The Holbrook news., 1921-08-26
FOREIGN

Ine German government mas ap- pealed to the German residents of Up per Silesia to keep cool and not start anything pending solution of the Up per Silesian issue by the council of the League of Nations
 Tn his annual report the chief med ical officer to the ministry of health states that consumption in England 1 is declining by over 10000 cases dur ing 1920, and that there were 16,OO0 fewer deaths from the disease.
 Lady Bonham-C Carter. daughter of former Premier Asquith, has refused an invitation to become a candidate for member of Parliament for Westmins- ter. to succeed the late William Ash mead Bartlett Burdett-Coutts.
 Forty-five seamen are believed to have been drowned following the wreck of the freight steamer Shoshu Maru. which was disabled by a ty- phoOn and battered to pieces on the rocks off the LOOchOo islands. Only one of the ships personnel is known to have survived.
 The Trading Company, capitalized at 10,000,O00 yen (normaIly about S5,- OOO,OO0), and one of the largest firms in Japan, has announced that it is closing its doors at the end of the month. It has liabilities amounting to over 1O0,0OOOo0 yen ($5O,OOO,OO0 normally).
 Robert StOlZ, Vienna composer, has broken the worlds record for the in- come received from single piece of dance music, according to the Neue Berliner His "Salome Foxtrot" has netted him 32,OOO,OOO kronen in royal ties. To figure out the wealth of the foxtrot millionaire in real money: an Austrian krone is worth about one tenth of a cent.
 Meatless days, bread and macaroni restrictions and sugar embargoes, which have been in force since the be- ginning of the war, have finally been abolished in Rome. Food cards are now no langer needed to procure the such luxuries as pastry, cakes, ice cream and other delicacies are being sold in their prewar quality and amount.
 Frontier restrictions were carried to an extreme when they prevented an Austrian fire brigade from crossing the Italian border to fight a blaze. Some buildings on the Italian side of the Prenner Pass railway station caught fire and the Austrian towns firemen turned out Italian gendarmes demanded their vises, and having none they were forced to watch the ware houses burn.
 GENERAL
 Charges that Mrs Winnifred Bag ley a nurse, was killed by electricity during an X-ray demonstration at the Pageant of Progress at Chicago, were made by detective agency which in vestigated the case.
 A mob of 1,5OO or 2,O0O armed men captured Jerome Whitfield, negro, near Kingston, N. C., charged with at tacking a white woman of Jones coun- ty, and after hanging him to tree by the roadside riddled his body with bull lets.
 
 explosion that wrecked the residence of Ashbel w. Smith, states attorney for Lake county, at Waukegan, III. Smith has been exceptionally active in violators of the prohibit ton laws.
 Information which the police believe will clear up seventeen gang murders which have occurred in New York, De troit and Avon-by-the-Sea, N. J., was given to New York detectives by Bar follow FOntano, Italian barber. Terri fled by secret threats of being baked in an oven," FOntanO gave himself up to the police and was charged with homicide. Six other men were arrest. ed on Fontano's information
 Clarence NJ. Williams of Madison, student, and Miss Minnie Boiles of BarabOO, Wis. were drowned when steel rowboat capsized in Devils Lake, at Madison, Wis.
 WOrkmen of the Keene-Strunk Coal Company at Helenwoou, Scott county, Tenn, have found buried in the earth and petrified a giant six feet four inches tall. The fingers are perfect, with long, tapering fails. The hands are folded across the breast. On either side of its head are two horns each about four inches in length. Its weight is about 450 pounds.
 Wasps on business bent may be pests, but two women here owe their lives to wasp stings. Mrs. J. E. Nit chum, who lives near Hickman, Ky, was awakened by the stings, discov to collapse upon her and adopted daughter. Mrs. Mitchum rushed to the girls room, aroused her and assisted her to safety in the yard just as the house fell in. The wasps had built their nests in the attic of the house and the heat and smoke drove them out. One sting on Mrs. Mitchum's neck is the only sign visible of the attack.
 Posing as revenue agents in search of liquor, three armed men ordered Genaro Demicalo, restaurant keeper of New York. to open a small safe and then fled with S4,OO0 worth of dia- and other jewelry and S1O0 in cash.
 Two men were killed instantly and | fourteen injured, three probably fatal | y, at Knoxville, Tenn, when a motor | truck in which they were riding over