The Holbrook news., 1921-03-11


 Professor Boni, archaeolOgist and di- rector of excavations on the Palatine, is going to make another effort to grow sweet potatoes in Italy. He has just
 received lot of seed potatoes from the United States Agricultural Depart ment. Whenever sweet potatoes have been planted in Italy, they have re- verted to ordinary potatoes after few years. Professor Boni hopes to be able to keep them true to their type. He says that old manuscripts prove that the ancient Romans grew them.
 GENERAL
 Frantic with pain from an attack of appendicitis, Earl Wilson, an Swear old boy, shot and killed himself at Bonner Springs, Kan.
 When a tank filled with molten glass burst at Barnesville, O., fire started which totally destroyed the Kearns- Gorsuch Glass plant there, with loss estimated at $7OO,OO0.
 The New York Central locomotive repair shops at Elkhart, Ind, employ ing about 700 men, and those at Col linwood, both of which were closed a week ago, will resume operations at once.
 President Wilson has formally an- nounced that he would resume the practice of law" in partnership with Bainbridge Colby, the retiring secre- tary of state. The firm will maintain offices in New York and Washington.
 A. w. Crawford, 50, prominent Dem and Don Barrus, president of the Don Barrus Auto Company of Alton, were instantly killed when their automo- bile was demolished by the fast St. Louise Chicago train at the Chicago 6 Alton railroad crossing at Wood river, Ill.
 Bribes totaling $1,OOO,O0O and rang ing from $5 to $2OO0O0 have been of fered w. J. Mccarthy, supervising pro hibition enforcement agent for New England since July. Mccarthy said he had been threatened with death in the performance of his duty, and told of attempts of bogus revenue officers to steal liquor lawfully in transit between New York and Boston.
 Several hundred persons were driv- en from their homes and several bad ly injured when a tank containing D. 900 gallons of gasoline exploded in the tenement district at Buffalo, N. Y. The head of the steel tank crashed through the roof of tenement house, the con- cussion wrecked many small buildings, and the Streets were turned into sea of fire by the blazing oil.
 One hundred and ten cement dealers were named in indictments handed down by the special federal grand jury which has been investigating an al- legged building material combine men toned in connection with the building trust inquiry in New York.
 Plots which involved the planned as- of Cleveland citizens con- nected with the Loyal American League, the destruction by dynamite of downtown buildings and an intensive of anarchistic propa ganda throughout the city, are now to have been nipped by the arrest in Cleveland of eight men, said to be members of an anarchistic group.
 Work in some government depart ments moves so leisurely that girl em- Dloyes have been known to make their -rousseaus during working hOurs," he Senate was told by Senator Shoot, Republican,, of Utah. The senator said le personally had investigated the sit nation in the offices. "Why," he add ed, Tt has got so that when I start Or an office word Is telephOned ahead hat Senator SmoOt is coming and for everyone to get busy on their type 
 Unable to raise $1O,OOO,OOO to pay ederal taxes assessed against the es- ate of F. A. Sayles of Providence, R. ., executors of his will have asked the assembly for special legislation em- lowering them to borrow the money. | The estates valuation is understood | o be about $7O,OO0,O00.
 Fishing on Sunday would be punish ble by a fine of $50, under a bill in- | in the House in Arkansas. mother bill offered would provide a rison sentence of from two to five | ears on persons found guilty of brib- lg baseball players to throw a game. |
 The Independent Order of Foresters f Toronto, Canada, was ordered by | ne State Supreme Court to complete
 contract to purchase about 2,000 cres of land at Newark, Calif, and ay $205, ,OO0 outstanding on the prin- pal, with interest approximating 6OOOO.
 A block of business buildings in the cart of Breckenridge, Texas, an oil ,wn, was destroyed by fire with a ,ss of $500,O00 The fire started in
 filling station and was stopped by remen who dynamited buildings in it's lth.