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EVENTS  OF  THE  WEEK 
DOMESTIC.  —  The  Foiled  States 
Brewers’  Association,  with  offices  in  New 
York,  and  100  brewing  eom ponies,  all  of 
Pennsylvania,  wore  indicted  at.  Pitts¬ 
burgh,  March  3.  by  the  United  States 
Grand  Jury,  which  has  been  investi¬ 
gating  contributions  by  the  liquor  inter¬ 
ests  to  political  campaign  fluids.  The 
indictments  charge  principally  conspiracy 
hy  the  brewing  companies  in  (lie  unlaw¬ 
ful  expenditure  of  money  in  Federal  elec¬ 
tions.  No  individuals  are  mentioned  in 
the  indictments.  A  million  and  a  half 
dollars  in  tines  can  he  collected  if  con- 
vietions  are  obtained.  An  indictment, 
was  returned  against  the  United  States 
Brewers’  Association,  but  not  the  I’enn- 
sylvania  Brewers’  Association,  both  of 
whi,ch  were  under  investigation,  because 
the  first  is  a  corporation  and  the  latter 
is  not. 
Two  men  were  killed  near ‘'Watertown,, 
S.  1)..  in  a  railroad  accident.  March  4, 
in  which  a  long  passenger  train  was  sent 
at  full  speed  across  a  burning  trestle. 
Had  it  not  been  for  the  action  of  Engin¬ 
eer  Robert.  Maxwell  in  going  abend  -at 
top  speed  it  is  likely  that  the  death  roll 
would  have  been  much  longer.  Tils  en¬ 
gine  and  most  of  the  cars  got  safely  past 
the  burning  part,  of  the  bridge,  but  the 
timbers  were  too  weak  to  stand  the  strain 
and  the  last  two  cars  plunged  down  a 
10-foot  gully  as  the  structure  fell  be¬ 
neath  the  weight.  The  rest  of  the  train 
was  derailed  and  fire  started  in  the  splin¬ 
tered  day  coaches.  The  uninjured  pas¬ 
sengers  were  able  to  rescue  all  of  those 
in  the  two  real’  cars  except  a  mail  clerk 
and  a  traveling  salesman. 
Enough  dynamite  to  wreck  at  least 
part  of  St.  Alary’s  Church,  North,  one 
of  the  oldest  Catholic  churches  in  Bos¬ 
ton.  Mass.,  was  seized  by  the  police  when 
three  men  were  caught  jimmying  the  door 
of  the  edifice.  March  5, 
With  the  discovery  of  two  more  cases 
of  smallpox  among  inmates  of  the  Ore¬ 
gon  Penitentiary,  officials  of  the  institu¬ 
tion  decided  to  vaccinate  all  of  the  560 
prisoners  and  also  the  employees,  March 
7.  Altogether  three  cases  of  smallpox 
have  broken  out.  in  the  prison.  The  dis¬ 
ease  was  brought  to  the  institution  by  a 
paroled  convict  who  was  returned  a  few 
weeks  ago  for  violating  his  parole. 
Ten  men  were  burned  to  death,  four 
are  dying  and  22  others  are  seriously  in¬ 
jured  as  a  result  of  fire  in  the  city  jail 
at  El  Paso,  Tex..  March  0.  when  one  of 
the  mini  Iter  struck  a  match  to  light  a  cig¬ 
arette.  The  prisoners,  most  of  them 
Mexicans,  were  being  given  a  bath  in  gas¬ 
oline  and  vinegar  to  kill  vermin.  Ill 
feeling  has  prevailed  across  the  border 
for  several  days  as  a  result  of  efforts 
by  United  States  officials  to  prevent 
typhus  germs  from  being  brought  into  the 
country.  The  authorities  in  Juarez 
stopped  all  traffic  across  the  international 
bridge  to  avoid  trouble. 
The  Supreme  Court  at  Washington 
handed  down  rulings,  March  6.  in  three 
cases  involving  State  laws  against  trad¬ 
ing  stamps.  The  court  upheld  laws  of 
Washington  and  Florida  which  impose 
heavy  taxes  on  the  stamps  and  affirmed 
conviction  in  Washington  under  a  State 
law  which  makes  it  a  "gross  misdoa- 
meauor”  to  issue  trading  stamps  redeem¬ 
able  in  merchandise.  The  tax  in  Wash¬ 
ington  is  prohibitive  and  amounts  to 
•  legislation  for  suppression  of  the  prae- 
tiee.  It.  is  assumed  that  the  States  which 
have  been  looking  for  some  method  of 
dealing  with  the  question  will  have  re¬ 
course  to  the  taxing  power  to  stop  the 
custom.  Justice  McKenna  read  the 
court’s  opinion  in  the  three  cases.  The 
case  in  Florida  arose  on  a  complaint,  of 
merchants  who  used  trading  stamps  and 
who  sought,  an  injunction  to  prevent  the 
State  from  imposing  and  collecting  a  tax 
imposed  by  the  statute. 
Edge  Ilill,  planned  by  Thomas  Jeffer¬ 
son.  and  once  the  borne  of  bis  daughter, 
Martha,  and  her  husband.  Gov.  Thomas 
Mann  Randolph,  was  destroyed  by  fire, 
March  0.  Edmund  Twoliy,  formerly  of 
Minneapolis  and  present  owner  of  the 
mansion  and  estate  of  700  acres,  lost 
many  sets  of  antique  furniture  and  rare 
paintings.  The  home,  located  five  miles 
east  of  Charlottesville  and  in  a  mag¬ 
nificent  grove,  was  one  of  the  show  places 
of  Virginia,  ranking  close  in  interest  to 
Mount  Vernon  and  Montieello. 
FARM  AND  GARDEN.— Ohio  C. 
Barber,  the  wealthy  match  manufactur¬ 
er,  announced.  March  4,  that  he  would 
present  his  $15,000,000  model  farm  at 
Barberton.  Ohio,  to  Western  Reserve 
University  for  an  agricultural  college. 
Through  the  efforts  of  County  Agent 
Alvah  J.  Norman,  a  large  majority  of 
the  ministers  of  Caroline  County,  Md., 
were  brought  together  recently  for  an  all¬ 
day  conference.  The  relation  of  the 
church  to  the  forward  movement  in  agri¬ 
culture  was  the  chief  subject  for  dis¬ 
cussion.  Some  more  practical  lines  in 
the  way  of  community  organization  and 
the  ministers’  place  therein  received  con¬ 
siderable  attention. 
A  report  on  anthrax  made  by  Dr. 
Joseph  A.  Ennahan.  medical  inspector  i,n 
charge  of  the  Second  district.  New  York, 
shows  that  in  the  three  and  a  half  years 
previous  to  1015  only  six  cases  were  re¬ 
ported.  Four  of  these  were  fatal,  occur¬ 
ring  among  tanners,  farmers  and  veter¬ 
inarians-.  In  the  last  year  11  cases  were 
reported,  of  which  four  were  fatal.  Sev¬ 
en  were  among  tannery  workers,  three 
among  farmers  and  one  in  a  schoolboy. 
For  this  last  ease  no  source  of  infection 
was  discovered.  Tim  report  Suggests  that 
hides  from  districts  known  to  he  infected 
should  be  banned  and  that  the  workers 
should  comply  with  regulations  similar  to 
the  English  rules.  Dr.  Charles  F.  Bol- 
duan,  director  of  the  bureau  of  public 
health  education  of  the  Department  of 
Health  of  this  city,  received  a  letter, 
March  7,  from  Dr.  A.  K.  Chalmers,  chief 
medical  officer  of  Glasgow.  Scotland, 
warning  against  the  presence  of  anthrax 
germs  in  English  made  brushes.  Tn  his 
letter  Dr.  Chalmers  says  that,  two  ship¬ 
ments  of  shaving  brushes  from  London 
were  recently  discovered  by  the  Glasgow 
health  authorities  to  contain  living  an¬ 
thrax  germs  in  the  bristles.  Dr.  Bol- 
duan  said  all  future  shipments  of  brush¬ 
es  from  Great  Britain  would  be  subjected 
to  rigid  and  searching  inspection  by  the 
Health  Department. 
Farmers  of  New  Jersey  scored  a  vic¬ 
tory,  March  7,  when  the  Senate  passed 
one  of  the  Colgate  measures  amending 
the  workmen's  compensation  law,  so 
modified  as  to  exclude  farm  labor  and  do¬ 
mestic  help.  The  Senate  also  passed  the 
Colgate  measure  creating  n  compensation 
aid  bureau.  Senator  Colgate  had  hoped 
to  restore  his  first  measure  to  something 
like  its  original  form  by  striking  out  the 
amendment  excluding  farm  labor  and  do¬ 
mestic  help,  but  after  a  canvass  decided 
it  would  be  unwise  to  endanger  the  whole 
bill  by  opposition  of  Senators  from  rural 
communities. 
\V,  F.  Easting.  Buffalo,  N.  Y..  presi¬ 
dent  of  the  New  York  Stale  Federation 
of  Horticultural  and  Floral  Clubs,  is 
inaking  an  appeal  to  all  florists  in  the 
State  of  New  York  to  communicate  in 
person  with  their  Assemblyman  or  Sen¬ 
ator.  and  ask  them  1"  support  a  bill  that 
lias  been  introduced  in  the  Legislature  at 
Albany  by  (lie  lion.  Nicholas  J.  Miller. 
The  liil]  has  for  its  provisions  the  crea¬ 
tion  of  a  school  of  horticulture  tn  em¬ 
brace  flower  and  vegetable  culture  and 
horticulture  generally,  in  connection  with 
the  New  York  State  Agricultural  College, 
Cornell  University.  Ithaca,  N.  Y. 
Fifty  boys  in  and  near  Brighton.  Ill., 
will  have  an  opportunity  giyen  by  the 
First  National  Bank  of  Brighton  to  earn 
some  money  easily,  and  at  the  same  time 
learn  something  of  stock  breeding. 
Thomas  Chamberlain,  cashier,  will  go  to 
A\  isonfisin  and  buy  50  Holstein  heifers. 
They  will  be  taken  to  Brighton  and  dis¬ 
tributed  among  the  boys,  thei.r  parents 
going  security  for  the  animals.  The 
heifers  will  bo  bred,  and  the  next  Fall 
they  will  be  sold  at  auction.  All  the 
money  in  excess  of  $40  that  the  animals 
bring  will  he  given  to  the  hoys  who  have 
cared  for  them.  The  hank  figures  that 
this  will  also  have  a  good  effect  on  the 
grade  of  milch  cows  in  that  neighbor¬ 
hood. 
Feb.  28.  Good  cows.  $75  to  $100:  good 
beeves.  7c.  on  boof :  veals,  9c.  and  10c.; 
milk  delivered  at  daily,  17c.  per  gal.  for 
4  test;  homemade  butter,  40c.;  pork.  9c. 
to  11c.;  chickens,  15c,  to  20c.;  eggs,  28e. 
to  .’54c.;  potatoes,  $1.20  bit.;  wheat.  $1  ; 
rye.  90c.  .-  corn.  $1  per  cwt. ;  oats.  50c. 
Apples,  50c.  to  75c.  per  basket;  cabling  >. 
$1  per  bbl. ;  home-grown  a  pules,  $2.50  to 
$5.50  per  bbl.  of  15  bu.  There  are  no 
small  fruits  or  gardening  crops  sold  at 
this  time  which  were  grown  in  this  lo¬ 
cality.  A.  G.  F. 
Harmony,  N.  ,T. 
This  is  not  a  dairy  country.  Bran  has 
been  selling  at  $1.40  per  100  in  single 
lots  and  $20  per  ton.  I  don’t  think  there 
are  many  who  feed  a  ton  in  a  season. 
Middlings  are  from  $1.80  to  $2.10  per 
100:  oi lineal  $2.25.  No  cottonseed  meal 
or  dried  grains  used  here.  Most  farm¬ 
ers  feeding  corn  and  oats,  some  whole, 
hut  mainly  ground.  Only  one  dairy  here. 
Milk  delivered  0e  a  quart.  Most  farm¬ 
ers  sell  the  cream,  what  little  they  have 
to  spare,  pri.ee  M0  to  33e  per  pound  but- 
terfat  at  present,  has  been  up  to  38c 
this  Winter.  This  part  of  Illinois  is 
strictly  a  farming  country,  corn  and 
oats  being  main  crops.  ( bits  were  good 
crop  past  season,  50  to  90  bn.  per  acre, 
badly  damaged  and  discolored  by  too 
much  rain.  Corn  large  crop  as  to  bulk, 
but  chaffy  and  light  in  weight,  some 
frosted,  some  still  in  fields.  Prices  at 
present  :  Oats  M7 ;  eprn,  grade  4,  0215. 
All  corn  shelled  and  hauled  to  elevator 
here.  Not  much  wheat  raised  here;  good 
last  year,  45  to  50  bu.  per  acre.  None 
sown  last  Fall,  too  wet  to  prepare 
ground  in  season.  F.  s. 
Ghenoa,  III. 
Coming  Farmers’  Meetings 
National  Feeders’  and  Breeders’  Show, 
Fort  Worth,  Tex.,  March  11-17. 
Seventh  Annual  Farmers’  Week, 
Massachusetts  Agricultural  College,  Am¬ 
herst.  March  13-17. 
International  Flower  Show.  Grand 
Central  Palace.  New  York.  April  5-12. 
American  Jersey  Cattle  Club,  annual 
meeting.  New  York.  May  3. 
1  lolstein  Friesian  Association  of  Amer¬ 
ica.  Detroit,  Mich.,  June  6. 
American  Association  of  Nurserymen, 
Milwaukee,  Wis.,  June  28-30. 
International  Apple  Shippers’  Associa¬ 
tion.  New  York,  Aug.  2. 
Sixty-seventh  Michigan  State  Fair, 
Detroit.  Sept.  4-13. 
New  York  State  Fair,  Syracuse,  N.  Y., 
Sept.  11-16. 
National  Dairy  Show,  Springfield, 
Mass.,  Oct.  12-21. 
