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EVENTS  OF  THE  WEEK 
DOMESTIC. — Matthew  A.  Schmidt, 
who  was  arrested  in  New  York  after  a 
live  year  chase  on  a  charge  of  being  an 
accomplice  of  the  McNamara  brothers  in 
tin*  dynamiting  of  the  Los  Angeles  Times 
plant  was  convicted.  Dec.  SO,  at  Los 
Angeles.  Cal.,  of  murder  in  the  first  de¬ 
gree.  The  verdict  was  reached  on  the 
lirst  ballot  and  included  a  recommenda¬ 
tion  of  life  imprisonment  for  Schmidt. 
The  specific  charge  was  of  having  mur¬ 
dered  Charles  ilugerty.  one  of  the  twenty 
victims  of  the  "Times"  explosion,  llis 
punishment  was  fixed  at  imprisonment 
for  life,  the  same  penalty  imposed  on 
McNamara  after  the  latter  had  con¬ 
fessed  in  court  four  years  ago  that  he 
placed  the  bomb  which  blew  up  the  news¬ 
paper  plant.  David  (’apian,  another  al¬ 
leged  accomplice  of  .McNamara,  is  in  jail 
awaiting  trial  also  on  the  charge  of  hav¬ 
ing  murdered  Charles  ilagerty. 
Further  embargoes  on  freight  were  an¬ 
nounced  by  Officials  of  the  New  Haven 
Railroad,  Dec.  .’it),  as  a  final  effort  to 
dear  up  the  congestion  on  lines  entering 
New  York  City.  No  freight,  except  cer¬ 
tain  classifications  noted,  will  lie  re¬ 
ceived  from  connecting  lines  of  the  road 
south  of  the  junction  of  the  Huston  «fc 
Albany  and  west  of  the  line  of  the  Cen¬ 
tral  Vermont  Railway  until  further  no¬ 
tice.  The  exceptions  are  livestock,  per¬ 
ishables,  foodstuffs,  coal,  coke  and  print 
paper.  Pittsfield.  Springfield,  Hartford. 
West  field  and  stations  east  of  the  line  of 
the  Central  Vermont  Railway  are  ex¬ 
cepted  from  this  rule. 
Hullihle  readers  of  the  advertisements 
of  Philander  1 Sooth  and  P.  Booth,  of 
rnionville,  Comt.,  would  have  had  their 
faith  in  “divining  rods"  jolted  if  they 
had  seen  the  test  to  which  this  "latest 
and  greatest  improvement  of  the  age,” 
as  it  hits  been  described,  was  put  by  the 
Pnited  States  Bureau  of  Standards.  The 
rod  was  passed  over  a  mass  of  gold 
weighing  thirteen  and  a  half  ounces  and 
never  even  flickered.  As  the  result,  a 
fra  ml  order  was  issued  by  the  Postmaster 
Hencral,  Dec.  ."0.  hatting  the  scheme 
from  the  mails  on  the  ground  that  Booth 
or  the  Booths  were  obtaining  money  un¬ 
der  false  pretenses.  Booth  has  been  man¬ 
ufacturing  and  selling  a  device  declared 
to  he  an  “electric  magnetic  rod  for  the 
location  of  gold  and  silver”  at  prices 
ranging  from  $500  to  $125  each. 
Jan.  1  violent  earthquake  shocks  were 
felt  at  Tacoma  and  Seattle,  Wash.,  but 
no  appreciable  damage  was  done.  Shocks 
were  felt  in  Oregon  Jan.  4. 
I.yttehings  in  the  United  States  in 
1015  number  GO,  as  recorded  at  Tus- 
kegee  Institute.  This  was  IT  more  than 
in  1011.  Georgia  led  the  States  with 
IS  lynchings;  Mississippi  was  second 
with  0;  f*.T  persons  lynched  were  negroes 
and  1  I  whites.  The  year  before  40  were 
negroes  and  three  whites.  Three  women 
were  1015  mob  victims.  In  four  in¬ 
stances.  according  to  the  Tuskegee  rec¬ 
ords.  innocent  persons  were  put  to  death 
In  mobs,  its  proved  by  later  events.’ 
Judge  Henry  Hudson  of  Ihe  Twenty- 
folirth  Judicial  district  of  Oklahoma, 
handed  down  a  decision.  Jail.  1,  declar¬ 
ing  all  Osage  Indians  full  citizens  of  the 
Pnited  St  ites.  Judge  Hudson  declared 
them  entitled  to  all  rights,  privileges  and 
immunities  under  the  Fourteenth  Consti- 
tulional  Amendment.  There  are  •',220 
Osage  Indians,  each  of  whom  is  worth 
S." 0,000.  In  handing  down  the  decision. 
Judge  Hudson  held  as  naught  a  divorce 
which  an  Osage  procured  by  tribal  cus¬ 
tom  front  his  wife,  bidding  that  the 
Osages  are  citizens  and  that  their  di¬ 
vorces  must  be  granted  by  the  State 
courts. 
A  lire  which  spread  so  rapidly  through 
a  modern  fireproof  factory  that  the  auto¬ 
matic  sprinkling  system  was  rendered 
useless  destroyed  the  big  five-story  fin¬ 
ishing  department  of  the  William  F.  Ta li¬ 
bel  Hosiery  Mills  at  Riverside,  near 
Patersoil.  N.  Jan.  2.  causing  a  loss 
of  $200,000.  Almost  four  hundred  men 
a  re  thrown  out  of  employment  as  a  re¬ 
sult.  The  fire  was  believed  to  be  of  in¬ 
cendiary  origin. 
Joseph  Rucker  Lamar.  Associate  Jus¬ 
tice  of  the  United  States  Supreme  Court, 
died  at  his  residence  in  Washington.  .Tan. 
2.  Justice  Lamar  was  one  of  the  best 
known  lawyers  of  the  South.  lie  Avon 
international  prominence  in  1014  as  one 
of  Ihe  two  delegates  of  the  Pnited  States 
to  the  A  B  <’  mediation  conference, 
which  met  at  Niagara  Falls  for  the  pur¬ 
pose  of  settling  the  crisis  between  the 
Pnited  States  and  Mexico.  It  was  large¬ 
ly  through  his  diplomatic  endeavors  that 
the  conference  was  saved  from  the  rocks 
mi  several  occasions  during  its  meetings. 
Justice  Lamar  was  horn  in  Ruckersville, 
(•a.,  on  October  14,  1S37. 
The  Norwegian  steamship  Aztec,  an 
oil  hurtling  freighter  which  recently  car¬ 
ried  ;i  cargo  of  gasoline  to  France  and 
was  soon  to  depart  with  another  load, 
blew  up  in  her  slip  in  the  yard  of  the 
Robins  Dry  Dock  and  Repair  Company, 
at  tlie  foot  of  Dwight  street.  South 
Brooklyn,  Jan.  nine  men  were  killed 
and  others  injured,  It  is  supposed  that 
a  spark  touched  off  gaseous  vapor  be¬ 
tween  the  tanks  in  the  vessel  or  in  the 
bilges. 
Captain  William  Perkins  Black,  law¬ 
yer  and  Civil  War  veterau,  died  in  Chi¬ 
cago.  Jan.  4.  Captain  Black  defended  the 
anarchists  charged  with  responsibility  for 
the  Ilaymarket  riots  in  1N8G.  For  dis¬ 
tinguished  gallantry  at  the  battle  of  Pea 
Ridge,  in  the  Civil  War,  he  was  awarded 
a  Congressional  medal. 
William  Durst,  the  last  survivor  of 
the  Monitor  in  that  ship’s  famous  en¬ 
gagement  at.  Hampton  Roads  with  the 
Confederate  ironclad  Merrirnae,  died, 
.Tan.  4.  from  pneumonia  at  his  home  in 
Philadelphia.  Durst  was  born  in  Tarnov, 
Austria,  May  6.  18-10.  lie  was  absent  on 
sick  leave  in  December,  1802,  when  the 
Monitor  went  down,  with  most  of  her 
crew,  iu  a  gale  off  Cape  Hatteras.  He 
returned  to  service  on  the  Galena,  and 
in  the  closing  years  of  the  war  was  sta¬ 
tioned  on  the  monitor  Catskill,  which 
blockaded  Southern  ports.  He  was  mus¬ 
tered  out  at  the  Philadelphia  Navy  Yard 
iu  18G5. 
FARM  AND  GARDEN. — The  receiv¬ 
ing  branch  of  the  Free  Hospital  and  Dis¬ 
pensary  of  the  New  York  Women’s 
League  for  Animals  was  reopened.  Jan. 
1.  at  the  hospital  building,  .’>50  Lafay¬ 
ette  street.  It  was  decided  in  August. 
1014.  that  no  more  animals  would  he  re¬ 
ceived  whose  treatment  would  necessitate 
a  stay  at  the  hospital.  Dispensary  and 
emergency  work  has  been  continued.  This 
action  was  taken  because  it  was  feared 
that  with  the  demands  for  war  stiff  dyers’ 
relief  contributions  sufficient  to  support 
the  branch  could  not  be  collected.  Dr. 
Bruce  Blair,  head  veterinarian,  however, 
has  performed  several  hundred  major  op¬ 
erations  since  the  receiving  work  of  the 
hospital  was  suspended.  Most  of  the  re¬ 
lief  given  has  been  to  work  horses. 
The  rural  credits  bill  was  reported  in 
Congress  by  Representative  Glass,  Jan. 
4,  and  submitted  to  the  Senate  Jan.  5. 
The  bill  reported  is  the  one  which  was 
framed  by  the  joint  sub-committee  of 
(lie  Committees  on  Banking  and  Currency 
of  the  House  and  Senate  respectively, 
and  is  regarded  as  the  Administration 
measure.  The  bill  if  enacted  will  hear 
the  title  of  the  “Federal  Farm  Loan 
Act.”  It  Avill  he  administered  by  a  Fed¬ 
eral  farm  loan  hoard,  instead  of  by  the 
Federal  Reserve  Board,  to  he  composed 
of  five  members  appointed  by  the  Presi¬ 
dent,  subject  to  continuation  by  the  Sen¬ 
ate.  The  board  will  he  bipartisan.  Each 
member  will  draw  a  salary  of  $12,000  a 
year  and  travelling  expenses.  The  bill 
provides  for  a  term  of  ten  years  for  each 
member,  appointments  to  he  made  so 
that  the  term  of  one  member  shall  expire 
every  two  years.  Persons  in  the  banking 
business  Cannot  serve  on  this  board, 
which  is  authorized  under  the  act  to  ap¬ 
point  a  farm  loan  registrar  who  shall  re¬ 
ceive  applications  for  farm  loans.  The 
act  also  provides  for  the  appointment 
of  land  hank  appraisers  and  oilier  sub¬ 
ordinate  officers,  requiring  that  they  shall 
nut  be  connected  Avith  the  banking  busi¬ 
ness  in  any  way. 
The  Federal  quarantine  against  ship¬ 
ments  from  foreign  countries  of  Irish  po¬ 
tatoes  affected  with  powdery  scab  is  re¬ 
moved  by  an  order  of  the  Department, 
effective  January  1,  1!HG.  This  permits 
a  number  of  potato-producing  countries 
to  resume  shipment  of  potatoes  to  the 
United  States.  In  the  ease  of  Canada, 
the  neAV  order,  in  addition  to  removing 
the  quarantine,  provides  that  potatoes 
may  lie  shipped  in  without  certification 
by  Canadian  officials,  under  an  arrange¬ 
ment  with  the  Canadian  Minister  of  Agri¬ 
culture  that  Canada  will  offer  for  ex¬ 
port  to  the  United  States  only  potatoes 
free  from  injurious  diseases  and  insect 
pests.  The  removal  of  the  foreign  quar¬ 
antine  for  powdery  scab  follows  the  lift¬ 
ing  of  the  domestic  quarantine  against 
this  disease  September  1,  1015.  The 
quarantine  against  certain  countries  on 
account  of  the  potato  wart  disease,  pro¬ 
mulgated  September  12,  1012,  remains  in 
full  force  and  effect.  The  restriction 
against  the  entry  of  foreign  potatoes  into 
Borto  Rico  is  removed  entirely,  it  being 
represented  that  there  is  no  potato  in¬ 
dustry  in  that  territory,  nor  is  there  like¬ 
ly  to  he  any  in  the  future  to  he  harmed 
by  the  entry  of  foreign  potatoes.  Spe¬ 
cial  regulations  covering  the  export  of 
potatoes  from  the  States  of  Chihuahua 
and  Sonora.  Mexico,  and  from  the  island 
of  Santo  Domingo  provide  that  shipments 
Avill  lie  permitted  entry  only  through  cer¬ 
tain  designated  ports  in  the  United 
States,  and  after  the  issuance  of  a  per¬ 
mit  in  accordance  with  department  reg¬ 
ulations. 
The  Bureau  of  Education,  Department 
of  the  Interior,  announces  that  the 
seventh  biennial  session  of  the  Graduate 
School  of  the  Association  of  American 
Agricultural  Colleges  and  Experiment 
Stations  Avill  bo  belli  at  the  Massachu¬ 
setts  Agricultural  College  July  M  to  28, 
1!>1G.  Three  courses  to  receive  aperitif 
attention  are:  (1)  Factors  of  groAVth  of 
plants  and  animals ;  (2)  fundamental 
problems  of  intensive  agriculture,  includ¬ 
ing  agronomy,  horticulture,  and  dairy 
husbandry;  (“1  agricultural  economic 
and  rural  sociology.  The  school  is  in 
session  for  four  nocks,  During  that 
time  courses  arc  given  mi  various  phases 
of  advanced  agricultural  science,  agricul¬ 
tural  economics  and  rural  sociology. 
Each  course  consists  of  20  lectures  and 
20  seminars  and  is  usually  divided  into 
four  distinct  parts  given  in  the  four  dif¬ 
ferent  iveeks  of  the  .school  and  each  by  a 
specialist  iu  bis  subject. 
Montana  State  Horticultural  Society 
will  hold  its  annual  meeting  at  Billings, 
Jan.  20,  21,  22.  There  will  he  an  apple 
show  in  connection,  also  packing  school. 
M.  L.  Dean,  secretary,  Missoula,  Mont. 
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