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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
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EVENTS OF THE WEEK. 
DOMESTIC.- Willi sensational suddenness Sept. 20 Presi¬ 
dent George Metier, of Carriage and Wagon Workers' Union 
No. 4, of Chicago, who is being tried, with 12 other officials and 
members, on a charge of criminal conspiracy, withdrew a 
plea of not guilty and entered a plea of guilty. Meller, it 
is alleged, was one of the instigators of a system of "slug¬ 
ging'’ practised on non-union workmen. Counsel for the 
other defendants were thrown into commotion by Meller's 
change of front. They met the situation, however, with a 
charge that Meller was a paid spy in the employment of the 
Carriage and Wagon Manufacturers’ Association. Meller is 
expected to take the witness stand against his fellow de¬ 
fendants. . . . Post Office Inspector Ashe arrested at 
New York Sept. 21 Maxwell II. Byrd, who calls himself the 
Manager of the Globe Detective and Information Bureau at 
60 Wall street. lie is accused of using the mails with intent 
to defraud. Byrd, it is said, wrote hundreds of letters to 
persons throughout the country informing them that they 
were heirs to an estate of $150,000,000. The money was in 
the Bank of England, he said, and if the recipient would 
send Mr. Byrd $2, as the rest of the 30,000 heirs were doing, 
Byrd would furnish him with information concerning the 
estate. Byrd says that the estate does exist, and is now in 
Chancery. The names, he avers, came from a book in the 
British Consul-General’s office here. The arrest was made on 
a letter sent to Clara Zahn of Lancaster, Pa. The prisoner 
was released for examination in $2,000 bail. . . Fire 
Sept. 24. destroyed half a dozen of the principal business 
houses and the public library building at Butte, Mont. The 
insurance loss is fully $600,000, and the fire loss exceeds 
$1,000,000. The chief losers are the Symonds Dry Goods 
Company. $600,000, insured for $320,000; city of Butte, on 
the public library, loss, $250,000, insured for $95,000; 
Brownfield County Carpet Company. $80,000, insured for 
$40,000: L. W. Shodair, loss, $40,000, insured for $5,000. 
Thirty-eight thousand books in the library, valued at $80.- 
000, were destroyed. The fire started in the furnace room of 
the Symonds Dry Goods Company. . . . Five men were 
killed and more than 20 injured in a collision Sept. 25 be¬ 
tween the New York Limited, from the West, and a local 
passenger train at Paoli, on the main line of the Pennsyl¬ 
vania Railroad, 19 miles out'of Philadelphia. The limited 
ran through an open switch and plunged into a siding on 
which stood the local. The accident appears to have been 
due to a misplaced switch. . . . Three persons were 
killed and two fatally injured Sept. 25 by an explosion in 
an Italian fireworks factory in the Williamsburg district of 
New York. The manager is being held* on a charge of crim¬ 
inal negligence. 
TIIE BEEF PACKERS.—Four officials of the Sehwarz- 
schild & Sulzberger Packing Company pleaded guilty before 
Judge 1. Otis Humphrey in the Federal Court at Chicago 
Sept. 21 to accepting rebates in a conspiracy to violate the 
Elkins law, and they were fined a total of $25,000. This 
marked the first victory for the Government in its prosecu¬ 
tion of the packing companies in what are known as the 
“beef trust cases.” The four men who pleaded guilty and 
the fines imposed upon them are as follows: Samuel Well, 
vice-president of the concern, living in New York, fined 
$10,000. Beth S. Gusev, traffic manager, formerly indicted 
for interfering with Government witnesses, fined $5,000. 
Vance D. Skipworth, assistant traffic manager, fined $5,000. 
Chess E. Todd, assistant traffic manager, fined $5,000. A 
certified check for $25,008 was handed the clerk of the 
court and the four defendants were released. The $8 was 
for court costs. The check was signed bv Max Sulzberger, 
vice-president of the company. This punishment of the 
Schwarzschild & Sulzberger officials does not affect the 
charge of interference with Government witnesses made in a 
previous indictment returned against Cusey and other 
Schwarzschild & Sulzberger men. 
The fiftieth annual fair of Dryden. N. Y„ Agricultural 
Society, held September 19-22, was one of the best in the 
history of the society. Through the never-failing courtesy 
of the officials The It. N.-Y'. occupied a booth in the fruit 
tent near the special Burpee contest. The present secre¬ 
tary, ,7. B. Wilson, has ably filled that nosition for 18 years. 
The annual meeting and exhibition of the Maine Bornolog¬ 
ical Society will be held in the Grange Hall, Canton, Me., 
November 14-16; secretary, D. II. Knowlton, Farmington, 
Me. 
PROSPECTS FOR THE APPLE CROP. 
The apple crop is only fair, and prices range from 30 to 
50 cents per bushel : extra fancy 60 cents. f. ,r. 
Fremont, O. 
There are no apples to he offered for sale, as crop is total 
failure in this section. Peaches are a large crop, and bring¬ 
ing fair prices; one or two growers will ship 15,000 baskets. 
Abundant pasture. n. v. 
New Milford, N. Y". 
Buyers are offering $1.80 per barrel for Winter fruit, 
barrels furnished. Fall apples now being packed at $1.50, 
evaporating 40 cents per hundred pounds. Apples a light 
crop in southern Cayuga. c. b. 
Moravia, N. Y. 
I am over my ears in peaches and do not know whether 
there is an apple buyer in this section or not. Apples, as 
a rule, are light; an occasional orchard under good treat¬ 
ment is showing fairly well. j. r. c. 
Newburgh, N. Y. 
No price on Winter fruit yet. Harvey, Wealthy, Snow and 
such varieties started with the local buyers at $2, but have 
advanced to $2.50. Barrels cost us 35 cents at the factories; 
labor $1.25 to $1.50 per day. c. e. w. 
Chesterville, Me. 
Apples are scarce here, not over 20 per cent and poor in 
quality. Prices were as high as $1 per bushel for windfalls. 
No Winter apples for sale at any price. Potatoes only 
fair crop. Corn promises a full cron. Wheat and oats 
turned out well. Seeding about all done. a. w. h. 
Butler Co., Pa. 
I think No. 1 fruit as it runs, in regards to kind is bring¬ 
ing $2.75 per barrel for King, and $3 for No. 1 Spy has been 
freely paid ; No. 2 from $1.75 to $2. I think we have in 
this section about 35 or 40 per cent of last year’s crop, and 
quality very fair. t. b. wilson. 
Seneca Co., N. Y'. 
Apple crop in this section is light, probably not over 25 
per cent of last year; quality fair. There seems to he no 
set price among buyers this year, as they pay all prices from 
$1.50 per barrel for No. 1 fruit, to $2.25, taking everything 
as picked from tree. This without barrel. c. .r. u 
West Coxsackie, 'N. Y. 
I regret to say we have nothing encouraging to report on 
the apple crop. It is nearly a total failure, not to exceed 
five to 10 per cent of last year’s crop, and a small portion of 
this may be called good No. 1 apples. There is occasionally 
a good lot to be found, and such lots are selling on the basis 
of $2.50 to $3 per barrel. s. c. b. 
Medina, N. Y'. 
Winter apples about 30 per cent of crop: buyers offer $2 
to $3 per barrel. Some of best orchards sold at latter figure ; 
peaches plenty and cheap, weather being bad for gathering 
and marketing, canning houses paying one cent per pound 
for pie timber; sales in eastern markets often making 
losses to shipper. Plums do but little better now ; probably 
late peaches will make better sales as weather improves. 
Reeds Corners, N. Y. w. h. p. 
The Kieffer pear runs from $1.25 to $1.75 per barrel, and 
very few good apples, are to be found in these parts. The 
buyers are hunting the country over every day. both for 
apples and pears, and Kieffer pears are bringing 75 cents to 
$1 per barrel in the orchard, the buyer furnishing the pack¬ 
age. There is only a half crop of Kieffer pears and the 
apples only a third of a crop. n. p. c. 
Burlington, N. J. 
Apples are scarce: buyers offer $1.50 per barrel. Not 
more than half a crop of potatoes. 40 to 42 cents* at pres¬ 
ent. All cereals were good crops excepting buckwheat, 
which is light in acreage and yield. The yield of beans will 
fall far below that of last year in this section. I wish more 
farmers .would report crops, prices, etc., and those who do 
not confine themselves to the apple crop. w. a. l. 
Northern Steuben Co., N, Y. 
The peach is monopolizing attention at the present time, 
and there is but little inquiry in regard to other fruits. Sev¬ 
eral crops have been sold in this section at varying prices, 
as $3 per barrel, farmers' pack for No. 1. $2.50 per barrel 
for everything on the tree, and $1.50 per 100 for everything 
in the orchard, including windfalls; $3.10 has been offered 
for No. 1 and declined. I have been informed that these 
orchards that have been sold are only ordinary in quality. 
Our crop here is very light, but the fruit in some of our 
orchards is very good in quality, and will grade well. 
Barker, N. Y. w. r. M. 
The apple crop throughout the Hudson River Valley is 
practically all contracted for. The prices range all the way 
from $2 up to $2.50 per barrel for fruit just as it comes 
from the trees, No. 1 and No. 2 buyers furnishing retainers 
and $2.25 would be a safe average. One year ago you could 
purchase all the apples you wanted at 75 cents per barrel. 
In fact there were hundreds of barrels that were never gath¬ 
ered for want of buyers. s. s. d, 
Stuyvesant Falls, N. Y'. 
Apples are about 30 per cent of last year's crop in this 
vicinity. Buyers seem anxious to buy, and quite a number 
have sold; prices range from $2 to $3 per barrel; $3 is 
being paid for Kings and Spys, and $2.50 for other varieties 
(that is for No. 1 fruit), 2% inch and up. the same buy¬ 
ers taking the No. 2, all but the cider apples at $1.50 per 
barrel. Some are selling all together everything but the 
cider apples at. $2 per barrel. Plums have been plenty. 
Bartlett pears a fair crop and good price, from 1)4 to two 
cents per pound ; other varieties from one cent to 1 % cent 
per pound. f. e. v. e. 
Stanley, N. Y. 
There are no apples here for shipment this year at all. 
Some of the orchards have a few apples of poor quality that 
are sold from wagons in Kansas City market. They bring 
from 50 to 75 cents per bushel. A kraut factory is taking 
75 acres of the cabbage here this year at a price of $7 per 
ton delivered. A few cars have been shipped out, and the 
rest is being sold on Kansas City market. All kinds of 
fruit except strawberries were scarce here this year, owing 
to the previous severe Winter. The general farm crops, hay, 
corn, and vyheat, were immense, and the farmers are pros¬ 
perous. w. d. c. 
Edwardsville, Kan. 
Apple buyers seem to be holding off. waiting developments. 
Those who have apples this year seem to expect $3 per 
barrel. One orchard of very nice apples that has been thor¬ 
oughly sprayed and cared for, has been sold for $3 for No. 
1 apples and $2 for No. 2. Buyers seem reluctant to pay 
this price as a rule, because the apples are not good enough. 
In nnsprayed orchards there are very few apples fit to class 
as No. 1. $3 has been offered for strictly No. 1 Winter 
fruit without, the No. 2 for a few orchards. Plum and 
peach trees bore heavily in this section, and prices have 
been correspondingly low. There will be a large crop of 
Kieffer pears of good quality. f. s. h. 
Lewiston, N. Y. _ 
CROP PROSPECTS. 
Cabbage will not be over 50 per cent of last year's crop 
in western New York ; the wet Spring killed lots of fields 
that were set on low land, and the season was so wet that it 
did not get good care. The heads are small and badly worm- 
eaten at the present time. s. b. 
Gasport, N. l r . 
Our western correspondents inform us that the crop of 
cabbage in Wisconsin has now begun to move, and is of very 
fine quality, and that the yield is better than last year's. 
In Michigan. I understand the crop is somewhat backward, 
but if weather conditions remain as favorable there as at 
present there will be a large crop to harvest. In the imme¬ 
diate vicinity of Geneva cabbage is being offered very freely 
by the growers this morning at $6 per ton, but buyers are 
not taking hold even at this price, and 1 would not. be sur¬ 
prised to see a still further decline within the next few days. 
Geneva, N. Y. M. .t. M. 
Onion harvest is about completed in this section, and 
they have turned out better than was expected, averaging 
about 300 to 350 bushels to the acre; some pieces are yield¬ 
ing 500 to 600 bushels to the acre. Growers are holders in 
this section ; there has not been any shipped from here this 
season. The quality is below the average. Apple harvest 
has begun and fruit is of very poor quality, even where 
thoroughly sprayed. Apples are not turning out as well as 
expected, as they are all on the outside of the tree. We 
have been having good weather the past few weeks, and 
th farm work is progressing; we have only had one light 
frost, which did not do any harm to speak of. Corn is most- 
Iv cut, beans mostly pulled, and the wheat sowing is com¬ 
pleted. w. P. R. 
Wayne Co., N. Y’. 
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