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rllHI^H^PI^^Fhursd&Y ? AT? KINGSTREE, SOUTH CAROLINA, ? B Y? LOUIS J. BUISTOW, F.ditor and Proprietor. Russia has the most rapidly increasing population of any country iu the world. The growth during the last hundred years has been a fraction le3s than 1,000,000 annually. Murder seems to be decreasing in France, simply from the fact that it is not a paying industry. Statistics from Paris show that for twenty-one mur ucio till; |ai[:v.uaiuxo vun H $16 ea^ ' impression that women is lias lifty the place. |^^H^^HB^^H|^B^ui un after a cured, by played on an instrument the approach and first or slumber. Rev. Charles A. Berry reports his British friends that daring his f^Recent visit to this' country he was M most impressed by the frank, manly, ; reverent speech of American Christians when discussing divine things, their zeal for their own 2)articnlav . church, minister, and denomination, and the thorough efficiency of their Sunday-school work. He is reported to have said that, on the whole, it was well that the Olney-Pauncefote arbitration treaty failed, for it would I not have been popular or had the support of the masses. He believed it better to wait for public sentiment to gather force, so that it will resolutely back r.p any treaty constructed - - i*? aitpilajj, lines. K : r~" ~ Corn flour used in adulterating wheat flonr is made like wheat flour, explains Farm News. The corn is crushed between rolls, and the flour is dusted oat as the meal runs over a bolt. This meal is crashed aud rebolted several times,until nearly all the starchy part of the grain is iJ the form of fine flour. This corn flour is mixed with and sold as wheat flour. Considering that corn costs the miller about one-fourth as much as wheat, there is a wide margin of profit in mixing the flours. H<Jw much mixed flour is now put on the market is not known, but ' ttie evil has grown to magnificent proportions. This matter recently came up before the National Board of Trade, at the meeting in Washington', in the form of a resolution, urging Congress to impose a tax upon the manufacturers of mixed flours, and to reqnire that such flonr shall be plainly branded "mixed flour." The New York Prodace Exchange has taken an important step toward correction of the evil of mixed flour, bv a very simple pro cednre, which we believe, if adopted by all the other inspection markets, will be more effective as to resnlts desired than the tax regulation plan. The exchange at New York, through its flour committee, has instructed the inspector that flour containing any foreign substance shall not be graded, and that packages containing such flour shall not receive the brand of that exchange. It is to be hoped that other exchanges will. act in the same manner. \ Result of the Publication of a Lettei Attacking the President. MINISTER ADMITS WRITING IT. Cuban Junta Itsne* a Copy of the Communication Which it Raid to Hart Keen Stolen by a Patriot?McKlnley Called a "Low Politician"?Letter Addretted to a Spanitli Journalist. Net*- York Citt (Special).?Horatio Si Ruben9. Counsel to the Cuban Delegation, or Junta, gave out for publication a copy 1 Attn !4iA. v.. 41.A LVon,W. Vin.'ofa. | ui t? irttcr written uv tuo opnuisu .mui^vwt at Washington, Senor de Lome, to Don Jose Canalejas, of Havana. Don Jose Canalejas visited this country during the latter part of last year, and was reputed to be a special envoy sent by the Spanish Government to the United States for the purpose ofsounding public opinion. It was also said that he came provided with a fund of money to be expended in the interest of Spain. The letter referred to is said to have been written between December 25 and the last day of last year. It reached its destl- i nation, according to Mr. Rubens, but it is now in the possession of the Junta. It was captured, or, as Mr. Rubens puts it, "it was stolen by a good patriot," and In due course reached its present hands. "After comparing the docum0*** with those known to have been written by 8enoi De Lome on the same kind of official note! paper and experts employed by the Junta had pronounced the authenticity of the document unquestionable, it was translated from Spanish into English. Here is kthe translation given out by the Junta: Ik "Spanish Legation, Washington. ^"To His Excellency, Senor Don Jose ^mnaiej&s: ^H'.My Distinguished and Dear Fbiend:? | Hi need not apologize for not having writ^Hto me; I also ought to have written to but have not done so, on account ot weighed down with work and nous HBes ^^Be situation here continues unchanged. depends on tbe political and success in Cuba. The prologue oi method of warfare Will end the | ^^^H the Colonial Cabinet will be ap- 1 I^^^^Hand it relieves us in the eyes of ^H^^^ftry ot a part of tbo responsibility happen there, aud tliev may i ^^H^^Hesponsibility upon the Cubans, I ^^H^^H believe so immaculate. ^^H^^Hen we will not be able to see ^^^^Hl I consider it to be a loss oi Hi advance in the wrong road, the ^^^^^^Mmlssaries to the rebel field, tbe I with tbe autonomists not yet ^^^H|^Kbe legally constltnted, and tbe HJ^^^^Hthe Intentions and purposes ol . ^^^^^^^nent. The exiles will return I a wnenmey return win cone le sbeepfold, and the chief* ' return. Neither of these :e to leave en masse, and ave the courage to thus ree has undeceived the insurected something else, and ihe action of Congress, but id. 0 natural and inevitable 1 which he repeats all thai >ublic opinion of Spain ha* B.nu iu fieyier, it shows once more thai McKinley is weak and catering to the rabble, and, beside^, a low politician, who de sires to leave a door open to me and tf stand well with the jingoes of the party. "Nevertheless, as a matter of fact it will only depend on ourselves whether he wili prove bad and adverse to us. I agree entirely with you?without a military success nothing will be accomplished there and without military and political success there is here always danger that the insurgents will be encouraged, if not by th< government, at least by part of the public opinion. "I do not believe you pay enough attention to the role of England. Nearly all that newspaper canaille which swarms in youx hotel is English, and at the same time that they are correspondents of the Journal they are also correspondents of the best newspapers and reviews of London. Thus it has been since the beginning. To my mind the only object of England is that the Americans shouid occupy themselves wltt us, and leave her in peace, and if there is & war, so much the better. That would further remove what is threatening her, although that will never happen. "It would be most important that you should agitate the question of commercial relations, even though it would be only fox effect,and that vou should send here a mun of importance in order that I might use htm to make a propaganda among the 8en- ' ntors and others in opposition to the Junta and to win-over exiles. "There (roes Amblarad. I believe he comes too deeply taken up with little political matters, and there most ;be something very great or we shall lose. "Adela returns yonr salutation, and we wish yon in the new year to he a messenger of peace and take this new year's present to poor Spain. "Always your attentive friend and servant, who kisses yonr hands. "Eneiqce Dottrr De Lome." SENSATION IN WASHINGTON. De Lome Admit* the Authenticity of ih? Canal aj as Letter. Washikqtok, D. C. (Special).?The pnb-' lioation of the letter bearing the signature of the Spanish Minister, Dupuy De Lome, addressed to Scnor Can&lejas, and making severe strictures on President McKtnley, created a profound Impression in official circles. Dupuy de Lome, when called on officially to oxplain whether be had written the letter, declined to deny its authenticity,' which later he acknowledged. This is the | official statement made by Assistant Sec re- ' tary of 8tate Day: "Minister Dupuy de Lome does not deny the letter. This department has communicated with General Woodford on the subject. Until that communication has reached the Spanish Government it would not be proper to more fully state the contents of the message to Minister Woodford." The latest information is that the Spanish Government has recalled its Minister at T*T a. I ..J ?111 ?K.. vv&siuugiuu, ttuu Yf411 lyrwau/uiattvuw mo j sentiments In the Canalejas letter. Faal Krscgcr Ke-Elected. Paul Krueger has been re-elected Presi-1 dent of the South African Republic. The 1 total number of votes cast was 19,433. President Krudger received 13,764; Mr. "chalk Burger, k3716, and General Joubert 1943. Bc^!?n Smothered ia Sand. Wiofleld S. McDowell, forty-live years old, an electrician, of Flatbush, lost his life by a cave-in of sand under a sidewalk in New E?rk City. Who was to pay him for the work upon which he was engaged I when his death occurred, or what that I work was no one ?ee-ns to know. The polioe think he was trying to tap the telegraph wires under Broadway for the benefit of some pool-room or bucket-shop when he met his death. I A Tobacco Monopoly For Japan. ! Janaif proposes to raise money to pay for her new $200,000,000 navy by creating a tobacco monopoly. III! III The Treasury issued a statement to tW> effect tnw^WaveragoReceipts from all sources for t^Wflrst ten'days in Februnry aggregated MB)67,890, or at the rate of $336,130,585 afltr, which is $36,| 000,000 in excess of th^verage annual ex| penditures for the lasJfnine years. The German Ambassador has notified the State Drpartment that no quarantine will be imposed on American horses by Ger, many in tbe absence o; proof of veterinary | dangers. The Sennte listened te speeches on the Cuban qnestion bv Senators Cannon, Mason and Hale. The first two advocated action by the Government to terminate the war in Cuba; Mr. Hale urged the Senate to support the President's policy, The House disposed of the election contest from the Fourth Alabama District by unseating Mr. Plowman. Democrat, and seating tho contestant, Mr. Aldrich, Republican. President McKinley announced that he will attend the annual celebration at Pennsylvania University on Washington's Birthj day, and address the Faculty and students. The Secretary of the Treasury issued a warrant in favor of the Treasurer of tho United States for $7,515,255.15, to be used for the payment of the first mortgage on the eastern and Middle Divisions of the Kansas Pacific Railroad, i The Cabinet decided to send four companies of troops to Pyea and Skaguay, I Alaska, to preserve order. Canada has de' clined to permit United States troops under arms to escort the Yukon relief expedition across Canadian territory. I One amendment and two resolutions, intended to aid the rebels in Cuba, were introduced in the Senate. Negotiations for a reciprocity treaty | with Spain and her colonies were begun in Washington between Senor de Lome and Mr. Kasson. ! Rear Admiral Sicard has been relieved from'commandoftbe North Atlantic Squadron, temporarily, on recount of sickness, and the command has devolved upon Captain William T. Sampson, commauding the battleship Iowa, as the senior officer present. Admiral Sicard has malarial fever. The President sent to the Senate the nomination of Edward B. Thomas to be United States District Judge for the Eastern District of New York. Domestic. At Wilkesbarre. Penn., Edward Hughes I was killed and Thomas Anderson fatally injurel by a fall of rock in the Baltimore Mine. I The employes of the Hillsboro Woolen UilU ~ a tlllt.L. V -1.1 TT - 1.IJ 'Jims iu xiuisuuro r>riuge, n., were ium of a five per cent, increase in wages, to take effect at once. C. H. Starkey. of Macedonia, Summit County, Ohio, who had an inch taken from his right jugular vein, died at the Cleveland Hospital. Starkey lived Ave days after his jugular was shortened. The Assembly at Albany, N. Y., by a vote of 79 to G3, passed a resolution censuring United States Senator Murphy for supporting the Teller silver resolution. President Baldwin, of tho Long Island Railroad, has made a tour of inspection with a view to connecting Long Island villages by means of trolley service with the steam lines. Eleven persons were killed by the explosions' of ammoila and whisky in the cold storage plant of the Chautauqua Lake Ice Company, a six-story building In Pittsburg, Penn. Twenty-seven persons were reported to be missing, and were supposed to be buried in the ruins, and nineteen are seriously injured. The good roads movement was discussed at the National Assembly of the League of American Wheelmen in St. Louis, Charles R. Skinner was re-elected Stato Superintendent of Public Instruction of New York. XTaSa. T? T>~? J_-i-J 1 ujvj. vumiCT a. n v uumiuainu uy the Governor for Major-Goneral of the National Guard of the Stale of New York, and was promptly confirmed by the Senate. A bill was introduced in the State Senate nt Albany, N. Y., providing for the purchase of 25,000 acres of forest land in the Adirondacks, to be put under the control of Cornell University. The Buffalo (N. Y.) Board of Councilman has decided to make department stores pay license for "every branch of business excepting their one legitimate business." In one of the densest fogs that ever settled on New York there were many accidents on the water, and a series of collisions on the "L" roads. Theioe harvesters employed at five houses on the Hudson struck for an increase of wages, and obtained it. There was considerable violence while the strike lasted. Chris Von der Ahe, the St. Louis baseball magnate, has been taken to Pittsburg under an order of arrest obtained by Pitcher Mark Baldwin, who bos a judgment for $2500 against him. The arrest was in the nature of an abduction. Democrats made slight gains in tho New York township elections. State 8enator James E. Hayes, of Charlestown, Mass., who was taken to the City Hospital, Boston, suffering from abdominal trouble, caused by a wrench in falling on a piece of ice, is dead. He was thirty-two years of age. Tho mutllnted body of a murdered man, headless, legless and armless, was found in the East River between Roosevelt and James 6treet slips, New York City. Life had been extinct apparently for a few days only. Salter D. Worden, who is held in Folsom (Cal.) Prison under sentence of death for wrecking the train whioh killed a United States trooper named Clark during the great railroad strike of 1894, made what he says is a full confession. He says bo drove the strikers who placed obstructions on the tracks by direction of labor leaders. Ex-Mayor Sutro, of San Francisco, has been adjudged mentally Incompetent, and Ms daughter has been appointed his guardian. Joseph M. Noonan, former Assistant District Attorney of Hudson County, New Jersey, and Assemblyman Alexander Simpson were placed on trial in Jersey City on an indictment oharging them with accept a vsuu Driue to aeieat tne enas or justice. Henry G. Young, City Treasurer of Reading, Penn., was removed by the City Council after a shortage of $8000 was discovered In his accounts. He made the amount good. Elizabeth Flanders and Fannie Eaglehorn, Indian girls, who tried to burn the girls' building at the Indian school, .Carlisle, Penn.; ploaded guilty and were sentenced to one year and six months. They said they were homesick and wanted Captain Pratt to send them home. The dead body of Kate Drought, eighteen years old, was found on the roof over her aunt's fiat, in New York City. She bad poisoned herself. 8ha had been missin? from her home for two days. A boy named Henry Smith was buried by the tali of a snov house whtoji he hud dug out of a bank .n the yard of his home In Williamsburg, Brooklyn. He was dead when help arrived. Foreign. The Canadian Government Is not disposed to let United States troops enter the Klondike with the relief expedition. England ha? bought up all the Welsh coal in Chinese and Japanese ports for her fleet, causing much excitement. It is announced that Russia has abandoned the candidacy of Prince George for ' Governor of Crete. . I ( (Spanish Minister to the United States who a letter in which he crltici BARRIOS ASSASSINATED. Guatemala's President Murdered in the Capital by Oscar Solinger. i SUCCESSOR ASSUMES OFFICE. A Brief Dispatch Announcing the Affair Sajri Calm Prevails In Guatemala?Succeeded by the First Vlce-Pr esldent Manuel Estrada Cabrera?Barrios Succeeded President Barrlllas in 1802. Paxawa, Colombia (By Cable).?a despatch from' Guatemala, Guatemala, confirms the report of tho assassination of Jose Marcia Reina Barrios, President of the Guatemalan Ropublic. The despatoh says the assassination took place at seven o'clock p. m., within 150 yards of the President's palace. Tho assassin is a German, namod Oscar Solinger. JOS* XABCIA SSIXA BAEBIOS. A- I First Vieo-President Manuel Estrada Cabrera has assumed the Presidency. All is quiet in the city, the despatoh says. The new President, Mr. Cabrera, is a man of prominence in Guatemala and is one of two chosen by the Congress to All the presidency in case of a vacancy. Sketch of the Dead President. General Jose M. Belna Barrios, President of the Republic of Guatemala, was born In San Marcos in 1859, thirty-nine years ago. He \fas a nephew of the former President Justo Ruflno Barrios, who was killed in 1885. The General was educated abroad, and After bis collegiate course he made a trip around the world. In his ideas he was always liberal, and when the Conservative party was ousted he was a close adherent to his uncle's principles. Hinejreant ago General Barrios was consul in Hamburg, Germany. In 1893 General Barrios succeeded Barrillas as President, his term of office being six years, expiring in March of this year. Last June he publiolv declared himself dictator of Guatemala, and from all reports he enjoyed the fullest confidence of his party. His partisans say that under his administration the country prospered and developed extensively, but on the other hand his enemies claimed quite the contrary. Barrios dealt savagely with a revolution which broke out in Guatemala last sum mer. Many of the rebels were captured and were shot by order of the President. Among those whom Barrios had' put to death was Don Juan Aparicio, the most prominent exporter and importer in Central America, who was shot because he refused to give moral and financial aid to Barrios. President Barrios's wife was an American woman, Miss Algerle Benton, of New Orleans. They were married In New York eleven years ago. New York's Population 3.438,309. An official estimate of the population of Greater New York was glTen out by the Health Department, as follows: Number of persons in all five boroughs, 3,438,899, of which 1,911,755 are in the borough of Manhattan; 137,075 in the Bronx, 1,197,100 in Brooklyn, 128,042 in Queens, and 62,927 in Richmond. Japan's New Move. Japan has decided to hold Wei-Hai-Wei permanently, and China has notified the Powers accordingly that no foreign loan / A . wfln o has resigned because of the publlcatio^H sed President McKinley.) STANDS OFF MOB OF KLONDIKERS. United States Army Captain Protects Food at )?Uk of life. E. Hazard Wells, the special courier who brought Captain Ray's dispatches from the Yukon, has reachedVWashington. He did not bring the full copy of the dispatches, these having been expressed by General MerriAm from Seattle. Mr. Wells said: "I cannot properly say anything as to Captain ltay's report, but I can say that I left bim In a rather critical position, and the sooner the Government gets support in to him the better. Captain Ray had only one man with him, Lieutenant Rlohardaon. They reached Fort Yukon somewhat ahead of a mob of between 80 and 100 of the toughest men that could be picked out of Dawson, and when I left the captain he wns standing off this mob from the provision caches, largely by virtae of a small American flag and his own magniflcent ?nerve. When the food panic struck Dawson this mob of toughs left fotBoiVYukon, knowing that the Weare Company and *hs Alaska Commercial Compai ly each had a cache of provisions there. The Dawson men intended to appropriate thesesupplles and let the rest of the camp shift for Itself. "Captain Ray learned of this and he posted himself at one of the caches, while Lieutenant Richardson gpayded the other. They were in uniform, *nd~eaph of them bad a smal' American flag. '-The mob tackled the Captain flrst and ordered him'to give up. He refused and for a time it looked as though there would be shooting, but between his uniform and the flag the mob was overawed. "Ray then established himself as a sort of military dictator, superintended the sale and distribution of provisions and will make an accounting to the companies when it is all over." nunutn a tuNrtaaiuN, He Says He Wm Only a Tool of Harry F. Knox la Wrecking the Train, Salter D. Worden, under sentence of death in Folsom Prison for wrecking a train, which cost six lives, daring the great railroad strike in California in 1894, has j ust made a confession to Governor Budd, which is a remarkable document. It pur| ports to give in minute detail the story of the train wreck near Sacramento, and the incidents which led up to it. Worden asserts that he was used as a tool by Harry F. Knox, leader of the Sacramento Lodge of the American Bail way Union,who, he says, was the real head of the conspiracy. He tells of a message that was brought him while at Stockton from Knox to go to Sacramento, hire a team, and cake eight men out on the line of the railroad. Worden says he was not told of the plan to wreek the train, so he made no effort to cover his own movements in hlriug the team or going out of town. When he reaohed the railroad track Worden says he refused to join with the others in learing up the track, but they were all armed and, by threats to kill him, forced him to join them. He avers he did no work and knew nothing mors of their plans until the train approached and the wreck resulted. Then be returned to Sacramento with tho boy who drove the team, He was convicted because he had hired the team, though others were more guilty. Warden Mil, of Folsom Prison, where Worden is eonflnod, believes Worden tells the truth. It is thought that Kuox and several others will be arrested and tried and that Worden's sentence will be commuted to ten years or raaybe to a life term THE CYCLISTS' CONVENTION. ' I. B. Potter Re-elected President of the Jj. A. W. on First Ballot. Isaac B. Potter, of New York, was reelected President of the League of Ameri can Wheelman, at the National Assemby at St. Louis; Mo,, on the first ballot, by a vote of 212 to 107. The following ticket was elected: First Vice-President, Thomas Keeaan, Pennsylvania; Second Viee-President, E. N. Bines, Michigan; Treasurer, James C. Tattezsali, New Jersey. Providence, It. I., was selected as the place to hold the next annual meeting ol the League. During the post year 54,79S new members have Joined the league, and 48,017 of the old members have renewed. But as in former years, the percentage of renewals is by no means satisfactory. An Alabama College KulldlngJJunietl. Seay Hall, one of the handsomest buildings of the Agricultural and Mechanics' College, at Normal, Ala., has been destroyed by Are. Twenty-flve students who were asleep in the building narrowly escaped with their lives. Half a Million Dollar Fire in Fort Worth. Fire that started ia the dry goods store of E. Dreyfus & Co., at Fort Worth, Texas, destroyed half a million dollars' worth ofproperty. The M. C. Hurley building, seven stories high, was destroyed; loss 5250,000. 4 nnn AlB wji Zola's Tba cro^^^^BB^^^BD^^H^B|^KV learning majority summoned nHHHH Inside two-thirds understood vision peAranee After the fession, an until, as^B^^^^^B^^^^^^^^B declaring hls^^B^^^^^B^BB^^^H on tenebrous^^^^^^^B^^^H^I^B "Toute la lumierel'T^^^^^^^^B^^B^^^I stated that the In the witness box, Minister War had^|^^^^^B|^^^^B| dinates not to give malned away sponta^B^^^^H^^^^^^HB Che day's proceedi^^^^^^^^^^B^^B . Cftently than ^n before M^IB^^^^B^^^B^B B> already pronoua^^^^^^^^^B^^^^B during the day "Whatever be ?^B"sbalnMsatisfled. Jj^^BPi earv. wF for it nfcne dict^HM^tonduet, and T hold its BQntenceHfoer than any other sen t ence. I am a Wolutely confident of the final success of the efforts to clear Dreyfns, whose Innocence, in my eyes, is as dear aa the light of the son." CRIMES OF A STEPMOTHER. Mrs. Fines Kills Her Haibsad't Child ' sad Hacks Hits. Mrs. Martha Place is a prisoner at 8t. Mary's Hospital, Brooklyn, charged with murdering her stepdaughter Ida .seventeen years old, and with murderous assault upon her husband, William V. Plaee, who is employed by the London and Lancashire Insurance Company at 67 William street, New York City. The Places lived at 596 Hancock street, Williamsburg. Mrs. Plaee is believed to have killed her stepdaughter daring the afternoon by striking her on the head with an axe, fogeipg acid down her throat, and then smothering her with .bed-elothing. t She assailed her husband with an ax as j he entered the house on returning from his ) place of business. She out deep gashee in the side of his hpsd, and endangered hie ilife to such an extent that Coroner Delap considered it neeeasary to take his anteI jmortem statement. After her husband had escaped from the house Mrs. Plaee went inpstairs to her own bedroom and inhaled ' rtimbuMag gas. It is believed by the- ' police that the attempt mm nottuada with a desire to kill h rselt+s*-^' i ' Ammunition Worthies*. Tests of shrapnel shots furnished for the 1 United States army have been made by . Lieutenant Babbitt, of the Benieia (Cal.) Arsenal. Twenty-six shells were fired and : fifty per eent. of the ammunition was ! found to be wholly worthless. The flimsy shrapnel was furnished by an ordnanee company of Washington. All shells fused by electricity were excluded from the twenty-six rounds selected by Lieutenant Babbitt. ' Bridegroom Kills Himself. James & Yarn, a bridegroom of twelve days, committed suicide at Yaldosta, Ga., br blowing off the top of his head with a shotgun. He had just returned from his honeymoon. Ton minutes before his suicide he mailed a letter to his wife assuring her of his love, but saying that he felt insanity creeping on him. nu|? vnicKer tonwm. Ia Chicago the National Biscuit Company was formed. It Includes ninety per ?'cd the larger blscnit and cracker oak lug plants of the country, and has a , capital stock of $55,000,000. It Is organised , -under the laws of New Jersey. ; ' Calhoun Tot Commissioner. William J. Calhoun, of Chicago, accepted , the President's, offer of appointment as In; terstate Commerce Commissioner to suceoed William B. Morrison, Educational Event. Elaborate preparations are being completed at Chattanooga, Tenn., for jjH the reoeption and entertainment of the department of superintendence of the I National Educational Association, to [ meet in that city Feb. 22, 23 and 24. fl , . ' M To Protect Renters. I The Bell Telephone Company has filed with the Nofth Carolina railroad commission a $5,000 bond to protect the flfl telephone renters in case the lower rate ordered by the commission holda fl^B