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July  15,  1910. 
EVENTS  OF  THE  WEEK 
DOMESTIC. — Francis  Srlilal  (nr,  ‘Mi- 
vino  healer,”  who  was  discharged  in  the 
United  States  District  Court  June  28  on 
n  charge  of  misusing  the  mails  to  prac¬ 
tice  his  cure,  was  arraigned  in  the  Tombs 
Police  Court  before  Magistrate  Nolan 
June  29  for  practising  medicine  without 
being  a  licensed  and  registered  physician. 
Appearing  against  Schlatter  were  Mrs. 
Adele  D.  1‘reiss  and  Mrs,  Isabella  Good* 
win,  detectives  from  Police  Headquarters. 
Mrs.  Preiss  testified  that  she  went  to 
Schlatter  at  .'WO  Went  Thirty-fourth 
street  during  May  and  was  treated  on 
several  occasions  for  rheumatism.  The 
healer.  Mrs.  Preiss  said,  robbed  her  and 
prayed  over  her  and  then  blessed  a  pair 
of  stockings,  which  she  was  to  wear  to 
drive  away  the  disease.  Mrs-  Goodwin 
said  that  Schlatter  diagnosed  an  alleged 
ailment  as  malignant  cancer  brought 
about  by  ail  nvcriiidnlgence  in  ice  cream 
soda.  Schlatter  waived  further  examin¬ 
ation  and  was  held  in  $500  bail  for  trial 
before  the  Court  of  Special  Sessions. 
Six  men  were  killed  instantly,  one  died 
later  and  five  others  were  seriously 
burned  about  the  body  at  Emporium,  Pa„ 
July  1,  when  several  thousand  pounds  of 
powder  exploded  in  the  dryhouse  at  the 
Aetna  Explosives  Company's  plant.  The 
dryhouse  was  demolished  and  the  ruins 
ignited,  threatening  adjoining  property. 
Fire  at  Pharr,  Tex.,  July  I,  believed  to 
have  boon  of  incendiary  origin,  wiped  out 
the  entire  business  section  of  the  town, 
with  a  loss  of  $100,000.  Shooting  had 
aroused  the  town,  which  feared  a  bandit 
raid  was  to  be  attempted,  with  the  lire 
as  a  blind.  Profiting  by  tile  lesson  of  Co¬ 
lumbus,  all  lights  were  put  out  and  the 
home  guard  and  a  force  of  United  States 
regulars  pat  ruled  the  streets.  Pharr, 
which  is  60  miles  north  of  Brownsville,  is 
headquarters  for  the  Third  Brigade  of 
the  Now  York  National  Guard. 
Greater  New  York  is  suffering  from  an 
epidemic  of  infantile  paralysis.  Forty- 
seven  new  cases  were  reported  June  MO. 
The  total  number  of  cases  up  to  that  date 
was  M2 7.  Sixty-four  deaths  bad  resulted, 
which  is  a  mortality  four  times  greater 
than  in  the  epidemic  of  1007.  July  4 
5!)  new  cases  were  reported,  and  25 
deaths- 
As  a  sequel  to  the  arrest  recently  of 
75  cigar  and  cigarette  manufacturers  for 
defrauding  the  Government  out  of  inter¬ 
nal  revenue  taxes  the  Federal  Grand  Jury 
handed  down  indictments  June  MO  against 
10  wholesale  tobacco  dealers.  The  whole¬ 
salers  are  charged  with  conspiring  to  help 
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the  manufacturers  evade  their  taxes.  An 
unnamed  deputy  internal  revenue  collec¬ 
tor  is  said  to  have  been  concerned  in  ttm 
frauds  through  which  the  Government 
lost.^at  least  $350,290  in  1913.  1911  and 
1915.  Emilio  Yaselli,  Assistant  United 
States  Attorney,  who  worked  up  the  ease 
for  the  Government,  said  the  specific 
charge  in  the  new  indictment  is  that  the 
wholesale  men  violated  the  law  requiring 
them  to  keep  a  truthful  record  of  all  the 
leaf  tobacco  sold  by  them  to  manufac¬ 
turers  so  that  the  Government  agents 
could  get  an  estimate  of  the  amount  of 
cigars  each  manufacturer  turned  out. 
Eight  deaths  and  190  injuries  in 
Fourth  of  July  celebrations  throughout 
the  country  is  the  toll  of  the  Fourth,  ac¬ 
cording  to  figures  compiled  at  midnight 
on  that  date  by  the  Chicago  Tribune. 
Last  year  there  were  nineteen  persons 
killed  and  903  injured.  Chicago’s  toll 
was  four  injured,  none  seriously. 
Three  caterpillar  tractors  which  were 
manufactured  at  Stockton,  Cal.,  for  the 
American  army,  were  rushed  by  express 
to  the  border  July  4.  The  expressage  on 
the  three  machines  will  amount  to  $3,600. 
They  were  crated  and  shipped  in  a  spe¬ 
cial  car  attached  to  a  passenger  train. 
Mrs.  Hetty  Green,  believed  to  be  the 
richest  woman  in  the  United  States,  died 
in  New  York,  July  S,  aged  SO.  She  was 
a  native  of  Massachusetts,  inherited 
wealth,  and  added  to  it  enormously  by 
her  business  acumen.  Her  funeral  oc¬ 
curred  at  Bellows  Falls,  Vt. 
WASHINGTON — By  a  unanimous 
vote  the  House  Committee  on  Military 
Affairs  .Tune  M0  recommended  the  passage 
of  the  Hay  bill,  providing  relief  for  the 
dependent  families  of  National  Guards¬ 
men  serving  on  the  Mexican  border.  The 
bill  carries  an  appropriation  of  $2,000,- 
000.  It  provides  that  a  dependent  or  de¬ 
pendents  of  a  National  Guardsman  shall 
be  paid  $50  n  month  while  such  guards¬ 
man  is  on  active  service  away  from  his 
home  station.  A  guardsman  may  accept 
this  benefit  or  retire  from  the  Guard  with 
an  honorable  discharge. 
Following  the  recommendation  of  the 
General  Board,  the  Navy  Department  has 
decided  to  adopt  the  16-inch  gun  in  place 
of  the  14-inch  rifle  for  the  main  batteries 
of  the  new  superdreadnoughts  which  are 
expected  to  be  authorized  by  Congress. 
The  Senate  Naval  Affairs  Committee 
July  1,  recommended  10  of  these  battle¬ 
ships  for  the  three-year  building  pro¬ 
gramme. 
The  Democratic  revenue  bill,  which 
was  introduced  in  the  House.  July  1  with 
the  indorsement  of  the  Administration, 
contains  two  important  protective  fea¬ 
tures.  One  is  an  anti-dumping  clause, 
which  is  designed  to  protect  the  Ameri¬ 
can  market  against  a  Hood  of  European 
goods  after  the  war.  and  the  other  is  a 
protective  duty  on  certain  manufactured 
dyestuffs. 
FARM  AND  C.uJIEN. — Secretary  of 
the  Interior  Lane  announced  June  26 
that  during  May  more  than  3.300.000 
acres  were  designated  as  non-irrigablo 
under  the  Enlarged  Homestead  act, 
through  which  the  entryman  may  acquire 
homesteads  of  320  acres.  If  a  filing  un¬ 
der  the  old  homestead  law  has  been  made 
by  the  settler  on  160  acres,  he  may,  un¬ 
der  this  act.  acquire  an  additional  1(50 
acres  if  there  be  available  adjacent  va¬ 
cant  land  of  the  required  character.  The 
lands  made  available  during  the  month 
for  these  larger  homesteads  have  all  been 
classified  by  the  Geological  Survey  as 
non-irrigahle,  but  many  of  them  have  al¬ 
ready  been  patented  or  entered  or  at  least, 
applied  for  under  a  law  which  gives  the 
applicant  the  first  right  to  enter  them.  To 
determine  what  particular  tracts,  if  any. 
exist  in  a  particular  district,  are  avail¬ 
able  for  new  settlers,  necessitates  an  ex¬ 
amination  of  the  records  at  the  local  land 
office. 
Road  building  by  the  nation  in  co-op¬ 
eration  with  the  States  is  made  possible 
by  the  acceptance  by  Congress  of  the 
Runkhead-Shaekleford  measure.  It  has 
gone  to  the  President  for  his  approval. 
The  bill  authorizes  the  Secretary  of  Ag¬ 
riculture  to  co-operate  with  the.  States, 
through  their  respective  State  Highway 
Departments,  in  the  construction  of  rural 
post  roads-  A  rural  post  road  means  any 
public  road  in  the  United  States  over 
which  the  United  States  mails  are  trans¬ 
ported.  A  State  Highway  Department 
means  any  department,  commission  or 
official  or  officials  charged  with  the  work 
ordinarily  directed  by  highway  depart¬ 
ments.  TIip  bill  provides  that  the  roads 
built,  under  its  terms  shall  be  "properly 
maintained,”  which  means  that,  they  shall 
be  kept  in  as  good  condition  as  when 
they  were  first,  built.  It  is  further  pro¬ 
vided  thill  the  roads  constructed  under 
this  law  shall  be  maintained  by  the 
States  or  by  subdivisions  of  the  States. 
There  were  in  this  country  on  January 
1  last  21,106,000  horses  and  4,565,000 
mules,  according  to  figures  just  compiled 
for  the  War  Department:  by  George  M. 
Rommel  of  the  Department  of  Agricul¬ 
ture.  Many  of  these  are  "just  horses” 
and  totally  unfit  for  war  service  of  any 
description.  Since  the  European  war  be¬ 
gan  580,185  horses  and  185,000  mules 
have  been  exported.  There  is  no  way  of 
determining  how  many  of  those  left  are 
fit  for  war  service,  either  as  saddle  horses 
or  for  other  work.  Many  horses  offered 
to  the  Department  fall  below  the  neces¬ 
sary  size ;  others  fresh  from  Western 
ranges  are  too  wild  to  be  handled,  even 
by  expert  horsemen.  One  of  these  wild 
ones  gave  five  blacksmiths  five  hours  of 
the  hardest  work  they  had  ever  had  to  do 
at  Vnii  Uortlamlt  Park,  New  York,  re¬ 
cently. 
MEXICO. — July  4  the  expected  note 
from  the  Carranza  government  was  re¬ 
ceived  at  Washington.  It  is  described 
ns  conciliatory  and  is  characterized  by 
an  evident  desire  on  the  part  of  the  Mex¬ 
ican  authorities  to  reach  an  amicable  un¬ 
derstanding  with  the  American  Govern¬ 
ment-  It  is  said  to  concede  ibe  conten¬ 
tion  of  the  United  States  (hut  conditions 
along  the  border  by  reason  of  the  bandit 
raids  have  been  intolerable,  and  extends 
strong  promises  by  the  Mexican  Govern¬ 
ment  to  restore  order  and  protect  Ameri¬ 
can  territory  from  further  raids.  It  does 
not-  specifically  renew  the  demands  for  a 
withdrawal  of  the  American  forces,  but, 
contending  that  the  presence  of  the 
troops  on  Mexican  soil  contributes-  to  the 
unsettled  conditions,  suggests  (bat  their 
withdrawal  would  go  far  toward  remov¬ 
ing  the  causes  of  friction  and  difficulty. 
Calling  attention  to  the  fact  that  the 
Carranza  government  has  accepted  the 
principle  of  mediation  as  suggested  by 
friendly  Powers,  it  invites  a  like  expres¬ 
sion  from  the  United  States.  At  the 
same  time  the  opinion  is  expressed  that 
more  satisfactory  results  could  he  ob¬ 
tained  through  direct  negotiations.  It  is 
explained  at  the  Mexican  embassy  that 
the  communication  is  intended  to  serve 
the  double  purpose  of  answering  the 
American  note  of  June  25.  which  was 
sent  at  the  time  of  the  imprisonment  of 
the  American  troopers  at  Chihuahua  and 
demanded  a  statement  of  Carranza's  fu¬ 
ture  intentions  and  likewise  a  response 
from  him  to  the  American  note  of  June 
20.  which  rejected  the  demands  of  Car¬ 
ranza  for  an  immediate  withdrawal  of  the 
American  forces. 
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tears;  even  the  tramp  wept,  and  the 
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