1912. 
THE RURAL, N RW-YORKER 
7H 
EVENTS OF THE WEEK. 
DOMESTIC.—Rear Admiral Robley D. 
Evans, known to the American people as 
Fighting Bob Evans, died at his home in 
Washington January 3 after an illness of 
less than three hours. An attack of acute 
indigestion was the cause of death. He 
was born in Virginia in 1846. In the 
Civil War he served on the frigate Pow¬ 
hatan in the flying squadron under Admiral 
Lardner and in the East Gulf under the 
same officer. Afterward under Admiral 
Porter he participated in the desperate as¬ 
sault upon and capture of Fort Fisher. A 
forlorn hope made up of volunteers from 
the fleet was sent against the works, re¬ 
garded up to that time as impregnable. It 
was one of the most sanguinary assaults 
of the war. lie was promoted by act of 
Congress for conspicuous gallantry. lie 
distinguished himself in the Spanish War, 
and also saw much service in all parts of 
the world. 
Henry Veeder, counsel for Swift & Co., 
a Government witness in the case against 
the 10 meat packers indicted for violating 
the Sherman law, in the course of his di¬ 
rect examination January 3 was confronted 
with letters sent out by the packers re¬ 
ferring to the shipment and price of fresh 
meat during periods in which he said these 
was no pool in existence. The witness ap¬ 
parently grew nervous and declined to deny 
the genuineness of the document. William 
D. Miles, general manager for the Armour 
Packing Company at Kansas City from 1894 
to 1902. testified that the old packers’ pools 
were organized to prevent the glutting of 
the market with fresh meat, and that there 
always was active competition between the 
members in all parts of the country. The 
witness brought out for the first time that 
there was a “black test cost” and a “red 
test cost” used in the bookkeeping of the 
Armour Packing Company, the former be- 
State office building on the two blocks west 
of the Capitol. The message recommends 
snch steps from the Legislature that will 
secure to the working population the pro¬ 
tection of an effective and rational compen- 
ing used as the flat price of the animal and 
the latter included freight and other items 
of expense. The Government contends that 
the “red test cost” was secretly used by 
the combination in the fixing of the price 
of meat. A letter showing alleged collusion 
between Swift & Co. and Armour & Co. in 
bidding for the annual meat contract of 
the Old Soldiers’ Home at Togus, Me., No¬ 
vember 6, 1905, was introduced in evi¬ 
dence January S. The letter was received 
by Jerome II. Pratt, former assistant man¬ 
ager of Armour & Co., dressed meat de¬ 
partment and was signed with the initials 
“F. A. F.” which Pratt said indicated it 
was written by Francis A. Fowler, one of 
the defendants in the case and head of the 
dressed meat department of Swift & Co. 
The witness described in detail the method 
of making shipments to branch houses. The 
district and branch house managers, he 
said, received instructions in regard to the 
margin price to be charged at the time 
shipments were made. These margins and 
shipment percentages, the witness said, 
were based on the agreements reached at 
the packers’ Tuesday afternoon meetings. 
The witness said that in the period be¬ 
tween 1903 and 1907 each member of the 
packers’ combination knew the percentage 
of shipments and profit margins of every 
member. The information was sent out on 
slips of paper each week, and the figures 
were frequently discussed by the managers 
of the dressed beef departments of the dif¬ 
ferent companies. 
Gov. John A. Dix sent to the New York 
Legislature January 3 his second annual 
message, which is the longest list of re¬ 
commendations the Legislature has re¬ 
ceived in many years from a Governor. In 
it the Governor urges the need of more 
economy and additional revenues. He dis¬ 
cusses where various State departments 
need changes and makes drastic requests 
for new legislation. Some of the recom¬ 
mendations he offers are the making of 
vote buying a felony, the repeal of the 
Frawley boxing lawt provision for inspec¬ 
tion of bakeries, good roads, and a new 
sation law. He commends the laboring 
hours of women to the attention of the 
Legislature, and thinks nine hours a day 
is all women should work. The bakeries 
in New York City should be more ade¬ 
quately inspected, and for this purpose he 
asks that a force of inspectors be provided. 
In papers filed at Somerville, N. J., Jan¬ 
uary 4. in suits against Charles B. Dun¬ 
can, alias “Doc” Boggs, L. II. Taylor al¬ 
leges he was fleeced out of $15,000 by Dun¬ 
can and Clay Wilson in a mine purchase. 
Taylor is a mining engineer, of Philadel¬ 
phia. Duncan and Wilson have already 
been indicted in Dayton, Ohio, for the al¬ 
leged swindle. Taylor is suing to obtain 
as damages the farm which Duncan owns 
at Somerville. The story told by Taylor is 
that Wilson first interested him in the pur¬ 
chase of a mine in the West. Wilson, Tay¬ 
lor says, explained that he owned a mine 
which had been paying well, but of which 
the rich vein was found to lead over to an 
adjoining claim. The game was to buy the 
adjoining claim before the owner was 
aware of its value. After much dickering 
Taylor says he fell for the swindle. 
The famous Trappist monastery at St. 
Norbert, Manitoba, was destroyed by fire 
January 4. Sixty monks who never speak 
and who live entirely on vegetables are 
homeless as a result. The loss is $100,000. 
For failing to run passenger trains on 
time and for not providing extra trains 
when belated trains failed to make con¬ 
nections the railroads of Texas are asked 
to pay nearly $2,000,000 in penalties. Suits 
are being instituted by the Attorney-General 
at the instigation of the State Railroad 
Commission which furnishes the evdence. 
While 20 roads are involved, the Ilarriman 
lines are the heaviest sufferers, because of 
the shopmen’s strike, which, it is charged, 
is responsible for much of the delay to 
traffic, 
A telephone installed in obedience to the 
requirements of a law enacted at the last 
session of the Legislature played an in 
portant part in saving the lives of two 
shot firers in Mine No. 7 of the Girard 
Coal Company at Radley, Pa., January 3. 
A message to the top of the mine from 
J. W. Iveeran and W. M. Martin, firers. 
announed that they were in a ertain part 
of the mine at work. A short time later 
men on top heard an explosion and knew 
that the shot firers either had been killed 
or were in a dangerous situation. J. E. 
Richardson, foreman of the mine, immedi¬ 
ately organized a rescue party of seven 
men and went down. It took the rescuers 
an hour and fifty minutes to find the firers, 
who were 1.600 feet back from the bottom 
of the shaft. Both firers were unconscious. 
They were taken to the top and finally re¬ 
vived. 
January 4 earthquake shocks were felt 
at Reno. Nev.. Alvord. Fresno, and other 
places in California, and at Santiago de 
Cuba. 
Fire wiped out an entire block in the 
wholesale district of Columbia, S. Janu¬ 
ary 5, causing a loss estimated at $450,000, 
ft was the most disastrous conflagration 
there since the torch was applied in the 
last year of the Civil War. Starting in 
tin* repair department of the Gibbes Ma¬ 
chinery Company, probably from an over¬ 
heated boiler, the flames were driven by a 
stiff wind to adjacent structures. The 
building occupied by the Gibbes company 
and four other concerns were destroyed, 
together with three houses and several 
stables. 
January 5 was the coldest day in Ne¬ 
braska for seven years. The lowest tem¬ 
perature in the State was 28 below zero, 
and some cases were reported where trains 
froze to the tracks, and were only started 
with difficulty. January 6 it was 3.2 below 
zero at Lake Placid, N. Y., and zero at 
New York City, much distress resulting. In 
addition to charitable lodging houses, sev¬ 
eral chapels and hurches sheltered home¬ 
less persons. 
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