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EVENTS OF THE WEEK. 
DOMESTIC.—Six blocks of the water- 
front were destroyed at Portland, Ore., 
March 12, by a fire of unknown origin, 
the loss being estimated at $1,000,000. 
Columbia Dock No. 2, Montgomery Dock 
No. 1, the steamships Cricket and Glen- 
roy and much other property were de¬ 
stroyed. The Cricket, which was laden 
with asphalt, burned fiercely. Firemen 
cut her loose, but the big ship instead of 
going to the centre of the stream, floated 
along the docks, spreading the flames. 
The Glenroy caught fire nearly as soon 
as the Cricket. It was with difficulty 
that the Chinese crew was rescued and a 
number of them jumped overboard to es¬ 
cape the flames. They were herded by 
the Federal authorities to prevent their 
escape. 
Leading dry-goods merchants of New 
York have united to find employment for 
2,300 persons thrown out of work by the 
failure of the two Henry Siegel depart¬ 
ment stores. In addition to the loss of 
employment, Siegel’s financial opera¬ 
tions, conducted through his private bank 
have caused 800 of these people to lose 
all their savings, and also absorbed the 
sick benefit fund of these workers. It 
is said that the bank accepted a deposit 
of $4 on account of the fund on the day 
the receiver was appointed—the dimes of 
40 girls who were getting $7 to $8 a 
week. 
Directors of the United States Express 
Company voted, March 13, to wind up 
the company’s affairs and go out of busi¬ 
ness. The first direct result of the Gov¬ 
ernment’s parcel post competition and 
the resulting reduction of 10 per cent, in 
express rates will be the throwing out of 
work of 15,000 employees of the United 
States Express Company when its liqui¬ 
dation is completed. There are about 
2,000 employes of the company in New 
York city. The United States Express 
Company has no pension system. Its 
yearly payroll is about $6,000,000. 
The Kentucky lower house of the Gen¬ 
eral Assembly put itself on record, March 
13. as being absolutely opposed to grant¬ 
ing the voting privilege to women by vot¬ 
ing 51 to 29 to defeat an amendment to 
the State Constitution allowing women 
to vote. The Senate will now get the 
measure, but its defeat is certain there 
and women have given up the fight for 
the present. 
The United States Circuit Court of Ap¬ 
peals suspended, March 16, the injunc¬ 
tion restraining the Eastman Kodak Com¬ 
pany from selling films manufactured ac¬ 
cording to the Goodwin process until 
the court determines the right of the 
Eastman company to sell all the films it 
now has on hand before making an ac¬ 
counting to the Goodwin Film Company. 
The Circuit Court of Appeals recently 
sustained the decision of Judge naze! in 
the Federal District Court of Ruffalo 
that the Eastman film was an infringe¬ 
ment of the Goodwin process, invented by 
the late Hannibal Goodwin, an Episcopal 
minister. J. J. Kennedy, attorney for 
the Eastman company, asked the court 
to allow his clients to sell all the films 
they had on hand. This, he said, would 
be to the benefit of both parties to the 
litigation, since the films, if not sold 
within a month or two, would Ue un¬ 
marketable. 
College Hall, the main building of 
Wellesley College and one of the oldest 
of the group, was destroyed by fire, 
March 17, early in the morning. Two 
hundred and fifty students, 50 instructors 
and 50 servants, who roomed in the 
building, were roused from their sleep 
and all marched out safely. That none 
of the 350 occupants was killed or in¬ 
jured is attributed to the perfect working 
of the many times rehearsed fire drill. 
The girls lost nearly all their belongings. 
The loss to building and contents is es¬ 
timated at $900,000. President Ellen S. 
Pendleton announced that college would 
be closed until after the Easter recess. 
After the summing up by attorneys in 
the trial, at Philadelphia, of Capt Osmyn 
Berry of the steamship Nantucket, in 
connection with the Monroe disaster, 
Capt. It. A. Sargent, chairman of the lo¬ 
cal board of steamboat inspectors, said 
in a report that Capt. Berry should be 
exonerated and that charges of negligence 
and incompetence should he made against 
Capt. Johnson of the Monroe. I). II. 
Howard, the other member of the board, 
declined to concur in the report, which 
will be submitted to the Department of 
Commerce for review. 
Three men were crushed to death and 
five were injured in a daylight collision 
between the Lackawanna Railroad ferry¬ 
boat Ithac, and a Jersey Central freight 
car float in the Hudson River 600 feet 
off the foot of Chambers street, Manhattan, 
March 17. All the dead and injured were 
commuters in the men’s cabin on the main 
deck of the ferryboat—eight of 700 who 
were crossing to Hoboken at the end of 
a day’s work in New York. The float, 
towed by the tug Freehold, hit the Ithaca 
amidships. A protruding freight car 
bored into the men’s cabin, wrecked it 
and then, when the tug backed away, 
dived to the bottom of the river. The 
accident occurred because neither the cap¬ 
tain of the ferry nor the captain of the 
tugboat saw the other’s craft in time, as 
an Erie ferryboat, bound for Jersey City, 
was crossing between them. 
A complaint by Mrs. John Larson, 
Oregon’s only woman Mayor, has resulted 
THIS RURAIi NEW-YORKER 
in the arrest of her own husband, a 
saloon keeper, on the charge of selling 
liquor to a minor at Troutdale. 
The west wall of the Missouri Athletic 
Club building, towering high above the 
ruins of the recent fatal St. Louis fire, 
tumbled over in a high wind, March 17. 
It crashed down through the roof of the 
four-story building occupied by the St. 
Louis Seed Company, killing three per¬ 
sons there and burying a score or more 
who were in that buil ling or working in 
the ruins to the rear of it. The wall was 
17 inches thick and had been regarded 
with apprehension since the fire. 
The Red Cross Line steamship City of 
Sydney went aground on the rocky ledges 
near Sambro Head, just outside the en¬ 
trance to Halifax harbor, N. S., March 
17. Her 13 passengers and part of the 
crew were taken off by tugs and finally 
Capt. David McDonald and the rest of 
the crew of 40 men were rescued. It is 
believed the steamer will be lost. She 
carried a cargo valued at $300,000, fully 
insured. 
A suit to break the Lehigh Valley Rail¬ 
road’s alleged anthracite monopoly was 
begun by the Government in the United 
States District Court at New York, 
March 18. In a petition filed by Fred¬ 
eric R. Coudert, Special Assistant At¬ 
torney-General, the Lehigh, its directors 
and subsidiary companies are accused of 
violating the interstate commence act 
and the Sherman anti-trust law. An in¬ 
junction to prevent them “from further 
restraining, monopolizing or attempting 
to monopolize trade and commerce in 
anthracite coal’’ is sought. The Govern¬ 
ment also asks that the railroad company 
be enjoined from carrying coal in which 
it has an interest. It is a dissolution 
suit which if won by the Government will 
compel the Lehigh Valley Railroad Com¬ 
pany to dissociate itself from the coal 
companies which, according to the peti¬ 
tion, it controls. 
The New Jersey Assembly passed, 
March 18, a resolution asking the Fed¬ 
eral Government to build the proposed 
$40,000,000 bridge between New York 
and New Jersey. 
POSTAL CHANGES.—A change has 
been made in the rules governing the par¬ 
cel post that is expected to result in a 
much larger use of the mails by farmers. 
Postmaster-General Burleson has an¬ 
nounced that hereafter butter, eggs, 
fruits, berries, vegetables, dressed poul¬ 
try and other articles entering the parcel 
post running from 20 to 50 pounds in 
weight may be packed in boxes and crates 
similar to those used when shipment is 
made by express. Heretofore such par¬ 
cels had to be in such form that they 
could be placed in mail bags. Under the 
new rule farm products such as those 
enumerated will not be put in mail bags. 
Packages of these articles weighing 20 
pounds or less are required as heretofore 
to be packed in such manner as to be safely 
handled in bags with other mail matter. 
March 16 the Postmaster-General signed 
an order providing that the sender -of a 
parcel post package on which postage at 
the fourth class, or parcel post rate, is 
fully prepaid may place a communication 
in an envelope prepaid at the first class, 
or letter rate, and attach it to the parcel, 
the envelope being addressed to corres¬ 
pond with the address on the parcel. 
The envelope must be tied or otherwise 
securely fastened to the outside of the 
parcel in such a manner as to prevent its 
separation from the parcel. 
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Pulverized like flour; owing to its fineness of 
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Not being Caustic, can be applied at any time 
without danger to plant life. 
The best and cheapest form of lime forall crops. 
Especially recommended for Alfalfa. 
Sustains fertility and increases productiveness 
of the soil. 
Packed in 100-lb. Hags. Also shipped in Bulk, 
For Sample, Booklet, Price, etc., address 
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