of life by this
description? It is on all the clothing of
all the children of the poor. The specific
duty is over 143 per cent. Who would
have had the effrontery to have written
down in the tariff law a duty of 143 per
cent on penrk buttons? Protectionists
cling to the specific duty because it is the
most efficient instrument qf exorbitant
taxation. an<) for the same reason Demo
crats oppose it.
Again, it discriminates against the poor
by charging higher rates on the cheap ar
ticles that the poorer people must buy. A
1 duty of 50 cents on a yai’d of cloth worth
$1 will be 50 per cent; on the cloth, worth
. 50 cents per yard it would be 100 per cent;
and on a yard of cloth worth 25 cents it
would be 2QO per peßb It is, therefore, an
unequal and an unjust fax. This discrim
ination runs through the whole system
from top to bottom. Again, if the specific
quantities had the same value at the time
, of imposing the duty, the tax burden
grows heavier as the years roll on because i
the invention of machinery that multiplies
production and lowers its cost, which is
going steadily on, is increasing the tax all
i the while. A tax of 25 cents on a yard of
; doth that costs today $1 would be 25 per
cent. If the cloith fulls to 50 cents per
, yard the tax rises to 50 per cent, and if the
’ Cloth falls to .25 cents per yard the duty
1 rises to 100 per cent.
‘ 1 Prices have been falling for 60 years, and
' tb ! a considerable extent, within the last.
I 80 years, and nothing is better understood
> by protectionists than that falling prices
I make rising duties for the benefit of the )
, domestic producer, Every one under- , j
! stands the ad valorem rate. All-the taxes
in all the states, counties ajifl cities are ad
1 valorem. All the commercial business of
1 the world js carried on by value. Every
purchase and sale of goods is by value,
and it is the merest trifling with the com
mon sense of the people to say that duties .
cannot be honestly collected when imposed
by ad valorem rates. In 1846. ,when the
; Democratic party struck boldly out for
tariff reform, President Poll? urged ad va
lorem duties on congress. Secretary Rob- 1
ert J. Walker pressed upon congress the ’
i importance of abandoning specific duties
and making a tariff for revenue with ad
valorem duties. • [
The great tariff of 1846 had not one spe
-1 cific duty in all its schedules. It brought
’ such an excess of revenues to the treasury .
• that in 1857 another tariff had to be made,
; still further reducing duties, and that,
like the tariff of 1846, was exclusively ad
valorem. There have always been some ,
Democrats who advocated specific duties, ,
1 but they are protectionists. 'l’hey were
1 guarding.the interests of Certain classes,
■ not the interest of the masses. The Demo- ’
cratic masses today are for ad valorem
duties, and to abandon that policy is to
abandon the fight. R. Q. Mills* i
I
Baby Haight Progressing Nicely.
’ New York, March 16.—Baby Haight
is prospering splendidly in the incubator
1 at the home of her millionaire father, E.
i Clarence Haight, 286 Madison aveniie.
; Not until April 4 will Baby Haight be- .'!
i gin her real lite. Now she kicks and
I blinks and gurgles and cries for dinner,
c with a chaiice df haviiig orthodox colic
• just like other babies. Dr; Carletori find , /
-a trained nurse are now constant attend
ants at tile side of the incubtrtor. Miss
Gtaeme, the nurse, says the baby Will
: surely get along nicely.
Tragic ucacii oi a uiri. I
’ Ansonia, Conn., March 16.—Littla l
Mamie Morse, aged 9, was playing' l
1 “Dixie’s Land” near the Coram school
house and a large log began to roll, and, ,J
i tripping her up, rolled over the body
, until it crushed the akull, where it lay. ;
i Her little rolled it back to
, the knees, and there it lay until help ar
rived. The girl is dead.
The Slot Machine Must Go.
St. Louis, March 16.—An order has
' been issued by the police department
■ ordering the arrest of all saloon keepers
1 and others who have nickle-in-the-slot
s machines in their places. The offense
: is a violation of the city ordinance re
i lating to gambling, and is punisha io
by fine.