Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 62, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 March 1904 — Page 7

FARMERS CORNER

Handling an Unruly Hog. .Any one who has tried it will testify that it is not an easy task to handle a ftutfborn hog, and most hogs are stubhorn. If one has occasion to do this work the device shown in the cut is simple and effective. Take a strong rope about the diameter of a clothesline and about ten or twelve feet long. From this cut off three feet and tie a loop in each end, then tie the remaining piece in the center of the looped piece and bring the loop over the snout of the hog after slipping the loops In tho first piece over his hind feet. Have a ring in the long looped piece, and through this slip another rope, also looped, so as to come over his neck, as shown in the cut. This rope may be heavier than the first one, and if the

FOR HANDLING A HOG.

animal is unruly and strong, the end wbicty is shown over the back of the hog extending to the hand of the one who is driving it, may be slipped over his rump and into the lower loop and tied, leaving a long loop in the driver’s hands for better control. The Illustrations show clearly how the contrivance is constructed. To Grow Fine Celery. A Michigan gardener wrltaai Take any land that will stand drought, put at least one load of well-rotted manure on every square rod of ground, plow and fit the ground well, set plants In rows 16 inches apart and six to eight Inches apart in tae row (set with an old brick trowel), keep the surface well worked till the plants cover the ground, after which no weeds will bother. By raising celery by this method the plants become dense, and consequently darken the lower parts of the plants, causing the celery to grow white from the center. None but White Plume will grow successfully this way. White Plume can be grown in single row and be blanched by placing bundles of corn stalks on both rows. Bundles should be at least eight inches in diameter. I grew White Plume celery 33 inches high last year on high ground, and it was as white as snow. I find the Giant Pascal is best for late winter use, but it has to be earthed to blanch. These two varieties are the best to my notion. One-Man Corn Sled. Make two runners, one 5 feet and one 7 or 8 feet long; use 2x6 stuff; place 2 feet apart and nail boards on top as shown in cut. Fasten a scythe blade on for knife. It is better than the steel plate knives. Knife should run high on edge and at an angle of about 45 degrees from the runners.

A ONE-MAN CORN SLED.

The object of thejong runner Is to keep the sled from bucking x to ono side, which is caused by the cutting being all done on one side. We stand up to cut in large corn, and put on a box and sit down in small. It is a waste of labor to knock the corn down on sled and pick it up again. Keep it up in your arms. The single sled is now preferred to the double ones here. I am a boy 14 years old. My father has .taken the Practical Farmer since before I was born.—Archie Orange, Galesburg, Kan. On Bowing Clover. Sowing clover is an absorbing question with farmers who desire to keep up the fertility of their land. When seed is high there is always a disposition, with some, to defer sowing clover until another year, and plow up the fields again. Seed may be cheaper next year, you know. This management may have kept these same fields under the plow for years, making It more uncertain to secure a catch, and requiring more acres, every year, to 3 cure the requisite amount of grain. is unwise and foolish to fail to sow cloves because seed is dear, Diversified Farming in the Extreme. The managers of the Maryville (Mo.) Street Fair offered a |lO prize to the Nodaway County agriculturist who ■should exhibit the largest number of farm products grown on bis farm this season. W. R. Bosley, of Ravenwood, drove up with a wagon load of stuff and took the prise. His wagon contained a stalk of corn •thirteen and one-half feet high; white, red. yellow and speckled corn In ear; iwheat, rye, buckwheat, rape, ttmothy•eed, oats, thirteen kinds of green

benns and peas, three kinds of popcorn, two kinds of cucumbers, one red pig, a turkfey, two chickens, two Guinea fowls, hedge balls, strawberry vines, one cabbage weighing fifteen pounds, celery, summer and winter lettuce, peanuts, two kinds of bedts, horseradish, asparagus, bluestem grass, slough grass, clover hay, prairie hay, carrots, green mustard, six kinds of pickles, seven kinds of jelly, jam, cherries, three kinds of parsnips, three gourds, two kinds of sunflower seed, sweet corn, can of honey, castor bean, one sunflower, the flower of which measured forty-six inches in circumference; sugar cane, two kinds of millet In stalk, an oyster plant, four kinds of radishes, turnips, four kinds of Irish potatoes, two kinds of sweet potatoes, cabbage, cauliflower, two kinds of squash, green lettuce and onions.— Baltimore American. How to Market the Butter. Those who possess the knack of making butter that has that fragrant flavor that distinguishes the produce of many farm dairies, often make the mistake of keeping the butter on hand too long after it is made before marketing it. It will be found that however palatable it may be, and however good the flavor it possesses when first made, it will have escaped after too long keeping. Even when transported long distances it loses its distinctiveness while in transit. In fact, it seems that butter which possesses to a large degree this much-aesired flavor deteriorates much quicker than an inferior kind. As a consequence of this, the farmer’s wife who makes tb superior article which has a local reputation for excellence should endeavor to dispose of the product to local trade, or at least sell it so near home that it will be but a day or two between the churn and the customer. This can be easily managed in almost any locality where there is a market for it by securing a list- of private customers and furnish it to them direct as they need it. This class of patrons are much more profitable year in and year out thag the city hotels or Mie commission houses or those customers who buy in the general market. To Prevent Black Rot. As a preventive of black rot in vineyards next season the North Carolina experiment station recommends that all dead leaves and rotten grapes be raked up and removed and rotten' grapes clinging to the vines and trellises picked off. Loose shredded bark that can ba readily pulled from the vines prunings, dead grass and weeds should be burned; in fact, anything capable of harboring the dustlike spore should be destroyed or taken away. While the vines are still in a dormant Condition, spray with the copper sulphate solution, thoroughly wetting the vines and posts, and paying particular attention to bunches of tendrils or rough surfaces on the posts that would be likely to retain the spores. It is much easier to keep black rot out of a vineyard once cleaned than to keep it down in a vineyard not cleaned. • Aeparague for the Family. One hundred plants will furnish the average family with a supply of this most delicious early vegetable. They should not cost over sl, and hence instead of being looked upon as a luxury it should be common in every family garden. Rich sandy soil is best, but it will thrive in any soil if given a reasonable show. Palmetto, Conover’s, Collossal and Baris Mammoth are recommended as very satisfactory varieties. The plants should be set as early in the spring as possible, in rows 30 inches apart and 18 in the row. Plant in holes or trench, six inches deep, filling it up gradually, and do not cut the stalks, except sparingly, until the third season. It readily responds to good care and fertilization and should be liberally top-dressed with manure each fall. Digestibility of Foods. The value of cattle foods depends largely upon their digestibility. There is more protein in straw than in corn fodder, but the latter is more digestible. Some coarse foods are valuable, however, in assisting to digest the concentrated foods by giving bulk to the mess and separating the materials, especially when the coarse foods are reduced to a fine condition. Even If but a portion of the straw foods Is digested, they are prepared for the manure heap by the animals and are thus Increased in value compared with wasteful use. Sheep for Mutton. Mutton as a human food la gaining rapidly in reputation. So much improvement has been made in the methods of breeding, fattening, slaughtering and ripening mutton that a great army of people who were once prejudiced against it no longer find anything the matter with it Good authorities predict that the time is rapid, ly approaching when as many sheep and lambs will be slaughtered in this country as there are hogs and cattls slaughtered now. History shows us that in old countries mutton Is the poor man’s meat The reason for this 1s that it can be raised at less'bost Some Kansas Wheat Yields. • The banner yield of wheat In Kansas is said to be that of Joseph 0. Ort, in Gove county, who thrashed 228 bushels of-62-pound wheat from three acres of an old corral, and 4,503 bushels (elevator weight) from a 100-acre field. The seed was Turkey red, one bushel to the acre. The three-acre piece had been heavily fertilized for vegetables, and after these were gone hongaln fertilized and plowed It four inches deep. During 1908 Boston received 00,505,970 pounds of butter.

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY TOLD. Young Man Held for Death of Girl— Kokomo Man Fasts to Cure DiseaseFamily Near Albion Stricken —Torpedo Works Is Wrecked. In the mysterious case of Della Vann, who died at Evansville Feb, 26, George Harrison has been arrested. He is charged with performing ah operation on Miss Vann. He made a confession to the caroner of Evansville. When MissVann went from her home in Chandler she went to the house of Mrs. Steiler ami asked for shelter for the night. She told Mrs. Steiler that if she died to send her body to George Harrison at Chandler and he would pay the charges. She died and the coroner found that an operation had caused death. Cures His Ills by Fasting. T. J. Dye of Kokomo, who completed a fast of ten days recently, sail: “I never felt better in my life than while fasting.. For the first two days I felt some discomfort, but after that I felt no incoftvenieme whatever Ao to hunger. I was not hungry .during the whole time.. My first meal was a light one. I ate all I desired. My nerves were steadier than I ha-ve ever known them before. I could grasp my pen better anil write a steadier hand. Before my fast I had suffered much with rheumatism, but I believe I have driven it out of my system.” / - _ Albion Family Is Stricken. Charles Black, a prosperous young farmer residing near Albion, was striekparalysis upon his return home after delivering to the jail authorities for safe keeping a brother who had suddenly become insane. The condition of the two sons so preyed upon the mind of the father that he, too, is bordering upon insanity, with grave fears as to his recovery. The father is assessor of his township. Explosion Wrecks Torpedo Plant. The plant of the Knightstown Torpedo Company was destroyed by an explosion of nitroglycerin. Stephen Clark, an employe, was killed. All Over the State. Measles are having their inning in Indiana. Jacob Fender, 98, died at his home in Abington. Tho Goshen rubber works will double its capacity. Farmers in southern Indiana are sowing clover seed. Greene County grand jury returned 118 indictments. Peru high school students won in debate with Muncie. IMrs. Elizabeth Sellers, 84, died at her home near Zionsville. An unsuccessful attempt was made to rob the Portland postofflee. Linden will no longer be dry, as a man has secured a saloon license. About 25 negroes, fleeing from Springfield, Ohio, arrived at Richmond. Robert Montgomery, for thirteen years city treasurer of Shelbyville, is dead. The first clip of wool of the season was sold in Crawfordsville a few days ago. Hundreds of sea gulls are to be seen hovering over the river east and west of Peru. Chester Cooper, 14, of Albion, was struck by lightning and his recovery is doubtful. Bloomfield reports quite a demand for farm property, and that much land is changing hands. It is estimated that 750 South Bend people are under the care of physicians, on account of the grip. Georgiana Charlton, 12, Lawrenceburg, was probably fatally injured by falling from a seasaw board. The roads are so bad in some places that some of the rural mail carriers have put their horses on extra rations. Following instructions left by Patrick Mines, of near Washington, relations found, burled near his. home, $1,855 in gold. Several men were arrested on the charge of conducting gambling devices nt the Lackey horse sale, Cambridge City. Dr. S. W. Edwin, Elwood, has retired from the practice of medicine, in which he has been engaged for more than forty years. A good deal of tobacco is being brought to Rising Sun. The farmers want to get it out of the way for new crops. Mrs. Mary McCabe, 76, died nt her home in Shelbyville. She wns the last of sixteen children and was the mother of sixteen. Charles J. Reimann of Crawfordsville may be one of the heirs of $3,000,000 which, it is said, is coming to the family in Germany. Poultry fanciers of central Indiana have Organized an association for the purpose of holding an annual poultry show in Lafayette. Tho sentiment among the Indiana miners to accept the proposition of the operators and thus prevent the cessation of work is said to be growing stronger. James E. Hunt. Panhandle brakeman,, whose home is in Richmond, fell from his train nt New Castle and both legs were crushed antler the wheels. He may die. While Leona Nutgrnss, 7, of Fairland, wns taking ashes from a stove, her dress caught fire and she was so badly Burned thnt she may die. Her mother is dead, and .the little girl has been trying to fill her place. " Mormon missionaries nre making a hevse-to-house canvass in Washington County, and are making some converts. Mrs. Denlds Connell, 33 years old, and her son George, 13 years old, were fatally burned in a natural gas explosion in Elwood. Mrs. Connell was searching for a gns leak with n lighted taper'when the explosion took place. Mrs. Dehner Pence, a literary woman, tiled in the arms of her husband in Muncie, after holding a reception in observance of her birthday anniversary. Ad autopsy revealed the fact that death was mused by heart disease.

JURY SETS DEWEY FREE.

Trial of Millionaire Kansas Cattleman Ends in Verdict of Acquittal. . At Norton, Kan., after deliberating for twenty-eight and a half hours the Jury brought in a verdict acquitting Chauncey Dewey and his two cowboys, Clyde Wilson and William J. Mcßride, of the murder of Burchard Berry. This ends one of the most famous trials in the criminal annals of Kansas and which at one time threatened to cause an armed uprising in the cattle country. So strong was, the feeling against Dewey and his men that the Governor was at one time forced to call out the State militia to prevent hostilities between the rival factions. A few years ago Chauncey Dewey ar rived in. Kansas from Chicago. He had. plenty of money and at once established a large ranch in Comanche County, buying several thousand acres of land and surrounding it with wire fences. Settlers in the neighborhood did not look upon, his enterprise with favor. He had money and they had not and they feared that he would eventually drive them out of the country by buying all the unoccupied land on which they grazed their cattle and fencing it in. Many times his fences were destroyed by the settlers and there was more than one clash between his cowboys and the small cattle owners. The BeYrys, Daniel and his sons Burchards and Aipheus, were especially active in opposition to the young millionaire. Finally the climax came in the early part of last summer and in a fight between Dewey and his men on one side and the Berrys on the other Daniel Berry and his two sons were slain. The whole county was immediately in an uproar. Dewey and his cowboys were placed under arrest and armed bands of settlers gathered to wreak summary vengeance on them. A company of militia was sent to assist the sheriff in taking his prisoners to the jail at St. Francis and all the way the soldiers were threatened with attack from- the angry settlers who hovered about the little army as it marched across the prairie. For several weeks the jail was guarded by the militia until the excitement had died down sufficiently to make it safe to put the men on trial. The acquittal will doubtless cause a fresh outburst on the part of the settlers and it is doubtful whether Dewey will ever return to operate his big ranch.

NEW ENGLAND JARRED.

Earthquake Shock Lasting Three Seconds Stirs Up Several States. An earthquake which began iu St. John, N. 8., and is thought to have done considerable damage iu New Brunswick, Maine and Massachusetts, shook Boston at 1 o’clock Monday morning. The shocks are said to have been the most severe experienced in that section of the country since the memorable seismic disturbance of 1884. In Boston and suburbs houses were rocked like cradles, dishes. were tossed from shelves and furniture broken in many**homes. At Augusta, Me., several, chimneys were knocked down. The shock most severely felt in the vicinity of Boston was at Revere, a seashore town. In that town several houses rocked so that the occupants foiled from their beds, and at the telephone "exchange the operator, Russell Clark, was knocked from his chair. A policeman named McKenny, who was in the headquarters of the park police at Revere, was thrown violently to the floor and slightly injured. Clark, the telephone operator, says, that he felt a peculiar sensation all through his body when he was knocked from his chair. The shock was felt plainly as far south as Taunton. Reports from Manchester, N. IL, and Springfield, Mass., state that the vibrations were felt distinctly in those two cities. Observers at the Harvard University astronomical observatory iu Cambridge noted the shock. In Newburyport the earthquake shook everything. Watchman Harris Page of the Towle-Montgomery Company’s plant says the factory was shaken. In other sections of the city people were awakened by the rattling of doors and windows. Shelves and furniture were broken in many houses.

REPORTS ON CHICAGO POLICE.

Investigator Declares the Department Is in a Disgraceful Condition. “There is practically no discipline, and the force could hardly be in a worse state.” With these words Capt. Alexander Ross Piper (United States army, retired), former deputy commissioner of the New York police department, who has been in Chicago for seven weeks, investigating the Chicago police foroe, electrified the members of the City Club. He was making a report of his investigation, which was begun at the instance of the club as a result of the alleged undue prevalence of crime in (’)ijeago. According to Capt. Piper’s report, the Chicago police are in a disgraceful condition of demoralization and inefficiency. Instead of protecting citizens from criminals, the members of the force are drinking in saloons, playing slot machines or gossiping on the streets. Patrolmen were accused of taking “to their holes” at every opportunity, instead of walking their beats. Old aad incapacitated were found in “soft snaps,” robbing the department of active men, sorely needed. Wide-open gambling was found by Capt. Piper, handbooks running practically all over the city. • The administration of the criminal laws at the Harrison street police court were found to be “more like mob law than order.” Capt. Piper expresses •ympathy for the bead of the Chicago police department and declares that Chief O'Neill is “an honest, overworked man, doing the best he can with the tools at his command.” Police inspectors and sergeants come in for rough handling (n the report. “

A $10,000,000 Oil Plant.

The Standard Oil Company has purchased 120 acres of laud four miles from Kansas City nnd will immediately begin tho erection of n great refinery, at a cost of $10,000,000. When the work is completed 500 skilled workmen will be env ployed and the oil will be pumped from Neodesha, Kan., nearly 200 milea away. Topeka is making great preparations for the semi-centennial of the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska bill making Kansas a territory. The celebration will be pufled off one week in May.

DANIEL J. SULLY.

Daniel J. Sully, the cotton king, whose failure startled the world, was a salaried employe earning $75 a week two years ago. After viewing the cotton fields t>t the South he concluded the waste of the farmers and the ravages of boll weevil would curtail the production of cotton. He advised friends to buy cotton and acted as their agent. In the May corner of 1903 he cleared $2,000,000 to $5,000,000. He increased the market value of the year’s crop $200,000,000. Since then he has been a bull in the market. Inability to buy all the cotton offered at falling prices drove him to the wall. Sully clique losses $10,000,000 Sully’s loss in four days 5,000,000 Highest cotton price of day. . 1523 d Lowest cotton price of day.... 12.65 c Los on each bale about .... S2O Sully begins speculating.. .January, 1903 Corners world’s market.... May, 1903 Collapse March 18,

CROP OUTLOOK FOR WORLD.

Government Report Shows IncreaacdTProduction in Foreign Lands. The foreign crop report of the Department of Agriculture gives, the following: Austria—Official estimates of Wheat crop of 1903, 46,014,058 bushels of sixty pounds each; rye, 81,157,628 bushels of fifty-six pounds; barley, 73,872,512 bushels of forty-eight pounds; oats, 128,328,181 bushels of thirty-two pounds, and maize, 16,055,908 bushels of fifty-six pounds. ’ Australasia —Wheat crop of 1903-4 undoubtedly very large and will leave an unusual quantity of available for export. - Argentina—Visible wheat supply about 56 per cent greater than a year ago and double that at a corresponding date in 1902. The surplus availablefor export out of the 1908-4 crop is unofficially estimated at over 90,000,000 bushels. 1 ' Roumania—Wheat area sown in the fall of 1903 officially, estimated at 4,110,719 acres; rye area, 326,923; barley, 81,494, and rape, 145,557. Russia —Official estimates: Wheat area for 1903, 57,266,718 acres; production, 621,457,659 bushels; rye, 912,007,655 bushels; oats, 799,782,316 bushels, and barley, 357,470,561 bushels. Live stock: Horses, 28,070,500; cattle, 44,251,500; sheep and goats, 71,541,200,, and swine, 13,782,100. Hungary—Crops officially reported satisfactory. Turkey—German consul general reports grain crops of European Turkey" extraordinarily good. Italy—Crop conditions fairly good. France —Official preliminary estimates of 1903-4 crop areas are: Wheat, 15,020,428 acres; rye, 3,236,439; barley, 360,099; oats, 2,021,078. The winter wheat area is over 3 per cent less than a year ago. Condition of cereals stated as falling somewhat below “good.” Netherlands—Weather too mild and wet. Portugal—Wheat crop larger than at first supposed and requirements from abroad estimated at 3,000,000 bushels. Uruguay—W'heat crop a medium yield, but of excellent quality.

INGERSOLLISM DYING OUT.

Rabbi Says Atheism Is Now Regarded as Intellectual Weakness. Replying to articles published recently in London, raising a question as to the success of the ministers of the world in spreading the gospel, Rabbi Silverman of New York has declared that atheism and agnosticism are uow generally looked upon as evidences of intellectual weakness: “The Ingersollian type,” he aserted, “has almost disappeared from polite society. There is a tacit understanding that religion is an evidence of culture and refinement and that it has a wholesome effect upon the development of man. “There never was a time,” he continued, “when men of all shades of belief were as interested in religious study, in worship and practice, as to-day. The religious press has increased and is successful financially. Theological institutions have improved and are better endowed. It is no unusual spectacle to eee rich men who devote their energies all the week to making money teaching Bible classes on Sundays. “These evidences and others that could be presented demonstrate that in our day the ministers have certainly not failed. They are a great social and even political influence, for they exert that silent ethical force that is effective in all social and government reform.”

All Around the Globe.

The Democratic State convention of New York will be held in Albany April 18. An epidemic of measles is prevailing in the vicinity of Ahiskogee, I. T., and several schools haveSiad to be closed. While his father was absent in -the Indian country, 10-year-old Levi Johnson of Helena, O. T., was dragged to death. Benjamin H. Dresser, a painter, was shot aud killed by his wife at their home in Texarkana, Ark. The woman claims self-defense. An exhibition is being arranged at St. Petersburg of all the Russian art objects which it was intended to exhibit at SL Louis; The proceeds will be devoted to the Red Cross Society. John Gilfock, a 4-year-old boy, was accidentally shot and killed by his fl-year-old brother in Hutchinson, Kan. Tho gun was left standing in tho corner of a room and the children played with It,

RUSSIAN OFFICERS WHO LOST SHIPS DECORATED FOR HEROISM

Russian naval custom requires a strict accounting from an officer who loses a ship. Two officers, CapL Belayeff of the Korietz, and CapL Rudiueff of the Variag, faced a board of inquiry, but such were the accounts of their heroism in the face of overwhelming odds that CapL Rudineff was made aid-de-camp to the Czar and given the St. George’s cross, while Capt. Belayeff was also decorated. Capt Stefanoff went down with his vessel, the torpedo depot ship Yenesei, which was blown up by a mine of its own planting.

COTTON KING IS DOWN.

Failure of Sully Causes Wild Panic iu New York Market. Cotton King Sully has fallen. The man who emerged from obscurity fifteen months ago and brought the markets of two continents to his feet announced Friday afternoon his inability to meet his engagements on the New York Cotton Exchange, With his fall the bottom dropped out of the greatest bull market ever known. Anarchy displaced the monarchy of the spectacular Daniel J. Sully’s building. “Sully suspends!” Those were the words that turned the New York Cotton Exchange into a bedlam, that carried ruin over the tickers to thousands of men dreaming of sudden wealth, that shot consternation to New Orleans and other cities of the South, and, speeding under the ocean, made their vibrations felt in the marts Of Liverpool. In the New York Cotton Exchange frenzied men fought until their clothes literally were torn from their backs. On the floor of the New Orleans Cotton Exchange, a thousand miles away, the scene was being repeated. The man responsible for these simultaneous scenes of disorder was self-imprisoned in a room on the twenty-third floor of a Wall street office building. “My suspension is only temporary,” said Mr. Sully, when seen at his residence at night. “I don’t care to add anything to that simple statement, and I shall not have any further statement to make.” The man who has been such a conspicuous figure in the world’s cotton market for many months did not appear to be in the least perturbed over his firm’s suspension. He was apparently no more downcast than he was exultant not long ago when the report was that he had made several millions through unprecedentedly high prices for cotton. Apparently Mr. Sully still holds to the belief that his theory about the shortage of cotton and resultant high prices has not been overthrown. He would not discuss the intimations that there might have been treachery at some point, nor would he indicate how soon he expected to resume operations. The crash came with the suddenness and fury of a tornado, for the meteorologists of the cotton market were unable to read the premonitions of disaster in the strange barometric conditions of the forenoon. Ten minutes after the opening the market went off half a cenL Prices went down—ten, twenty, thirty points in two minutes. A minute later they were back where they started.

NAVAL BOAT SUNK.

British Submarine Vessel Is Hit by a Liner. The British submarine boat A No. 1 of the Holland type, which was run down the other day by an ocean liner while undergoing a trial oft the Isle of Wight, was sunk with her crew of officers and men, all being drowned like rats in a trap. The crew numbered nine. The discovery that the submarine had gone to the bottom with her two officers and all of her crew was made only through the report by the liner Berwick Gastie, from East London, Cape Colony, Feb. 10, and Las Palmas Feb. 29 k for London. The captain of the Berwick Castle reported having struck a detached torpedo off the Isle of Wight, and this, coupled with the fact that nothing had been heard from the submarine for a time longer than was apparently necessary for her trial, set the naval authorities thinking. It was believed that the submarine had suffered some mishap and a search was begun, but without result for some time. Finally from the description given by the captain oi urn Berwick Castle as to the place where the torpedo had been encountered search revealed the submarine on the bottom off the place known as the Nap, In seven fathoms of water. The crew and the two officers were found in the body of the submarine, having apparently been asphyxiated by the fumes of gasoline spilled, it is believed, when the submarine went to the bottom after impact with the liner supposed to have struck her. The theory of the naval experts is that the submarine’s periscope was either defective or for worn# reason became ineffective after the vessel was submerged and that Lieut. Mnnergh was unable, therefore, to note the approach of the liner. Cottonwood, Kan., voted >B,OOO in bonds to build an auditorium. I._ Jnnbling act of the Legislature gave the women the right to vote, and they were Out en masse. A large vote was polled and the bonds carried by a majority of fifty. ; Vice Chancellor Emery at Trenton, N. J., has granted an order to show cause why the United Steel Company of Rahway should not be adjudged bankrupt. The J. B. Conover Company al' tea the steel company la insolvent and that Its liabilities are >117,874.