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THE HURAE NEW-YORKER 
EVENTS OF THE WEEK 
DOMESTIC. — Announcement was 
made at the Navy Department, July 1, 
of the selection of nine officers to form 
the first organized class in aviation. The 
officers will be assigned at once to the 
aviation station at Pensacola for the 
study of the construction, assembly and 
repair of aeroplanes and later will learn 
to operate the machines. Practical shop 
work will be one of the chief features of 
the first period of instruction. Another 
class will be selected a few months later 
in line with the policy of the Department, 
supported by appropriations by Congress, 
to expedite the development of aviation 
in the United States navy. 
Hereafter if any member of the Gen¬ 
eral Assembly of Georgia becomes intox¬ 
icated he will not be allowed to enter the 
legislative halls. A standing rule was 
adopted, July 2, which provides that no 
member shall be admitted in an intoxi¬ 
cated condition and the doorkeepers are 
charged with rigid enforcement of the 
rule. 
Until a radical change has been effect¬ 
ed in conditions in Mexico, the Red Cross 
will not attempt to expand and may not 
continue the famine relief work initiated 
there following President Wilson’s ap¬ 
peal to the country of a month ago. The 
Red Cross authorities have found that 
under the conditions under which they 
have attempted to relieve suffering in 
Mexico the work cannot be conducted 
consistently with the fundamental prin¬ 
ciples of the Red Cross organization. To 
send food into Mexico under existing cir¬ 
cumstances is likened to pouring water 
through a sieve in that it brings no re- 
.gtlts. 
Nineteen 'American citizens, most of 
them negroes, are missing and presum¬ 
ably are dead as the result of the tor¬ 
pedoing of the British steamship Armen¬ 
ian, bound from Newport News, Va., to 
Avonmouth, England, with a cargo of 
horses and mules. The vessel was de¬ 
stroyed by the German submarine U-38, 
according to State Department advices. 
The Armenian was under charter to the 
British Admiralty. 
A number of arrests were made at 
North Providence, R. I., June 30, in 
connection with charges of electoral 
bribery and corruption. A number of 
other towns in the State are being in¬ 
vestigated for scandalous abuses at last 
November’s election. 
July 3, early in the morning, a bomb 
was exploded in the Senate reception 
room of the Capitol at Washington. La¬ 
ter in the same day J. P. Morgan was 
shot twice at his country estate on East 
Island, near Glen Cove, L. I., by Pro¬ 
fessor Frank Holt, an instructor in Ger¬ 
man at Cornell University, who said that 
he went to the Morgan home to induce the 
banker to use his influence to stop the 
exporting of munitions of war. The firm 
of J. P. Morgan & Co is the fiscal agent 
of the Allies in the United States. Mr. 
Morgan’s injuries are not serious. By 
his own eonfesion, Holt was the man who 
set the bomb that wrecked the Senate 
Reception Room in the Capitol. Wait¬ 
ing in Washington between the Capitol 
.and the Union Station until he heard the 
explosion of his infernal machine, Holt 
caught a Pennsylvania Railroad train, 
reaching New York just in time to get a 
train to Mr. Morgan’s home at Glen 
Cove. Later investigation connects Holt 
with a former German instructor at Har¬ 
vard, who disappeared after the death of 
his wife under suspicious circumstances. 
July 6 Ilolt committed suicide in jail. 
The police discovered a supply of dyna¬ 
mite stored by Holt, which had been 
transported in a trunk. 
The State Department issued a pro¬ 
clamation. July 2, signed by the Presi¬ 
dent, calling attention to the fact that an 
exposition in commemoration of the 
achievements of the negro race in the last 
50 years will be held in Richmond, Va., 
from July 5 to July 25 this year. The 
exposition is under the auspices of the 
Negro Historical and Industrial Associa¬ 
tion. Congress appropriated $55,000 for 
the exposition. 
Lieutenant Byron Q. Jones, the young 
army aviator who recently established a 
record for continuous flight, while carry¬ 
ing a passenger, looped the loop four con¬ 
secutive times at an altitude of 4.000 
feet, at San Diego, Cal., July 3. He used 
a standard army biplane, the first time, 
it is said, a machine of that kind has 
been employed in such a performance. 
The motor of the aeroplane stopped while 
the aviator was on his back in the fourth 
loop, but he succeeded in completing the 
circle and then volplaned down. 
The Liberty Bell started, July 5, on 
its eighth and longest journey from 
Philadelphia since it was first hung in 
the old State House of the Province of 
Pennsylvania in 1752. It goes to the 
Panama-Pacific Exposition, and before it 
is returned to its big glass case in In¬ 
dependence Hall next November or De¬ 
cember it will have traveled more than 
ten thousand miles and will have been 
seen by millions of people. Four Phila¬ 
delphia policemen will guard the relic 
until it is again returned to its home. 
Thirteen persons were killed and more 
than 40 were injured in and about New 
York on the Fourth of July. One of the 
deaths and 35 of the injuries were caused 
by the premature explosion of fireworks 
or the reckless shooting off of firearms. 
Automobiles claimed the largest toll of 
killed and injured. Six persons died in 
accidents caused by them and twenty- 
three others were injured. On July 5 
the celebration of Independence Day re¬ 
sulted in the death of nine persons in and 
near the city and the injuring of sixty- 
seven. Eight lost their lives by drown¬ 
ing and one death was caused by a fall 
from a fire escape while playing with a 
“sparkler.” 
A dynamite bomb exploded in the base¬ 
ment entrance to Police Headquarters, 
New York, July 6, with such force as to 
shake the building and its occupants, 
wreck the corridor leading from the door 
to the main basement corridor and shat¬ 
ter many windows there as well as in 
buildings across the street. 
Six men were killed by a cordite ex¬ 
plosion, July 6, at the plant of the Can¬ 
adian Explosives Company at Beloeil, 
Quebec. Eight persons were severely in¬ 
jured. Among the dead are Captain Mur¬ 
ray Wilson, manager of the cordite de¬ 
partment of the company, and Elmer G. 
Brown, of the du Pont Powder Works, 
Wilmington, Del. After the explosion 
the plant caught fire and the flames ham¬ 
pered the rescuers. 
July 7, 12 persons were killed and 50 
injured by the derailment of a trolley 
ear near the foot of the Niagara Gorge, 
Queenstown. Ontario. The victims were 
members of a Toronto Sunday school, re¬ 
turning from a picnic at Niagara Falls. 
A tornado swept Cincinnati, O., July 
7, causing heavy property damage, and 
considerable loss of life. Early esti¬ 
mates stated 12 persons were dead and 
many missing; about 50 buildings de¬ 
stroyed. The storm extended over a wide 
area. In St. Charles County, Mo., the 
damage was estimated at $500,000; seven 
dead and many injured. Part of a fast 
Wabash train was blown from the track. 
FARM AND GARDEN.—A serious 
invasion of locusts is reported in Central 
America. It is said that the banana es¬ 
tates of Costa Rica are suffering heavily. 
The International Apple Shippers As¬ 
sociation will hold its sixth annual ap¬ 
ple show, in connection with its twenty- 
first annual convention, at the Hotel 
Sherman, Chicago, August 4-6. 
The presence of Gypsy moth and 
Brown-tail moth in parts of Maine, New 
Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, 
Rhode Island and Connecticut has 
caused the United States Department of 
Agriculture to place the sections affected 
under quarantine, effective on and after 
July 1, 1915. Notice of quarantine No. 
22, with regulations, has been issued by 
the Department covering the situation. 
An ‘ inter - departmental committee 
named by Secretary of the Interior Lane 
and Secretary of Labor Wilson is at 
work on a plan to relieve unemployed un¬ 
der which the Federal government would 
finance workers desiring to take up farm 
land. A complete programme with pre¬ 
liminary drafts of necessary legislation, 
is to be framed before Congress meets in 
December, to be proposed in connection 
with a rural credits bill which the ad¬ 
ministration is expected to press at that 
time. The committee, which includes offi¬ 
cials of the General Land Office, the re¬ 
clamation service, and the Department of 
Labor, was appointed specifically to con¬ 
sider means of broadening the scope of 
the Federal Employment Bureau in the 
Department of Labor, and it had the co¬ 
operation of officials of the Postoffice De¬ 
partment and the Department of Agricul¬ 
ture. The plan under consideration con¬ 
templates a system of farm credits oper¬ 
ating through the Department of Labor 
which would enable workers in congested 
cities to take up agricultural land on 
government reclamation projects or pub¬ 
lic lands on easy payment loans. 
Destroying Burdock. 
Tell me how to rid my grounds suc¬ 
cessfully of burdock. This place was va¬ 
cant several years before we bought it, 
and the weeds have gained headway. I 
cut the docks down once with a hoe, but 
they are each again lusty as ever. 
Chesterland, O. E. M. o. 
We have never found any better way 
than cutting off the root of the plant 
four or five inches below ground. We use 
a spade or a spud for this purpose, driv¬ 
ing it down into the ground so as to cut 
off the roots several inches below the 
crown. Then destroy the top. Of course 
this must be done before the dock goes 
to seed. In order to make sure, a hand¬ 
ful of salt can be dropped upon the root 
after it has been cut off, or a small 
quantity of kerosene poured into the hole. 
This is slow work, but is the only way 
we know of to make sure of cleaning out 
the dock. 
Snakes in Hudson Valley. 
I was surprised to see the article of 
J. T.. on page 806, concerning “Rattle¬ 
snakes in the Hudson Valley.” My farm 
is located three miles from the Hudson 
and three miles from the Mohawk River, 
in the southern part of Saratoga County, 
and though nearly 50 years old and I 
have been here all my life, and my father 
was born more than 75 years ago, and 
was in this section all his life, we never 
saw or heard of a poisonous snake in 
this section. No rattlers or copperheads 
here, and I always use my bare hands to 
work in the worst fence corners of my 
farm, pulling brush or picking up stones 
where there are any, without a thought 
of a poisonous snake of any kind. 
Waterford, N. Y. M. F. 
If J. T. will turn a lot of hogs loose 
July 17, 1915. 
on his lands they will clean out the 
snakes. The bite of a snake does not 
affect hogs. A. K. 
Pennsylvania. 
Want to Know. 
Keeping Kieffek Pears. —Will read¬ 
ers please give practical methods of keep¬ 
ing Kieffer pears so that they may be in 
best condition for home use or market. 
K. 
Coming Farmers’ Meetings. 
National Negro Farmers’ Congress. 
San Francisco, July 14-17. 
Third annual poultry convention Mas¬ 
sachusetts’ Agricultural College, Am¬ 
herst, Mass., July 21-23. 
Ginners’ Association of the Cotton 
Belt. Atlanta, Ga., July 23-24. 
California State Fruit Growers’ Con¬ 
vention, Leland Stanford Universitv, 
July 26-30. 
West Coast Potato Association, Palo 
Alto, Cal., July 30. 
International Apple Shippers’ Associa¬ 
tion, apple show and annual convention. 
Hotel Sherman, Chicago, August 4-6. 
California State Bee Keepers’ Asso¬ 
ciation, San Francisco, Aug. 5-7. 
Society for the Promotion of Agricul¬ 
tural Science, Berkeley, Cal., Aug. 9-10. 
Highland Horse and Colt Show, High¬ 
land, Md., August 14. 
American Rose Society, San Francisco, 
Aug. 17-19. 
Society of American Florists, San 
Francisco, Aug. 17-20. 
American Gladiolus Society, Annual 
show, Newport, R. I., August 18, 19, 
1915. 
Warren County Farmers’ Picnic, Bel- 
videre, N. J.. August 18. 
American Pomological Society, Berke¬ 
ley. Cal., Aug. 23-25. 
Cambridge Valley Fair, Cambridge, N. 
Y., Aug. 23-27. 
New York State Fair, Syracuse, N. Y., 
September 13-18. 
Genesee County Fair, Batavia, N. Y., 
September 21-25. 
Trenton Inter-State Fair, Trenton, N. 
J., Sept. 27-Oet. 2. 
Farmers’ National Congress, annual 
meeting, Omaha, Neb., September 28-Oc- 
tober 1. 
International Dry Farming Congress, 
Denver, Colo., Oct. 4-7. 
Chrysanthemum Society of America, 
annual show, Cleveland, Ohio, November 
10-14, 1915. Special show, San Francis¬ 
co. Cal. 
Berks Corn Contest, Reading, Pa., 
Dec. 2-4. 
Reading Pigeon and Poultry Associa¬ 
tion, annual show, Dec. 6-11. 
Annual Corn and Grain Show, Tracy, 
Minn., January 3-8, 1916. 
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