1910. 
'TFLED RURAL, NEW-YORKER 
11 
EVENTS OF THE WEEK. 
DOMESTIC.—It was announced Decem¬ 
ber 15 that the Government had accepted 
$695,573.19 in settlement of all civil claims 
against the sugar refinery of Arbuekle 
Brothers, based on shortage in payments 
on sugar importations. This action was 
concurred in by the Attorney-General, and 
payment accepted by the Secretary of the 
Treasury. The settlement, the special 
prosecutor said, would not halt the criminal 
prosecution of any individual for fraud. 
The trial of James F. Bendernagel, Oliver 
Spitzer and the four checkers, Coyle, Boyle, 
Kehoe and Hennessey, which has been in 
progress for three weeks before Judge Mar¬ 
tin and a iury in the Criminal Branch 
of the United States Circuit Court, ended 
December 7 when the jury returned a ver¬ 
dict of guilty in the cases of all the de¬ 
fendants except Bendernagel, as to whom 
they could not agree. 
Six trainloads of shelled com were sent 
from Omaha December 18 on express time 
to Wyoming in an effort to save the lives 
of immense numbers of sheep which are 
starving because of the deep snows, which 
prevent t lie animals from foraging. The 
entire sheep range country of Wyoming is 
covered by Horn one to three feet of snow, 
which came so much earlier than usual 
this year that the sheepmen "were caught 
without provisions. Great numbers of the 
sheep have already perished of starvation. 
Thirteen people were killed and 35 in¬ 
jured in an accident on the Southern Rail¬ 
way near Reidville, N. C.. December 15. 
Two coaches and two sleepers attached 
to train No. 11. southbound, were dashed 
down a fifty-foot embankment from Reedy 
Fork trestle, 12 miles north of Greensboro. 
The Interstate Commerce Commission 
announced December 16 that an indictment 
has been returned by the Federal Grand 
Jury of the Eastern District of Kentucky 
against the Van Leunen Company, an Ohio 
corporation engaged in the hay and grain 
business in Cincinnati and Covington. Ky. 
The Van Leutien Company is charged with 
making false reports of weight on ten 
different shipments of hay from Covington 
to various points in the South. The initial 
carrier in each case was the Louisville and 
Nashville Railroad, some of the shipments 
going as far as Florida. By the mis- 
billing freight rates from 22 to 27 cents 
per hundred pounds were avoided on from 
2.000 to 10.000 pounds in each of the 
cars named in the indictment. This indict¬ 
ment followed an investigation by the divi¬ 
sion of prosecutions of the commission and 
is a step in the campaigu which it is 
making against misbilling. In the view 
of the commission reduced rates gained by 
fraud on the carriers are certainly not less 
criminal than reduced rates gained by re¬ 
bating. 
Four foreigners were killed, seventy olit¬ 
ers made homeless, and one mortally in¬ 
jured December 17 in a fire which destroyed 
House No. 6 at the Frostburg mine of the 
Rochester and Pittsburg Coal and Iron 
Company near Pnnxntawney, Pa. Shortly 
after the explosion of a keg: of powder 
into which a spark had accidently been 
dropped, a greater quantity of the ex¬ 
plosive blew* up. and the two-story building 
was destroyed. 
State Senator John Raines died December 
16. at the Canandaigua Hospital. Canan¬ 
daigua, N. Y., after an illness of several 
weeks. While always a man of strong per¬ 
sonality, and for two decades one of the 
recognized leaders of his party in the State 
and Legislature, it was as the author of 
the law* which enables the saloons of New 
York City to evade the intent of the Sunday 
closing law that the name of John Raines 
became known far and wide beyond the 
borders of the State. He was elected a 
member of the Assembly in the same year 
that Grover Cleveland was chosen Mayor 
of Buffalo: and. With the exception of two 
years in the succeeding twenty-eight, has 
been a member either of the State Legis¬ 
lature. or of the National House of Repre¬ 
sentatives. Since 1894, when he re-entered 
the Senate—to which body he has been 
successively returned by his constituents 
every two years—he lias been one of the 
recognized leaders of the up-State legisla¬ 
tive machine of the Republican party, and 
for seven years has been regularly elected 
president pro tem. and party organization 
leader. For the last decade, at least, he 
has had probably a greater influence in 
shaping legislation in New York than any 
other one man. The Republican leadership 
in the Senate is expected to fall to Senator 
Jotham P. Allds, who represents the Madi¬ 
son. Otsego, and Chenango district. Mr. 
Alld’B executive record dates back to 1896. 
when he was first elected to the Assembly, 
and he served for four years as Republican 
leader of that body. He took up his Sena¬ 
torial duties in 1903. and at the beginning 
of the present year was appointed chairman 
of the Finance Committee. 
Fire originating December 20 in the base¬ 
ment of the Siegel Company cloak store at 
Grand Rapids. Mich., resulted in a $100,000 
loss, in the heart of the downtown shop¬ 
ping district. The stock of the Siegel 
Company, which is owned by Sol Iv. Siegel 
and others of Chicago, is estimated to 
have been damaged to the extent of $50,000. 
Neighboring stores sustained lesser losses. 
The bitter cold and deep snow handicapped 
the efforts of the firemen, but the flames 
were got under control. 
Three men lost their lives December 
21 in a fire which gutted a part of the 
cabinetmaking plant of Edward I). Jordan 
& Co., at 42 Tiffany place. Brooklyn. The 
flames, which are believed to have been 
started from a match flung into a varnish 
pot. swept through the finishing building 
of the Jordan works so rapidly that al¬ 
though the sixty workmen employed in the 
place wore preparing to leave at the time 
they had barely time to ('scape. Those 
whose bodies were found after the fire was 
out are supposed to have been overcome 
by smoke. The property loss was $70,000. 
FARM AND GARDEN.—The Now York 
State Jersey Cattle Club will hold its 
annual meeting at Utica, N. Y.. January 
11. 1910, at 3.30 P. M. This will he an 
important meeting, as at it will occur the 
annual election of officers, and other im¬ 
portant matters will he considered. Good 
speakers will be in attendance, and it 
is desired that every breeder or prospective 
breeder of Jersey cattle in the Empire 
State will attend. The annual meeting of 
the New York State Breeders’ Association 
is called to meet at the same place, Janu¬ 
ary 11 to 13. so that members desiring can 
also attend their sessions. Harry S. Gail, 
secretary-treasurer. 
The Consolidated Milk Exchange, a New 
Jersey corporation, has notified the Secre¬ 
tary of State that it has withdrawn from 
doing business in this State. In October, 
1906. the Secretary of State issued a certi¬ 
ficate permitting the exchange to do busi¬ 
ness here, and Joseph Laemmle of 6 Harri¬ 
son street. New York, was named _ as the 
representative of the exchange in this 
State There was filed with the Secretary 
of State at Albany, December 18, a certifi¬ 
cate signed by John McBride, as president 
of the exchange formally announcing the 
withdrawal and revoking the appointment 
of Mr. Laemmle as its representative here. 
An industrial fellowship has been estab¬ 
lished in the Department of Plant Pathol¬ 
ogy. N. Y. State College of Agriculture, 
for the investigation of the diseases of 
nursery stock, especially fire blight or pear 
blight. This fellowship has been established 
by the C. W. Stuart Co., of Newark, N. Y. 
This fellowship is to contiuuo for a period 
of two years, and carries with it an annual 
salary of $500 and $250 per year to carry 
on the investigation. This is the second 
such fellowship established this year in the 
Department df Plant Pathology. f l'he 
first is the Niagara Sprayer Co. Fellowship 
established for the investigation of the 
value of lime sulphur as a Summer spray. 
It is expected that several more siich 
co-operative arrangements will be made for 
the investigation of plant disease problems 
of pressing importance in this State. 
The fourth annual meeting of the New 
York State Rft-aporatod Fruit Producers’ 
Association will he held January 12. 1910. 
in Chamber of Commerce Hall, Rochester, 
N. Y. 
A meeting of the wool-growers of Ken¬ 
tucky was held at I>exington, December 
21 to form the Kentucky Wool-Growers’ 
Association to pool the 1910 wool growth. 
Tills is to be a society similar to the 
Burley Tobacco pool, the only difference 
being the wool will not he held for higher 
prices, but will be sold as soon as it can 
lie graded. The sales Will be made direct 
to the manufacturers, and the advantage to 
the growers will he in cutting out the 
profits of the middleman. The growers 
estimate that the selling of their product 
direct to the manufacturers will save them 
from $500,000 to $1,000,000 a year. 
The twenty-first annual exhibition of the 
New York Poultry, Pigeon and Pet -Stock 
Association opened at Madison Square Gar¬ 
den on Tuesday morning December 28, 
continuing to the night of Saturday. Jan¬ 
uary 1. The New York Ornithological So¬ 
ciety as usual displayed their songbirds, 
which are a pleasant feature. In the con¬ 
cert hall on Wednesday, Thursday and 
Friday the Atlantic^ Cat Club gave its 
eighth annual championship show. 
THE MILK INQUIRY.—Withdrawal of 
the Consolidated Milk Exchange's certificate 
to do business in this State had no effect 
on the inquiry in the offices of the Attorney- 
General to decide whether the milk sellers 
were in a combination. Sessions were re¬ 
sumed December 20. The special deputy 
attorney-general. John B. Coleman, said 
that the investigation into the methods 
of fixing the prices of milk would he 
continued as projected. “One of the things 
that we would have sought if it appeared 
that the law had been violated would be 
the revocation of the Milk Exchange license 
to do business in this State,’’ said Mr. 
Coleman. “That they have thought tit to 
have it withdrawn at this time voluntarily, 
while it is under investigation, will not 
interfere with our quest. We shall insti¬ 
tute a criminal prosecution if the law has 
been violated.” 
The first witness December 20. Robert 
B. Baker, testified that he had not raised 
the price of bottled milk above eight cents, 
and was still managing to make a profit, 
with no intention of putting the price up 
to nine cents. He said he had been in the 
milk business forty years, and was a mem¬ 
ber of the exchange. Mr. Baker said that 
he bought his bottled milk, as he was not a 
creamery man himself, from Joseph Laem¬ 
mle, the official representative of the Milk 
Exchange in this State. Laemmle was a 
witness at the hearing of the other day. 
He testified that tlie increased price charged 
was necessary to insure a profit. Nor had 
Baker raised the price either for dip milk, 
which he was selling for six cents a 
quart, or seven cents, delivered. He added 
that he paid the freight on consignments 
at the railroad stations in Jersey City. 
He had refrained from raising the price in 
1907, too, when nearly all other dealers did 
so. Alexander Wright, for many years 
in the milk business before entering the 
Finance Department, said lie was a member 
and incorporator of the Consolidated Milk 
Exchange. Like many other witnesses, he 
insisted that the action of the Exchange In 
placing a value on milk from month to 
month was not effective In fixing the prices 
in the country, where various conditions 
influenced one way or the other. The 
old Milk Exchange. Limited, of which lie 
was also a member, did fix prices, he said, 
and they wore generally adopted by the 
members. All the minute books of the 
hoard of directors from 1895 to 1906 were 
still missing. The witness said he remem¬ 
bered that minute hooks were kept previous 
to 1900, but lie had no idea where the 
books were at present. 
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