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EVENTS OF THE WEEK. 
D OMESTIC.—A fire entailing a loss es¬ 
timated at .$2,000,000, swept two en¬ 
tire blocks in the central part of the 
business portion of Pottsville, Pa., Dec. 
17. 
The railroads in official classification 
territory have obtained substantial relief 
from the Interstate Commerce Commis¬ 
sion, but not to the full extent of the 5 
per cent, increase in freight rates asked 
by the carriers. The commission, in its 
decision in the advance rate case, Dec. 
17, granted increases which, together 
with the relief voted by the commission 
in its first decision will give the railroads 
at least $35,000,000 a year additional rev¬ 
enue. The carriers estimated that the 
full 5 per cent, increase would yield them 
$50,000,000 additional revenue annually. 
The suit brought by the Government 
against the Lehigh Valley Railroad and 
allied concerns comprising, it was al 
leged, the hard coal trust, was dismissed 
Dec. 21 by Judge Charles M. Hough in 
the Federal Court at New York. Judge 
Hough found that the Lehigh Valley was 
rather further from violating the commo¬ 
dities clause of the Interstate Commerce 
acts than was the Lackawanna whose 
acts were upheld by the Circuit Court. 
The Lackawanna owned much of the coal 
it carried outright, while the Lehigh sim¬ 
ply owned the stock of corporations 
which, under the laws of Pennsylvania, 
had good right to own the lands and mine 
and sell the coal. 
t Lieut. Frederick J. Gerstner of the 
United States Army Aviation Corps, was 
drowned, Capt. Hollis G. Mueller was 
injured, and several other aviators bare¬ 
ly escaped death, Dec. 21, when they at¬ 
tempted a flight from San Diego to Los 
Angeles in the face of a heavy gale along 
the Californian coast. 
Representative Hobson’s resolution 
proposing nation wide prohibition through 
an amendment to the Federal Constitu¬ 
tion, was defeated in the House Dec. 22. 
The vote was 197 for and 189 against 
the resolution, one member voting pres¬ 
ent. It required a two-thirds vote of the 
present membership of the House, or 288, 
to pass the resolution. The drys there¬ 
fore fell 91 votes short in their fight. 
They were disappointed over the vote, for 
they had banked on this to give impetus 
1o their struggle in the future for legis¬ 
lation of this kind. A majority of the 
present House is 217, so that the prohibi¬ 
tion advocates fell just 20 votes short. 
A plot to blow up English and French 
ships leaving this country was disclosed 
at New Orleans Dec. 22 in the confes¬ 
sion of one of 10 Germans who were 
taken into custody by the police. This 
man admitted, the police say, that he 
placed a bomb aboard the French liner 
Tto'chambeau, which sailed from New 
York on December 1.3, and that he timed 
it to explode in six and a half days. The 
man who makes this confession is known 
as Hans Halle, and also as Frank Helm. 
He has made a startling confession, ac¬ 
cording to the police, and involves the 
other men who have been arrested. 
FARM AND GARDEN.—The first 
annual Kent County Corn and Produce 
Show was held in Dover, Del., Dec. 12, 
1914, under the direction of County 
Agent M. O. Pence, who has been located 
in the county but two months. Over 60 
exhibits of corn, 20 exhibits of potatoes 
and six exhibits of corn bread, made 
by school gilds, were shown. The 
quality of the corn was above ex¬ 
pectations and showed the effect of the 
lectures and demonstrations held by the 
county agent in regard to the selection of 
corn for seed and for showing. The ex¬ 
hibits selected and shown by the school 
boys and the interest shown by them was 
very gratifying. A bigger and better ex¬ 
hibition is planned for the coming year, 
which will include in addition fruits and 
trucking crops. 
The vegetable growers of Pennsylvania 
will hold a three-day session in Wilkes- 
Barre, Pa., January 19-21, in conjunc¬ 
tion with the annual meeting of the 
Pennsylvania Horticultural Association. 
Shipments from Belgium of ornamental 
plants containing from two or three to 
1000 plants in each shipment have been 
coming into the United States at the rate 
of about 50 a day, according to the Fed¬ 
eral Horticultural Board. While France 
sends us more nursery stock during the 
year than all the other European coun¬ 
tries combined, during October and No¬ 
vember more ornamental plants have 
come from Belgium than from all the 
others combined. The Belgian ship 
ments come via Holland, the territory 
where they originate being on the Dutch 
border. France, which sends us much 
of our imported fruit stock as well as or¬ 
namental trees, also continue to ship, the 
territory where these stocks originate be¬ 
ing west of the war zone. The Federal 
Horticultural Board has cabled the 
French Government regarding the main¬ 
tenance of the inspection service and has 
received through the French Ambassador 
information that the service is being 
maintained. Large importers of French 
stock have since confirmed this advice. 
THE EUROPEAN WAR.—The cas¬ 
ualties resulting from the German bom¬ 
bardment at Hartlepool. Scarborough and 
Whitbv are placed at 122 killed, 175 se¬ 
verely ‘wounded and 374 slightly wounded, 
'X Jri KUKAL N^W-VOKKKK 
January k. 
exclusive of the deaths from shock of 
invalids and aged persons. The German 
assertion that the raiders destroyed three 
British cruisers in their escape is denied 
by the Admiralty, though it is admitted 
that a destroyer was damaged, and about 
90 men injured in a short engagement 
following. Recruiting in Great Britain 
received an immense stimulus from the 
raid.According to reports received 
Dec. 18 the Austrian disaster in Servia 
was a complete rout, the Servians cap¬ 
turing Dec. 12-14, 10.000 prisoners and 
many guns and supplies. Press reports 
state that the Austrians had been guilty 
of savage brutality toward the Servians, 
devastating the country on their inva¬ 
sion, and executing many citizens. 
Continued gains for the Allies are re¬ 
ported in Flanders. On the coast Ger¬ 
man positions are being shelled by Brit¬ 
ish cruisers. The French have captured 
first line trenches between Albert and 
Peronne and stopped German attacks in 
the Argonne. The French have new 
heavy artillery of highly effective type. 
...A British protectorate was for¬ 
mally proclaimed throughout Egypt Dec. 
IS.Turkish fortifications on the 
Gulf of Saros, north of the Dardanelles, 
were bombarded by the British Dec. 17, 
the garrison being driven out.The 
British converted cruiser Empress of Ja¬ 
pan has captured the collier Exford with 
three officers and 40 men of the German 
cruiser Emden, who escaped from Cocos 
Island when the Emden was captured. 
.The German cruiser Dresden, 
which ascaped when Count Von Spce’s 
fleet was destroyed off the Falkland 
Islands, has so far eluded pursuers. 
The German cruiser Friedrich Karl was 
sunk by the Russians during a recent 
sortie into the Baltic, with a loss of 357 
men.The French Parliament reas¬ 
sembled in Paris Dec. 22.Fierce 
fighting continues in Poland apparently 
without decisive result.An estimate 
of the losses of the British in officers and 
men up to December 1 is SO,000. As 
many British have been killed, wounded 
or captured as formed the first expedi¬ 
tionary force Lord Kitchener sent to 
France.Chile has protested against 
repeated violations of Chilean neutrality 
by German warships. 
COMING FARMERS’ MEETINGS. 
Winter short courses. University of 
Vermont, Burlington, Dec. 28, 1914, to 
February 20, 1915. 
Farmers’ Week, West Virginia Agri¬ 
cultural College, Morgantown, Jan. 4-9 
Winter short courses open Jan. 4, and 
continue nine weeks. 
Fruit Growers’ Association annual 
meeting, Rochester, N. Y., Jan. 6-7-8, 
1915. 
January 9th to 15th, inclusive, 1915 
Mid-Winter Exposition, State Fair 
Grounds. Columbus, Ohio, Corn, Apple, 
Dairy and Poultry Shows combined. 
Annual farmers’ short course, Purdue 
University, Lafayette, Ind., Jan. 11-15, 
1915. 
Massachusetts. Fruit Growers’ Asso¬ 
ciation annual convention, Horticultural 
Hall, Worcester, Mass., Jan. 13-14, 1915. 
Co-operative Associations of the State 
of New York, second conference, Utica, 
January 13, 14, 15, 1915. 
Virginia State Horticultural Society, 
nineteenth annual convention, Winches¬ 
ter, Va., January 13-14, 1915. 
Georgia State Horticultural Society, 
Athens, apnual meeting. Jan. 19-20. 
Pennsylvania Horticultural Associa¬ 
tion and Pennsylvania Vegetable Grow¬ 
ers’ annual meeting, Wilkes-Barre, Pa., 
Jan. 19-21. 
Madison Square Garden Poultry Show, 
New York, 26th annual exhibtion, Feb. 
12-18; secretary and superintendent, 
Chas. D. Cleveland, Eatontown, N. J. 
New York State Agricultural Society 
75th annual convention, the Capitol, Al¬ 
bany. N. Y„ .Tan. 20-21. 
Vermont State Poultry Association, 
eighteenth exhibition, St. Albans, .Tan. 
19-22; secretary, M. D. Jarvis, St. Al¬ 
bans. 
New York State School of Agriculture, 
Morrisville, Farmers’ Week, Jan. 25-29. 
South Dakota Improved Live Stock 
and Poultry Breeders’ Association an¬ 
nual meeting, Mitchell, S. I)., Jan. 26-27. 
New Jersey State Board of Agricul¬ 
ture, 42d annual meeting, State House, 
Trenton, Jan. 27-29. 
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. II., Feb. 10 and 11, 
1915. Fred Rasmussen, secretary. 
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