The Holbrook news., 1920-12-31
FOREIGN

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 tablished a close blockade of Plume by land and sea.
 A serious labor riot occurred recent ly in PetrOgrad in which many persons were killed or injured The riot was crushed and 105 labOrers were ex- ecuted.
 The number of persons dead and in- jured in Argentine's earthquake disas- ter is now estimated at more than 400. This figure is based on reports from relief parties in the affected zone.
 First reports from the general cleo tiOns held in Spain indicate q govern ment victory. Unofficial estimates are that the majority for the Monarch ist parties will be a large one.
 The Irish home rule bill, as slightly modified by the House of Lords, has been adopted by the House of Con- mons in London. The measure now needs only the royal signature to be- come a law.
 Japan's population, as revealed by the census recently completed, is more than million under the estimate. The total number of persons in the empire is 77,005,000, of which 55,960,000 are in Japan and 17,2S4,0OO in Korea.
 Charges of murder have been filed in court at Manila by the city prosecutor against seventy-seven Phil ippine constabulary soldiers as result of the rioting in which four Americans and seven Filipinos were killed.
 Correspondence which has been go- ing on between Premier Lloyd George and Father Michael O'Flanagan, 'vice president of the Irish republic" in an effort to. bring about a truce between England and the Sim Fein organiza- tions, apparently has been ended.
 Payment by Germany of 1OO,OOOOOO,- 900 marks in gold remains the basis upon which experts and delegates to the second financial conference, in ses- sion at Brussels, are working. This amount, although far below what was authorized by the treaty of Versailles, is considered by them collectable only on condition that Germany is helped along the lines suggested by the Ger man delegates.
 GENERAL
 Four men are known to be dead as result of an explosion in No. 2 pack ing mill of the DuPont Powder Works at Moosic, seven miles from Ccranton, Pa.
 Carrying $14,OOO,OOO less than was appropriated for this year, the annual pension bill was reported out by the House appropriations committee. The total of the bill is $265, 100000.
 Robbers stole from $6,OOO to $15,OOO in overflow" deposits from the Indi ana National bank at Indianapolis. The deposits had been placed in the book vault, which was rifled. The robbers entered through a skylight.
 Twenty-Five individual plumbers and twenty-seven plumbing firms, members of the Master Plumbers Association, were charged in a blanket indictment reported to Justice McAvoy in New York with violation of the antitrust law.
 The second degree murder trial of William H. McGannon, chief justice of the Municipal Court in Cleve land, Ohio, charged with slay- ing Harold s. Kagy last May, was fea tured by the testimony of Miss May B. Nicely, who swore that the judge of fered her $500 to keep her mouth shut" about the shooting.
 Criminal carelessness upon the part of Capt. George Fl. Hart, master of the United States steam launch Mar was responsible for the tragedy, ac- cording to the verdict returned by the corOner's jury, following the recovery of the body of one of the eleven vic tins. Captain Hart, his daughter and | the Iatterts husband were drowned, | having been trapped with three others in the upper cabin.
 The entire plant and apparatus of the Stegmaier Brewing Company, the largest in Luzerne county, Pennsylva- nia, were seized by the United States government for alleged violation of the VOlstead prohibition act. It was the first brewery taken over by the rev enue authorities in the state of Penn sylvania.
 For an indefinite period, employees of the Newborn Iron Works and Sup ply Company, one of the largest plants of its kind in Eastern North Carolina, are to receive all profits made by the concern above cost of operation. This agreement was reached between the workers and the management follow ing a disagreement over a 20 per cent reduction in wages.
 Twenty-nine cut stone contractors indicted for violation of the DonneIIy state antitrust act pleaded guilty be- fore Justice John B. McAvOy in the branch of the Supreme Court In New York. Twenty-seven of the contractors having corporations were fined $2,5OO as individuals, with a $2,- 800 fine for each corporation. Two contractors not having corporations were fined $5,OO0 each.
 Indictments charging profiteering were returned by the federal grand Jury against three of Kansas City's argest coal dealers. The indictments, brought under the Lever act, were the 'esult of a probe of coal conditions made by Arthur J. Devlin, Washing