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THE RURAL NEW-VORKER 
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EVENTS OF THE WEEK. 
DOMESTIC.—Fire in a factory in Phila¬ 
delphia Pa.. January 19, caused the death 
of four'girls and one man. fatal injuries to 
two more while 12 others were seriously 
hurt Many of those hurt threw themselves 
from the fourth floor windows. 
\ boycott on meat begun by workingmen 
in Cleveland, 0.. January 14, as a protest 
against excessive prices has spread to 
Omaha. Milwaukee, St. Louis and other 
Western cities, extending later to the East. 
After a few davs the Cleveland boycott 
began to alarm the wholesale butchers, 
and there was a drop of two cents a pound 
in prices. The movement seems likely to 
spread, many of the labor unions signing 
an anti-meat pledge. It is stated that 
200 000 persons have applied for member¬ 
ship in the Anti-Food Trust League, recently 
formed in Washington, and the general 
protest against the excessive cost of living 
seems to spread. In Boston it was asserted 
January 21. 00,000 persons were pledged 
against meat. 
A bill introduced at Albany, N. Y., Jan¬ 
uary 20 by Assemblyman John M. Lupton 
of Suffolk’ County, if enacted, will compel 
produce commission merchants of the State 
to procure licenses from the State Con¬ 
troller and file bonds of $10,000 each. 
Mr. I.upton is a seed grower in Mattituek, 
and his measure is in the interest of the 
farmers who send garden produce to the 
cities. The bond would be required to com¬ 
pel commission merchants to make a true 
accounting to their consigners of all pro¬ 
duce received and sold, and to remit to 
the consigners full net. returns from the 
sale of all such products within ten days 
of the sale. 
In a bad wreck which occurred three 
mill's east of Espanola. Ontario, a train on 
the Canadian Pacific Railroad went through 
a bridge over Spanish River January 21. 
There were forty-eight passengers killed 
and ninety-two injured. The cars which 
went through the bridge were the first-class 
car and the dining car. The first-class car 
was completely submerged, the diner two- 
thirds submerged. Seven cars in all left 
the rails, the engine, mail car and express 
car getting over the bridge. The second- 
class cifr was burned and it is reported 
that many lost their lives by fire in this 
car. The cause of the wreck is as yet 
unknown, but it is supposed that a broken 
rail or a broken axle led to it. 
Announcement, was made officially Jan¬ 
uary 21 that the Department of Justice 
is about to begin proceedings against the 
beef trust. The Department, it was said, 
would proceed against Armour & Co.. Swift 
& Co.. Morris & Co., and the National 
Packing Company, all of Chicago. Accord¬ 
ing to information given out, the National 
Packing Company is controlled by the three 
other concerns named. These companies, it 
is alleged, control the price of beef through 
their control of the National Packing Com¬ 
pany. The Federal Grand Jury met in 
Chicago January 24 and the Government 
began the examination of witnesses in the 
case. The prosecutions will he criminal. It 
was said that it was not known whether 
proceedings in equity to dissolve any al¬ 
leged combination in restraint of trade 
would be instituted. 
Eleven men are known to have been killed 
and seven others badly injured, some of 
them mortally, near Fishkill Landing, N. 
Y., January 21, in the premature explosion 
of about 400 pounds of dynamite in the 
tunnel of the great aqueduct for carrying 
water to the City of New York from the 
Ashokan Dam in the Catskill Mountains. 
Paul O. Stensland, wrecker of the Mil¬ 
waukee Avenue Bank of Chicago, and Ilenry 
IV. liering, his cashier, were paroled from 
the Illinois Northern Penitentiary January 
20, despite the protests of hundreds of 
victims and of Polish societies representing 
other hundreds who had suffered directly 
or indirectly by the sensational crash. 
Stensland and liering had been sent down 
under the indeterminate sentence law, which 
provided for from one to fourteen years, 
with a possible commutation, for good con¬ 
duct, to six years and three months. The 
men have been in prison since September 
26, 1906. The failure of the Milwaukee 
Avenue Bank was one of the most sensa¬ 
tional in Chicago’s history and was fol¬ 
lowed by pitiable scenes and a long train 
of death and disaster. Stensland and his 
cashier disappeared. The teller committed 
suicide. Later two other victims committed 
suicide, one man fell dead when he heard 
all his savings had been wiped out and 
another was taken to the Detention Hospital 
a hopeless maniac. The bank was the 
favorite depository of people of small means, 
chiefly Scandinavians and Poles. 
TPIE MILK INQUIRY.—The Grand Jury 
that is to investigate the milk trade was 
charged January 25, by Justice Goff in the 
Criminal Branch of the New York Supreme 
Court. Immediately afterward the investi¬ 
gation. which is expected to last six weeks 
and during which about fifty witnesses are 
to be examined, was started. More big 
milk companies have followed the lead of 
the Alexander Campbell concern in deciding 
to reduce the price of milk from nine to 
eight cents a quart. Some of these com¬ 
panies announce that the reduction will go 
into effect at once instead of on February 
1, the date on which the Campbell com¬ 
pany's cut will become operative. The 
action of these companies probably means 
that New York will again have eight 
cent milk all around. These are the 
companies that will cut the price of milk 
to eight cents: The R. F. Stevens Com¬ 
pany of Brooklyn, February 1 : the Stand¬ 
ard Dairy Company of Manhattan, at once; 
the Diamond Dairy Company of Brooklyn, 
at once; tin' Beakes Dairy Company of Man¬ 
hattan. at once; the McDermott Company 
of Manhattan and the Bronx, at once; the 
Orange County Milk Association of Man¬ 
hattan, February 1 ; H. Chardavoyne of 
Brooklyn. February 1 ; the Empire State 
Dairy Company of Brooklyn, February 1 ; 
the Mutual Milk and Cream Company of 
Manhattan and the Bronx, January 31; 
the Alexander Campbell Company of Brook¬ 
lyn. February 1. All these are good, big 
dealers, the Mutual Milk and Cream Com¬ 
pany being a $2,000,000 concern. Many 
smaller dealers undoubtedly have determined 
upon the same reduction. The Sheffield 
Farms Company and Borden's Condensed 
Milk Company are still standing out against 
the cut. 
FARM AND GARDEN.—At the Scranton, 
Pa. poultry show January 20, it was 
reported that an egg laid by the $12,000 
prize winning hen Lady Washington had 
been stolen from the coop in which she is 
kept. It had been laid only a short time 
before. F. O. Megargee, the owner of the 
hen offered a reward of $25 for the return 
of the egg. A special policeman guarded 
the hen, and it is believed that several 
persons were in the plot to steal the egg 
and that they crowded around the coop so 
that the man who took it could not be 
seen by the watchman. 
There are now 42,000 cows “signed up” 
by the farmers of Orange county in favor 
of the plans of the Dairymen's League-, 
which is at work in all counties in New 
York. New Jersey and Connecticut organiz¬ 
ing to control the price of milk instead 
of lotting the ereamerymen dictate the 
price. It is expected that there will be 
50,000 cows in Orange county that will 
be signed up. It is to be the strongest 
farmers’ organization ever formed. If 
50,000 cows in Orange county and a pro¬ 
portionate number in the other districts 
from which New York derives its milk 
supply are taken out of the producing 
market it certainly will be a serious condi¬ 
tion for New York. The league’s plan in¬ 
volves the erection of a factory to lake 
the milk and turn in into butter, cheese and 
other products when it is not shipped to 
New York. 
• I.ots of snow and good sleighing; teams 
all hauling logs or chemical wood, slashing 
all the timber down that can be bought; 
farms and hills all cut over and the coun¬ 
try looks bare, ready for forest fires. 
Little Genesee, N. Y. b. o. c. 
We are having a very open Winter thus 
far. only a few days of sledding, and lum¬ 
bering operations, by which Maine Winters 
are principally occupied, is at a standstill. 
Ground in the open at this writing (Jan¬ 
uary 21) entirely bare, being bad for grass 
roots. Our specialties for this locality 
(York County), cows, corn and clover, have 
rather a forbidding outlook for the coming 
year. The past year was a poor corn year, 
having a heavy frost in August, but cows 
and clover did fairly well and prices were 
good. t. j. c. 
Hollis Center, Maine. 
We have so far had the finest Winter I 
ever saw; temperature from 20 to 2S de¬ 
grees, but little wind, about 15 inches of 
snow, fine sleighing. Only two days with 
mercury down to eight degrees* and wheat 
has been well covered all the time till 
now; we have just had two days' rain, 
which has taken the snow mostly all off. 
but this morning it has turned cold again 
and it is blowing and snowing, so I hope 
it may again cover the ground. People are 
beginning to find out that everv acre of 
suitable land here ought to be planted to 
orchards. j. s. w. 
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