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THE RUWAL NEC W-YON KER 
Mity 2, 
EVEN I S OF THE WEEK. 
DOMESTIC. April 17 a (lamented 
man attempted to aasiiHainate Mayor 
Mitchcl of New York by aliootinj? at him 
while the mayor was in his automobile 
in front of the city hall. The bullet 
struck Corporation Counsel Polk in the 
jaw, inflicting a painful and disfiguring 
wound. The assailant, Michael P. Ma¬ 
honey, aged 72, appears to he a danger¬ 
ous crank. lie was a blacksmith, out of 
work. 
Seven men and one woman perished in 
the wreck of the three masted schooner 
Charles K. Buckley in the breakers olf 
Long Branch, N. .1., on April 15. There 
was only one survivor. 
The government’s hearing in a suit to 
he brought to dissolve the American Tin 
Plate Company began April 17, in the 
Federal Court, Brooklyn. The charges 
in the complaint include the bill of sale 
of subsidiary companies to the defend¬ 
ant, in which they agreed not to man¬ 
ufacture tin cans or sheet iron packages 
within a radius of 15 miles of the home 
office of the American Tin Plate Com¬ 
pany in New York, for any company ex¬ 
cepting the trust. 
The Hotel Maryland, at Pasadena, one 
of the finest hotels in California, was 
swept by flames April 1!». The amount 
of the damage may exceed $500,000. The 
structure was built about a decade ago. 
The blaze, it is believed, started from a 
defective gas furnace. 
Fire in a small hotel at 711 Fighth 
Avenue, New York, April 17, caused the 
death ol 1 I persons. The building had 
narrow halls and one stairway, and 
the fire started in rubbish stored at. the 
foot of the stairs. The Fire Depart¬ 
ment asserts the file was due to gross 
carelessness; there were no adequate fire 
escapes. 
The steamer Kyle, which went out 
two weeks before fo search for tin* miss¬ 
ing sealer Southern Cross, returned to 
SI. Johns, N. F., April 110, with no news 
of the vessel. The Southern Cross, which 
had a crew of 175 men, has been given 
up ns lost. 
Thirty-nine dead, more than two-thirds 
of them women and children, a score 
missing and more than 20 wounded is the 
toll known, April 21, to have been taken 
in the 11 hour battle which raged the 
day before between State troops and 
striking coal miners in the Ludlow dis¬ 
trict, Colorado. Many fatalities were 
due to the action of the militia in driving 
the strikers out of their tent colony, amt 
firing it. Further bloodshed was ex¬ 
pected. The militia was armed with 
machine guns. Italians. Greeks and Aus¬ 
trian miners have appealed to their con¬ 
sular representatives for protection, and 
John McLennan, president of tin* local 
union district, asked the Red Cross in 
Denver to he prepared to render aid. The 
trouble is on the property of the Colo¬ 
rado Fuel and Iron Company, Rockefel¬ 
ler holdings. No train service through 
tin* war zone is permitted. A command 
of the troops is hemmed in by the strik¬ 
ers’ lines, which extend three miles. 
Through this cordon only the dead wagon 
is allowed to pass. The Ludlow camp is 
a inass of charred debris. in the holes 
dug for protection again the rifle fire are 
the bodies of women and children, killed 
when the flames swept over them. 
FARM AND GARDEN. -The In¬ 
diana Apple Show will be held at Tom¬ 
linson Mali, Indianapolis, November 18- 
24. 
A “Potato Special’’ lias been operated 
in the potato grow ing section of Wiscon¬ 
sin by the Chicago &. Northwestern rail¬ 
road. The road is cooperating with the 
Agricultural College of the University of 
Wisconsin. The train was operated 
through Wood, Waushara, Columbia, 
Marquette, Adams and Juneau counties, 
each of which is among the lending pota¬ 
to-growing counties of the State. Prac¬ 
tical lectures and demonstrations were 
given by experts from the university. The 
subject, of pure seed growing was given 
especial attention. 
The dreaded browntnil moth 1ms made i 
its appearance again in New York State, 
and the State Department of Agriculture 
has taken steps for the i (mediate exter¬ 
mination of the pest. Tin* department 
has ordered a minute inspection of every 
tree in the vicinity of East Hampton, 
Sag Harbor and oilier towns in Eastern 
Long Island. II has extended a general 
call to all land owners to aid and co¬ 
operate in finding and destroying the 
webs. 
The United States Department of 
Agriculture, in an yndeavor to obtain as 
much information as possible on the be¬ 
havior of ornamental plants in all parts 
of the United States, asks the corpora¬ 
tion of interested persons throughout the 
country that the details may he obtained. 
With this end in view a form for record¬ 
ing such facts has been prepared. Blanks 
will he supplied to those willing to report 
information of this character by writing 
to F. L. Mulford, Landscape Gardener, 
Department of Agriculture, Washington, 
D. C. 
The committee on the preliminary or¬ 
ganization of the proposed Farm Mort¬ 
gage Bankers’ Association of America 
will hold a meeting at the Hotel Astor on 
May 7. Farm mortgage bankers from all 
parts of the United Stales have been 
asked to assist in forming the associa¬ 
tion. A form of constitution and by-laws 
lias been drawn up, to bo approved at the 
coming meeting. 
Charles E. Henry, for twenty-live 
years a member of tin* Live Stock Ex¬ 
change. who declares that in* was driven 
out of business by the live stock "trust,* 
began action at Bellevue, III., April 17, 
in a $250,000 damage suit, against tile 
exchange and all the packers who do a 
nationwide business. Henry alleges that 
an outsider has no chance to operate 
against the “trust,” which fixes the prices 
and commissions to suit the members and 
refuses to buy or sell slock to or for any 
one who is not a member of this or any 
allied exchange anywhere in the country. 
'Flic semi annual meeting of the Geor¬ 
gia State Uoi’tieultural Society will be 
held at Griffin. Ga., August 5 (5. 
The thirty-ninth annual convention of 
the American Association of Nursery¬ 
men will he held at Cleveland. (».. Juno 
24-2(5; secretary John Hall, 201 Granite 
Building, Rochester, N. V. 
MEXICO.- Active hostilities began 
between the United States and Mexico 
April 21. Marine forces from the Utah, 
tlx* Florida and the Prairie seized Vera 
Cruz. Fourteen Americans, bluejackets 
and marines, were killed by tlx* fire of 
the Mexican soldiers and 50 wounded. 
The Mexican death list is put at 12(5, 
their wounded 195. Tlx* waterfront, the 
custom house and all important piers, in- 
eluding those under the terminal works 
from which extend tin* railroads to the 
capital, were occupied. The Mexican 
commander, General Gustavo Mans, of¬ 
fered a stubborn resistance to tin* Ameri¬ 
can advance, and for many hours there 
was lighting in the streets. The hurried 
action, without formal declaration of 
war, was to prevent the landing at Vera 
Cruz of a large shipment of arms and 
ammunition from Germany. April 2.” 
Huerta formally severed diplomatic rela¬ 
tions with this country and Nelson 
O’Khaughncssy, Charge d'All'aireB at 
Mexico City, received his passports and 
prepared to leave. An order was issued 
for the re-establishment of the embargo 
<m transportation of arms across tlx* 
Mexican border. This was a sequel of 
tlx* threatening attitude of the Consti¬ 
tutionalist chief, Gen. Carranza. April 
2”. Gov. Johnson of California ordered 
nine companies of militia from San Diego 
to tlx* Mexican border, where uneasiness 
existed among the people. 
COMING FARMERS’ MEETINGS. 
American Association of Nurserymen, 
Cleveland, <)., June 24-2(5. 
Georgia State Horticultural Society, 
Summer meeting, Griffin, Gu., August 
5 0. 
Indiana Apple Show*, Tomlinson Hall, 
Indianapolis, Ind., November 18-24. 
“Father.” said tlx* small hoy, “what 
is a jingo?” “A jingo, my son. is a man 
who devotes his time to thinking up op¬ 
portunities for other people to go out. and 
be shot at”—Washington Star. 
Newricti : “Captain, I understand 
there are several water-tight compart¬ 
ments on this boat. Well, I want one of 
lliose, amt I don’t care what it costs.”— 
Credit. Lost. 
Gladys (playing tlx* piano): “Dear 
me, I am always wishing to break into 
song!” Muriel: “You wouldn’t have to 
break in, dear, if you could find the key.” 
Melbourne Leader. 
Mcimsk: “Here's a man figured out 
that if all the money in the world were 
divided equally, each adult would get 
about thirty dollars." Meeg: “He’s 
wrong. My wife would get sixty dol¬ 
lars.” Boston Transcript. 
“Were you glad to get hack to school 
and see your dear teacher?” “Well,” re¬ 
plied the very observant boy, "I guess I 
wus just about as glad as dear teacher 
was to get back and see me.”—Chicago 
I tecord. 
“Two or Three Times 
as Good a Crop ’ ’ 
by the* use of 
Ferguson’s 
NITROGEN 
BACTERIA 
I lint in wlmt ono uxor (name on roqixml} 
writoh of IiIh expoi'liiiiri! Inxt Nonmii with 
i 'j Pone. Scores of other n era hove 
nail similar experiences with Ingumoa 
lOlovor, Alfalfa, Vetch, Pou , Roaun, 
There are three good rcaaona 
for Inoculating your semis with li’orgu- 
KOIl H Bacteria— 
I- Rigger, better crops. 
2 . lilidior soil fnr coining.Mentions. 
2. No oxponao for fertilizers. 
Foray sou’s Ructerla grithe- Nitrogen — 
the food plants iiiuet have- from the 
air. 'I hey store it on the roots, using 
riert for the present crop, leaving part 
for the future. 
S? worlh «t Erronian’s Bacteria will its the 
wurk ol J40 worlh ol commercial fertilizer. 
Quarter ftere quantity, fide; t arro, (r„>; r> 
acres. $*) I rot us explain tvhy yon ne'eil 
Nitrogen Rnctnrin mxl why Kergnson'n is 
hunt. Write fur special hook let N-free. 
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51 Liberty St., New York City 
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America’s Telephones Lead the World 
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l'to t "Lc Petit Phare tie Nantes, ” Parts 
“But today I found 1 lmd to talk with 
Saint-Malo, and. wishing to be put through 
quickly, I had my name inscribed on the 
waiting list first thing in the morning; the 
operator told me—though very amiably, I 
must confess—that 1 would have to wait 
thirteen hours and ten minutes (you are 
reading it right) in order t > be put through.” 
/lerr IIabcrland, Deputy, in the Reichstag 
" The average time required to get a con¬ 
nection with Berlin is now 1 Vi hours. Our 
business life and trade suffer considerably 
on account of this lack of telephone facili¬ 
ties, which exists not only between Dus- 
seldorf and Berlin and between Berlin and 
the West, but also between other towns, 
such us Straaaburg, Antwerp, etc.” 
Herr IF cnclcl, in the German Diet. 
“I refer here to Freiberg. There the 
entire telephone aervice ia interrupted ut 9 
o’clock p. m. Five minutes after 9 o’clock 
it is impossible to obtain u telephone con¬ 
nection." 
Dr. li. Luther, in the Drcsdncr Anzclgcf 
“In the year 1913, 36 years after the dis¬ 
covery of the electro-magnetic telephone, 
in the age of the beginning of wireless 
telegraphy, one of the largest cities of Ger¬ 
many, Dresden, with half a million inhabi¬ 
tants, ia without adequate telephone facili¬ 
ties.” 
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Real Average Cost of Telephone Service 
per year to a subscriber in the United 
States and European countries 
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Note: 
In trnnnlnling F-Urnpenn co»t» into 
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power ot money in Europe amt the 
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These are the reasons u)hy there are twelve times as many tele - 
phones for each hundred persons in the United States as in Europe. 
American Telephone and Telegraph Company 
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