The Rich Hill tribune. (Rich Hill, Mo.) 1903-1911, 1905-09-07
TELEGRAPHIC BRIEFS

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dent Of 81. Anthony. Iowa, committed
suicide recently with carbolic acid on
account Of ~ health.
A horse belonging 20 Wallace jamie
aon Of ~ncllefoutaine, Ohio. dropped
dead In the road from fright recently
At the sight Of the frat automobile
& had W. seen.
Mrs. George J. Gould, who was hurt
during a fight with peasants while on
an automobile tour In Europe. returned
10 New York so bady Injured that she
Is unable TO walk.
Iowa's apple crop will be short and
viii amount to bu, 80 per cent Of a
crop according to figures given out by
Wesley Greene, secretary Of the state
Horticultural society.
The growth of agricultural cooper
alive societies in South Africa opens
good opportunities for the selling OF
machines used in the dairy industry.
according to consular report.
IAN Apple Orchard Survey Of
Wayne county. New York. is the title
OF a bulletin. No. 22G. which has just
been issued from the Cornell uni
versity experiment station at Ithica.
N. Y.
President Kilbourn OF wilier's Bril-
gade association has called off the re-
union at Chattanooga. Tenn. on ac-
count OF the quarantine. The associ-
alton will meet at Frankfort. Ind.
October II.
Sea island cotton. which Is grown
on the islands Off the OF South
Carolina and Georgia. Is a much more
vigorous and larger plant than the up
land cotton and is said TO resist all
diseases better.
The seventeenth annual report OF
the Vermont agricultural experiment
station has been issued by the officers
OF the station. Il contains a resume
OF the work done there during the
season OF 1903 and 1904.
At the Mississippi experiment sta
ton three cows we're kept without
salt for four weeks and their milk
kept during the last two weeks Of this
period made a difference Of 10
pounds IN favor Of the sailing.
A Champaign county Gllinoisl farm
err has this year produced on forty
acres $500 bushels OF oats. making
an average OF 80 bushels per acre.
The average yield for the United
States last year was S2i bushels per
acre.
Two farmers. James G~randstaff and
Asa Bacon OF Bonneville. Ind. while
driving along a country road. we're
attacked by a swarm Of honey Doe
and both were fatally stung. Two
horses were badly stung. one dying
from the effects.
Through rs attorneys. Charles j..
B~onapsrte. secretary OF the navy. and
George r. Hamilton. the Catholic uni
versity filed proof with Referee Brad
ley az Washington Of It's claim for
100000 against the bankrupt estate
Of Thomas = wagerman.
Two men we're totally burned and
three seriously az Danvilie. m, by
the bursting OF a sixteen-inch steam
pipe AZ the electric light plant. AS a
result Of the accident the city was
IN darkness last night. and no street
cars were run for several hours.
Joseph Pombert. ir- a farmer Of
Boavcrviile. III. was found dead la
his buggy near there. The buggy
hung over a hedge and tho horse was
sull attached The mans neck was
broken. Il Is thought his horse ran
away. causing the drivers death.
Five Madison Cwisl meat dealers
pleaded guilty 70 selling adulteratei
meats. One man pleaded guilty 70
/ selling a Hamburger steak preserved
In supplies, while four others were
fined for selling oblogna preserved In
borax and coiored with coal tar dye.
A ton OF alfalfa contains ale
pounds OF protein. against 244 pounds
I'm a ton OF wheat bran. A fair price
for wheat bran Is $50 per ton and al
falfa hay Is SO per ton. AZ one-halt
the price Of the wheat bran there r.
only 324 pounds loss protein In a ton
Of alfalfa hay.
Il IL stated that on Luther Bur.
hanks farm IN California there are
growing as many az 100000 distinct
varieties OF plums, 10000 varieties Of
peaches and n~ectarinee; 5000 almonds
and a like number Of walnuts and
chestnuts. besides thousands Of Der
ries and nowera
Il Is reported that Thomas sheylin
OF Minneapolis has donated 100000 10
the University OF Minnesota Tor the
erection OF a woman'a building. Last
year there were 1850 women In At
tendance az the university ana with
no specially equipped building for
their rest and recreation.
Anthoy Zonker, a young farmer
was shot to death az Aurora. Ind. by
Frederick Ruckuck. his mothers suit
or. Zonkor objected 70 his widowed
mother marrying Kuckuek, a former
farm hand. and when tho sutton come
10 take the woman driving be and the
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