The state herald. (Holyoke, Logan County, Colo.) 1887-1921, 1909-11-12

A new ferryboat ON its trial tip q
Guayaquil. Ecuador. on the End inst,
capsized and eighteen of It's twenty.
two passengers were drowned. It 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 a
bill for prohibition in the District Of
Columbia at the next session of Con.
gress.
Parties to the formation Of the new
$40.000,000 Inter-Continental Rubber
Company are: Senator Aldfich Of
Rhode Island. Edward B. Aldrich, Her
man B. Baruch. Henry A. Bingham,
Daniel Guggenheim. s. B. Guggenheim.
Paul Morton, Allen A. Ryan and vii.
liam Sproule.
Cyril St.Armand Of Thurso. Ontario
ten years old, has been sentenced
to six years for horse stealing. When
eight years old he was convicted OF
an attempt to wreck a railway train.
His youth saved him from sentence
fol this and number of burglaries
which followed.
Papers have been filed at Trenton, N.
J.,with the secretary of state. merging
the nter-Continental Rubber Company
and the Continental Rubber Company
OF America. The merged company ia
to be known as the Inter-C Continental
Rubber Company and is capitalized at
sac. 100000. of which $1O.O00.0OO is pre-
ferred stock with per cent accumu.
lative dividends.
DR.. George C. Zeller, superintendent
OF the state hospital for the insane,
Peoria, ILL.,, stated at the Columbia
conference on pellagra that he be.
lieves that the country is threatened
with national scourge. The discov-
cry of pellagra in the Peoria hospital
was made August 7th last. since
which time 1870 cases have been dag
nosed as pellagra. As Of the patients
having died.
The National Association for the
Study and Prevention Of Pellagra was
organized at Columbia. S. c.. at the
of a two-day conference on
pellagra attended by neadly 300 physi-
clans. DR.. J. w. Babcock, superin-
tendent of the South Carolina hospital
fol- the insane at Columbia. was
elected president. The first annual
pellagra attended by nearly 800 physi-
June, 1910. in Peoria, Ill.
Orville Wright, who has Just return.
ed from abroad with his sister. Kath-
crime. said: Our machine has now
reached stage where We can go up
ia almost any kind Of wind. tried
1t out under all sorts OF weather con-
ditions abroad and 1t never failed me.
The highest went while abroad was
/ 600 feet" They left for Germany on
Aug. 10, and during his stay abroad he
made about 200 aerial flights.
Clergymen invaded shops. factories
and theaters in New York few days
since as q part of mission plan
which the Presbyterian board Of home
missions has been carrying on in st.
Louis, Chicago. Buffalo and other
cities. Packing cases andr CHORUS
girls trunks were used as pulpits and
large audiences listened to short ser
mons by preachers who sought to
Take the heathenism out Of business
and soften its hard lines"
The Carnegie Hero Fund Commits
sion at Its 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 $334.000.
silver and twenty.seven
bronze medals were awarded. or the
fifty heroic acts approved. fourteen
Of the heroes met death and their
next Of kin received the award.