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EVENTS OF THE WEEK 
DOMESTIC—Bolshevik handbills of 
the most inflammatory type are being dis¬ 
tributed under cover of night through 
the most: populous centers of the anthra¬ 
cite district of Pennsylvania. These in¬ 
cendiary circulars openly preach the over¬ 
throw of the present “capitalistic govern¬ 
ment” by means of the weapon of the 
general strike and the substitution of a 
government by workers’ councils, or sovi¬ 
ets, like that attempted in Russia. The 
dodgers weie distributed on the nights of 
April 13 and 14. They were left on the 
doorsteps of thousands of the homes of 
miners in the Pottsville and Shamokin 
sections, being weighted with stones to 
prevent them blowing away. These cir¬ 
culars have been forwarded to the De¬ 
partment o" Justice . in Washington for 
such action as Attorney-General Palmer 
may wish to take. The handbills contain 
what purports to be a “Proclamation by 
the Central Executive Committee of the 
Communist Party of America.” 
Dr. James Wright Markoe, one of the 
most useful and eminent surgeons of 
America, was shot to death by a degen¬ 
erate lunatic in St. George’s Episcopal 
Church, in Stuyvesant square, New York 
City, toward the end of the morning ser¬ 
vice, April IS. The slayer had escaped 
from an insane asylum at Fergus Falls, 
Minn., two years ago, and had become 
demented over religion. He was a stran¬ 
ger to Dr. Markoe. Many prominent 
persons were in the congregation when 
the murder occurred. 
Seventeen deaths and the serious in¬ 
jury of at least a score of other persons 
have been reported fro-i the northwest¬ 
ern part of Arkansas, after the tornado 
that swept over that district April IS. 
At Harky Valley seven were killed by the 
storm; at Cabin Creek a mother and two 
children were victims; six in one family 
and another person were killed at Belle¬ 
ville. Blizzards swept over several 
States in the Rocky Mountain country 
on that date. Several trains were stalled 
in drifts, the fall varying from 16 to 30 
inches in Colorado and Wyoming, drifts 
reaching 10 feet. Rail traffic in Western 
Nebraska. Eastern Wyoming and North¬ 
ern Colorado was virtually at a standstill, 
and thousands of cattle are dying, ac¬ 
cording to reports received by railroad 
officials. 
Hundreds of lives and fortunes in ship¬ 
ping were menaced April 19 when the 
cargo steamer Hallfried. 6,600 tons, was 
destroyed by fire and a series of ex¬ 
plosions at her pier, Forty-third street, 
South Brooklyn. Total loss was esti¬ 
mated at $3,000,000. 
Six tons of Japanese silk cloth, worth 
$218,000. torn from its original packages 
and rudely wrapped in coarse manila pa¬ 
per, were found in a roadhouse garage 
at Maspeth. L. I.. March 20. The police 
are certain they have identified the goods 
as the lot stolen from a freight car in the 
Chelsea yards of the New York Central 
March 8. Five men were arrested when 
the silk was seized. 
A death list which stood at more than 
170 and a property loss of many millions 
of dollars was the toll exacted by a tor¬ 
nado which swept a score of towns, vil¬ 
lages and isolated farms in Eastern Mis¬ 
sissippi, Northwestern Alabama and the 
southern counties of Tennessee. April 19. 
In one ease—-that of Rose Hill—prac¬ 
tically the entire town is believed to have 
bqen destroyed, and in several instances 
all members of a family were reported to 
have been killed. Striking first apparent¬ 
ly at Dauderville County, Miss., the storm 
swept a narrow path across the State. 
About: the same time death and damage 
from the same or a similar disturbance 
were reported from counties in the north¬ 
western corner of Alabama, the extreme 
force of the wind being expended before 
the Tennessee line was reached in Wil¬ 
liamson and Maury Counties. Meridian, 
Miss., the heart of a rich farming district- 
suffered heaviest, with a known death list 
of 21. The village of Glen. Alcorn 
County, numbered its dead at 10; Ingo- 
mar, 6; Egypt. 5; Baker, 5, aud Bay 
Soring, 7. A lumber camp near Phila¬ 
delphia. Neshoba County, lost 12 workers 
killed and 30 injured, several probably 
fatally. In Alabama, the rural districts 
around fSheffield. Gurley. Little Cove and 
Waco, felt the force of the storm. Six¬ 
teen persons were killed, scores injured 
and property valued at hundreds of thou¬ 
sands of dollars destroyed by the storm 
in the northwestern part of Marion 
County. Twenty-one persons were killed 
on a single plantation near Aberdeen. 
Miss. Harrold’s hog ranch, near there, 
one of the largest in the South, was wiped 
out. 500 of the stock being killed. Across 
the Tennessee line. 160 miles from Merid¬ 
ian. near where it originated, the storm 
still had force sufficient to wreck homes 
and farm buildings and to cut a swath 
through a forest. 
FARM AND GARDEN.—Farm labor¬ 
ers would be brought under the provisions 
of the 48-hour per week law by a bill 
introduced in the French Chamber of 
Deputies by M. Chausy. A large group 
of Socialists support the measure, which, 
it is argued, would result in increased 
production, because farmers would be 
forced to modernize their equipment and 
adopt labor-saving methods. 11> is also 
said the bill would encourage the back- 
to-the-farm movement. 
The migratory bird act of 1918, de¬ 
signed to carry out provisions of a treaty 
between this country and Great Britain 
May 1, 1920 
for the protection of migratory birds, was 
held constitutional May 18 by the Su¬ 
preme Court. The statute was attacked 
by Missouri authorities, who alleged it 
interfered with the sovereignty of the 
State and with the propery right of the 
people of that State. Justice Holmes, in 
rendering the majority opinion, declared 
that “a national interest of very nearly 
the first magnitude” ivas involved, and 
that except for the treaty and the statute 
there soon might be no birds for any 
power to deal with. “We see nothing in 
the Constitution that compels the Gov¬ 
ernment to sit by while a food supply is 
cut off and the protectors of our forests 
and our crops are destroyed,” Justice 
Holmes said. “It is not sufficient to rely 
upon the States. The reliance is vain, 
and were it otherwise the question is 
whether the United States is forbidden to 
act. We are of opinion that the treaty 
and the statute must be upheld.” 
A bee institute was held under the aus¬ 
pices of the State Board of Agriculture, 
Rhode Island Horticultural Society, and 
Rhode Island' Beekeepers’ Association, 
April 21, at Kingston, R. I. Allan 
Latham of Norwichtown, Conn., lectured 
on “The Economy of Large Hives.” There 
was a general discussion on the relation 
of bees to horticulture. 
WASHINGTON.—To provide a con¬ 
venient coin for the increasing street ear 
fares and sales requiring petty war taxes, 
Senator Frelinghuysen (N. J.) intro¬ 
duced April 16 a bill auhtorizing the 
coinage of seven and eight-cent pieces. 
A sweeping reorganization of the ex¬ 
ecutive departments of the Government, 
aimed to. do away with duplication of ser¬ 
vices, simplify all processes, eliminate 
red tape, speed up governmental processes 
and save hundreds of millions of dollars 
annually, is proposed in a resolution in¬ 
troduced by Senator Smoot (Utah) 
April 16. Wide approval is given to the 
bill in Congress. At a time when pro¬ 
found peace reigned and’ annual expendi¬ 
tures v T ere about $1,000,000,000 a year 
the late Senator Aldrich (R. I.) declared 
that business organization probably would 
save the country $300,000,000 a year. 
On the like ratio the Smoot plant would 
save from the present budget a possible 
billion dollars. 
A bill introduced April 16 by Repre¬ 
sentative Langley (Ky.), Republican, 
would provide $30,000,000 for the aid dur¬ 
ing the next two years of disabled service 
men and women who have been discharged 
and are unable to take care of themselves. 
The Secretary of the Treasury would be 
authorized to obtain necessary hospitals. 
Enactment of the $462,500,000 Post- 
office appropriation bill, the largest 
amount ever granted for the mail service, 
was completed April 16 by Congress, when 
the House adopted the conference report 
aud sent the measure to the President. 
As finally approved the bill provided 
$1.250,006 for establishing the transcon¬ 
tinental air mail route between New York 
and San Francisco, via Chicago and 
Omaha, next July 1. 
Impeachment proceedings were started 
April 15 in the House by Representative 
Hoeh (Kan.), Republican, against Louis 
F. Post, Assistant Secretary of Labor, on 
the charges that he has sought to prevent 
deportation of radical aliens who plan to 
overthrow the Government of the United 
States by force and violence. 
Total loss to the Government' growing 
out of Federal control of the railroads 
was estimated April 19 by the House Ap¬ 
propriations Committee at more than 
$1.129.000.000. This includes the $225,- 
000.000 estimated as guaranteees to the 
roads under the terms of the transporta¬ 
tion act. The actual loss during the 26 
mouths of active Government control was 
placed at $904,000,000. The committee 
pointed out that the Government had 
loaned $862,000,000 to the roads, and said 
that since much of this went to weaker 
lines to prevent receiverships during Fed¬ 
eral operation, all of this sum would not 
be recovered. The committee was report¬ 
ing on the emergency deficiency appro¬ 
priation measure, in which $300,000,000 
was included for the Railroad Adminis¬ 
tration. Director General Iliues hau 
asked for $420,000,000 to wind up the 
administration’s affairs, but the commit¬ 
tee cut, the total $30,000,000, and recom¬ 
mended that the Treasury be instructed 
to purchase $90,000,000 worth of Liberty 
bonds held by the Railroad Administra¬ 
tion, thus making available that addition 
amount for winding up the administra¬ 
tion’s affairs. 
Farm Conditions in Central New York 
A farmer iu Central New York sends 
us the following report, which is typical 
of others from that section: 
The farming situation does not improve 
y up in this section. With feed go 1 ®? 
mdily upwards, and milk down to •• ’ 
ere is not much incentive for a dan'y- 
iu to hunt up a hired man at $<-J!’*“ 
tilth with board. I saw an advert^ * 
»nt iu our local paper, by the ® a “ a f?£ 
a certified milk plant, offering 
ove wages. Perhaps he can stand tn 
uch, but the mau who makes milk 
1.55 cau’t. I am still all a ^ ne ’ ‘ <■ 
e Spring cows freshening. At P 10 * 
ive 45 head of cattle and five horses. 
f course, I cannot do justice to 
ock, to say nothing of doing any fa 
ork. You mentioned that yo® J'. 
i.ving $50 a ton for hay. I a 1 ® m* 1 
iod hay out of the barn for $20, bu 
ive no time to draw it to the depot, eu 
there were cars to move it. 
