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ESTABI1[SHED 1865, NEWBERRY, S, C., IRDYMOEBB ;( )( vv ~ Ti IGNG COTION. sipoecha )liveied isororo tho Coiton oro ere Association by 11Hoko niith. The following from Hoke Smith' speech before the cotton grower: association in Macon is taken fror the Atlanta News: "The cotton crop will this yea bring a not cash profit to the plant era of this section larger than eve before. It will do more. It wil furnish a volume of money for in vestment belonging to the people o seven States and two territories which should give wealth and strengtl to every line of busineFs and maki possible the growth of many noede manufacturing enterprises that wil use the varied raw materials to b: found in the South. "Ton cents cotton has come, nol only to benefit the planter, but t( stimulate the development of mater ial resources not yet handled ank made productive. "Daring the past one hundre j ears the cotton crop was sold foi $15,000,000,000. The United State. has received from the export of cot ton during this same period$1 1,000, 000,000. "Our lint cotton, in addition to it: enormous sale abroad, has also fur nished the raw material for the man ufacturing industries that have en riched the New England States. I is today furnishing the raw materia for the already prosperous and rap idly growing mills of the South, an( it promises to our people from man ufacturing alone a return as greal in the future as that heretofore ob taeind in Now England. How en couraging is this prosp-ct! We car fully realize it when we remembei that $00,000,000 of values are added annually to American lint cotton by its manufacture abroad. "The manufactories of the world used fiftj years ago 2,500,000 bale( of cotton. Last year they used ar amount variously estimated at fron 10,000,000 to 18,000,000 of bales, The enormous increase demandec for the fabrics made out of lint cot. ton placed the consumption of cotton goods far ahead of cotton's three riv als. "The rivals are wool, flax and silk. If we seek the reason for th( success which has attended the in. creased use of cotton goods we car readily find it. The price at whicE lint cotton has been sold, coupled with the development of machinery suited for its manufacture, has led to the production of cotton goods am warm as those made from wool, am cool as those made from flax, and more beautiful than those made fron: silk. "While cotton today brings 1( cents, it has only been three yearm since the crop was selling at 5 eeni a ound. What are the elementm whic have caused tnis variance in price?P The three natural rivals of cotton have had but little effect, be. cause at 10 cents a pound for lint *cot.tpn, wool, flax and silk cannot be ~produced to make successftul compe ~tition. Recognizing the laws of de. mnand and supply, we must see thai the depreciation in the prices ,of cot. ton has been due to a production ol the staple in excess of the demanc for manufactured goods. A knowl. edge of the supply of cotton and oJ the demand for cotton goods foi consumption will enable the pro. ducer to tell at the time of the yea, when cotton is picked the price al which lint cotton should sell Another cause which has facilitated the depreciat ion of prices at th: time cotton left the hands of the 'planter has been the unbusiness-like 'plan of selling cotton. "More than 70 per cent. of thi cotton which is used in the great cot. ton mills of the world, is raised ir our section. The nmils run during twelve months. They need the cot ton as much in July as they do ir December. The plan of selling ha: disregarded the time of consump tion. Instead of handling the croj so that it would be sold from monti to month .during the year, as th mills required it for use, it has beer the pract[ee of the plar.ters in th South to rush their cotton on th market during the period limited t two months, fofcing its purchaso b, speculators, rather than holding th crop until the consumers or mil ownors came after it. "I ai thankful to say that east 0 the Mississippi river during the l)pre ont year the planters have been in r atrmed as to the extent of the ero] and its to the world's demand fo r their cotton. Realizing that it wa worth at least 10 cents a pound o - more, they have declined to sell i C for less. They havo received 1R cents for what they have sold. "By the co operation of the mor chants and the hankers they hav been enabled, so soon as the buyer succeeoded in depressing the price, t< take their cotton off the market, an< as a rcsult they today see the pric( of cotton going back to the figure at which it sold during the month o September, and I have no doubt th( balance of the cotton crop thus caret for by our farmers will bring then over 10 cents a pound. This price however, could hardly have been re alized had the farmers raised 1,000,. 000 bales of cotton. Then with i surplus of cotton in sight the buy ers might have afforded to wait unti the sellers were compelled to disposw of the crop, and when the supply o cotton, 'whether raised from foreign fields or from our own, exceeds the volume which the mills can manu facture, or exceeds the volume, when manufactured, the mills car sell, then a depreciation of price must necessarily follow, and ou: planters will find that they have de creased their income by incrensing their labors, and that they have re ceived a less return for a largc amount of cotton than they wouli have received had the crop been much smaller. "There are, therefore,-three ques tions of vital importai-oe which af foot the price of next year's cottor crop. They are, How much will tb< mills of the world consume in 1902 How much lint cotton will the bal ance of the world produce for other domestic consumption in 1901? Hoiv much will we produce in the Souti in 1901 ?" Mr. Smith took up the history o cotton culture and discussed it in at interesting way. In 1802, representatives of thirty five counties 'inet to discuss menA ures by which the loss of the Ameri can crop could be supplied, and i great stimulus was given to cottor culture in India, Egypt, Africa anI Brazil. In two years the suppliei from these countries were greatlh increased, but soon after the wai the South regained control of th< market. India, he said, is the greatest pro ducer of cotton next to tihe Southerr States. The crop in 1899 amounted to 3,000,000 bales, while that ol Egypt was 050,000 hales. Sinc< 1880, Russia has given attention t<: the cultivation of cotton in Turko stan from American seed, and the crop haa reached 300,000 bales. 1r 1895 Japan produced 75,000 hales In 1895 Brazil raised 300,009 balei and exported 150,000. It is esti mated that the lands of Brazil couli produce>40,000,000 inAes annually China exports a small amount o1 cotton to Japan. Mr. Smith argued that climatic conditions gave the Southern Statem an advantage over other countries ir the production of cotton, but calloi attention to the efforts made by other countries to .develop the in dustry, particularly in India and E~gypt, and the German experimeni in Africa. He said the consumptior of cotton goods had increased 70( per cent, in fifty years and predicted a demand of 80,000,000 bales ir twenty-five years. He said the state department o: agriculture should be diligenit in col looting information about cotton tc the end tbat before planting tb( Ifarmers may know tihe probabh world's demand. One of the best pointe- made b3 IMr. Smith was this: "Only when cotton is ma4e a sur plus crop is the producer safe against the vicissitudes of the mar ket. Only when the farmers pro duco their own sipplies. ii tihere an y assurince that the priceo of cotton a will not Ie depressed by an over I produc.ion in our section. "Thie imo.it prosiperoui period of f the South, its greatest. growth in ag - ricnitiuro for iny ton years, was from - 1850 to 1800. )nrinjg t.bat lriotl tlo fairil lands of tho South inl r Crelased in valuo $I,00(),(00,(), and 3 they were valued in 180) at $2,o)t)0, r 000,000. I1 1860 he yield was in th ) South: C5rn -.-.-..........38, 153,(00 bu. Wheat ............ .-1,800,000 bu. 3 Valuo of slaughtered 3 animals. .. .. .. . . ..$84,4 47,0(1 in the remaindor of the count rY: I Corn.............72,1 U7,000 t,x. Wheat ............ 125,200,000 b . i Value of slaughtered r animls ........... . 128,42 ,17000 "In 1800 the value of assessed I property in the United Stites wais $12,000,000,000, find of this tho South bad $5,000,000,O0. At Ihis time, also, 3 per cont. of the entire banking capital of the country was in the South. "I present those figures to show that while the cotton crop is unri valed in the opportunity which it furnishes for the creation of wealth,, the highest when they have raisod more corn and more wheat, and slaugutored more animals than their own consumption required, and when, as shown froni the hanking capital then existing, (1iversified products were the rule of the hour.' He closed by showing how mano facturers would flourish and rebo )Is and churches would be strengthened by the inauguration of a hog aid hominy era. AUENTS OF SEABOARD IVrY TIIOUS AN3 ISOIT. E. 1). Lukenbl, Stationed at Fernantinl1, Has "iolud out' a itarrrel of Conipanly Fund. Atlanto, Nov. 27.-A special to The J.>urial from Portsmouth, Va., says: Vice Preradent E. St.. John, of the Seadoard Air Line, stated today that E. D. Lukenbill, former agent of the Seaboard Air Line at Fernandina, Fli., was short in his accounts $50, 000. Atlanta, Nov. 27.-A special from Fernandina, Fla., says: "E. D. Lukonbill who resigned the position of agent hore of Seaboard Air Lino some days ago is believed by railroad people to he short in his accounts with the road1. Experts are checking over bis books. R ailroad offi cials say they have noe *io least idea of the amount short. ieakenbill and his friends say they will make a sot tiemient with the railroad wvhen it is ascertained what amount is short." Another dispatch announces the arrest of the agent. ICASTOR IA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of La % BOYS ON THlE F~AiM. The farm has given to the world some of its most usefuol men and wo men, of the kind that the world has great Deed of today. By reason of their separation from the haunts and dens of iniquity and vice they erect ed1 characters that were firm, strong and uncompromis ing. By reason of hard physical labor in the open, fresh air they acquired rugged and strong constitutions needed for en durance in the conflicts in which they ouggaged. And by reason of the hard battles fought and difficulties overcome in the attainment of know ledge they acquired a development of intellect that was both dlesirables and commendable. What are the boys and girls on the farm, who are en. joying superior advantages, doing to day to im prove their condition ? A re they making the very beat use of the means which cheap hooks and papers and the long winter '3venings afford to adorn their minds' tnd make them more useful... FLAIO,P' IN 'l:NNsvr,.ANUA. 11-14vy ICRiII14 %1-n4 DP-kIrn'lt w1 T rren llownthi aies Pit t sbu rg, Nov. 27-After tlirvo days of ilcessait rain, a o100(o lin f)rocednted for this sealson of the y(mr, and quito m111Ixpected inl itn fury, swept down the M1onongahelt and Allegheney rivers last iight. In their ma1d 14 rush tle waters ru1ined h illdred-is of tilousdilms of dolilars worth of proipert , vaiused the loss of at. Ieast tivree livfes, temporan rI V throw out of emp10oyil-it, thlollsinids; of workmen by the forced stip-1 sion of numy industriail vMfablishi ments ilining thi biali'4 of b1oth streams and rendered iundriedts of famllilics hoime11liss. Thm lov Ihmids inl Pittshurg, Alle gheny, 8ou:h Pittsburg, Sharpshurg and McKev.sport are inundatevd and nearly overy plant. fronting 1te Nwo rivers has beui forced to shit dow. iiundreds of familios in theso di tricts have vitivi hervi driven fr< m their homes or are living in th i i per Iloors and using skiff.s. Ti e wvere many narrow v4scajes from (rowninjg d( u(11ring tlie night ajndI SOV Orail 111311 are rp4'orted( to t le pO1licO ats missing, besides those known to havo boon druwuiied. WAR RitEVENUO i AMPS. Not Nt-cesenry for DOCul M43mary Eici111C 0 --" Atlanta, Gat., November 27.-Tie supreme court of Georgia rondereda n important decision to-diy affecting not only the war stamp tax, but in volving question of Stitto rights. The point involved was w%-hietlier or not a loaso conitract, which did not hear the sweciail sitamp reqnirm 1) Act of Congres!4, is admissible as evidence. The supromo Court ruled that Congress, while it has the right to levy taxos through a Stamp Act, such as was passed by Congass, has not the right to prescribe rules of evidence for Stato Courts, which would be cancelled if a document not bearing a Federal stamp was donield admission as ovidence. The Court, in the decision rond ored by Choif Justico Simmons, goes on to say that under our. system of government the Stato retained all powers of sovereignty which were not granted to the Federal Govern mont by tho Constitution. MIS A[.UOV rs ''1URIE" Smo Racenily Dlicov(red L(itters Correet a Pel,ultar Litera,ry F'ailany. Some unpublished letters of Miss Louisa M. Alcott, recently brought to light, effectually correct a popu1. lar fallacy as to the original of "Laurie," in the famous "Little Wo mau." Ladisi a, a Polish boy, always has been thought to have beeni Laurie's prototype, but those lot ter-s prove that it to be a mistake. Alfred WVhitmnan, a Kansas man, whlo wvas Miss Alcott's playmate at Concord, is in fact, the Laur-io of her delightful story, and to him Miss Alcott wvrote some of the most charming, revealing letters that ever came from her ponJ. Mr. WVhitmnan has just edited these missives for publication in The Lad ies' H ome Journal. WVAs TAKEN FOR A HURJOLAIR AND sHOT1 IN TIlE Ii EAt', ,J. Harry Fos,iti r, EAtI., of Lancster Han4. ai Narrowv Esacal,e--Wou,ntleti by Is Broth - cr, Carl A. Foster. (Speial to The State.) Lancastor, Nov. 27.-A sad accid - ent, which came very near being a fratricide, happened horo at an early hour Sunday morning. J. Harry Foster, 1&.q , a young attorney at law, residing at Korshaw, this coun ty, in company with Mr. Marion S. Witherspoon, left Korshawv, twenty miles'distant, for Lancaster, to visit their parents at this place. TJhey reached Lancaster about mnidnight,. Myr. Fostor's family were not exp)ect ing him, end all had retired for the night. On reaching the house, 'he went on up stairs into the room oc cupied1 by his brothers Carl A. Fos. ter and Ralph Foster. Seeing his brothers both asloop, lhe weont into his own rooms, but having no matchep, ho returned to the room nocnnpi by his brot lors, ai d prociliig iat - ches from his brother's pockot, Went back to his rooml) and lit his lamup. Whilo revalling at t-tter ho heard at noiso inl thIe )a1sag1 andIti stepping to tho dloor, poopmd out(. A-; ho did sc, th wls at repolt of it gun, itiand Mr. Fostur rct,ivvtd ia part of the dischargo inl his face. It seeis that MrII, Carl- A. F-oster had becoimo thoroughly Illoud whm'e his brother. was inl 1ho room. th" hist tionl, and bei ngi t,able i) s-o d ist inet lv, t bioght. it was a burglar inl t 1- houIs. \lii his brother lIft thil romlkIl hutl his brothor ialph bo( got up tand load odl tin old gunl With (1uck h,>ot aind slug andl went out iito the passagto to lIint the siipposed burglar. Whten oil inl Ilit passagv, Mr. J. I arry Fos. ter bmard theml) a11l thinking tivy wor burglar-,, crackde his door and pec-prd m. As ho thId 1o. M)Fr. ( . \P(jhter fir'd ait him. Fortunlately t,11y, t.w\o shot, took Tfect-striking him tho forobhead anld glan1eving r''n1d; the rekmaimliltr ef tht load w-veit into door nar his hod. As soonl its the mi,;stako wits discovered Mr. C. A. Fostor rushed to the rtlief of his blother. Th wholu iffir sts-vils to havo boonl it "comnedy of 1rr,or1s," b:it caio dangerous nar beVing at milst lam1n11ttable tralgPdy-, Mr. lFost'lr's wvolids, vIiilit ,ail[fill. alro nlot da ni"V1,011. TilE IRL I1. iii( 10; 1901 ALMAN AW. Whievatever maiy be said of the sciontific caluses upon Which tho lRov. Ir I ;ks base his early forecast 'of storm tid weat.her, it is a reimrkablo fact, that 8pocific war-ning of every great storm, 1lootI, vold wIlvo anid droughiti, havii bten plainly printed in his now famousAlmamac for Inatly years. Th latost startling proof of this ftCt was the (lostrtction of Gil. vestou, Texas, on tho very day named by Prof. Hicks in his 19 00 Al m1anac, as 0110 of disastor by storm along the gulfcoasts. Tho 190[ AIi nauc, by far the finest, most complete and beautiful yet published, is now ready. This romai kable book of ner 200 pages, splendidly illustrated with charts and half tono engravings, goes as a preminu to overy subscribor who pays oni( dollar it year for Prof. Hicks' journal, WoiD AND WoiKs. Tho Almnac, alone is sont prepaid for only 25c. Order from WoRn AN D Woas Publishiig Coml - pany, 2201 Locust Street, St. Louis, Mo. ThJ i t d (( ) t l atter 1l'an, (New Yorkr Sun.) In morning gray Along the st reel, I hear thie Ltampi tf manny feet., A\nd hear L,he friendly hanil; "Good morn ing, Joh u;' "Good moirn Iing, As oni they Itudge to shop) 0or mill With JLIt,e dinner pail. \ With lit tic dinner palIs thie go, Th roughi mu d and3( rin, Lihro ugh silush and snow, Wearing in manly way, \Vearinig as Icings wear ingly crown, The tollecr's garb of hIlie tor brown For very kinugs are t.hey. WhIo, brave of soul wit h chieerful face, A re faith ful in tie lowest place, ThIiat duLy callIs themr 1., W ho for Lthe homne, t,he weatrs, I he w ife, Griow gray withI carle anld stern withi st.rife, Kecep ig the' ir heart beats true. Such mecn-(o bless t)(3,bemn-cities needi Men great In t'iought and strong in deed, Knowing no0 wordlik 11cc'fail."' Then dIof 30our halt what time you mneeL TIhe mn who ca(rries dlow.n the street, Thiat littLie din ner* paliI. literary Noteni. RtudyardKI(ipliing's now novel,'KJ im,' will begiig in theo Docember issue of Mepluro's Maigazine. Tis is a title of life in Indiat, anrd in it the literary genius11 gives a priofoundt st,udy of Oriental life. T1his is tihe author's rmstorpiece, andt it fuilfils in its larg er scope atll the promise of hisa earlier and shorter works. One of tile most extraordinary, yet permanent, suiccesses of contem porary lit.eratuiro was that mardo by Anthony Hopo in the "'Dolly Dialo gues." Armerica andl( England alikIe rejoiced in tihe refired anrd subItle) humiror, the cleei insight, the perva sive human intees of ths ovra tions. IMcCluro's Mla.mizino for Do. combor will cont ain the first in a sories of "aore Dolly Dialogios,'" in wihich ill tte charn of tiho earlier vork is Continued, lcCirv's Magazino for Dcim r will vonltainl Iis intimialuto lecollt of tho fall of Richimloild and tho flight. of tho Corodorato Cabinet, at the closo of tho Civil War. This artiilo is from tite poln of Stephn -it. Mol - lory, whlo, asso veretay o tim Navy in tho Colfe<derato AdniniAration, siaroi iii t sI less of t hose iast days. Tho narrative gives a pictutro strong anid I ru o(f ti closing sconto in tho South's tragedy. Victioll of remarktble interest will ho ablindant in Ale('Nilre's Magazinm for. Dcem0b"r, with illist ratons by tHil bVISt artists. Inl aidditiOnl to th0 istahnlent of "Kiml ," by IUtidyard Kipling, for which the aithor's fathor, Lockwood Hipling, and Edlwinl Lord Wieks coll(ribuit-o drawings, thero a ro short stories of lifot along tle Inl dianls, in tIe Latink Qutiarr of Paris, in Sitiml, stories of the rail, anld of the Kinldorgartes, by Illailin (1arland, F'rank It. Sponrmn i, and Josphinilo Dodgo Daskai, with drawilngs by II. ). Nichols, 11. . Walcott, anld Jay lilamhidge, whilo "Mloro Dolly Di alogus," by Ath 0iyHope, will bo illustrated by H. C. Christy. Th S. S. McCuro Co I I I o-155 Fast 2-t h St reol, Now Yorl. C7 A.& rS TC T. T . Hears tho l11 Kil You llao Always Boughl Bignaturo Ar I I IC.\''I) ('1) r3 r 10N AFF.1) I I I I,.,S, A Vorrk Con1y Fatrtie \liin a 8itc ror Damhuagvs Aguil it ton l( i t ComnA,aly tin sp of 11e'tltiony thmat tIho 11in1 weru cibple ami liarm4tAtA for C:attII (Special to NOws and Couri-r.) Yorkville, N'ovember 2(1.--Tio last jury caso in Court of Com mon 1Pleas wlats that of Edgor Poag againlst tho Charlot to Oil and For tilizor Company. It was action for (ama1111gos aillegod to ha1vO b0011 UH. tained by tho plaintifT on account of uniound cotton seed hulls sold by tho dofendent. I'laiitiff clailied that lie received tho Ills l ont Friday inl a itatod colndition, fod ho sam10 to hii cattlo onl Sattirday aund that onl Monday sone 1of his cattlu died. 11o charged tho donth of ,ito cattlo totho heated 11111s. T1hete WIas testl[imon1y to show (itat tho rojocted hulls woro bouglit by neighbors, who sesd them for bied'intg. Tho l. neighbors found t hat thle cattleI were ouating tho htullui sto used1 andti thon they fed thte hulls regularly wit hout harmfCul results. Mr. Ol)iver of thte oil company, testified that hulls coul 1)0 heatd(, wore scorched( and( fod withiout injury. But the fact that tho calttl() died andiu death1 wvas, ini all probability, (1u1 to the( hulls wvas sulliciont for tho juty which rendered a verdict for the plmntitili in te 811n (of $190. Tho lintifi's claim was for $23(). fears theo The Kind You have AlwasBoh SiguaturoBuhi ThecItou()t(Jts of to Doeomnbet Migazina Nnmiber (If ThoO( at, lookaro vairiod. Amont~ig thei spocial a trticlest wvil be fotunrd I to fifth intstallmeint ot' the. au1tob)iograpJhty or Booker TI Washiungton, callod, ''Up F'rom Sila very ;" the fintd inst atlInoet of Mr'. HamOnilton WV. MabliO'st "William Shakesponre ; IPont , IDrami,at ist and1 Man~i,"' whicht has ntow been pu)blished by t ho M%acmillants in) ftumpjtuIous hook formli; elaborato articles roview intg the alest books of t he seaoson in 11thlopartmtents of art, biography and1( fiction, wit h manty portrait illus:~ tr'ationis; and1(, mrost priominot of all, a seriosi of brief art iclos by such men as Jamtes JBryce, Henry van D)yke, Ed(waLrd 1'yerott IHal, President Haodley, of Yaule, aned half? a (dozen o! ters, giving th'eir oinin in reply to tho qjuestion " What Are (to Great est Books of the century 'i" ($3 a y ear, Thie Outlook Company, 278 Fourth Avenue, Now York.) 7 4 A . L -1 '.A x 1 U" E NFERtENCH IN UnIeSTERC. 'iolliinary -''l4t1-g Vi810rEny - TIn Vormnal st N n to tFl,rgnT -iy (Sveeal to) News 1111(1 Courier.) (hester, Novenber )7.----Souith Carolina Confreico will conveno on to mrrow morning at 9 o'clock, 3isil op I argrovo camo in yesterday afternoon ovor ti Sea. board Air Line and this morning had ihe preiiding eldors in secret con cllate with11 himuself, looking into 11ho iitorot af Mothodismll inl the Stato. The ClasSV4 for the soveral years mot this mornig for their exatnina. tioni. Ther aro five classes of pro. mwmmg young men, who mot their committeos to-day. Every one who joins the Metolidist Conforonce must pass thoios four examiinations, one each year. Thore aro six young man is the graduating class this year. This afternoon the donieNtic mii sion board of the Soth Carolina ConferentcO held its annual melQ-eting in the church. A great many gravo (uestionis wror up for its docision. Therm vas comploto harmony throughout. and a considerable 11m1 provoent. in mission flolds among us. To night, the iistorical Society hold its annual meoting. The Roe. E. 0. Wat-s-n, of ('larleston, deliver Oil a thought'full, helpful and highly appreciativo lecture to the body. Thoso meeting aro becoming more and inure interosting. Several me montoes and relics were donated to tho socioty wh-ich are intoresting and valuiablo. 'very train briigs new dologates aind by to-night the great majority W,li have arrived. Chostor has opoicid her homes and all is smiles. Turkeys and the far- famed "chicken" are shaking in their shoes, and tho busy housewife is dispensing good things to theso honored guests. AN ANAtIIlisr vi.ox, TO MUtI1R19 M'KINLV. In Iepart4d to the Ponlo of IlIobokcn. The Writer of Warnihng Minowi to the Police. New York, Nov. 27.--The polico of Ho0bolkon, N. d., have received a lotter alleging t ho existence of a plot to assissinato President McKinley. The writer of the lotter gave in his com]munication the name of the al leging the existence of a plot to as sasHinato President McKinley. The writer of the lotter gave in his con mnunication thre name of the alleged chief conspirator, wvhich the police ref use io miake public ut thin timo. The lot ter, which in illegibly sign. ed, in an follows: "Sir: H aying almost thoroughly aissured miynelf of an aniarchjist plot against his excellency, McKinley, I considler it my duty to advise you of the name of erne who is more than suspected of being a leader, whose name in found in the enolosed slip, lie is a fugitive from justice and a danigorous man, having been eon victodl soveral times, and on the last occalsion being sentenced to five years' implrisoinmont for an anarchist "My statement can be verified on appealing to the p)rofoet of police at Paris France. In the course of the p)ast year he had concealed with him a man naimod Francois, the author cf an anarchist attempt at Scranton, where he mortally wvounded an agent of the pl)Oico." The writer of this letter, the police say, has been located, and his ator y will be invest igated. nEcmmETi nrEHyle IN THEn D)ARK. WVashiington, Nov. 27.--Chief W il hie of the seret service division said that tihe government had no infor mation whatever on the subjet. Train (oe, into Itivar. Beaver, Pa., Nov. 27.--Late to night a Cleveland and Pittsburg flyer wvent into the Ohio river at this place. Three Cleveland men, Engi neer Couchoous, Firoman Allen and Express Messenger Casey were killed. Nineteen others are reported dead aind the entire train is said to be in the river.