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n**-'#*, * ■ FifiHTm ESTABLISH NAVAL PATROL LAST ATTEMPT OF RUSSIANS JO TAKE CITY THIS FALL BATTLE ON THREE SIDES Abandoning His Shifting Strategy, Says New York Times, Expert, Gen. Brusiloff is Directing Terrific Blows at German Positions Guard ing Important Center. While the fighting in the Balkans, particularly that in which Roumania is engaged, has occupied the atten tion of the public almost exclusively for the last few days, the Russians have been fighting one of the great est battles they have yet been engag ed in. The reports from all sources in dicate that this fighting is with out parallel on the Russian front. Russia, while claiming no advan tages, frankly admits that if this attack or series of attacks fail, it is doubtful whether any further effort will be made in the direc tion of Lemberg until after the winter. Neutrality IHity to be Enforced by American Navy. While no immediate steps are in 1 contemplation for tlB^actual estab lishment of a naval neurralify patrol along the Atlantic coast as a result of the German submarine raid, the navy Athens reports via London Friday : department has completed a definite King- Constantine motored in from plan to be put into operation It the Tatoi, his summer residence, ^'ed- ca "lP aign ^°“ tinu 5 8 '. , . nesday evening and called and pre- T he entir6 de f t J°J e J' aetlv ® J 6 1 and reserve, assisted by light cruis- Constantlne Presides at Meeting of Crown Council Which En dorses His Course. sided at a meeting of the crown coun- ssr sr vl!U 10 ,he i The king discussed the form which |> a8eB ashore, or communication be- Greece’s proposals to the Entente ^een shore radio stations and the with a view of abandoning neutrality, fnr __ should take and declared his convic- Possibility of mobilizing the force tion that Greece’s future depended' ^ Privately “O to ^ o ats al ong upon her joining the Entente. He th « ^ WhlCh ha ° been ® nr f o1 ^ expressed a readiness to do so, not with their crews as a part of the demanding more than a guarantee of " a y al reserve was first considered, the integrity of Greece and such ma-, but . vart ?, U8 7 o C0 a U °; terial assistance in equipment the tered - J^aval militia officials and Up to a short time ago, Brusl- o miv as would be essential to render men already have been assigned to &*• Z utmtZT b, 0 ; e .” d s;•»>>> >»; .“"1'*.« real value to the Allies. . K„I he . a ? Discussing a telegram from M. b ° tb „ !° 7® r , a », ld k Romanos, the Greek minister to France, on September 30, reporting < * ue8 ** < ? n of agitation in Germany f r a conversation with Premier Briand.: a / n uth,e f the sovereign pointed out that the 8 ‘7*r.fn three compensations which the havln 8 practically cleared up. premier o«er.d ,n,orm.,Up - ^ ^ IBS RULF TOWN THOUSAND! STRIKERS BESIEGE . WHOLE POLICE FORCE . G. A. R. LEAVES FIELD TO CONFEDERATES at reunion GIRL CHECKS RIOTERS Calls Strong Arm Squad Which Does Heroic "Work — Judge Adjorns Court to Help Defend It When At tacked—White Haired CTiief Faces did not include a guarantee of in tegrity, and he expressed the opin ion that Greece’s entry into the hos- tilities was impossible without'an of-! Spartanburg Physician Hit as ficial pledge to this effect from the' Drives his Car. governments of Great Britain,! ^ ~ ■ ... France, Italy and Russia. | Dr * ?. Wrightson one of the The king stated further th t he y°uns?r physicians or Spartanburg, loff’s strategy ever since the great; was not disposed at this time to in- m ®^ w* 1 ' 1 a singular and perhaps very offensive began on the first of June.! 8 i 8 t even upon discussing Greece’s semu* accident Sunday afternoon was that of the shifting attack. That' territorial aspirations, to which Pre- when a pole of the street railway is, a heavy attack would be launched, mier Griand referred, but he felt company at East M*") and Oakland against one section of the line, draw-. that a war cabinet, when formed, av cD u « >«» •ct; 0 * 8 his automobile, ing all available troops to the point' should have a charter to inspire the 8 tr***tig him in the head, rendering of attack, and as soon as the defense confidence of a great majority of the him unconscious and causing the car began to stiffen and the advance was country, without which any full mo- ,0 d* 8 * 1 > nt o the yard tud into the checked, another attack in a differ- 1 bilization that the Entente govern- flower pit of E. T. ( antrell, who re- ent quarter would break out. aending 1 ments would reply shortly to Greece’s 8 * de8 °n l* 1 ® c °7 er Li ” b * '7* the reserve forces hurrying to this! first tentatice proposals he did not damaged considerably and Dr. point. And so it went from one sec-' conaider it necessary for the new Wrightson in an unconscious *1®!® tiou of the line to another, until the government to take any steps before wa * hurried to the Steed ley Hospital entire line south' of the Prlpet the receipt of a reply; 4 where he Is under ^he care of sur- Ivanced to its present ion' marshes had ad IfOatLsQal. Now we find this strategy chang- Constantine’s course ed. All efforts to take Kovel have! apparently been abandoned. There Is no longer doubt that the main Huattian effort is be made against Lemberg. This was necessitated by Katalltira Occur Within an Hour aad the entrance into the war of Kou Within 300 Yards. ACCIDENTS AT CLINTON The cabinet members present at ®®?? 8 the council fully approved of King T h ® surgeons are unable to ®*y at that time the extent of hiaUnJurlee The accident would have been more serious, perhaps, but for the timely action of L. W. Jenkins, superintend ent of the Oakland Avenue School, who witnessed the accident, and real izing the extreme danger from a runaway car with an unconscious driver at the wheel, sprang Into the Two accidents, one already fatal sent and brought It to a ctop Just as and the other very likely to result so. the fore wheels dropped into tho happened near Clinton Sunday after-, flower bouse, that had a depth of noon. several feet. manta, which forced the Russians to localise their attack at a point where It would do the most good to the Roumanian combination This point is without question Lemberg.* Once In Lemberg, the Russians will. About two o rlocki two and m h ,, f of course be able to force the retreat | c „ nton . jj^bonrd Air of the Teuton line least back toj u ne t r8 i B \o. 6. solid vestibule, the btrypa-Urodek Hue and *0 ••ke^, hboillM , |<lft , he tr . rk . Jim , u . the parage of the Carpathian moun-j ton color(>d jrpmmn> tn jumping tains easier. Once the Carpathian f rom t |, e engine, was perhaps fatally mountains are crossed, von I injured. hayn will be taken in Bank, the Ger-■ .\> ar ijr an hour later the Seaboard rrwmcm ■uu iviu»n man. forced to re ®ase the pressure Air U , n e wreck, end about three bun- hundred wd tlTlrty ^0plane, last they are now exerting on the Houma- drBd yards from the scene of it. sn' month on the western front, ascot- o an o? TreV.vlv?n , la t 0 o n n h e * uU, “ ,blU nln ® P a «®»*®rs pared wUh Twenty.on. to.i “y the X l WM #truck A '" nUc t '°“ t L,n ® ,; ermsns, the war oMce announced Roumauian* | trB|n No 6 , fronl ( ; r# . nT ,„ # to Monda y The Rouninnian Hiiuntion In fact charleston, and Mrs. Ellen Douglaas, j “Our aviators concentrated their i* line Mhlth und<iu|>iolly giving B widow, had hes skull fractured, full strength on artillery observa- tlie Allien not a little uuewdncso, and from which she died at seven-thirty tlon.” the statement says. ' Extra CLAIMS AERIAL SUCCESSES lierlia Kays Allies Lost 190 Aero plane. in Heat lakal Month. Tha French and British lost one •the quickest and most effective way of relieving it is undoubtedly by a Kuacian success north of the Car pathians. It might be sr.id in pasu- iug that it has never bA>n quite clear why Roumania as soon as she enter ed the war did not send a force of sufficient size, even though it took her entire army, to break the bold of the Teutona in at ‘east bne of the passes which traverse tie mountains in southern Bukowiua. so as to give Russia easy access to Transylvania by a direct route. ;Sjppose, for instance, tb*t Klrli- baba Pass had been selected pass is not far from the Roumanian bonier, and in the first days of Rou manian activity it is alnlcst certain that a drive northward would have elfected a satisfac.oryi juncture with the Kilssians. By turning ttie de fenders of this pass out of their posi tions and enabling Russia to pour her troops through and fh nk the paases furthertvest. Koumania’s present difficulty would then have been avoided, for any line the Teutohs could have taken in Transylvania east of the line of the Moros- Yr.llejfiwould have been outflanked by the Russians in the north. Instead of these we find the point of junefon of the two Allies at about Dorna-Watra on the Bukowina-Roumanian frontier, too far east to bee ot any advantage to either of them in the present emer gency. There may have been obstacles'of Sunday night. FOR DEMOCRATIC FUND Carolinian* Send filJiTvO Direct » Headquarter*. j ordinary achievements were accom- li pllshed during the protective flights demanded by their particular work. The difficult task of our observers can be carried out only when our to battle aviators keep the enemy far away. The aerial battlea. which on I account of these conditions increased to a number hitherto unknown, were , J v! nn ‘ n *: i ad L ,a 7 ,hat successful for us. he national Democratic headauar- .. We lo#t |n ^ptem^ twenty W,n ° f the f0 ' 10 I aeroplanes in aerial battles. One U '7:- v k i machine is missing. French and «^ ‘TSIT; British losses amount tb ninety-seven flr® dollars \V. Mcl-aughhn Ander- aerla , batt , twenty . 8tx Bhot Thl8 »on fifty dollars; Jaa. L. Sims wo down froni earth and ^ vpn wh|ch hundred and fifty dollars, i.W.N\ar- lan(lpd v0 , untar ,ly within our lines, ing tharleston fifty dollars; D. C.' of th|B tota , those brouRt)t down Heyward, Columbia, *— — one hundred dollars; Francis ii. Weston bia, two hundred and fifty dollars, j. b -_ W. Thurmond, Edgefield, two hun-' dred and fifty dollars; T. 11. Bodle, l.eesville, twenty dollars; N. F. Shivar, Shelton, twenty-five dollars; State Democratic Committee of South Carolina, two hundred and fifty dol lars. within our lines and within those of ( olum- the-enemy were about equal in num lars; J.| , lpr .. Crowd With His Pistol. Mob rule was established In Bay onne, N. J., Wednesday night. The entire police force was practically un der siege in two strongholds and strikers of the Standard Oil and oth<- er plants In the Constable Hook sec tion held possession of the streets where, in an early evening battle with the police, a woman had been killed and a score or more of strikers wounded, two so seriously it were be lieved they could not recover. More than 1,U00 men surroundec police headquarters and threatenet to tear down the building to rescue t two comrades who had been ar jsted He! for displaying weapons. They with drew only after Michael F. Reilly the aged chief of police, had faced them alone, armed only with a re volver, and after fellow countrymen addressing them In Lithuanian, had begged them to avoid bloodshed. The terrorizing of the city began in the early morning, when strikers gathered about the Twanty-second Street railroad station. They drove passengers back onto the trains from which they tried to s.llght and, at 10 o'clock, a crow I of 1,000 had gath ered. This mok grabbed Robert Carr railroad yardmaster, and John O'Connorl a railroad detective, beat them, aad wasaed them to leave the city, saying the strikers w.-nted no officials about, whether police, fire or railroad men. The rallroAders telephoned for help to the railroad headquartars and five detectives werb sent to guard the station. Tbr ■Irtkrm drove them Imddr the station where they barrtraded them *e|»e*. There was another entrance through the door of the telegraph of flee, and the strikers tried to enter there, but Miss An le Doody, the young operator, locked her door and telephoned ip Bayonne police head quarters for help. Then Capt. Ed ward M. Griffin and hla squad com posed of Lieut. John J Klgney end Detectives Noonou, Katcher. Lee and Russell made the first of mhny res cues which they effected during the day. All are big men. and in a powerful automobile they racsd to the rail road station. Thougu they were ais against nearly I.OUO they leaped from the car almost before It had halted, and. fourtsh’ng their revolv ers. they rushed the crowd. As they got within renrh enrh de tective gmhhed n man. nluaired him nml reached fur another. The mot) could have *niuthered them hy weight of numher* alone, hat ln*tead it turn- ed and fled. Railroad detectives snd the girl operator were hurried bark to police headquarters In the motor car Again and again Orlffliwrnd his men turned out. rescuing trolley cars from mobs that had smashed the windows after pulling the trolley polefc from the wires. They naved noire* of cltLen* from beating*, al- way* ru*hlng the mob* In ju*t the Mitine wnyqgnil nlwny* winning by their diNplay of nlieer nerve. But at noon, after they had brought eight prisoners Into the colls below police headquarters and Judge Peter Stilwell was holding municipal court on the top floor, there rose a cry of warning that the strikers were coming. Think* it I to tier for Member* to As sist Individually at Great Gathering. \ ,lt has practicaiiyi been decided by the G. A. R.-to make no effort, as an organization, to co-operate with the United Confederate veterans at the grand reunion to be held in Washing ton next year. Many societies and individuals have been working to make the re union a Blue and Gray love-feast, but officials of the Grhnd Army be lieve It best to allow the Confed erate veteranfUte hold their reunion in their own way without official participatien by the G. A. R. They believe that f^is Course will meet the approval of the officers of the U. C. V. “If the two great armies that struggled through the civil war, said a R. official, “had been composed entirely of gentlemen, R would be possible to make a success of co-operative celebrations, but the trouble is that a small proportion of ’roughnecks' got into the service on each side. These men always make trouble. We have had several very regrettable affairs as a result of their lack of a sense of propriety. Even with the care'that was taken to avoid such scenes at the Gettysburg Re union, there were several regrettable incidents. “We have about come to the opin ion that to attempt to co-operate with the U. C. V. in their big Wash ington Reunion would make possible unpleasant incidents which likely will not occur If we stay out. “There is no question that thou sands of G. A. R. men from, all over the country will attend the Confed erate Veterans' Reunion, and as Indi viduals, I have no doubt they wiy be glad to do anything in their power to make the occasion the success It de serves to be. Moreover. I think the Confederate veterans deserve to have all of the limelight during their re union. It would be hardly fair for them to have to divide honor* with the G. A. R.“ CROP Mms ESTIMATE FOR SOUTR CARO LINA AND UNITED STATES FIGURES FOR OCTORER CLAIMS U. S. HAS NO GROUNDS Of Objection a* to Operations of Osr- man Sub* Off America* Const. SOLD CROP TOO EARLY objective in the immediate front. Farmers Try to Cancel Sale of Cot ton for Twelve Cents. A farmer from the Pee Dee sec- If at any of these placet the German line gives nsr, aa extensive retire ment is’ bound r> follow. These three sections am. beginning in the north, that front between the Lemberg- Brody railroad and Vladlnm Wol- jmakl that section of the frost which with Hahcs as the Just how general th’ did not say. CZAR’S ARCTIC ROAD HALTED Completion This Year. Dispatches from Copenhagen to which we are not aware which pre-L be town jj rzezanv i ; - occupied by'dencing a disposition to “back out.' CarpViqn pasrs^^lS'consid- the Russians ' the entire line of th ® Ju8t how Beneral ^' condition is he erations in Roumania may have b- 1 euch that in order to popularize the war among those elements which were hostile to it, it was expedient if not necessary to move directly against Transylvania. This, of course, no one can sayj. ,But as matters ap pear from a study of the situation herje, it would seem that such a move would have been the most profitable. To return from this diversion to the main topic of the present Russian offensive, w o see the shiftii 0 strat egy of Brusiloff undergoing a ma terial change. As his attack grad ually centred on Lemberg, the con centration at the main line of attack, that through Halicz, became so great that he could not make an impres sion on the defense. There was, then, afte much fruit less fighting, a cessation of activity, during which preparations w.re made for a more extended attack. Forces Were regrouped, new stores of supplies accumulated, new reserves of ammunition created. Then the |iresent*at*ltfk was launched. : Till* attack is coming from three q—rtemihGI the Russians, the entire line of the Zlota Lipa, of which the Rursi ns al ready hold the lower section, will fail. A retirement will then have t> be made as far as the Galla Lipa, some distance to the west. Halicz will automatically be evacuated and the way to Lemberg opened from the south. . ' That section of the Teuton line which is now' almost parallel to the Dnelster from in front of Halicz al most to the mouth of the Zlota Lipa will be seriously involved and'will be fortunate to make good its retreat, as it is already half surrounded, - If the Halicz front fails this same- section of the Teuton line is in even 1 * ar K e wood stocks and the torpedo- greater danger.- N'ot only that the ^y German submarines of steam- entire Teuton army in Galicia wili ers carrying materials from England be turned, and a general retirement 1 ^ 8 sa 'd have-caused the '’“’"y in From block* away the sound of their yells drifted to tiue building and Chief Reilly, getting hi* arm* from a cabinet holding the wea pons taken from notorious mur derers. yeggnicn and thieves, turn ed every man in the building. Judge Stilwell adjourned court and titok a weapon. Presently every one, police, court attendants, witnesses and reporters were armed, but all told they made a force of less than fifty men, and toward them came a mob of‘more than 1,000. There are two entrances to police headquarters, one. in Twenty-sixth Street and one in Avenue C The mob was approaching on the Avenue C side, and to this entrance went the white-haired chief of police.- With no one beside him he stood on the steps swinging his revolver, and wheh the mob halted before him he Germans Say U-Boats Prevented Its raised a hand that finally hushed the ‘ shouts of the throng, t. 'H A success along the first will o.' it- tl0I > reports that there -is possibility, self throw this right wing of the litigation ’in his section growing Russians so far to the west of tho out of cotton sold on contract last centre, that the Teuton'c grmies will spring. Some of the farmers, he be flanked out. If the advance along said, sold their cotton on contract at the Brody road reaches the junction e l pve n and twelve cents, and it is at Krasne, an important and n«ces-j no ' v bringing sixteen and seventeen sary Tedton line of supplies has been 1 cen ls. -Suits in some-instances, he taken and a retirement will be the said, would likely be brought to en- only-answer. . I force the contracts in some instances If the Teuton centre gives way and where those who made them are-evi The submarine rumpalgn off tho American roast, according to tho Arm conviction la German admiralty and foreign office clrcleo undoubtedly la being conducted In full accordance with the recognised rule# of crnlaor warfare and with the German uader- talings toward the United Htatee a >t to sink ship* without warning, and without making adequate provision for tha aafoty of the pnnsongorn aad crewa. The decision of the American court In tho cnee of tho British •learner Appam which was awarded to her HrllUh owners after being taken Into Norfolk by n German prise crew makes It Impracticable to ■end prises into American porta. Sub marine commander.) therefore have no option ezeept to dettroy them. It Is naaumed In Berlin that the American government has no ground for objection to operationa of subma rine* In *uch prozimity to the Ameri can coast since the German warships • re merely following the exempt* of Great Britain and her nllie* which have kept watch off the American coast. ~ Department of Agriculture Give* Forecasts on Corn, Wheat, Oatn, .. Tobacco, Potatoes, Sweet Potatoes, Hay, Apples, Peaches, Cotton and Their Prices. A summary of. tho October crop report for the State of South Caro lina and for the United States, as complied by the bureau of crop esti mates, and transmitted through the Weather bureau, United States de partment of agriculture, is as fol lows: Corn. State—October 1 forecast, 34,000,- 000 bushels; production last year, final estimate. 33,558,000 bushels. United States—October 1 forecast, 2,720,000,000 bushels; production last year, final estimate,. 3,054,535,- 000 bushels. r " All Wheat. State—Preliminary estimate, 2,- 396,000 bushels;' production last year, final .estimate, 2,430,000 bushels. United States—Preliminary esti mate. 608,000,000 bushels; produc tion last year. Anal estimate, l.Oll,* 505,000 bushels. Oats. State—Preliminary estimate, 8,- 500,000 bushels; production last year, final estimate. 9,971.000 bushels. 1 United States—Preliminary esti mate. 1,330.000,000 bushels; pro duction last year, final estimate, 1,- 540,362,000 buahels. Tobacco. State—October l forecast, 20,- 000,000 pounds; production last ysnr, final estimate, 27,700,000 pounds United Btatee—October 1 fore cast 1,200.000,000 pounds: prod se tt on last ysar. final estimate, 1,000.- 517.000 pounds. Bute—October 1 foreceat. 720.000 bushels, prod action lest year, Inal eetlmatO. 190.000 besLdn. United State#—October 1 fere- cast. 201.000.000 bnshela; produc tion last year, flaal estimate. SS9,- 102,000 b sake la. “I have been on this force f6h, twenty-eight years,” he called, “and 4he Overseas News Agency say that! I have ne'ver lost a prisoner^ I do the Russian’railroad on the Murman' not intend to lose one now. So help Coast, bordering on the Arctic Ocean, will not be completed this year, de spite the employment of twenty thohsand workmen. ■~ 7 ~ along the whole line will have to fol low. Such a retirement under the terrific pressure which the Russians are exerting along almost the entire line, will be a matter of great diffi culty and must result in considerable loss in mert and material. These are the things the Russians are fighting for. These are the le- -mnsL-flaw-from..1. Rus sian success. The stakes are large, and the Russians are paying an enor mous price fqr their opporti-nity to gamble for them betag waged with aaremittiag vigor It cannot contlnee meek longer with- eat ••• side or the ether cracking Aad yet there In he ggn of any each constructing the road me, God! I'll shoot dead the first man who steps into this builiing.” Some in the throng did not under stand his words, but they understof d The recent destruction by fire of the manner in which he delivered them. Others comprehenr'od, and presently Frank Trakimen, a photog rapher, who cbuld speak the lan guage of mob, sprang"from the group and harangued it. He told the men they weie going about the rescue of their comrades in the wrong way. He warned them many would be shot, some perhaps killed,->f they tried to rush the buildjng, and finally he persuaded them>4o send a committee of sis t6 consult with Recorder Cain. At last the mob moved off and presently called on the record.r. and learning that they could arrange bell for the prteoners with the consent of the conety court. left headquarters satisfied The stoning of enrs and the send ing of falso fire alarmi “KINGSTONIAN” NOT SUNK Wa* Thousands of Mile* From Scene of Hubsea Raid. The British-steamer Klngstonlan. reported as among those torpedoed^ by a German subipariae off Xan- tuckot last Sunday, ts safe In port, according to word received hy Joha The battle is stllT'' M Thomas, of Boetoa. local manager of tho Ley land lino, which owns tho •learner Mr. Themes said hie la formattoe showed that thk Kiage- ef mUae tram telephone A real alarm came at o’clock, when fire started In a shed of the Lehigh Valley Railroad at Twenty-second street and Avenue F and the fireman found a mob of 1,000 itrikers dr a an up at that point where the dead IlnA bad been established on Tuesday night From their quarters in Fire Engines House 4, father down Twenty-se/ond street. Inspector Cady and the/fcollce saw the mob rutting the hode. -IVtth twenty men Cady rushed to the place. It was dark, and presently there came a revolver shot/ - Cady had warned his men not'to fire without provocation, but now he gave the order, and ten men, armed with riot guns, each holding five shells' con taining flfteen^buckshot a piece, an swered the fire. The strikers fled as the bullets whistled among them. It wfs ifixthls fusilade that Mrs. Sophie Torack only 20 years old and a bride of three weeks, was killed by a ball that en tered the second' story window of her home at 100 East Twenty-second Street and struck, her in the head. One result of the day, the most sat isfying to the striker«r was that their dead line had closed practically every plant on Cohstable Hook. Throughout the dry come concerns had tried fq operate by collecting employees at Brady's Dock,' at the foot of First Street, 1 utside the strU zone proper, and transporting them by boat to the piers of the oil plants on the Kill van Kull. The strikers learned of this ruse early and there were several b ( attles at the pier until the companies abandoned this plan The strikers insisted they would close every plant on the Hook, and late that night ther seemed to be no evidence that they could be pre vented. Inspector Cady with six lieu tenants and ninety-eight policemen were quartered in Engine 4 in Twen ty-second Street, opposite the en trance of the Tidewater Oil C impany They were inside th dead line that the strikers had thrown about the Hook, and. though they might have fought their way out, their absence would have left the oil plants U the mercy of the strikers. — The only other policemen were practically under aiege In -police Jiesul quart ers. Of tb*se mere were eight Hndeon Boulevard motor cycle policemen. Captaio Griffin's battle squad of *tx mini, and the -seventy- five deputies Though -they sallied oat oa oae riot calk only to retara quickly, declaring that they bed shot to fright—ed reeideats that they Mate—October 1 forecast. 1.4(9,- •99 bushels, prodnettoa last year, final estimate. 6.I2S.OOO heshela t'alted Mate#—October 1 fore cast, 67.100.009 bushels, prod act km last year, final estimate, 74,29B,99fi bushels. Hoy. State- Preliminary estimate. 17V 999 tone; production lost year, final eatlmate. 219,099 tone. United Btatee—Preliminary esti mate. 19,155.909 tons; production lest year, final aatlmeta, 15,225,999 toae. Applies. • State—October t forecast, 217.- 000 barrels; production lost ysnr. final estimate, 221,999 barrels. United States—October 1 forecast. 69,200.000 barrels; production loot year, final eetimate, 76,679,000 bar rels. * - State—Estimated production, 1916, 541.000 buahele; estimated production, 1915, 864,900 bushels. United States—Estimated produc tion. 1919. 36,911.000 bushels; esti mated production. 1915, 93,460,000 bushels. ^ cotton. State—September 25 forecast. 1,- 060,000 bales; production last year (census), 1,133,919 bales. United States—September 25 fore cast, 11,600.000 bales; production last year (census i, 11,191,820 bales. Prices. The first price given below ts the average on October I this year, and the second the aven ge on October 1 last year. , l - State—Wheat 155 and 128 cents per bushel. Corn, 105 and 98 per bushel. Oats, 77 and 63 per bushel. Potatoes, 170 and 110. Hay, $15.10 and $17 ner ton. Cotton, 15.4 and 11.4 cent" per pound. Eggs, 35 and 24 cents per dozen. United States—Wheat* 136.3 and 90.9 cents per bushel. Corn, 82.3 and 70.5 per bushel. Oats, 44.5 and 34.5 cents per bushel. Potatoes, 112 and 48.8 cents. Hay, $10.36 and $10.69 per ton. Cotton, Ij.5 and 11.2 cents per" pound. Eggs, 28.1 and 22.3 cents per dozen. I FLEES IN DARKNESS W tw Liner Carries 18,000 Tons of Muni- tion* and 353 Passengers. ** With all lights extinguished, the steamship -Adriatic of the White Star line, carrying 353 passengers and eighteen thousand tons of war muni tions; is believed to be speeding south from New York well within the three- mije zone of safety. Her course to Liverpool, her announced destina tion, would lead east from Sandy Hook. She apparently followed' in the wake of the freight laden Pan- nonia and Minnehaha. The Danish vessel Hellig Olav, more venturesome than the British steamers, took the easterly course after clearing the bar. They were the first vessels to leave New York for Europe since the submarine raid lost Bum day. The Adriatic left her dock Th are- day afternooa. hat Baady Hook. It wa ever, that she head after sesea o clock French rrelserz vhteB BMi art ns