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EVENTS OF THE WEEK 
DOMESTIC.—Alfred A. Fritzen, for¬ 
merly a captain in the German navy, un¬ 
der indictment by a Federal grand jury 
here for alleged conspiracy to blow up 
the Welland Canal, wa.s arrested in Cali¬ 
fornia March 8, after a year’s search, 
and placed in jail in Los Angeles. 
Fritzen told his captors, according to an 
Associated Press dispatch, that he made 
a tour of Cuba recently. In view of the 
recent rebellion in the island this infor¬ 
mation was of especial interest to the 
I’ederal authorities. lie also had been in 
Mexico. 
\ secret wireless apparatus was dis¬ 
covered on the steamer Appam, held by 
Gennan captors, when it was taken over 
by V. 8. ^Marshal Saunders recently. All 
messages sent in the section of Norfolk, 
Va., could be read by it. 
Eight officers of the German steamship 
Liebenfels. sunk in f'harle.ston, S. C., har¬ 
bor on .Tannary .31. were sentenced March 
10 to a year in the Atlanta Federal Pen¬ 
itentiary and to pay a fine of .$.500 each. 
They were convicted of sinking a vessel 
in a navigable stream. Bond was fixed at 
$0,000 in each case pending appeal, which 
the defendants were not immediately able 
to give. 
(’barged with committing customs 
frauds against the United States in re¬ 
ceiving merchandise smuggled from the 
inteined German commerce raiders Prinz 
Eitel Friedrich and Kronprinz AVilhelm 
at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, Henry 
Bohner, president of the Henry Bohner 
(’ompany. wholesale grocers; Adelhert K. 
Fischer, president of the Sehntte-Koert- 
ing Company, machinists, and his wife, 
Mrs. Helena Fischer, were held in $r),00() 
bail each for trial by United States Com¬ 
missioner Edmunds at Philadelphia 
March 10. 
A tornado swept over central eastern 
Indiana March 11. killing more than a 
score of pei’sons at Newcastle and two 
children in Wayne County. The total 
number of injured will run over 200, 
some of whom are probably fatally hurt. 
The damage will total more than $1,000,- 
000 at Newcastle and several thousand 
dollars in Wayne County. 
March 12 the New York Senate passed 
the IVliituey-Brereton amendment to the 
Constitution, giving the franchi.se to 
women, by a vote of .30 to 7. I'he amend¬ 
ment will he submitted at the genei’al 
election next Fall. It was defeated by a 
majority of 188,31.3 when it was voted 
upon in 101,5. It is estimated that ap¬ 
proximately $500,000 will be spent by the 
suffrage party, representing an organiza¬ 
tion of 500,000 women scattered through¬ 
out evei'y one of the 150 Assembly dis¬ 
tricts. to bring about favorable action by 
the electorate next Fall. 
Michael Herlihy. the union official who 
was convicted at New I’ork of having 
been one of those resi)onsible for setting 
fifty sticks of dynamite in the 110th 
street station of the Lenox avenue sub¬ 
way, was sentenced March 1.3, by .Tustioe 
Tompkins in the Criminal Branch of the 
Supreme Court to serve from 10 to 20 
years’. Herlihy was financial secretai-y 
of the Amalgamated Association of Street 
and Electric Hallway Eniidoyees, and the 
dynamite was exploded to frighten the 
Tnterborongh during the car strike last 
Summer and Fall. Five other men are 
under indictment for the same crime . 
A bill to make more stringent the laws 
against the sale and use of habit forming 
drugs, which is designed to strengthen the 
lu’ovisions of the measure introclnced by 
the Whitney anti-drug committee, has 
been prepared by .Joseph M. Callahan, 
Democratic leader of the New York As¬ 
sembly, and S nator Ogden L. Mills, Re¬ 
publican. The Mills-Callahan bill would 
require the use of prescription blanks in 
triplicate and ))roi)oses a plan for the 
ti’eatment of addicts without court com¬ 
mitment. 
FABM AND GARDEN.—Federal in¬ 
spectors began an inquiry at Houlton, 
Me., IMarch 8, to determine the amount of 
seed potatoes remaining in Aroostook 
County and available for shipment. 
Dealers reported that they were offering 
$7 a barrel for potatoes to fill Southern 
seed orders but farmers refused to sell 
at that price. 
Ohio florists are uniting to fight the 
State boiler oi)erators’ law. under which 
greenhouse steam heating apparatus can 
only be operated by licensed engineers. 
Tender this law, a florist can be arrested 
for running his own boiler. 
The eighth animal farmers’ week at 
the Massachusetts Agricultural College, 
Amherst. March 2()-3(). includes a varied 
jn-ogramme, with extensive exhibits and 
demonstrations. 
The Eastern States Exposition, at 
Springleld, Mass., has changed its open¬ 
ing date from Oct. 8 to Oct. 12, and will 
close the 20th. This has been done not 
to interfere with the celebration of the 
fiftieth anniversary of the Massachusetts 
Agricnltux-al College, at Amherst. The 
exposition also announces that it will 
conduct an Industrial Exposition and 
Export Conference .Tune 23 to 30, the first 
event of its character ever held in tho 
T'nited States. It is planned thus to lay 
the foundations for the establishment of 
a great annual trade market in this 
connti-y. 
WASHINGTON.—Lacking legal au¬ 
thority to establish general censorship, 
March 24, 1917 
the Administration appealed March 9 to 
the patriotism of the country’s news¬ 
papers and cable companies to suppress 
publication and trau.smission of informa¬ 
tion about the movements of American 
merchant craft which are to be armed 
against German submarines. 
The War Department at Washington 
decided March 9 to take over the Phila¬ 
delphia School of Aviation, at Essingtou, 
near the Philadelphia navy yard, for the 
organization of an air squadron. 
President Wilson March 12 asked im¬ 
mediate consideration of the Columbia 
treaty. This agreement provides for the 
payment of .$25.000,090 to (^.olnmbia by 
the United States for the loss of Panama 
and formulates an apology to the South 
American republic for Abe part alleged to 
have been played by this Government un¬ 
der the Roosevelt Administration in the 
Panama insurrection. 
Organized labor representing approxi¬ 
mately 3,000,000 workers in the United 
States announced to the country March 
12 its war platform, embodying the con¬ 
ditions under which labor would co-oper¬ 
ate “to defend, safeguard and preseiwe the 
Republic of the United States of America 
against its enemies, whomsoever they may 
be.” In the most remarkable doenmeut 
of its kind ever issued in this country 147 
representatives of national and interna¬ 
tional trades unions in confereinj#' an¬ 
nounced in advance: First, that labor 
should dictate the terms and limitations 
of war or national defence, and second, 
that organized labor should be consulted 
as to the conduct and methods of opera¬ 
tion involved in war. 
CUBA.—Four hundred men from 
Amei-ican warships March 8 landed and 
took charge in Santiago, March 8. The 
canefields and the T^nion Sugar mill at 
San Luis, 10 miles north of Santi.ago, were 
burned by insurgents. The Americans were 
l.qnded from the mine layer San Fran¬ 
cisco. the cruiser Olympia, the gunboat 
Petrel and the gunboat Machias. 
Considerable damage to part of the Cu¬ 
ban sugar crop has been done by rebels, 
according to Capt. A. H. Nielsen, of the 
Danish steamer Henry Teguer, which ar¬ 
rived at Boston from Matanzas March 12. 
(’apt. Nielsen said he put into Nuevitas 
to take on 10.000 bags of sugar. Rebels 
invaded the town, burning all before 
them. He sailed without taking on the 
cargo, which was destroyed by a fire, to¬ 
gether with 0,000 additional hags stored 
on the dock. Ordinarily ,3,000.000 bags 
of sugar are shipped annually from Nue¬ 
vitas, but not a bag has been sent from 
that port this season. 
Coming Farmers’ Meetings 
Farmers’ MVek. Massachusetts Agri¬ 
cultural College, Amherst, Mass., March 
20-30. 
American .Jersey Cattle (’lull. New 
York City, IMay 2. 
Holstein-Friesian Association of Amer¬ 
ica, Worcester, Mass., .Tune 0. 
Anu'rican Seed Trade Association, De¬ 
troit, Mich., .Tune 19 to 21. 
American Association of Nurserymen, 
foi-ty-second annual meeting, Philadel¬ 
phia, Pa., .Tune 27-29. 
Society of American Florists and Grna- 
mental IIorticulturi,sts, New York Citv, 
August 21-2,3. 
New York State Fair, Sy racuse. N. Y., 
September 10-15. 
Eastern States Exposition, Springfield, 
Mass., Oct. 12-20. 
Since coming here I have traveled 
1500 miles by auto and seen a good deal 
of the country. The trees are leafing 
out, peaches and strawberries are in 
bloom, sweet corn, peas and beans are 
six inches high. Farmers are now jilant- 
ing cotton, corn, and potatoes. Texas 
is being developed very fast and the old 
cattle ranches are fast disappearing and 
becoming fine farms for cotton and corn. 
Farmers here are going into the raising 
of peanuts. As I traveled over the coun¬ 
try farmers were preparing a great many 
acres for this _ crop. The peanuts are 
taken to the oil mills, grouucl with the 
shells on, the oil extracted and meal 
used for stock. Trucking in Southwest 
3>xas is very uncertain, I made one 
trip to the Gulf of Mexico, The pros¬ 
pects were good for a thousand dollars 
per acre for cabbage, but just at the 
time of harvest a freeze came, and good¬ 
bye truck, nearly everything gone and 
a lot of disappointed people. They were 
receiving $100 per ton and some of it 
would go 10 to 15 tons per acre. It 
surely was a great loss. Now in San 
Antonio cabbage is 10c per lb.; lettuce 
lOe for a little head; flour .$10 per bbl,; 
potatoes $3.50 per bu.; eggs 35c in city, 
20c in small towns; butter 45c lb. San 
Antonio is a very lively place in Win¬ 
ter, an(l, many improvements are being 
made all over the city; a good place to 
spend the cold Winter months, fine cli¬ 
mate, good water and many interesting 
places to see. B. E. N. 
Texas. 
Good cows, fresh, .$75 to $90; beef 
cattle $50 to $60; good veal calves on 
foot lli/^e; lambs 12c. Butter, cream¬ 
ery, 45c; fresh eggs .38e. Milk retails at 
7c. Potatoes, per bu,, $2; oats 80c; 
corn $1.20; buckwheat, per 100, $2.50. 
Hay, baled, from $10 to $12; rye straw 
$9; oat straw $7. w. G. w. 
Rensselaer Co,, N. Y. 
