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1914 contains cultural articles 
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EVENTS OF THE WEEK, 
DOMESTIC.—Proceedings against all 
real estate companies transacting a bank¬ 
ing business alleged to be in violation of 
the law will be instituted soon, said At¬ 
torney General Carmody of New York 
Jan. S. The Mona ton Realty Investing 
Company, of New York, will be made a 
defendant, the Attorney General said. 
The Appellate Court recently held that 
it was doing an unauthorized business. 
It had sold about $1,000,000 worth of 
certificates. Forfeiture of its charter 
and the appointment of a receiver will be 
asked. The company has offices in se¬ 
veral cities. Two clergymen were among 
its salesmen. 
Christian F. Christensen, formerly a 
Baptist minister, was arraigned in Ho¬ 
boken. N. J.. Jan. 8, on the charge of 
practising witchcraft and was held in 
$500 bail. 
In the year just ended, according to 
statistics completed by William C. Moore, 
landing agent at Ellis Island, New York, 
1.332,200 passengers arrived at this port, 
952,834 coming in the steerage. The 
steamships of twenty-six lines brought 
here 148.950 first cabin passengers and 
230.410 second cabin passengers. 
Charles I. Greenfield, Meyer Rotraan 
and Samuel Brown, under arrest at 
Philadelphia, Pa., charged with defraud¬ 
ing wholesale concerns throughout the 
country of $500,000 by a system of fake 
references, were held in $32,000 bail, 
Jan. 8, on charges of attempting to swin¬ 
dle by use of the United States mails. 
Road repair work which a State inspec¬ 
tor estimated would cost at the outside 
$3 a cubic yard was contracted for with¬ 
out bids by the New York State High¬ 
ways Department at $4.50 a cubic yard, 
an unnecessary cost to the State of about 
$1,200 a mile." Another outside estimate 
of $3.75 a cubic yard was raised to $6.25 
a cubic yard when let to contractors by 
State officials at Albany. This “graft” 
was at the rate of about $2,000 a mile. 
This testimony was given Jan. 9, by Wil¬ 
liam G. Merritt, who was an inspector of 
highways in Ulster county from 1907 to 
1912. 
The capsizing of a motor cutter from 
the battleship Wyoming, flagship of the 
Atlantic fleet, in Hampton Roads, Jan. 9, 
resulted in the loss of the lives of four 
seamen of the Wyoming’s crew. Twelve 
others were picked up by a tug sent to 
their rescue. The accident occurred near 
the spot where a launch from the bat¬ 
tleship Minnesota went down in 1907 
with 11 men, six of them young midship¬ 
men returning from a ball at the James¬ 
town exposition grounds. 
Twelve men, five whites and seven ne¬ 
groes, were killed in an explosion in the 
Rock Castle mine of the Davis Creek 
Coal Company, thirty-five miles south of 
Birmingham, Ala., Jan. TO. More than 
two hundred men were at work in the 
mine when the explosion occurred. All 
except 12 got out of the workings before 
the after damp affected them seriously. 
The explosion is believed to have been 
of gas origin, igniting dust in the mine. 
An agreement between the Department 
of Justice and the New York, New 
Haven and Hartford Railroad that pro¬ 
vides for a reorganization of the road in 
conformity with the Administration’s in¬ 
terpretation of the Sherman anti-trust 
law was reached in a conference held at 
Washington, Jan. 10. As a result the 
Department of Justice will abandon the 
suit for a dissolution of the New Haven 
system that was prepared for filing in 
the courts in the event that those auth¬ 
orized to speak for the road found them¬ 
selves unable or unwilling to comply with 
the demands of the Government. For 
the second time, therefore, the Adminis¬ 
tration has succeeded in settling a big 
anti-trust case without resort to the 
courts. The Administration’s “peaceful” 
policy of adjusting disputes with corpora¬ 
tions' charged with violating or evading 
the anti-trust laws first found expression 
in the agreement perfected by Attorney- 
General McReynolds with the American 
Telephone and Telegraph Company 
whereby that concern pledged itself to 
dispose of its stock in the Western Union 
Telegraph Company. The New Haven 
road gives up the following: Boston and 
Maine control, all its trolley systems, 
Merchants anti Miners Line, Eastern 
Steamship Corporation, Maine Steamship 
Company. It retains other steamship 
lines, including the Long Island Sound 
service, until Interstate Commerce Com¬ 
mission gives ruling. 
Driven by a gale which piled up bat¬ 
tering s <as the Royal Mail Packet steam¬ 
ship Cobequid struck on the rocks that 
fringe the mouth of the Bay of Fundy, 
Jan. 13. Thirty-six hours later 94 of 
the 106 persons aboard the vessel were 
taken off by coast steamers and brought 
into Yarmouth. Capt. Howson and 11 
men remained on board. No lives were 
lost, but all the crew suffered greatly in 
the intense cold, for the temperature was 
below zero and the steamer’s decks were 
awash, and the seas, which froze where 
they fell, converted the wreck into a gi¬ 
gantic icicle. Passengers and crew were 
kept below decks during their terribly 
long vigil, which largely accounts for all 
lives being saved. Bridge, deckhouse 
and practically everything moveable were 
swept from the ship’s decks by the seas, 
which continually broke over her. The 
wireless operator was able to get out one 
call for help before bis aerials iced up, 
after which lie was helpless. Her furnace 
fires were put out iu a few minutes and 
the passengers and crew wore forced by 
the rapidly rising waters to the boat deck, 
where they took refuge in the captain’s 
quarters. For 24 hours in the midst of 
one of the worst storms, with Winter 
seas sweeping tlieir vessel and breaking 
it up beneath them, these people had to 
huddle together. One of the men suc¬ 
ceeded in getting a metal bucket, in which 
some holes were punched to make a 
draught. In this a small fire was started 
where some warm drinks were prepared 
for the women and children. 
Fire which seriously threatened the 
business center of Montreal, T. Q.. was 
subdued Jan. 13. The loss is estimated 
at $500,000. For a time the historic 
Notre Dame Cathedral was threatened. 
Flames broke out in a building adjacent 
to the cathedral, but were checked. Bat¬ 
tling in a temperature 25 degrees below 
zero, firemen were not only hampered 
by the bitter cold, but by the fact that 
half a dozen other fires broke out almost 
simultaneously. At one time only seven 
pieces of apparatus were loft with which 
to combat the central fire. Almost every 
fireman sustained frostbites, and so 
serious were the injuries and the effects 
of the frost that offices nearby were 
turned into a temporary hospital. 
FARM AND GARDEN.—C. L. Mar- 
latt, chairman ’of the Federal Horticul¬ 
tural Board, has asked for an appropria¬ 
tion of $35,000 to keep the Mediter¬ 
ranean fruit fly from coming to the 
United States from Hawaii and else¬ 
where. 
The Garden City Producers’ Associa¬ 
tion lias been formed by truck farmers 
and market gardeners in the vicinity of 
Tampa, Fla., with the following officers: 
Horton C. Powell, president; - Jor¬ 
dan, vict-president; J. L. Simmons, sec¬ 
retary; II. S. Wisner, manager. 
The following officers were elected at 
the annual meeting of the Washington 
State Horticultural Association at Walla 
Walla : Michael Horan, Wenatchee, presi¬ 
dent; R. Edward Trumble. Wenatchee, 
secretary; H. C. Sampson, Spokane, first 
vice-president; J. II. Wright, Yakima, 
second vice-president; P. H. Weyranch, 
Walla Walla, treasurer. The next meet¬ 
ing will be held at Wenatchee. 
Two measures, one designed to improve 
the lot of Hie farmer and the other the 
lot of the housewife, will be pressed for 
consideration in the Senate soon after 
Congress reconvenes. Senator Smith, of 
Georgia, will ask the Senate to take up 
bis bill providing for co-operative agri¬ 
cultural extension work, and Senator 
Smoot will ask to have considered his 
bill to provide for researches and experi¬ 
ments in the field of home economics. In 
the last Congress the House passed a bill 
to establish agricultural extension de¬ 
partments in connection with agricultural 
colleges. The Senate also passed the 
measure, but added to it a scheme for 
aiding vocational education. The House 
refused to accept the amendment, and the 
bill failed. 
Leaders of the Poultry Workers’ Un¬ 
ion announced. Jan. 13, that more than 
2,600.000 pounds (1.300 tons) of kosher 
poultry are tied up already as a result 
of the strike of the butchers, and that by 
the end of the week the amount of kosher 
poultry tied up will be almost 10,000,000 
pounds. The announcement was also 
made that 1.000 kosher meat butchers 
would go out on strike. The butchers 
demand that their “bosses” employ only 
rabbis who are members of the union 
to kill poultry. Demands for a minimum 
wage of $14 a week, shorter hours and 
recognition of the union are also made. 
The Sir William Yestey Company, of 
England, is thp lessee of the sixteen acres 
of waterfront buildings in the New l'ork 
Dock Company property in Brooklyn. 
Sir William Yestey is at the head of the 
corporation, which is largely interested in 
the meat industry in England. It plans 
to market here beef from Argentina, Aus¬ 
tralia and New Zealand. 
VOLCANIC ACTION IN JAPAN.— 
The city of Kagoshima, with 64,000 in¬ 
habitants, was totally destroyed by a 
flood of fire from the Sakurashima vol¬ 
cano, which burst into activity on Jan. 11. 
The three villages on the island of Sakura 
were blotted out by the molten lava 
which poured from the crater, and 15.000 
persons are believed to have perished 
there. Nearly 100,000 persons are feared 
to be dead in the greatest volcanic dis¬ 
aster since fhe destruction of St. Pierre 
by the eruption of Mont Pelee. The 
whole volcanic range of Kiushiu burst 
into dangerous activity with startling 
suddenness after having been quiescent 
for more than a century. Kagoshima 
was obliterated exactly as ancient Pom¬ 
peii was engulfed by the flaming ashes 
pouring from Vesuvius. Hundreds of 
earthquake shocks were felt all through 
the islands. Railroads, telegraph lines 
and telephone lines were destroyed. 
Ashes from the volcano fell into the city 
of Nagasaki, 100 miles away. The earth¬ 
quake shocks were felt principally 
throughout the Kiushiu area. 
Among the members of a work gang 
on a certain railway was an Irishman, 
who claimed to be very good at figuring. 
The boss, thinking that he would get 
ahead of Pat, said: “Say, Pat, how 
many shirts can you get out of a yard?” 
“That depends,” answered Pat, “on 
whose yard you get into.”—Winnipeg 
Telegram. 
COMING FARMERS’ MEETINGS. 
Ohio State Horticultural Society, an¬ 
nual meeting, Cleveland, O., January 20- 
23, in connection with the Fifth Annual 
Ohio State Apple Show. 
Virginia State Horticultural Society, 
annual meeting, Richmond, Va., January 
21-23. 
New York State School of Agriculture, 
Alfred. N. Y., short course in agriculture 
beginning January 26; Farmers* Week, 
February 23-26. 
Tennessee State Horticultural Society, 
State Nurserymen’s Association, State 
Beekeepers’ Association, Nashville, Tenn., 
January 28-30. 
Forty-first annual meeting, New Jer¬ 
sey State Board of Agriculture, Trenton, 
N. J., January 29-30. 
Farmers’ Week, State School of Agri¬ 
culture, Canton, N. Y., January 26-31. 
Ohio Corn Improvement Association, 
Mansfield, O.. January 27-30. 
Western New York Horticultural So¬ 
ciety, Rochester, N. Y., January 28-29- 
30. 
Farmers’ Week. Ohio State University, 
Columbus, Ohio, February 2-6. 
Sixth National Corn Exhibition. State 
Fair Ground, Dallas, Texas, February 
10-24. 
Granite State Dairymen’s Association, 
Concord. N. H., February 12. 
Massachusetts Agricultural College. 
Amherst, ten-weeks’ Winter course, Jan¬ 
uary 6 to March 13. 
Thirty-ninth annual meeting of the 
American Association of Nurserymen, 
Cleveland, O., June 24-26. 
CROPS AND PRICES. 
I find the greatest need here, as in 
other localities, is how to get a bigger 
per cent, of the consumer’s dollar rather 
than bigger crops for less money for the 
farmers and a bigger profit for the mid¬ 
dleman. It looks a littls as though, if 
we could raise twice as much as we do 
now, we would get more work and less 
money, and the consumer would not 
benefit in the least. Prices here to the 
farmer are : Wheat. 96 ; oats, 43 ; corn, 
shelled. 76; hay, Timothy, $16 to $17; 
clover, $13 to $15; eggs, 40 to 45; but¬ 
ter. country, 30; creamery, 34. c. R. 
Lake, O. 
Cattle on the hoof, three to six cents 
per pound, according to condition, etc. of 
animals; dressed, nine cents per pound 
fore quarter, 11 cents hind quarter. No 
sales in this township at present for 
calves. Hogs, 13 to 14 cents per pound 
dressed. Fresh milk, five cents per 
quart, private sales; cheese* 22; butter, 
32; eggs. 32. Apples being the main 
fruit sold and it being a bad year around 
here for them, it seems to me that those 
who have them get whatever they can. 
I sold some recently at 60 cents per 
bushel, choice Baldwins, a very low price 
for the quality. c. E. ir. 
Dingman’s Ferry, N. Y. 
Wheat is selling at about $1 per bushel 
and corn at the same; hay $20 per ton. 
Potatoes are retailing at from 90 to $1.20 
per bushel. Apples from $2 to $2.50 per 
bushel. There are not enough cattle 
sold here to establish a price. I logs are 
selling at about eight cents per pound, 
pork from 11. to 14 cents per pound; 
butter, 40 to 45; eggs about all that one 
would risk for them. . w. F. b. 
Dawson, Pa. 
Butter, 33 to 35; eggs, 35 to 38; fat 
catrle. 6*4 to eight, dealer’s price. Hogs, 
10 to 11. Apples. Stayman and Limber- 
twig, $1.25; other varieties cheaper. 
Cabbage, 1*4 cents per pound. G. M. 
Dillsburg, Pa. 
Day. baled. Timothy, $16; clover. $13; 
corn. 60; potatoes, 70. Beef cattle, $7 
to $S per 100 pounds; creamery milk, 
delivered, $1.S0 per 100 pounds; retail 
butter, 44. e. p. w. 
Doe Run, Pa. 
Dairymen are fiiling their icehouses 
with a fine quality of ice from private 
ponds and lakes. Ice is from nine to 
14 inches thick; have had quite good 
sleighing since Christmas, which helps a 
whole lot with hauling loads. Some are 
getting out the next year’s supply of 
wood and some lumber for repair work. 
Several new silos were built last Fall, 
but none entirely filled with corn, as the 
corn was a very poor crop. The Granges 
are alive and doing good work for their 
respective communities. They have 
recently elected new officers and are busy 
installing the same now; Past Mas¬ 
ters usually serve as installing officers, 
after which refreshments are served by 
the sisters, while all have an enjoyable 
time. v. s. c. 
Elk Creek, N. Y. 
Yeals, live, 10*4 ; beef cattle, six to 
seven live weight. Eggs, 32; butter, 32 
to 35; potatoes, 75 cents per 60 pounds; 
oats, 50; corn, $1.60 per 100 pounds; 
buckwheat, $1.60 per 100. Milk sold at 
cheese factory for December, 50; Janu¬ 
ary, 47; for butter fat, which makes 
milk range from about $1.80 to $2 per 
100 pounds. The milk sold at cheese 
factory is made into Swiss cheese by a 
native of Switzerland, except in time of 
shortage of milk at an adjacent shipping 
station, when it is contributed to New 
York shipments. Hay sells for $13 to 
$15 per ton at barn, price depending on 
quality. Prices here of general produce 
helped much by home markets of three 
mining towns located, one five miles dis¬ 
tant and two about 10 miles distant. 
Covington, Pa. s. p. 
