1901 
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Events of the Week 
DOMESTIC.—Five cases of lockjaw, which proved fatal, 
occurred at Camden, N. J., up to November 18, believed to 
be the result of vaccination.In a cave-in at 
Oronogo, Mo., November 13, the entire plant of the Aurora 
Mining Company, one of the greatest zinc producers in the 
district, was swallowed up. No lives were lost. The plant 
comprised a hundred ton mill, office building and engine 
house, all of which were engulfed, together with six gravel 
cars and an immense tailing pile. On entering the ground 
a short time before the cave-in occurred workmen heard 
the timbers cracking, and signaled to be drawn up. The 
last man had reached the surface only a few minutes before 
the timbers collapsed, the earth yielded, and with a crash 
the whole plant sank into the abyss. Further cave-ins are 
feared, and work in that vicinity has been suspended, it 
is impossible to estimate the damage.A theater 
at Grand Kapids, Mich., was destroyed by fire November 13 ; 
one man killed and loss of $100,000.A lire in 
the business section of Cleveland, O., November 12, caused 
a loss of $350,000.A tire in a varnish factory 
at Boston, Mass., November 12, resulted in damage reaching 
$150,000.November 12-14 a severe biizzard pre¬ 
vailed through the Mohawk Valley in northern New York ; 
there was a heavy snowfall.In furtherance of 
the Government proceedings against Oberlin M. Carter, 
Attorney Stone, representing the convicted army officer, 
turned over $60,000 in railroad bonds, a note for $11,000 
and $700 in cash. This makes the total amount received to 
date about $400,000. Another portion still to be trans¬ 
ferred will bring the total to almost $500,000. 
November 12 a big office building was destroyed by lire in 
Cleveland, O.; one woman killed, six persons injured; loss 
$500,000.Fire, quickly followed by an explosion, 
in the Baby mine, at Pocahontas, Va., November 14, resulted 
in the loss of several lives. Five bodies have been recovered, 
10 more are supposed to be in the mine, while 25 of the 
rescued were severely burned. Most of the victims had 
entered the mine to light the flames.Defalca¬ 
tions amounting to $60,000 have been discovered in the 
Williamsburg Savings Bank, New York. The money is 
said to have been lost in speculation and was obtained 
by collusion between the paying and receiving tellers. One 
of them is now dead and the other has confessed. 
Full reports from llichfleld, Sevier County, Utah, state 
that the damage to property in that county from the earth¬ 
quake of November 14 will amount to almost $100,000. 
Scarcely a building escaped damage of some kind. The 
Mormon Tabernacle at llichfleld was damaged to the extent 
of $2,000. in many parts of the country landslides have 
occuri-ed, blocking railroads, changing the course of streams 
and causing general disorder.A dense fog was 
responsible for numerous accidents and collisions in Chicago 
November 20. In a collision between two Metropolitan 
Elevated trains one person was killed and 12 injured. In 
another collision a conductor was killed while trying to 
signal an approaching train.The Hardwick bill, 
providing for the disfranchisement of the negro, was killed 
in the Georgia House of Representatives November 19, by a 
vote of 113 to 17.At Vincennes, Ind., November 
19, 300 union miners marched to the shaft of the Protest 
Hill Coal Mine Company where non-union miners are em¬ 
ployed, and closed the shaft. They destroyed property, as¬ 
saulted a number of miners, stopped the pumps, burned all 
the tools they could find, and after leaving instructions that 
they would return in case the mine was started and the scale 
not paid, marched back to town and disbanded. 
The Reciprocity Convention opened at Washington, D. C., 
November 19. Nearly every mercantile and manufacturing In¬ 
terest in the country was represented. The real work of the 
Convention began with the afternoon session, when A. B, 
Farquhar, of York, Pa., and Charles Heber Clark, of Phila¬ 
delphia, opened the discussion of the general subject of 
reciprocity. Mr. Farquhar led in the presentation of the 
theme with a strong and eloquent appeal for reciprocal 
fairness in international trade relations. He made frequent 
allusions to President McKinley’s Buffalo speech, which he 
called a “farewell address,” and the Convention responded 
repeatedly with hearty cheei’S. Mr. Clark followed Mr. 
Farquhar with an off-hand speech based on a most careful 
study of the commercial history of the last quarter century. 
He was opposed to reciprocity, ^and he made a strong argu¬ 
ment against what he called "knifing one industry to benefit 
another.” “What is really meant by reciprocity,” said Mr. 
Clark, “is that you ask Germany, France or England if we 
can go over there and assassinate some one of their indus¬ 
tries on condition that they can come over here and put 
the knife into some one of ours.” The trite reasoning that 
the tariff is a local issue was verified in every speech made. 
The lumberman wanted reciprocity, because he had cut off 
his pine at home and wanted to get at the Canadian forests. 
The wool men looked askance at the idea of reciprocity with 
Argentina, while the hide men took an opposite view. The 
knit-goods people extolled the virtue of the Dlngley Tariff’, 
and saw little to be desired in any sort of reciprocity. 
.YDMINISTRATION.—The new Hay-Pauncefote Canal 
Treaty was signed in Washington November 18 by Secretary 
Hay for the United States, and Lord Pauncefote, the British 
Ambassador, for Great Britain. It gives to the United 
States power to guarantee the neutrality of the canal at 
all times, and removes the restriction on the power of the 
United States to fortify it. The Clayton-Bulwer treaty 
of 1850 is abrogated. Coaling stations for the use of the 
.Ymerican men-of-war, which will defend the Nicaragua 
Canal, will be acquired by the United States now that the 
Isthmian Canal Convention is signed. These stations will 
be established at Almirante Bay, Chirlqui Lagoon, Colombia; 
Gulf of Dulce, Costa Rica; Danish West Indies and Galla- 
pagos Island, off the coast of and belonging to Ecuador. 
While the treaty permits the erection of fortifications by the 
United States, the uselessness of going to such a tremendous 
expense is apparent to officers of both the army and navy. 
The great initial cost of this means of protection would be 
but the beginning, as it would be necessary to keep the 
fortifications in repair and to maintain a large garrison, 
which would be subjected to the ills prevalent in Central 
America.Suit has been brought by a London 
firm to obtain a return of duty paid to the Collector of the 
Port of New York upon imports of sugar bi’ought from 
Iloilo, Island of Pauay, in the Philippines. 
PHILIPPINES.—Diaz, the presidente of Tacloban, Island 
of Leyte, who has been proved to be an agent of the Filipino 
HE rural NEW-YORKER 
junta at Hongkong, has been arrested. Many incriminating 
papers, implicating numerous officials, were seized at the 
time of his arrest. The gunboat I^eyte has discovered a 
signal station working on the Island of Leyte and com¬ 
municating with insurgents on the Island of Samar by the 
Uashlight system. Three operators were arrested, and the 
station was destroyed. The men confessed that many 
recruits have been sent from Leyte to Samar. 
GENERAL FOREIGN NEWS.—Great gales extended over 
the British Isles and northern Europe November 10-14. 
On the latter date a lifeboat and 11 men were lost at 
Yarmouth. The lifeboat was on its way to the rescue of a 
distressed vessel, when it was struck by a great wave and 
capsized. The crew were imprisoned and only three of 
them succeeded in making their escape, innumerable cases 
of minor casualties continue to be reported on the coasts of 
the United Kingdom, marking the storm as the most dis¬ 
astrous that has occurred in many years. An incomplete list 
of the persons who have lost their lives by drowning during 
the storm aggregates over 160. It is still impossible to 
estimate with any exactitude the total loss of life and 
property resulting from the protracted gale, and probably 
the full extent of the damage will never be known. Tons 
of wreckage of unidentified vessels was thrown up. Alto¬ 
gether, it is known that about 50 vessels have been wrecked 
along the British coasts. Thirty-four of these have been 
absolute wrecks, involving, it is believed, a loss of more 
than 180 drowned. The Yarmouth lifeboat disaster alone 
’leaves 44 fatherless cnildren. There was a heavy snow¬ 
storm in Scotland and a fall of snow generally through¬ 
out the United Kingdom, especially in the hilly districts, 
where several shepherds lost their lives. 
FARM AND GARDEN.—The Denver Chamber of Com¬ 
merce and Board of Trade has sent President Roosevelt a 
letter concerning the dependence of the beet sugar industry 
upon the Diiigley Tariff. The petitioners represent that at 
least 10 years are needed to put the beet sugar industry 
upon a basis which will be strong enough to enable it to 
compete with the cane sugar product raised by cheap labor. 
They say the beet sugar industry is the first and only indus¬ 
try iu the West in which the farmers and producers ai-e 
directly interested' which has received the benefit of Ameri¬ 
can policy of protecting infant industries. 
The report emanating from the National Live Stock Associ¬ 
ation that the country is threatened with a shortage of beef 
cattle has stirred up cousiderable interest, and an effort is 
being made to have the Census Office announce the result 
of the live stock census made last year in time for the meet¬ 
ing of the National Convention of Stockmen. At the present 
time there are no trustworthy figures to show the condition 
of the visible supply of cattle iu the country, but the census 
figures of last year will give a basis from which to make 
close estimates. While local packers admit a scarcity of 
high-grade corn-fed beef, they say the supply of ordinary 
cattle is equal to all demands being made. 
The twenty-fifth convention of the Iowa State Dairymen’s 
Association opened at Dubuque, November 12, with fully 
500 delegates present. A delegation of 40 arrived from 
Chicago on a special car in charge of T. F. Gallagher and 
J. W. Cook, secretary of the National Buttermakers’ Asso¬ 
ciation. At Machinery Hall there was a display of every¬ 
thing in the way of creamery and dairy supplies, and all the 
latest inventions for making good butter were shown. The 
city was in gala attire, flags with the golden color of butter 
attached, flying everywhere. 
The Michigan Merino Sheep Breeders’ Association will 
hold a show at Detroit, December 17 ; secretary, E. N. Ball, 
Grand Blanc, Mich. 
Tnomas Meehan, of I’hiladelphia, the well-known nursery¬ 
man, and one of the most eminent of vegetable biologists, 
died at his home November 19, aged 75 years. He had 
been for many years a member of the Philadelphia Common 
Council, aud was an earnest promoter of public education ; 
he was also active in city tree planting, aud in the forma¬ 
tion of parks aud breathing spaces in the crowded sections. 
Mr. Meehan was born near Loudon, England, in 1826, aud 
X)ublished his first scientific paper (on the stamens of the 
Portulacca) when about 15 years old. The devotion of the 
lad to botany and general science attracted the attention 
of a number of eminent scientific men in England, and 
through their efforts he became a student in Kew Gardens, 
where he completed a full course. He came to America 
more than 50 years ago, aud in 1853 started in the nursery 
business. For a time William Saunders, founder of the 
I’atrons of Husbandry, was his business partner. He was a 
prolific writer on agricultural and horticultural subjects, 
aud was connected editorially with several publications. He 
was an officer or member iu numerous scientific associations, 
and was State Botanist of Pennsylvania. Last August the 
Veitch Memorial Association, of England, presented him 
with its silver medal for “distinguished sei-vlces in botany 
and horticulture,” only the third American to be so honored. 
Few men of scientific pursuits have so fully identified them¬ 
selves with the public good; his civic usefulness, accentu¬ 
ated by a genial personality, was not less eminent than his 
distinction in his chosen field of botanical investigation. 
The National Grange assembled at Lewiston, Me., Novem¬ 
ber 13 for its thirty-fifth annual session. Prosperous con¬ 
ditions were reported by the Master, Worthy Lecturer and 
Secretary Trimble. The meeting was a most impressive 
one. __ 
A NEW CHAPTER ON THE SAN JOSE SCALE. 
About 25 years ago there appeared on the premises of 
James Lick, at San Jos6, Cal., a new species of scale insect 
ravaging his fruit trees. Having been a very wealthy man, 
aud enterprising as well, he imported fruits, flowers and 
other things of a horticultural nature from many parts of 
the world, and it was finally and very correctly supposed 
that he had unwittingly imported this new pest on some 
of those foreign plants. Tahiti was at one time thought to 
have been the source from which it came, and latterly 
Japan. The spread of this new scale was very rapid, and 
the Californians were greatly alarmed, and tried various 
ways to destroy it. In that dry climate they found that a 
preparation called “resin wash” would hold it in check, 
aud that is why it is not considered so serious a trouble as 
in the Eastern States, where it was eventually brought on 
fruit trees, aud where this remedy is not effective because 
of the molster climate. As is generally known, the spread 
of the San Jos6 scale In the Eastern States, from a bundle 
of trees sent from California to New Jersey about 1886, 
has been so rapid and steady that now the whole counTry 
is in dread of the destruction of or very serious injury to' 
their orchards. Legislation, official Inspection, fumigatiom 
and other means of lighting the terrible evil are familiar 
to all progressive horticulturists. 
in the course of our warfare against the San Jose scales 
the United States Department of Agriculture sent oue of itS' 
most skillful entomologists, C. L. Marlatt, to Asia to hunt- 
out, if possible, the home aud the natural enemy of this, 
insect. It was supposed that where the evil origiuatedi 
there might also be its antidote. Japan was visited by Mr.. 
Marlatt last Summer in his quest, because it has long beeut 
known that this scale existed there. But he found that iui 
every case where it existed there it could be traced back Lo» 
importations of trees or plants from America. From Japau 
no went to Chefoo aud other places iu China, where he also 
round it in destructive numbers. He then hunted north¬ 
westward, aud between Tientsin aud Bekiu he found it 
diminishing, that is, present but in small numbers, aud, 
happy to know, along with a species of lady bug called by 
scientists Chilocorus similis, that was keeping ic iu check, 
this is the treasure for which the trip was made. Mr. 
Marlatt made the most careful study of the whole matter, 
and when he was sure laud he is oue of the most accurate 
aud conservative of scientists) he wrote a long letter giv- 
mg all the facts to Dr. L. O. Howard, Chief of the rJivlsiuu 
of Entomology at Washington, D. C., aud seut a number of 
the parasites of the scale to the Department of Agriculture 
as a trial shipment. Others will follow in due time. We 
nave, therefore, every reason to believe that the days of 
tue San Jose scale are probably numbered, or soon will be, 
aud that we will in due time experience similar relief from 
tue ravages of this dire enemy that the orange aud lemon 
growers of California did from those of the Fiuted scale by. 
the introduction from Austi'alia of the Vedalia cardiualis,. 
which is another of the lady bug friends of fruits aud humanity.. 
While it would be wise to continue every present effort to. 
suppress the 8an Jose scale it would seem to me unwise to 
cut down valuable orchards until this new means of fighting 
it had been given a thorough test. It was not more than 
three years from the introduction of the Australian lady- 
bug until the Citrus orchards of California were safe, and 
it may be that the Chinese species will prove equally 
effective in our apple aud other orchards. The brief an¬ 
nouncement last week of this good news was from a tele¬ 
gram that I sent from Washington just in time to be in¬ 
serted before Thic R. N.-Y. went to press. 
if. K. VAN DUilAN. 
A SUCCESSFUL MILK STRIKE. 
The daily papers recently reported a strike on the part 
of certain Connecticut farmers who ship milk to i’rovideuce, 
R. 1. The following note from one of our readers shows 
ilmt iu this case the farmers won. 
“Milk from this place goes to Boston and i’rovideuce. 
Those who struck here were men sending to I’rovidence. 
The association, or union, as some might call it, is known 
as the i’rovideuce Dairy Association. The farmers here are 
a branch of that union. On account of the rise iu the price 
of grain they felt as though they were justified in asking 
an advance of five cents per can, 35 cents for 9^4 quart can ; 
36 for 10 quart aud 37 for 10‘A quart cans. The union 
agreed not to send any milk after Thursday, November 14, 
unless the milk buyers iu I'rovideuce would agree to their 
demands. As no milk of any consequence could be got, the 
milk buyers agreed to give the union its price, aud Sunday 
morning the car was cari'yiug the usual quantity. In less 
than two days the strike was ended, aud the farmers are 
happy. The milk buyers say If the union had asked 40 
cents per can they would have had to pay it. The farmers, 
only wanted a fair thing, aud they feel as though they had. 
got it. There is no strike on the Boston branch, aud none 
likely to occur. Each organization is independent of the 
other. The farmers have tried several times iu the years, 
gone by to have the price advanced, but with little success,, 
the farmers not holding together. This time the victory is 
complete; they feel the milk question is solved, aud that 
in the future good prices may be obtained for it.” u. c. k. 
The I’rovidence Milk Association runs a milk car from 
Willimautic to Providence, and the I’rovideuce Dairy Co. 
takes it by express from Colchester via Willimautic to Provi¬ 
dence. The cans hold 9i/j and 10 quarts, aud they made the 
price 30 and 31 cents from October 1 to April 1. There was 
so much dissatisfaction that the Providence Milk Producers’ 
Union was formed. Every shipping station has one director 
appointed by the members at that station. They asked the 
contractors on November 14 (Thursday) for a raise to 36 
and 35 cents per can (this means delivered on the station 
platform) and to let them know by Friday or there would 
be no milk on Saturday. Saturday the strike went on ; 
Sunday they wanted the milk, but too late for that day’s 
milk. Monday morning every man’s cans sent were tagged 
"Tell all milkmen the price of milk will be 35 aud 36 cents 
from November 17 to April 1.” The producers also asked 
and demanded, if the price of grain kept up to present prices, 
that the price of milk be kept up until May 1. We sell here 
at a straight price and no surplus, and when they have more 
milk than the market demands they simply tag the cans: 
“Don’t send any milk to-morrow,” which system we like 
better than the Boston way, as we can use it at home at 
better advantage. This station ships from 75 to 120 cans 
per day, and they carry on the milk car from 1,000 to 1,600 
cans per day. i- f- 
Baltic, Conn. __ 
A “SECOND CROP CRANK.”—1 am just through harvest¬ 
ing about one acre second crop Triumph potatoes. I send 
one of the largest tubers. Seed planted August 10; har¬ 
vested November 12. How is this for a 92 days’ growth? 
One season I grew two crops Shoe-peg corn; first crop 
planted about April 1, ears from same pulled aud dried 
above kitchen stove aud planted ,^ly 15. The result was 
thoroughly matured ears before a frost. The grain from 
these was planted following year with no marked difference 
in yield from first and second crop seed. But, In my 
opinion, second crop Triumph potatoes double the yield of 
first crop. You perceive I am a kind of "second crop 
crank.” I have now four or five varieties second crop 
potatoes, bush beans, tomatoes, etc. n. w. u. 
Hickman, Ky. 
R. N.-Y.—The specimen of Triumph sent us weighed 14 
ounces. A lively speed that for 92 days’ work! What an 
advantage to live in a country where two crops are possible, 
and where cow peas can be grown between two crops of 
grain ! 
