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EVENTS OF THE WEEK. 
D OMESTIC.—The Marconi wireless 
station at Siaseonset, Mass., was 
closed by Federal order Sept. 25. be¬ 
cause it declined to recognize the Gov¬ 
ernment's right of censorship. The Navy 
Department took no cognizance of the 
fact that the Marconi company had ap¬ 
pealed to the Federal court and filed an 
application for an injunction to restrain 
the naval officers from closing or censor¬ 
ing the station. 
Fire in a storage warehouse and knit¬ 
ting at 85 Meserole St.. Williamsburg, 
New York City, Sept. 25, caused a loss 
of $100,000. 
Forty-eight additional coal operators 
of Colorado have sent a letter to Presi¬ 
dent Wilson objecting to some of the 
principal features of the Federal plan 
for a three-year truce in the strike war. 
Both sides—the mine owners and the 
striking miners—are making prepara¬ 
tions for a continuation of the siege that 
has lasted more than a year. 
A fire in a crowded block of old tene¬ 
ment houses on East 11th St., New York, 
Sept. 27, caused the death of 00 horses 
in a livery and undertaking establish¬ 
ment, and resulted in a total loss of $75,- 
000 . 
A large wireless plant near Hollister, 
San Benito Co., Cal., is undter investiga¬ 
tion by the Navy Department, under 
suspicion of violating neutrality. 
Nine counties of twelve in Kentucky, 
which voted on the liquor question, Sept. 
28, returned large “dry” majorities, 
while only three remain “wet.” One 
county, Anderson, was close and went 
“wet” by a majority of 04 votes. The 
biggest vote received by the liquor peo¬ 
ple was in Fayette County, home of 
many of the biggest distilleries in the 
country, which gave a majority of 3.264 
for the “wets.” The three counties 
which voted to sustain the liquor ques¬ 
tions contain distilleries. 
Health Officer Joseph J. O’Connell of 
New York City issued, Sept. 28, an order 
to his boarding officers to give particular 
attention to all passengers who may ar¬ 
rive here from the Adriatic oast of the 
Italian boundary, the Ionian Sea, the 
vEgean Sea, the Mediterranean east of 
Italy and the Black Sea. cholera having 
been reported in epidemic form in east¬ 
ern Russia, Austria and in the eastern 
theatre of war. 
Three persons were killed and 20 per¬ 
sons injured, one probably fatally, in 
a gunpowder explosion in the plant of 
the Pain Fireworks Display Company 
1316 South Wabash Ave., Chicago, Sept. 
30. 
Delegates to the Southern Cotton As¬ 
sociation at New Orleans decided. Sept. 
30, not to grow any cotton in 1915 in the 
six States represented at the convention 
and to ask Legislatures to prohibit plan¬ 
ting. 
WASHINGTON.—The Senate passed 
the Alaska coal lands leasing bill. Sept. 
26. It authorizes the Secretary of the 
Interior to survey all of the coal lands 
of the Territory of Alaska, beginning 
with the Bering River and Matanuska 
fields. After the surveys have been com¬ 
pleted the President is directed to re¬ 
serve 5.120 acres in the Bering River 
field and not more than 7,680 acres in 
the Matanuska field. As to the reserved 
lands, they can only be mined in the dis¬ 
cretion of the President to meet an emer¬ 
gency created by “an insufficient supply 
of coal at a reasonable price for the re¬ 
quirements of Government work, con¬ 
struction and operation of Government 
railroads, for the navy, for national pro¬ 
tection and for relief from oppressive 
conditions.” The unreserved coal lands 
are to- be divided by the Secretary of the 
Interior into tracts of forty acres or mul¬ 
tiples thereof, but in no case exceeding 
2,560 acres in a single leasing trust, and 
thereafter to be leased by the Secretary 
to any citize of the United States, or 
any corporation of the United States. 
Mrs. Woodrow Wilson’s dying wish 
that the worst slums in Washington be 
abolished was finally realized. Sept. 25, 
when the President signed the bill clear¬ 
ing the alleys of dwelling places. On her 
death bed Mrs. Wilson expressed the 
hope that the bill would be passed, and 
both houses of Congress acted. Al¬ 
though it differed in some particulars 
from the measure as Mrs. Wilson orig¬ 
inally championed it. the President de¬ 
cided it accomplished the principal pur¬ 
poses sought. 
Peace commission treaties with Great 
Britain. France and Spain were ratified, 
Sept. 25. by the Senate, making twenty- 
five in the series negotiated by the State 
Department which have been approved 
by this government. A similar treaty 
with China was favorably reported by 
the Committee on Foreign Relations, 
but action was deferred by request of 
several Senators, who wish to discuss 
it thoroughly in view of the situation 
in the Far East, involving Germany and 
Japan at Kiao-Chau. 
THE EUROPEAN WAR.—Sept. 27 
12 cities and towns were attacked from 
the air by the Germans. Their aerial 
warcraft bombarded Paris, Warsaw, 
Antwerp, Ghent and numerous smn'l 
towns in Belgium. In Warsaw their 
Zeppelin was shot down and its crew 
captured. Four persons were killed, two 
in Paris, one in Ghent and one in Dynze. 
Several were injured, but the damage 
to fortifications and public works was 
comparatively small. The objects of 
German attacks from the air appeared 
to be the Eiffel Tower, in Paris, the Ant¬ 
werp fortifications and ammunition de¬ 
pots in France and Belgium. A hospital 
in Belgium was damaged and patients 
and nurses endangered.Sept. 30, 
the eighteenth consecutive day of the bat¬ 
tle of the Aisne, little change was re¬ 
ported officially, but there was no ap¬ 
parent gain by the Germans. Censor¬ 
ship was very rigid. The fighting con¬ 
tinued day and night, and this conflict 
is likened to the battle of Mukden, which 
lasted for 20 days. Casualties on the 
Aisne are enormous and are already 
reckoned at over 200,000.The Rus¬ 
sians were advancing in central Galicia 
Sept. 28. Thy Russians have crossed the 
Carpathian Mountains, have captured 
Uzsok with a number of guns and pris¬ 
oners and from this point they have de¬ 
scended into the plains of Hungary. 
.Germany is increasing forces in 
Belgium, and concentrating an attack on 
Antwerp, which, if taken, would give a 
naval base for attack on Great Britain. 
Fort Waelhem, o-.e of the strongest of 
the fortifications around Antwerp, has 
been partly destroyed by an all night 
bombardment by the Germans. The 
Belgians the next day attacked the Ger¬ 
man besiegers and drove them from their 
position. A report from Antwerp says 
that men in balloons are finding the po¬ 
sitions for the German gunners in their 
firing upon the Antwerp forts. 
Malines has been reoccupied by the Ger¬ 
mans. Oct. 1 they renewed the bombard¬ 
ment of Lierre (a manufacturing town 
nine miles southeast of Antwerp) and 
Heyst-op-den-Berg (a town near Lierre.) 
In Lierre the tower of the Church of 
St. Gommarius, the convent of the 
White Sisters and some houses have been 
struck by shells. Most of this district has 
been completely deserted by the civilian 
population.The British steamship 
Indian Prince has been sunk at sea by 
the German converted cruiser Ivronprinz 
Wilhelm. The master and fifteen men 
of the crew of the Indian Prince have 
been landed at Santos. Brazil, by the 
German steamship Prussia.The 
British Admiralty gave out the following 
figures. Sept. 28: Captured, destroyed, 
interned or otherwise put out of com¬ 
mission. British, 94 vessels, of 232,310 
tons, or 1.2 per cent, of total tonnage; 
German, 387 vessels, of 1,140,000 tons, or 
23.6 per cent, of total tonnage. 
Great Britain has asked the United 
States to investigate who was respon¬ 
sible for sending the American ship Lor¬ 
enzo with coal to the German cruiser 
Karlsruhe in British West Indian 
waters. The Lorenzo was caught by a 
British cruiser. The Departments of 
Commerce and Justice will determine 
who may be prosecuted under the neu¬ 
trality laws.The British Admir¬ 
alty announced. Sept. 29, that the Ger¬ 
man cruiser Emden has sunk four Bri¬ 
tish steamships and oiie British collier 
in the Indian Ocean.The Admir¬ 
alty issued orders, Sept. 29, forbidding 
neutral trawlers to fish on the east coast 
of England. The order says that the 
neutral trawlers may continue their op¬ 
erations on the west coast. The order 
affects a large number of Dutch and 
Danish fishermen who use Grimsby as 
their base.Many German firms 
who owe money to British exporters have 
sent intimations to their creditors that 
they are investing the money in the Ger¬ 
man war loan and that they will send 
scrip to England in payment of their 
trade debts. Swiss firms are being paid 
in the same way.An Australian 
force has captured Kaiser Wilhelm’s 
I.and, the German portion of New 
Guinea.Sept. 28, it was announced 
that a British force had captured Duala, 
capital of Kamerun, German West Afri¬ 
ca, while Bonaberi surrendered to an 
Anglo-French force.There are now 
over 150 German prisoners confined in 
the military fortress at Halifax, N. S. 
The last batch was brought in by the 
British cruiser Suffolk. They were 
taken from a steamer five miles off 
New York harbor. It is just 100 years 
since prisoners of war were last confined 
in Halifax.Sept. 27 the Japanese 
defeated the Germans after 14 hours’ 
fighting at Tsing-tau, China.Spain 
has sent offers to France to care for 30,- 
000 wounded in her hospitals, Madrid 
being prepared to care for 6.000. 
An Italian fishing boat was sunk by Aus¬ 
trian mines 20 miles off Ancona, Sept. 
28, and eight men were killed. The Ital¬ 
ian Government has asked its Ambassa¬ 
dor at Vienna to file a protest against 
the strewing of mines by Austria in the 
Adriatic. Italy has called to the colors 
three classes of reservists. 
This part of Illinois (central) 35 
miles south of the 41st parallel, has un¬ 
usually poor grass and grain crops, ow¬ 
ing to drought. Hessian fly. chintz bugs 
and a few isolated places of army worm. 
For this reason farmers must change 
their fields. Quite an acreage of wheat 
will be put out. The seeding commenced 
Sept. 28 to 30; late seeding, in order to 
have less flv to contend with. j. b. a. 
Taylorsville, Ill. 
Weather has been unusually wet for 
Western Montana; ground in splendid 
condition for seeding to wheat. A large 
amount will be sown. This is a dry 
farm section; wheat yields from 10 to 
25 bushels an acre, oats about 30 bushels. 
Prices are, oats, $1 per 100 pounds; 
wheat 85 to $1 a bushel. No corn 
raised here; it is shipped in and retails 
at $1.50 per hundred. Ranchers are 
turning to dairying and stock as fast as 
they can. Creameries are buying the 
product mostly. H. T. A. 
Montana. 
CROP NOTES. 
Sept. 19. Grain all thrashed, yield 
good. Grass catch fair to good. Pas¬ 
tures none too good, cows dropping off 
in yield, although fed in barns. Grain 
in store is, corn, $1.25; oats 60; feeds 
$1.60-$1.70. j. c. s. 
So. Thomaston, Me. 
Crops are looking fine in the southern 
part of Livingston County; think pota¬ 
toes will average 150 to 200 bushels to 
the acre, some going better than 200. 
Butter 30 cents per pound; eggs about 
the same per dozen. Apples just a me¬ 
dium crop and no sale for them. 
Dansville, N. Y. d. n. 
Sept. 22. Thrashing is about done ex¬ 
cept the buckwheat crop, which is not 
all cut. A good many are digging their 
potatoes; • early-planted potatoes are 
small, late potatoes are larger. The ap¬ 
ple crop is good, but the demand is light. 
Not much hay is being sold. Butter 
brings in jars 29; eggs 26. Silos are 
nearly all filled. We have had a few 
light frosts. p. s. s. 
Mayville, N. Y. 
Sept. 26. New milch cows $40 to $80; 
fat cattle, live weight, 5 to 8 per pound; 
veal calves 9; hogs 8 to 9; lambs 6 and 
6% ; milk at condensery $1.55 for Sep¬ 
tember; cheese 15%; butter, dairy, 30 
to 32; Fall apples, 60 cents per bushel; 
plums $1.50; pears $1; potatoes 45; 
tomatoes $1; cabbage one to two cents 
per pound. Some hay is sold and brings 
this year about $14 per ton, pressed and 
delivered at station or shipping point. 
Alfred Station, N. Y. p. l. l. 
Sept. 25. Wheat brought to our ele¬ 
vator is $1.05 per bushel; oats 46; old 
corn 15; potatoes market price SO; 
onions 75; cabbage $6 per ton paid at 
factory. Pears from $3 to $4.50 per 11- 
peck barrel, according to variety. But¬ 
ter 31 per pound from creamery in Oil- 
pound lots, retail 37 cents per pound; 
this is in pound packages. Farmers are 
getting $1.55 for a eight-gallon can of 
milk, transportation costs 16% cents per 
can; retailed in our town at seven cents 
per quart. Hogs, live nine cents paid by 
buyers. Timothy hay $14 per ton; oat 
straw $6_per ton paid by warehouse men ; 
bran $25; dried malt $25; middlings 
$33. Milch cows are selling at private 
sale and auction from $75 to $,125. 
Eggs 25; Spring chickens 15; ducks 13; 
apple crop a failure. g. k. 
Arlington Heights, Ill. 
Sept. 25. The staple farm products in 
this vicinity are corn, oats, Timothy, 
clover, potatoes, stock, butter, eggs, and 
poultry. Garden truck, while staple in a 
way, is not generally raised for market, 
being more particularly raised for in¬ 
dividual consumption on the premises. A 
comparatively small amount of fruit is 
raised here, and it is considered a side 
issue by the farmers. The prices for 
live stock from day to day can be readily 
obtained by taking the Chicago market 
and allowing about 40 cents per cwt. 
for shipping expenses. It costs about 
three cents a bushel to ship corn and 
oats, so those prices can be obtained in 
similar manner. Butter sells at about 
30 to 33; eggs about 22; poultry around 
12; Timothy and clover about $10 to 
$12 per ton, and potatoes about 75 cents 
per bushel. f. n. v. 
Amboy, Ill. 
Our first frosts here, Sept. 12, 13, 14, 
froze water one-quarter inch thick on 
pailsful standing out. Year a good one, 
hay fair crop; oats good average; corn 
the same. Potatoes extra good crop; 
apples fair; plums and pears a small 
crop. Plenty of rain and pastures good. 
Cows in good flesh and native beef good 
and in good demand, 10 to 11 cents a 
pound by the side. Sheep and lambs 
fat and mutton good. One veal three 
months old over 300 pounds sold to 
local butcher last week for $32.50. Is 
it any wonder few calves arc raised for 
cows? The war in Europe has. through 
the speculators, put prices away tip: 
sugar eight cents; corn $2; feed oats 
and corn $2; flour $7.50; potatoes 60; 
oats $1.90 per 100 pounds; eggs 32; 
butter 32. b. 
South Dorset, Vt. 
The Winter wheat crop was large as a 
whole, by reason of large acreage. 
Thrashing was mostly done from the 
shock, and as the weather was dry it was 
all done in fine condition, with average 
yield of about 20 bushels per acre. Oats 
were the best crop in 20 years averag¬ 
ing -around 50 bushels. Only two cut¬ 
tings of Alfalfa as a rule, drought set¬ 
ting in in time to check the growth of tin* 
plant. Corn is a fair crop in the main, 
but some localities have none whatever, 
due to the rains being local showers. 
Rain came in time to allow plowing for 
wheat and a large acreage will be plant¬ 
ed. Hessian fly did considerable dam¬ 
age to wheat this season. To avoid this 
our farmers are delaying seeding till later 
in the season. Probably not much will 
lie seeded before Oct. i. The price of 
wheat went to a dollar per bushel at one 
time, but is now quoted at. 92 in our local 
markets. Oats 40; corn. old. shipped in, 
80; potatoes 75; hay $8 per ton; wild 
hay is a very heavy crop. Live hogs 
a round $8 p»r 100 pounds, and very 
scarce; cows $60 to $80; butcher cattle 
s'x to seven cents; other cattle very 
high; common Spring calves $20 to 830; 
butter 20; eggs 20; chickens 12 1 /. The 
weather is hot. very hot the past week ; 
pastures are fine and stock doing well. 
Fairbury, Nebr. n. M. it. 
