THE COST OF LIVING 1S AT 11S HIGHEST Some Cold Figures as Submit- ted By Bradstreet's. NECESSITIES WAVE GONE WAY UP Of Ninety-Six Commodities That Enter Into Daily Consumption Have Made The Wholesale Cost On January 1 Higher Than In The Flush Days Before The 1907 Panic—Figures Submitted, New York (Special). -—Bradstreet's has compiled a record of prices on 96 commodities that enter into dally and direct consumption by the peo- ple, and the result shows that the cost of living has now reached an absolutely high record, exceeding even that of March 1, 1907, when prices went soaring in an anticipa- tion of the panic which came in the fall of that year The figures for December 1 last were below the previous high record of 1907, but the continuous skyward movement of prices in the last month of had establishes high-water mark by January The figures com] street's are known bers.” They are based wholesale Y the commodities in to make them con averaged ove When number 10, by Brad- “Index Num- actual pound whic h, are mark- the in- 1910, on for stion maive, a of gaid that January 1, eans that a wholesale one pound each commodities that date have to y that sum total. No attempt is made to pute retail because wide fluctuatio The new “‘numbe previous high record 1907, $9.1293 by 1.1 per cent ratio also measures the advance was made on the commodit the month of December last same time the present index n: reflects a gain of 11.7 over January 1. 1909, which means that the of the 96 articles rose approxi ly 87 cents within a year's The ' lowest point for prices for which Bradstreet's any record was touched on 1886, when the index number was 5.7018. The latest figure shows a gain of more than 61 cent. over this number, indicating, of course, that for every dollar you spend then for living expenses jy are spending $1.61 cents now A Comnarative Table. The new index number: increase of 19.5 pel comparative low June 1, 1908, but cent, over January time of ascen ners of the January 1, while the in 1905 | crease of cent Here is portant swings on the 96 ary 1, 189 High. ..| Low. . High Low... High. . Low. .. High. . Low.... High. a. ets it dex was $95.23 buying at 0 96 would f the on surpasses the March 1, This rr Of a4 Ale cD have per ou mirrors Hse ] January a COM mo Fol July , Des July . .March 1, June 1, January 1, 1910 1904 1907 190% nto divided i 13 follows: provigions, leather, textiles coal and coke, oils, naval building materials, chemicals drugs and miscellaneous. Necessities Of Life Gone While all of these into the cost of living to a greater or less extent, the higher cost is more pro- the tabulation general groups stuffs, live hides and are as $ 8 n, » fruits, Un, enter ed that enter more sonal consumption en groups, embraci: ties: ke these sev- 5% commodi- Ta 1g July 1, Jan. 1, 1886 Breadstuffs. $0 Livestock 0 Provisions. 1.0 Hides and leather 0.8 i. Textiles .. 1.5791 2 Coal and coke Olls .... Mar. 1, 1907 1910 £00817 20.1050 0.3315 0.4010 2.1049 2.35677 ke ured § 4 o < o 87 8 36¢ 33: Tc . 0.2 Total .$4.2177 36.8033 $7. In other words, the man would buy a pound each of the 0.0080 0.5428 0.004 0.% 2617 who com. ” have paid $4.2177 er high record date and $7.2617 January 1 of the present vear, Declines in general prices as be- tween the high of 1907 and that of January 1 last have occurred in the item of fruits which fs more or less of a luxury, chemicals and drugs, building materials and naval stores. on Explosion Injures Seven Miners. Uniontown, Pa. (8pecial).— Seven men, all foreigners, were seriously burned and internally injured when earbonite, which they were thawing on a stove, exploded, demolishing their house, The men were miners and employes of the Pittsburg Coal and Coke Company. Earthquake Causes Panic, Kingston (S8peecial).-—-Two sharp earthquake shocks were felt through. out the island at 2.60 o'clock. In Kingstown the protracted tremor caused a panic, but no damage was done. Port De France, Martinique (Special) Earth shocks were felt here a few minutes hefore 3 o'clock. The movement was undulatory and one minute. So far as is known there was no damage. Train Falls Into River in North Bay, Ont. (Special). - out the lives of at least a score, and perhaps two score people, when four cars of a Canadian Pa- cific passenger train, on the Soo branch, leaped from the tracks and, tearing down steep embankment, plunged through the lce-covered sur- face of the Spanish River Some were drowned; others were crushed to death in grinding tim- bers. Most terrible of all, maimed and injured caught in the wreckage of one of the cars were burned to death. The N¢ 1. a . train wrecked was k enroute from AM real Sault Ste. Marie and Milwauke« official] statement, given out says that it probably was due broken rail. The engine, baggage, expr GOVERNMENT DECI nown as 1 An here, io a :, mail Canada---Cars Derailed By second-class car remained on the rails, while one second-class, one first-class, a dining car and a sleeper went down the embankment The first-class car and diner went into the river. The sleeper and sec- | ond-class ear stopped on the em- bankment, the second-class car catching fire The wreck miles west of tracks cut into hill which is rand one about 37 where the of a steep skirted by the river The forward part of the train pass- ed over the break, whatever it was, ‘in safety. The day coach, which was the fourth from the end of the train, was the first to leave the rallg, The train wa 1 at the rate about 40 miles hour, and the momentum carried the car down the hill terrific plunge About 25 pé were in this car, and it that none esca: occurred Sudbury, the side runn of ng an iy rtain DES TO ESTRADA'S TERMS ARE REJECTED Madriz Will Not Recognize Former’s Goverment. Successor Of Zelaya In Nicaragua Declares Revolutionists’ Preposterous, As Their ance Would Illegitimize His Gov. ernment—Madriz Puts Up A Bluft And Talk About Rushing More Troops Into The Field. Managua, Nicaragua (Special) President Madriz General Estrada’s end abruptly and that ordered to the front with of striking a decisive insurgent army General Estrada’s President's surgent that had served announced reply to the peace negotiations reinforcements had the purpos blow at reply Message inviting the leader send IGLETH reg government Grey unication, was to 1 ilo if peace entatives town miss the tO mie 3164 at whie Three Firms Named---Actic Washington D C { Special) Beef Trust,” so-called, is to bs ited The nation by the Department believes factor n nt high prices The contemplated act follows an been condu partment which has 8 for some months tial proceedings will begl jury at Chicag« and may contemplats and criminal action firms mentioned in matter include Swift Morris & and Armour & big packing-house concerns, of whom, it Is sald, arc in in the National Packing The three first-named commonly reported to « tional] Corporation ¥ 3 fiir denen ial agent week connection & Co Co all and all terested "he Co EY 38k *% mpan for The aim ae to in the the peveral firms National Pa ascerta een the thi purposs whether they ha ’ f, ¢ troi t Ye © according to almost have beer From th THE WAR ON HIGH PRICES SPREADING Them in Chic Prices. yn Against High time and the while thes East and West. Four Principal Cities Of Ohio Tak- ing Part In Protest And Citizens Agree To Stop Eating Meat Bricklayers, Of Khansas City, To Abstain For Thirty Days—8,000 Union Laborers Of Omaha Take The Pledge — Pittsburg Falling Into Line. New York ~The boycott on high food prices started in Cleve. land (Special). one week ago is idly Missouri, Wisconsin, lowa, Ne braska, Illinois and Michigan now included in the ranks crusaders in the West, while East Maryland, Pennsylvania, Con- necticut and Delaware are lifting their volces in feebler protests Ohio, however, is still the strong- hold of the movement, The Cleve land boycott has extended to Can- where the Central Labor Union has adopted a no-meat resolution, being circulated with surprising results-—to Colum. bus, where a strong boycott has been organized; to Toledo, Akron and other cities of the State. The sade in Ohio has found encourage- ment in the publicly expressed be- lef of Governor Harman that a food trust is gobbling excessive pro- fits somewhere between the produc- er and the consumer, He has called on the legislature to hunt the trust out of the woods and exhibit it to the people. It is estimated that more than 1,000,000 persons have in a brief week become actively isterested in the boycott. Dispatches from Chica. go sald that a boycolt soon will be started in that city by the Chicago Federation of Labor “The iden of depriving ourselves of meat simply to get the prices dog not appeal to federation people” said Secretary Charles Nockels, “but we propose to adopt the idea as a temporary expedient in order to growing rap- are the the of in 2,045 Lost Lives In Mines. Harrisburg (Special). <A total of 1,045 ves were lost in the coal mines of Pennsylvania last year, ac- cording to reports received by the State Department of Mines, In 1908 the number was 1,250. In the an- thracite fleld 651 were killed, as against 678 in 1908, and in the bitu- minous regions 494 lost thelr lives, as compared with 572 the previous year. The number of non-fatal ac cldents in all Pennsylvania coal mines in 1009 was 2,198, or two more than in 1908. opeka and nove part of the countrs FOUR MEN HOLD UP TRAIN. Get Possession Of Car Said To Cone tain Thousands, {| St. Louis (Special) Pacific train from Kansas held pp by f Glencoe wr masked men tween and Eureka The after binding detached press Cars The four masked men flagged the train one mile east of Eureka and 30 miles from St. Louis with a red lan tern As the train stopped the men the engineer and mail mounted cab the the four men and, fireman, and ex gineer and fireman The baggage and the mail express cars were de- tached from the train, and, with the robbers in the cab, the engineer was compelled to run with them toward St. Louis. The passengers were not molested. The baggage and express cars and the locomotive have not been found Deputy sheriffs and rallroad detec tives are scouring the line for them ‘was blown in some yand the robbers fled, leaving the cars lon a Branch line. | The place in which the hold-up Locourred is spabsely settled and the news of the robbery did not reach 8t. Louis until after the train was due here, Conductor E. H. Butts got off the train when it stopped and the rob bers fired at him, After the locomotive disappeared Butts walked back to a farmer's house near Bureka and telephoned to 8t. Louis for help. Price Of Shoes To Go Up, Boston (8pecial) The price of shoes is going up. Official announce. ment to this effect was made by the National Shoe Wholesalers’ Associa tion. The association says that the existing high prices of leather and materials make the increase neces. gary, but that the new prices will be so adjusted as “to permit the ad. dition to each grade of such value as will compensate the wearer for in. creased cost.” The association's ap- proval of the repeal of the duty on hides was unanimously voiced, i Walsh Goes Prison. China, japan his ne i the that Japa: concerted action thro he yroporais of t Lind itralization 1 yw JARPpan beer ne railways Ana the WASHINGTON BY TELEGRAPH friendly to former Senator Bradley, of Kentucky, de clared in a speech in the Senate that the Tobacco Trust, and not the night riders, is résponsible for the law ss in Kentucky government 1s lesan The dis- guit for the golution of the merger of the Union Pacific and Southern Pacific Raii- roads will not be dropped A thirty-million dollar River and Harbor Bill is to be reported to en- {able Army engineers to carry on im- | portant projects, | The Interstate Commerce Commis- ‘sion decided that the freight rates on AgpPAragus were excessive, : | The State Department issued a re- | 'view of our trade relations with ithe six countries that the President | said should have the minmum tariff | ‘rates extended to. ; Howard Thompson, Paris corre- | ispondent of the Associated Press, {has been given the cross of the | Legion of Honor by the French gov- | | ernment, ! The State Department is informed | that grave fears are entertained | over the boundary dispute between Peru and Ecuador, The fossil head of a prehistoric bird has been found in Culebra Cut, Panama Canal Zone, President Taft has been elected a member of the Society of the May- flower. President Taft issued a proclama- tion declaring that Great Britain, Italy, Ruegia, Spain, Turkey and Switzerland are entitled to the mini mum rates imposed by the new tariff law, The President and Mrs, Taft gave a reception at the White House in honor of the Judges of the Supreme Court. Secretary of War Dickinson decided not to revoke his order detailing Lieu. tenant Colonel Craighill as engineer secretary of the Lighthouse Board. Colonel Casey was ordered to Balti- more. A PROCLAMATION ON THE TARIFF LAW 'The Countries Entitled to the Minimum Rates. They Are Italy, Great Britain, Rus- Russia, Spain, Turkey And Switz. erland—Germany Not In The List ~=A Warning To Italy That It Must Make No Change In Its Regula- tions Affecting American Come merce-Germany's Heply, Washington, President D. C. (8pecis issued his proclamation in that under countries of Italy Turkeys the act which tariff it the declared the Hussia, pain, Switzerland ars nit rates is new law and min The 10 imum impose the proclamations, wnich are read A procian the United "Whe ag follows ition by the Pre Stats it gident of August ide reve COUTRESC shall have here th afl have caused 5 to he Washington A.D 10 Independence of t unio set seal of the ed Done at the his 18th day of Jan f the States of Americ ¢ and ie ted red i tion and ta is signed both by Secretary i prociama President of State Knox Germany's Reply. The German Washington a Berlin (Special) government cabled to reply to a memorandum recently ceived from the United States rela“- fing to the tariff on shipments be- tween the two countries While §t does not accept the American wishes in various respects, and especially concerning the importation of meas, the German response is sent in the hope that it will be satisfactory and ag all that the German government can do. Pog ————————— A A AGED WIDOW MURDERED. Found With Throat Cut And Stom- | ach Terribly Gashed, Rockford, 11 (Special). — Mrs. Mary E. Mcintosh, an aged widow, who lived as a recluse, was found murdered in her home here. Her | throat had been cut and her stom- | ach horribly gashed. The crime does | not appear to have been committed | for robbery. She wae poor and lived in a squalid home. { The murder is almost a counter | part of that of Mrs. Margaret Orip- | pen, a woman of about the same age, | who was killed at her home in Win- nebago, eight miles west of here, last spring. The perpetrator of that erime was never discovered. ARIA Lol Kansas Sues Meat Packers, Kansag City (Special).—Attorney- General Jackson, of Kansas, began guilt in the District Court of Kansas City against the Armour and Swift packing companies, He charged that they are members of a combination illegally to raise prices; that they belong to the Kansas City Produce Exchange and are, therefore, lable under the Kansas law providing a penalty of $100 a day for such mem. bership. THIS AVIATOR RUNS A PASSENGER LINE ‘aulhan Carries Wife 22 Miles Across Country. AND THEN HALF MILE OUT 10 SEA Then Takes Another 12 Miles And Three More Companions On Short Trips, One At A Time—Willam RK Hearst Makes Journey — Dummy Bombs Dropped From Aloft — Up 1,000 Feet, | Frenchman Passenger Aviation Fleld, Los Angeles, Cal Bs carrving hb biphkane o1 { Bpecial) is wile in his try trip CrOsR-CoOun from Field sa 1 ¢ # hal i" nd back to point the Yer al another ang ob ndey Earlier had bees ators had after try ADA. patients went over AL 2.27 yellow her over big io Lh had Im HL clowds ian again ok be granc down the people a) od look hie i Oi i# 10 take d to his ma un aerial bw 153 MEN BLOWN TO PIECES Pe Hurt When Ns New ¥is thers Badly trogiyeerin Explodes In York Tunnel. Fiehkill Landing, N. ¥Y Fifteen { Snecinl mw Amer. a premature ex a8 ten of the water from » Catskills, 1 wy ¥ “% 4 sh men, of the cans, were kil tiosion of nitroglycerin in which agueduct nel part great Aw York Five but happened mouth l resca * * found 1 ha {hi¢ hokan dam New mutilated the at they could other 15 were ‘ & of rock and debris, lit nered by the force of th into a bioed ing mass of heads imbe and tor BOR The squad of 20 men involved in the accident, having drilled the holes and placed the explosive, were (roo; ing from the excavation, the 15 kill ed in the rear, and 5, all of whon were foreigners, in the lead. As the five neared the mouth the tunnel there was a terrific roa the countryside shook and the five foreigners were hurled senseless to the ground near the. opening. In side death was instantaneous te the men wer t ibly near be ‘ plosion The contracting firm, R. K. Bver ett & Co, employs 150 men in all and the explogion indicated immedi ately that there had been a disaster A hundred laborers rurhed to the ging forth the injured, set to work clearing away the rock and earth to get at the dead. As the nitroglycerin had been pur. posely set to shatter rock, it did not damage the interior of the tunnel more than the contractors had plan ned. and after two hours work the bodies were reached The scene of the accident was naar the top of a small mountain, a mile and a half southeast of Cold Spring. eight miles south of this place e explosion marks the first seri. one accident on any work connected with the aqueduct. MINISTERS KILL THEMSELVES. One Takes Poison For Love: Other, In Poor Health, Uses Pistol, Greenville, 111. (Special). Leavy ing a note in which he declared his love for a young woman, Rev, Har ry Koence swallowed poison and died in the arms of her father acl minjtr pe poison at © e of the gir throes the Sate in at oR el had been opened at his summons, and fel}
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