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TShe  RURAL  NEW-YORKER 
February  5,  1010. 
EVENTS  OF  THE  WEEK 
DOMESTIC. — Floods  in  the  Phoenix  ,,00(.-|  \ 
and  Te'mpe  districts  of  Arizona.  Jan.  19-  j n  this 
21,  caused  damage  estimated  at  over  on^  nf 
.$500,000,  and  tM  loss  of  one  life.  Halt  ^  05  1 
River  was  higher  than  since  1891.  Far-  w]i7iiesi 
mors  in  the  Lelii  section  fled  to  higher  cn|iod  a 
ground,  taking  live  stock  with  them.  ].lsf  VP; 
Jan.  21  the  New  York  police  arrested  ^ut  hii 
an  Italian  loitering  around  the  Municipal  These 
Pudding,  who  carried  a  bomb  which  it  is  years  si 
believed  was  intended  to  wreck  the  build-  j10f  ],,, 
ing.  Other  arrests  were  made  of  sus-  otfterw 
pected  men  whom  the  police  have  been  rather 
watching  for  some  time.  ter  is 
Floods  around  I. os  Angeles,  Cal.,  have  prints 
subsided  leaving  about  2,000  persons  The  oil 
homeless.  10  dead,  and  damage  around  sinners 
San  Diego,  Pomona,  Colton,  Riverside,  mass  o 
Ontario,  Snndimas  and  Monrovia  estimat-  30  to 
ed  at  several  millions.  higher, 
Heavy  floods  in  Northern  Illinois  Jan.  varies 
21  affected  -  Aurora,  Elgin,  St.  Charles,  wholes; 
Ratavia  and  Geneva,  Around  Dos  the  ret 
Plaines  and  Joliet  the  water  was  from  bulk  re 
five  to  10  feet  deep.  In  Chicago  firemen  Near 
had  to  pump  out  Hooded  cellars  and  res-  but  letl 
cue  marooned  families.  5  cents 
At  Buck  Valley,  Pa.,  a  Mormon  00  to  7 
church  was  blown  up  by  dynamite  Jan.  still  wl 
21.  While  there  has  been  opposition  to  cents,  j 
the  work  of  Mormon  missionaries,  citizens  per  hai 
are  much  shocked  h.v  the  dynamite  crime,  crate, 
In  Philadelphia.  Jan.  21,  a  jury  award-  crate,  : 
ed  damages  of  $2,500  in  favor  of  a  widow  home  b 
who  sued  Jacob  Bosch,  a  saloonkeeper  for  fine  mi; 
sidling  liquor  to  her  husband,  who  died  to  $2.; 
from  excessive  drinking.  She  proved  that  hamper 
she  had  begged  the  saloonkeeper  not  to  barrel, 
sell  her  husband  liquor,  owing  to  his  per  doz 
physical  condition.  rior.  < 
The  Norwegian  freighter  Sygim,  which  bushel 
left  New  York  Jan.  21  with  5,000  tons  of  small  c 
railroad  ears  for  Vladivostok,  returned  to  per  bai 
port  Jan.  22  with  lire  in  her  hold,  as  it  quart, 
was  impossible  to  control  the  fire  without  Dres 
discharging  cargo.  good. 
Jan.  21  an  avalanche  swept  a  Great  are  not 
Northern  express  train  off  the  track  in  ?l  L* 
the  Cascade  Mountains.  Washington.  -1 
Four  persons  were  killed  and  four  miss-  sees e,  ^ 
ing.  Another  big  snow  slide  near  Leav-  about  - 
cu worth.  Wash.,  blocked  the  rails  and  de-  Hetm 
Strayed  many  electric  power  wires.  9n 
Jan.  20  reports  were  received  of  un-  orange* 
preeedented  damage  from  heavy  snows  in  f 
the  Owens  River  Valley,  150  miles  north-  ,  x’  w 
east  of  Lo:j  Angeles,  Cal.  The  temper-  p  1 
ature  was  said  to  be  19  to  30  degrees  be-  1  ( 
low  zero,  with  five  feet  of  snow  in  .some  tO'upos 
places.  Many  small  places  were  entirely 
cut  off. 
Damage  estimated  at  $250,000  resulted  At  a 
.Tan.  27,  at  Albany,  N.  Y.,  from  a  lire  Alfalfa 
which  started  in  the  Albany  City  Tire  Rc-  to  $80 
pairing  Company  shop,  in  the  centre  of  the  vate  sa 
business  section,  from  exploding  oils.  The  to  $22 
structure  was  destroyed,  together  with  carrots, 
Odd  Fellows’  Hall  and  several  office  per  qu; 
buildings,  which  housed  the  New  York  $3.50  p 
State  Automobile  Association  and  the  Ever 
Albany  Automobile  Club.  A  portion  of 
the  Municipal  Gas  Company  building  was  Thes 
damaged.  Several  firemen  were  injured.  burg:  1 
OBITUARY.— Charles  Victor  Mapes,  8c  to  f 
agricultural  chemist  and  president  of  the  liand-l 
Mapes  Formula  and  Peruvian  Guano  butter 
Company,  died  very  suddenly  at  his 
home,  in  New  York,  Jan  23.  Air.  Mapes 
was  born  in  this  city  July  4,  1836,  the 
son  of  Prof.  James  J.  Mapes.  lie  was 
graduated  from  Harvard  in  1857,  and 
after  making  a  special  study  of  agricul¬ 
tural  chemistry  became  one  of  the  first 
developers  of  the  guano  beds  of  Peru.  He 
made  a  particular  study  of  fertilizers  for 
potatoes.  lie  was  associated  for  some 
time  with  the  late  Prof.  Wilbur  O.  At¬ 
water  in  making  soil  tests  at  the  National 
Agricultural  Experiment  Station  in 
Washington.  Air.  Mapes  was  one  of  the 
organizers  and  was  first  president  of  the 
New  York  Chemical  and  Fertilizer  Ex¬ 
change.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Ameri¬ 
can  Association  for  the  Advancement  of 
Science,  the  Harvard  Club,  the  University 
Club,  and  the  Theta  Delta  Chi  fraternity .  veri 
He  was  a  brother  of  the  late  Mrs.  Alary  1-4. 
Mapes  Dodge,  founder  of  the  St.  Nicho¬ 
las  ilaiinzine,  aud  the  father  of  Victor  tion 
Alapes,  the  playrigbt.  Feb.  3. 
State 
FARAI  AND  GARDEN— Another  Workers, 
chapter  in  New  York’s  fight  against  the.  bus,  O., 
so-called  “live  poultry  trust”  is  scheduled' 
for  February  7.  The  bondsmen  of  64  in-  ture, 
dieted  retail  live  poultry  merchants  and 
butchers  have  bom  notified  by  the  Dis-  logo  0 
triet  Attorney's  office  to  produce  the  deal¬ 
ers  in  court  then.  It  is  believed  to  indi¬ 
cate  that  another  trial  will  occur,  similar 
to  that  of  the  13  wholesale  live  poultry  culture, 
dealers  who  were  convicted  before  Judge  Feb.  22-25. 
Rosalsky  four  years  ago  and  sentenced  to 
three  months  on  Blackwell’., s  Island.  In 
1910  the  Grand  Jury  found  87  indict-  Feb.  23. 
ments  against,  wholesalers,  jobbers  and 
retailers  in  the  live  poultry  business,  sociation 
charging  them  with  violation  of  the  Don 
nelly  law  of  the  Ftate,  in  operating  their  25-24 
live  poultry  business  in  restraint  of  trade. 
The  date  of  the  National  Dairy  Show, 
which -will  this  year  be  held  in  Spring- 
field.  Mass.,  in  a  brand  new  group  of 
buildings,  which  with  the  grounds  of  166 
acres  will  represent  an  expenditure  of 
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October  12  to  21.  The  plans  of  the  East¬ 
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