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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
December 12, 
EVENTS OF THE WEEK, 
OMESTIC.—Under a decision by the 
Appellate Division, in New York, 
Nov. 27, William R. Ilearst will 
probably have to repay the-city about 
$200,000 in damages after the fireworks 
explosion in 15)02 in Madison Square, 
when the National Association of Demo¬ 
cratic Clubs was celebrating Hearst's 
election to Congress. Ilearst was sued 
for damages as an individual and as 
president of the association. His defence 
was that the exhibition was held on a 
permit given bv the city, and he had no 
responsibility. Mrs. Margaret V. Shea, 
whose husband. Denis Shea, was killed, 
recovered $24,543 against the city. Ylie 
city used this suit as a test case in suing 
Ilearst, and the Supreme Court decided 
against him, whereupon he appealed. 
This appeal the Appellate Division has 
now dismissed. _ 
New arrangements being completed by 
the American Commission for Relief in 
Belgium insure the despatch early in De¬ 
cember of one ship of 3,000 tons capacity 
each day from various ports in this coun- 
Tlie Supreme Court held. Nov. 30. that 
the “Jim Crow” car law of Oklahoma, 
which permits railroads to carry sleep¬ 
ers and dining and chair cars for w bites 
without providing “equal" accommoda¬ 
tions for colored travelers, is invalid be¬ 
cause it violates the Fourteenth Amend¬ 
ment to the Federal Constitution. The 
decision means that railroads that go 
through Southern States will either have 
to discontinue separate coaches or run 
coaches for negro citizens and provide 
equal accommodations at stations and 
other resting places. 
Fortv-eight deaths from hunting acci¬ 
dents in Wisconsin. Michigan and Min¬ 
nesota is the toll in these three States, 
according to reports received in Chicago, 
Nov. 30. Reports from correspondents 
show a death roll of 24 in Wisconsin, 13 
in Michigan and 11 in Minnesota. The 
“big game” hunting season came to a 
close on the above date. 
Chairman Frank P. Walsh of the Fed¬ 
eral Commission on Industrial Relations 
announced, at Denver, Colo.. Dec. 1, that 
the commission would on December 28 
begin an investigation of the Rockefeller 
Foundation. Hearings will be held first 
in Washington and later in New York 
city. Walsh said that the investigation 
was decided upon because the foundation 
was pointed out by laboring people as 
one of the chief causes of social unrest. 
Many persons, he said, question the wis¬ 
dom and legality of setting aside $100.- 
000.000 to be kept intact and in private 
hands for 100 years. The commission 
began its inquiry into the Colorado strike 
causes, Dec. 2. Gov. Ammons, the first 
witness, was followed by George A. Carl¬ 
son, Governor-elect, and John C. Osgood, 
president of the Victor American Fuel 
Company. 
Mrs. Mathilda Francolini. who earned 
the title of “Real Estate Queen” a year 
ago, when the various companies she 
headed became embroiled with the law, 
was arrested here Dec. 3. on indictment 
charging forgery in tin' second degree. 
She was arraigned before Judge Mul- 
queen, who held her in $10,000 bail for 
trial. Mrs. Francolini induced a woman 
who owned property in Cedarhurst to 
sign a paper which she was told, was 
needed to effect a sale of the property, 
but which was really a mortgage for 
$2,500. Mrs. Francolini obtaining the 
money. The indictment and arrest came 
after a prolonged investigation into Mrs. 
Francolini’s real estate dealings, and the 
examination of more than 150 complaints 
made to the District Attorney by persons 
who invested their money in her compan¬ 
ies. She was the president of several 
companies, which were absorbed by the 
Annex Homes Company in September, 
15)13. This concern went into bank¬ 
ruptcy last September, with liabilities 
of $790,000 and no assets. 
FARM AND GARDEN.—Satisfied that 
the ravages of the foot-and-mouth dis¬ 
ease among cattle have been checked 
and that the epidemic is now under con¬ 
trol, officials of the Bureau of Animal 
Industry, Nov. 27. determined to begin 
lifting the quarantine imposed on the 
cattle markets of various States. An 
order releasing certain counties in Wis¬ 
consin, Illinois and Iowa, which were 
placed under embargo because of the 
foot-and-mouth disease, consequently was 
issued by the Department of Agriculture. 
It became effective on November 30, and 
provides that cattle for immediate slaugh¬ 
ter may be shipped from the counties 
named in interstate commerce. Cattle 
also may be received for feeding purposes, 
but not shipped out for feeding elsewhere. 
The twentieth annual session of the 
Winter short courses in agriculture will 
be held at the University of Vermont and 
.State Agricultural College beginning 
Monday, December 28th. and closing Fri¬ 
day, February 20th. It is intended to 
cover the study of creamery operations 
in a broad way and to teach the essential 
principles and practices of soil manage¬ 
ment, dairy and other feeding, stock 
breeding and judging, vegetable garden¬ 
ing, orcharding, forest management, etc. 
They are open to men and women 18 
years of age or older, who have had a 
common school education. No charge is 
made for tuition to residents of Vermont. 
Incidental fees aggregating $10 are the 
only charge made. Text books cost about 
$5, working suits about $3. The entire 
cost of the nine weeks’ session need not 
exceed $65. Parties interested should 
write for information to Professor A. A. 
Borland. Morrill Hall, University of Ver¬ 
mont, Burlington, Vermont. 
The U. S. Weather Bureau states that 
a special service given to orchardists and 
raisers of tobacco, oranges, cranberries, 
and certain other crops has been ren¬ 
dered by means of frost warnings issued 
in Spring and Autumn. The growers are 
kept fully advised as to the dangers of 
frost and are warned of the necessity of re¬ 
sorting to measures of protection through 
artificial heating and smudging, or Hood¬ 
ing the bogs in the case of cranberries. 
The establishment of a “Cattle Region 
Service,” through which bulletins con¬ 
taining statements of weather conditions 
over the stock ranges of the Texas pan¬ 
handle and adjacent regions are issued, 
constitutes a new feature of the bureau’s 
work. 
The Federation of Jewish Farmers of 
America held its annual meeting in New 
York, beginning Nov. 25). The sixth an¬ 
nua] report shows that there are about 
6.000 Jewish farmers in the United 
States, 1.000 of whom are in this State. 
All are prospering. There are 13 farm¬ 
ers’ associations, with 63 branches in 11 
States. Their aim is to help the Jewish 
farmer by cooperative methods. A re¬ 
port read by A. I). Wolf, of Centreville 
Station, secretary of the Cooperative Fire 
Insurance Company of Sullivan County 
and Adjacent Counties, showed a de¬ 
crease of 25 per cent, in fire insurance 
rates since the organization of tin- co¬ 
operative association. The principal ob¬ 
jection Jews have to becoming farmers, 
one of the delegates said, was the inade¬ 
quate opportunities of educating their 
children in their own religion. Coopera¬ 
tion is advocated for transporting pro¬ 
duce to local markets. It is planned to 
have a federation stand at the New York 
City open market. A paper by Governor 
Glynn on the “First Farmers’ Saving 
and Loan Association” was read Dec. 1. 
Calvin J. Iluson, Commissioner of Agri¬ 
culture, John J. Dillon, State Food and 
Market Commissioner and Edwin F. 
Howell, directors of the 'Land Bank, ad¬ 
dressed the convention. 
Arrangements have been made, to hold 
the second annual State Agricultural 
Convention in cooperation with the thir¬ 
tieth annual meeting of the Granite 
State Dairymen’s Association at St. Ce¬ 
cilia Hall. Manchester. N. H., February 
10th and 11th, 1915. The first day’s 
program will be under the auspices of 
the State Department of Agriculture and 
the second day will be conducted by the 
Dairymen’s Association. 
The Massachusetts Fruit Growers’ 
Association will hold its annual conven¬ 
tion, Jan. 13, 14, 1915. at Horticultural 
Hall, Worcester, Mass.; F. Howard 
Brown, secretary. 
With the approval of Gov. Fielder and 
the State Committee on Tuberculosis 
Among Animals, the New Jersey State 
Board of Health, Dec. 1, directed the 
slaughter of 497 head of cattle affected 
with the foot-and-mouth disease in New 
Jersey. This action followed the discov¬ 
ery that under the wording of the act 
creating the commission on tuberculosis 
that body is authorized to cooperate with 
the Federal bureau of animal industry 
in checking the spread of any contagious 
or infectious disease. Heretofore it had 
been supposed generally that the commis¬ 
sion was limited in the scope of its work 
to tuberculosis. The State Board of 
Health, Dec. 1, declared a quarantine in 
Salem County and recommended that all 
public vendues in the southern part of 
the State be put off for one month. 
The quarantine against Canadian po¬ 
tatoes has now been raised. This was 
laid on Dec. 22 of last year, because a 
new disease had been found in Canada 
and the U. S. government determined 
to keep it out if possible. Now the Can¬ 
adians may send into this country, pota¬ 
toes grown from clean seed on land that 
has not produced a diseased crop. They 
must be inspected and certified by the 
government agents. These potatoes will 
only be admitted through the ports of 
Boston and New York where government 
inspectors are located. The quarantine 
of last year kept many Canadian pota¬ 
toes out of the country and to that ex¬ 
tent helped the market for American 
stock. It now seems likely that heavy 
shipments will follow from Canada. 
THE EUROPEAN WAR.—Nov. 26 
the British battleship Bulwark was de¬ 
stroyed by an explosion at the mouth of 
the Thames, with a loss of about 800. 
The cause is unknown.Two Bri¬ 
tish cargo steamers were destroyed off 
Havre, Nov. 26, by German submarines. 
.A detailed statement issued by the 
British Board of Trade, Nov. 26, sets 
forth that after sixteen weeks of war 
1.221 German steamers, representing 89.3 
per cent, of Germany’s mercantile mar¬ 
ine, have been captured, detained or have 
sought refuge in port. In the same per¬ 
iod 195 British ships have been removed 
similarly from the mercantile service, rep¬ 
resenting 2.9 per cent, of the British 
mercantile marine.Nov. 30 it was 
officially announced that the Kaiser had 
gone to his army in Poland, where Rus¬ 
sia claimed extensive gains, which were 
denied by Germany. Severe fighting con¬ 
tinued near Lodz, where the Germans 
broke through the Russian lines. 
The occupation of Belgrade, after four 
months of investment, was officially an¬ 
nounced in Vienna, Dec. 2, together with 
the statement that the Servian army is 
cut off from Nish, Servia’s temporary 
capital. It appears from the news that 
Servia’s resistance is crumbling before 
vastly superior power, and that great 
losses in men and a lack of munitions 
have hastened disaster.The Ital¬ 
ian government is again protesting to 
Austria concerning drifting mines. A 
number of casualties have been caused by 
them along the Italian coast.King 
George went to France, Nov. 30, and 
spent several days with the British 
troops at the front. British law has not 
permitted a sovereign to be active on the 
battlefield for about 170 years, the last 
king active in war being George II. 
.Severe fighting continues in Flan¬ 
ders, with little advantage to either side. 
Hand to hand fighting of great ferocity 
has followed the artillery duels. Up to 
Dec. 3 the Germans had not advanced 
on the coast.It was announced. 
Dec. 2. that Gen. De Wet was captured 
in South Africa.With only one 
dissentient—Herr Liebknecht, Socialist 
—the German Reichstag voted. Dec. 2, 
a new war credit of 5,000,000,000 marks 
($1,250,000,000).It was officially 
announced, Nov. 30, that Germany had 
paid $256,000 to Luxemburg for damage 
to fields and"crops and $65,000 for dam¬ 
age to streets and buildings.An 
Amsterdam paper announced, Nov. 30, 
that the German Governor of the pro¬ 
vince of Brabant, which includes Brus¬ 
sels, has called a meeting of Brussels fin¬ 
anciers and has told them that Belgium 
must pay $7,000,000 monthly for the 
maintenance of the German troops in ad¬ 
dition to the war levy of $75,000,000 im¬ 
posed as a fine “for violations of neu¬ 
trality by Belgium and losses ensuing 
therefrom to Germany.”.Nov. 20- 
23 British camel constabulary defeated 
a dervish force in Somaliland, which is 
a British protectorate on the northeast 
coast of Africa, bordering on the Gulf 
of Aden. 
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COMING FARMERS’ MEETINGS. 
New Jersey State Horticultural So¬ 
ciety, annual meeting. State Experiment 
Station, New Brunswick, Dec. 8-10. 
Connecticut Sheep Breeders’ Associa¬ 
tion, annual meeting. Unity Hall, Hart¬ 
ford, Dec. 15. 
New York State Breeders’ Association, 
New York State Sheep Breeders’ Asso¬ 
ciation, New York State Dairymen’s As¬ 
sociation, annual meetings, Seneca Hotel, 
Rochester, N. Y., Dec. 16. 
Farmers’ Week, Pennsylvania State 
College, December 28, 15)14 to January 
8, 1915, State College, P. O., Penn. 
Winter short courses, University of 
Vermont, Burlington, Dec. 28, 1915 to 
February 26, 1915. 
New York State Fruit Growers’ Asso¬ 
ciation annual meeting, Rochester. N. Y., 
Jan. 6-7-S, 1915. 
January 9th to 15th, inclusive, 1915 
Mid-Winter Exposition. State Fair 
Grounds, Columbus, Ohio, Corn, Apple, 
Dairy and Poultry Shows combined. 
Massachusetts Fruit Growers’ Asso¬ 
ciation annual convention. Horticultural 
Hall, Worcester, Mass., Jan. 13-14, 1915. 
Cooperative Associations of the State 
of New York, second conference, Utica, 
January 13, 14, 15, 1915. 
Virgina State Horticultural Society, 
nineteenth annual convention Winchester, 
Va., January 13-14, 1915. 
Second annual meeting of the New 
Hampshire State Department of Agricul¬ 
ture and the thirtieth annual meeting of 
the Granite State Dairymen’s Associa¬ 
tion, Manchester, N. il., Feb. 10 and 11, 
1915. Fred Rasmussen, Secretary. 
New York State Agricultural Society 
75th annual convention, the Capitol, Al¬ 
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