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THE lx UKAL 
NEVV-VUKKEK 
October .'il, 
EVENTS OF THE WEEK. 
D OMESTIC.—Wallace Smith, a young 
white lad, while roaming around the 
shops of the Gulf and Ship Island 
road, at Gulfport. Miss., Oct. 36, felt 
thirsty and proceeded to what he thought 
was a hydrant and a hose attached. The 
liquid he received instead of being water 
was compressed air. His front teeth 
were blown down his throat and his arm 
was broken by the force of the rushing 
air. 
Pressure on the banks forced the bot¬ 
tom of the Culebra Cut. Panama Canal, 
up about 24 feet, Oct. 14. This upheaval 
has blocked the use of the canal by all 
vessels having a draught of more than 
15 feet. Dredges are at work removing 
the obstruction. Seven ships were wait¬ 
ing for passage through the canal and 
the delay will affect at least sixty more 
vessels. 
While feeling her way through a thick 
mist off Sandy llook just after entering 
the Ambrose Channel, entering New 
York Harbor, Oct. 15, the United Fruit 
steamship Metapan, from the Caribbean, 
was rammed by the American-Hawaiian 
freighter Iowan, bound out. She was 
immediately run aground by her skipper, 
Capt. Spencer, on the north side of the 
great fairway to save her from founder¬ 
ing with her passengers and a rich cargo, 
including half a million in gold bars. 
None of the passengers or crew was hurt. 
A swindle, by which women in the 
poorer sections of New Y r ork City have 
been duped into buying worthless furni¬ 
ture, has been disclosed by District At¬ 
torney Whitman, following the arrest of 
six men, said to be associated with the 
Grand Rapids Distributing Company, at 
120 West 18th St., and the Empire Dome 
Furnishing Company, at 241 West 23d. 
The men are charged with' having sent 
out agents, who are alleged to have in¬ 
duced women to subscribe to a so-called 
furniture club, each member to pay 25 
cents a week for a period not to exceed 
seventy weeks. The membership of the 
club was not to exceed 70, and each 
week one member of the club was to re¬ 
ceive an article of furniture valued at 
$17.50, after which the lucky one was ex¬ 
empt from further payments. During 
the first few weeks, it is alleged, several 
influential women ill the neighborhood 
would receive handsome prizes, and by 
tins means other women would be induced 
to form clubs. It is alleged further that 
after making their full payments the 
women went to the company and were 
offered articles of furniture of insignifi¬ 
cant value. An examination of the books 
of the concerns, made by Assistant Dis¬ 
trict Attorneys Colnon, Ileilborn and 
I.oening shows, it is said that the daily 
receipts of one of the companies averaged 
$400, which meant more than nine thou¬ 
sand outstanding contracts. The exam¬ 
ination further established, it is said, 
that the proprietors are likewise pro¬ 
prietors of similar concerns, operating 
the same business under different names. 
The New Haven Railroad’s year long 
negotiation with the Department of Jus¬ 
tice to set itself in order before the law 
came to an end, Oct. 17, when Judge 
Mayer in the United States District Court 
signed the dissolution decree that had been 
agreed upon by the New Haven and the 
Government. Under the decree the New 
Haven and the New England Navigation 
Company will dispose of properties car¬ 
ried at a book value of $134,000,000. 
After 48 hours’ imprisonment in quick¬ 
sand 25 feet below the surface of the 
earth, Maurice Allen was rescued at 
Ware, Mass., Oct. 10, by a gang of firemen, 
policeman and citizens, who dug a ditch 
50 feet long and 30 feet deep to reach 
him. Allen was boring a well when he 
struck quicksand and sank. All attempts 
at rescue by ladders and ropes failed 
owing to earth slides. An improvised 
diver’s helmet made from a barrel was 
lowered into the hole and the man was 
supplied with air by a pump. Food and 
stimulants were fed to him through a 
tube. 
Ten thousand dollars reward has been 
offered by the Lackawanna Railroad for 
the arrest of train wreckers who ditched 
the Manhattan flyer near Fulton, N. Y., 
Oct. 17, killing the fireman and fatally 
injuring three other members of the crew 
and cutting and bruising 15 passengers. 
A series of depredations in Fulton dur¬ 
ing the last month has caused District 
Attorney Culkin, of Oswego County, to 
believe that the spiking of the switch 
causing the wreck was the deed of a 
Black Hand organization. 
Two persons are dead, several are dy¬ 
ing in the hospitals and others were bur¬ 
ied in wreckage as the result of the ex¬ 
plosion of a bomb or an accumulation of 
dynamite in a string of tenement houses 
in Frontenac St., Montreal, Oct. 20. 
The majority of tin* tenants were Aus¬ 
trians and Russians. The authorities 
believe that the explosion was caused by 
race prejudice and a desire for revenge 
inspired by the European War. The po¬ 
lice hold the same theory and are de¬ 
taining 13 prisoners. 
Great Britain lias seized three Amer¬ 
ican oil ships, the Brindilla, the John 
D. Rockefeller and the Platuria, all 
bound for neutral ports. All three be¬ 
long to the Standard Oil Company. This 
action is to prevent Germany from get¬ 
ting fuel for her Zeppelins and aero¬ 
planes. The British maintain that the 
shipments of oil to Danish ports are in 
reality destined for German points and 
therefore will not be permitted to pro¬ 
ceed. Great Brita 5 n recently has made 
an arrangement with the United States 
whereby American shippers are to enjoy 
their usual access to the markets of 
Holland, Sweden and Denmark, provided 
these neutral countries prohibit the ex¬ 
portation of contraband of war to Ger¬ 
many. If the British suspicions contin¬ 
ue to be acted upon these markets will 
be at least partially closed to American 
shippers of contraband and conditional 
contraband. The State Department is 
taking action on these seizures. 
FARM AND GARDEN. — Poultry 
week at the Maryland Agricultural Col¬ 
lege, forming a part of the short course, 
is announced for January 18-23, 1915. 
There will be many interesting lectures 
and demonstrations. 
The tenth annual show, of the Dover 
Poultry, Pigeon and Pet Stock Associa¬ 
tion, will be held at Dover, N. J., No¬ 
vember 23 to 28. In conjunction with 
this the Ancona Club of America will 
hold its annual State meet. 
Proceedings against an alleged “egg- 
trust” began, Oct. 22, in the office of the 
Attorney General at 299 Broadway, New 
York. The action, which has been insti¬ 
tuted by James A. Parsons, Attorney 
General, is directed against the New 
York Mercantile Exchange and cold stor¬ 
age and packing houses. Edward R. 
O’Malley, of Buffalo, former Attorney 
General, will act as referee. Franklin 
Kennedy, Deputy Attorney General, will 
present the State’s case. Attorney Gen¬ 
eral Parsons asserts that the Mercantile 
Exchange, whose membership is largely 
made up of butter and egg dealers, has 
entered into an agreement with cold stor¬ 
age warehouses which constitutes re¬ 
straint of trade. He further alleges that 
the exchange is violating the spirit of 
the agreement under which, two years 
ago, District Attorney Whitman did not 
press a John Doe inquiry to a conclusion 
upon the understanding that the ex¬ 
change would cease to post quotations. 
THE EUROPEAN WAR.—The Bri¬ 
tish scout cruiser Hawke was destroyed 
in the North Sea, Oct. 15, by a German 
submarine with a loss of 400 men. Oct. 
17 the British light cruiser Undaunted, 
aided by the destroyers Lennox. Lance, 
Legion and Loyal, sank four German 
destroyers off the Dutch coast. Oct. 19 
the Undaunted captured a German mine 
layer.The German cruiser Emden 
is still active in the Indian Ocean, re¬ 
cent operations including four British 
vessels sunk and one captured. It is es¬ 
timated that the Emden has destroyed 
$10,000,000 in British shipping, apart 
from loss of trade.Berlin reported 
that the new British submarine E-3 was 
sunk by German warships in the North 
Sea Oct. 18.The Germans occu¬ 
pied Ostend Oct. 16. During severe 
lighting on the coast the Allies’ left was 
reenforced by a British fleet, which was 
able to operate on the coast and in 
canals, cooperating with the Belgians 
between Nieuport and Dixmude. 
The line of battle, Oct. 21, was 360 miles 
long, from the Straits of Dover through 
Belgium and France to Belfort. Severe 
fighting existed at many points but the 
Germans had not succeeded, Oct. 22, in 
breaking through the Allies’ lines. 
Oct. 16 a German factory in a London 
suburb was raided by the police. It was 
a concrete building of great strength 
with exceptionally heavy foundations. A 
similar building at Edinburgh, Scotland, 
was seized Oct. 17. In each case the 
factory occupied a strategic point, and 
was to all intent a fort. Similar fac¬ 
tories have been reported in Belgium ; at 
Manbeuge heavy concrete foundations in 
a German factory supported the German 
siege guns. The discovery of these fort¬ 
ress fetories has caused rioting in Eng¬ 
land, and the government is ordering all 
“alien enemies” to leave the country 
.Both the Russians and the Aus¬ 
trians claim advantages at Przemysl, 
Oct. 20. The Russians report that they 
have taken the outer forts, the Aus¬ 
trians that they have gained one of the 
forts that was formerly captured by the 
Russians. The Austrians say that in 
Russian Poland the combined Austrian 
and German cavalry repulsed a Russian 
attack west of Warsaw. A report from 
Petrograd says the fighting on the Vis¬ 
tula continues without any marked ad¬ 
vantage in favor of either force. 
The Russian government reported, Oct. 
17, that owing to the sowing of mines 
in German waters and the presence of 
German submarines, it would be com¬ 
pelled to sow mines in the Gulf of Fin¬ 
land and Gulf of Riga.Rebel forces 
in South Africa were defeated by Union 
soldiers, Oct. 15.-Japan has seized, 
for strategic purposes, important islands 
in the Marianne or Ladrone, Marshall, 
East Caroline and West Caroline archi¬ 
pelagos. One Japanese warship was 
wrecked at Kiao-chow, presumably by 
a German torpedo boat.The Rus¬ 
sian government has announced its per¬ 
manent withdrawal from the manufac¬ 
ture and sale of alcoholic drinks, which 
began with the war. The “Novoe Vre- 
mya” cites as a happy effect of the sup¬ 
pression of the sale of liquor an increase 
in savings bank deposits during Septem¬ 
ber of 23,000,000 roubles ($11,500,000) 
over the same month last year, in spite 
of the war. 
NEW YORK. STATE NEWS. 
Education Department Bulletin.— 
The State Department of Education has 
set forth in a bulletin just issued its pur¬ 
pose to improve our rural schools 
and urges the adoption of the township as 
the administrative unit in taxation in¬ 
stead of the present school district. It 
also urges the better qualification of i 
teachers, and that the rural schools must j 
be maintained for a period of time equal 
to the schedule maintained in the cities. 
The courses of study in rural schools 
must, it says, be adapted to the condi¬ 
tions of rural life, and the school build¬ 
ings, grounds and equipment must be as 
adequate and as attractive as those of 
the city. On the consolidation of schools 
in weak districts, the bulletin goes on to 
say that there are 1,400 school districts 
having an assessed valuation of $20,000 
or less. There are 4,000 districts with an 
assessed valuation of $40,000 or less. 
This means that each of these 4,000 dis¬ 
tricts must depend for its financial sup¬ 
port on 10 farms with an average value 
of $4,000. In about one-half these dis- j 
tricts the average daily attendance is less 
than 10. Dr. Finegan states it as his be- '■ 
lief that the improvements that should be 
made in our rural schools cannot be made 
until the township is made the adminis¬ 
trative unit, and until that can be accom¬ 
plished the weak school districts must be 
consolidated as authorized by the law of 
1913. Within the next few years these 
districts should be reduced from 10,500 
to less than 5,000. The bulletin also dis¬ 
cusses the desirability of taking city 
schools out of municipal politics. 
Weights and Measures. —Delegates 
from all over the country will attend the 
convention of weights and measures’ com¬ 
missioners to be held in New York on Oc¬ 
tober 29 to 31. A matter that will come 
up for discussion is the Federal regula¬ 
tion of weights and measures, in accord¬ 
ance with the Ashbrook bill now pending 
in Congress. This bill gives full authority i 
in fixing and enforcing standards of ! 
weights and measures throughout the I 
United States. The convention will also I 
discuss the various types of weighing and 
measuring devices which the bureau of 
standards ought to select as mandatory 
throughout the United States should Con¬ 
gress enact the Ashbrook bill. 
New Farm Bureau Planned. —The 
Chamber of Commerce of Glens Falls 
and the local Granges are co-operating 
in an effort to have a Farm Bureau es¬ 
tablished in Warren County. A public 
market for Glens Falls is also being con¬ 
sidered. The idea of extending the school 
gardens to the district schools is also un¬ 
der consideration. 
Bovs Win Potato Prizes. —Last 
Spring County Agent Barlow, of Otsego 
County, offered prizes for the best crop 
of potatoes raised by boys from 25 pota¬ 
toes planted in 100 bills. The results are 
now known and George E. Cummings of 
Milford won the first prize, a thorough¬ 
bred bull calf, and Howard Van Sco.v of 
Gilbertsville took second prize, a trio of 
White Leghorn fowls. Cummings planted 
the White Mountain variety and raised j 
571 pounds, his best hill yielding 54 sal¬ 
able potatoes weighing 34 pounds. Van J 
Sco.v had 492 pounds, his best hill yield- ! 
ing 38 pounds. 
Cornell Winter Courses. —This year j 
the Winter courses in the State Agricul¬ 
tural College will begin on November 10 
and will close February 12, 1915. The 
course is open to all students who have 
been graduated from a common school or 
have received an eighth grade certificate, 
and who are at least 18 years of age. 
Tuition is free to residents of this State. 
Last Winter there were more than 550 
enrolled in these courses, and that num¬ 
ber is likely to be surpassed this year. 
Big Cheese For Exhibition. —The 
monster cheese to be exhibited at the Pan¬ 
ama-Pacific Exposition has just been made 
at the West Martinsburg factory, in this 
State, under the direction of the cheese 
expert, Mr. II. A. Reese. The cheese will 
weigh between five and six tons, or two 
tons more than any turned out heretofore. 
It required 100,000 pounds of milk, the 
output of 25 factories for a day. It will 
be kept in the factory until January, 
when it will be started on its way to the 
Exposition. j. w. D. 
Oct. 17. Apples very plentiful, good 
quality from $1 to $1.50 per barrel, some 
asking 82. Potatoes some sales; good 
crop; many holding for higher prices; 
going price 50 to 60. Butter, dairy, 
about 32 to 35. Hay from $12 to $20, 
quite plenty. Cabbage, beets, etc., rea¬ 
sonable. Cabbage about $1 per dozen; 
beets 60 cents a bushel. Cows are not 
plentiful, particularly new milch; there 
is a long range of prices from $40 to 
$80 or $90 each. G. A. s. 
Center Harbor, N. H. 
Medical Professor: “What would 
you do in the case of a person eating poi¬ 
sonous mushrooms?” Student: “Recom¬ 
mend a change of diet.”—Boston Tran¬ 
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