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EVENTS OF THE WEEK 
DOMESTIC.—Two mannfaeturin'r es¬ 
tablishments engaged in making war ma¬ 
terials w’ere destroyed in a lire which 
swept a two-story building, covering half 
a block, at Camden, N. J., .Tan. 24. 0. 
R. Hammell, vice-president of the John R. 
Evans Company, estimated his loss at 
$300,000, and the entire loss will reach 
$500,000, it is believed. One tenant was 
manufacturing patterns for submarine 
chasers and another made gaskets for 
United States aeroplanes. The flames 
spread with such rapidity incendiarism is 
suspected. 
Thi’ee firemen were killed and 15 in¬ 
jured under a falling wall, _ when fire 
.swept a large public school in the out¬ 
skirts of Philadelphia, Jan. 24. The 
blaze, which w’as of mysterious origin, 
caused a loss of $150,000. 
The Taylor bone dry bill, the most 
drastic anti-liquor measure ever offered 
to a Kentucky Legislature, was passed by 
the State Senate, Jan. 25, 26 to 4. The 
bill, which is fathered by Senator B. M. 
Taylor of Green County, prohibits ship¬ 
ment for hire of intoxicating liquor into 
dry territory and its receipt by con¬ 
signee. It also prohibits distribution, 
soliciting or receiving contracts, propos¬ 
als or orders for intoxicating liquor in 
dry territory or advertising the same by 
posters or handbills. 
The big shipbuilding plant of the Henry 
Smith & Sons Company at Curtis Bay, 
Md., was fired Jan. 25, about the same 
time that the Celia Woolen Mills in Bal¬ 
timore County near Flllicott City were 
burned. Both concerns were engaged 
upon Government contracts. The loss to 
the shii)building company is estimated at 
$500,000. The loss to the mill is $200,000. 
Five stores in the business section at 
Fairhaven, Ya,, were destroyed by fire. 
.Tan. 25, the loss being estimated at 
$40,000. 
Kilauea volcano, the largest active 
crater in the world, is manifesting un¬ 
usual activity with the lava lake reported 
to he within IS feet of the top of the 
crater. I^i’of. T. E, .Taggar, Jr., director 
of the volcano observatory, predicted that 
the lava would overflow. Kilauea vol¬ 
cano is situated in the southeastern part 
of the island of Hawaii, approximately 
ISO miles from Honolulu. 
Jan. 25, Herman Fi’iedrich Wilhelm 
Ebling, chief Avitness for the Government, 
resumed his testimony in the United 
States District Court. New York, in the 
trial of Franz von Riutelen and 15 co¬ 
defendants charged vrith the placing of 
firebombs on the steamship Kirk Oswald, 
in March, 1915. Ebling said that Carl 
Schimmel had employed him to get the 
.sailing dates of vessels leaving New 
York. About 14 days after being en¬ 
gaged for this work, he continued, Schim¬ 
mel said that he and others were placing 
bombs, or “cigars,” on ships carrying 
munitions and supplies to the_ Allies. Fb- 
liug said he asked Schimmel if there was 
any likelihood of the bombs igniting while 
the ships were in the harboi’, and Scliim- 
mel replied that the device was timed to 
operate after the ships sailed. 
Spy plots caused three incendiary fires, 
Jan. 26, which destroyed or menaced war 
material plants and army stoi-es at Port 
Newark, N. J.; Buffalo aud Baltimore, 
with a total loss of $3,150,000. One 
plotter w’as shot by a soldier guard at the 
Jersey conflagration and fell into the 
blaze, while two other men suspected 
were wounded and 25 aliens found at the 
scene were arrested. Dynamite was used 
to sma.sh the ice upon which burning oil 
was spreading the I’ort New’iirk fire to 
the Submarine Boat Company’s jdant, 
after it had destroyed buildiugs of the 
Quarterma.ster’s Stores, I’nited States 
Army, Department of the Fast, and was 
menacing Government war work plants 
covering many acres on the meadows. A 
bullet pierced the hat of oue soldier and 
a civilian guard narrowl.v escajicd being 
hit by a bullet. The fire was fought 
under military guard. At Baltimore the 
guards fired at one mau who fled from a 
burning shipyard. The damage doue by 
the Port Newark fire alone was estimated 
at $2,000,000. The other fires in the 
widespread enemy plot were as follows: 
The destruction of the Westiughouse 
Electric and Manufacturing Company’s 
sei-vice aud repair plant in Lock street, 
Buffalo, near the waterfront; loss. $1,50.- 
0(X). The destruction b.v fire of the big 
shipbuilding plant of Henry Smith & 
Sons’ Company, and the Celia Cotton 
Duck Mills in Baltimore, both working 
on Government contracts. The combined 
loss was $1,000,000. Many manufactur¬ 
ing'iidauts, in woolens, woodeuware, iron, 
pork aud lumber, in Peterboro, Ontario. 
.Tan. 27 an explosion at the Naval Tor- 
])edo Station, Newport, R. I., caused the 
death of 15 men. 
George Boden, for the last two years 
in charge of the foreign exchange depart¬ 
ment of a large San Francisco bank, was 
arrested on a presidential warrant, Jan. 
29, and interned as a dangerous enemy 
alien, F^ederal officials announced. 
IMore than a dozen steamboats, many 
smaller craft and at least two drydocks, 
variously estimmated in value at from 
$600,000 to $1,000,000, Avere torn from 
their moorings by ice gorges at lower 
Ohio and Tennessee River points, Jan. 
29, and either have been sunk or were 
floating in immense ice floes near the 
junction of the Ohio and Mississippi 
l''el)riiiiry fi, 1018 
Rivers, in imminent danger of destruc¬ 
tion. 
An explosion followed by a fire, Jan. 
29, which destroyed the alcohol refining 
plant, the primary building, and several 
condensers of the Pioneer Iron Furnace 
T’ompany, owned by the Cleveland Bluffs 
Iron Company, of Cleveland, caused dam¬ 
age estimated at .$100,000, at Marquette, 
Mich. I-or a time the fire threatened to 
destroy the entire plant, a part of which 
is employed in manufacturing alcohol and 
the ground chemicals of explosives for the 
United States and the Allied Govern¬ 
ments. 
hides by meat packers, while shoe prices 
have been climbing upward, and excessive 
profits of the packers, who practically 
control the hide market are charged in 
a report by the Federal Trade Commis¬ 
sion submitted Jan. 24 to Congress. The 
commission points out that slaughtering 
of cattle and calves in the United States 
last five years by 
o,l(X),000 head, or virtually 30 per cent 
The Army Medical Corps Jan. 25 is¬ 
sued a call for enlistment of 2,000 spe- 
mally selected men for veterinary service. 
They must ^ either below or above draft 
age, Rud will be assigned to veterinarv 
hospitals with “service overseas shortlv.” 
\ etennary students, agricultural stu¬ 
dents, farmers, stable men and others ac¬ 
customed to handling horses are desired 
pui ticularly. They will be enlisted as 
pi n ates, but opportunities of advance¬ 
ment to non-commissioned grades are ex¬ 
ceptional. 
The New York State Vegetable Grow¬ 
ers Association will hold its annual meet¬ 
ing at Ithaca, Feb. 12-14. A varied aud 
instructive program has been prepared. 
A resolution asking Conei'ess to an- 
propnate $100,000 to re-establish the 
system of horse meat inspection was 
passed .Ian 26 by the Veterinary fitur- 
g^'ons of New York, Connecticut, New 
•lers^v aud ]\Iassachusetts, in session at 
the New York State Veterinarv College 
in the Cnruegie laboratory building. New 
ioik. The inspection system is needed 
believe, in order 
that the thousands of animals on Western 
ranges may be utilized for food. The 
plan to use‘horse meat in the homes has 
the indorsement of Dean Hoskins of the 
.St.ate (.'Ollege of Veterinary Surgeons. 
Bearing credentials from Herbc'rt 
Hoover and George M. Rolph and actins: 
as representative of the Seattle Chamber 
of Commerce and Commercial Club, A. S. 
1 ostuikoff has sailed for Russia to pur¬ 
chase a supply of sugar beet seed for use 
^ the I luted States and to investigate 
ll'^re. This is Mr. I’ost- 
mkofts second trip to Russia for the 
purpose of obtaining beet seed, he having 
.successfully carried out a similar mission 
last year. 
MASHINGION.—The most drastic Iii- 
aiau legislation proposed in any recent Con¬ 
gress was introduced .Tan. 25 by Repre- 
sentetive Carter of Oklahoma, chairman 
or the House Indian Committee, propos- 
citizenship on Indians born 
ynthiu the territorial limits of the 
UniUsl States; authorizing the issue of 
land titles to all adult mixed blood In¬ 
dians and the delivery, to every Indian 
entitled, his full pro rata share of tribal 
hinds. Commissions would be appointed 
to <-arry out the work. 
Release of sufficient tinplate to permit 
cauiiers^to begin operations on an addi- 
tioiial 2o per cent of their indicated pack 
of dry white, colored or Lima beans has 
been obtained by the Food Administra¬ 
tion. Permits to can an initial 25 per 
cent of the amounts they had indicated 
would be packed by March 3 already had 
been granted. The Food Administration 
IS urging canuers also to pack the great¬ 
est possible ((iiantity of wet beans, which 
if not canned before warm weather will 
he lost. 
Coming Farmers’ Meetings 
New York State Potato Association, 
annual meeting. College of Agriculture, 
Ithaca, N. Y., Feb. 12-13. 
New York State Vegetable Growers’ 
Association, annual meeting, Ithaca, 
N. 1 ., Feb, 12-14. 
This is a general farming countrv. 
I'..very farm has a dairy, according to the 
size aud fertility of the farm. Milk is 
sold to two dealers, but 90 per cent of it 
goes to the Hershey Chocolate Co., which 
regulates the price, paying at present 
$»>.o0 per cwt., delivered at creameries. 
Bggs, 55c per doz.; butter, according to 
quality, 50 to 65c. Potatoes are at a 
standstill; apples, $1 to $1.80 Cows sell 
anywhere from $50 to $150. Horses dull, 
seem to be a little recovering on account 
of lieavy snow. Hogs, $18 per cwt., live; 
$22 dressed. Chickens, 20c. Sales are 
now commencing, with prices ekyhigh for 
a good article. I have just received quo¬ 
tations from a local grain and feed deal¬ 
er; rye, $1.75; oats, 80c; bran, ,$2.10 to 
.$2.30; standard middlings, $2.35; white 
middlings, $3.45 to $3.90; gluten, $3; 
cottonseed meal, 38 aud 40 per cent, .$3; 
clover seed, $8. r, f. ii. 
Berks Co,, Pa. 
Milk, .$3.30 per 100 lbs.; butter, 48c 
per lb.; eggs, 54c; potatoes, $1 per bu. 
Wheat, .$2.10; rye, $1.75; corn, $1.60 for 
56 lbs.; oats, SOc. Good dairy cows, $125 
to $150, at auction. Hogs, 22c per lb., 
dressed. Chickens, 20e per lb. w. E. K. 
Berks Co., Pa. 
