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CROP W?RTH TEN BILL IMS.
AMEBH'YN FARM PRODUCTION
FOR YEAR im J WORTH MORE
THAN ? \ I K BE1>X)RE.
Hufflt g.VUO0,000,0O0 Will Re Paid
Proc mtTH f**r Their F. frort*. Kmt
of Crop* Will be Consumed on the
?M?* e of Origin.
Washington, Dec. 29.?Ten billion
dollars worth of products, five billion
dollars of csah income? a bumper
crop in spite of droughts and other
set backe?Is the 1913 record of 6
?90.000 American farmers. More than
99,000,000,000 of this sum was In
cereal products and 93.6:0.000.1)0'
worth of animals sold and slaughter* d
and animal products. The value of the
1919 crops Is twice that of 1899. more
than 91.000,000 over 1910, and sub
?tantially greater than 1912.
Of all the crops it is estimated III
12 per cent will remain on i m
and that 20 per cent of tb animal
production also will remain. On that
basis the cash Income is estimated
at 19,947.000,000. Despite a record
year of crop value?although the
record of production has fallen?and
the fact that the number of farms has
increased 11 per cent since 1310,
until there now are estimaed to be
9.900,000 farms In the country, the
department of agriculture, in a dis?
cussion of the subject made public
today, does not take the view that t.
lower cost of living will reault.
"However desirable Increased pro?
duction on farms may appear to be
from the consumers' standpoint. It
does not follow that such increased
production will result in any Increase
in the cash Income per farm or per
capita of farm population, or that
prices paid by consumers will be any
lower." says the report.
"Had the total production In 1913
?quailed or exceeded the 1912 pro?
duction it seems probable that the
?ash Income per farmer would nor
have bsen greater and might have
been less than in 1912, but it is ex?
tremely doubtful whether the cost to
the consumer would have been less,
because retail prices are raised
promptly on a prospect of underpro?
duction, but are slow to decline If
there Is overproduction.
The long line of distributers and
middlemen between the farmer and
the consumer Is in a position to take
advantage of the market and to a
certain extent control the market.
"The high prices paid by consum?
ers ranging from 9 to nearly 500 per
cent In some cases more than the
farmer receives. Indicate that there is
plenty <>' room for lowering the cost
of farm products to consumers and at
the same time largely increasing the
cash Income per farm without In?
creasing farm production.
"This condition undoubtedly is a
marketing problem which will be
solved by better organisation of farm?
ers and improved me'hoda of market?
ing
Corn, valued at a91.692.000. com?
prised 29 per cent of the value of all
or?pa although the volume was und
ths record. Other principal crops, will
values, are given in the order in
which they come. Cotton, 9798,009,
?00; hay. 9797.000 000; wheat
largest crop ever raised In hia coun
try?9910.000,000; oats. 2440,OOO.OuO;
potatoes. 9229,000,000; tobacco. 11121
?00.000; barley. 996.000.000. |WS4
potatoes. 943.000,000; sugar beet
114,000,000; Louisiana cane igar.
129.000,000; rye. 926,000.000; r
132,000,000; flaxseed. 921.000
hops. 919.000,000; buckwheat. 9lv.
?90.099.
In Quantity of estimated produc?
tion ths record has been broken by
wheat, rye. rice, sugar beets, beet
sugar and the total of beet and cine
sugar. Of ths remaining crops. c**ta
barley, cotton and hot* havs been
exceeded twice In product on.
"The value of the crop* of 191:. Is
high. A new high record In estimated
value Is mads by ths total of all
cereals and separately by corn, cot?
ton, cotton seed, tobacco and asjfar
beets. Only once has there been a
higher estimated value for oats, rye.
rice, potatoes, hay. hops and he
total of beet and cane sugar. Only
twtcs has ths estimated value of
wheat and of beet sugar been ex?
ceeded
"Dairy products of 1913 ars esti?
mated at more than 9914.000,0)0.
Bggs and fowls have an estimated
value of more than 9979,000,000.
'Ths wool production of 1913, es?
timated at 804,000,000 pounda was
ever 971.000,000.
The prices of 14 principal crops
average about 20.2 per cent, higher
than a year ago, and 4 6 per cent,
higher than two years ago. Their
total valuen average about 3.9 per
cent higher than a year ago. and 7.6
per cent higher than two years ago.
fn thes? days g| high prices of
food It seemn to be overlooked that
Ibis country Is producing enormous
farm surpluses for export to foreign
countries. Prices are high in other
countries, as well an in this om>.
"The value of agricultural exp>rts
of domestic production In the fiscal
roar 1911 wan 1.129.021.499. sn
t?tigt wkka trtfort aa# bag* avt
equalled. The soculled balance of trade
In agricultural producta la in favor
of exported domeatlc farm products
by $296.000,000.
"The quantity of exports of bcsf
and ita producta rapidly declined. Trie
exports of porit and ita products In
1912 amounted to 961,000,000 pounda.
i- nt.iv t? t |g exceeded by the
\ ra c tor Ihc preceding 23 years,
? il with IhfM ? siK ptions, by the e:c
l | te oj these years.
I ri i" its indicate that in
lh< it iai amount of farm wages
1? arm labor was $651,611,28 7.
This is almoat double the cost in 1899.
Considerable increasea are indicated
nee 1909.
re peCtS concerning the
h , ? u' fruits of southern Cal -
-i uou Florida indicate, in the
in <-f percent ages, the estimated
production of these frulta compared
wdth a full crop.
"In Florida the orange crop of 1913
1??0, or, in other words, it was
IgJ to a full crop; in comparison
with the crop of 1912 is represented
by 125 and the crop of 1911 by If,
The lemon crop of California suffered
with the oranges. The grape fruit crop
of Florida In 1913 was 74 per cent
of a full crop, compared with 100 per
? nt in 1912 and 57 per cent in 1911
ft. l.?rida 9 2 per cent of a full crop
was the production of limes in 1913,
compared with 75 per cent of a full
rop in 1912 and aiao in 1911.
"The cotton crop now seems to ho
? *tahliahcd in value as next in order
after corn. The line of this crop in
1913, ut the price of December 1 had
an estimated value of 9798,000,000,
and this was not equalled In any for?
mer year. It is 14 1-2 per cent above
the average of the preceding five
years. The estimated number of bales
of 500 pounds gross weight in this
crop is 13,677,000, consequently this
rop has been exceeded in quantity
by the crops of 1911 and 1912. If
'he estimated value of the cotton seed
|g added to that of lint, the total
<rm wih. of this crop amounts to
$94S,000,C19, an increase of 16 per
??ent over the average of the previous
five years. Teras usually produces
from one-fourth to one-third the cot?
ton crop of the United .States. The
crop of the United States in 1913 cov?
ered 96,011,000 acres, it Is estimated,
an Increase of 5 per cent over 1913.
"Tobacco follows the potato crop
In order of value In 1913. The aver?
age farm price of this crop, 12.8c per
pound, is the highest since 1864. The
tobacco crop of 1913 is the most val?
uable one ever raised In this country
and exceeds in value by over 30 per
cent the average of the preceding five
years. The quantity of the production,
however, is slightly under that aver?
age and has been exceeded by three
former crops.
! "The final estimate of the produc?
tion of tobacco in 1913 in 953,754.000
pounds, compared with 962,855,000
nounds in 1912, a reduction of 9,121.
101 pounda Off less than one per cent.
The* overage price per pound on De?
in ?>-r 1 was 12 8 agalnut 10.8.
stlmited total production of
chewlag$ smoking, snuff and export
" I ? re II 7^3.124.000 pounds, com
red with 733,070,000 pounda last
Ph< I >tal value is 997.466,00^
wag $7r,.926,000. The
a n the bright dla
North Carolina an 1
th Carolina, where a larger cro:
I * prher pr ce.
i . ih< new t eit of North Car.>
ith Caroling the yield
an 1 quality ar?? below last year bu*
b'gher."
GIRL CASHIER SUES.
Defftoee Loses Point In Action for
DeJnagee.
Columbia, Dec. 30.?The supreme
court yesterday dismissed the appeal
of "Smith's" and H. K. Smith In the
case brought by Mary Xjnnamaker.
for 910,000 damages for nrong treat?
ment
The complaint was Hied t y the
vounir girl, who was employee by
the Smith corporation as a cashed.
Hhe was charged with being short
99.89 In her accounts. When the
complaint was filed the company de?
murred on four grounda. The de?
murrer was overruled by Judge Frank
H. Gary. An appeal was taken to
the aupreme court by the defendant
company and Judge Gary's ruling was
sustained.
In ths complaint it is alleged that
the company and one of its agents
falsely accused Mary Xunnamaker of
taking the money, that she was forcefl
to give up 94.75, which she had on
her person, that the defendants in?
timidated her and restrained her from
going home until a late hour and that
when she was turned out of the store
she was without money and a long
distance from home.
The defendant company demurred
on the grounds that the complaint al?
leged a loint liability aRuinst two per?
sons, that the language is not ac?
tionable per ae, that there in no alle?
gation of special damaget that liters Ii
no allegation that the charge is false
and that the defendants did not mean
by words to impute criminal oftenae*
*4rlig#< PlalDlist
10 REQUIRE COTTON REPORTS.
DATA TO COME FROM GROWERS
AND BUYERS.
Each Southern Commissioner of Agri?
culture Will Introduce Ulli in 111?
State?Measure Drafted by E. J.
Wutson.
Columbia, Dec. 30.?A bill will be
introduced at the next session of the
general assembly to require cotton
growers and cotton buyers to report
to the State department of agricul?
ture the number of bales of cotton
handled from time to time.
Commissioner Watson said yester
| day that the bill, which he prepared,
had been indorsed at the annual meet?
ing of the commissioners of agricul?
ture of the States of the South, and
that it would be introduced in the
general assemblies of all cotton belt
States.
The bill, he said, was modeled after
I
the measure requiring tobacco ware?
housemen to make reports. He said
the measure would enable the com?
missioners to arrive at more definite
estimates of the cotton crop and
that the statistics would be more ac?
curate.
The following is the measure to be
ntroduced at the next session of the
-reneral assembly:
"Section 1. Every gin, firm, indi?
vidual, company or corporation doing
a ginning business within this State,
whether square or round bales, shall,
through the general manager of said
gin, at the beginning of each ginning
season number the first bale ginned
So, I, and so on consecutively to the
end of the ginning season.
Sec. 2. That the manager of each
company, firm, corporation or indi?
vidual doing a ginning business with?
in this State, shall on the 1st and 16th
of each month make a correct report
in writing on blanks furnished to the
commissioner of agriculture, com?
merce and industries, of the number
of bales of cotton ginned during such
Period: Provided, That if the 1st or
16th shall come on Sunday, then said
report shall be made on the day pre?
vious.
"Sec. 3. That the foregoing provi?
sions shall apply to all cotton buyers
as to making and filing reports, and
i hat in those reports each and t ery
person or corporation engaged In the
business of buying cotton in the State
of South Carolina shall accurately
state, under oath, the number of bales
?f cotton bought, the weight per bale,
the actual price paid, and the grade,
living also divisions of total amounts
hj grades. The commissioner shall
collate this data by markets for pub
' lication, but shall give no Information
as to any one's business to any per?
son.
' "Sec. 4 The owner, owners, op
I erator or operators, or manager or
managers of all warehouses la the
?tat?-, and all spinners, shall at the
periods set forth in the foregoing sec?
tions file with the commissioner full
' reports under oath of all stocks of
cotton on hand In such warehouses,
stating number and weight of bales.
"Sec. 6. The provisions of the fore?
going sections, subject to regulations
prepared and promulgated by the
ommiHsioner of agriculture, shall also
ipply to buyers and consumers of
otton seed.
"Sec. 6. Any person, firm, company
or corporation operating a gin within
this State who shall fail to comply
with the provisions of this act shall
e guilty of a misdemeanor and upon
? nviction shall be fined not less than
~0 nor more than $200.
"Sec. 7. All laws and parts of laws
in conflict with this act are hereby
repealed.
"Sec. 8. This act shall take effect
mmediately upon its approval by the
novernor.'*
WILL USE AEROPLANE.
Sbackelton llang Novel Engine for
Antarctic.
London. Dec. 19,?Sir Ernest IT
Mhackelton, on his proposed expedi?
tion next year across the Antarctic
continent, will use sledges driven by
aeroplane engines and an aeroplane
wl h clipped wings to aid in propelling
the sh-dges over the ice. The party
will consist of six men and 120 dogs.
Sir Ernest plans to land at latitude
78 degrees south on Wendell sea at
the beginning of November. 1014, and
expects to arrive in Ross sea on the
other side of the south pole in March,
1915.
The expedition will have two oil
driven ships.
G&HOC8 AT Y. M. C. A.
Indoor Exhibition of Athletic Exercis?
es ou January 7th.
A rare opportunity to see the ath?
letic work of the Y. M. C. A. will be
given to the public on Wednesday,
Junuuiy 7. 1H14 at which time an in?
door circus will he the attraction to
which the visitors are invited. The
? lasses have been practising some
time lor this event and a classy
"stunt" will be pulled off. Admission
will 'it "?'v t?m vtiit?.
HINT MAN WHO GAVE ALARM.
Some Witnesses Mention Citizens' Al?
liance Button and Others' Testimony
Conflict*.
Calumet, Mich., Dec. 29.?TWs out
of a score or more witnesses testi?
fied before the coroner's jury today
that the man who caused the Christ?
mas Eve disaster in Italian hall here
wore a white button like the badge of
the Citizens' Alliance. Immediately
after adjournment of the hearing, Q.
N. Hilton, the Western Federation of
Miners' attorney, statec that further
development of this phase of the in?
quiry would be attempted tomorrow.
The union lawyer did not comment
on the fact that the president and
half a dozen members of the wom?
en's auxiliary of the federation swore
that they saw no insignia on the
man and that union members who
stood in the vestibule of the Italian
hall for an hour before the panic
started said the alarm came from
within the hall and no person wear
i ing such a button had passed them.
I In the opinion of Anthony Lucas,
prosecuting attorney of Houghton
county, who conducted the examina?
tion of witnesses, facts fairly well es?
tablished today were that an e xcitable
member of the audience raised the
cry, that there was no actual fire In
the hall and that the doors were open
and the stairway clear when the vanle
3tarted.
"All v n want is a finding based up?
on facts developed at the inquest,"
Baid Mr. Hilton. "The identity of the
miscreantf who started the mad rush
for the stairs is of paramount import?
ance and we intend to do what we can
to clear up this."
Testimony concerning the button
was given at the beginning and end
of the afternoon session of the in?
quest.
John Burcar, aged 16, who said
he lost a sister in the disaster, ex?
citedly told of seeing a man muffled
to his eyes in a fur collared over?
coat enter the hall.
"He hollered, 'Fire,' and then ran
out,' said the boy. "I ran out, too. He
had an Alliance button on his coat."
ACCIDENTALLY SHOT SELF.
Young Man of Dillon Seriously
Wounded.
Dillon, Dec. 29.?Thad Saleebee, a
jroung man about 20 years of age,
was accidentally shot and seriously
wounded about 11 o'clock today. He
was handling carelessly an automatic
pistol and an explosion followed, and
to his dismay he found that he was
struck. A hurried examination show?
ed that the steel-jacket bullet had
penetrated his left breast. Consider?
able shock followed from which he
has not yet rallied. The physicians
have not yet located the bullet. Young
Salesbee has been a resident of Dil?
lon for several years. He was a pu?
pil in the Florence Graded School and
was at home for the Christmas holi?
days when the accident happened.
BORROWED WATER FROM RIVER
City Already Facing Water Famine
Must Put Out Fire.
Montreal, Dec. 29.?Montreal al?
ready facing a water famine, was
obliged today to conquer a fire to save
a section of the city from destruction.
To this end water was borrowed from
the St* Lawrence river, a mile away
from the Mb aes. Length by length
hose was stretched through the
streets to the river's edge. The city
hydrants were all but idle, owing to a
break in the main water conduit
Christmas night.
Two threo-story buildings and six
automobiles were destroyed. One fire?
man was Injured. The estimate in
the property loss was nearly $600,000.
PRESIDENT FEELS BETTER.
C\niunc9oe* Work on Anti-trust Mos*
cage to Congress.
Pass Christian. Miss., Dec. 30.?
The president's health was greatly
improved today. Tiring of the un?
accustomed activity tho president to?
day dictated a number of letters and
prepared to commenco the drafting
of an important anti-trust message to
be sent to congress shortly after It re?
convenes.
SECOND BIG FIRE.
Water Main Bursts and Fire Causes
Great Bumage.
( Montreal, Dec. .10.?Waterless be?
cause of the breakage of a huge main
Monterey suffered its second disas?
trous Are In the last twenty-four hours
early this morning. Flames starting
in the National Stove Company plant
on the St. Lawrence boulevard spread
to adjacent buildings. Tho loss is es?
timated at $300,000.
Battle nt Laredo?-I.10 Killed.
l4iredo, Dec. 30.?Constitutionalists,
alter being driven back lust night are
again utac ing Monterey today. Six?
ty-four Rebels and ninety-two Fed
?* WIJSM Ala!*
WAR 111 BALKANS.
SERVIA PREPARING FOR MORE |
BLOODSHED.
Has Placed Heavy Orders for Arms
und Ammunition in Germany and
Defies Austria by Invading Albania.
Belgrade, Dec. 30.?Servia is '?ro
paring for a renewal of the war in
the Balkans. Heavy orders for war
munitions have been placed in Ger?
many. The Servians have already in?
vaded Northern Albania, despite Aus?
tria's warnings.
COLLEGIANS OFF FOR KANSAS.
Sixty Start From Columbia In Pull?
mans to Attend Conference of Vol.
unteers*
Columbia, Dec. 30.?Sixty college
students from various institutions in
South Carolina left Columbia on the
Carolina Special yesterday afternoon
for Kansas City to attend the quadren?
nial meeting of the International Stu?
dents' Volunteer conference. The
party traveled in a special tourist
Pullman.
L. D. Robinson, city ticket and pas?
senger agent, Southern railway, left
Columbia with the party to attend to
the transportation as far as Asheville.
At Asheville another car, this one of
North Carolina, students, was to be
taken on and a man from Asheville
will accompany the party the next leg
of the trip.
EXCITEMENT IN MOB RANKS.
Reported Confession of Negro En?
rages 3 faryland Crowd.
Chestertown, Md., Dec. 28.?When
it became known late this afternoon
that James Faraway, one of the ne?
groes held on the charge of com?
plicity in the murder oi James Cole
man, a farmer, had confessed that he
assisted Norman Mabel, another ne?
gro, in the crime, excitement, which
had subsided somewhat after the un?
successful attacks by a mob upon the
jail last night, again flamed up.
The news spread rapidly deeplte
efforts to keep the confession secret
nd the number of silent watchers,
who had not left the Jail during the
day, soon was augmented. Thorough?
ly frightened by his terrible exper?
ience last night, when the mob throng?
ed about his cell, Faraway, who had
maintained hUi innocence, broke down
today under :he questioning of de?
tectives.
According to his confession the deed
was planned by Mabel and himself
when they saw Coleman count his
money in a store. They followed him
and Faraway uald he hit the farmer
with an iron tar. Then, after taking
hJs money, they spearated.
Policemen from Baltimore sent up?
on order of Governor Goldsborough,
arrived tonight to assist in guarding
the prisoners. With the added force
Sheriff Brown feels that he will be
able to repel another attack if one is
made.
ACTION UND1SR SHERMAN LAW.
Quaker Oate Company Sued for $10,
000,000.
Chicago, Dec. 29.?The Quaker Oats
company, its directors and the direct?
ors of the Great Western Cereal com?
pany were made defendants in a
suit for $10,000,000 damages filed In
the United States district court here
today by William A. Tilden and Chas.
D. Thompson, receivers of the Cereal
company. The suit was brought un?
der section 7 of the Sherman anti?
trust law and was the result of the
sale of the trade names and prinicpal
properties of the Cereal company to
the Quaker Oats company June 22,
1911.
The $1,000,000 realized by the sale,
it was charged, was taken by the hold?
ers of $1,000,000 of the Cereal com?
pany's bonds, leaving the holders of
$3,000,000 worth of stock only the
name of the company and minor
property as assets. The law, it was
held, provides that complaining stock?
holders can claim punitive damages In
three times the amount of the capital
stock.
The declaration charges that the
two companies controlled 90 per cent
of the interstate trade in oatmeal
products. It charges that the trans?
fer of brands ar d the plants at Fort
Dodge, Iowa, end Joilet, 111., was
made by Joy Morton without the
knowledge and consent of the stock?
holders.
Arkansas Goes Dry?Saloons Move,
Litle Rock, Pec. 30.?Wholesale sa?
loons are moving to St. Louis, New
Orleans and nearby cities preparing
to supply tho Arkansas trade. The
State goes practically dry on January |
first.
DeWitt Bank Dynamited and Robbed.
Pine Bluff. Ark.. Dec. 30.?Robbers
dynamited tho DeWitt Bank this
morning and escaped with tour thou
*a0 ..^mmiMtmMnmm
TRADITIONS OF THE MLSTLETOE.
Druids Believed it Sacred to the Gods
and People Use as Health Giver.
We decorate our homes with sprays
! of mistletoe at Christmas time, hut
few of us know the history of it aa
a Tuletlde symbol. Pretty girls are
kissed under it and a great deal of
fun and nonsense is carried on apropos
of it, but no one stops to think of how
! ancient a decoration it is or how
sacred it was once thought to be.
Almost everybody has a vague
knowledge that the Druids of old had
something to do with the gathering of
misletoe, but just what that some?
thing was is not clear to'toe average
mind.
j the fact is that the ancient Celts In
their druidiral religion had two great
festivals, one in June and the other in
December, the latter being equivalent
to our Christmas. In both of these
great f estiva is the gathering of the
mistletoe was g> sacred rite.
Pliny in his Xatiu-al Histor/ de?
scribes the ceremony. Speaking ct the
Druid's worship of the oak, h* says:
"They believe that whatever grows on
these trees is sent from heaven and is
a sign that the tree has been chosen
by the //od himself. The mistletoe is
very rarely to be met with, but when
it is found they gather it with solemn
ceremony. This they do, especially on
the sixth day of the moon, because
ths s.xth day the moon has plenty of
\ Igor and has not run half its course*
"After the preparations have been
made for a sacrifice and a feajt under
the tree they hail it aa the universal
healer and bring to the spot two white
bulls whose horns have never been
bound before. A priest clad in a white
robe climbs the tree and with a golden
sickle cuts the mistletoe, which is
caught in a white cloth. They then
sacriflcs the victims, praying that God
may make his own gift to prosper
with those upon whom He has be*
stowed it.
"They believe that a potion prepared
from mistletoe will increase their
docks and that the plant ie a remedy
a gainst all poison."
It was believed to be a remedy for
many ills, and this belie! is still to be
found, in many remote plaeee In Be*
rope. In Holstein, for example, the
mistletoe is regarded as a healing
remedy for wounds, and in Lacaune,
France, it is always administered by
the native people as an antidote for
poison. They apply the plant to the
stomach of the patient and give him
a solution of it to drink as well. The
Gaelic word for mistletoe Is "an t'nil
loc," which means all healer, and this
is probably what the Druids called it
in ancient timee.
In the northeast of Scotland people
used to cut withes of mistletoe at the
March full moon; these they bent in
circles and kept for a year to curs
hectic fevers and other troubles. In
some parts of Germany the mistletoe
is especially esteemed as a remedy for
the ailments of children, who some?
times wear it hung around the neck
as an amulet.
In Sweden on midsummer eve mis?
tletoe is diligently sought after, the
people believing it to be possessed of
many mystic qualities, and that if a
sprig of it is attached to the celling of
the dwelling house, the horse's stall or
the cow'b crib, the trolls will then be
powerless to Injure either man or
beast. Branches of the plant are oam
monly Been in farmhouses hanging
from the celling to protect the dwell?
ings from all harm, but especially from
Ore, and persons afflicted with the
tailing sickness think they can ward
off all attacks of tho malady by car?
rying about with them a knife which
has a handle of mistletoe.
A Swedish remedy for other com?
plaints is to hang a sprig of mistletoe
round the sufferer's neck or to make
him wear on his finger a ring made
from the plant Moreover they fashion
divining rods of mistletoe or of four
different kinds of wood, one of which
must be mistletoe. The treasure-seek?
er places the rod on tii* ground after
sundown and when it rests directly
over the treasure the rod begins to
move as if it were alive.
Like their Swedish neighbors, many
German peasants consider the mistle?
toe a powerful charm against evtl
spirits. A similar belief seems to
have lingered among the Romane,
whose religion at a very early date
was somewhat similar to that of the
Druids. When Aeneas descended Into
Hades he gathered to protect him?
self from the infernal powere ?>
branch of mistletoe, which Virgil
calls the golden bough.
DOWAGER OF S WEED EN DEAD.
Queen Sophie Passed Away at a Ripe
Old Age.
Stockholm, Dec. 30.?Dowager
Queen Sophie of Sweeden, aged IS,
the widow of King Oscar, died today
of inflammation of tho lunge.
Burglars Rob Bank.
Lexington, Kv? Dec. 30.?Robbers
dynamited the safe of the Bank of
Fredonia this morning and secured
seven to ten thousand dollars They
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