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EVENTS OF THE WEEK 
DOMESTIC.—With only a few nega¬ 
tive votes the New York State Senate 
March 27 passed the Adler bill providing 
for the construction of a vehicular tunnel 
from New York to Jersey and appropria¬ 
ting if 1.000.000 for immediate work. The 
Assembly will concur in slight amend¬ 
ments made to the hill before it is sent • 
to the Governor for signature. 
Bills for a two per cent State income . 
tax; it tangible personal property tax of 
one-half of one per cent, and an increase 
from three to 4]A per cent in the State 
tax on mercantile and manufacturing cor¬ 
porations were introduced in both houses 
of the New York Legislature March 28 
as a result of the investigations and work 
of the- Davenport special tax commission. 
The income tax will be split, 00 per cent 
to localities according to assessed valu¬ 
ations and -10 per cent to the. State, so it 
is estimated that the State will get about 
.$20,000,000 from it. The Emerson tax 
on corporations is not only to he increased 
to 4 Vi per cent, but will be amended so 
as to iuclude all corporations. Tangible 
personal property will be defined by the 
new hill so that the tax can be assessed 
locally without many of the difficulties 
now experienced. 
Caught in a sixty mile an hour gale 
the steamship Joseph J. Cuneo sank near 
the harbor of refuge at Delaware Break¬ 
water March 28. The cargo of 17,000 
bunches of bananas, valued at $”>0,000, 
was destroyed, hut the boat may he sal¬ 
vaged. The Cuneo was bound from Port 
Antonio for Philadelphia. 
Fifteen men. including a number of en¬ 
listed men of the army, were injured by 
an explosion March 28 at the Ordnance 
Proving Grounds tit Aberdeen, Md. Re¬ 
ports to the War Department said the 
original explosion was started by a fire 
of undetermined origin in it shed in which 
240 millimeter bombs were being loaded 
and the concussion was transmitted to 
other sheds with resulting property loss 
estimated at $50,000 
March 28 six bandits entered the Com¬ 
monwealth State Bank of Detroit. Mich., 
and robbed the institution of $10,000 in 
cash and unregistered Liberty bonds which 
officials say may exceed $65,000 in value. 
Many lives were lost March 81 when 
a temporary scaffolding extending around 
the stern of a ship on the ways at the 
Merchant Shipbuilding Company’s yard 
at. I larrimau, Pa., collapsed while nearly 
150 persons were standing on it to view 
the launching of the freighter Waukau. 
! Official estimates of the death toll vary 
from 10 to 40. 
IT. Grant Smith, formerly private sec¬ 
retary to Secretary Redfield of the De¬ 
partment of Commerce, was indicted by 
a Federal Grand Jury at Washington 
March 81. It is charged that while in 
i the Government’s employ he conspired 
with certain exporters to obtain . license 
for the shipment of large quantities of 
tin-plate to Peru. 
Murder on the high seas was the in¬ 
dictment returned by the Federal Grand 
Jury at New York March 81 on evidence 
presented by Assistant United States At¬ 
torney Ben A. Matthews against Captain 
Adolph Cornelius Pedersen and his sou. 
Adolph Eric Pedersen, second mate of 
tin* American barken!ino Puako, which 
embarked on a voyage from Victoria, B. 
to Cape Town, South Africa, ending 
its cruise on August 27, 1918. Seven 
other indictments charge Captain Peder¬ 
sen and his sons, Leonard Roy and 
Adolph Eric, first and second mates of 
the vessel, with felonious assault and 
maltreatment of members of the crew at 
the time of the alleged murder. The 
stories told by the sailors of the Puako 
to the American Consul tit Cape Town, 
South Africa, resulted in the arrest of the 
Pedersens there. They were forwarded 
by cruiser from South Africa to Brest, 
thence to New York. Pending investi¬ 
gation Captain Pedersen was committed 
to the Tombs in default of $25,000_ and 
liis sous were held in bonds of $5,000 
each. 
In the Milwaukee, Wis.. city elections, 
April 1, the Socialists, who included in 
their platform the compulsory teaching 
of German in the schools, suffered the 
greatest defeat that the party has re¬ 
ceived since it became a real political 
factor in the State. Every candidate for 
school and judicial office was beaten by 
two to one or worse. The ratio was the 
same whether on the judicial campaign, 
where men only could vote, or in the 
school election, where the women voted 
with the men. Women turned in all 
classes to vote. In Chicago Mayor Will¬ 
iam Ilale Thompson, Republican, was re¬ 
elected in today’s Mayoralty contest by 
a plurality estimated at 15,000. A pro¬ 
position placed upon the ballot to close 
saloons May 1 was overwhelmingly de¬ 
feated. Chicago voted wet by five to one. 
That Pittsburg was on the verge of 
being the scene of tt revolution and that 
preparations were being made for the 
seizure of the United States arsenal, in 
the Lawrenceville district, was disclosed 
April 1 when William Wyciss, al¬ 
leged anarchist and Bolshevik leader, was 
arrested by Edgar Iv. Speer, head of the 
local Department of Justice office. Wyciss 
is in jail on a charge of seditious con¬ 
spiracy. In addition to the. arrest of 
Wyciss Federal agents have rounded up 
11 alleged anarchists in and near Pitts¬ 
burg. Deportation of the prisoners may 
follow the submission to the immigration 
April 12, 1910 
authorities in Washington of documents 
and printed propaganda found in the pos¬ 
session of the accused. 
FARM AND GARDEN.—The district 
attorney of Onondaga Co., N. Y., has in¬ 
formed Gov. Smith that irregularities 
amounting to crimes in many instances 
have existed in the management of the 
affairs of the New York State Fair Com¬ 
mission. Hi- is pursuing several lines of 
inquiry, hut his facilities for the handling 
of such matters under the appropriations 
available are very limited. There -are 
cases apparently of forging of payrolls; 
of payments of alleged employees for, ser¬ 
vices not rendered, and of letting con¬ 
tracts under specifications which were 
sufficiently unfair to preclude competi¬ 
tive bidding on the part of some contrac¬ 
tors. Complying with the request for an 
investigation, tin* Governor has appointed 
Charles E. Norris of Carthage, N. Y., the 
commissioner under the so-called More¬ 
land Act to investigate and report to him 
the conditions found to exist. 
'James II. Logan, County Director for 
Buckingham County, Va., suggests that it 
is only just to farmers’ sons that they be 
given opportunity to obtain recognition 
for their work by enrolling in the UV S. 
Boys’ Working Reserve. Mr. Logan 
states that, lie believes that at least 25 
per cent of the farm labor in this coun¬ 
try is performed by hoys between 1(5 and 
20 years, generally speaking, on their 
home farms. These boys, he states, are 
compelled to work whether enrolled in 
the Reserve or not, but it is only natural 
to assume that they will take more pride 
in their work if they feel that they have 
the recognition which membership in the 
Reserve would give them. 
WASHINGTON.—Soldiers who de¬ 
serted from the American army before 
the United States entered the war and 
who later joined the military forces of 
a co-belligerent will not he granted blan¬ 
ket amnesty, the War Department an¬ 
nounced March 31. Each case will he 
considered separately, and officers having 
general court-martial jurisdiction have 
been instructed to make “very careful in¬ 
vestigation to determine whether such 
soldier can be restored to duty without 
trial, and to what extent, if any, leniency 
should be’shown.” Soldiers who deserted 
and who subsequently joined the army of 
an Allied nation were warned by the de¬ 
partment that their cases would not be 
considered until they had surrendered 
themselves to the United States military 
authorities. Soldiers who deserted after 
the declaration of war tire not entitled to 
any consideration, regardless of whether 
they subseqeutly fought against the Cen¬ 
tral powers, it was stated. 
The State Department does not accept 
as authentic a press dispatch from Mexico 
City published March 81, saying that 
Japanese’ corn corporations have been 
granted concessions to exploit the agri¬ 
cultural lands in Lower California. It 
is recognized that a serious crisis between 
Mexico and the United States might arise 
in the event of the granting of such con¬ 
cessions by the Mexican government to 
Japanese interests, if those land belong 
to the California and Mexican Land Com¬ 
pany of Los Angeles, an American con¬ 
cern. 
The Federal Trade Commission an¬ 
nounced March 81 the dismissal of a com¬ 
plaint against Morris & Co. of Chicago, 
charging unfair competition. The offering 
for sale in November and December, 1017, 
at Texas army camps, of meat which the 
commission said was unfit, was the basis 
for the complaint. The order said whole¬ 
some meat was substituted or no charge 
was made for quantities that were reject¬ 
ed, and that an order to cease and desist 
would not now serve a useful purpose. 
Senator Hitchcock of Nebraska was ad¬ 
vised March 28 through (lie State Depart¬ 
ment by Bernard Baruch, formerly chair¬ 
man of the War Industries Board, and 
now with the American I'eace Commis¬ 
sion. that in return for food to Germany 
the United States is to receive potash in 
part payment. 
Legislation to provide for the disposi¬ 
tion of approximately 700 dangerous ene¬ 
my aliens, who will have to be turned 
loose on the proclamation of peace unless 
Congress acts, is to be urged at the com¬ 
ing extra session by Attorney General 
Fulmer and other administration officials. 
Flans for the disposition of all enemy 
aliens now in confinement in internment 
camps with the exception of this 700 have 
been worked out by the Government. Of 
the 1.800 German seamen taken off Ger¬ 
man merchant vessels tit the outbreak of 
the war. all have applied for repatriation 
to Germany. They are "to hi' sent back. 
In addition, 5(H) men interned by the De¬ 
partment of Justice its dangerous enemy 
aliens have made similar applications and 
they will be released and deported. 
We live in the Focono Mountains, and 
the seasons are short, hut have had a very 
fine Winter, no snow to speak of. Cows, 
$75 to $100; veal calves, 15c lb.; four- 
weeks-old pigs, $(*> to $8; pork, dressed. 
$22 cwt.. Some very nice lambs are be¬ 
ing raised around here this Spring, which 
are sold to the Summer hoarding-houses 
from 80 to 35c, dressed. Butter, 47 to 
50c in rolls; eggs, 40c; potatoes, $1.25; 
oats, 75c; rye, $1.00; buckwheat, $2; 
hay, $80 to $40. Winter grain looking 
fine; some plowing being done. The far¬ 
mers around here expect to put out quite 
a lot of oats this Spring. II. E. B. 
Monroe Co., Pa. 
