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September  9,  191 G. 
EVENTS  OF  THE  WEEK 
DOMESTIC. — Lightning  attracted  to 
a  wire  clothesline  killed  Mrs.  Grant  Her¬ 
ring  at  Ilarrisonville,  Va.,  Ang.  24,  as 
she  was  gathering  her  washing.  The 
bolt  then  jumped  to  a  doorway  nearby 
and  killed  a  neighbor’s  child. 
Alleging  that  the  company  failed  to 
accord  proper  protection  of  its  employees, 
Charles  R,  Watson  and  Frances  W. 
AVatson  filed  suit  in  the  District  Court, 
El  Paso,  Tex..  Aug.  24,  against  the 
Cusi  Mining  Company  of  Chicago  for 
$100,000  actual  and  $25,000  exemplary 
damages  for  the  death  of  their  father, 
Charles  Rea  Watson,  at  Santa  Ysabed, 
Mexico,  on  January  10.  In  the  petition 
it  is  stated  that  during  the  latter  part  of 
1915  Charles  Rea  AVatson  was  ordered 
to  Mexico  to  open  up  the  mines  during 
the  early  part  of  January.  He  with  others 
was  taken  off  the  train  and  murdered  by 
Mexican  bandits  at  Santa  Ysabel.  AVat¬ 
son  was  manager  of  the  Cusi  Alines. 
Acting  on  the  precedent  of  the  United 
States  Supreme  Court’s  decision  in  the 
case  of  the  Danbury  hatters,  when  it  was 
decided  damages  may  be  collected  from 
striking  employees  adjudged  guilty  of  con¬ 
spiracy,  local  foundries  at.  Bridgeport, 
Conn.,  Aug.  24.  procured  the  arrest  on  a 
body  writ  of  T.  F.  Duffy,  an  official  in 
the  International  Iron  Moulders’  Union 
of  North  America,  in  the  course  of  four 
suits  started  against  union  officials  and 
striking  employees.  It  is  charged  Duffy 
and  other  officials,  with  the  employees, 
conspired  to  prevent  operation  of  the 
foundries.  Duffy  was  put  in  charge  of  a 
custodian,  being  unable  to  furnish  $50.- 
000  bail. 
Joseph  Frooks,  former  New  York  As¬ 
semblyman,  was  found  guilty  in  New 
York,  Aug.  25,  of  violating  the  sanitary 
code  by  selling  a  neck  bag  or  amulet 
stamped  with  a  red  cross  oud  bearing 
the  words  “Infantile  A.  S.  Disease  Pro¬ 
tector."  Justices  Collins.  Edwards  and 
Freschi  of  the  Court  of  Special  Sessions 
continued  Frooks’ s  bail  of  $1,000  to 
September  1.  during  which  time  the  case 
will  be  investigated  further.  Crooks, 
who  lives  at  02  East  Eighth  Street,  had 
a  place  in  Chrysfie  Street  where,  inspec¬ 
tors  of  the  Board  of  Health  discovered, 
lie  was  making  the  amulets.  The  health 
authorities  contend  the  bags  are  useless, 
and  that  besides  Frooks  had  no  permit 
to  make  or  sell  any  such  article. 
Results  of  the  campaign  that  has  been 
waged  for  years  for  a  sane  Fourth  of 
July  are  shown  in  figures  made  public, 
Aug.  25.  by  the  American  Medical  As¬ 
sociation.  which  for  fourteen  years  has 
taken  a  poll  of  every  State  and  city  of 
importance  regarding  Fourth  of  July  cas¬ 
ualties.  Not  one  case  of  tetanus  was  re¬ 
ported  in  the  entire  country  in  1916  and 
not  one  person  was  blinded  by  gunpow¬ 
der.  according  to  the  association’s  state¬ 
ment.  Only  30  deaths  took  place,  as  com¬ 
pared  with  4(19  in  1903,  the  first  year 
complete  figures  were  obtained. 
Henry  A.  Salzer.  president  of  the  John 
A.  Salzer  Seed  Co,,  La  Crosse.  AA’is.. 
was  instantly  killed,  August  22.  when  his 
automobile  plunged  over  a  75-foot  em¬ 
bankment  uear  Dresback,  Minn.  Mrs,  Ed¬ 
ward  Kramer,  wife  of  a  University  of 
Wisconsin  professor,  and  the  chauffeur. 
Emil  *  Dickson,  were  slightly  injured, 
while  Airs.  Salzer  and  Prof.  Kramer  es¬ 
caped  unhurt.  Air.  Salzer  was  61  years 
of  age. 
Two  men  were  killed  and  eight  others 
injured,  one  of  them  fatally,  when  eleven 
of  fourteen  automobiles  piled  up  at  the 
first  turn  during  the  100  mile  voce  at 
Recreation  Park,  Kalamazoo,  Mich., 
Aug.  27.  The  accident  occurred  when 
the  car  leading  in  the  race  skidded 
and  struck  the  fence  at  the  first  turn. 
It  was  overturned  and  thrown  squarely 
across  the  track.  Before  track  attend¬ 
ants  could  signal  die  other  drivers  ten  of 
the  machines  going  at  a  terrific  clip 
.  plowed  into  the  overturned  car.  Five 
of  them  were  demolished. 
Two  men  and  two  children  lost  their 
lives  and  four  other  persona  were  injured. 
Aug.  26.  when  an  automobile  occupied 
by  Earl  Sherman  and  family  of  Endicofct, 
N.  Y.,  went  over  an  embankment  into 
the  Tioga  River  near  Covington,  Pa. 
It  was  announced,  Aug.  2S,  that  a 
registered  United  States  mail  pouch  con¬ 
taining  $30,000  in  currency  and  negoti¬ 
able  bonds  had  disappeared  from  a  Hud¬ 
son  Valley  trolley  car  between  Lake 
George  and  Glens  Falls.  N.  Y.  The  mails 
are  transported  on  trolley  cars  between 
these  points. 
Benny  Nicgowsky,  a  laborer  in  the 
Retsof  salt  mine  in  Livingston  County, 
N.  Y.,  was  reported  missing  after  the 
nightly  checkout,  Aug.  12.  His  compan¬ 
ions  believed  he  had  quit  his  job,  and  so 
reported  to  the  police.  William  A. 
Wheeler,  District  Attorney,  insisted,  Aug. 
25,  on  a  search  of  the  mines.  Nicgow¬ 
sky  was  found  in  a  worked-out  section 
of  the  salt  caverns  and  brought  to  the 
surface.  He  was  emaciated,  almost  a 
skeleton.  His  face  and  body  were  black. 
He  explained  he  had  lost  himself  in  the 
maze  of  mining  channels.  He  searched 
for  10  (lays  looking  for  the  opening  to 
the  surface.  Then  he  gave  up  through 
exhaustion  and  was  dying  slowly  when 
his  rescuers  found  him.  Hope  is  held 
out  for  liis  recovery. 
Rear  Admiral  Pond  at  San  Domingo 
city  cabled  the  Navy  Department,  Aug. 
29.  that  the  armored  cruiser  Memphis 
had  been  swept  upon  the  rocks  by  a  heavy 
sea  in  the  harbor  there  and  would  be  a 
total  loss.  Although  it  .was  expected  all 
on  hoard  the  cruiser  would  be  saved  the 
Admiral  reported  that  20  men  returning 
to  the  ship  from  shore  leave  in  a  motor- 
boat  had  been  drowned. 
George  Moore,  negro,  of  Utica,  was 
rescued,  Aug.  27.  from  a  freight  car  in 
the  Lackawanna  yards  at  Dover.  N.  J., 
where  he  had  spent  the  last  three  clays. 
He  was  almost  frantic  from  hunger  and 
thirst  when  rescued.  He  said  he  had 
met  a  man  who*  said  he  could  save  his 
money  by  sleeping  in  freight  cars.  The 
man  took  him  to  one,  and  both  of  the 
men  went  to  sleep  there.  During  the  night 
the  other  man  stole  the  money,  less  than 
$1.  that  Moore  had,  left  the  car  and 
locked  the  door  from  the  outside. 
Delegates  from  thirty-three  States, 
Canada  and  Alaska  enrolled  at  the  open¬ 
ing  session  of  the  tenth  annual  National 
Conference  on  Taxation  at.  Indianapolis, 
Ind.,  Aug.  28.  The  c  mference  is  under 
the  auspices  of  the  National  Tax  Asso¬ 
ciation.  More  territory  than  ever  before 
represented  sent,  delegates  this  year,  the 
officers  said.  A  warning  that  the  tend¬ 
ency  to  increase  public  expenditures 
which  require  taxes  to  be  raised  must  he 
stopped  was  sounded  by  Allen  Ripley 
Foote  of  Columbus.  O.,  founder  of  the 
National  Tax  Association.  Air.  Foote 
also  asserted  that  be  believes  the  time  has 
come  when  a  fourth  department  of  State 
is  needed — a  department  of  public  ac¬ 
counting  and  auditing,  A  State  tax  com¬ 
mission  to  supervise  the  work  of  tax  as¬ 
sessors  was  suggested  by  Fred  A.  Sims, 
former  Secretary  of  State  of  Indiana  and 
member  of  the  State  Tax  Board,  in  an 
address  on  “Divorcing  the  Assessor  from 
Politics.” 
FARM  AND  GARDEN.— Because  of 
published  reports  crediting  officials  of  the 
Department  of  Agriculture  with  predict¬ 
ing  a  big  rise  in  the  price  of  wheat  be¬ 
cause  of  damage  done  the  growing  crop 
by  black  rust,  the  Department,  Aug.  24, 
issued  the  following  statement  :  “No  of¬ 
ficial  of  the  United  States  Department 
of  Agriculture  has  made  any  statement  to 
the  effect  that  wheat  would  rise  to  $2  or 
any  other  price,  or  has  made  prediction 
as  to  the  effect  of  black  rust  on  prices  of 
wheat.” 
Members  of  the  American  Rose  So¬ 
ciety  have  been  raising  money  to  co¬ 
operate  in  employing  a  trained  plant 
pathologist  to  investigate  diseases  of 
roses.  Sufficient  money  has  now  been  ob¬ 
tained  to  assure  this  work,  which  is  al¬ 
ready  under  way.  Doctor  L.  M.  Massey 
of  the  New  York  State  College  of  Agri¬ 
culture.  Cornell  University,  Ithaca,  is 
conducting  the  investigations.  In  order 
that  this  survey  may  reach  its  maximum 
efficiency,  it  will  he  necessary  for  the 
growers  to  cooperate  b.v  sending  speci¬ 
mens  of  diseased  plants.  Franked  tags 
will  be  supplied  on  request.  It  is  hoped 
that  each  grower  will  interesl  himself  in 
this  work  sufficiently  to  collect  and  send 
diseased  material  together  with  a  brief 
statement  regarding  varieties  affected, 
nature  and  extent  of  injury,  time  of  ap¬ 
pearance  of  the  disease,  and  other  points 
of  interest  which  may  have  been  noticed. 
The  material  sent  should  be  freshly  col¬ 
lected  and  should  Show  various  stages 
in  the  development  of  the  disease.  Where 
roots  are  sent  it.  will  usually  be  undesir¬ 
able  to  enclose  any  soil.  Where  conven¬ 
ient.  specimens  should  be  mailed  so  as  to 
reach  Ithaca  the  latter  part  of  the  week. 
The  twenty-first  annual  meeting  of  the 
ATirginin  State  Horticultural  Society  will 
be  held  in  Roanoke,  Va.,  December  5-7. 
WASHINGTON.— A  protocol  ampli¬ 
fying  the  financial,  economic  and  admin¬ 
istrative  treaty  with  Ilayti  was  signed, 
Aug.  24,  by  Secretary  Lansing  and  Min¬ 
ister  Alenos.  The  most  important  ad¬ 
dition  to  the  treaty  is  the  provision  that 
the  native  police  force  is  to  be  officered 
by  Americans.  The  chief  purpose  is  to 
provide  for  internal  peace  and  make  pos¬ 
sible  withdrawal  of  the  marines.  The 
native  constabulary  will  consist,  of  2.100 
enlisted  men,  with  probably  300  American 
officers,  nominated  by  the  President  of 
the  United  States  and  appointed  b.V  the 
President  of  Hayti.  It  is  thought  that 
this  force  will  preserve  peace  among  the 
1,000,000  inhabitants.  The  Americans 
will  he  replaced  as  fast  as  possible  by 
native  officers  appointed  after  examina¬ 
tion.  Administration  of  the  telephone 
and  telegraph  systems  has  been  placed  in 
the  hands  of  Lieut.  Edgar  <L  Oberiin  of 
the  navy.  The  treaty  provides  for  an 
American  receiver-general  for  customs  re¬ 
ceipts,  an  American  financial  adviser  and 
an  American  engineer  for  sanitation  and 
general  improvements.  It  prohibits  any 
increase  of  debt,  or  sale  of  territory.  A 
protocol  is  to  be  drawn  up  to  settle  all 
foreign  debts  by  arbitration. 
Aug.  29  the  President,  offered  the  fol¬ 
lowing  program  to  Congress  for  settle¬ 
ment  of  the  threatened  railroad  strike : 
1.  An  eight  hour  day  for  railroad  em¬ 
ployees  engaged  in  interstate  commerce. 
2.  The  creation  of  a  commission  for  the 
investigation  of  the  workability  of  the. 
eight  hour  day  and  of  the  wage  questions 
involved  in  the  present  controversy. 
3.  The  enactment  of  a  law  providing, 
as  in  the  case  of  Canadian  industrial  dis¬ 
putes,  for  an  investigation  of  railroad 
controversies  and  prohibiting  strikes  or 
lockouts  during  the  investigation. 
4.  Approval  by  Congress  of  the  consid¬ 
eration  by  the  Interstate  Commerce  Com¬ 
mission  of  increases  in  freight  rates  to 
meet  the  additional  expenditures  made 
necessary  by  the  eight  hour  day. 
5.  Granting  of  power  to  the  President, 
in  case  of  military  necessity  to  seize  and 
operate  the  railroads. 
6.  Enlargement  and  administrative-  re¬ 
organization  of  the  Interstate  Commerce 
Commission. 
Potato  Growers’  Tour 
Up  in  Franklin  County.  N.  Y.,  a  potato 
asociation  lias  been  organized.  Last  year 
some  of  the  leasing  potato  growers  of  this 
county  got  together  for  the  purpose  of  or¬ 
ganizing  the  seed  potato  interest.  There 
was  a  demand  from  the  South  for  high- 
class  Northern-grown  seed,  which  grows 
in  a  superior  way  up  in  that  Northern 
country,  so  these  growers  got.  together, 
formed  their  organization,  and  have  made 
a  success  of  it.  They  are  now  preparing 
what  they  call  a  Special  Potato  Tour,  for 
September  Sth.  This  will  mean  a  trip 
through  the  potuto-growing  section,  stop¬ 
ping  at.  farms  where  superior  seed  is  pro¬ 
duced.  The  members  of  this  association 
are  working  along  approved  liues  to  pro¬ 
duce  potatoes  free  from  disease  and  true 
to  type  Anyone  interested  in  superior 
seed  will  find  this  trip  a  good  one.  Clar¬ 
ence  Collins,  of  Malone,  N.  Y.,  is  secre¬ 
tary  of  the  association. 
The  Man  Behind 
This  Sign  Gives 
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prepared  to  insure  your  car  at  only  average 
cost.  He  gives,  also,  highest  quality  in 
service  —  the  service  that  saves  you  time 
and  money. 
Ask  him  about  the  Firestone  Red  Side  Wall 
and  Black  Tread — the  combination  which  gives 
the  added  value  of  fine  appearance. 
A  Supply  of  Firestone 
Accessories 
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