The Holly chieftain., 1910-10-14
GEN ERAL.

Six convicts have made a sensation
al escape from Sing Sing prison, over
coming their keepers.
Colonel Theodore Roosevelt. on the
way from Atlanta to Hot Springs
Ark, made fifty speeches.
VIM. McAbee. believed to be the old
es veteran of the Civil War, died at
the age of 107 years at the United
States naval home.
case of cholera developed in the
steerage, of the Hamburg American
liner Moltke, which has been detained
at quarantine as a possible cholera
carrier
The South gave Theodore Roose.
welt hearty welcome on his trip.
Throughout the first day, which took
him across Virginia and part of
Tennessee, he received many honors.
The furry of uneasiness over the
possibility of the entrance of cholera
at New York was abated with reas-
suring statements from both state and
federal health officers and the release
to the 615 cabin passengers detained
at quarantine. -r-
Harvard scientists who have been
experimenting with rubber plants at
the Arnold arborteum believe it will
be possible to grow rubber on the
abandoned farms of New England.
They have had trees brought from
China growing since last spring and
SO far they are thoroughly satisfied
with the results.
The house of deputies of the Protes-
tant Episcopal church in Cincinnati,
Thursday passed an amendment to the
constitution providing for suffragan
bishops throughout the church. The
debate brought out the fact that the
object of the suffragan bishops was
not only to look after the people of a
particular nationality or race, but also
to assist bishops who preside over
large dioceses.
Another big insurance promotion
bubble has been prlcked by the New
York Insurance Department the
United Insurance Company Of Chicago
and New York, one of the Van Laning-
ham enterprises. They find that or
the $4,000 contributed in cash by
the investors in its stock sold at s.
for each 81 share, only $4,000 re-
mains; the rest has all been consumed
by the high-pressure methods of the
company's promoters and stock sales
men. The cost of actually selling the
stock was 140 per cent of the par
value, and the cost, including salaries
and other expenses, was 242 per cent.
Mr.. Josiah W. Thompson of Union
town, Pa, has just closed deal by
which he transfers to the Standard
Oil Company $4,000 acres of coal
land, located in Washington and
Greene counties, Pennsylvania, and in
six West Virginia counties. The deal
involved about $10O,O0O,00O, and is
without parallel for magnitude. The
Greene coal land involved in the trans
action amounts to about 10000 acres,
while the Washington county block
contains 100000 acres. The remaining
277,000 acres are located in Ohio,
Marshall, Wetzell, Lewis, Harrison
and Monogahela counties in West
Virginia.
The Standard Oil company through
its official publicity representative. J.
I. c. Clarke, has announced that the
company "has inaugurated cam
paign to increase the worlds con.
sumption Of refined oil" and is lower.
ing prices of kerosene in Europe and
the far east. This action follows that
of August last, when the Standard OIL
company reduced refined oil in bar
rels / cent gallon from 9A to sA
cents at the refinery, and refined oil
in tanks from 61a to. 51a cents gal
Ion. In part the statement reads:
THE Standard Oil company has inar-
gurated campaign to increase the
worlds consumption of refined OIL
The level of prices for refined oil to-
day in the United States is lower than
at any time during recent years, and
as direct result of these prices the
consumption of refined oil in this
country is increasing. The same pol
icy is now heing activel -"-o77