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, THE MORNING NEWS. i . ESTABLISHED !KBO. IttCORP.) HATED 1888. > j. H. EsTILL, Pres.cent. ) MISS POLLARD ODER FIRE. CutUTWorth’s Cross-Examination Fails to Shake Her. She Retells the Story of Her Surrender to the Defendant and of Her Loyalty to Him During Their Intimacy—Now She Demands Justice for Her Alleged Wrongs. Washington, March 19.—Madeline Pol lard was taken through the mazes of her life to-day under the guidance of Maj. Lutterworth, who. in the absence through ill m . ss of Mr. Totten, hap taken liis place as leading counsel for Col. Breckinridge. Sometimes she broke away from where he wanted her, and would make a telling re mark against the silver-haired defendant. jSlie told how her alleged ruin was ac complished, how she gave herself up, lit art, soul, body and mind, to Col. Breckinridge; how she loved him, and how vhe acted the deceiver at his instiga tion, never once allowing a hint of their relations to fall from her lips during all tin years preceding his marriage to Mrs. Wing. Miss Pollard made a good impres sion. She was tearful at times, but at other periods, her voice rose until it sounded loud above the protests of the attorneys. One of the most dramatic features of the very dramatic day was when Miss Pol lard detailed a conversation with Sister Amies at the Foundling asylum where lo r first child was born. She had gone there last summer with her orother to get evidence and the sister had asked her why she wanted to ruin Col. Breckin ridge in his old age. “He must bear his share," she said, “as I must bear mino. He ruined iny life and I will have justice.” THE COURT ROOM CROWDED. The court room was crowded through out the day, and Miss Pollardjs answers v. re frequently the cause of laughter un til Judge Bradley administered a severe rebuke to the spectators. There was one curious slipiu her letters which she repeated in tier oral testimony without correction, aud which indicated that her literary studies had not made her text-perfect in biblical matters. She re ferred more than once to one of her early associates, of whom she said she was enamored, but who did not return her af fe--ti..ii. as her “blind Barnabas,” ob viously meaning the "Blind Bartiemus, sun of Timeus,” who sat by the wayside begging, as recorded in St. Mark. She did not appear to be nervous or con cerned over the prospect when she ar rived in the court room this morning a few minutes before 10 o'clock. Her ex perience of Friday had evidently given her coulideuce in her ability to cope with the nimble-minded Maj. Ben. Butterworth whose usually equable temper was some what miked by the rovert ironv of Miss Bedard in her meek and lowly answers to the major's pertinent questions. Mi>s Co,'lard s repartee on Friday g.i-- -a h promise of an interesting day w ith the plaintiff on the stand that the court room was crowded long before the I when the court convened. Judge Bradley's instructions to the bailiffs that only- rin inbers of the bar, newspaper men and persons concerned in tlio trial would i c admitted to the court, had evidently little effect. OPBNIKO or THE PROCEEDINGS. As soon as the court had been formally called to order Miss Pollard took tho stand and Col. Breckinridge laid down the paper he was reading. There was some surprise when Mr. Carlisle, her own at torney, began to examine tier instead of Maj. Butterworth. Mr. Carlisle's ques tions brought from Miss Pollard state mi nts that she had never been married: that Col. Breckinridge was the father of Ft first child, horn in Cincinnati: that he also was the cause of her pregnancy in May, 1898; that Col. Breckinridge had taken iier to an assignation house in Cin cinnati, and attempted her ruin there, but that she had successfully resisted, and that this was prior to her going with Pol. Breckinridge to Lexington. Ques t'l -Tied as to why she went with Col. Breckinridge to Lexington, after lier ex ) erience at tiie Cincinnati assignation house, she said: ”1 do not know ! can not explain the man's wonderful power of persuasion. I could not resist him; 1 was completely in his power. Heqsaid he wanted me to go to ! exington with him that evening, and suggested that he stiuj a telegram to the principal of the college, signed by my mother, and calling me homo. He sent that telegram, and I left for Lexington on the afternoon train and met him. He took me to t lie house of tearah (iuest. ” Fhe also said that she continued her re lationd with Col. Breckinridge un to May i nearly a month after Col. Breck inridge's secret marriage to Mrs. Wing). TUK CROSS EXAMINATION. , Mr. Butterworth then took Miss Pol uir l for cross-examination, and lontin- :“d the questions ho began on Friday, inquiring minutely into lior early life; " ii.it she did, what she read, what she tuojght. She said, in answer to these questions, that she was an episcopalian, had been brought up that way. buy an episcopalian, always an Epis copalian.” she said. She had ambition to ' a teacher, she said, and had not given up that ambition. She admitted, in re spuiiso to Mr. Butterworth, that she ap-' pnviated the value of character and reputation that a teacher must have only h ' well. “Indeed I do, Mr. Kutter " u tli,” she said, in answer to another 1 'stion: “indeed I do know what it ! a ins to have a reputation and then have tt swept away at one blow.” • Butterworth read from a letter " ritten by .Miss Pollard to her school b'ot''. Wessie Brown, her account of how si ' met Mr. Rhodes, who paid for her ed ■ 1 'on on tondition that she should iry him. Miss Pollard was not satis u with Mr. Butterworth’s emphasis - harts of this letter, and she asked him to have Mr. Carlisle read it. ”1 do not mean to be rude, Mr. Butterworth,” she ■'--'id. “But I um terribly in earnest about **-; tins and I want it right.” 'So do I,” said Mr. Butterworth. BUTTERWORTH HEADS THE LETTER. Mr. Butterworth read the Wessio rnivn letter in segments, asking the wit ■ys for an explanation on certain points, y and Miss Pollard explained them quietly, II wptii just a suspicion of a tremor in , ’’ "otee. There were tears in her eyes, i u ‘d she was r.ot nearly so bright and nek as sue was on Friday. Her manner is courteous in the extreme. When Lutterworth read certain parts of ' letter..of an extravagant school girl ' lyi'acter, Miss Pollard hung her head, is was the letter in which she referred ”‘ r blind sweetheart ns “My Modern ! -'iriiabas.“ THo recollections brought up Lutterworth's questions eoncern - y "assaei s in it overcame Miss Pollard, ’’ sin- broke into tears and Mr. Butter "°rtli dropped the letter. Continuing on his line of cross-exami nation, Mr. Butterworth asked about , what Miss Pollard had read —referring to her answers on this subject Friday—and he wanted to know particularly about whether she read any impure books. Here Judge 'Wilson, of Miss Pollard's counsel, interfered, and said the ques tions being put wfere so far remote from the main question involved that he felt called ou to ask a discontinuance of them and a return to matters brought out by the examination in chief. BUTTBUWORTH’S OBJECT. “I have just one word to say,” said Mr. Butterworth. “This plaintiff has in every possible wav put forward the claim of the purity of her character. Shelias surrounded herself with an atmosphere of purity. It's the manner, the soul of this issue.'’ Mr. Butterworth said other things in the same line and was finally asked by Judge Bradley whether he had concluded this line. Mr. Butterworth said he had, but the next question was so much like the other that Judge Wilson arose and protested, in the course of his remarks he said something about a young girl’s character depending on the individual in whose way she might have been placed. He made some reference to “that individ ual having a silvery tongue." and the audience laughed. Judge Bradley threat ened to clear the court room if such dem onstrations happened again. SOME OF HER ACQUAINTANCES. Mr. Butterworth asked Miss Pollard if she knew certain persons Dr. Greene, Mr. Stout, Aleck Julian and others in Bridgeport. Ky. She said she did not know any of them except Aleck Julian and G. B. Roach. Mr. Julian, she said, was the man she referred to in the Wes sie Brown letter as “My blind sweet heart, my modern Barnabas.” Ho was a schoolteacher and she liked him very much. But he did not iiko me,” said Miss Pollard, in explanation and with a note of surprise in her voice. “He liked my sister very much—l liked him—he did not like me.” Mr. Julian is the witness who has made a deposition that he and Miss Pollard went through the form of a mock mar- Viage, and that she suggested—being in toxicated at the time— that it was cus tomary for married people to go to bed together. "Do you recollect going through the form of a marriage with Mr. Julian?” was Mr. Butterworth's next question. “Not the slightest on earth, Mr. But terworth,” said Miss Pollard earnestly. “I have not the slightest recollection of it.” UNABLE TO RECOLLECT THE MARRIAGE. Miss Pollard was asked to describe a visit to the house of a justice of the peace at Bridgeport, Ky., with Aleck Juliau. Miss Pollard did recollect; she said she went there cne Christmas day while visiting her Uncle George at Bridgeport. There was quite a party there. “Of course. I have seen these references in the papers to a mock marriageat Squire Kinsey's house,” said Miss Pollard, “but I assure you I know nothing of it. It could not have happened, for my uncle George was there and uncle George was dreadfully strict. Mr. Kinsey and his wife and all his daugh ters were there. It could not have hap pened. I have no recollection of it.” Miss Poliard said her visit to Squire Kinsey’s was on invitation from the squire to her uncle and his family, includ ing herself, to come there and drink egg nog. They wont there early Christmas morning. She drunk too much eggnog and it made her feel sick, so she went home. Mr. Julian was there, but she persisted in her statement that there had been no mock marriage with him. A CHARGE OF FORGERY. Mr. Butterworth handed Miss Pollard a letter with a deep black border and asked her if she had written it. She read it carefully and then dramatically, pronouncing every word distinctly, she said: “ I did not write that letter. I did not write it, however much it may look like my hand writing. I did not write it, and no one can know it so well as the man who is sitting there. An expert has done this letter.” “Now, Miss Pollard, don’t talk that way,” said Judge Wilson. TUE VISIT TO WESLEYAN. "When Mr. Breckinridge came to see you at the Wesleyan seminary the tirst time, did he say anything about having any business in Co\ ington,” asked Mr. Butterworth. “No sir. he said he had come to see mo (emphasizing every word) and lie almost overpowered me with a glance as he said so.” Mr. Butterworth and Miss Pollard went all over the ground, covered so fully in her previous testimony, about the call of Col. Breckinridge at Wesleyan College to see her about the trouble with Mr. Rhodes, how he turned aside a ques tion on that subject and said: “Let's talk about you; how he took you driving in a closed carriage ou a hot night, to talk over Rhode's claim, etc., etc.” In tiie carriage Col. Breckinridge made free witii her until she took alarm, hut after wards he flattered her until her confi dence returned. • Then you met him the next morning at tiie public library in Cincinnati!” said Mr. Butterworth. TOOK HER TO A HOUSE OF ILL-FAME. “Yes, he met me there, and said that that was no place to talk over the Rhodes matter, and suggested that we go to tiie house of a lady friend. We went there in a street car.” • It proved to be the assignation house of Mrs. Rose!” “Yes, sir.” "You were ushered into the parlor’ How long did you stay there before you went anywhere else!" “Several hours. How long was it, Mr. Breckinridge!” she asked, looking at the defendant. A buzz from the spectators followed this, but it was immediately quieted. Mr. Butterworth continued until recess questioning Miss Pollard upon the de tails of her experience in the Cincinnati and Lexington assignation houses. HER RELATIONS WITH ROSELL. After recess Mr. Butterworth again took up Miss Pollard s engagement to Resell and endeavored to learn what de gree of lover-like familiarity existed be tween them. In otic of her answers Miss Pollard made some reference to Rosell as “an in ternal revenue collector.” “What do you mean by that?” asked Mr. Butterworth. “You know,” said Miss Pollard, smil ing for the first time. • i don't know,” said the lawyer. “Well, then, he is an applicant for office in Mr. Bra kiuridge’s district, and he was influenced by that in making his de|Mjsition against me.” "Then lie prevaricated!” said Mr. But torworih. “He—has- lied,” said Miss Pollard, emphatically. Recurring to the visit to Lexington witii Colonel Breckinridge, Miss Pollard was asked what arrangements were made before she left Cincinnati as to the plan where she should spend the night. SAVANNAH, GA., TUESDAY, MARCH 20,1894. TOOK HER TO SARUt GUEST’S. "We spoke of that,” said Miss Pollard, “and Mr. Breckinridge said I was too young a girl to spend the night alone at a hotel, so lie would take me to a private house. lie took mo to Sarah Guest's.#’ "Did he explain to you that it was an assignation house before he ran home to account for himself!” “No. sir. he did not.” “Who met you at the door of this house!” "Sarah.” “Was anything said there in the half hour before Mr. Breckinridge went home about the character of the house?” HER SURRENDER. “I only know,” said Miss Pollard be tween her teeth, “that during that half hour 1 gave myself heart and soul and body and life to that man.” "Up to that time were you a virtuous girl?” “Yes, I was.” “Did you have any fears for the future at tiie time!" “No, people usually don’t on such occas ions. Mr. Butterworth.” “Did not you know this was wrong?” “Yes, but Mr. Breckinridge is such a man that he can make it all seem right to live in that way?” “Did you not know he was married?” “Yes, (sadly), he told mo that.” “And you loved him!” “I loved him then with all my heart and soul—every word of his was a re ligion to me—and he has brought me all this misery, he has ruined my life for me.” Miss Pollard's voice had a tremble in it during all this examination, but at her last words she broke down and her answer was interspersed with half formed sobs. HER RETURN TO LEXINGTON. Miss Pollard told of her return to Lex ington to attend Sayre institute at Mr. Breckinridge's suggession, and said that Rhodes paid for her tuition and Mr. Breckinridge for her board Miss Pol lard said no one knew that Mr. Breckin ridge was paying her board, he arranged matters -o wry discreetly. “Did Mr. Rhodes know anything about your relations with Mr. Breckinridge?” asked Mr. Butterworth. “Indeed ho did not," exclaimed Miss Pollard, "or Mr. Breckinridge would be dead.” Then Mr. Butterworth asked if, while Miss Pollard was being kept by Col. Breckinridge, she was engaged to Ros ell, and had the contingent contract ol' marriage with Mr. Rhones. “Yes,” was the answer, “as bad as it sounds, that was just the condition.” RE-SIvETCHED HER LIFE. Miss Pollard rapidly' sketched her life in response to Mr. Butterworth, while in Cincinnati, when her first bab.v was born in 1885. Mr. Butterworth asked ques tions evidently intended to throw doubt ou Miss Pollard’s claim that she had been to St. Joseph’s asylum. He asked if one of the sisters at the asylum had not ven Hired to tell her she was not telling the truth when Miss Pollard and her brother visited the asylum to get evidence last year. “On the contrary,” said Miss Pollard, “she said I had undoubtedly been there, although she dill not know me. She un dertook to give me a little lecture, asking why'do yon try to ruin this man in his old age! (Meaning Col. Breckinridge.) And 1 said, why did he ruin me in my youth'. She said I should consider liis little daughter and 1 said. I wanted jus tice, he had not considered me.” “Miss Pollard cried a little here. “1 wanted him to have his share of suffering as I have had mine. The time will come for justice and I believe the men (evi dently meaning the jury) are going to help me.” This remark provoked a mur mur of disapproval. “You have never done anything as a free and independent agent since you passed under his control?” asked Mr. Butterworth. i “1 don’t believe I ever have” said Miss Pollard with a sigh shaking her head woefully. A QUESTION RULED OUT' “Are you not of very strong will?” Judge Bradley ruled this question out. hut not before Miss Pollard had asked if 1 it were necessary to ask it. Miss Pollard said she came to Washing ton because Col. Breckinridge said he had arranged for the concealment of their relations. He su'd that she would be as safe hero as anywhere During her stay in Washington at the convent of the Holy Cross and elsewhere, Col. Breckinridge had paid her bills. Soon after coining to Washington her second child was born, on Feb. 8, 1888. It died the following April. Miss Poliard told of visits to Bread Loaf Inn, near Middlebury, Conn., to Boston to see the Eodenhausen Madonna, and where she stopped at Young's hotel, to Brooklyn and other places, “Did you claim while at Bread i.oaf Inn that you were the author of a poem called ‘lajvc's Power?’ ” "No, sir. 1 did not do these things told in that article.” “What article?” asked Mr. Butter worth, apparently surprised. “That article in the Brooklyn Standard- Union which you are leading up to, and which you have been studying so assidu ously all the morning.”; “Have you read that article?” “I have.” THE PAPER’S STORY. Mr. Butterworth read this article, pur porting to be an interview with a Brook lyn woman who knew Miss Pollard; and Miss Pollard interrupted him to say that she had never been an opium eater and was not now and had not claimed to be Jo sephine Pollard, the authoress. She knew Miss Josephine Pollard, she said, but had not claimed to be that lady, or to have written her poems. Neither had she claimed to know James Russell l.owell so intimately “that she walked hand in hand through the streets of Cambridge with him.” She did know Mrs. Howe, the sister of Mr. Lowell's tirst wife, but she had never met Mr. Lowell. She also knew Charles Dudley Warner, she said, and W. I). Howells had been kind iu answering her questions about becoming u writer, but she did not know him nor any of the other literary men whom the writer in the Standard-Union claimed Miss Pollard had said she was on intimate terms with. Miss Pollard said she ktew the woman who wrote the article in the Standard- Union. The judge said this line of ques tioning wan improper and stopped it. Mr. Butterworth gradually led up to the alleged offer of marriage which Miss Pollard swore Col. Breckinridge made to her in August, 1892, tiie day of her arrival from the south. Miss Poliard Baid that Col. Breckinridge took her to an assignation house, but finally said: “Madeline, this is not the proper place to tell you what i have to say.” They walked down Pennsylvania avenue until they met a cab, in which they were driven out into the country. While on this drive, said Miss Pollard, the offer of marriage was made. At this point the court was declared adjourned until to-morrow. A DIVORCE SUIT MAY FOLLOW. The final chapter of the Pollai d-Breck inridge trial, rumor sa\s. will be a di vorceisuit. The secret marriage between Congressman Breckinridge and Mrs Wing took place in Now York on April 29 last, as shown by the certifii ate tiled only two days ago by the officiating minister. It was not until the following July that the public marriage was celebrated in Louisville. It was after the New York ceremony that Mr. Breckinridge promised, in the presence of Chief of Police Moore, to marry Miss Pollard. According to the testimony Col. Breckinridge continued his relations with Miss Pollard until May 17, or three weeks after he was married to Mrs. Wing, his present wife. This revelation of unfaithfulness and duplicity ou the part of Col. Breckinridge, it is ‘said, has keenly affected his present wife, and it is now asserted that when the pending trial is concluded a suit for divorce will follow. BKEGKENBIDOS’S FRIENDS HOPEFUL. Lexington, Ky., March 19. The friends of Congressman Breckinridge in this city have not lost all hope of seeing the tide of public opinion turn in his favor after his defense in the trial at Washington has been concluded. It is current gossip here that the political backers of Candidate Owens have interested themselves in Miss Pollard's case financially. Col. Breckinridge’s friends hei'e believe he can carry the counties of Franklin, Bour bon, Woodford and Henry. This would give him the votes of two-thirds of the district. DIXIE’S BIG STORM. A Colored Woman’s Throat Cut by Flying Debris in Texas. liallville, Tex., March 19.—Three miles from here Edward Davis’ house was blown away by a cyclone Saturday night, aud five persons were fataily injured. On the Weils place a colored woman’s throat was cut by flying timbers and her house destroyed. Largo boulders were whirled about, and many cattle and horses were beaten to death by huge hail stones. A DOWNPOUR AT MEMPHIS. Memphis, Tenn., March 19.—The heav iest fall of rain ever known in this sec tion occurred during the past thirty-six hours, the local office of the weather bu reau recording nearly seven inches. The whole country for miles around is flooded, the rivers are on the rampage and enormous damage is reported in every direction. Washouts have occurred on t,he Tennes see Midland, Louisville and Nashville. Illinois Central and the St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern railroads. Freight traffic has been suspended and passengers are transferred in boats at the breaks. A freight train on the Illinois Central ran into a washout to-day in Medon swamp, twelve miles south of Jackson. Tenn., and four cars were wrecked. The locomotive and ten cars had passed over safely when the bridge collapsed. In the immediate vicinity of Memphis the damage has been very large. One hundred feet of the bluff at the foot of South and Georgia streets caved into the Mississippi river, carrying with it one of the tracks of tho Kansas City, Ft. Scott and Memphis railroad. The streets were flooded with water, and traffic in tiie city was suspended during the forenoon. RUIN ON THE WIRES. Lightning wrought ruin witii tho street railroad trolleys and electric light, tele phone and telegraph wires. For a time during the storm the air becamo so charged with electricity und the trolley wires were struck so often by lightning that the street cars had to be stopped. The rains and floods have weakened the levees, and grave apprehensions are felt for the safety of the planters in the valley. The Mississippi river has passed theglanger line at Memphis, and it is feared the levees cannot be repaired and strengthened in time to resist the flood coming down from the upper rivers. At Forest City. Ark., the sewers burst and flooded the town duringtbe storm, do ing great damage. At Madison, Ark., the White river has reached the flood stage stage, and is still rising at the rate of one foot an hour. A CYCLONE NEAR NEW ORLEANS. New York. March 20, 1:80 a. m.— It is reported that a cyclone has swept over the country in the vicinity of New Or leans. At this writing, 1:80 a. m., all the wires are down and no details can bo ob tained. CALM ON CRIPPLE CREEK. The Miners to Arbitrats and the Troops Withdrawn. Denver, Col., March 19.—Gov. Waite this morning ordered the troops back from the Cripple Crock district to their respective armories. This action was the result of a telephone conversation had by the governor with Adjt. Gen. Tarsney, who reported that the miners were ready to arbitrate and would not go out in bat tle array in any event. Asked if ordering the troops back to their respective armories meant that the militia would disband Gov. Waite smiled und said: "We will wait and see." The improssion is that he will await the deci sion of the supreme court before disband ing his soldiers. The hearing before Judge Glynn upon the application for warrants for the arrest of Waite, Van Horn. Orr, Martin and Rogers for contempt was continued until Tuesday. THE SITUATION STII.L STRAINED. Cripple Creek, Cos!., March 19.—Unless the governor countermands his order tho troops wii be in inarching column to-mor row morning on the way to take the train at tiie Midland terminal to-morrow after noon. reaching Denver that night. The sheriff is procuring warrants for the arrest of certain men whom it' is alleged w#re numbered among those who shot one of the deputy sheriffs and mutilated another on Friday night. The situation is not a little strained, and conservative men are : ;\ rehensiveas to future results. A committee, who alleged it was dele gated by the miner's unions, visited Pros pect to-day, where the force is small, and notified tiie workmen that oight hours must be the rule hereafter, or they would be buried in the hole they were sinking. Justice Sutherland Sentenced. Brooklyn, N. Y., March 19.—Suther land, the convicted Gravesend justice of the peace, was this morning sentenced to one year s imprisonment and lined SSOO, the extreme penalty. Sutherland did not put in an appearance. His tonds were declared forfeited, aggregating $9,000. Ratliffe Not Guilty. Jaekson, Miss., March 19.—The jury in the Ratliffe-Jackson killing case at Kosi usko brought in a verdict this morning that Ratliffe is not guilty. Commodore Whiting Dead. New York. March 19.—Commodore William D. Whiting, U. S. N., retired, died at 7 :84 o’clock this morning at his city residence. MADELINE IN A CONSPIRACY A Bevy of Beauties Who Set Their Nets for Men of Means. A Cincinnati Paper Publishes u Stoi’y That Reads Like a Romance A Sen sation in a Medical College One of the Chapters The Conspirators Said to be Furnishing the Money for the Expenses of Miss Pollard’s Suit. Cincinnati, 0., March 19. —The Tribune will to-morrow publish a story of Miss Madeline Pollard’s life while a resident of this city, ot which the following is a liberal resume:- The Breekiuridge case is simply the last chapter in a conspiracy, tactically formed, and up to tho beginning of the present litigation at Washington tacti cally carried out. It was a conspiracy of girls brought together by cir cumstances in this city in 1888 and 1884. Thej r were, in the language of a prominent gentleman who is familiar with all the circumstances, but does not wish to have his name mentioned in connection with the matter, all bright, pretty, com panionable girts, who hail no means of support and who resolved among them selves to marry, and marry well. Only those men who possessed such attributes as wealth aifd social stunding were eli gible. THE LAST TO DRAW HER NET. Madelino Pollard is the last of theso to draw in her net. All tho others have been successful, but the last and the youngest of the party has failed, at least so far. Still, notwithstanding the fact that she has endangered the ixisition of her sister conspirators, they are loyal to her. The names of some of the conspirators are known, but aro not given because of their standing here and tiie uselessness of ex posure at present. Most of the facts herein givem are in possession of Col. Breckinridge's attorneys, and some of them will be used in his defense. A MBDICAL COLLEGE BENBA i mV. Many of the citizens of this city remem ber a sensation that arose in a certain medical college which, at the time, 1834, admitted female students. Three of these conspirators were studying medicine at this college at the time mentioned. Two were girls earning their own living in various ways, and tho third was tiie daughter of a prominent physician, who, though not interested in tho movements of the girls, or their purpose individually, was at least aware of what was going on. it is alleged further that when the time came for the dosing of the examinations, their professor gave cer tain students the questions before hand. The faculty learned of this and refused to issue diplomas to them, but suit was entered to compel the faculty to issue the diplomas. The suit was successful, but tho occurrence was the means of leading the faculty to refuse to admit any more lady students, and of its refusal also to reappoint the professor mentioned. A PLAN OF EXECUTION. It was about this time that the con spiracy of tho ladies, some of whom had re elved diplomas and Koine of whom had not reached the graduating year, ripened into a plan of execution. One of the ladies opened an office on Garfield place, in addition to this sho kept a boarding house, which was used as the headquarters of the conspirators. It was a quiet, un ostentatious place, and it was there that the ladies met the gentlemen of their choice. JOSEPHINE HOLMES. One of these ladies was {Josephine Holmes, who was at the time quite well known here. During the time of the sen sation in the medical college, she was private secretary to a well-known and very wealthy physician. Later, when the physician died, sho filled a situation of similar character for I',. L. Harper, of the Fidelity bank. Shortly after the Fidelity failure, Josephine Holmes loft for Washington, where, through the influence of other fellow conspirators who had suc ceeded in marrying men of place and power, she secured a government situa tion.' It was not long after she arrived in Washington that sho became engaged to a capitalist of wide reputation. Nubse- I quently sho married him and is now in California. MADELINE’S APPEARANCE. It was just after tiie sensation in the medical college that Madelino Pollard made her appearance in this city. She had been acquainted with the lady who kept the house on the Garfield place and it was here that sho was quar tered during her stay in Cincin- I nati. Miss Pollard was young and ill. I It was in this house that she was treated j by those who had received diplomas from the medical college. It was in this city that she met the Mrs. Buchanan who is j now in Washington with her. Mrs. i Buchanan is conducting the patent medl ! cine business of the prominent physician i mentioned above, now deceased. She is j conducting this business at tiie old loca tion. The gentleman who does not ; wish to have his name connected with tiie affair mentioned at tiie ■ head of the article, says tic remembers | Miss Pollard and her being here under tiie ; circumstances well. During tin- visit to this city she went under the name of i ijiuise Wilson. She and Miss Holmes | were friends at the time. Another of tho fair conspirators opened up an office on a [ prominent street, and practiced for sev | oral months. She set a cap for a genlle ! man who was at that time and is now, j one of the best attorneys in this city. Slie married him with tho assistance of the members of the clique. WHERE MISS POLLARD’S MONET COMES FROM. The daughter of the deceased doctor married in this city also, and it is said | that Mrs. Buchanan is conducting tho ! patent medicine business referred to for i her. It is a matter of record that over a million dollars lias been made in this bus iness. This, it is said, is tho secret of the source of Miss Pollard s funds to carry on her case against Col. Breckinridge. It also accounts partially for tho haste ex hibited by Mrs. Buclianau in leaving Cincinnati at the tirst intimation of trouble and hurrying to Miss Pollard’s side. The other ladies ure also married prominently. The gentleman who is the authority for this article was importuned several times by Col. Breckinridge's attorneys to come to Washington, but so far lias refused. His de|Kjsition setting forth some of these facts is in the hands of those attorneys, however. The prominent attorney men tioned has several times, without the knowledge of what he was , doing, given legal advice to the j members of the conspirators through ins : wife. As may be judged, all of those who 1 were a member of the party years ago, and who have sin. o succeeded in marry ing well, are interested in keeping as much of the history of the affair con cealed as possible. They will do all they ■ can to assist Miss Poliard in the way of advice and financial help. All of the par ties referred to have been received in tho hi st circles in Washington and are well known throughout Kentucky. TENNESSEE'S BANK TAX. The Federal Supreme Court Sends Two Cases Back. Washington, March 19.—Tho suits in volving the validity and cope of the gen eral tax law of the state of Tennessee, which have been pending in the supreme court of the United States for several months, w.u-e sent !> n-k to the state co its to-day for disposition, without an expres sion by the federal bench upon tiie merits of the statute. There were three of the cases, in two of them the state of Ten nessee and tiie county of Shelby sued tiie t niou and Planters’ Bank and the Bank of Comm, roe, of Memphis, in the circuit court of tho United States for tho west ern district of Tennessee, to recover taxes on the capital stock of the corporations alleged to be duo under the statute referred to. The banks claimed that under their char ters their capital stock was exempt from taxation. Counsel for the stato and county contended that the capital stock and the shares of stock were separate items and subject to taxation. Judge Hammond hoard tho case and hold that the United States courts had Jurisdiction, and that both the capital stock and the shares of stock of the corporations were exempt from taxation. lu tho other case, that of the stato of Tennessee and tiie city of Memphis, against the Bank of Commerce, proceed ings were begun in the local and state courts and the case was then removed to the United States court on petition of the defendants, wiio averred that ques tions arising under the constitution of tho Unitgd States were involved. Tho same disposition was made of this caso by Judge Hammond as of the other two and the state and county authorities appealed to the supreme court of the United States Justice Gray delivered the opinion of the court, reversing tho decision of the circuit court on the ground that as the rase was not originally tiled in the United States court. It had no jurisdiction, and that in tho other cases the petition for removal from the state court should have 1 been denied on tiie ground that it pre sented no federal question. The cases were, therefore, remanded, with instruc tion to dismiss the bills tiled and overrule the petition for transfer. In the latter case Justice Hurkind dissented on the ground that tho petition for removal was well founded. SAILING AWAY FROM RIO. All the Foreign War Vessels Leaving the Infected Port. Washington, March 19. —Secretary Herbert has ordered all tho American war ships away from Rio. Tho Now York will go to St. Lucia, W. 1., to await further iustructious by cable from the navy department. The Charleston will go to Montevideo to join the Newark. These orders were dispatched on re ceipt of the following cablegram from Capt. Phillip, commanding the Charles ton : Kio Janeiro. March 19.—Rio harbor Is clear of foreign men-of-war except the New York and Charleston. To-day tho Detroit will sail for Hampton ltouds. The Portuguese vessel was tho last to leave. It is reported here that Du Oamu was a passenger on her. The fever Is Increasing and has reached the epidemic stage, so that the British steamers coming northward will not touch at Kio. It does not appear that there remains any further necessity for keeping an American man-of-war here, us tho Insurrection has been put down and a longer stay of the vessels would be Injudicious. Phillip. The navy department has received the following dispatch from Admiral Bon ham: "The San Francisco sailod from Rio yesterday, and will make her first stop at St. Lucia. W'est Indies, where sho will take a little coal aud go to Blue fields.” DA GAMA’S FLIGHT. London, March 19.—A dispatch from Rio Janeiro confirms the report that Ad miral da Gama and about seventy of his officers are on board the Portuguese war ships Mindello and Alfonzo de Albuquer que, which left Kio yesterday afternoon. No protest or other opposition was made to tiie vessels leaving tho bay with the insurgent leader and his followers on board. While it is not definetaly known that Admiral da Gama and his officers are to be taken by the Portuguese ships.it is generally believed that they will be put ashore at Montovedio, and it is possiblo that they will proceed to Santa Catho riua or Kio Grande do Sul to join the still active insurgents there. TO MARCH ON WASHINGTON. A Populist Orank Cries for Bloodshed in Preference to More Bonds. Topeka, Ivan., March 19,—A1l the state officers to-day received a copy of the Kan sas Commoner, a populist paper, contain ing a marked article, which is regarded as most revolutionary in its tone. The article reads in part as follows: “Secre tary Carlisle is reported as secretly nego tiating with a Lombard street syndicate for the sale of $50,000,000 more bonds. The nation demands a sufficient currency lor the transaction of its business without the issue of bonds and the people will stop this bond business with ballots or bullets. I Ait our rulers make their choice, and make it soon. If Secretary Carlisle dares to make another issue of $50,000,000 of gold bonds, not 100,000, but 1,000,000 men should go to Washington; not with a paper petition, but with steel Winches ters.” The circulation of the paper containing this article has created a sensation in official circles, and it is regarded as the most inflammatory of any declaration yet made by any populist. SAVANNAH’S POSTMASTERSHIP. Representative Lester Urging tho Ap pointment of Mr. Haines. Washington, March 18. Representative lister called at the postoffice department to-day to urge the appointment of George S. Haines. Col. Lister says bethinks the administration is getting very tired of the policy of retaining republicans in of fice. and that tiie office at Savannah will vervgjoon be iu the hands of a democrat. Postmaster General Blssell, while con servative. is not looking for chances to favor republicans. Representative Lester says little, but looked very much pleased after his interview witii the postmaster general. Henry B. Ives Dead. New Haven, Conn., March 19.—Million aire H. B. 1 vOs, who recently became violently insane, is dead. l DAILY, $lO A YEAR, f r> CENTS A COPY. ! I WEEKLY, *1 2 A YEAR.) CUT OPEN BY AN EXPLOSION A Contractor Meets a Horrible Death While at Work. The Explosion Follows an Attempt t Melt Nitro-Glycerine at a Black. smith’s Forge The Victim Rushes From the Shop With a Hand Blown Off and a Huge Hole in His Throat. Another Man Wounded. Buffalo, N. Y., March 19.—Olin n, Stevens, contractor of tho Sycamor* street sower, was killed by an explosion of nitro glycerine this morning. Jacob Collins, a blacksmith, was serfc ously injured b.y tho same accident. Stevens was trying to melt some glycol* ine over the blacksmith’s forge. With one hand ho worked the bellows and with tho other stirred the paste. The smith looked on. He says ho had just taken a step backward for caution’s sake when a terrific explosion rent tlio air. Stovens was not Instantly killed. Ila ran out of the shop blackened with soot, blood pouring from a stub of a wrist and a huge hole in his throat. A piece of tlio pail had ripped him open from breast to chin. He fell into tiie arms of a groceu across the street and expired. Collins was taken to the hospital, where his side from hip to shoulder wao found full of coal chunks. He is painfully but not fatally injured. MILL PROPERTY BURNED. A Loss of $240,000 in the Mill Dla. trict of Philadelphia. Philadelphia, Pa.. March 19.—Fire this morning destroyed tho big mill property owned by Frederick Ruinp & Bros., man# ufaeturers of tablo cloths and counter* panes, fronting on Huntingdon street, and extending from Palethorpo to Haneocls streets, in tiio heart of tho Kensington mill district. The total loss is estimated at $240,000 Tho building was five stories high and comprised throe separate mills. The tire originated in the drying room of tiie knit, goods mill of Brown Bros. .Is Aborlo. This firm sustains a loss of s4o,* 000 on stock and machinery. Tho ma chinery in J. P. A. Klaiider A Co.’s mill, which bus been shut down for a year, is damaged to the extent of $50,000. Rump & Bro. owned the building. They lose SIOO,OOO on the building, and $5q,00(1 on stock and machinery. Nearly 400 poopla aro thrown out of employment. A WOMAN IN MALE ATTIRE. She Carried a Pistol, and Said She Was Looking for Her Husband. Atlnrita, Ga., March 19.—Policeman Mercer made an interesting "catch” be*, tween 12 aud 1 o’clock this morning. It was a pretty young woman rigged out in pantaloons and other accessories of mala attire witii a loaded pistol In her hip pocket. Besides the pistol tho giddy young creature was accompanied by a “Jag” that would have done credit to tha owner of the masculine raiment she wore. When taken to police headquarters the young woman gave herself the rather fancy name of Josie Roy, am’ said sho was out looking for an estray husband. He had deserted her, she explained, and would not allow her to get within hailing distance if he know it. Therefore alia donned tiie disguise so as to get at him, unawares. The police think she meant' mischief to the alleged husband on ac count of tiie prosonoo of tlio pistol. Sho was fined $5 by tho recorder. BISHOP WHIPPLE BEREAVED. His Wife Dies After Being in Feebla Health Several Months. Richmond, Va., March 19.—Mrs. Emily Fairfax Whittle, wife of the Rt. Rev. Francis M. Whittle, died at her home ia this city this morning at 8:15 o’clock. Klio had been In feeble health for tha past several months. Mrs. Whipple was the daughter of Wil son Fairfax, a civil engineer, who was identified with the construction of tha James river and Kanawha canal. She was born in Richmond in 1824. and was married in 1848, her husband then being rector of St. Paul’s church, at Louisville, Ky. She camo to Richmond with tha bishop in 1870, and had lived here sinca that time. SCRAMBLE FOR A SENATORSHIP. A Covey of Candidates Already In tha Field In tho Thirty-Fifth. Atlanta, Ga., March 19. —Fulton county will select the state senator for tha Thirty-fifth district this year under tho rotation system. The election of a suc cessor to Senator Colquitt has brought! out a covey of candidates already. Hon. E. W. Martin, ex-legislator; 001. W. D. Ellis. Hon. It. H. Hill and W. 11. Knoblo, who was defeated fourteen years ago by Senator Todd, are the entries up to date. All four are prominent men, and the fact that their candidacies represent tho vari ous candidates for Senator Colquitt’s seat will make tiie contest ari interesting one. PASSENGER AGENTS TO MEET. A Special Train Carries Them to Palm Beach. Jacksonville, Fla., March 19.—About fifty members of the General Passenger Agents’ Association, many of them ac companied by their families, passed through hero to-day en route to Palm lieach, whore the annual convention of the association convenes to-morrow. They were on a special train and will go through to Palm Beach by rail, the first train to pass over the entire length of the East Coast line. SURVEY OF THE COAST. Representative Enloe Introduces a Bill for Transfer of the Work. Washington, March 19. — Representative Enloe, dom., of Tennessee, to-day intro duced in the House a bill to abolish tho const and geodetic survey and to transfer the work of tho bureau to the hydro graphic office, in tho navy department, and the geological survey in the interior department. The bill is the result of Ills failure to accomplish the same object fly amendments engrafted upon the sundry civil appropriation bill. Gladstone's Plans. London, March 19.—The Westminister Gazette says that Mr. Gladstone will oc casionally make his appearance in the House of Commons and will return ilia old scut ou the treasury bench.