The Springfield herald., 1909-11-12

| King Manuel Of Portugal left LIS
bon on the 7th inst for Madri4 en-
route for France and England The
Duke of Oporto will act as regent dur
ing the Kings absence.
! An aero club with 100 members has
been organized at Cornell university
for the study of aerial navigation.
Several aeroplanes are being con-
structed by club members.
H. ]. Slifer. general manager Of the
Panama railroad. has resigned. 1t Ia
understood that he will take charge Of
the management Of an important
railroad in the United States.
A new ferryboat on its trial trip at
Guayaquil, Ecuador, on the End inst,
capsized and eighteen of Its twenty
two passengers were drowned. 1t had
been In service only about an hour.
Believing that prohibition in the
South has been beneficial. Congress
man w. F. Aiken OF South Carolina
has declared that he will introduce
bill for prohibition In the District OF
Columbia at the next session Of Con-
gress.
cultural associations will take place
at Brussels in September, 1910. The
object of this congress is to compare
the organization and the work of agri'
cultural associations Of every kind In
the various countries.
The executive committee of the
Democratic party in Brooklyn has de-
cided on John R. Mccoy to succeed
the late Sen. Patrick H. McCarren
as leader of the party. Mr.. Mccoy
was defeated for the borough prest
dency of Brooklyn In the recent cleo
tion.
Parties to the formation of the new
$4O.OOO,OOO Inter-Continental Rubber
Company are: Senator Aldrich Of
Rhode Island. Edward b. Aldrich. Her
man B. Baruch. Henry A. Bingham,
Daniel Guggenheim. S. B. Guggenheim,
Paul Morton, Allen A. Ryan and Will
liam Sproule.
Cyril St.Armand Of Thurso, Ontario
ten years old, has been sentensed
t. six years for horse stealing. When
eight years old he was convicted OF
an attempt to wreck railway train.
His youth saved him from sentence
fol this and a number of burglaries
which followed.
Papers have been filed at Trenton, N.
J..with the secretary of state. merging
the eInter.Continental Rubber Company
and the Continental Rubber Company
Oh America. The merged company Ia
to be known as the Inter-Continental
Rubber Company and is capitalized at
SAC, 100000, of which $1O,OOO,O0O is pre-
ferred stock with Z per cent accumu-
lative dividends.
Orville Wright, who has Just return
ed from abroad with his sister, Kath-
crime, said: "Our machine has now
reached a stage where we can go up
in almost any kind of wind. tried
it out under all sorts of weather con-
ditions abroad and 1t never failed me.
The highest | went while abroad was
1,GOO feet" They left for Germany on
Aug. 10, and during his stay abroad he
made about 200 aerial flights.
Prominent members of the Nicar-
aguan colony in Panama have sent
a cable message to President Taft ask
ing him "in the name Of humanity and
civilization" to pay no attention to re-
quests of Zelaya either for aid or for
non-interference and saying that II the
United States cannot intervene in
Central America 1t should at least let
the fate of Nicaragua be decided on
the battlefield.
On leaving New York to begin work
a. the Wright factory in Dayton. O..
Orville Wright said: People seem
to have the conviction that the aeSo-
plane is merely fair weather ma
chine. They are wrong. 1t is = fair
weather machine only in it's expert
mental stages. Once we have learned
its capabilities we shall find that 1t is
as stable and dependable in storm as
its sister craft which sails the water"
The Carnegie Hero Fund Commis-
sion at it's meeting in Pittsburg re-
warded fifty persons for acts OF
bravery and illustrious conduct called
to the commissions attention in the
last three months. With one excep-
ton. the persons honored are resi-
dents of the United States; twenty
two of Ohio. Approximately $334,00O,
twenty-three silver and twenty-seven
bronze medals were awarded. OF the
fifty heroic acts approved. fourteen
of the heroes met death and their
nayt of kin rece,yed the award