1911. 
1060 
EVENTS OF THE WEEK. 
DOMESTIC.—Prison for life was the 
sentence imposed by a jury in Judge 
Honore’s court at Chicago October 12 upon 
Giuseppe and Carmello Nicolosi, brothers, 
after they had been found guilty of kidnap¬ 
ping five-year-old Angelo Marino. Mrs. 
Cologera Nicolosi, wife of Carmello, also 
was found guilty and her punishment was 
fixed at seven years in the penitentiary. 
By overcoming an adverse majority of 
16,000 in San Francisco and Oakland the 
voters of the country districts of California 
have given a victory to the cause of woman 
suffrage by a margin of something more 
than 3,000. Nearly every agricultural 
county was carried by the women, and al¬ 
though the majorities were not large they 
rolled up a total that wiped out the anti¬ 
suffrage majority in San Francisco. All 
the proposed amendments carried and the 
recall got the banner majority of over 100,- 
000, with the initiative second in favor. 
Fourteen are known to have met death 
in Guayamas in the tidal wave which swept 
the Mexican seaport the first week in Oc¬ 
tober. The water came over the sea wall 
into the town and rose to a height of sev¬ 
eral feet as far as three blocks back from 
the sea wall, while it covered to a depth 
of several inches almost all the city. The 
property loss is estimated at $1,000,000, in 
addition to the heavy loss of the Southern 
Facific. Eighteen persons were killed by 
the storm on the western coast of the State 
of Sonora, Mexico. Santa Rosalia, with 
5,000 people, was for five days without 
water except a scant supply sent irregul- 
larl.v from Guayamas. Food supplies were 
short. One mining property suffered dam¬ 
age estimated at $2,000,000. 
Judge Foster in New York General Ses¬ 
sions October 13 sentenced Antonio Cenig- 
lia of 177 Chystie street, who had pleaded 
guilty to violation of the dangerous weapons 
law, to seven years in Sing Sing. lie was 
arrested September 24 for carrying a pis¬ 
tol. Seven years is the maximum sentence 
for that offense. It was asserted that 
Ceniglia was active in a band of black¬ 
mailers, hence the severity of his sentence. 
The power schooner Bender Brothers, from 
Nome and the Kuskokwill River, passed in 
October 14 at Cape Flattery, disabled, with 
more than 65 persons on board starving. 
The gasolene engine blew up nine days be¬ 
fore when the schooner was 180 miles off 
the cape. 
John R. Walsh, the former Chicago bank¬ 
er, was released on parole from the Federal 
penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kan., October 
14. Walsh had served one year, eight 
months and 26 days of his five-year sen¬ 
tence. He was indicted at Chicago in 
January, 1908, on 150 counts alleging mis¬ 
application of the funds of the Chicago 
Bank, of which he was president, for pro¬ 
motion of private enterprises. He was sen¬ 
tenced to five years on each of the 54 
counts on which he was convicted, and en¬ 
tered the penitentiary in January, 1910. His 
case was one of the most important in the 
country. In some form his rights have 
been in question before the Federal gov¬ 
ernment almost ever since his conviction. 
A cyclone which struck Ben Davis, a vil¬ 
lage near Indianapolis, Ind., October 14, 
wrecked 13 homes and stores, injured four 
persons, one probably fatally, and caused 
damage estimated at $50,000. Houses were 
blown from their foundations, and one was 
picked up, carried nearly 200 feet and 
hurled into the side of a brick building. 
Nearly every building in the town was dam¬ 
aged. Veedersburg and Waynetown, Ind., 
also were damaged by the cyclone. A cy¬ 
clone struck the town of Hillsboro, Ind., the 
same day. and all but wiped it from the 
map. The property damage is said to 
amount to $100,000. The streets of Hills¬ 
boro were crowded with Saturday shoppers 
when the cyclone struck it. 
October 16 a watchman employed by the 
Southern Pacific Railroad found two mines, 
containing 39 sticks of dynamite, under the 
Fairtan viaduct, 20 miles from Santa Bar¬ 
bara, Cal., over which President’s Taft’s spe¬ 
cial train was to pass. It is not known 
whether an attempt was being made against 
the President’s life or whether it was an 
effort to discredit the railroad, which has 
been concerned in many labor difficulties. 
For the first time in many years a mer¬ 
chant, who violated the pure food laws, 
was sent to prison October 16, when Jus¬ 
tices Zeller, Mayo and Ryan in New York 
Special Sessions sentenced Wolf Eisen, a 
grocer at 11 Clinton street, to 30 days in a 
cell when he pleaded guilty to having 
cream in his store containing gelatine. He 
admitted he had been convicted of the same 
offense four times, the last time being fined 
$150. The court gave warning that here¬ 
after a second offense against the pure food 
law will be punished with imprisonment, as 
offenders seem to take fines as a joke. 
The Canadian Pacific steamship Princess 
Beatrice, running between Vancouver, 
Prince Rupert, and the northern canneries, 
struck on Noble Island October 15, and was 
fast on the rocks | Three hundred passen¬ 
gers, 200 of whom were Chinese being 
brought south from the canneries, were 
taken off by the steamship Venture and 
landed at Alert Bay. No one was injured. 
Large holes were stove in the bow and 
her forward hold filled with water. When 
the vessel struck the passengers were 
ta *£n into the small boats and transferred 
without mishap to the Venture. 
Giuseppe Costabile, the little Calabrian 
known and feared on the lower East Side 
as the Fox, was sentenced by Judge Foster 
in New York General Sessions October 17 to 
from three and a half to seven years in 
ng - Costabile was convicted under 
the dangerous weapons law. He was car¬ 
rying a bomb under his coat when arrested. 
Washington L. Capps, former chief con¬ 
structor of the navy, has submitted a report 
to .Secretary Meyer tending to corroborate 
the opinion Of the court of inquiry that 
the battleship Maine was destroyed in 
THE RURAL, NEW»YORKEE 
Havana harbor by ail external explosion. 
Mr. Capps was sent to Havana by Secretary 
Meyer to identify certain parts of the wreck¬ 
age which had been exposed through the 
lowering of the water in the cofferdam sur¬ 
rounding the Maine. 
NATIONAL FARMERS’ CONGRESS.— 
The conversion of the National Farmers’ 
Congress into a national country life fed¬ 
eration, modelled somewhat after the plan 
of the American Federation of Labor, was 
proposed October 13 by Willet M. Hays, 
Assistant Secretary of Agriculture, in an 
address before the annual meeting of the 
congress at Columbus, Ohio. Mr. Hays’s 
plan contemplates a body made up of dele¬ 
gates from all State federations and far¬ 
mers’ associations, together with representa¬ 
tives of colleges, experiment stations and 
national organizations in any way asso¬ 
ciated with the improvement of conditions 
of farm living. Closer organization of the 
farmers for the purpose of eliminating un¬ 
earned profits and putting the producer and 
the consumer nearer together was advanced 
as the only possible solution of the high 
cost of living problem. Emphatic appeal 
was made by many delegates for the adop¬ 
tion of resolutions memorializing Congress 
to provide a parcels post and to establish 
a federal good roads bureau. Strong de¬ 
nunciation was made of tariff abuses, and 
a movement was started to have Congress 
take action against the tariff commission. 
In his annual address President Strange 
left the impression that President Taft had 
broken his word with the farmers’ associa¬ 
tion in calling a special session of Congress 
to pass the reciprocity measure. He termed 
It a “dead issue’’ and was heartily cheered. 
He praised Dr. Wiley and declared conserva- 
tion of manhood and womanhood the great¬ 
est conservation issue. He deplored the loss 
of rural population to the urban centres. 
Ration For Cows and Hens. 
1. Will you give me a balanced ration 
for cows, average weight 950 pounds, with 
silage and Timothy hay? Will it be about 
right to feed one pound to three pounds 
of milk. Babcock test average 3.50? Corn, 
$1.50 per 100; oats $1.45 per 100; mixed 
feed, $1.55; wheat $2; bran $1.50; gluten 
JUdo; red dog, $1.85; cotton-seed meal 
$1.80. 2. I have 50 pullets just starting 
to lay. What is the best food for them? 
New Hampshire. s. w. 
1- Under ordinary conditions we do not 
like to feed a cow more than two pounds 
of cotton-seed meal per day, but to make 
a properly balanced ration from the feeds 
you mention requires three pounds of this 
feed, which should he mixed in the ration 
according to the following formula: 
Feeding Stuff, 
4 lbs. wheat 
Digestible 
Dry 
Pro- 
Carbs. 
matter tela and fat 
.36 
5.16 
.6.09 
.196 
3.255 
.2.67 
.276 
1.704 
.3.52 
.488 
1.812 
1.2.76 
1.116 
1.332 
23.44 
2.436 
13.263 
Nutritive ration 1:5.4. 
You will notice that this ration doe« 
not contain any eornmeal or gluten, be¬ 
cause it carries the maximum amount of 
cotton-seed which it is safe to feed, and 
the addition of much more heavy concen¬ 
trated feed would no doubt bring on seri¬ 
ous udder trouble with many off your 
cows, as it has done in many other cases. 
If you could get dried brewers’ or dis¬ 
tillers’ grains to feed instead of the wheat 
bran you could reduce the cotton seed to 
two pounds and you would have a better 
and safer ration. 
In regard to the amount of grain to feed 
for a certain amount of milk this depends 
largely upon conditions, the breed of cows 
you are keeping and the amount of milk 
they are giving. If they aTe all fresh 
and giving about 15 quarts per day, aver¬ 
age, and are bred for milk production, one 
pound of grain should be sufficient to pro¬ 
duce three pounds of milk; but if you 
have Jerseys or some of the small milk¬ 
ing breeds which have been in lactation 
for a long period of time, one pound of 
grain will probably not produce more than 
2y 2 pounds of milk. The two ready-mixed 
rations which you mention are both good 
feeds, but to feed with silage and Tim¬ 
othy hay you should add a pouDd or pound 
and a half of cotton-seed meal per day 
for each coft. 
2. A good method of feeding your 50 
pullets is to keep a dry mash of wheat 
bran, eornmeal, wheat middlings, ground 
oats, and beef scrap before them all the 
time. Give a mixture of two-thirds cracked 
corn and one-third whole wheat in deep 
litter once or twice a day. Keep before 
them all. the time in separate hoppers 
beefscrap, grit, charcoal and crushed oyster 
shells. Also provide plenty of clean fresh 
water and some kind of green food if you 
expect to get very good results. Keep 
your birds clean and free from lice and 
mites. You should also have a copy of 
"The Business Hen” and study its teaoh- 
ln « s * C. 3. G. 
Death of Cow. 
What was the matter with my neighbor’s 
cow? She became sick on Saturday and 
died Friday night following. She failed 
rapidly in her milk, would not eat nor 
drink, stood all the time, did not lie down 
until a few hours before she died; slob¬ 
bered profusely all the while; did not 
become distended but on tbe contrary very 
lank. We gave her physic and also an 
injection but got no action. She died in 
great agony. We suspect that she was bitten 
by a mad dog, as they were very numer¬ 
ous in the neighborhood. She showed 
great anger if a dog came near while she 
was sick. E . K . j. 
I.ewisburg, W. Va. 
We are unable to say what killed the 
<*ow, but the fact that she stood all the 
time and had no passage of the bowels 
would indicate that there was impaction of 
the third stomach. Had she been rabid 
she would not have stood still and would 
have gone down paralyzed a considerable 
time before death. a s a 
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