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<THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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EVENTS OF THE WEEK. 
DOMESTIC.—The southwestern coast of 
Alaska was visited again October 18 by an 
earthquake which stopped sluicing mining 
operations and shook up the glaciers. A 
cable dispatch from Cordova says that the 
shock was less severe than that of Sep¬ 
tember 22, but it lasted several seconds. 
Eugene Ely, one of the best known avi¬ 
ators in this country, was killed at the 
State Fair grounds at Macon. Ga., O'-tober 
19, when his machine failed to rise from 
a sensational dip and plunged with him 
oO feet to the ground. lie fell, in the 
presence of nearly 8.000 persons, to the 
middle of the inciosure of the race track, 
after almost clearing the machine by a 
desperate leap when he saw his peril. The 
number of victims of aeroplane fatalities 
has now passed the century mark, Eugene 
B. Ely making the 101st. Seventeen of 
these have been Americans. France heads 
the list in point of numbers, totalling 37, 
more than America, Germany and Italy 
combined. There have been seven double 
fatalities in which driver and passenger 
were slain. On two occasions exhibitors 
have been driven to their last flight against 
their better judgment by the jeers of spec¬ 
tators. These were J. J. Frisbie, killed in 
Norton County, Kan., and Frank II. Miller, 
who lost his life at Mansfield, Ohio. Two—- 
Cecil Grace, an Enlishman, and Lieuten¬ 
ant Bague, a Frenchman—sailed into the 
heavens and were never seen again. 
It is feared there was considerable life 
lost in the interior of I’anama as a result 
of a severe storm that swept the vicinity 
of Bocas del Toro the second week in Oc- 
tober. From 160,000 to 200.000 banana 
trees were blown down. Most of the banana 
trees destroyed were the property of the 
United Fruit Company, which is the heavi¬ 
est loser. A number of small plantations, 
however, were utterly devastated, even the 
plantation buildings being wrecked. 
Magistrate Appleton dismissed, October 
-0, the complaint against Wesley M. Oler 
and other officers of the Knickerbocker Ice 
Company of New York City, who had been 
accused of maintaining a monopoly and 
arbitrarily raising the price of ice in this 
city during the hot spell of last July. In¬ 
cidentally, the District Attorney declared 
that “the evidence tended to show that the 
American Ice Company withdrew from 
doing business in this State as a matter 
of form only, and teat it is in effect still 
transacting the same business that it used 
to do, operating through the instrumental¬ 
ity of subservient corporations instead of 
directly.” 
Twelve miners working in a new shaft 
sunk by the Wharton Steel Company in one 
of its mines at Upper Hibernia, N. .1., were 
caught and drowned October 19, when a 
blast tore away the wall and let the water 
rush in from an abandoned and flooded 
mine next to them. The men drowned 
were at the bottom of a fjjiaft 1,700 feet 
deep. The ore of the abandoned mine had 
given out, and the new shaft was sunk to 
reach a richer vein. It was supposed that 
the new shaft was separated from the old 
by a wall of solid rock not less than 225 
feet thick, and possibly thicker. While the 
1- men were at work on the lowest level 
others were blasting the side walls on a 
landing half way into the shaft. When 
the wall caved in the big gap gave egress 
to a Niagara of water on the hapless min¬ 
ers, which must have descended on them 
with enough force to crush them against 
the floor and sides of the pit and beat 
their lives out before they were drowned. 
The iron mines of Morris County have been 
operated since Revolutionary days, but this 
is the greatest disaster from flooding of a 
shaft in Morris County’s mining history. 
Having refused to vote an appropriation 
necessary for the opening of a public high¬ 
way for which land had already been ac¬ 
quired, the citizens of Mount Oliver Town¬ 
ship, in Morris County, N. J., may bo com¬ 
pelled to go to work with picks and shovels 
and dig out the road themselves. The Su¬ 
preme Court of New Jersey, before which 
the situation was considered on mandamus 
proceedings instituted by Philip W. Salitta, 
has directed the township committee to 
call out the citizens and put them at work. 
The authority for this extraordinary ac¬ 
tion was found by the Supreme Court in an 
old practice under which the overseer of 
the highways might compel citizens of a 
community to repair or open public high¬ 
ways. The court held that the township 
committee has succeeded to the powers of 
the overseer of the highways; therefore, if 
the voters of a community were too pe¬ 
nurious to provide proper roads by the 
usual methods, the old rule might he in¬ 
voked. The order to the township com¬ 
mittee is in the form of an alternative 
writ of mandamus, with the terms of which 
the committee must either comply or show 
satisfactory reason to the court for not 
doing so. The opinion of the court was 
handed down by Justice Bergen. 
Judge Ward, of the United States Cir¬ 
cuit Court, denied October 21 the motion 
for a preliminary injunction against Post¬ 
master General Hitchcock and Postmaster 
Morgan, made by The Review of Reviews 
Publishing Company, to restrain the Post- 
office Department from enforcing the new 
rule by which publications issued at in¬ 
tervals longer than bi-weekly were to bo 
transported in the “third contract section” 
by fast freight trains instead of by mail 
trains. The Review of Reviews Publishing 
Company charged that the new order was a 
discrimination against it in favor of its 
two chief competitors, The Literary Digest 
and The Outlook. Both of these publica¬ 
tions are issued weekly, while The Review 
of Reviews is a monthly magazine. 
Snow fell over the Texas Panhandle and 
Northwestern New Mexico October 20-21. 
At Amarillo the sight was novel and abso¬ 
lutely unheard of before. In Tucuinari, 
N. M.; Dalhart, Herford and Plainview, 
Tex., and other Panhandle points many 
trees and much shrubbery were killed by 
the snow, which extended south within 40 
miles of Big Springs, Ward County, Tex. 
Snow also fell in Missouri, preceding any 
frost in the Ozark Mountains. 
Nine men were killed, 10 gravely 
wounded were carried'up by rescuers, and 
15 more were imprisoned by a cave-in, 
after the explosion of a keg ,1 powder 
which ignited black damp in O’Gara Mine, 
No. 9, near Harrisburg, Ill., October 23. 
That more lives were not lost was due to 
the fact that the shift was changing when 
the explosion occurred. 
Tiie distribution of the lands of the 
Sioux Indian Reservation began in Greg¬ 
ory, S. I)., October 24, when the first 2,000 
names of the 8,000 which will be drawn 
were taken from the great pile containing 
the registration of nearly 50,000 applicants 
for the lands. For an hour before the 
drawing three men with shovels mixed the 
envelopes containing the registrations in 
order that all might have an equal chance. 
No. 1 claim is estimated to be worth from 
$10,000 to $50,000. No actual filings will 
be accepted until next April, at which time 
all successful ones must be ready to make 
their choices and take up residence. 
AILING ANIMALS. 
Foul in Foot. 
I have a cow that has been laid up about 
six weeks now with hoof rot. Since I dis¬ 
covered what is wrong with her I have kept 
her feet washed out with soap and car- 
bolized water, and then put vinegar with 
blue vitriol dissolved in it into the sore 
places. This did not seem to do any good. 
I then used two applications of butter of 
antimony. This dries up the outside of the 
sores, but in a day or so they will be as bad 
as ever again. What would you advise me 
to do? k. o. H. 
Pennsylvania. 
The sores are ulcers caused by infection 
of scratches or wounds by the bacillus 
necrophorus, which is abundant in the filth 
of yards and muddy places. Cut away loose 
or under-run horn of hoofs. Swab all 
sores and ulcers once daily with a solution 
of half an ounce of sulphate of copper 
(bluestono) used as hot as the hand will 
bear. Afterward cover the affected parts 
with oakum saturated in full strength coal- 
tar disinfectant, and to be kept in place by 
bandages. Renew the dressing once daily 
until healed. If the ulcers are tardy in 
healing, cauterize them lightly with lunar 
caustic pencil and continue the other treat¬ 
ment. A. s. A. 
Scours. 
Can you tell me what to do with my 
calves? I had two in one stall; the oldest 
had scours quite badly, but got better, but 
seems to have something the matter with 
his breathing; he breathes very hard ; you 
can hear him 30 feet away. The other calf 
is just the same; they are Holsteins and 
registered. m. a. d. 
When a calf scours always isolate it at 
once, as the trouble is apt to prove con¬ 
tagious. The affected breathing may indi¬ 
cate sore throat or enlargement of the 
glands due to tuberculosis, or it is possible 
that the calves are affected with lung 
worms. We cannot advise you confidently 
without making an examination, so it wiil 
be necessary to employ a qualified veterin- 
rlan. A . s. a. 
Leaking Milk; Skin Trouble of Horse. 
1. I own a cow that loses milk; she is a 
very easy milker, three years old last June. 
Please advise me how same can be pre¬ 
vented. 2. I also own a horse which has a 
fine mane and tail, but I notice that he 
scratches his tail against his box stall, and 
upon examining the tail I find the skin looks 
scaly (something like dandruff). There 
does not appear to be any insect, or bug. 
What can I do to prevent this? c. l. 
Rhode Island. 
1. Apply several coats of flexible collo¬ 
dion to the ends of the teats just after milk¬ 
ing, or tie a wide tape around teats, or 
apply wide, weak rubber bands. 2. Wash 
tail clean and when dry pour on a little of 
a mixture of one part kerosene and two 
parts raw linseed oil. Repeat the applica¬ 
tion daily. Cut down the grain rations and 
have the horse work or abundantly exercise 
every day. The trouble usually comes from 
overfeeding, lack of exercise and lack of 
grooming. a. s. a. 
Thin Horse. 
I have a poor horse which I want to 
fatten at once if possible. His ribs and hip 
bones show prominently, as though he might 
be hidebound. He is about 12 years old, 
eats well and works well, and would be a 
pretty horse if fat. His ration is corn 
and fodder and some grass. He does not 
eat his bedding. q. 
North Carolina. 
Have his teeth attended to by a veter¬ 
inary dentist; then feed plenty of sound, 
old oats and add wheat bran. As forage 
give the best of mixed hay and keep him 
off grass. As Winter comes on give some 
ear corn at noon and allow corn fodder 
and roots. Give the drinking water before 
feeding. Do not work him soon after a 
meal. If he fails to plump up, mix one 
quart of black strap molasses in three 
quarts of warm water and then stir among 
cut hay, cornmeal and wheat bran. Feed 
that amount of molasses night and morn¬ 
ing and give whole oats at noon and long 
hay at night. a. s. a. 
Cracked Hoof. 
I recently bought a fine young horse. 
There is a bad scar from a wire cut. below 
the ankle, running diagonally from the top 
of the hoof toward the ankle. The wound 
has entirely healed, but leaves a very bad 
scar. A few days ago a crack appeared in 
this hoof. The crack is about two Inches 
long and runs diagonally on the outside of 
the hoof near the back part. While driving 
the horse I noticed a watery, bloody mixture 
oozing from the crack, followed by a little 
blood. The horse shows lameness while 
trotting, but walks all right. What would 
be the best treatment for the horse? 2. A 
few years ago the Hope Farm man wrote 
about some preparation he used to toughen 
his horse’s shoulders before putting them on 
heavy work. Will you tell me what he 
used? b, w. T. 
New York. 
1. The condition is serious, and home 
treatment will not avail, as the qualified 
veterinarian will have to operate by firing 
and blistering. Diseased tissues are present 
in the wound or under the cracked part of 
the hoof, and they will have to come away. 
2. A saturated solution of alum or strong 
tea of white oak bark will be found useful; 
or use a mixture of half an ounce of tannic 
acid to half a gallon of cold water, a. s. a. 
Treatment for Fistula. 
.T. C. F., Pennsylvania, should get a four- 
grain capsule and slide one half over the 
other, thus leaving the end open, then put 
into it as much white arsenic as would go 
on a half inch of the end of the small 
blade of a jack knife. Then place the 
open end of the capsule on the end of a 
stick or a probe, and shove it round end 
first into the opening of the fistula, leaving 
the capsule and arsenic In the bottom of 
sac. It will take out the sac, and If there 
Is no broken splinter of bone in there it 
will be cleaned and healed In about a month. 
It will clean it out, anyhow, and If it will 
not heal you can know there is a splinter of 
bone which must be cut out. I have cured 
one with the splinter in it and know of 
two others cured with arsenic with no splin¬ 
ter in them. They come from being hit 
or bitten by other horses and things. The 
bone is bruised or broken. Grease around 
the sore to keep the matter from drying and 
sticking. c . T . b. 
Leonards, N. J. 
This is an old empirical method of treat¬ 
ing discharging sinuses, and never resorted 
to by the trained veterinarian. Always it 
Is best to operate on such a case and be 
done with it. JTealing takes place promptly 
when the cutting has been properly done, 
hut where a caustic is Inserted it may do 
more harm than good. In many instances, 
however, the caustic proves effective, as 
claimed by our correspondent. a. s. a. 
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