1910. 
THE RURAb NEW-YORKER. 
EVENTS OF THE WEEK. 
DOMESTIC.—Notice of an action to re¬ 
cover 885,000 for the death of Parkman 
Leavitt, a Cornell student who was killed 
by a live wire in Ithaca, N. Y., January 
24, 1909, was filed March 10 in the County 
Clerk's office against the Ithaca Electric 
Light and Power Company by attorneys for 
George O. Leavitt, of East Orange, N. J., 
the father of Parkman Leavitt. The case 
will be placed on the calendar of the 
Supreme Court, which is to convene in this 
city on March 28. Although the action is 
brought against the Electric Light Com¬ 
pany because it owned the wire which killed 
Leavitt, -the case it is understood, is to be 
defended by an insurance company. Park- 
man Leavitt, a freshman. 17 years old, was 
killed Sunday, January 24, 1909. The aeci- 
deut occurred when Leavitt touched a guy 
wire either with a small green stick which 
he had picked up or with one of his hands. 
Ordinarily a guy wire is not charged with 
electricity. 
The Republican State Senators of Now 
York, in caucus have elected Senator Cobb 
as their leader to succeed Senator Allds. 
The election was made on the forty-ninth 
ballot. On the forty-ninth ballot Ilubbs 
of Suffolk and Witter of Allegany switched 
and voted for Cobb and Cobb also voted for 
himself, giving Cobb seventeen votes out 
of thirty-three available Republican Sena¬ 
tors. 
Edward McGann. paymaster, and Charles 
H. I’ommering, assistant paymaster of the 
Dexter Coal Company, were attacked and 
robbed by highwaymen March 10 while car¬ 
rying 84.000 for the payroll in a wagon near 
the company's mines at Brilliant, Ohio. 
Leroy C. Loughborough, assistant keeper 
of the Norwalk. Conn, light on the Sound, 
was found March 10 lying on the floor of 
the lighthouse almost, dead from hunger. 
John S. Haywood, assistant superintendent 
of lights, on his regular tour of inspection 
in the lighthouse tender learned from the 
records of the light that the keeper, John 
M. Clarkson, had not been at his post for 
eleven days. Loughborough recovered later 
and said he had been alone in the light 
for the eleven days, for the most of the 
time without food. He said the keeper left 
the lighthouse to get provisions, as well 
as the salary orders for Loughborough and 
himself. Loughborough and his dog shared 
what little food there was, chiefly potatoes 
and dog biscuits. The fresh water gave 
out and Loughborough had to boil sea¬ 
water. From Saturday to Monday Lough¬ 
borough did not sleep at all and did not 
eat. There was a fog on all this time and 
it was necessary to keep going the engines 
that run the fog horn. The police of 
Bridgeport found Clarkson and locked him 
up. 
In an effort to prevent the railroads from 
increasing freight rates on dressed meats be¬ 
tween Omaha and Chicago the business men 
of Omaha, March 14 asked the Federal Court 
for an injunction preventing the Wabash 
railroad from putting the new rate into 
effect. Should the injunction be granted 
it is believed the other lines will refrain 
from charging the increased rates. The 
new rates which go into effect discriminate 
against Omaha and in favor of Kansas City. 
The Wabash has refused to give Omaha the 
Kansas City rate and the Omaha people will 
ask the court for an order restraining that 
road from discriminating against Omaha. 
St. Joseph, Atchison, Omaha, Sioux City, 
Minneapolis and St. Paul are all joining 
with Omaha, as the rate applies to each 
of those cities as from this city. 
In a fire which destroyed the interior of 
the Cokey factory building at Jamestown, 
N. Y., March 12, Fireman Jonathan Hanson 
was killed by the collapse of a fire escape. 
Foreman Alfred F. Shoesmitli fell four 
stories and sustained a fractured skull, 
which caused his death, and Fireman Joel 
Oberg was seriously injured by a fall. The 
fire loss is about 8100.000. 
An explosion in the No. 5 colliery of the 
Lehigh and Wilkesbarre Coal Company at 
South Wilkesbarre, Pa., March 12 shut in 
seven men behind a curve of rock and a wall 
of fire. The mine had been idle all the 
week. What caused the explosion is not 
known, but it is supposed that a large body 
of gas collected without the men knowing 
it and was ignited by their lights. The 
explosion caused the roof for some distance 
to fall in, and this was followed by a 
fire which apparently stretches along the 
plane. The seven men were all killed. 
While the Supreme Court at Washington. 
March 14 did not pass on the claim that 
the North Dakota law fixing the rate for 
transportation for coal within that State 
at slightly above cost was void because con¬ 
fiscatory,’ it affirmed the judgment of the 
State Supreme Court enjoining the Northern 
Pacific, Great Northern and the Minneap¬ 
olis, St. Paul and Sault Ste. Marie railroads 
from charging rates higher than those pre¬ 
scribed. This decision is similar to that in 
the Consolidated Gas case from New York 
and to which the court referred, because it 
was not shown by actual trial that the 
rates were or would be confiscatory, and. 
as in that case, the railroads were given 
the right without prejudice to show by 
further proceedings that the rates were 
actually confiscatory. 
Yielding to the long continued agitation 
throughout the 1’nitcd States, the House 
Committee on Naval Affairs March 18 de¬ 
cided to report a bill providing for the 
raising of the wreck of the battleship Maine 
in navana harbor. The measure will be 
presented to the House soon and the indi¬ 
cations are that it will be passed. Ever 
since the Spanish-American war efforts have 
been made to induce Congress to make an 
appropriation to raise the wreck and to 
transfer to the United States for interment 
the remains of the American bluejackets who 
lost their lives in the destruction of the 
battleship. In a recent communication to 
the House committee Secretary of the Navy 
Meyer urged that he be authorized to cause 
the wreck to be removed on the ground that 
it is a menace to navigation at Havana. 
He estimated that the sum of 8599,000 
would be required for the purpose. The 
expenditure of that amount is authorized 
by the. committee bill. Naval officials say 
that sixty-seven bodies are buried in the 
wreck. of the Maine. Under the terms of 
the bill ordered reported these bodies are 
are to be brought to this country and 
buried in Arlington Cemeterv with military 
honors. 
THE MILK QUESTION.—Conspiracy in 
restraint of trade in controlling the price 
of milk paid to producers it is said will 
be charged in an action about to be brought 
against the Borden Condensed Milk Com¬ 
pany by Attorney J. .T. Bixby of Norwich. 
The action wil lbe brought in the name 
of a Chenango county farmer. The pro¬ 
posed suit will take up a different phase 
of the milk price question than the actions 
brought against the milk companies in New 
York City. Mr. Bixby claims that the price 
paid to the farmers for their milk in 
Chenango county is entirely regulated by 
the price offered by the Bordens. No 
efforts are made to ooHfceal this, it is al¬ 
leged. and so-called independent houses make 
contracts months ahead with producers, 
based on the prices afterward announced by 
the Bordens on their semi-annual contract 
days. The general custom is to contract 
for milk at a price three cents per hundred 
below the Borden price. This covers the 
expense to the farmer for taking his milk 
to a Borden plant instead of delivering it 
to an independent plant nearer home. The 
existence of a secret agreement between 
all the companies as to the price to be 
paid the farmers for their milk is alleged 
and will be one of the things investigated. 
It is asserted that the farmers are not 
getting an equitable dividend on the amount 
of their investment in land, buildings, stock 
and equipment and that some of them are 
actually losing money by producing milk. 
Chenango county, according to the State 
Department of Agriculture, has the most 
cows per square mile of any county in the 
State. 
COST OF LIVING INQUIRY.—The in¬ 
creased cost of brooms is due directly to 
the tariff of two cents a pound on broom- 
corn imposed by the Payne-Aldrich law, 
according to the testimony of H. Sonnehill, 
a Baltimore grocer, given March 14 before 
the Senate committee that is investigating 
the high cost of living. As Mr. Sonne¬ 
hill figures it retailers pay 60 cents more 
a dozen brooms and the consumer 10 cents 
more a broom as a result of the new tariff. 
Senator MeCumber hurried to the defence 
of the tariff law by asking Mr. Sonnehill 
how many brooms a year the average 
family would use. and when the witness 
admitted that four would he about the 
limit the Senator from North Dakota re¬ 
marked that the increased cost of living 
as a result of the tariff on broom corn 
was not oppressive. Mr. Sonnehill also 
averred that lemons have gone up 81 a box 
as a result of the new tariff. Aside from 
brooms and lemons the Baltimore grocer 
mentioned no necessities that cost more 
as a result of the Aldrich law. Capt. 
James F. Oyster, a Washington dealer in 
lhrtter and eggs, told the committee all 
about the Elgin Board which fixes the price 
of butter for the country every week and 
gave it as his opinion that the board is 
not a trust in any sense. 
“What we call Elgin butter is not known 
to the trade as trust butter and the Elgin 
Board is not a trust,’’ said Capt. Oyster. 
In reply to the direct questioning of 
Senator Simmons, Capt. Oyster testified 
that it is due to the Elgin Board that 
uniformity of price is maintained in the 
butter market and that if there were no 
board, prices would lie fixed in every com¬ 
munity by local conditions. The board, ac¬ 
cording to the witness, is an exchange com¬ 
posed of some 800 creamery men and mer¬ 
chants in Illinois, parts of Wisconsin and 
Iowa. Every Monday the members gather 
on the floor of this exchange and butter 
is offered for sale or bid for just as stocks 
are offered or bid for on the floor of the 
New York Stock Exchange. After the bids 
and offers have been received an advisory 
committee of the board passes on them and 
fixes on a price, usually the average of 
the quotations on change, which is known 
as the Elgin Board price for the remainder 
of that week. William N. I’oulten, a grocer 
and butcher of Baltimore, who caters largely 
to the laboring class of trade, gave the 
range of prices in his business for the 
last six years and testified that there had 
been an increase of from eight to 10 per 
cent. He said he had made no money for 
two or three years and that fully one-half 
of the dealers in Baltimore were practically 
“broke.” Mr. Boulton fixed the monthly 
provision bill for a family of five at from 
828 to 840. 
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