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ywy ?k~: t . VOLUME XVI. J? M? > NO. 40. p,(. a sums HitiiD c . . Prince Louis Ends His Viyr"' to United Slates V. ? HE ENJOYED HIS TRIP GREATLY Oheering Crowds Witnesses Depar ture of British Squadron From New > York and Its Commander is Made to Write His Name iu rnauy Ai bun)# and Pose For Many Pictures. C^' - * t Now York, Special. ? About 200 sailors froju (ho British squadron command^} by Prince Louis of Bat ,1enberg were missing from their ships whon the squadron made ready to nail Monday. Several of thoso who hxK overstayed their leave were . turiert away when they tried to board their ships. As it wus within a few hoiir's of the fleet's sailing time when they made their belated appearance, the ofti<*ers treated them as deserters, re fusing to let them step aboard. ny of tlfb rejected sailors wept. Their uniforms in some eases had been tnli?ii fl'Oin them in Bowery resorts and they had spent all their iuoney before returning to their ships. Many of lliem .immediately applied to the immigration authorities for their return to England. Before sailing Prince Louis paid an nflieial farewell ? visit to Admiral Kvuns on board thp .battleship Maine. As the Prince an<l his party left this t-liip the American sailors cheered him. A big crowd, including many who had met the Prince in N?*w York, gathered at tho Cunard Line dock, where the flagship Drake was moored, to witness the departure of the Prince. The Prince wrote his name in a hun dred autograph albums and posed for twenty or more pictures. Finally the bugle sounded for the visitors to go ashore and tin1 Drake was towed into the stream >hile the throng on the wharf and'the British sailors on the Drake gave each other a farewell cheer. i) Explosion in Vault. < ..Columbia-, S. C,, Special. ? As (ho re^ Kult of an explosion of sjas in ))is office here Monday, Captain Wade Hampton Cobb, probate judge, lies dying at the Columbia hospital. He bad started to upon the vault in his office and struck it match to see the combination. The ptas fixture had been leaking, and the sxplosion which followed threw Mr. Cobb across the office with great vio lence. He w&s very nearly dead when picked up. The office was wrecked nul tho force of the explosion tore he door off it# hinges and smashed ill tiic glass in the court bouse. 126 Lost in Channel: Wrock. V - 0 London, By Cable. ? One hundred tnd tWGiity-eight .persons lost their ives in the wreck of the London & ?outhwesteni Railway Company's (earner Hildas off tjie northern coast II' France. Saturday liight, according > Tin official estimate given out l>y e officers of the couipuny. This ath roll includes -21 saloon passen rs, 80 French onion sellers and 27 the crew. " ' "l"U % $16,000,000 For Oalnal \tfor? Washington, Special.? Af? estimate $10,000,000 for continuing the work t tho Panama Canal has boon sent the Treasury Department from the nr Department to be sent to Con 'fps. The estimate of nixteen mil ?n dollars is for expenditure up to _d including the fiscal year ending fno 30, 1007. Against Greene and Gaynor. ... Ssfvannah, Ga., Special. ? Two addi J>nal indictments charging embozzle nt and receiving the money of the ited States that war alleged to have imi embezzled by ex-Captain Ober ? M. Carter, were returned in the tderal Court against Benjamin D. none, John F. Gaynor, Ed. II. Gay r, William L. Gaynor and Michael Connelly. IS? Die in Tire. Glasgow, By Cable. ? The most tor le Are that has occurred 4n Great ^ain for many years broke out here May in a cheap lodging house for Watson 'street and resulted in i? of 39 lives and the severe in ' lpapyA P*1"80"* Ifaa's Body Found. ipecial. ? The body of P. med 30, a carpenter, who B from bis home a fortnight 'was round on an island in the riv -H* is supposed to have wandered faring an attack of de Aim KOML pujili ?ye witoMi ttat OPENING OF Bit AS t TRIAL Change of Venue Denied by Judge Memminger. Saluda, Special. ? NV lion court con* veiled Thursday morning the case of the Stuto against E. S. Blease, charg ed with murder, was called. The so licitor and Mr. T. S. Sense, who is assisting in the prosecution, formally moved lor a change of venue, the mo tion being batted upon the affidavits ot 209 citizens of t h<? county that they did not believe the State could obtain a fair and impartial trial. Defend ant's counsel in reply read the afti davits ot 325 citizens who swear that a fair and impartial trial in this ease can be had in Saluda county. In ad dition to these affidavits were submit*. J?*iwby 20 citizens who stated that they had signed affidavits for a change of venue under a misapprehension. Besides these, defendant 's counsel submitted affidavits of the county supervisor of Saluda county, tin* sup erintendent of education, several mag istrates in the county, those of an ex supervisor and an ex-sheriff. The so licitor, in presenting his side of the ease stated that this was a rare ease and should not be tried by tli/* strong friends of either side for it mat tors not how the ease should terminate, improjHii'motives would be suspected. The affidavits show that a State sena tor from this county is charged with the killing of another man almost equally as popular, and that under such circumstances it would indeed be difficult to procure a jury free from bias ami prejudice. Tlje affidavits as well as the records show that the State could not get representation at the local bar, but mat on the other hand, every member of the lej>al fra ternity at this place represents the defendant. The. purpose of all judicial investi gations is to jict a trial even above suspicion. In spile of the fact that | the sympathy is alwavs^with the de- j feuse in cases of this kind the State j shows by the affidavits of 201) men that there is no probability of a fair trial in Saluda county. All that the State asks is that it be transferred to some county where I here is on" rea son to believe bias or prejudice ex >ts. * When the affidavits on behalf ot the defendant had been read the solicitor ask&l for time to procure other affi djj^nts for the State. This Judge Mim ?ftiinger promptly refused. At the conclusion,, of Mr. Sense s argument Judge ^lemminger held that J.he showing made Cy the State was in sufficient and declined the motion. TO EXTEND C. & L. Work oo Extension o ( Chesterfield & Lancaster Railroad From Ruby to Gum Spring! Now in Progress Cheraw, Special,? Mr. A, G. l'otrc, general superintendent and one of the largest stockholders of the Chester field Lancaster Hail road its authority for the statement that the road is to extend immediately from. Ruby, the present teriminns, to Gum Springs, a distance of about eight miles, the \*>rk of cutting out the rijfbt of way being now in progress. Maj. Charles II. Scott, a prominent and experienc ed civil engineer of Elkins, West i Vir ginia, has charge of the survey of the extension and will personally super vise the construction of the work. For a number of years he, was con nected with the engineering depart ment of the Cheaspeake & Ohio rail road and recently has been employed by the Hon. Henri* Oasxaway Davis in the construction of railway work in West Virginia, The extension of the C. & L. Hail road from Ruby will follow what is known as the upper route, with sever al slight alterations in the line of sur vey, From Ruby to Gum Springs it will go a little south of the old nor thern survey, leaving Mt. Crojjhan to the right a short distance, severn, thousand dallars being saved by this slight alteration. From Gum Springs the road will bo built to Fox Place, and from there t<> the river; it is hard to say which route it will take, but likely the upper one, via Dudley, touching the river near the Wildcot stream opposite the little town of Tradesvillc, in Lancaster county. To Pledged. P. Farmers. Columbia, 8. C., Special? Secre tary F. H. Weston, of the South Car olina division of the Southern Cotton Association in an interview said : "Today I am in receipt of instruc tions from headquarters in Atlanta to institute a movement toward wiving pledges from the farmers for the cot ton which they uow have on baud for 15/cents. ^?\Ve know that there is a most ac tive demand for dry goods and that the mills have not the cottou ?.eces sary to run them to All these con tracts The association considered 11 cents a fair but not unreasonable mice for cotton, bnt in view of tbo ?cry aggreiwive campaign that has been instituted against eotton in the last few day* it would be afcserd for the Southern Cotton Association to b j and ace the producers of thrsoghoat the 8onth despoil of dollais. (onviaM the pinners vf ' the prise of eotton the producer nndnet 1 rnowy 00 hind and mi mm in Occurrences of Interest Trom % All Over South Carolina MANY ITEMS OF STATE NEWS A Batch of Live Paragraphs Cover ing a Wide Range?What is Going On in Our State. Charlotte Cotton Market. The cotton market offering limited. Low middling 1 0 Vs Strict low middling \..10% Middling Strict middling Good middling General Cotton Market. ^ Galveston, easy 113-10 'New Orleans, quiet 11 1-10 Mobile, quiet l<>:,/4 Savannah, dull IOI4 Norfolk, steady ..10% Baltimore, nominal H14 New York, quiet 1 1 T. v? Boston, quiet HVi? Houston, easy.. 11 1-10 Augusta, steady 10-Tj Memphis, quiet 11 V\ St. Louis, quiet .. ' 1 1 liouisville, firm ?%?. ...11 !4 Charters and Commissions. The secretary of state issued a large number of charters nud com missions last week. The Chora w Naval Stores Co. re ceived a commission and will he cap italized at $15,000, t hi* corporators being W. i"'., Stevenson, E. C. Prescott, M. \V. Duval I, 1). T. Matthews and T. j (J. Matthews. The Shannon-St c <'<*ns- Boykin coin pany of Cheraw will be mercantile in character and will be capitalized at ?+"25,000. The corporators are: C. J. S. Shannon, Jr., 'John T. Stevens and W. A. ltoy kin. The Standard Warehouse company of Columbia secured its charter. The officers are: 1). C. Hcyward, president ; E. C. (-at heart, treasurer; K. T. Lipscomb, secretary. The board of directors consists of I). C. lleyward,. Edwin W.oKobertson and August Kohn of Columbia, J. A. Brock and If. E. ?Ligon of Anderson, Ellison A. Smyth, Lewis W. Parker and W. E. Beattie of Greenville and ?T. K. Durst j of Greenwood. The capital stock ot the company is $.">00,000. The Chester Jee Co., capitalized at $20,000, was chartered with 'J'. L. Eb erhardt as president and treasurer and C. L. ltidgely as vice president and , secretary, The Haile Shoe Co. will be looted in Union and the(?fepital will be $5, 000. The corporators aro: Wm. I. | Haile, John A. Fant and Francis M. I Fair,. t The Farmers' Bank of William ! ston will have a capital of $15,000 and | the corporators are: W. A. Simpson, Geo. D. Sullivan, E. H. Welbourne, J. E; Wakefield, Jr., and J. C. Duck* worth. The corporators of the Georgetown club whose purposes aro rated as athletie and social are: Lewis O'Bry-" an and W. S. Moore. The capital is $500. A charter was given the Aiken Cot ton and Stock exchange, capitalized at $2,000. The officers .are: O. H. Mobley, president; Nelson Johnson, vice president; W. ,J. Moscley /-secre tary, and R. L. Courtney treasure!*. The Seaboard Product Co. of Georgetown will manufacture turpen tine products. The capital is $10,000 and the corporatorsr are: A. O. Jor dan, J. B. Stcelo and E. W, Kamin ski. The Oregon Lumber Company of Greenville has increased its capital from $5,000 to $10,000. Briefs of State News. Chief of Police Norris of Augusta has written Governor lleyward that D. C. Murphy, a life sentence convict who escaped from the State prison, is now in jail in Swainsboro. Murphy was sentenced to bo hanged for the murder of County Treasurer CopeB of Orangeburg, but has his sentence commuted to life imprisonment, and was sent up March 26, 1897. Ho os capcd soon aftenvards. Mr. Oscar van der Meensch has opened a bureau in Ghent, BeTgium, to represent South Carolina in the immigration and colonization line. He is a delegate to Belgium, Holland and France. Mr. Pcrwell Ev^ns of Phila delphia, a son of Dr. James Evans of Florence has been appointed special commissioner to France. Gov. Samuel W. Pennypacker of Pennsylvania&fra^ written to Gov. Heyward suggesting a monument at Valley Forgo from each of the thir teen original Slates. The troops from this State were camped there and the general assembly may appro priate a sum for a small memoml. The governor hits received a peti tion for a pardon for Allen Milan who is serving a 12-year MnMnci from Piekena county for eonvietion of manslaughter. Milan killed J. Can. non in 198. Both were negroes. * ; The annul ?fling o flhe Sons o! The BralotSo* in'tfcia State will b rM m ChaHeMew oo DtcrmWr 14 . PIAN TO HENtW FORtSTS ] A Measure to be Introduced at th? Coming BcHsion of the General As tembly. Major Lewis \\ , Haskell. a member ut t h<? Uichlund delegal i<>n in the house of represent at i\ es, will intro duce a bill at the approaching session of the legislature which will provitle lor a study of the forest conditions iu this State by the agricultural expen nient station at Clemsou college in ni operation with the I'iiiUmI Slates de partment of agriculture. This is a step that is of the ^realcst ini|Mirtanee to the State, as is attested by the opinio^**!' ail who have had oc casion or. op|>ortunity to investigate those conditions and learn of the de pleted condition of our forests. The time for this action seems propitious, wis the ilepafhnciit of agriculture is of to appropriatV for the purpoKe airfwionnt equal to any appropriation the State may make, and in addition to that it will detail a forestry expert to devote his time and attention t?? the work of reclaiming the South Carolina t rets. In a letter to Major lla?kcl| on the subject, Mr. (Jifford I'inchot, the gov ernment forester, says: " I am glad to see that you are taking an active m tcrest iu the welfare of your Stale t forests as well as tire prosperity of the m4*cr business interests within your Staf2*\which must be affected by the forest frniditions. The forest service has always ad vised a study of forest conditions pre paratory to the introduction of a Sti.te forest law, believing that condi tions in the various^Stotes require a modificnt ion of the fun<lamenial ideas necessary 1" such a law. Pursuant to this uU'a. several of the States have already asked the forest service to Co operate with them in such an investi gation. It has been the custom ?>l tfii-; bureau l ? ? accept such, invitat ions ami to expend in the necessary study an amount equal I" that appropriated by the. State." The important section in Major Haskel's proposed bill will provide that it shall be (hp duty of the agri cultural experiment station of Clem son College to conduct investigations iu the several sections of the State in ; order to discover <1 he variety of valu able trees best suited to gunw on the various kinds of land in the State; to determine the cost and the best mcth ods of propagating, planting, cultivat ing; and managing wood lots and plan tations on various kinds of soil ; to de termine by investigation the averagr growth of the. various kinds of trees, ami the relative value of the various kinds of- timber for commercial pur )>oses ; to conduct experiments iu t h ?* treatment on the various kinds of woods for the purpose of intfeasing durability, and to determine by ex periment and investigation the kind of trees and shrubs best suited to va rious situations for windbreaks and shelter, and for decorative planting and managing; the same, and to issue bulletins or publications from time to time containing useful information and recommendations upon subjeetf specified, and to make a full and com plete report to the government of work done, experiments made, information obtained, etc., prior to the convening of the legislature iu January, 1007, and every year thereafter.? Columbia Stale. Greenville Anxious to Keop Consta bles. Greenville, Special,?' NVbrtfo*- that Governor Ile^ward will remove the constables from this county was rece ived with regret by many citizens as there is a strong sentiment Here in fa vor of retaining the constabulary and putting on the half mill tax. It is said 90 per cent of the tx pa vers arc in favor of. paying tho tax to have the constables remain and the city and county Offioers without exception are in favor of retaining the constraint lan'. Tell Into Well. Rock Hill, Special. ? The little ?011 of Mr. Clem Gordon, aged about one year and a half, while playing. in the yatrd at its home on Hla<*k street Fri day morning, foil about fifteen' 01 twenty feet into a well and into water at least fifteen feet deep. Marvelous to state he was rescued alive and seem ingly unhurt, although unconscious and very cold. Saved From Death By His Son. Laurens, Special. ? Thomas Fuller, a mill o^perative at the Laurens cottort mills,- was struck end very seriously injured by an incoming freight on the Columbia, Newbevry and Laurens railroad, receiving a number of ugly and dangerous cute about his face and on the head, t'he accident happened in a cut just bfyond .the Laurens mill storc^and but for the/ presence of mind of his ten-year-old son who was with him Fuller, in all probability would , have been killed outright by the train. m Four Hundred Cattle Driven From Tennessee. Rock Hill, Special. ? Four htfndred cattle have jnat arrived tare, lutvihg Seen driven all thfy *w*y from east Tennessee tOvReek Hill through the -oontry. The eattle hav* all Wm 4* ornadjfot esfc ?f tin ?stgfce lm . !wh TOPppasda while the maximum rei^t k lM Thest**;* ai rived n um MmditiM and presented a "P" ?? ? aatoom ares xr una sso? * Vs., "? OB'' 1 Washington. 'I'Iio President snmtparlly removed .lohn I'. West, regbter of the land otllce at I -*? w i .?i I t>i i . Idaho. / *"*" ilcnerat Samuel M .Villi* pKief of ar tillery. ?a\* thai for nialYfiTrfc: the cohm defenses of 1 1 1?? United stab's a force eon*lst lug of 17.Vt olIlciM'K a nil US 'lit enlisted is needed, while the corp? bus HI present oniy .Yj;$ ottlcei's and 13, 71 ( A delegation of Crook Indians lift v. ing business with tlu> Interior Depart* mem art' In this t-liy from Indian Ter ritory ami will remain until Congress They art> < 'hlttcehaghh, Huht batahagnh. S^mll i emleo ami Hililps. Tin' 1 1 x t nf the President'* forth coming message, lo l??> presented to fongress on December ii, lias been com ?>l?>ir>?l ami put in typo, apd be is go lug over the proof sheets, ' Olllt ADOPTED ISLANDS. Orders have hern given by the Navy Department for the return of the bat tleship Oicymi from the Philippines to the United .States at an early date. Anipatnnn, the successor of Datto All, the lirigaud ehief who was killed ).v American troops jast month, lias surrendered niu'ondltlonally with llfty I'iJh-.s at Co Italia to, l?. I. DOMESTIC. Police Captain liodglns, of New York f'ily, rahh'd an alleged print* tight in the new Blceckcr Athletic Clnh. An fleetrical exposition in Cltlcaaro, II!.. in .Tatmary is expected to surpass uiything of the kind attempted in th!s conn try. A hitter row that I mis lusted for weeks may deprive 1 1 1 < > University of Wisconsin of the services of Dean W. 1'enfy and several others of the fac nlly. Char.treil v\ith (lie larceny of $ 1 1 .'MX) from Warren IV Page. an investor In In- Mtiek uf toe Ubcro Plantation Com pany, Ferdinand }?'. Uorges Is under ar rest at Huston. M :: ss. Federal .1 tinge Crosj-eup has over ruled a motion to c impel the People's Can Li^ht ami Coke Company. of Chi cago. 111., lo give bond for $15, 000, 000 in gas lit igatioti. .1 lultfe Tayler. of the United stales District Court, hits decided at Cleve land. Ohio, that A. Borah & Co., fish dealers, are not a Trust iitjany sense. All of the 'J.0.."* inmates of the W. C. T. U. setileiiient school at Hindman. Ky., (scaped when the property was burned. The Trustees' Investigating Commit lee of the New York X-ife Company has retained James J?. Dill as counsel and employed accountants to work under its direct iV*p. \ I f At the foot of I lip stops leading to his front door, Luther II. Dearborn, a prominent attorney, of Chicago, 111., was found dying,' either from tin at tack by robbers or Illness. i Chicago has 18,000 deserted wives, neenrding to Lester Bodlne, Kuperin fendent of Corapulsu.y Kducatlon in the Windy City, who blames large families and small salaries. A witness before the Grand Jnvjr when 300 persons were Indicted for conspiring: against homesteaders. Pink Adams has been assassinated at Broolt lmvcDt Mass. Tired by the excitement and worry of the campaign, Mayor McClollan left New York City for a week's rest in Boston, Mass. -President Jolter announced thnt Ralph Voorhccs, tl.c blind philan thropist, of Clinton, N. J.t is the giver of ?100,000 recently received by Hope College, at Holland, Mich. Ten stenqpdilps sailed from Boston. Mass.. carrying .riO,t)0(> ton's of cargo, valued at $'2,003,000, tfie largest In years. : FOREIGN. The Count of Flnndai's.' heir prramup- i live to t ho Belgian throne. died at tlio j age of sixty-nine, Tlio French Council of Ministers, fit Paris, decldcd to inflict fifteen days' , arrest on General Rrugere, commander sof the army, for making ptfblic details of his conference wlthjt he Minlstor of War. v The German Federal Council adopted tlio Navy Increase bill, providing for the construction of six now cruisers at it cott of ?0.77)0,000 each, to be laid be fore the Reichstag, at Berlin. King Edwnvd fpil and sprained his miklo while shooting in Windsor for est, England. ? The strike at French arsenalp and dock 3rards was broken, A. police officer wan lynched at l.lbau, Russia, for trying to start un attack |^n iho Jews. President Castro, of Venezuela, has given fresn c\s M?e to France by refus ing to pay the second installment of t lie award mado by the Plum ley Arbl* tratlon Commission. Georgo W? Poss, a 8a n Francisco engineer, now in charge of the Egyp tian Cotton Mills, at Cairo, has as-; founded the Arabs Jo* swiinmlngoin the Nile from Old Cairo" to Basils, eleven and one-quarter miles. King George ot Greece arrived in Loudon, Eug., ou a visit to King Ed ward. A garrison In Finland mutinied, but there was no bloodshed. A special cable dispatch stated that Senor Palina, President of Cu&a, ba? is >ued orders to spare no expeus* in lighting the encroachment of yellow fever on the island. The Japauese Government baa de cided to issue a new foreign loan of *250,000,000 at fo^r per cent. ^ An Austrian Admiral was selected pj> commander of the international ' eet wiilch is to make a de&ousirs i.ou against Turkey. Tile Union of the GoTernottnt em ployee of the arsenals and dockyards at Toulon, Brett and btber FrentU arat headquarters, bis ordered ? in. \raJ?teUt. ^ Count Wltte'e new cabinet awt at COSTS MORE TO LIVE NOW V< - Dun's Review Shows That New Yorkers Pay High Frioos VCaretKl, liy Tw^ul^ !'??? Out,, Ally It roil. I Kvrr ttuV.iUu lltavlo*! l?|iuu I'ewr* Now York City. --The cost of living in Now York City is higher to-duy than it Isftft bCftl shiCC looO, Cmilliillg ICIIIM. If rents a ro considered, living Is more expensive than i( has ever been, and exceeds by over twenty per cent, any record ever made. M i'ii t ? and general groceries Hro higher than limine t lie panic price* of tlii- Spanish Win* (inn*. Ye^etablos of nil Kinds arc too high to lio bought by tlio poorcki cla*r> of consumers., Items are ton to twenty tivo per cent/ higher than a year ago, although the leal eslittc men then thought that liiuh tide had been reached ami that snbur l>:in cxtcmion would lower rents rather tl'i in i raise tlirm, 'I liese lire a t? w of the facts shown hy recent figures compiled hy the statistician of the Dipiutnit'iit of the lid trior. Dun's lteview n I \ ??s the mii nio general results boiled down lulo what it designates as "Hun's Index Figure," which is now 10:5. S*:5, or near ly forty |ier cent, higher than a year before the Spanish Will, from which all authorities date the period of high prices. The burden, according to the figures, falls heaviest upon those least able to bear ill The very poor are forced to pay n/arly twenty- live per cent, more for tm>1r meat, and forty per cent, more for their potatoes than before. Their rent has advanced from twenty to thirty per cent, for apartments In the lower Kn?d Side and ten to twenty per cent, in tin: upper ICast Side. On tiie West Side rents have advanced about twenty-live per cent, on moder ate-priced tenements, and on those of higher price (be advance is smaller. The manager of the largest renting concern In I he city Kit id : "We are powerless to control rentals, and they have steadily gone up. An apartment that could be rented for s:ir? !a?t year is easily placed now at $15, with slight concessions that make the figure about $12.50. All of our last year $100 apartments are rented this year for .$180, while the $1200 to $2500 list shows a uniform advance of ten per cent. The list above $2500 shows jpllght advances, but nothing like so much. The poorer class of storekeep era have had to pa^ about thirty per cent, more this year. The poor man gels It in the neck every time, and the rich man is hurt very little." The manager <?' one of (he largest wholesale and retail groccry houses in the city sold: "Tomatoes have gone up $1 per dozen-gallon cans in the' last month, nml fruits are so high that packers are using two and one-half pound cans instead of three pound e?nns, a pd pack ing them light In order to keep the quo tations down to living figures. The public would not buy If the cous were packed as they were a year ago nod sold at proportionate price, Wo dimply have to do It, "Hum? and bacon, the best, ore sell ing at twenty to twenty-four cent#, four cents above the price of a short time ago, and even the poorest qualities of hog products are three and four cents^hlgher. All drlrd meats and flsb are higher. Codfish that could he bought from four to six cents per pound is held at six to seven and a half cents and teUeu readily at .the ad* vnttce, ? ? - ? ? - ? "Beans that were $1.40 now com mand $1.85 per bushel. Flour Is fifty to eighty cents per barrel higher on wholesale quotations, rivd that means that Mrs. Jones, who buys a quarter's worth, pays half a cent a pound more. The same thing may be said of all the cereal products in the taw state, and the loaf of bread Is lighter now thou ever before for the mon<\v." The biggest dealer In dried vegeta* hies, such as potatoes, beets, turnips, cabbage, etc., said: "Potatoes a ro way ujp, $2.25 to $3.50 per barrel, according to quality and place of purchase, with no relief iu sight. At this rate the poor woman who buy# from the huckster or grocer by .the 'small basket' pays about *2 pe^ bushel, and the better class, who buy by tho busbef, hare to pay $1,50 on tlio average. Apples are all the way from $2.50 for ft poor quality to $8 for extra stock, and some of the tine Western slock brings $0 a small box. The figures ore proportionately high on everything, with the possible exception of cabbage, and they are high enough.'' KRGI1088 TUHN TvYNCHKKS. Atlanta Mob Has White Man Heady to Ilang Whvu Police ltescue Mini. Atlanta, Ga.? An ahosffd attempt to criminally assault Ida Beavers; a six year-old negro girl, so Infuriated the negroes In the parktown section of Atlauta that J. Z. Justice, a white man, came near being lynched.* When a police detail arrived they found Justice la the bands of a mob of 500 negroes and preparations lu progress for lynchlug. The police rescued Justice, and It \vns proved tbpt he had no connec tion with tite 'aiiegeu assanit. * London Wants Tower Plant A bill wa? Introduced In the Brit;*!: Parliament to permit tendon to a power plant for $40,000; 000 to tuj-. ' tbe ivbole cltT. , To Succeed General Trepoff. Trince Urasoff, ex-Governor ot Tvct, vaa appointed AaiiaUct Mlnla&r ot Uie Interior io aucceefl General Trepolfc SCOiltS liUMII A! SEA Passcnaer S'camor, in a Snowstorm, Dashes on Rocks. WRECKED OFF FRENCH COAST Hulhvuy't l.tu?r, Hilda, ? ml All i>l II *r <-'r ?tv mill I'miviiKcn M??t I ) i*?i ik (h ?!?<? V j-tst^cew l>c?at!s of tli*> l)lin>irr~Wv ? Hlilp of 84H Ton* ? HrtlUli OWi'?r4 A in one t li ? Victims r.omlon, Hnstlnml. ? Probably more t ha i) 100 lives were lost by tho sinking of the Snuthwcst?Mn Hallway's croii' rbitoii"! steamer Uiblu. ? The Hi). 1m bft SoutlinmpDn at nlffbt: for si. Malo, mi ilu> Brittany coast, AVitll COM* blv OVCI* 100 IjOUls on ixMiiJ, ' (lie majority of whom wore *H*n.wn#cl. Tin* Menmer's passage was greatly delayed by a fog In t lie Chan nel, and when nearing HI. Malo she ran Info a *cv?to snowstorm, apparent ly iniis il In i niui sc. anil foundered on llit* rock# mi Jurilin Lighthouse, three # mill's from st. Malo. The company's steamer Ada, out ward from St. Malo. rescued five of flic passengers and one of the crew. These were Kent to Southampton, and it w as believed were the oitly surviv or.*. though an tineou firmed report reached Paris that seventy had been ?a vrd. The crow numbered twenty-six. ami thero were about 1 ? k? passengers, tho majority being onion dealers from SI. IJi'ieue and neighborhood. A trfegrnm from St. Hon an, iidjoln lug l lie town of sv. Malo. gives the few particulars available. The Hilda was item; St. Malo in the morning. She t truck the rocks at I o'clock flic fol lowing morning in the roadstead off the Island of t'exambre. She had mls?ed (lie tide owing to bad wealhcr and fog. The majority of (lie crew and pas veneers were asleep M tho time.. Two boats were lowered, otic of which, con triiniiig live men. arrived at Ht. Her van. The second boat was picked un empty at St. Oast, where thirteen bod ies were washed ashore. The top of the Hilda's funnel and her maxl are visible at low tide. The Hilda >vas built it t Ulusgow In 188V, and registered sis ton*, She was n screw steamer of irou. construc tion, and was 2.'l-ri feet in length. The Southwestern Hallway Company was tillable to give a list of the Hilda's passengers, but they said that a scorrf"" i mo ;< i ?d passage at stations between l.ondnu and Soutlinnipton, and that to the best of their knowledge ninety-nine were drowned mid only t*ix saved.; The company was without' reliable details as to haw the disaster hap poned. Its agent at St. Malo only briefly reported: "The Ada has put back, and reports the Hilda -is a total wreck nM.es Porlcs reef, oUtBtdfi .Tfl l'- ' din Lighthouse, The Ada's boat saved five onion men ifutl it keaman named tlrlnter out of the rigging. They appear to he the only survivors." ;? Many British army oftkei'* lyejQ among the victim*. * COFFINED IN STHEL. Mass ot Metal Supposed to ContaJft * Tarts of Bodies *to Have Burin 1. Philadelphia, Pfr^^Two vrerfuf agA .Tohu Forkln, of 2010 Stella street, and Joseph Warde, of 3041 Newcomb street, wfre working ma pit at. the Mldvale Steel Workf. While they wevo at the bottom 80,000 pounds of molten steel was released and fell , upon then). ' The nun must have been cfcirerled Into ashes and gas in'tlie fraction of, a second. Not even a button was found.. The Coroner's Jirry gave a verdlc* of death by accident. O The Mldvale company has caused to be cut away from the mass In the cru cible the bottom of tlie CftStihff, which fell directly on the men, and. which is supposed to contain fragments of . their bodies This 'will be burled l? tl?? yard of tho plant. WE'RE GETTING RICHER, The Per Capita Circulation of J31.G9 ? Ibe Greatest Ever. Washington D. *C.? The.CQMlant In crease of, wealth in thtrTTnitWl States, y outstripping even the ptrowf li fer popu lation. is Indicated in the l/*t state ment of the n mount of'THon^r 1n rtmt** " lotion, issued by the Treaitiry Depart' ment. The circulation per capita on November 1 waft $#1.09, whlclf U th# highest yet reached. A year ago the per capitA was 9.11.38; on November 1, 1906. it was 129.09: in 1002 it waa *20.80; in 1001 $28.72 nnd on Novrm. ber 1, 1900. but $27.82. The total amount in circulation is now $3?653. 131.W8, being an increase of gOO.GM.- - - 917 during the year, and of $513,950,106 ' since November J, 1909. STEAMER SUNK TWO BARQEH. >"? ? 1 " ?' Five Persona, One an Aged Woman, Narrowly Escape Death. Provideccc, R. 2^-Tbs si?.2i?r ?ow* -*j hattau. Captain John B. Ryan, <of the M. and M. line, while leaving this port colided with twa barges, the Ira A. AU#d. Captain Elmer Or lap, of New York .City, and the- Blhurab, of Con- ' necticut; off Fombam light at M 9 in the morning. The barges /wok In twenty feet of water. The steamer was not Injured. rr. Four pereena on the. . . Ing one women 70 ye*f? old. serve eeoeped with their uvea. Mm g ewdtiraw^^ r Boeatan* on J?p ftp