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‘The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
January 7. 1922 
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For All Uses 
EVENTS OF THE WEEK 
cotton, 'butter, poultry and other com¬ 
modities. The reductions ordered by the 
Interstate Commerce Com mi si on for 
Western territory on grain and grain 
products and hay also will be effective, 
according to a statement issued at 
Omaha, Neb., December 22, by F._ W. 
Robinson, freight traffic manager of the 
Union Pacific system. 
Illinois' blue sky securities law was 
upheld by the State Supreme Court De¬ 
cember 22. According to the Secretary 
of State. Mr. Emmersom the law has 
prevented the sale of $100,000,000 in 
fraudulent and doubtful stocks annually. 
An iron safe containing $.”.0,000 worth 
of oil stocks stolen from the home of 
Commodore Frank Hastings at Port 
Washington, U. I.. on the night of .Au¬ 
gust no. was dragged December 22 from 
the bottom of Manhasset Bay, where it 
had been lying in 20 ft. of water since 
.the day after the burglary. It was 
brought to the surface by Peter Ander¬ 
son. n diver employed by the Merritt 
Chapman Wrecking Company, after two 
days of searching on the bottom of the 
bay. 
Assistant United 
announced at 
1. that he had roc- 
Itnmigra- 
institote deportation pro- 
Arthur Lorenz, manag- 
Staals-Zcil mu). 
the result of ail edi- 
e December 13 issue of 
The Blaekhawk Post. Ameri- 
ntly sued the paper for 
. alleging the article 
members “bums, vaga- 
” and asserted the Le¬ 
ith British gold 
Col. John V. Cliuuin 
States District Attorney 
Chicago, December 23 
omnieudod that Howard Kvey 
tion Inspector 
ceedings against 
ing editor of the Illinois 
The action was 
torial article in tli 
the paper, 
can Legion, rece: 
$100,000 damages, 
called the Legion 
bonds and hoboes, 
gion had ‘been bought w 
to "betray American labor." 
George Rogers, alias George Lewis, 
convicted of conspiracy in connection 
with the $1,000,000 Toledo postal rob¬ 
bery last February, pleaded guilty at To¬ 
ledo. O., December 23. to the charge of 
robbery in connection with the case and 
was sentenced to serve 07 years in the 
Federal Penitentiary at Leavenworth, 
Kan., by Federal Judge Killits. Rogers, 
with Joe Urbaytis and Charles Schultz, 
both of whom had been convicted of con¬ 
spiracy in connection with the mail rob¬ 
bery. escaped from the Lucas County jail 
Labor Day. Schultz was recaptured a 
week later near Crissoy, 0„ and is now 
serving it 10-year sentence in the Leaven¬ 
worth Penitentiary. Rogers was taken 
into custody at Palos Park, a suburb of 
Chicago, December 10. Urbaytis is still 
at large. 
The conviction of Carmine Lizenziata, 
wholesale grocer, whose adulterated wood 
alcohol, labeled “brandy” and “whisky,” 
found its way into the New England 
States during the Christmas holidays of 
1010. killing Joseph Kania in Chicopee 
Falls. Mass., and others, was affirmed by 
the Appellate Division in Brooklyn De¬ 
cember 23. Lizenziata will have to serve 
IS years and six months for manslaughter 
in the first degree. 
Announcement was made at the White 
House December 23 that President Har¬ 
ding had commuted the sentences of 24 
so-called political prisoners, including 
Eugene V. Debs, who were convicted un¬ 
der the Espionage act and other war¬ 
time laws and sentenced to from two to 
20 years. Debs was released from Atlan¬ 
ta Penitentiary on Christmas Day. Five 
soldiers Who were sentenced to life im¬ 
prisonment by a general court martial at 
Coblenz for the killing of a former Brit¬ 
ish officer, were pardoned by the Presi¬ 
dent. Commutation of sentences of the 
21 prisoners means that the President is 
not disposed, even in the case of Debs, to 
issue OUt-and-OUt pardons with conse¬ 
quent restoration of rights of citizenship. 
Twenty-five dead, scores injured and 
huge property damage is the toll of a 
storm which struck Eastern Arkansas 
December 23 and tore through upper Mis¬ 
sissippi and lionisiana during the early 
hours of December 24. 
Gaetano Maimonti, his wife and their 
three ( Itildren were found dead in their 
home at 1054 Mack avenue, Detroit. 
Mich., December 20. Their unopened 
Christmas presents, arranged with care, 
were lying at the foot of :i decorated tree 
where they had been placed to await the 
Christmas morning, Beanie the lifeless 
form of the oldest child, Philip, 14 years 
old. was the body of a large white dog, 
the pet of the family. The tragedy was 
caused by carbon dioxide fumes from a 
gas jet beneath a water heater in the 
kitchen, 
A three-alarm fire December 20 swept 
through the northern part of a two-story 
building on the triangular block at 105th 
and 160th streets and St Nicholas ave¬ 
nue aud Broadway. New 5 ork City. The 
damage is estimated tit $150,000. 
Fire December 20 wiped out the busi¬ 
ness section of the town of Dillard in the 
Hewitt oil field. Oklahoma, causing dam¬ 
age to the amount of $100,000. None of 
the struct tires was covered by insurance. 
More than 1.000 persons were made home¬ 
less. , , . , , 
Police of East St. Louis and neighbor¬ 
ing towns in Illinois expressed the belief 
December 27 that they have rounded up a 
band of robbers which has obtained $140.- 
000 in four recent bunk and payroll rob- 
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beries in Central and Southern Illinois. 
Nino men were under arrest, and six of 
them identified in connection with the 
robberies. The robberies Included that 
of the Peabody Coal Mining Company of 
Kincaid, in which $05,000 was stolen 
August IS; State Bank of Panama, in 
which $10,000 was taken December 12; 
State Bank of Tuka, in which $15,000 
was taken December 20, and the Dupo 
State Rank, which was robbed of $11,- 
000 December 23. 
Murders in Chicago in the year ended 
December 15 wen* at the rate of nearly 
one a day. according to the annual re¬ 
port of Coroner Peter Hoffman. In 365 
days the city had 352 murders. Of 3,304 
deaths investigated, 57 were caused by 
bad whisky. the report said. 
FARM AND GARDEN.—The largest 
fire in Ihe history of the Borough of 
Woodstown. N. J.. destroyed the South 
Jersey Farmers’ Exchange Building De¬ 
cember 26. containing tons of fertilizer 
and a large quantity of produce. The 
loss was estimated at $75,000. 
T. W. and William Keelin, Chicago, 
who operated as T. W. Keelin & Co., 
grain dealers, were fined $500 and costs 
each on one conspiracy charge December 
24. and three other charges growing out 
of :t short-weight scheme by which they 
defrauded customers over a period of 15 
years were dismissed. The action was 
taken after they surrendered $23,000 in 
cash and assets valued at $10,000 as par¬ 
tial restitution. They previously had 
turned over $22,500 to trustees appointed 
by the court. Because of the advanced 
age iff the defendants, Judge Harry Fish¬ 
er some time ago agreed to place (hem on 
probation, provided they stripped them¬ 
selves of the fortune they confessed ob¬ 
taining by fraud. 
Protection and propagation of fish and 
game in the last fiscal year cost New 
York State more than half a million dol¬ 
lars. but the results, conservation officials 
stated recently, are apparent in the pro¬ 
fusion of both fish and game which have 
been reported. Game protection cost 
$432,622, as shown by (lie commission’s 
eleventh annual report.. $207,311 was ex¬ 
pended for fish culture and $42,307 for 
the maintenance of game bird farms, a 
total of $633,133. The commission col¬ 
lected $410,703 from license's, penalties, 
sale of fish tags and sale of carp. 
Approximately 100 American vessels, 
averaging 0.000 tons each, will be em¬ 
ployed in the next three or four months 
for the transportation of corn to Russia, 
according to estimates December 27. The 
United States Grain Corporation already 
has purchased five cargoes of grain, ag¬ 
gregating 1.000,000 bushels, and has char¬ 
tered the Shipping Board steamer Win¬ 
nebago for the first voyage. 
Short Courses in Agriculture at 
Columbia University 
The department of agriculture of Co¬ 
lumbia University, in co-operation with 
the College of Agriculture of Cornell Uni¬ 
versity, is offering a series of short 
courses in agriculture. Prof. IT. A. Hop¬ 
per. of the department of animal husband¬ 
ry. opens the series at 4 :20 p. m., Friday. 
January 6. with a lecture on “Essential 
Factors for Producing Milk." In the 
evening at 7 :30 he will lecture on “The 
Basis for Selection of Dairy Cattle.” On 
Saturday afternoon, January 7, lie will 
lecture on “Feeding for Milk Produc¬ 
tion.” and in the evening ou "Seasonal 
Management of the Dairy Herd.” Prof. 
R. E. Robb, of I he department of rural 
engineering, will offer a series of lec¬ 
tures on farm drainage and explosives on 
January 13-14. Prof. L. M. Hurd, of 
the department of poultry husbandry, will 
deliver a series of lectures ou poultry 
farming January 26. 27 and 28. Full 
announcement of purl ion lavs of the above 
courses may be had by addressing the 
Agricultural Department of Columbia 
University, New York City. 
Coming Farmers’ Meetings 
January 3-Februar.v 24. 1022—Now 
York State School of Agriculture, Coble- 
skill. short courses in agriculture, home- 
makiug. ice cream making. 
January 4-7—Ridgewood. N. J.. Poul¬ 
try Show. North Jersey Poultry Breed¬ 
ers’ Club. S. J. Hammerstein, secretary, 
Hillsdale. N. J. 
January 6-28—Short courses in agri¬ 
culture. Columbia University, New York 
('iti , 
January 10—New York ITolstelu-Frie- 
sinn Association, second annual meeting, 
Syracuse, N. Y. 
January 10-12—Maryland Agricultural 
Society and allied societies, Baltimore. 
Md. 
January 10-12—Virginia State Horti¬ 
cultural Society, annual meeting. Murphy 
Hotel. Richmond, Vn. 
January 10-13 -Vermont State Poultry 
Association, twenty-fifth annual exhibi¬ 
tion. City Ilall. Si. Albans, Vt. B. P. 
Greene, secretary, 
January 11-13—New York State Hor¬ 
ticultural Society, Rochester. N. Y. 
January 30 * February 3-—Farmers’ 
Week. Ohio State College. Columbus. O. 
February 2-4—New Haven County 
Poultry Club, annual show. Armory. New 
Haven. Conn. E. A. Todd, secretary. 
Room 310, Federal Building, New Ha¬ 
ven. Conn. 
February 13-18 — Cornell Farmers’ 
Week. New York State College of Agri¬ 
culture. Ithaca. N. Y. 
February 22-24—Eastern meeting. New 
York state Horticultural Society, Pough¬ 
keepsie. N. Y. 
