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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
EVENTS OF THE WEEK 
DOMESTIC.—The loss of the sub¬ 
marine F-4 in Honolulu harbor last 
March, with all on board, was primarily 
due to the corrosion of a rivet in one of 
her ballast tanks, according to the report 
of the naval board which investigated the 
disaster. 
Congressman Michael J. Farley and 
Port Warden David Lazarus were inno¬ 
cent tools in a scheme by which Alfred 
Bondy, an Austrian, is said to have gone 
to Germany on a spurious American 
passport, according to testimony before 
Judge Foster and a jury in the United 
States District Court in New York Oct. 
27. Harry Max Zelinka, 440 Fourth ave¬ 
nue. an importer, was accused of assisting 
Bondy to obtain a passport in the name 
of Harold Green. 
A typhoon in southern Luzon, reported 
Oct. 27, killed at least 170 persons and 
injured nearly 800. Damage to property 
and to the hemp and rice crops is esti¬ 
mated at $1,000,000. A heavy landslide 
involved a portion of the volcano of 
Mayon. It is believed that no Americans 
were hurt. 
A nation-wide mail fraud conspiracy by 
which cheap whiskey has been sold as 
high grade liquor to unsuspecting saloon¬ 
keepers, was brought to light Oct. 27, at 
New York, when the Federal giand jury 
returned indictments against 11 men 
charged with participating in frauds ag¬ 
gregating $500,000. Officers and sales¬ 
men of the Seminole Distilling and Dis¬ 
tributing Company, 314 to 320 Grand 
street, and of the Overbrook Distilling 
and Distributing Company, 500 Fifth 
avenue, are mentioned in the indictments. 
Fire, supposedly of incendiary origin, 
destroyed Oct. 28 a pier at Seattle, 
Wash., occupied by Dodwell & Co., agents 
for the Blue Funnel Line of British 
steamers. Much valuable merchandise, 
entailing a loss of probably $500,000, was 
burned. Two alleged attempts to destroy 
the pier by lire were made previously. 
The Blue Funnel lane steamers have 
been taking barbed wire machinery and 
implements of war across the Pacific. 
The steamer Ixiou, of the line, on her 
next trip was booked to stop at Vladi¬ 
vostok with supplies for Russia. 
Nineteen little girls were burned to 
death and two girls died from injuries 
when fire swept through St. John’s Paro¬ 
chial School at Peabody, Mass., Oct. 28, 
with such fierce rapidity that several hun¬ 
dred pupils became jammed inside the 
front entrance in a mass, fighting blindly 
to escape the flames and smoke. Before 
the police and firemen were able to burst 
open the doors eight or ten had fallen 
victims to the flames or to suffocation in 
the mad panic. The others who lost their 
lives were trapped on the second or third 
floor. One girl died as the result of her 
terrible burns a few minutes after being 
rescued by a fireman. The total known 
death roll is 21. Most of the victims 
were between seven and 12 years old, 
several were between 12 and 15 and one 
was 18 years old. The building was an 
old three-story structure of brick, with a 
wooden interior. It was gutted, at a loss 
of $150,000. There were no fire escapes 
on the building. The cause of the fire has 
not been definitely determined. 
A court martial at San Francisco has 
brought out many suggestions of politics 
and “pull” in the Army Aviation School 
at San Diego. It was stated that one 
army officer who drew 50 per cent, in¬ 
crease in pay for nearly a year as an ex¬ 
perienced aviator never made any flights, 
and did not know how to fly.. An officer 
acting as chief of the aviation corps at 
Washington was named as being con¬ 
cerned in this deception. 
John Prentiss Poe, Jr., soldier and ad¬ 
venturer, the “Johnny” Poe of Princeton 
football fame, was killed on September 
25 while fighting as a private with Brit¬ 
ish forces in France. He was a member 
of the Black Watch (42d Highlanders.) 
Two Catholic priests and two prospec¬ 
tors are reported to have been murdered 
by Eskimos north of Chesterfield Inlet, 
Hudson Bay, according to Captain Lock¬ 
hart, of the Royal Northwest Police boat 
Village Belle, which arrived at the Pas, 
Manitoba, Oct. 29, from northern waters. 
The Federal authorities investigating 
the German plot uncovered the last week 
in October, have affidavits showing that 
Lieut. Robert Fay and his co-workers 
now under arrest, reawy intended to blow 
up with infernal machines the British 
warships watching New York harbor 
from the three-mile limit. The scheme, 
the authorities, believe, was to make it 
possible for the fleet of German vessels 
tied up in Hoboken to dash for the open 
sea. The affidavits in possession of the 
Government officials involve the five men 
now in custody, Fay. Max Breitling, Her¬ 
bert Kenzle, Paul Daesclie and Walter 
Schloz. A sixth man was arrested Nov. 
2 in West New York, N. J. 
The Treasury Department made public 
Oct. 31 a list of about 2.000 persons who 
received aid from the Federal Govern¬ 
ment when they were stranded in Europe 
at the beginning of the war, but who have 
not paid back the money advanced. 
In the elections Nov. 2 woman suffrage 
was decisively defeated in New York, 
Pennsylvania and Massachusetts. The 
new constitution for New York was de¬ 
feated by a larger majority than that 
against woman suffrage. Ohio defeated 
prohibition. The Assembly in both New 
York and New Jersey went Republican. 
Kentucky, Maryland and Mississippi 
elected Democratic Governors, while Mas¬ 
sachusetts defeated the Administration 
candidate and elected a Republican. Tam¬ 
many swept New York city ; Philadelphia 
elected an organization Republican mayor 
and Schenectady, N. Y., reelected the So¬ 
cialist Mayor Lunn. 
Six men, three women and four chil¬ 
dren perished in an early morning fire 
Nov. 2 in a rear tenement at 66 North 
Sixth street, Williamsburg, N. Y. 
The steamship Hocking, under Amer¬ 
ican registry, was seized by a British 
warship and taken to Halifax Nov. 1. 
When the application for American reg¬ 
istry for the Hocking was filed- at the De¬ 
partment of Commerce last June it was 
opposed by Eugene T. Chamberlain, Com¬ 
missioner of Navigation, on the ground 
that the transfer was not made in good 
faith, and that there was no American 
capital invested in the ship. Mr. Cham¬ 
berlain’s ruling was later reversed by 
Secretary Redfield, after consulting the 
State Department. 
FARM AND GARDEN.—Dr. A. S. 
Downs, health officer of Saratoga 
Springs, N. Y., has reported Oct. 29 the 
case of Fred R. Ramsdell with anthrax. 
Contrary to the advice of the veterin¬ 
arian from the State Department of Agri¬ 
culture Mr. Ramsdell insisted upon tak¬ 
ing nart in the autopsy of one of his own 
cows, which was believed to have died of 
anthrax. Several days after performing 
this autopsy on the cow Mr. Ramsdell 
became ill and called in his physician, Dr. 
A. W. Thompson, and after Dr. Thomp¬ 
son consulted with Dr. Downs they both 
agreed that Mr. Ramsdell had anthrax. 
Dr. Williams, Deputy State Commis¬ 
sioner of Health, said that they had just 
received a report also of a case of anthrax 
in William Barton of Ogdensburg, who 
was taken to the Ogdensburg Hospital, 
where the diagnosis was made. The State 
Department of Health and the State De¬ 
partment of Agriculture are acting in 
harmony in their efforts to control the 
disease. 
It is announced that Holland has 
placed an embargo on spinach seed, 
which will embarrass seedsmen who'have 
contracted for November shipments. 
Continuation of the Panama-California 
exposition at San Diego throughout the 
year 1916 has been practically decided on 
provided enough money is pledged. It is 
estimated a fund of $178,000 will be nec¬ 
essary. 
The annual banquet given to horticul¬ 
turists by Shaw’s Garden, St. Louis, Mo., 
will be held November 19 when J. K. M. 
L. Farquhar, of Boston, Mass., will be 
one of the speakers. The meeting of the 
Missouri Botanical Garden Alumni Asso¬ 
ciation will be held the same day. 
The suit of John Donaldson of Pat- 
chogue, N. Y., against the Newtown Gas 
Company for damage to his greenhouse 
stock in his greenhouses at Elmhurst, 
H. 4 I., has been settled. The company 
paid Mr. Donaldson over $2,700 in set¬ 
tlement. The settlement of this suit is of 
more than usual interest inasmuch as the 
gas main which caused the trouble was 
practically new, having been laid only 
two years prior to the damage and, fur¬ 
thermore, no one ever smelled gas in Mr. 
Donaldson’s greenhouse. Nevertheless, 
the growth of his stock of Easter lilies 
was stunted and his calla lilies destroyed. 
The French government is reported to 
have placed contracts for 90,000,000 
pounds of dried vegetables with New 
5ork evaporators. Included in the order 
are potatoes, cabbages, turnips, carrots 
and parsnips. 
William It. _ Oates, Michigan State 
game warden, is making preparations to 
establish the first game bird refuge and 
breeding station to be created by the 
State. The refuge will adjoin the State’s 
game preserve in Crawford County, in 
which deer and other animals are now 
finding cover. Mr. Oates expects that 
the principal work at the refuge will be 
the breeding of native game birds, with 
perhaps some attention to non-native 
birds that there is reason to believe will 
do well in Michigan. 
At the annual session of the New 
Hampshire Horticultural Society Oct. 24- 
26 the following officers were elected : C. 
W. Barker, Exeter, president; J. T. Har¬ 
vey, Pittsfield, vice president; Stanley K. 
Lovell, Goffstown, secretary and treas¬ 
urer; Joseph H. Gurley, Durham; E. E. 
Parker. Wilton, and A. C. S. Randlett, 
Laconia, executive committee. The coun¬ 
ty organizers were elected as follows: 
Rockingham County, Albert S. Little¬ 
field, Salem Depot; Belknap, Oscar H. 
Davis, Alton; Strafford, Charles \. 
Breck. Rochester; Cheshire. Edward H. 
Newell, Keene; Grafton, O. M. Pratt, 
Holderness; Carroll, Starr Parsons, 
South Wolfboro: Merrimack, E. H. Saw¬ 
yer, Salisbury; Hillsboro, B. B. Richard¬ 
son. Wilton. There Avas a meritorious 
exhibition and many instructive speeches 
and discussions. 
Virginia and Tennessee tobaeco-grow- 
ers complained to Secretary Lansing 
Nov. 2 that, b cause of restrictions of the 
British Government, practically all of the 
1914 tobacco crop and much of the 1913 
crop are still in Avarehouses. They asked 
that special representations be made to 
Great Britain to permit the free move¬ 
ment of tobacco from the United States 
to neutral ports. They asserted they are 
required by the British Government to 
put up a bond that their tobacco, a non¬ 
contraband article, will not be re-exported 
to enemy countries from neutral ports to 
which it is shipped from the United 
States. Secretary Lansing promised to 
take the matter under„consideratiou. 
Oct. 27. In this part of the country 
we are having most delightful weather, 
neither too warm nor too cold. Farmers 
are rushing their Fall work through as 
rapidly as possible. Hundreds of bushels 
of apples will not be gathered for lack 
of time. The oldest inhabitant cannot 
remember such an apple crop. Our corn 
is all cut and part of it is in the silo, but 
some people are still cutting. m. j. k. 
Kenton, O. 
Oct. 27. Milk, Merrill Soule Co., 
$1.55 per 100 lbs., 10 cents premium for 
barns scoring 68 or more. New milch 
cows and springers $55 to $75; old cows 
$25 to $35 each. Butter, retail 36; eggs 
34 to 36; hay $12 to $15. Potatoes, light 
crop, -85c to $1 per bu. Apples a failure. 
Arcade, N. Y. L. T. s. 
Potatoes are selling here at 75 cents, 
per bushel; cauliflower $1.50 at the de¬ 
pot; cauliflowers at the pickle house tivo 
cents per lb. This warm weather, cauli¬ 
flower has been selling as low as 30 cents 
per crate. Not much of an apple country 
here. Corn, a good crop; potatoes a big 
yield, 200 to 300 bushels per acre. Cauli¬ 
flower a big crop; wheat a good crop. 
Oats turned out about 75 bushels per 
acre, being so much rain. Horses, good 
ones, $200; mules $300 to $400 per pair. 
Cows $50 to $100; beef cattle $40; not 
many sheep raised here. Plenty of ducks, 
they have been selling for 16 cents per 
lb. dressed. There are a great many 
sent to the city alive in coops. A good 
deal of poultry raised. Eggs 40c per 
doz. The farmc s are doing well, plenty 
of work here. Pigs $3 each. Plenty 
of hogs here and plenty of pigs raised 
here. h. p. t. 
Aquebogue, L. I. 
November 13, 191G» 
Took, for the Watch 
tcrith the 
Purple Ribbon 
“Look here!” said an excited man to 
a druggist. “You gave me morphine for 
quinine this morning!” “Is that so?” 
replied the druggist. “Then you owe me 
25 cents.”—Christian Register. 
Raw Furs Wanted 
I will pay highest prices and give liberal assortment 
and square deal. Shipments held separate for appro¬ 
val upon request. Send trial shipment at once. 
BEN CORN 
267 7th Ave. RAW FURS New York 
References: German Exchange Bank and Bradstrcets 
Just spend one evening 
with this book before you 
invest in a watch. 
The new catalog, illustrated in 
color, shows the famous “Chester¬ 
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SKUNK 
We pay top prices for Skunk, Mink 
Muskrat, and all raw Furs. Price list 
free. M. .1. JEWETT & SONS, 
REDWOOD, N. Y. - DEPT. 29 
RAW FURS WANTED 
Highest Cash Prices. Liberal assortments. Send 
for Price List. 
SAM'L LEWIS, 153 W. 29th St., New York 
RA W FURS 
All who are interested in these two words, write 
for a reliable circular of prices, ready in November. 
LEMUEL BLACK, - Lock Box 30S, Hightstown, N. J. 
Raw Furs Wanted 
Big demand for American Furs! We pay top 
market prices and keep furs separate upon re¬ 
quest, keep you posted at all times, and send 
market reports and price libts— free! Write today. 
HARRY LEVY 
Exporter of Rato Furs 
265 Seventh Avenue New York 
TRAPPERS 
Along in November when furs get prime, JIM ELLlS will 
issue a price list that any fur shipper can understand. 
There won t be anything flashy or sensational about it, 
but the prices quoted and the prices paid will be the 
same, and that’s all any fair minded Man ex|>ects. 
JAMES P. ELLIS, EXPORTER 
34 & 36 MILL ST. MIDDLETOWN, N. Y. 
Established 1899 
You want a watch that is bound 
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The South Bend Watch fills these 
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See Your Jeweler 
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SEND FOR THIS CATALOG 
It's FRF.E—and it will tell you many 
things you ought to know before you 
invest in a watch. 
SOUTH BEND WATCH CO. 
3011 Studebaker St. South Bend, Ind. 
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One Man Hay Baler 
ONE man in ONE day can press ONE ten of 
Alfalfa hay into 50-lb. bales. ONE bale in Winter 
is worth ONE dollar in any ONE’S hen yard, 
but at ONE. half $ you get $20 per ton. and they 
sell like 4d autos. You can also put 40 bushels of 
forest leaves in ONE small bale to store for bed¬ 
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CLEMENT MEG. CO. Adrian, Mich. 
ELECTRIC LANTERN 
lights when handle is raised 
Very bright light, no fire danger. Safe around hay, 
Kasolene, etc. Lantern lasts a lifetime, battery 
easily renewed. Circular free. 
Prices: No. 1, $1.50. No. 2, $2.00. 
UTILITY SHOP, 493 Jersey Avenue, Jersey City, N. J. 
Ship Us Your,Raw Furs By Express 
We guarantee to hold all shipments entirely separate, and in case our valua¬ 
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express charges both ways. 
H. A. PERKINS & CO. 
WHITE RIVER JUNCTION. VT. 
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