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■Uhe RURAL NEW-YORKER 
EVENTS OF THE WEEK 
DOMESTIC.—Ai.ril 27 the trial of 
Eranz Von Ilintelen, the Oerinaii “nia.ster 
began in New York. The other 
men who are being tried with the .si)y are 
David Eainar, "the Wolf of Wall Street,” 
who is said to have obtained a fortune 
from Von Kintelen for use in i)roi)agan- 
da work ; ex-Kepresentatives Frank Hu- 
ehanan and II. Robert Fowder of Illinois; 
ex-Assistant Attoruey-Oeneral Frank 
Monuette of Ohio; Henry B. Martin, a 
Washington lobbyist, and Herman Sehul- 
teis and .Jacob C. Taylor, labor leaders. 
All are accused of having conspired, 
through tin" medium of Eabor’.s National 
I’eace Council, to foment strikes in mu¬ 
nition factories, on railroads and on 
steamshij* piers for the purpo.se of pre¬ 
venting tin* shipment of arims and am¬ 
munition to the Allies. The specific 
charge is violation of the Sherman law 
by re.straint of foreign commerce. Von 
Kintelen was a jn-isoner in England, but 
was sent for trial here by courtesy of the 
British authorities. 
The American oil tank steamer Vacuum 
was sunk off the Hebrides by a German 
submarine Ajiril 2H; 2.‘{ men are be¬ 
lieved to be lost, including a naval oflicer 
and five gunners. 
Paul ^Ieliko and Stephen Michiposuk 
of Hoebling, N. .1.. were held at Trenton 
A|)ril 2(! by I'nited States Commissioner 
Richard Wilson and sent to the Mercer 
County jail on a charge of conspiring to 
destroy the plant of the .John A. Roeb- 
ling Sons Comi)any at Roebling, where 
war munitions are being made. Neither 
man was permitted to furnish bail. Gov¬ 
ernment agents who searched the rooms 
of Meliko and Michiposuk, at Roebling. 
said that they found bombs, time clocks 
and revolvers, which the two men said 
had been placed there by political enemies. 
The British blacklist of shipping has 
been withdrawn, so far as it concerns the 
United States. The Bi-itish Admiralty 
in October of 1915 issued a blacklist 
which, as changed from time to time, has 
been in force fi-om that date. As origi¬ 
nally issued it contained a list of 47 neu¬ 
tral vessels, 10 of which were American. 
Ilritish shippers were warned to be care¬ 
ful in chartering these ships, which were 
suspected by the British authorities of 
being controlled by German capital or 
engaged in unneutral service. 
('’apt. Walter M. Wilhelm, vice-presi¬ 
dent and general manager of the Eddy- 
stone, I’a., Ammunition Corporation, tes¬ 
tifying at the coroner’s inquest into the 
explosion at the company’s plant, said 
that while no conclusive evidence of the 
existence of a plot ha.s been found he did 
not believe the disaster was the result of 
an accident. There v/ere 129 persons 
killed in the di.saster. Several injured 
persons are still in hosj)itals. 
r The new act regulating the immigra¬ 
tion of aliens came into effect May 1, 
and all aliens entering our ports with 
the intention of remaining here must pay 
a head tax of .$8, instead of $4, as here- 
tofoiMj. Children under 16 years of age 
with their fathers or their mothers are 
not subject to the tax, but children of 
any age unaccompanied by father or 
mother, must pay the tax. The literacy 
test will be applied to all immigrants ar¬ 
riving hereafter. Aliensr with some ex¬ 
ceptions, are expected to be able to read 
in English or some other language or 
dialect before they will be permitted to 
land. 
Brewing associations and companies 
of Pennsylvania whose representative.s 
pleaded nolo contendere April 28 to 
charges that the corporations violated 
the Federal corrupt practices act must 
pay heavy fines. .Judge W. H. Thomson, 
in the United States District Court at 
Pittsburg April 30. announced that 33 
of the 34 organizations that entered such 
pleas will be fined a total of $50,000. 
Another incendiai'y fire at the race 
track .‘it Belmont Park, N. Y., April 29, 
destroyed stable and 28 race horses val¬ 
ued at $100,000. Because of the fact 
that the Westchester Racing Association, 
which owns the park, offered the prop¬ 
erty recently to the government as an in¬ 
ternment camp or training place for avia¬ 
tors, there was report that the fire was 
the result of a German plot. 
An adequate supply of newsprint 
paper for every American publisher was 
predicted by the Federal Trade Commis¬ 
sion April 28 in announcing that I^ord 
Northcliffc, the noted English publisher, 
probably would turn over to the A.raeri- 
can Newspaper Publishers’ Association 
for distribution the entire output of his 
big Newfoundland paper mills. The ad¬ 
dition of the 66,000 tons of paper pro¬ 
duced annually by the Northcliffe mills, 
it was said, will break the print paper 
market and assure small publishers an 
adequate supply at lower prico.s. 
FARM AND GARDEN.—Prof. Her¬ 
bert W. Conn of Middletown, Conn., died 
April 18, aged 68. Dr. Conn was pro¬ 
fessor of biology, Wesleyan University, 
and in this connection organized the State 
Board of Health Ijaboratory, in 1905, and 
continued as its director until the time 
of his death. In March, 1911, he v,'as ap¬ 
pointed by the New York Milk Commit¬ 
tee as a member of the National Com¬ 
mission on Milk Standards, and since 
then has given freely of his time and 
tiilents to the work of this commission. 
His interest in milk as a scientist was 
exceeded only by his humanitarian in- 
Ivrest in standai’dizing milk to prevent un¬ 
necessary loss of infant life. He was a 
director of the American Public Health 
.Xs.sociation and was affiliated with many 
I it her .scientific organzi.ations. 
A strong intimation that the Govern¬ 
ment is soon to taka a step radically cur¬ 
tailing the production of di.stilled and 
fermented liquors in the United States 
came iSIay 1 in the announcement that 
Dr. Alonzo E. Tayloi*, an expert on the 
conservation and economical utilization 
of food, has been designated by the De- 
l)artment of Agriculture to undertake an 
exhaustive consideration of the proposal 
to place a close limit on the use of gi-.-iins 
in the manufacture of intoxicants. P’oed 
materials to the value of $145,000,000 
entered last year into production of alco¬ 
holic liquors. Secretary Houston, as 
soon as it became apparent that the 
TTnitod States would have to feed not only 
its own people but the people of its allies 
as well, immediately tofik under advi.se- 
ment a plan to utilize for food purfioses 
the large amounts of grain that hereto¬ 
fore have been used in the liquor in¬ 
dustry. 
W.(VSHINGTON.’—Prelimin.ary reports 
1o the Tre.isury Department upon which 
Secretary McAdw will ba.se his recom¬ 
mendations to the President as to the 
size of the first bond issue under the 
$7,000,000,000 war finance law, indiciite 
that the United States will be called ui)on 
to finance the Allies to the extent of at 
least $400,000,0(X) and pos.sibly .$.500,000,- 
(KX) a month. The tentative programme 
also calls for the expenditure of virtually 
every dollar of the borrowed money in 
this country for foodstuffs, munitions, 
coal, clothing, railway equipment and 
other supplies. The e.stimate.s, .still in¬ 
complete and subject tO' revision, indicate 
the followng Entente needs: For Great 
Britain, $200,000,(XX) to .$2.50,000,000 a 
month ; for France, from .$100,(X)0,000 to 
$125,000,000; for Russia, a sum undeter¬ 
mined, but up to $1(X>,(X)0.000 a month, 
depending largely upon the ability of 
manufacturing plants in this country to 
meet her demands, mo.stly for supplies 
other than foodstuffs and munitions; for 
Italy, about .$50,000,000 a month. 
The Government decided April 27 not 
to insure any more sailing ves.sels bound 
for the war zone. The risks on this class 
of craft, it was felt, were too great. In¬ 
surance on auxiliary sailing vessels also 
will be discontinued. The fleet of .sailing 
vessels and .auxiliarie.s affected by the 
governmental war risk insurance runs 
into the thou.sands, and include the liirger 
part of American craft that can go "deep 
.sea.” Since the beginning of the war 
scores of the best of our schooners have 
ventured from the coastwise trade into 
the immensely profitable traffic in muni¬ 
tions and foodstuffs across seas. 
The Administration food bills were in¬ 
troduced in the House April .30 by Chair¬ 
man I,ever, of the Agriculture Commit¬ 
tee. They do not cover price-fixing or 
control of the use of grains for distilling 
li(]uors. These subjects will be covered 
in a bill to be introduced later. The bills 
introduced now are designed to stimu¬ 
late production, prevent hoarding, make 
for equitable distribution, and su.spend 
the law prohibiting the mixing of flour. 
’J'hey contain provisions to prevent con¬ 
flict with the Anti-T'ru.st and Interstate 
Commerce laws. The I.ever bill appro¬ 
priates .$25,()00,(X)0 for its enforcement, 
and_ authorizes the appointmnt of two 
additional as.sistant secretaries of agri¬ 
culture to administer it. 
Appropriations of .$2,699,485,281 to 
meet urgent deficiencies in the army and 
navy, or .$760,855,687 less than was rec¬ 
ommended by the War and' Navy De¬ 
lia rtrnents, are included in a hill favor¬ 
ably reported to the Hou.se April 30 by 
the Appropriations Committee. Promi¬ 
nent in the bill is an appropriation of 
.$4,.320.974 for Panama ('anal defences. 
One item of $.3.750.(X)0 is for tr.aining 
camps. The bill also would authoidze 
the Secretary of War to purchase, ac¬ 
quire by donation or condemn sites for 
aviation schools. An appropriation of 
.$2,.500.(X)0 is included for such purposes. 
Several offers of free sites already are in 
the hands of the Secretary. 
The War Department made public 
April 28 its plans for raising the new 
conscript forces which within two years 
will give the United States an -anny of 
about 2,()00,0()0 men. Registration of 
the men from whom will be selected the 
first increment of 500,OCX) will take place 
within the next thirty days (by .June 1) 
and will be conducted along the same 
general lines as a registration for an 
May 12, 1917. 
election. Training of the con.scripts will 
begin by September 1 at the late.st. All 
may be called out together, or in the dis¬ 
cretion of the military authorities they 
may be called out in groups of 50,000 or 
100,000. An army for service over seas 
will not be ready before March or April 
-of next year unle.ss those who are urging 
the earlier dispatch of an expedition 
exert enough pressure to change the plans 
of the War College, the War Department 
and all the inffuential army officers. 
My sons attend market and sell farm 
produce. Butter is bought at 53c to 56c, 
to sell at 60c; chickens retail, old roost¬ 
ers, 28c; roasting fowls, .35 to 40c; 
broilers, 45 to ,50c. Dairies are paying 
51/^c for milk as a basis. Eggs, retail, 
38 to 40c; which latter price is less than 
they are jobbed out at by city dealers. 
Potatoe.s, $2.75 to $3.25 per bu.; par.s- 
nips. $1 bu.; spinach, 2.5c peck; 
$1.7,5 one-half barrel; radishes, 5c per 
bunch ; lettuce retails 25 to 40c per lb.; 
leaf lettuce, head lettuce, 15e to 25e a 
head. Swiss chard, Ic per small bunch. 
We have paid as high as 21c per lb. for 
pork, retailing sausage at 28c. J. p. 
Delaware Co., Pa. 
Potatoes, .$2..50 bu.; apples, $1 bu.; 
hay, $16 per ton; oats, 90c per bu.; eggs, 
.32c; corn, $1.60; cows, $50 to $75; but¬ 
ter. 40c. E. B 
Elk Co., Pa. 
Coming Farmers’ Meetings 
New York State Guernsey Breeders’ ' 
Association, annual- meeting. Hotel Im¬ 
perial, New York City, May 15. 
Holstein-Friesian Association of Amer¬ 
ica, Worcester, Mass., .June 6. 
American Seed Trade Association, De¬ 
troit, Mich., .June 19 to 21. 
American As.sociation of Nurserymen, 
forty-second annual meeting, Philadel¬ 
phia, Pa., .June 27-29. 
Society of American Florists and Or¬ 
namental Horticulturists, New York 
City, August 21-2.3. 
Solebury Farmers’ Exhibit, Solebury 
Deer Park, Solebury, Pa., Sept. 7-8. 
New York State Fair, Syracuse, N. Y., 
September 10-15. 
Eastern States Exposition, Springfield, 
Mass., Oct. 12-20. 
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