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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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Y OU can’t expect to make money from your 
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For 21 years the largest exclusive 
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EVENTS OF THE WEEkI 
i 1 ■ . - - 
DOMESTIC. — Property, including 
newly completed cars, valued at more 
than $450,000. was destroyed by fire be¬ 
lieved to be of incendiary origin, which 
swept the repair shops and yards of the 
Pullman Car Company, Pullman, Ill., 
.Tan. 27. 
Sons and daughters will be made re¬ 
sponsible for the care of their parents 
under a bill introduced in the Indiana 
State Legislature by Representative 
Henry Abrams, of Indianapolis, .Tan 27. 
The bill provides that children who seek 
to avoid the responsibility of caring for 
parents may be fined not to.exceed $200, 
or imprisoned for not more than six 
months. Courts are given authority to 
release convicted persons on promises to 
assume proper filial attitudes. 
Bruno M. Marcuse and Lew H. Morris, 
general partners of Marcuse & Co., a de¬ 
funct brokerage firm, wore indicted by 
the Federal Grand Jury at Chicago, 
•Tan. 27, on a charge of using the mails 
in a scheme to defraud. When the com¬ 
pany went into bankruptcy last March a 
shortage of $2,000,000 worth of stocks 
and assets belonging to its customers was 
disclosed, it was charged. The company 
obtained hundreds of thousands of dollars 
by false pretenses, the indictment charges, 
from persons who desired to purchase 
stocks on the New York Stock Exchange. 
Instead of making these purchases, it 
was alleged, and holding the stock for 
the credit of their customers, the stocks 
were disposed of and the investors lost 
their money. Emil O. Engstrom, gen¬ 
eral manager of the firm, was also in¬ 
dicted on the same.charge. 
Mrs. Victor Jacobson and her daughter, 
Victoria, 3$. were burned to death at 
Bessemer, Pa., Jan. 31, in a fire which 
followed the explosion of a can of kero¬ 
sene with which Mrs. Jacobson was kind¬ 
ling a fii’e. Four other persons were in¬ 
jured. 
The Fnited States Supreme Court Jan. 
31, upheld the contention of Victor T.. 
Berger. Milwaukee Socialist, and four of 
his associates in the Socialist party, that 
Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis of the 
Federal District Court of Chicago was 
not qualified to preside at the trial and 
to sentence them to twenty years impris¬ 
onment. for violation of the espionage law. 
The decision, handed down by a six to 
three vote, held that Judge Landis should 
have allowed another judge to preside 
when Berger and his friends filed with 
the court an affidavit alleging that in 
sentencing a German-American in a simi¬ 
lar case a short time before he had dis¬ 
played a prejudice against those of Ger¬ 
man or Austrian extraction. The result 
of. the decision probably will mean a new 
trial for the Socialists, but with some 
Federal judge other than Judge Landis 
presiding. Berger and the others were 
not in any way freed from the charge 
by the decision. 
Fire in the Colonial Hotel, Hoboken, 
X.' J.. .Tan. 29, caused the death of six 
men and seven women. 
The Delaware State Senate Jan. 31 
passed a bill making the penalty for high¬ 
way robbery forty lashes on the hare 
back, not less than twenty years’ impris¬ 
onment and a fine of $50v. The vote on 
the measure was unanimous. 
The Commonwealth National Bank, of 
Reedville. Ya.. a village about 100 miles 
from Washington, was robbed of $119,000 
in cash and securities and then set on fire 
Jan. 33. The building was destroyed. 
The Federal Grand Jury at Cleveland. 
Ohio, Jan. 33. returned five indictments 
under the Lever act charging five Cleve¬ 
land coal firms, both retailers and oper¬ 
ators, with selling coal in the last sev¬ 
eral months at excessive prices. 
Three firemen were killed and 18 seri¬ 
ously injured when a wall of the building 
at 88 Mathewson street, Providence, R. 
I., collapsed during a fire Jan. 31. The 
blaze started in a poolroom and bowling 
alley. 
f ix persons were burned to death and 
four others badly hurt Feb. 3., in a fire 
that destroyed a shack owned by Henry 
Martell. at Rochester, Vt. Five of Mlar- 
fell’s children and his aged father last 
their lives. Martell, his wife and two 
other children were said to have a good 
chance f>>r recovery. Martell got up to 
build a fire in the kitchen stove. When 
he poured gasoline on the hot coals there 
was an explosion and flames shot through 
the room. Before Martell could warn 
his father and children, who were sleep¬ 
ing upstairs, their escape was cut off. 
A dwelling on the property had pre¬ 
viously been burned and the family was 
living in the shack until they could build 
a new house. 
Eighty-eight persons met death on 
highways of New York State in January. 
Fifty-five of these were killed by auto¬ 
mobiles according to the report made 
public Feb. 1. by the Highways Protec¬ 
tive Society. Ten persons were killed 
by trolleys and wagons killed two. Five 
fatalities occurred at railroad crossings, 
due to trains. Automobile fatalities, ac¬ 
cording to vhe report, were 90 per cent 
higher than for the preceding January. 
The Arkansas Senate Feb. 1, passed 
unanimously a hill providing capital pun¬ 
ishment for bank robbery. The bill puts 
bank robbery on a penalty with murder 
in that it gives juries the right to fix 
either life imprisonment or electrocution 
as a punishment. 
Employment insurance to meet, the 
out-of-work situation is proposed in a 
February 12, 1921 
hill offered in the Wisconsin State Senate 
Fob. 3. It was drafted by Prof. John A. 
Commons, head of the Labor Department 
of the University of Wisconsin, and ap¬ 
plies to all persons or corporations em¬ 
ploying more than three persons. Far¬ 
mers and employees of the State, cities, 
counties and school districts are exeippted. 
The law would he administered by the 
State Industrial Board. Salient fea¬ 
tures of the hill are: Beneficiaries must 
have worked for one or more employers 
six months under the act and must make 
application in proper manner and be con¬ 
tinually employed. The compensation 
would be $3.50 for each working clay for 
males and females over 18 year*! and 75 
cents for those between 16 and 18 years, 
payments to commence the third day and 
be paid weekly. 
Seven “two-gun” bandits, most of them 
in their teens, kicked down the front 
doors of the Kenwood Trust and Savings 
Bank, Chicago, Feb. 1, in view of a rush 
hour crowd, overpowered five men officials 
and nine women clerks and looted a tell¬ 
er’s cage of more than $30,000. Without 
firing a shot thr>y backed out of the bank 
in perfect order and escaped in an auto¬ 
mobile they had left at the entrance. 
FARM AND GARDEN.—Engine and 
train crews to move 50.000.000 bushels 
of wheat to be donated by Western farm¬ 
ers were offered Jan. 27, by the chief exe¬ 
cutives of the big railroad brotherhoods, 
without charge for the men’s labor, to 
Herbert Hoover, in charge of relieving 
starvation among the hungry millions of 
Europe and China. 
The Chester Horse Thief Detective As¬ 
sociation of Orange Co.. N. Y., has voted 
to broaden its activities by pursuing auto¬ 
mobile thieves. The new officers of the 
broadened organization are J. 8. Murray, 
of Chester, president; .Tames Stead¬ 
man. vice president; George Vail, sec¬ 
retary, and AYioks Board, treasurer. Peter 
Baker. Bohert Young, T. 8. Durland and 
several other members have been desig¬ 
nated as deputies to pursue, gratis, auto¬ 
mobile thieves in that part of the county. 
“Rainmaker” Hatfield has been en¬ 
gaged to increase precipitation in the 
district of Medicine Hat. Alberta, during 
the dry season at the rate of .$4,000 an 
inch, the United Agricultural Association 
announced Jan. 33. The “Rainmaker.” 
who claims to he able to produce rainfall 
by chemical and scientific methods, is to 
operate between May 1 and August 1, 
over a section of about one hundred miles 
radius with Medicine Hat as a center. 
He expects to locate his main plant at 
Cliappiee Lake. While the contract does 
not reveal the methods used by the “Rain¬ 
maker.” he is understood to bring down 
precipitation by use of large vats filled 
with chemicals and through electrical dis¬ 
charges in the air. 
Live Stock Census 
The Department of Agriculture gives 
the following figures of live stock on 
farms and ranges January 1, 1921, with 
comparisons: 
Horses. 
Total No. 
Aggregate. 
3923 . 
20.183.000 
$3,664,166,000 
1920. 
20.7S5.000 
1.962,503.000 
1939. 
21.482.000 
2,134.897.000 
3918. 
21,555,000 
2.246.970.000 
Mules. 
3921. 
4.999.000 
578,47.3.000 
3920. 
5.041.000 
743.400.000 
3919. 
4.954.000 
672,922.000 
1918. 
4,873.000 
627.679.000 
Other cattle. 
1923 . 
42.870.000 
1.346.665.000 
1920. 
44.750.000 
1.934.385.000 
3939. 
45:085.000 
3,993.442.000 
1918. 
44.112.000 
1.803.482,000 
Milk cows. 
1921. 
23.321.000 
1.491.900.000 
1920. 
23.619.000 
2.010.128.000 
1919. 
23.475.000 
1.835.770,000 
1938. 
23.310.000 
1,644,231.000 
Sheep. 
3921..._ 
45.067.000 
288,732.000 
3920. 
47.334.000 
495.660.000 
3919. 
48.866.000 
568.265.000 
1918. 
48.603.000 
574.575.000 
Swine. 
3923 . 
66.649.000 
865,633,000 
3920. 
73.727.000 
1,363.269,000 
1919. 
74.584.000 
1,642.598,000 
1918. 
70.978.000 
1.387.263,000 
Coming Live Stock Sales 
March 36—Holsteins. Somerset-Hun- 
terdon County IIolstein-Friesian Breed¬ 
ers’ Association, College Farm, New 
Brunswick. N. J. 
March 29-30—Holsteins. Watertown 
Holstein Sales Co., Watertown, Wis. F. 
Darcey, secretary. 
May 9—Holsteins. Brown County 
Holstein Breeders’ Sale at De Pere. Wis. 
May 37—Holsteins. Wisconsin Hol¬ 
stein Breeders’ Sale, West Allis, Wis. 
Coming Farmers’ Meetings 
February 7-33—Fruit Growers’ Short 
Course, Purdue University, La Fayette, 
Ind. 
February 7-32—Sixth Annual National 
Tractor Show, Columbus. Ohio. 
February 9-31—New York State Hor¬ 
ticultural Society. Eastern Meeting, 
Poughkeepsie, N. Y. 
February 14-19—Farmers’ Week, New 
York State College of Agriculture, I+haea, 
N. Y. 
January 3-February 25—Short courses 
in Agriculture, Home Economics. Ice 
Cream Making, New York State School 
of Agriculture, Cobleskill, N Y 
March 3-10—Poultry week. Pennsyl¬ 
vania State College of Agriculture, State 
College. Pa. 
