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- volumexviih oamdkn, s.c.. Friday, junk 21.1907. -no. 24..-. IH Mil Occurrences of Interest from All Over South Carolina -v ?? Many items op state news ?? A. Batch of Live Paragraph* Cover ing a Wide Range?What is Going On in Our State. Stat? Cotton Association. The officers of the South Carolina nivi&ign of the Southern Cotton Ad ipciation will speak at the following places on the dates named: ; Laurens, July 1. Lykesland, July 4. Sumter. July 5. Orangeburg, July 0, Lceseville, July 0. Rftluda, July 0. Johnston, July 104 Aiken, July 11: teamberg, July 12: Barnwell, July IS; Newberry, JuTy 15. Greenwood, July 10. Abbeville, July 17. Anderson, July 17. Wahlalla, July 10. Greenville, July 20. Wlnufeboroj July 25. Ciiestel-, July 'i(i; Vork, July 27. Union, July 29. Spartanburg, July 30. Gaflfney, July 31. The farmers in some sections of th* State are not fueling very cheerful over the cotton crop prospects. feembert Guilty of Murder. ilishopville, Special. ? Th? spring terin of the circuit court convened here on Monday morning with Jud^e tl. W. Memminger presiding. The jury in the case of the State vs. Ca? p?rs Hembert for murder rendered a Verdict of guilty Which mean* tli.it the deffndent Capers Heiubert will be punished by hangings This is the first verdict the puishment of which is death ever rendeVed 1)y a jury in Lee county. The defendant appeared per fectly calm when the verdict was read apparently not knowing what it meant Tho court has not yet passed the se>i IrnCf^ which will fix th* day of rii? death: Contracts are Awarded. Abbeville, Special. ? The bids fo> building the new court house and city hall were opened and both contracts awarded to Frederick Minshall of this place. The bids on tho court house were* King Lumber Compatiy of Char lottesville, Va., $71,309 ? McKenzic DcLeon Construction Company, At lanta, Ga. $57,000; Frederick Min shall, 50,500. On city hall: King Lumber - Company, $62,000; McKen zie-DeLeon C^itstwiction ? Company, $40,600; Frofleiigk./Minshall, $4(5,100. Mr. Minshall is no>y, at work on an iui it -contract for P. Roj&iberp- & Co., but will start both buildings in a few days. An Incendiary Tire. Batesburg, Special.?Tuesday night i no barn and stables used by Col.John Bell Towefl caught #te and were total ly destroyed with a lot of feed staffs. It was with great difficulty that a valuable horse and buggy were saved. When first seen it was thought that Col. Towell's residen'co was on fiVe and a great crowd turned out to fight the (lames. The barn and stables be longed to Mr. Alonzo ttates. The to tal loss amounts to about $3Q0 with no insurance. The origin of the fire can not be determined but it is thought that it was incendiary. Tobacco Crop Ruined. T.atta, Special. ? This community4 suffered a severe hailstorm last week. Tobacco is utterly ruined. Two Boys Rescued. "Charleston, Special. ? Tom Lee and Charley Webb, two boys in their teens w<jre brought up to the city in the launch of the keeper of Morns Is land light house having been capsiz ed in the barbel and spent the ^ij2ffit as the guests of Keeper John Wesley. The arrival of the boys settled the fears and anxiety which were felt for their safety. Fire at Rock Hill. Rock Hill, Special. ?? J. M. Cliar rv's handsome residence on Oakland Avenue was badly damaged by fire last week. The damage will not be less than $5,000. covered by insurance. Robert Stark Henas Sentenced to . Hang. Winnsboro, Special. ?Robert Stark Kleins was tried for the murder of ,rtip Boll Russell and found guilty juid sentenced to be hanged on July ? -rL HftiMwi' Ricfeborg. - { Richburg, Special. ? One of the ' most destructive hailstorms that has ? ? over visited this section fame \?i week. The stonea ware aa 'large as Mr. J, M. MeGarity is the . good M Oi bkaon*. The, atom ? e OTer a p9kxi ...-?--.v.' ... r ? *v " * ,tl, ,1 - _ -?* ?? -*T SOUTH CAROLINA WEATHtR Weather Conditions for the Week Ending Monday, June 17, as Gi*en Out by the Weather Bureau. The weather bureau of the South Carolina fiection "I the Climatological Servicf of 1 ho I'nited Stales Depart men of Agriculture issues Ihe follow ing weathei* bulletin for the past week: The weather was partly cloudy to cloudy during the week / except oil the first and the last dny.ij.which was dear. The sunshine approximated lifty per cent of the possible. Tempera!ures wer? nearly uormul on the coast and averaged neatly four degrees below lionnal iii the western portion, where unusually low temperatures occurred on the last two days. The extremes of tempera ture for the week were a maximum of 94 degree.* at Blackville on t!i?> l0(hi and a minimum of 54 degree* ?{ B.atesburg and Greenville on the iflth: There were numerous showors throughout the State on the 10th, 11th and 13th, with excessive rain fall in localities in the central an:4 eastern counties, though the aver age precipitation for the week was slightly below normal. There were numerous hailstorm* on the llJth, in 4he central and northeaslern count ie*, ami some of them damaging, especi ally in Orangeburg, Kershaw, Lan caster, Darlington and Chesterfield counties, High winds occurred on tiiH same date in many places but did iio particular injury* except in con fU'ctiou with the hail storms. The following npecial rainfall re ports were received uy telegraph and include the measurements at b a. m. of June 171 li.: Columbia 1.0;) inches; Peb'.cr y.oO of an inch; Chap pels 0.74 of an inch; Blairs 1.1(5 in ches; Catawba 'J.10 Inches; Camden 1.48 inches; St; Stephen 1.05 inches; Allcifflale 2.32 inches; Batesbui\* 0.42 of an inch; Blackville 1.55 it! ches; Charleston 0.52 of an . jncih, Chora w. 2.04 inches; Florence #40 in ches j Greenville 0:00 of ai< inch*, C,;eenwoO<f 1.04 inches; Kiugst ree 1..3G inches; St. George 0.fl0 V't* an inch; St. Matthews 1.44 inches^ Spaitanburg 0.44 <S an inch; Yamas See 0.R0 of an inch; Charlotte, N. C., 0.00 of mi inch; Wilmington, N. C., iM.ll) inches; Augusta, (la., 1.20 in ches} Savannah, (la., 0.40 of an inch. ?J. W. Iianer, Section Director. Hail and Wind do Damage. Anderson, Special. ? A severe linil, rain and wind storm visited Hopewell township of this county Sunday after noon lusting one hour and doing: much damage. A negro church was blown down and V completely demolished. Services hadjust ended in this church and the congregation had just dis persed. Had the storm come a few minutes earlier the destruction of life' would probably have l?een great. Two of three residences were destroy ed and several roofs were lifted by the wind. The cotton and young corn crops were destroyed -about -5? per cent, by the hail and wind and the Holds badly washed. Lucy Lipsey Convict^. Union, Special. ? Lucy Lipsey, the negro woman who on March 24 shot Dr. \V. L. Linder in (he back as he was answering a call at the door of his private office, was found guilty of ? assnult and battery with intent to kill but the aeiftenco has not yet been im\ "posed, A Tlio Calhoun Monument. Sculptor Kuckstuhl ' who built the handsome $30,000 equestrian statue to' Ilamptcn on the capital grounds, awarded the contract for a $10,00U marble statue of John C. Calhoun to be placed at Washington in accord ance with an act of thc^ last Legisla ture.' The contract was awarded by the Calhoun Monument Commission. Drowned in Saluda River. Columbia, S. C., Special.?.Joe Townsend, 30 years old, wanted i? Waynesville, N. C.; for striking* a woman in the head with a rock, was drowned in flic Saluda river nenr Pelzer, while trying to escapo from an officer. ToWnsend did not resist arrest, but the. officer took precaution to handcuff him. As they reached the river Townsend leaped overboard and although securely rnen*ltt4ed, be made good .progress across tho stream but as-he was within a few feel of the opposite side, lie went down in about 15 feet of water, ami . ..AV'ts. cl loaned. v Prof. Glenn Perrott Elected. k Bishopville. Speck!. ? At a recent meeting of the trustees of the Bish opville High Sschool Prof. <31enn Par rpjt of Newberry wss elected princi pal to fill the place made vacant hy the resignation of Prof. W. W. Eagle* jlfco has neeepted a place on the fae olty oi the Wyersity of North C**o 2 ? S^v,; 0 r<LTji i} vcnno he TeJs I Sow One defalcation Necessitated a Larger One * OTtttK PARTIES IMPLICATED Judge James E. Boyd Sends Self Convicted Bank Embezzler to the Atlanta, Ga.f Prison for a Term of Six Years?Jones Makes Sen sational Statement in Which Ho Tells the Story of His Fall and Implicates Several Others in His Wrongdoing. , # Charlotte; N. C., Special.?Much interest lias born felt in the trial of Franc 11. Jones, the defaulting as sistant teller of the Charlotte Nat ional Hank, who on March 10th lei't the city, having stolon approximately .$80,0(10 of' the balk's funds. Judge James Iv Hoyd Monday af ternoon sentenced him to serve six years in a Federal'prison as a meas ure (if punishment l'or the crime. The ending of his much-talked of rase was dramatic in the extr?m<*. Jones himself took the stand and, in a statement lull of sensational utter ances told how he had come to fall and detailed the history of his oper ations from li?j^t to lfet. Demands made upoli him by his distressed mother for needed funds for his in valid father he said had led him to take the first fatal step. Once start ed he could never recover, sinking deeper and deeper in debt and ever striving to recoup, llis losses lie estimated at between $70,000 and $70)000. Among those to whom le had lost imJtitfy were Messrs. (\ Hell, Hell & Fonville, 1). A. Hurley, and Y. P. Randolph & Co. lie im plicates Percy (J. Fonville, the ex Charlotte, Rock llill and Fort MiM, H, C., stock broker whom he declar ed was his partner in business./ As a result of Iiim disclosures, Another arrest was made last night, that or Mr. Koyce Hell, who will be called upon to answer the charges of "aid ing and abetting" in this embezzle ment. In response to questions, Jones de clared that there was much specula tion going on around him, and that this means was .the only one which appealed to him as one by which he could get-rich-quick. The Steamer Ohio Aground. Victoria, 11. C., Special.?Private advices from Cape Nome stat that the steamer Ohio of the White Star Line.ran aground at Cape Nome and four persons werfc> drowned <is a re sult of something going wrong with the falls when the boats were being lowered. It is believed the steamer struck ice and was damaged so that she began to fill making it necessary to run ashore. Hanged For Murder of Policeman. Ror.njfc, Va.', Special?John Har dy, a nevro, who shot and killed po liceman < flicer Robert M. Beard last October, was hanged early Friday in the Roanoke jail yard. The ropo broke when Hardy shot through the trap and he rolled over son the ground, half choking. He was again placed on the scaffold and the second drop broke his neck. He was pronounced v dead in five minutes. Cit. Barns of New York City Rail way Destroyed by Fire. New Yhrlc, Special.?Fire Sunday destroyed the car barns of the New York City Railway Company situat ed in Madison avenue, between Eighty-fifth and Eighty-sixth streets A number of nearby residences were damaged. The loss will exceed $200,000. (Jf Charter for N?w Road. Nashville, Special. ? A charter wis granted Tuesday by Secretary of Stale to the Fentress County Railroa 1 Company, for the pmpose of owning and operating a line of railroad from Johnson Stand (Maynard Postoffice) on the Southern. Railway, in Cumber-* land County, to a print in Scott Cojm tv at tb ?? unsfflrnm^st point where Knrk Creek a tributary of the Pi; South?Fork of CumlM*rlaml River crosses* the line between Iflentucky and Tennessee. The company is cap ital hjedjvt $123,00.0 with (hefollowing, incorporators: W. W. Wood. Steamer Polled Off Shoals. Savannah, Special. ? The British ateamtfr Craigiala was pulled off the shoals at the harbor's mouth Sunday mdroinf and towed to the city appar ently u? dam aged. Part of the *e*> eel'a cargo of'pyrites had - to be .thrown bverboard before ahe waa tightened sufficiently to float. Fonr tugs pulled her off. The Craigisla waa hound for Savannah from Hucl va. She ponpded |?at Wetoeeday - y .>. ?' ... ?? ? ?w ~ m ...... ? :? , . V'_ . ? WASHINGTON. Hi llltsli Ambassador Bryce will make a study of Statehood questions in the Territories. It was announced tUat the liodle.v plans had been accepted .'or the na tional cathedral and that the eorner stone would ho laid In September. The Navy Department lias finally decided/ that In order to carry out iho provisions of the Naval Personnel Act of I S90 twenty-four officers must retire on June :10. , General Kurokl telegrn plied t i? o Navy Department thanking the Sec retary for the courtesies shown to him in this country. Government officials in a confer ence in Washington decider] that F. H. Harrimau not only could not h < prosecuted criminally with suc'ch*. i hut would escape in many proposed civil suits. Attorney-General Bonaparte yr. quested from Ronton a copy of the record of the hearing; held on il<<> proposed merrier uT the Bosfon and Maine Railroad wlih lb'* Now York. New Haven and HniHord Kail road' be sent to Washington for perns:*I by the legal authorities of the Gov ernment. ? Ol'Il ADOPTFD ISHN'MS. The Japanese in Hawaii will send a great protest to President Kno.e velt against the law preventing t'e^n from going to the American in;1 in land. Americans sell Porlo Rico nearly throe times as much as to the Philip pines. A number of Pulajane chiefs were i cap!ured in Lpyte, P. F., ending the , campaign against the outlaws. Faustino Allien, head chief of the Pulajidles on the Island of Leyte. has ! been wounded an?l captured by llio j Cut janes with a detachment of in fantry and Philippine scouts. The death of Otov, bead chief of the PulajaueK, on the Island of Sa rnrtr, on April 2?i, has been reported by bandits captured by the Santa Kita constabu lnry. The Agricultural l'liroai of the1 Philippines lias received "00,000 lia waiian si<al plants fop reppMltinv: i'l th" lillero;;t of the Philippine hemp industry. DOMESTIC. German societies of the South be gan their first "verbandsfest" at Jacksonvillo. Fla. Lee Fox. a negro, who killed Lee Reynolds, while, was lynched near Indianela. Miss. The Cailiolic Church of the Sacred Heart, ai Oliav a, Gann.ua. which cost $200,000. was destroyed by lire. Lewis Gugenhelm, of Mason, Tex., was drowned while bathing at West, Lake, La. ?A technical chargo of larceny at Cleveland caused the arrest in Boston of Ernest II. Meyor. a manufactuers' agent. N , ?"" Samuel M. fnman, a wealthy resi dent of Atlanta, donatud $r>0.000 ?to tho Agnes Scott Institute for young women at Decatur. Ga. A portion of Washington avenue, St. Louis, dropped twelve feet below the surface by the collapsing of tho roof of one of the natural under ground passages known as Uhrlg's Cave. When John Parker met F. B. Therou and Mrs. Parker-walking to gether at Carrollton, Miss., ho killed Therou. The torpedo boat destroyer Whip ple rammed the torpedo boat Blakely at the Norfolk Navy YaVd, badly dam aging her. Highwaymen at Brooklyn so se verely beat August Meyer, a shoe dealer, that he died. Democrats and Republicans of Chi cago are raising $150,000 to secure next summer both national conven tions. Domestic troubles caused Charles Sliafer, at Symcs Creek, Ohio, to shoot his wife, his eight-year-old son and his mother-in-law, Mrs. Gcorgo Thacker, but none tatally. Now York is enforcllig quarantine restrictions against passengers from I'avana. FOREIGN. The French Chamber of Deputies Adopted by n vote of 310 to 261 tho flrat cl^nse of a bill for the relief of wine growers, designed to prevent frauds. Premier Bothn announced at Pre toria that the Transvaal Government would send home nil Chinese minors us soon as their contracts expired. Dispatches from Toklo said tho Japanese were anxious for tho sub mission of tho American exclusion question to the peaca conference In The Hague. Mr. C. Haddon Chambers, in a cable dispatch from London, attacks the Copyright lav/ of lho United States. The Nationalist party in tho House of Commons met and decided to op pose tho Government's arnty bill, and to open a campaign for Nome Rulo in tho English constituencies. Tho international horso show closed in London after remarkable rmcccss, over 200 000 persons attend ing it. and a like show will be held next June. M. Clovis Ungues, ex-deputy and publicist, of France, who had , long been in ill health, died in Parigr of asthma. ' The Italian Chamber of Deputies, lit Rome, unanimously voted f 200, 000 for distribution^, the needy vet erans, who fought with Garibaldi. An earthquake at Valdlvts, Chile, south ot Valparaiso, caused the deaths of five persons and the de struction, of hull dine* and bridges; Kingston, Jamaica, had a slight shock. The Society of American Women, or London, entertained at Jnnoheon "V - - - * A - _ _ A XMMt vSRM BtftM JUBIVMVMQlt CZAIt DISSOLVES THE SECOIID RUSSIAN OU#IA Nine Former Members Are Ar rested and Seven Are in Hiding. TROOPS GUARD ST. PETERSBURG That ronstitut imuilisni Is ('rushed Is Die (iciK nil lUlk-f?New Parlia ment of \ ilsiociats?(\im? ??f 1'zar Is Weak. St. Pot ershurg,? DitsoIiU lor of tho Uuaslau Duma was aeeopled by SI. Petersburg without any dem ons! rat ion. In (ho nresciiire of (ho i"hkS'"s of troops which had hoon thrown into tlm capital the people kept within their homos and re mained silent. Tho diKsohit "on was moat awk wardly .maiKi^.ul. Toe Duma's spe cial commission announced in dig n'Merl Inn^utif, worthy e?* a gr<*at Lotrlslal ur;\ that ' It would rffort wilhin two days (?) iho llouso its de dsion in !-i?;?ai'(l t'o tlio su.-pension of ? r?rJ>-livo Snr,'l:i11st 11?*voiutlouary? I members, as depended hy 111" flov rnmont. This delay was quit-' nn den;t amiable in sur'i a \ ilnl _ens!\ for lh:> I) u' 11 n would have lost every shred of lis ?iit*nify if it had per mitlod iisclf to ho hustled' info a panicky decision. Thoso ladles forced tho Covern inont to put lls?lf ft ill fori he;* In Iho l\'rn:ig l?v the Issuane.H of an impe rial manifesto, signed at Peterhof af ter midnight, dissolving the Damn i?nd promising a now elect Inn for Septepibor 14, (he Duma If) moot No vember II. At tho 8a.mn time occurred D?o ar rest of sovoral of tho sixteen Depu ties; whoso immediate arrest had boon .lomandod in tho ultimatum to tirf Dum a. Tho official llossla says Dial: Iho Duma was dissolved because it wonI<1 lot immediately surrender tho fifty live accused members, tliua giving ?:>nie of ti^om tiivie to Ijiilo, and oth ms further opportunely to preach. Tho laller observat ion Is strange, is tho Depution 'could iiavo preached >i> 1 y to the circle of detectives that ?onslantly surrounded them. Tho llossin says that seven of the men have boon hidden, but tlie revolution sts deny this. M. Mahlakoff, Iho greatest lawyer li itussla, gives it as his deliberate '?pinion that tho case against iho 'ifi y-IIve Recused delegates is weak. Tho ehaXt^" ni the olecioral iaw . promised iii tho C/.arH? manifesto iiean tlio disfranchisement of Sibe ria. Central Asia, and the Caucasua uid limitation of the. franchise in Russia on the lines foreshadowcd in :ho N'ovoe Vrfemya by Die reaction ary publicist, M. Menscliikoff, who wants an aristocratic. Duma. Under the Changes announced Poland will return. fourteen Poles and two Hus dan .members to the next lliinia. Tho Cancels us will have nineteen inem oera. In Siberia only two large e't ,es and one territory have been dis franchised, but tho representation a as been generally fatally'limited. A significant feature of tho sltu ition is that Premier Stolypin has not dono what ho did at the Inst dis solution, publish a highly liberal pro gram. This shows that constitution* ilism is crushed. CilRI/S I)AUK WAS FATMi. Trnln Strike Youth Who Stayed Too Long oil Track, Madison, Ind.?While a party ot I'oung people, who reside In the vi Mnlty of L<ovett, seven miles soutu jf North Vernon, on the Loulsvlllo branch road, were returning to meir nomes from attending si singing ichool one of the young women of Jim ;>arty dnred Charles Dawson r.nd Fred Oehs 1o remain on the railway irack longer than she did in the fa-: > .if a rapidly approaching train. Tho challenge was accepted. As a re sult Dawson was killed and Oeha fatally injured, i'he young woman escaped with a slightly lorn dress. NEW YORKER'S QUEER DEATH. J. W. Johnson Falls From America's Riggest Tree?Perhaps a Stticidel Oaxaca, Mex?J. W. Johnson, of Now York, tho manager of large agri cultural interests belonging to an American syndicate met a remark able death neav here. He fell from among the branches of a great tree, ?aid *.0 bo the largest, in North Amer ica. located near this city. The authorities aro of tho opinion that Johnson's death was suicidal. He came to this city from New York. Cattle Thrive on Locust Diet. -...The appearance of seventeen-year locusts at. Mexico. Mo., has aroused no fear among .the farmers, as tho damage created by the insects is slight. Word from \Vellsviile, where thov are thick, is that cattl; and hogs aro eating the locusts and apparently thriving on ffie diet. Rankhead to lie Senator,. John H. llankhervd will he appoint ed United States Senator to till the place made vacant by the keath of Senator Morgan, according to an au uVufteemeni. mado bj Governor Uonter, at Montgomery, Ala. Mr*. Eddy in Control. Tho Boston Globo published a a la* terview with Mr*. Eddy by a reporter (or that newspaper, who taw her at her home, and declare* her mind la keen aad alert aad that efee 1* la full control of h*r hou**hold affair*. Ambassador Aoki BegUcfd. the Moehl. * . , tfrm Viie^int IbM wtir pfrtahn recalled and he " ?ador hy Batch to* ft 'St WlioleHale I'rlcca Quu((>d in New Voi-k MILK. The Mnk Kxcjinngc price (or standard quality is 2'^c. per quart. llUTTMI. Creamory Western, extra.* 23Vi<$$ 24* FiisU 22 (<? 23 State dairy, linest -- (<? 2.1 Uood to prime 21 (Hi '22 Factory, thirds to lusts... 20 UK A N8. Marrow, choice ? (?*$ 2 25 Medium, choice '.... ? (<$ 1 85 Red kidney, choice 2 55 (ii> 2 00 IVft . .. - (2) 1 90 \\ hit?? kidney 2 85 (a) 2 90 Yellow eve I 85 m 1 90 Slack turtle soup 1 75 (al I HO Lima, On) ? (Q 3 50 <'ll KK8K. State, full cream Ip^gi 12 Small .... 12 Part tfkiitiK.good to prime &%('?* rt'.fc Full skiiiiu 1 (? 2 IK 111 8. dei'sc* Fancy IS (n) 1!) State (iood to choice ,,,, ](] Oi 17 Weatern Fiiala.. ?f?i> -J."} I mil I H AM) ItKIt It IHH ? niKKII Apples INissct. per Idd... 4 <H( oi> 5 <H) ilcii D.ivis, per I>1 >1 ..... 4 50 (<?> ft fto Mnldwiu, pel bM..., .. 5 <K> (<i) 0 00 Strawberries, per <)t ft (>i) H 1M.IC kh?q i ie.s, per ? |i N (<i) pj Huckleberries, per qt IS (</> 22 < iooseberrics, per <11 <n) In Peaches, per carrier 2 trtJ (?? 2 75 I i v!?: ivu i i i:v. U)vv'~'< I*'1' ? M It's Chickens, spring, per II).., ? Of1 21 Rooster's, per l!i ? (</' 9 Turkeys. pel lb - - <h| 12 Ducks, per Ih., .. 12',6 (a) I3'? tiecse, per lit 1 (n) 10 Pig,eotu, per pair ? (o) 3.3 IxlKKSKI) l'<> in. I itv." Turkeys, per Hi v](t (<i) It FowIh, per Hi 1;] (a) 15',a Ducks, spring, per lb 17 (ui IS Squabs, per d.i/cu 1 25, (" 1 00 II A V AMI SI HAW. llav, prinie, irt^rlTM) Hi.... 1 2<) (Jfi I 25 No 1, pctvfiK) II. I 1!> (,> I 20 No. 2. y6y 100 Hi ~ tit. 1 10 Clovev/iuixed. per 100 ll>. 8ft (it 1 10 StrnwJIong rye tij (it) 70 HOI'S. State. lfKXi, chiiicc Hi (a* J7 Milium. 10: ifi .'I'.fcW 5 I'jiciiie I'dnsi I IKK), choice.. ? (>' It Medium. lOnft 0 OA 8 v kcikt \ it i |.,?. Potatoes, old. per lilil 2 25 (o' 2 (V) New. per Mil 1 50 of (I ftu Sweets, per basket I fto (o> 2 50 Tomatoes, per carrier I 0f) (ii) 2 50 Kgg plant, per box 1 25 (<?) 2 25 Squaah, per box "ft (>? 1 00 Pons, per basket.. 75 (>if 2 75 Peppers. per carrier 1 50 (a) 3 '<0 l.eitueo. per Mil 1 5'.! '(c? 3 !/0 Cabbages, per bhl 1 25 (ft 1 50 String beans. per basket... 50 fit! 1 50 Onions, N. O.. per bag.... 1 Oo (3) 1 50 Carrots, per bbl,. 3 00 (ai 4 00 Hcets, per 100 bunches.... 3 0*1 (ft! 5 00 Turnips, per bbl 1 CO (rtj 2 00 Okra. per earner I <*i (it) M HO Parsley, per bhl 5 00 (a. 10 00 Spinach, per bbl 75 @ 1 UN Watercress, per 100 bunches 1 00 (<t? 2 00 Lima beans, per crntc 2 < 0 (id 4 00 Kale, per bbl.. .' 50 (8) 75 Shallots, per KM) bunches.. 2 00 0? 4 t)0 Ulftb.slics, per 100 bunches.. 75 (ty 1 25 Cucumbers, per basket 1 XK> (<? 2 50 Leeke, pet* 100 bunches.... 2 00 (it} 4 00 Aaparagns.pcr do/,, bunches 1 00 &V4 00 Rhubarb, per ,100 bunches. 75 (it> 1 oo C!auliflower, per basket.... 1 00 (/t> 2 00 Mint, per ooz. bunches.... 15 @ 2.3 O It AIM. f K'I'O. Flour?-AVinter patents..., 4 50 (^5 O.') Spring patents 5 15 ($ 5 95 Wheat. No. 1 N- Dttlulh... ? (?) 1 08'^ No. 2 red....; 98)i(fl) , tM)% Corn, No. 2 white ? (8) 03 . No. 2 yellow ? <?} 62',< 0?*vts. mixe?l ,'T ? (S>' 4DVi Clipped white 50 (ip flf Lard, city.. ..... ~ @ S% r.iv.s STOCK. Ueevea, city dressed 0 (a) JO Calves, city dressed 13',4 Country drewied ? (a) lUj Sheep, per 100 lb 4 00 (a) S Art Lambs. per 100 II) 7 71 (ft 9 00 Hogs, live, per 100 lb 5 75 (g fl 73 _ Uounfrydr ?w8ed per lb., 8%? ? 0?4 CllOI* HEPOHTS KNCOUH^fJINCl. Yield of 034,074,000 Bushels of Wheat Indicated. Washington, D. O.?The crop re porting board of tho Hureau of Sta tistics, of tho Department of Agricul ture, finds, from the reports of the correspondents and agents of the bureau, as follows; Preliminary returns on the ncro age of spring wheat sown indicate an area of about 1 6.464,000 acres, a de crease of 1,242,000 acres, or seven per cent., an compared with the flnal estimate of the acreage, sown last year (17,700,000). The average condition of spring wheat on Juno t was 88.7, a# compared with 93.4 at the corresponding date last year, 93.7 on June 1, 1 9 05, and e. ton-year average of 93.3. The average condition of .winter wheat on June 1 was 77.4, as com pared with 82.9 on May 1,. 1907; 82.7 on June 1, 190G; 85.5 on June 1, 1905, and n ten-year average of 81.1. This brings tho total indicated yield of wheat to 634,974,000 bush els. compared with71 3,339,000 bush els, the estimate on June 1, 1906, and 735,260,000 bushels, the actual harvest last year. ? The total area reported in oats is about 31,491,000 acres, an Increase of 532,000 acres, or 1.7 per cent., as compared with the flnal estimate of tho area soyn last year (30,959,000 acres). Trie average condition of oats on June 1 was 81.6, against 85.9 on June 1, 9<f.ir nt tue cor responding date'In 1905, and a ten year average ot 89.7. The average condition of rye Is . 88.1, against 89.9 on JUne 1, 1906; 93.6 on June 1, 1905, and 90.2 the ! mean of tho corresponding averages > of the last ten years. Spanish Plotters Sentenced. Kftkent a&4 llaria were sentenced, at Madrid, to nine years* Imprison aMflt for complicity in tho plot to kfil the Spanish-Kin* and Own; tht others were acquitted. 0? a, abandoned hif of inapoctlen tc tho fcV -4^# . iiiLBQh MiaMBEfiffiJMIMMMBHHH i3P MID 1TIADE CONDITIONS u$ Country is Doing Very Well, Thank You. A r-<v\-r) of the Situation iit (ho Uui* tvd VitHi's I)is?'|o<i(>M No Cause i or Discouragement. ? ?' ?^W York City,?With tho issue of r>o /Ono Government. estimates on 'hi> \vliout crop tho worat in known comornlng tho effects of the bacjt*^ vjtnl season upon agricultural l>eot?. f 1-iko the similar report i/sued a wook before on the growing rotton 1^ was not so had as the public had been led to' expect, and the speculative markets (or the staple and tho cereal declined. Tho - recent phenomenal advance in both may be regarded ua sufllfcicnt to "discount" tho worat conditions, and a period of warm weather now would substantially im prove the,outlook The Government estimate on wheat acreage and condition on June 1 indl-.. eaten a production of fi^fi.OOO^OO l.'Usholi?, a yield Which had never been reached until ion years -ago, and _ v> I?ifli fails only about 5,000,000, buahels short of tho ten years' avor ago. Considering tho large amount carried over from last* year's crop ,we should havo a very comfortable sur plus for export In the event of a Eu ropean shortage creating a sharp de mand. tu recent years, howover, wo havo raised comparatively littlo more wheat than was needed ffor homo con sumption, and with no future im provement in conditions tUfe4*4#M in dleated by tho Juno report will more than sufllce for that. Our annual wheat crop in value ranks below hay and cotton rtnd la only half that of corn. t Trade, like tho crops, has been chilled and hold back by tho unsea sonably cold spring, but it neverthe less seoms healthful and ready to ex pand In response to the,^arrival of o littlo genial warmth, ann meanwhile thorc Beenis to be no che.ck In indua-r._I trial activity. Tho usual cvitoria of railway earnings, bank clearings and commercial statistics are favorable. Many railways report largely in creased trafllc receipts. j Hank exchanges outsido of Not^r York?where ,<thoy are reduced tho dullness 'Hn Wall Street. ?Jtire larger and commercial failures for tho month of May were smuller in number and in tho amount of liablli- < ties as compared with tho correspond ing period of last year. *? The comparative stringency Of money, which had a retarding effect on trade, has had a good effect In checking venturesome speculative en terprise in many directions. Credit for all legitimate demands Is in good ^ supply, and discount rates liave not boon affected by the outflow of some ten millions gold to Europe. This efflux, in fact, is mainly due to the comparative ease of money hero as compared with the fates pre vailing abroad, In consequence of . which bankers have been unwilling . to draw bills against foreign bal ances, and therefore .the specie was remitted. The reserves of-the city , banks are low, but if seasonable pre cedent holdp there should be an In flux of five Jo ton millions from the - interior to this centre during the next two weeks1.""**"-?Vi While the protracted and ^world wide-depression in the markets fop" securities has been caused to some extent by the higher rates for money* the main cause appears to have been fear of legislation adverse to vested intereits. When investor* are afraid to buy securities selling f?r below their value as measured by the return for money in fhe world's markets speculative spirit la paralysed. Thia cloud now seems to be lifting. A survey, of the situation in the United States discloses no cauae for discouragement. If the dispensers of . woather will only now give ua^two t>r three months of warm Bunshine it will stimulate everything. Condi lions are sound, and while there is still a chill in the air, tho country Ip doing very well, thank you. OFFENDING PASTOR WHIPPED. Keiituckian Angry Because Wife Wa* Advised to Sue Hint. Lexington, Ky.?W. W. Meadow*, a wealthy land owner of Fulton, ad ministered a horse whipping to the Rev. Frank Morton Hawley,. at Ful* ton. Aided by friend*, he drore the minister across the Tennessee line and piaced him aboard the train un der threats of death should he dare to return. Mr. Hawley was pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, and was well liked by the community. It la charged that he advised* Meadows' wife to file suit for divorce. He had been on a visit to Charlotteville, N. C? and had just stepped from the train when he was handcuffed by Meadows and party. He wa8 escorted to a vacant lot and whipped. He de clared he yes innocent of any"mis conduct. * , Suit Against Coal Timet. The United fttatee Government filed suit in Philadelphia again* the Coal Trust, alleging that the coal carrying roado actou in v? trade. * , Teacher's SqcKlen Death. *' Miss Caroline Carpenter, principal , of Laaell Seminary,, .A*. - ?burndale, Mass.. died J eat at tilt close of the gredeaUfea exem**, - Must Eat Dear Breed. _The Custom* Commleetoe, Paris, tautenI tnously thepropoeal made in tN Chamber of Deputiee to e?up?a4 tfceduue* ? flour, owtif to the riee th