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VirlE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
EVENTS OF THE WEEK. 
D OMESTIC.-—Another landslide at 
Gold Hill, Culebra Cut, blocked the 
Panama Canal Nov. 2. 
Nov. 1-3 a number of deaths occurred 
in and near Bristol, Vt., as a result of 
manufactured “whisky” with a wood al¬ 
cohol base^ The death list was expected 
to reach 25, while a number of other vic¬ 
tims were blind or crippled. The liquor 
was illegally sold by a druggist, the 
town being “dry.” 
The Department of Justice at Wash¬ 
ington announced, Nov. 1, an agreement 
with the American Smelting and Refin¬ 
ing Company whereby title to several 
thousand acres of coal lands in Colorado, 
alleged to have been illegally obtained 
years ago through dummies, will be re¬ 
stored to the government. The lands are 
part of a 2,214-acre tract near the town 
of Aguilar and part of 1,280 acres at 
Cokedale. They are estimated to be 
worth millions of dollars. 
Three persons were killed and one was 
seriously injured ns a result of a race 
between an automobile and a train on 
the New York and New Jersey Railroad 
at Haverstraw, N. Y r ., Nov. 1. 
An indictment charging a criminal 
conspiracy to violate the Sherman anti¬ 
trust law was handed down in the 
United States District Court. New 
York, Nov. 2. against twenty-one 
or former directors of 
New Haven and Hart- 
Joined to these 21 are 
other men, also directors 
Britain.The Boer rebellion in 
South Africa has not extended and is 
reportecTgenerally suppressed. 
men, directors 
the New York, 
ford Railroad, 
the names of 45 
or former directors, who are designated 
as “co-conspirators.” but they are not in¬ 
dicted. Among them are the names of 
men long since dead. Summed up. the 
men indicted and those characterized are 
charged with a conspiracy which began 
about the date the Sherman law was 
passed and continued up to October 30 
of this year whereby they obtained a 
monopoly of practically all the land and 
water transportation facilities of New 
England and stifled all competition. 
Federal trooos have been rdered to 
the Hartford Valley coal district in Ar¬ 
kansas, where serious labor trouble ex¬ 
ists. 
Election returns Nov. 3 were largely 
favorable to the Repub'icars. The Re¬ 
publicans gained mostly in the New Eng¬ 
land States, New York, New Jersey and 
the Middle West. Buies Penrose was 
re-elected to the Senate from Pennsyl¬ 
vania by a tremendous majority over A. 
Mitchell Palmer and Gilford Pinchot. In 
Connecticut five Republ'cans will rep'ace 
the delegation of five Democrats now in 
the House. James W. Wadsworth has 
been elected United States Senator from 
New York. “Uncle .Toe” Cannon is re¬ 
turned by the l.Sth Illinois District. The 
ex-Ropublioan Speaker had seen thirty- 
eight years’ service in the lower body 
when defeated two years ago by Frank 
T. O’Hair, who was his opponent at this 
election. Gov. Glynn of New York was 
defeated by Chas. S. Whitman. Wom¬ 
an’s suffrage amendments were defeated 
in five States, but won in Montana and 
Nevada, Ohio and California voted 
against prohibition, while Washington, 
Colorado, Oregon and Arizona went 
“dry.” 
THE EUROPEAN WAR.—Oct. 20 
bombs dropped by a German aeroplane 
killed 10 women ard injured 40 in the 
market place at B“tbrne; another bomb 
dropped in Dunkirk killed a woman and 
child.Coast districts in Belgium 
being flooded by cutting the dikes, the 
Germans have abandoned the violence of 
their attacks along the Yser. and have 
concentrated farther inland. French 
gains were reported Nov. 5; there is lit¬ 
tle general change except that the Ger¬ 
mans are not perceptibly advancing. Se¬ 
vere fighting is incessant.Oct. 2S 
the German cruiser Emden, disguised as 
a Japanese, entered the harbor of Pen¬ 
ang. Straits Settlements, and destroyed 
a Russian cruiser and a French destroy¬ 
er with torpedoes.Oct. 20 a Ger¬ 
man converted cruiser was sunk in the 
Adriatic by a British destroyer squad¬ 
ron.The British cruiser Hermes 
was sunk by a German submarine in 
the Straits of Dover, Oct. 31.The 
British submarine D-5 was sunk in the 
North Sea, Nov. 3, by a mine. 
The German warships Gneisenau, 
Seharnhorst, Nurnburg, Leipsic and 
Dresden attacked the British cruisers 
Good Hope. Glasgow, Otranto and Mon¬ 
mouth off Coronel, Chili, Nov. 1. sinking 
the Good Hope and Monmouth, while 
the Glasgow and Otranto, badly dam¬ 
aged, put into Coronel. There was heavy 
loss of life.Great Britain has an¬ 
nounced that the whole of the North 
Sea is now a military area, closed to 
merchant shipping, owing to danger from 
mines and warships.A German 
squadron left Wilhelmshaven. Nov. 3-4, 
and a raid on the English coast was then 
expected. One British submarine and 
two mine drifters had been sunk in 
action Nov. 4.Oct. 30 the Turkish 
warships Hamidieh, Goeben and Bres¬ 
lau bombarded unfortified cities on the 
Black Sea, including Odessa, without 
any previous declaration of war. The 
two ex-German vessels sunk two Russian 
gunboats and two Russian passenger 
steamers. Later Turkey offered apolo¬ 
gies, which were not accepted. Egypt 
has been put under martial law by Great 
Britain. Nov. 4 the Anglo-French 
fleet was shelling Dardanelles forts and 
Russian and Turkish forces were in bat¬ 
tle in the Trans-caucasus. Mohamme¬ 
dans in India announce loyalty to Great 
FARM AND GARDEN.—The officers 
of the Cumberland White-Egg Indian 
Runner Club for the ensuing year are: 
President, C. S. Valentine; Vice-Presi¬ 
dent. Mrs. Andrew Brooks, Auburn. N. 
Y.; Acting Secretary, Eugene W. Davies, 
Everett, Washington; Directors, Mrs. 
Mollie Allen, Oswego, N. Y., O. P. Van- 
denberg. Clay, N. Y„ Geo. W. Dallas, 
New Iberia. La., Mrs. W. 8. Ritnour, 
Gulfport, Miss., Mrs. Benigna G. Kalb, 
Houston, Texas, Mrs. John Harter, 
Marshall. Texas, Eugene W. Davies, TV. 
W. Harder, Edmonds, Wash., and D. 
L. Rogers, Dunnville, Ont. Chairmen: 
Business Unity, Peter E. Pass, Candor, 
N. Y.; Press. Mrs. E. G. Feint, Cort¬ 
land. N. Y.; President's Aides, Miss Beu¬ 
lah Maxey, New Berlin. Ill. The Pen¬ 
ciled Runners go into the Standard of 
Perfection under the Cumberland Club’s 
own color-standard. 
The American Rose Society last 
Spring completed arrangements to co¬ 
operate with the United States Depart¬ 
ment of Agriculture in establishing a 
rose garden at Washington. The so- 
ciety is furnishing the roses, while the 
Department has set aside two acres of 
ground at its Arlington farm for the gar¬ 
den, which will be under the direction of 
federal horticultural specialists. The 
garden already contains about 320 varie- 
t os, but there are many hundred kinds 
not yet included, and eventually the site 
can accommodate as many as 2,000 va¬ 
rieties if they can be secured. Any 
grower of roses who thinks he may have 
roses not already in the national collec¬ 
tion, has been invited by the American 
Rose Society to contribute a sample 
plant. Correspondence concerning such 
plants should be sent to Mr. Alexander 
Gumming, Jr.. Cromwell, Conn., who is 
chairman of the society's Committee on 
Gardens. Either Mr. Cumming or the 
Department of Agriculture will supply 
a plan of the garden and a list of varie¬ 
ties already grown to the interested ro- 
sarian who applies for them. 
Nov. 5 the Federal Government or¬ 
dered the closing of the Chicago Stock 
Yards, because of foot-and-mouth disease. 
This closing takes effect Nov. 7-15. The 
disease is reported at one Iowa point and 
the International Live Stock Show may 
be given up. The quarantine has been ex¬ 
tended to cover Michigan. Indiana. Illi¬ 
nois, New T o k. Maryland and Pennsyl¬ 
vania. In addition, restrictions have been 
placed upon shipments of stock from 
( bin. No cattle, sheep or swine can be 
sh.pped from tlms' 1 States in interstate 
commerce and all fodder and animal pro¬ 
ducts of every sort which might possibly 
convey the disease must be thoroughly 
disinfected. The quarantined States are 
rot only prohibited from shipping cattle 
to uninfected areas, but they cannot 
even send shipments of stock from one 
infected area to another 
Students are enrolled in the Kansas 
State Agricultural college this Fall, from 
three foreign countries and IS States. 
Japan and Ghina are each represented by 
one student and Hawaii by two students. 
The States having students in the col¬ 
lege are: Missoni, 44; Nebraska, 21; 
Oklahoma, 9; Colorado. 7; Texas. 7; 
Iowa, (!; Arkansas, (5; Illinois. 5; Ari¬ 
zona, 2; Ohio. 2; Wisconsin. 2; Sonth 
Dakota, 1 ^ Minnesota, 1 ; Pennsylvania, 
1 ; 'Vest ' irg.nia. 1; Idaho, I, and Mass¬ 
achusetts, 1. The total enrollment of 
the year has reached 2.702 and is expect¬ 
ed to pass the 3.000 mark later in the 
year. 
Among the exhibits at the big “Fence¬ 
less I air at Atchison, Kan., was a big 
pumpkin that was sent to the fair by 
parcel post. 
The Missouri College of Agriculture 
lias charge of the total amount of the 
Smith-Lever funds for the State. The 
Smith-Lever bill, which was passed by 
Congress last Spring, gives to the State 
of Missouri during the coming nine years, 
for the purpose of demonstration and ex- 
tors on work, a sum of almost eight hun¬ 
dred thousand dollars. This year the 
State got $10,000 of the appropriation. 
The College of Agriculture is dividing it 
among five types of aid for farmers and 
stockraisers of the State; hog cholera 
eradication, moveable schools of home 
economics, boys’ and girls’ club work, 
dairy and poultry dmonstration and egg 
marketing. 
The College of Agriculture of the Uni¬ 
versity of Missouri hopes almost entirely 
to remove hog cholera from the State. 
To fight the disease it is helping the 
farmers to organize anti-hog-cholera 
clubs for the prevention and cure of the 
disease. The college works by counties. 
The College of Agriculture is building 
what will probably he the finest plant for 
the manufacture of hog cholera serum 
in the T nited States. This plant became 
necessary because of the increased de¬ 
mand for serum. The plant will he fin¬ 
ished December 1. The extent of the 
work done by the College of Agriculture 
in eradicating the disease is shown bv 
the fact that 208.619 doses of serum rep¬ 
resenting almost as many hogs treated 
were sent out by the college during the 
year. 
Joseph TV . Ritchie of Freeport, who 
for twelve years claimed to be the ehnm 
pion pumpkin raiser of Long Island an 
who took many premiums at the Queen.' 
agricultural fairs 
of his productions after prominent men, 
including Presidents. The largest pump¬ 
kin Mr. Richie ever raised weighed 482 
pounds. lie named it “President Taft.” 
For many years Mr. Ritchie was a prom¬ 
inent baseball player and played with 
various amateur and semi-professional 
teams on Long Island. 
The steamer Brodmouth is expected to 
arrive at New York on December 18 
from Hong-kong, China, with a cargo of 
frozen eggs. Before the European war 
the Brodmouth was employed in the mut¬ 
ton traffic between Australia and Eng¬ 
land. but when the war broke out an 
English syndicate contracted for a cargo 
<>f frozen eggs for speculative purposes. 
The cargo consists of S.800.000 pounds 
of eggs, all of which are kept below the 
freezing point. The Brodmouth deliv¬ 
ered before sailing from San Francisco 
on October 29. 1.320,000 pounds of these 
eggs, leaving a cargo of 7.480,000 pounds 
to he delivered in New York. The eggs 
are packed in 10, 20, 30 and 50 pound 
cans. At the present price of frozen 
eggs here, 20 cents a pound, the value 
of the cargo is $1,496,000 and is equal 
to 6.000,000 dozen eggs in the shell. 
Wheat $1.04; 
46 per bushel; 
apples 8 
Oct 27. 
cwt.; oats 
onions 60; 
eggs 27; butter 
30. Steers $7 
89.50; hogs $6.75 to $7.25. 
chickens 10; ducks l(i; gees 
Bowling Green, O. 
c.rn $1 per 
potatoes 45; 
8 o; Kieffer pears 75; 
30; butter fat in cream 
to $8.10; calves $8 to 
Turkeys 12: 
8 . g. c. u. 
We are and have been receiving the 
following prices: Wheat $1.08; Oats 35; 
corn (car) 25; hay $10; potatoes 35; 
grapes, pound. 2; peaches, B. 80 to 100; 
A $1.25 to $1.65; AA $1.50 to $2.: 
pics 50 per bu. in small way. poor 
and quality, bulk apples 75 per 
pounds. rears. Kieffer 65 per 
pounds. Eggs 25 to 30, stores pay 
by shipping to Cleveland 30 to 32 can 
he obtained. We are doing this. Butter 
32; milk per qt. 6; cows $75 to $100; 
hogs $7 per hundred; cattle steers $7 to 
$7.50; cows $6 per hundred, w. H. M. 
Berlin Heights. Ohio. 
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most practical because of 
the protection it affords 
from fire and lightning. But it 
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