The Holbrook news., 1921-02-04
GENERAL

GENERAL
 Four bandits entered the Daniels
 jewelry store at Toledo, Ohio, bound
 the proprietor and customers hand and
 foot, and escaped in an automobile
 with jewelry valued at S30,000.
 When a masked robber clasped his hand over Mrs. Jack Fishers mouth al
 Pensacola, Fla, to prevent her scream
 ing, she bit his middle finger off. The
 bandit did the screaming. Also the running.
 A bill making refusal of landlord
 to rent his property to families with children a misdemeanOr, punishable by a $100 fine and ninety days impris onment has been introduced in the lower house of the Michigan Legisla. ture. ::
 Bob Steele, who lost both legs in the war, saved the life of a baby girl on the beach at Miami, Fla, by push ing his wheeled platform in front of motor car to hurl her out of the way The machine knocked Steele over, but he escaped with slight injuries
 The American Bonding and Casualty Company with headquarters at Sioux City, Iowa, capitalized at $500,000 anc with $1OO,0OOOOO worth of policies or it's books was declared insOlvent at Chi cagO. Albert Sabath, an attorney, was appointed receiver. Liabilities were said to be $3,OOO,OOO and assets Icon. siderably less"
 Under the stimulus of increased del mand, manufacturing plants forced to | shut down completely or cut produc | tiOn during the latter part of last year l are now reOpening or increasing their | output, reports from all parts of Ohio | indicate. Scores of plants have swung into full stride since January 1st.
 The sexton in the Eighteenth Street Methodist Episcopal Church of New York pulled the bell rope before morn. ing services but no sound came. He climbed to the steeple and found Tim Othy Jones, 24, lying oyer the rope in g semi-deliriOus condition. After being revived, Jones said he climbed to the belfry a week ago to escape the cold and had lain there a week trying tc forget his hunger.
 The speed artists that drive their typewriters through the sprints at the business schools at sixty miles an hour or whereabouts, never tried an endur lnce test, says Miss Agnes K. Clay, New York typist, who turns out 1OO sheets of 250 words every day. Miss Clay issued a challenge to any New York typist for an endurance test in which not only speed and accuracy but he added element of sustained effort would be considered.
 The Hog Island shipyard has off. .ialIy passed into history. The clos. ng of the great ways followed the rial trip of the Aisne, last ship to be quilt at the yards. Scores of persons prominent in official and business life were on board as guests and passen- gers.
 Ten Chinese, charged with violating he Chinese exclusion act, were or lered depOrted at Chicago by Federal fudge Paige. The Chinamen appealed O the court not to send them back to heir native country, because 10000 100 were starving there.
 The Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company will install wireless outfits Oon at New Orleans, Mobile, Pensa- ola and Louisville for the transmits ion of railroad business, according to n announcement made at New Or 7 cans by R. R. Hobbs, telegraph super for the company. Train dis ; atches will not be handled, however.
 Col. William T. Baker, 96 years old, aid to be the oldest member of the rder of Elks in the United States, jed at Springfield, III. He was said Q be a bOyhOOd chum of Abraham ;