The Glenwood post., 1910-10-15
GEN ERAt.

Six convicts have made 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 Civn War, died at
the age of 107 years at the United
States naval home.
A case of cholera developed in the
steerage of the Hamburg-Amercan
liner Moltke, which has been detained
at uaIantine as a possible cholera
carrier.
Following a stirring sermon in Cos
pei Tabernacle, Eighth avenue and
Forty-fourth street, New York, by the
Rev. A. B. Simpson. the pastor, s111,-
7G3OO was collected for the Christian
and Missionary Alliance.
Lucky" John O'Neill, the well
known oil operator, brought in two
wells, flowing 1000 and 1,200 barrels,
respectively, on his latest find, four
miles from the Humble field on the
San Jacinto river in Harris county,
Texas.
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.
With forest fires still raging and
famed by a gale of their own creation
several towns in northern Minnesota
are in grave danger and late reports
add to the horror of the situation. Es-
Inmates of the number who have per-
ishe Orange from $50 to 1000, the lat
ter figure being given by calm, con-
servative men who have been close to
the line of fire. Besides those known
to be dead, hundreds are missing and,
it is feared, lost in the smoke and
flame-filled woods.
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 OF
the $176,0OO contributed in cash by
the investors in it's stock sold at So
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 a 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 S1O0,OOO,OOO, 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
277,0OO 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.
|. 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 L cent gallon from 9a4 to SA
cents at the refinery, and refined oil
in tanks from G1a to 51h cents a gal
Ion. In part the statement reads:
"The Standard Oil company has inau-
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 being actively pursued
abroad"
That microbes can be caught in
traps and kept for observation has
been established by Professor F. P.
Gorham of Brown university There
is not the slightest doubt" says Pro-
fessor Gorham, that certain types of
microbes are attracted by oxygen
Now, if a current of electricity is
passed through water, oxygen is lib
Grated around one of the wires through
which the current Is brought into the
tank, bacteria will be Immediately at
tracted to the wire where This gas is
generated.