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EVENTS  OF  THE  WEEK 
DOMESTIC.— March  *2!)  the  wreck  of 
three  New  York  Central  trains  near  Am¬ 
herst,  Ohio,  eauseil  tlx-  death  of  30  per¬ 
sons.  The  second  section  of  a  fast  east- 
bound  train  crashed  into  the  first  section, 
and  the  Twentieth  Century  Limited  then 
plowed  into  the  wreckage. 
Dr.  John  Grant  Lyman,  promoter,  who 
was  adjudged  ip  contempt  of  court  for  re¬ 
fusing  to  tell  his  receiver  in  bankruptcy 
even  his*  name,  appeared  before  United 
States  Commissioner  Gilchrist,  at  New 
York.  March  31.  at  his  own  request  and 
gave  an  account  of  his  career.  Lyman 
said  that  in  furthering  his  various  ven¬ 
tures  he  travelled  much  and  with  each 
change  of  scenery  adopted  a  new  name, 
lie  went  to  Europe  frequently,  bobbed  up 
in  Cuba  and  in  Panama,  and  finally  was 
convicted  in  Los  Angeles  of  using  the 
mails  to*  defraud  purchasers  of  Panama 
lands.  lie  smilingly  admitted  that  he  sold 
property  for  $5  an  aero  which  had  cost 
him  and  his  partners  15  cents  an  acre. 
During  the  time  that  lie  was  out  on  bail, 
having  appealed  from  his  conviction. 
Lyman,  according  to  his  own  statement, 
extended  his  activities  over  Eastern 
States  and  to  England  and  Switzerland. 
During  the  last  year,  he  said,  lie  shifted 
his  financial,  enterprises  to  Detroit  and 
after  that,  in  turn,  to  Bridgeport,  Conn.; 
Boston  and  finally  hack  to  lliis  city. 
Street-ear  strikers  at  Wilkes-Barre.  Pa., 
dynamited  tracks  in  the  Wyoming  Valley 
April  2.  A  car  was  wrecked  and  tracks 
destroyed  for  a  long  distance. 
April  3.  prosecution  began  in  the  New 
York  Supreme  Court  for  tin  murder  of 
Barnet  Raff.  Baff,  who  was  a  large 
wholesale  dealer  in  the  poultry  business', 
was  shot  to  death  near  his  store  on  the 
night  of  November  24.  4 PI 4.  A  gang  of 
men  used  an  automobile  to  make  their  es¬ 
cape.  Although  a  vigorous  inquiry  was 
set  on  foot  and  a  number  of  persons 
rounded  up,  nothing  of  moment  was  done 
until  a  few  weeks  ago,  when  the  police 
locked  up  four  men.  They  are  Giuseppe 
Ariehiello,  who  was  one  of*  the  gunmen; 
Frank  Ferrara,  the.  driver  of  the  murder 
ear,  and  Joseph  and  Antonio  ZalTarone, 
brothers,  who  acted  as  the.  lookout  while 
the  killing  took  place.  It  is  said  that  a 
fund  of  $4,500  was  raised  to  pay  for  the 
murder. 
Governor  McCall  of  Massachusetts  sent 
March  MO  a  special  message  to  (lie  State 
Legislature  recommending  the  passage  of 
a  special  act  to  provide  for  the  abolition 
of  capital  punishment. 
Fire  in  a  paper  warehouse  on  Bookman 
street.  New  York,  April  M,  caused  a  loss 
of  $75,000,  and  was  controlled  with  diffi¬ 
culty. 
Charged  with  using  the  mails  to  obtain 
thousands  of  dollars’  worth  of  general 
merchandise  in  credit,  Frederick  It.  John¬ 
ston,  a  former  college  professor  and  lec¬ 
turer  on  agricultural  subjects,  anil  Julius 
Nnhoum  were  held  by  United  States  Com¬ 
missioner  Houghton  in  $3,000  hail  April 
3.  Johnston  was  the  surviving  partner  of 
Johnston.  Elliott  &  Co.,  Inc.,  a  real  estate 
and  brokerage  firm  which  transferred  its 
activities’ from  Texas  to  this  city  about 
two  years  ago,  and,  according  to  Assist¬ 
ant  United  States  Attorney  Frank  M. 
Roosa,  used  its  Texas  financial  rating  of 
$250,000  in  its  business  here.  On  the 
strength  of  this  rating,  it  is  alleg*  d,  John¬ 
ston  began  to  buy  all  the  merchandise 
available,  professedly  for  exportation.  In¬ 
stead,  it  is  alleged,  the  goods  were  imme¬ 
diately  resold,  often  at  cut  rates,  through 
the  Western  Commercial  Company,  of 
which  Nalmum  was  the  head.  On  Octo¬ 
ber  IS,  1014,  the  concern  was  petitioned 
into  bankruptcy  Willi  largo  liabilities. 
Johnston  was  a  professor  in  an-  agricul¬ 
tural  college  in  Texas  and  still  lectures. 
After  the  company  went  into  bankruptcy 
he  took  up  the  promotion  of  a  Florida 
land  proposition. 
The  Union  Pacific  Overland  Limited, 
west  houml,  the  finest  train  on  the  Union 
Pacific  system,  was  held  up  April  4  live 
miles  west  of  Cheyenne,  Wyo..  by  one 
man.  The  bandit  lined  up  the  passengers 
he  went  through  the  sleepers  and  ob¬ 
tained  about  $500  in  cash  and  a  large 
amount  of  jewelry.  After  the  man  had 
obtained  all  the  cash  and  valuables  lie 
could  procure  from  the  passengers  lie 
jumped  from  the  train  at  Corlet  Junction 
and  escaped  in  the  darkness. 
FARM  AND  GARDEN.— The  forty- 
eighth  annual  meeting  of  the  American 
Jersey  Cattle  Club  will  he  held  at  the 
club  house.  324  West  Twenty-third  street, 
New  York  City,  on  Wednesday,  May  3, 
1011),  at  eleven  o'clock  A.  M. 
At  the  eleventh  animal  meeting  of  the 
Cornell  Dairy  Students’  Association  the 
following  officers  were  elected:  President, 
C.  I{.  Owens,  Freedom,  N.  Y. ;  vice-presi¬ 
dent,  Uorati  Isbell,  Oswego.  N.  Y.  :  secre¬ 
tary.  C.  S.  Thompson,  Vernon.  N.  Y. ; 
assistant  secretary.  Claude  S.  Tompkins, 
Davenport  Center.  N.  V.;  treasurer.  John 
Kelly,  Ly sunder,  X.  Y. ;  college  secretary, 
W.  E.  Ayres,  Ithaca.  N,  Y. 
New  seed  laws  have  been  passed  in 
Kentucky  and  New  Jersey  recently,  the 
Now  Jersey  seed  law  requires  labeling  of 
agricultural  seeds,  mixtures  of  such  seeds 
and  vegetable  seeds.  The  vegetable  seed 
must  have  a  label  stating  the  name  there¬ 
of.  and  the  percentage  of  germination; 
the  percentage  of  inert  matter  if  in  excess 
of  5  per  cent,  of  the  total  weight  of  such 
seeds;  the  name  of  the.  seller.  The  ad¬ 
ministration  of  this  law  is  tinned  over  to 
the  hoard  of  managers  of  the  New  Jersey 
April  15,  1916. 
Agricultural  Experiment  Station  and  its 
appointee,  the  seed  analyst.  The  Ken¬ 
tucky  Dill  is  rather  a  close  copy  of  the 
views  of  the  Association  of  Official  Seed 
Analysts  in  respect  to  a  uniform  state, 
seed  bill.  The  bill  affects  agricultural 
seeds  and  requires  a  label  stating  the 
name  of  the  seeds,  up  me  and  address  of 
the  seller:  the  approximate  percentage  by 
weight  of  purity,  meaning  freedom  from 
foreign  matter  or  from  other  seeds ;  the 
approximate  percentage  by  weight  of  the 
different  species  of  foreign  seeds  when 
sold  as  mix! tires  and  so  labelled.  The  hill 
affect**  agricultural  seeds.  The  approxi¬ 
mate  percentage  of  germination  ns  shown 
by  laboratory  tests.  No  agricultural 
seeds  containing  more  than  one  of  certain 
named  noxious  weed  seeds  to  2,000  agri¬ 
cultural  seeds  shall  he  sold.  Garden  and 
flower  seeds  iu  sealed  packets  must  be 
labeled  with  the  approximate  percentage 
of  germination  and  with  the  year  in  which 
the  packet  was  filled. 
Diminished  supplies  of  milk  were  the 
result  of  a  producers’  strike  in  Chicago 
milk  territory  April  2.  If  was  reported 
that  some  who  attempted  to  ship  milk  had 
it  spilled  by  strikers,  and  some  milk  sta¬ 
tions  were  closed.  Dairymen  of  Kane, 
McHenry  and  Will  counties  are  feeding 
more  than  500.000  quarts  of  mill*  a  day 
to  the  pigs  on  their  farms,  said  George 
II.  Kellar  of  Batavia,  secretary  of  the 
Kane  County  Mill*  Producers’  Associa¬ 
tion. 
Senator  Wicks  of  Oneida  County  intro- 
dimed  a  resolution  in  the  New  York  Leg¬ 
islature  April  3  calling  for  an  investiga- 
tiin  of  the  distribution  of  milk,  butter, 
eggs  and  poultry.  lie  prefaced  his  resolu¬ 
tion  with  a  preamble  that  the  distribu¬ 
tion  of  these  products  is  ’’controlled  by 
combination,  monopoly  and  manipula¬ 
tion.’'  Although  the  price  of  live  stock 
and  feed  has  greatly  increased.  Senator 
“Wicks  saifl.  the  farmers  are  receiving  less 
for  their  milk  now  than  they  did  twenty- 
five  years* ago,  ar.d  many  milk  producers 
are  being  forced  out  of  business.  The  res¬ 
olution  calls  for  an  appropriation  of  $25,- 
000  to  carry  on  the  inquiry. 
Cleveland  will  face  a  milk  famine 
through  the  action  of  the  Northern  Ohio 
Producers’  Association,  which  decided 
April  3  that  it  would  not  ship  milk  to 
Cleveland  unless  the  dealers  pay  an  aver¬ 
age  of  15  cents  a  gallon,  insteal  of  13  and 
14  cents  as  heretofore.  One  thousand 
milk  producers  who  furnish  SO  pel*  rent, 
of  the  city’s  supply  pledged  themselves 
not  to  deliver  milk  unless  the  price  in¬ 
crease  is  paid.  Officials  of  the  big  retail¬ 
ing  companies  say  that  they  will  not  pay 
the  increase.  The  producers  are  feeding 
milk  to  hogs  and  calves  or  throwing  it 
away  rather  than  send  it  to  the  city. 
Hearings  were  begun  April  3  at  Wash¬ 
ington  by  a  sub-committee  of  the  House 
Judiciary  Committee  on  the  resolution  of 
Representative  Borland  of  Missouri  to 
empower  the  Federal  Trade  Commission 
to  institute  au  investigation  of  an  alleged 
combination  of  packers  to  control  the 
price  of  cattle.  Mr.  Borland.  Representa¬ 
tive  Doolittle  of  Kansas  and  Walter  L. 
Fisher,  ex-Keeretary  of  the  Interior,  were 
among  those  advocating  the  inquiry. 
The  government  has  appropriated  a 
large  fund  for  the  eradication  of  Citrus 
canker,  which  has  caused  enormous  losses 
in  the  South.  Ernest  Walker,  Alabama 
State  Horticulturist,  is  in  charge  of  the 
work. 
The  Providence.  R.  I..  Market  Garden¬ 
ers’  Association  elected  the  following  offi¬ 
cers  at  the  annual  meeting:  Everett  C. 
Potter.  Auburn,  president:  II.  E.  West 
and  O.  R.  Peek,  vice-presidents;  George 
K,  Tinkham,  secretary-treasurer. 
A  meeting  of  the  men  engaged  in  teach¬ 
ing  horticulture  and  floriculture  at  the 
leading  universities  was  held  at  the  Wal¬ 
ton  Hotel.  Philadelphia.  Pa..  March  28, 
when  a  permanent  organization  was  form¬ 
ed  and  named  the  College  Florists"  Section 
of  the  Society  of  American  Florists. 
Those  present  included  Profs.  Dornor  of 
Illinois,  N chiding  and  Thurston  of  Mass¬ 
achusetts.  lnspon  of  Maryland.  Wild  of 
Pennsylvania.  Beal  and  White  of  Ithaca. 
N.  Y’„  Richard  Vincent,  ,Tr.,  White 
Marsh.  Md.,  and  IV.  X.  Rudd,  Chicago. 
The  hoard  of  trustees  of  the  University 
of  Illinois  at  a  meeting  March  14.  author¬ 
ized  the  erection  of  a  new  field  laboratory 
for  the  horticultural  department  to  cost 
$100,000. 
Coming  Farmers’  Meetings 
American  Jersey  Cattle  Club,  annual 
meeting.  New  York,  May  3. 
Holstein-Frlesian  Association  of  Amer¬ 
ica,  Detroit,  Mich.,  June  (j. 
American  Association  of  Nurserymen, 
Milwaukee.  IV is..  June  28-30. 
International  Apple  Shippers’  Associa¬ 
tion.  New  York,  Ang.  2. 
Sixty-seventh  Michigan  State  Fair.  De¬ 
troit.  Sept.  4-13. 
New  York  State  Fair,  Syracuse,  N.  Y.. 
Sept.  11-10. 
National  Dairy  Show,  Springfield, 
Mass.,  Oct.  12-21. 
March  31.  Cows,  grades,  $50  to  $100; 
beef  cattle,  good,  7c. ;  butter.  32c. ;  chick¬ 
ens,  14c.;  apples,  75c,;  potatoes.  81.10; 
eggs,  1  Sc, ;  hay,  per  ton.  $20.  \v.  w.  <;. 
Meadow  Gap,  Pa. 
We  are  about  15  miles  from  Buffalo.  10 
miles  from  Tonawanda.  Wheat,  $1  ;  oats, 
50c. ;  hay,  $24  loose.  Fresh  cows  and 
springers.  $50  to  $100-;  hogs,  10c.  live 
weight ;  calves,  11c.  live*  weight.  Pigs  six 
weeks  old.  $3.  Milk  at  depot.  16c.  gal.; 
butter.  38c. ;  eggs,  25c.  a.  d. 
Martinsville,  N.  Yr. 
