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VOL. xVIII. MANNING, S. C., WEDNESDAY. MAY 18. 1904. NO.85 THE WAGES OF SIN. Noted Scandal in a New York Chur Ended by Suicide. SAD STORY OF NEW YORK LIFT S. E. Green, a Wealthy Lawyer BIo1 Out His Brains in a Hotel Where His Marital Woes Began. The article below reads almost lik fiction, but it is a true, sad life stor3 which ought to open the eyes of tb people to the curse of divorce. Thi article shows that this awful curs pervades all grades of society in th c'rnmunities where it is allowed t exist. Standing in a room on the groun floor of the Fifth Avenue Hotel Wed nesday in the city of New York, Sane nel B. Greene, a wealthy lawyer, c Stonyford, N. Y., pressed a revolve to his right temple, sent a bulle crashing into his brain and then ea pired in the arms of those who help him up. This tragedy was the climax of remarkable - series of sensationa divorce action and incidental suit and charges which at one time mad, turmoil in the homes, society an church circles of Monticello, N. Y The intrigue and complexities of the story ending with the suicide of Greer are unrivalled in fiction. It was a singular coincidence thal Greene selected for his suicide th; hotel where evidence was obtainei against the wife he divorced ant where the complicated matrimonia troubles, involving so many people had their origin. A correspondent of the New Yorl "nrucmcA" called at the handsome home at Stonyford and broke the new of death to the young and beautifu wife. Arrangements were made ti claim the body before. any actioz might be taken toward sending it ti the Morgue. THE rELLE OF MONTICELLO. Greene was the son of William B Greene, a wealthy and famous lawye: of Buffalo, N. Y., and after graduat ing from Princeton married Mis Jennie Niven, daughter of the Hon Thornton A. Niven, and grand daughter of General A. C. Niven, ant acknowled the belle of Monticello. To St. John's Episcopal Church it Monticello there came the Rev. Davi T. Howells, a bright, active and elo quent young man. The young minis ter Invited Mrs. Niven to sing in th choir, and her daughter, Mrs. Greene became an active church worker. One day the good people of th town were stunned by the breaking o the famous Monticello Church scan dal, news of which spread and causer so much turmoil in the town tha nearly every one was concerned on way or the other. Mrs. Howell sued Mrs. Greene fo: 825,000 damages for alienating hel husband's affections; Mr. Greene ant Mrs. Greene for divorce; Mrs. Greeni sued Mr. Greene for divorce; Mrs Howell sued Mr. Howell for divorci and Mrs. Howell-secured a warrant fo: thp Bev. Mr. Howell for refusal t< furnish support and consel fees. UsRID sIGNALS FOE MINIsTER. In the trial it was testified tha Mrs. Greene and the Rev. Mr. How ells had visited the Fifth Avenu Hotel together, and fashionably dress ed women throngel the court room ti bear how Mrs.' Greene lit a lamp Ia her room to signal the min ster In tb vestry of the church jus 'across tb way. The church congzregation di vded and clashed, each faction alter nately resigning and regaining tb mastery of the church a~Tairs. Mrs. Greene came te New York securing employment .as a stenog rapher for a rich Wall street broker and Rev. Mr. Howell wias transferre to Blackwells Island, from which h made frequent trips to Mrs. Greene Brooklyn residence, at 10 . 15.0 Quinc street. Mrs. Greene fidled to shos that her husband manif asted any irr proper conduct toward an attractiv 'young woman named N attle Coulsor and for the consideration of 812,001 she allowed her husband to secure al uncontested divorce. The disappearsace of Mrs. Greene long a mystery to Monticello peopli was explained yesterday when a: American reporter found her in Nt wark, where she is married to th~ Rev. Howells, now a lawyer, wit ef~ces in the Prudential Building. FORMER WIFE HEA RS NEWS. "So he committed suicide, did he What was the matter with him?" wa the calm remark of! Mrs. Howells, yet terday, when infcrmed of the suicid of her former husaand. A week after securing his divorc Greene married his cousin, Miss Eliz beth Bull, daughter of Justice Willia. Bull, a society girl of Stonyford v cinity. Last week he left his wif saying he was going away for a fe days, and the news of the suicide wa the first his wife heard of his whieri abouts. Although it is known that Greene end came with despundency due 1 drinking, an element of mystery added to the closing chapter by tI fact that before going to the Fift Avenue Hotel, Greene talked for long time with some one at the Grar Union Hotel. While the managemei of the hotel say they know nothing the case, one of the employes is ri ported as saying that there was a ma at the hotel that could tell all abot Greene if he wanted to. This repo Coroner Schole is investigating. Suit Over a Kangar oo's Tail. The Nelhon Theatrical compaz values a kangaroo's tail at $1,250 ~ inch. While the car containing ti company and its effects was bein switched on the Reading tracks Tamaquo a yard engine butted int the rear of it. The windows wel .broken and a piece of gla'ss fell up( the tail of a performing kangaro cutting off four inches *The Nelsc company has instituted proceeding against the railroad for $5,000 dar ages. The case will be heard In ti Phliladelphia coult8 next week ARRESTED IN PARIS. Miss Bell Crane, of Georgia, Told Sen sational Story About Abduction. United States Consul General Gowdy at Paris, France, recently received a L. letter from an American girl saying that she was locked up in a provincial , jail without any' charge having been made against her. The consul general sent a report to the jail and secured the girl's release and return to Paris. He then cabled to her parents residing at Decature, Ga., requesting funds for her return to America. The girl related a sensational story. She claimed to have been abducted by e an American seeking to marry her s and said she accompanied him on an e automobile tour, was locked up in a room in a country hotel, escaped and e was made to walk across the country o and was arested as a wanderer by the French authorities. I Inquiries made by Mr. Gowdy's re port established the correctness of her detention at the provincial jail, but I the story of her abduction was not f verified, except by her statement, r which has been reduced to an afidavit t before the consul. The names of the parties are withheld, as no legal steps have been taken against the alleged abductor and owing to the doubtful character of some of the accusations. Pending the arrival of funds the girl is being cared for by the American Young Women's Christian associa s tion. e A dispatch from Atlanta, Ga., says 3 investigation developed the fact that the young woman referred to in the above dispatch frem Paris is Miss Belle Crane of Decatur, Ga., who went to London a year ago to give concert readings. Miss Crane was well known I here, having attended Agnes Scott institute, a well known college for I women. Her -father is B. S. Crane who holds a prominent pokition with the Virginia-Carolina Chemical com pany. He had heard nothing from his I daughter for several weeks but about 1 eight days ago in response to a cable s gram from American Consul General (Gowdy that Miss Crane was in Paris and wished to return home he cabled I $200 to pay the expenses of her return I passage. Miss Crane went to Europe with a party of friends from Cin cinnati. She had contracted with a Mr. Angel, an American who was go- 1 - ng to Europe accompanied by his wife, r to give a series of concert readings, but upon the death of Mrs. Angel i the plan was dropped and Miss Crane - went to live with a Miss Lestrade in - London. Several weeks ago she left London for Paris. The Associated Press brought Mr. Crane the first in formation of the sensational incident in Paris. JAPANESB LOSE A WAR SHIP. It Was Only a Torpedo Boat Blown Up by a Mine. A dispatch from Tokio, Japan says - the Japanese torpedo boat No. 48 was i destroyed while removing' mines from t Kerr bay, north of Talien Wan (Port Dalny) Thursday. Seven men were killed and seven wounded. This is r the first warship Japan has lost in the war. The torpedo boat was lost dur ing a series of bombardments and sur Sveying operations at' Talien Wan, . Deep and Kerr bays, by Admiral~ SKataoka, commander of -the third ! squadron. The admiral arrived at )Kerr bay early in the morning and detached the cruisers Itsukushima, Nisshin and Miyako, ordering them to bombard the land batteries, while' -a flotilla of torpedo boats swept the eharbor for some minutes. The second flotilla of torpedo boats which bad Sbeen engaged in guarding Prt A rthur 2the previous night joined the squad Sron and began the work of surveying a the harbor. .The Miyako discovered a company of Russian infantry and a detach e ment of cavalry on shore and dispers ed them. The survey was completed at~3 o'clock in the afternoon. Two Storpedo~ boats that were reconnoiter ing and removing mines in the west shore of Kerr bay discovered a tele e graph line running along the Taku s Shan peninusula. In order to destroy it Lient. Hotta and four sailors land ed and scaled the heights under the protection of the guns of' thie torpedo boats and cut the line. The Japanese vessel then discovered three bodies of E ussian troops, one large and two a small ones, whereupon the squadron advanced close to the shore and shell ed them. The Miyako, which was 'reconnoitering in Deep bay, discover ed a Russian guard post on a moun tal.~ to the north-west of Robinson promontory and destroyed it. A Eussian force, estimated at ten companies, took refuge behind an em inence but it was dispersed by the Japanese. Torpedo boats Nos. 48 and 49.discovered a large mechanical mine in Kerr bay. Their various attempts to blow it up failed and it suddenly exploded of Itself cutting No. 48 in two. The torpedo boat sank in seven .minutes. The sqadron hurried boats to~ the rescue and picked up the ~.wounded. Three other mines were discovered and exploded. The squad ron completed its operations at 6 o'clock in the evening and returned to its base. Roasted in Oil. '- Fire at Batson, Tex., Friday after noon destroyed 18 derricks, tive dril a ling rigs and 22 tanks coutaining e about 15,000 barrels of oil. Tom h Walker of Leavenworth, Kas., mount a ed a ladder in an effort to cut off the. dflow of oil, but fell into a mass of burn-~ ~ ing oil and timber and slowly roasted to death while the spectators looked on helpless to reach him. The loss is n 860,000. Itt .tPoor Fellow. ,Tos Newman of Wilmington, N. C., a traveling salesman for a Cincinnati distillery, was found dead in his room at the Metropole hotel at Detroit, 7 Mich. A box of morphine pils and telegrams with written instructions eto where his body should be sent, gtold a story of suicide. Newman was it about 33 years old. It is said that grief over the death of a brother led to theI Eight People Killed. nAn Illinois Central passengar train a was ditched twenty miles from Starl . Ing, Ills., Wednesday. Eight passan e gers were killed and many others in juarld HE FOUGHT HARD. Such is the Eelief of Young Wentz, the Philadelphian WHOSE BODY HAS BEEN FOUND. It is Believed Now That the Dead Body Was Carried to the Spot Where It Was Dis covered. A dispatch from Wise, Va., says it -s now believed that Edward L. Wentz, the rich.Philadelphian, whose body was found near there and whose disappearance last October called out a reward of $100,000, was killed in a fight with mountain moonshiners. The body has been fully identified and there is every reason to believe be died fighting for his life. His cloth ing was intact, but the front teeth are one. His revolver with three shots missing and his eyeglasses were found about twenty feet away. The body lies near the Blackwood road, about a mile north of Kelly Cave. The space adjacent to the body has been roped off and a guard placed around it. The relatives are expected there from Philadelphia Thursday, hen an inquest will be held. MYSTERY IN THE DISCOVERY. The principal mystery that puzzles he Wise County officers is the finding )f the body lying in full view on the 1 ;round. The opinion is held that it :ould not have been there unseen dur ng the seven months since Wentz's isappearance. The body was found in a clearing on the hillside, face upward, in good con lition, as though death had occurred iot many days ago. Tne clothe* were orn and misshapen, apparently by I ,he Work of the elements. It. was found 1 )y a young village boy who was spend- 1 ng Sunday afternoon beating through ,he bill country in search )f a strayed i w. The belief that Wentz was killed by noonshiners after a hard battle is i orne out by the fact that they had E hreatened his life. TROUBLE WITH MOONSHINEBs. C Early in last October an illicit dis illery was discovered and broken up )y the revenue qfficers after a battle n which one of the officers was kill :d and in which the leader of the clan t was mortally wounded. The distillery I raided was one of the largest and the I >ldest in these mountains, and con iected with its operation was a large roportion of the inhabitants here bout. The responsibility for the 1 whole affair was placed by these men )n the shoulders of Edward Wentz, .i nd he was warned repeatedly -by in abitants with whom he had made 'riends that his life would not be t worth, a moment's purchase if one of nembers of the disturbed gang could fet a shot at him. WARNLDG WAS UNHEEDED. But Wentz had a great lover for the nountains and the forests; also he had - >een raised in Philadelphia, and it was difficult for him to realize that auman life- could be held as of such mall value as'these people, his moun ~an friends, would have him belived. 3e tried to take the warning serious y for a time, and succeeded until the iterncon of October 14, one of the .' arly Fall days in the mountains, when all the country takes on new and rilliant coloring. He was last seen by an old woman ear Kelly View. Toe chimney of her1 ~ottage had caught fire, and he had lismounted to assist her. That night, When. he did not return, iis brother telephoned for his parents mnd posses were sent out to beat up she entire country in the vicinity. REWARD OF $100,000. Rewards were offered by Dr. and I Mrs. Wentz until finally they aggreg ited $1oo,000'. Thae mining and lum ering operations were suspended and1 ver one thousand miners and lumber nen were sent out to assist in the search, -and the spot where the body( was finally found Tuesday was gone ver again and again. Shortly after the disappearance a congh mountaineer rode into Big1 stone Gap with an offer to releaset Wentz for a ransom of $25.000. Be iarried a letter purporting to be from Wentz, but supposed to be a forgery. Ee was followed into the mountains by detectives, who lost all track of 1 him.1 The search has never abated for one 1 moment since the disappearanice. * Heir to Large Estate. A dispatch from Walhalla to The State says some interest has been aroused here by an advertisement which appeared in an Atlanta paper inquiring for the heirs of Johnathan Tims, who moved to Texa~sor Arkansas before the War for Southern Indepen dence. The advertisement was signedI by R. S. Richey, R.. F. D. No. 4, Pen dleton, S. C., and says if any heirs of Johathan Tims can be found they can secure a large sum of money at' Anderson by presenting themselves Two miles north of Wahalla lives Mrs. T. A. Timus, widow of Isaac Tis, son ot Johnthan Timns. Mrs. Tims has one son who is heir of this estate. Young Timns is an industrious young man, but owing to physical in tirmities he is unable to do much hard labor and should he fall heir to this estate it would ::ome as a great bless ing to his mother and himself. Mrs. Tims' maiden name was Tims, and she' first married a Mr. Warren in Ar kansas, who was killed -in the war, and later she married her cousin, Isaac Tis. She now draws a pension as the widow of Warren. To Putt Up Dummies. As stated in the Washington corre spondence of the News and Courier several days ago there seems to be a concerted movement on the part of the Republicans to run congressional candidates in all of the Southern states. The idea seems to get up' "dummy" contests, and there is no~ telling what the Republicans will do in these contests. It is, therefore, all the more important that the Demo crats make as strong a show as possi ble in the general election. Unfortu nately the masses 'quit voting when the primaries are over, but as good' Democrats the voters owe it to their party to make the best possible show in the gneal. election. THE YELLOW PERIL Is Beginning to Force Itselr Upon the World. A dispatch from London to the New York Sun says there is a disposi tion among the most competent Euro pean observers to regard the battle of the Yalu as marking an epoch in modern history. It is not that it possesses great intrinsic importance, nor does it settle in any way the outcome of the war. It suffices, how ever, as the Fpectator gravely re marks, to modify possibly for all time the relation of Europe to Asia. Until that battle was fought the white race was still unconvinced that the Japanese army could rival or de- 1 feat a European force of anything i like adequate dimensions. The pride i: af the white contingent had for three enturies seemed to be justified by y bistory. The struggle on the Yalu o provides precisely the concrete evi- o fence needed to dissipate this confi- C fence; hence it may be an event which future historians will quote as one of V Ghe marking points of time. e: GERMANYS ATTITUDE. f( The German press, on the other and, has been as bad as the Russian b .n suppressing and minimizing the cl 2ews of Japan's great success. Ger- Z nany's attitude, in fact, becomes p n.re and more suspicious. The Spec- it ator, discussing the Kaiser's recent f< ,peeches, says: 13 "What was the effect he wanted to g nroduce when last week he suddenly c et himself go in regard to France cl Lnd said things which kings and em- a: >erors usually studiously avoid? The j simplest explanation, but one to which ti e do not desire to give the slightest p ndorsement, is that the kaiser is hreatening France just as Bistark i bhreatened her in 1873. It is pointed st >ut that Russia's entanglements in o, he Far East have practically dis- 1! olved the Dual Alliance. We hold pi hat the idea that Germany is prepar- a, ag to attack France must be banish d- as entirely out of the question. whatever else the emperor means, he loes not mean to make a sudden war vith France. There are those even in England P vho regard Japan's unbroken success ith anxiety. They see great menace hi o the rest of the world in her com ilete domination of Asia, which will W e the natural outcome of Russia's de eat. They believe that it will be ! L1 mpossible to aviod similar military ,rowth of China under Japanese tute- tc age, and this view has been strongly t rged upon the attention of the Brit sb public for the past few days. The correspondent of The Sun at 9 t St. Petersburg writes: 'Following ci he Yalu battle the ministry of the ep terior issued instructions to the vi Russian newspapers to refrain from P1 ommenting on its effect on the pros- ir cts of Russia raising a foreign loan. the council of ministers at a series of ar pecial sessions during the last few lays decided that the governmentm ust- have a large supply o: ready noney within the next.three months. Ce contractors engaged in public- a rorks, which were countermanded by 2 he czars recent order, as a measure s1 i internal economy which would en ble the government to divert the a noney to the war chest, have heeb sked to prepare to resume operations. c he council has taken the view that ~ ternal economy, which would reduce c he wages paid to the industrial popu ation would be dangerous; while keep- ( ug the working, men in .employment Lder the, government should stifle s isaffection. Projects have conse t iuently been opened for four railways P n S uth Russia and a great extension 2h i the iron works in the Ural province,.h "The government has informed a rench agent here regarding the loan. bat It is determined to have thej noney. The only question is as t that rate It shall pay. "Writers in the Russian press who Lre mcst directly under control of M. g e Plehve, the minister of foreign af- ix 'airs, mintained that the operations ce itherto amount only to movements Ice if troops and transports and that the var has not begun yet. The minis- jS. ies themselves are completelys dis nayed at the evidenoe of the Japanese Idi bilty to sustain a stubborn attack o ver successive days and nighats and s ress on despite losses. The belief 1' ,hat the Japanese were oniy equal to 1I 'ush attacks where the probability ,bat their own ksses would be almost 13 ii was the basis of the general staff e alculations, which the ministers re- ce cocd. 51 "At present the government is ab- pt olutely at a loss what to do except to 'a eep the country quiet, in which tbey he iave been outwardly successful. The c lackness of manufactures increases jci be number of unemployed, whom the it inistry of the interior requires te pt :e:urn to their native villages, not 2 'ishing to have crowds in the towns. 5 E'e necesity of finding employment 'or these is an important fact in con- oi ection with the loan question." a si Will Be Paid. 3 A dispatch from Spartanburg to c4 rhe State says Congressman Jos. T. gi ohnson has received from the war cc department vouchers for five claims el for parties who had horses taken away from them by federal soldiers after the surrender of the Confederate ai armies. Tbese reimbursements are s secured under the act of Feb. 12, 1902. 1 The amounts and vouchers are as fol-: lows: Andrew Mitchell, Union, 8135, ti W. H. Sanders, Union, $135; Capt. J. Frank Wofford, Swtzer, 8125; G. W. Fowler, Union, $135; Mrs. Lizzie D-.e Fiming, Spartanburg, 8225. Con' I gressman Johnson has a large number of others pending the decision of tbe department. Mr. Johnson will not si be able to attend the meeting of the1, State Democratic convention in 0o- a Lumbia, as the affairs of his constitu ncy and important business demands bis time there. One of the alternatest will represent him at the gathering in I olumbia. He leaves for Washington s ionday._________ ii Lost a Good Job. a United States Marshal John Mi. 1 Barnes has been fired by the president c from his $7,000 job because he was impertinent to United States Judge a1 Emory Speer while he was holding ir THE COST OF LIVING. 'ol. Wright Shows That It Has In creased in Late Years. TRICKING FACTS AND FIGURES 'resented by the Commissioner of Bureau of Coin merce and Labor, Which Will inter est Every One. The following article which is furn shed the Columbia State by its Wash agten correspondent is very interest ag reading: How greatly the cost of living has 2creased in the last 10 years is strik 2gly demonstrated in a bulletin just sued from the department of com ierce and labor, by Col. Carroll D. right, commissioner of the bureau f labor. The bulletin shows the cost f living in 1903 and for 13 years pre eding. Wholesale figures are used by Col. Fright ir his comparisons and in his splanations for using them as a basis )r his results the commissioner says: "Wholesale prices have invariably een used for the purpose of showing ranges in the general price level. 'hey are more sensitive than retail rices and more quick to reflect changes i conditions. Retail prices usually )low the wholesale, but not general in the.same proportion. The mar in between them in the case of some cmmodities is so great that slight aanges in the wholesale price do not [ect the retail. Changes in the holesale price which last for a short me do not usually result in corres )nding chances in the retail prices."! The method used by Col. Wright I t making his rep!.rt is the same pur led by leading statisticians the world Ter, and in comparing the prices for )03 with former years he reduces the rice for the preceding 13 years to an rrage price for that period. AVERAGE HIGHEE. The average prices of all commodi es were higher in 1903 than at any me since and including 1900. Farm -oducts reached the lowest average in 196 and the highest in 1902. Cloths id clothing were lowest in 1897 and ghest in 1890.4 Fuel and lighting ere lowest in 1894 and highest in 103. Metals and implements were west in 1898 and highest in 1900. amber and building materials were west in 1897 and highest in 1903. Raw commmodities and Manufac red commodities have been seperat I for further examination. In the cups designated as "raw" are in ded all farm products, beans, coffee, gs, milk, rice, nutmegs, pepper, tea, getables, raw silk, wool, coyal, crude troleum. copper ingots, pig lead, pig on, bpr silver, spelter, pig tin, brim one,; jute and rubber, a total of 50 ticles. * The average price for all these com odities during January and Febuary, 103, was 33 percent. above the aver ,e price for the preceding 10 years,. id the average price for the year was .7 per cent. higher than for the me period.. Manufactured commodities advanc t to a level onFy exceeded in the year 190. They were higher by 21.5 pei' :nt. than in 1897, by 11 per cent. ore than In 1899, and about 1 per nt, higher than in 1i902 tOnder the head of farm products, nsisting of 16 articles, it is shown at wheat increased 5.1 per cent.; eers, good to choice, 6.9'per cent.; mothy hay, 19.2 per cent; corn. 21.1 r cent.; barley, 21.2 per cent.; hides, .8 per cent.; oats, 31.7 per cent.; gs, 37 per cent.; cotton. 44.7 per nt.; N'ew York hops, 59.5 per cent. here .was a decrease of 1.3 per cent. .sheep, 2.5 per cent. in rye and 5.9 tr cent. in flarseed. Fifty-three articles of food are en, and on 35 of these there is an crease over the average for the pre eding 13 years ranging from 5 per nt. on bread, in the Washington arket, to 72 per cent, on pepper from ngapore. A 5 per cent. increase is noted ob led codfish and potatoes, 6 per cent. lbutter and 10 per cent. on canned 1mon, New Orlean molasses increas 5 per cent.; crackers. Boston X, ~.5 per cent.; milk, 12.9 per cent.; ess beef, 13 per cent.; western ham, per cent.; tallow, 17.2 per cent.: ~gs, 23.2 per cent.; mackerel, 23.3 per nt.; cornmeal, 23 and 25 per cent.; noked hams, 34 per cent.; lard, 34 r cent.; beans, 35 per cent.; bacon 2 salt pork, 42 and 43 per cent.; ~rrng, 51 per cent. There was a de ease in sugar of from 1.2 to 5 per nt.; in soda crackers, 9.5 per cent.; flouir, 6.4 per 9ent.; in vinegar, 12 r' cent.; in evaporated fruits, about Ipe: cent. The price of coffee fell ~.4 per cent. Of 70 articles of clothing the prices 56 for 1903 were higher than the 7erage price for the preceeding period ne 1890. The increases ranged from per cent. for ginghams to 20.8 per nt. for sheetings. Women's dress ods were 14.3 per cent. higher; over satings, 17.3 per cent. higher; blan m, 17.8 per cent. higher. FUEL AND LIGHT. The table of fuel and lighting shows 2 astonishing increase in the cost to se consumer. Tbe increase during 03 over the average~ price for the receding 10 years of petroleum, re ned, 150 degrees fire test, was' 53.1 er cent.; petroleum for export 32.5 er cent.; anthracite coal, 26.2 per' ~nt.; anthracite stove coal, 27.1 per mt; anthracite chaesl nut coal, 34.2 er cent.; anthracite egg coal, 34.3 er cent. The only itEcm in the class aowing a decline Is parlor matches, hich fell off 14.4 per cent. The verage increase for 1003 over the eriod since 1890 was 49.3 per cent. In another series of tables giving' e prevailing price for December, 03, as the year closed, the report ows a decided upward tendency. or instance, petroleum, refined, had creased to 68.5 per cent. over the verage for the preceding period since 90, and farm products were 12.2 per' ant. higher. Figures on the price of petroleum ad raw sugar are especially interest iin view of the contention made in haf of the trnets that they grivea the public the advantage of cheaper commodities. The lowest price of the refined .pro duct of the Standard Oil company, 150 degrees, water white, was in March, 1893, 7 1 8 cents a gallon, and the highest was in November and De cember, 1903, 15 cents a gallon. This is an increase of 100 per cent. in illu mination in 10 years. Crude petro leum also in reased from 51 3 8 cents per barrel in October, 1892, to 81.88' a barrel in December, 1903, and this is the Standard Oil company's excuse. The lowest price for sugar was in 1904 and the highest price. was 1890. Sugar was about 8 per cent. and 10 per cent. lower in 1903 than during the preceding 13 years. Effective working of the coal com bination is shown in the comparison of the highest and loweit prices dur ing the period under discussion. The lowest price of anthracite egg was in September, 1895. In the latter part of 1902 and throughout 1903 the wholesale price was $4.95. Commis sioner Wright says no attempt has oeen made in any way to go into the cause of the rise and fall of prices. "The aim' has been. to give the prices as they actually prevailed in the. market." The causes, he holds, are too complex, the relative influence too uncertain, in some cases too many economio questions to permit their discussion in connection with this bulletin BED HOT STATEMENT Made by a Sian Who Lost a Fat Gov ernment Job. John M. Barnes, until recently marshal of the southern district of Georgia, but who was displaced at the instance of Judge E nory Speer, has given out the following caustic state ment, ib which he styles Judge Speer a renegade: "The article dictated for publica Lion by Judge Emory.Speer, in Tnurs day morning's Telegraph, bears on its !ace its authorship so plainly as to need no reply to those who know the man. It appears to be a mongrel a. tempt to prejudice me before the southern people, among whom, unlike im, I do not live as a renegade, and to prove a reputation for courage which every one knows he does not 4 posses=. No revolting expressicas x were used about the judge at Val losta, and none were uttered that he r id not hear or was not - informed bout. "The provocation for this I 'am ready to establish upon the witness ,tand, for no other purpose than the t patriotic intention of exposing a tyrant Lnd an unimpeached affliction who ears the ermine yet, through the = eglect of a prosecuting officer. "In an effort to conceal the lack of hose manly instincts iwhich would ave served even a nervous aspirant for the office of 'southern gentleman,' his life incubus upon a long-suffering people has sought to shelter himself t >ehind a sentiment, which those :of .hat blood that blushed for him would t lie to defend. In his dictation he i ays the marshal was displeased be- t ause he, Judge Speer, took occasion, n his charge to the grand jury, to _ nake laudatory remarks, with refer nce to Confederate veterans. - "The parents of the marshal, then n office, had ten first cousins killed n the Confederate army, and every unce of blood and every .dollar of roperty was laid upon the altar of ~bat ill-starred republia. No man I ~an distort the criticism upon a circus, ~ nasquerading under the guise of a I ~ourt, Into an unfrIendly expression C oward the Confederate dead. Such ~neffort todispel a criticism made, >ecause a court, instead of attending ~ o the government's business, sought ~ o make itself a billboard of -assumed irtues before an audience gathered E ~ogether by the court attendance in I he light of our respective histoiries, I nust fail. If he says that such an 1 Ltention as to the Confederate dead I was mine, his words are as false as ls motives are foul, and if he, as the C tuthor, has satisfied himself of his C wn courage sufflciently to state what -~ e has written behind my back, he ~ ay have the opportunity of refuting is answer by reliable evidence, if he loes it, or otherwise by the usual urse of the southern gentleman, ade in a manner known to all brave en. "In conclusion, permit me to state ~hat, despite the reputation for un linching courage, Judge Speer, as a ewspaper correspondent, has estab ished for himself, if he undertakes toa ~eterate the statement therein con- I ained reflecting on myself, he lies in 2is throat and in his soul. In the anguage of Lamar,, these are words which no good man will deserve and 20 brave man will wear." A Valuable Cargo. From New York the French line 1 Seamship La Torraine sailed for s [favre Thursday with $9,300,000 in s cold bars, and specie i. her strotig oomn, the most valuable shipment of cld which has ever gone out of this ort. Considering the value of the ( ~hip heiself at 84,000,000, her gen- 1 I mal cargo at $1,000,000 and adding ~hese to the sum represented by the C tld, Li Torraine as she sailed Thus- i lay is the most valuable ship which C aas ever put out from New York. a Ought to Get It. . e At Ekiora, Ia-., the widcw of Jack loodlow, the aged negro of Hamburg, b ho diec as the perpetrator of a joke a ere pre tending to burn him at thie stake a few days ago, has fied notim i1 or an action of $5,000 damoages. The rincipa named as the defense in thle r etion are Ted Sullivan, George andd farry C~ape, Jr., Fred Ciayton, Scott ?hillips, R. L. Duncan, John Gott ,che, Charles Reynolds, Charles Mc- a Ldoo and Leslie Overbay. Righ Diver Killed. A dispatch from Raleigh, N. C., lays circled in flame Prof. Danton., he Hungarian high diver, one of the .ttractions of the Goldsboro carnival, lriday night shot downward from the 3 he little platform at 'the top of his ~ 10 foot laader into the tank of waterr d lambent fire below; but in doing t o he made a slight miscalculation, his ~ uead and shouldiers coming in contact 1 ith the side of the tank with such I lence that he died soon afterwards. GOT THEIR DESERTS. How Two Unworthy Cadets Wcre Treated by Their Comrades. Disgraced and humiliated, the in signia of rank cut from their uni forms, two members of the cadet corps at the Virginia Polytechnic In stitute at Blacksburg have been driven forth by their fellows and branded as men with whom gentlemen should no longer associate. The offense imputed to them is that while in a state of in toxication they offered insults to young women.. The only thing to lighten the burden of their disgrace is the suppression of their names by the-in stitute authorities. As soon as the charges against the two became known to the cadets a committee of investigation was ap pointed. A thorough examination was made, and the committee reported to the cadet body that the charges were true. Two representatives of each class then waited upon the ac Bused cadets'and informed them that they must leave Blacksburg at once. They were then commanded to at Lire themselves in full uniform and, to proceed to the parade ground. Arriv Ing there; they found the whole cadet body drawn up In martial array. The trembling culprits were marched down In front of the line and halted where the eyes of all present might rest upon' them. Their uniforms were resplen lent with the stripes of rank won by them through months of arduous toil. "You have disgraced' these em blems," said the senior officer solemn y, "and will not be permitted to car y them away with you." With their knives the cadet com nittee then cut or tore every stripe 'orm-their clothing. The cadets then turned their backs upon them,,and ,hey left the field with the order ring ng in theit ears to leave-the institu ion just 'as soon as their trunks could >e packed. The disgraced cadets lost io time in complying with the order. 'he commandant was not informed of he charges against the' two cadets. I .nd knew nothing of the affair until t he pair had been driven from the in-. titute. Became Desperate. At Pittsburg, Pa., Fred Schuetz, on of Henry Schuetz,- Jr., of the chuetz & Renziehausen company, >rewers, Friday night shot ;and ser ously, wounded Mrs. Minnie McCor nick and then fatally shot himself. 1 Foung Schuetz was named as co-re pondent in a divorce suit brought by firs. McCormick's husband some time i ego and since then has been attentive o the woman and it is said wanted to ' narry ' her. She, however, would not agree to this and the shooting Friday fight is supposed to have resulted from quarrel over the matter. The- couple net on a street car and when Mrs. McCormick reached her home in Alle rheny, she was followed from the car c >y Schuetz, who said: "Well, we will nd it here," and fired, the bullet en-c ering the woman's left side near ,the E teart. She collapsed, and Schuetz, hinking she was dead, shot himself , a the abdomen twice. He is dying at he hospital. Mrs. McCormick though eriously wounded, will probably re- c over. c Watching the Cotton Crop. ' The department of agriculture is aking elaborate arrangements for its eport on the acreage and condition of he cotton crop 'on May 26, the condi-: I ion of cotton on June 25, and for re 'orts on other 'crops for June and uly.. A very large number of corres 'ndents will send in detanled reports II n the cotton acreage and condition c eport on May 26, and they have been c joined to 'use the greatest care, s specially for acreage, and to base r heir opiriion on inquiries as well'as s pon observation and to avoid, under a stimating or over estimating this t ear's crop. The acreage will be ex- a ressed in the form of a percentage of Ii ~st year's acreage, as in previous t ears. 'The cotton schedule for June a 5 will be concerned solely with the a ondition of the cotton crop on that r ate. The June report of various t rops will be concerned largely with fi creage. __________ "Pitch Lake King" Dead. Conrad F. Stdllmayer, known as thea 'Pitch Lake King," and the wealth st man in the Caribbeans, is dead at >ort of- Spain, Trinidad, according toic rivate advices just received. He ras 91 years old. From a penniless -erman immigrant to the United tates he became the editor of a Ger aan paper in-Philadelphia, which the .nti-slavery party tried to wreck in 855. He later became an adventurer e a Trinidad, and finally the owner of s n asphalt lake worth millions, which i~ Le discovered. Stollmayer, although C lorn in Germany, where he received a;n niversity education, was a British ubject, having been naturalized by a 0 pecial act of parliament in 1848. in i tis later years he became an ardent b upporter of the movement for univer- f ail peace. Dead in a Swamp. k The AugustaHerald says Robert vI |rifin, an aged and respected negro, t ving near Hephzibah, has been a issing from -his home for several p, ays, and for a time his family ought the old man had merely wan ered away from home and was prob bly at the house of some neighbor. Vednesday afternoon, however, while' a me children were going through a wamp a short distance from the old ian's home, they found his dead ody lying near a branch. An exa-s ination of the body shows no signs f foul play of any kind, and it is be-. eyed the old man wandered into thea roods, became sick and stopped to st in the grass, where be probablyn ied of heart failure or exhaustion. [e was 80 years old and very feeble. Ln inquest will be held Thursday b fternoon. Killed in a Prize Fight. In a ten round preliminary before' hie Central California Athletic club at 'resno, Cal., Johnny Bryant was' ounded into insensibility by Walter e lobinson, a negro, and received in- C ar s from which he died in a few - ours. The light ended in the ninth si Dund in wuich Bryant was fioored six d imes. His -seconds had thrown the b ponge into [the ring when the blow '3 i the jaw that rendered Bryant un-b nscious was struck., Robinson has 11 een arrested. MYSTERY CLEANE D. The little Girl for Whom All e. :e York Searched Is DISCOVR.EDDEADANDXAJGme t Great Reward Was Offered or Her. Senators, City Oncials and Millionaires Aided in Search. Little Josephine McCahill, for . whom all New York his been search ing for days, and for whose recovery a reward reaching far into the thous ands was offered, has been ;found dead. Her mangled and bleeding Z body, blackened by soot and itained with, smoke, was discovered Friday night lodged half way down a .chimu ney. The police believe the little gired r into the chimney from the roof,, she .might have been playing-,wtt"" )thr . children. The reaive, Of ihe' dead child are' firm :'fn"' sonviction that she was lkidnaped. sben murdeied and: to the crime and shield the murderer h 2ody was thrown into the. cm e rhere for days it remained, compet .y nystifying those who were ng. The disappearance'and diveryo he child has been one of thegeates ensations heralded in :New ;York;; nany years. The whole t ouched'by the mother's agoizing . meal for assistance when stes dl red that her child was' gone; laily papers gave whole pages, n rie ed two and three pagese lay, calling for searchers to vol G EAT MASS 3 IMGELD Wednesday nighta geat a nass meeting was held alez rhich senato city oials lonaires made-speaches andpre >lans6 to continue-thesear r e rissing child.' A reward was started, and l Went $2,000 was raised and .befere meeting adjourned thousand . ars had been pleged to -tmiae nca would return the missing-7cil "' nto it weeping: iother's r Throughout the grelty bnd circus bil advertismen s laced in conspicuous plaes and cally every policeman and detect n the city went to w .rk-on .the Friday night whenr the .poit .. hat thechild waafoundlits ad that 5,000 persons were n an organized and- syste Just prior to the lndlngbfAtie<' 6 monster mssmeetingwas~ n Terrace halI, in H orner of 104th street and" & d venue. The call for they meetingw ut by. State Senator ames who presided at the fmeeting immittee on, arang mgn oktions:'and othe . act o t " enator Fawley, Aldermanom. ssemblyman Julius Brosene /ommissioner Isaac A2Hoppes Cohn, popularly known as the" If Harlem;" Lee Bloch, MiltonGta orfer, D. Krgder~ L. Kohn m arason and Lee Prince. - After speeches by Senator r I.s tiderman Dietz and A ebya4 3rosen, it was decided- to cl o? opular sohscripijior. - A Good Salary.' The New York -Timesays> boekman "The Farmer nle~e4 f .Middletown, N. Y.," has s elved' the appointment ofgneas izperintendent of .Edward H; irM ian's .great estate at Arden~a a'f alary of ,$8,000 a year. He will have bsolute charge of allthe work inaf a he divisions of labor on the fr~~ nd he will sel'ect the heads ofth arioud departments. Inadion.& a the salary, Mr. Beckman will.bv house provided for him, with horses ud wagons and whiatever ~else 1s ecessary to his comfort and snitahle~~ ) his position. Mr. Harrimanwa rst attracted to Mr. Beekman .byre orts of hisabilitities to unite-phioo hy and farm work, and findingbi good business .man he made the" roposition to leave: his: Middletow .&' irm and go to Arden. After cn, iderable hesitation Mr. Beekma c apted the offer. Killed Sevenseg3n. : Gen. *ae, commanding in te: 'bilipp'~ reports to the war depart ient as follows regarding the rcn ugagement. in Mindanao, which e .ited In seven Americans bein~g il ~d: "While on a reconnoisance to Ic ste the Datto All, who has-beensend ig in threatening messages and try~ ig to stir up trouble, a detachment 'compaay F, 1th infantry,.consist sg of 39 enlisted men, were attacked y Moros near lake Lignasm, Mi nda ao, on the 8th. First .Lleut.: Harry foodruff, Second.Lieutenant Jos. H.-< [all and fifteen enlisted men were illed and five enlisted men were 'ounded. Gen. Wood ordered troops >proceeding and recover the bodies ed arms of our men killed and to unish the offenders. Stopped the Marriage. 'At Dubuque, Ia., just as the' priest b St. Mary's Chatholic church there - 'a in the act of pronouncing Mary [artman and Joseph Evick man and -ife, Mrs. Mary Rush arose from her hat near the rear of the chursch and touted "stop that marriage; he is iy husband." The priest, the expect at bridegroom and spectators stood ghast at the woman, who went tO ie chancel rail and examined- the ian's face then said, "yes he's my. usband." The ceremony stopped and~ vick must prove he is not married' efore he becomes the husband of - [iss Hartman. Give Up the Fight. Captain Walter Allen of St. Louis, >nnected with the World's Fair Jeff-" eson guards and a brother of former ongressman John Allen, National f'orld's Fair commissioner.-from' Mls ssippi, committed suicide Wednes ay by shooting himself through the eart in a room in the dormitory of the lashington university, now utilized y the exposition. He left 'a note stat ig that ill health had driven him to ammit the act.