The Holbrook news., 1921-05-20
FOREIGN

 ed. It is believed that this is the first discovery of natural gas in Central America.
 Three small private banks in Ha- vana have suspended payment and an- other in the city of Camaguey, eastern Cuba, closed it's doors. All the institu- tiOns had sustained runs by depOsitors, and some of the oldest and strongest institutions in the city are affected.
 Outlaws have captured British mis- sionary named Stevens near Fengh- sien, in the province of Shensi, it is said in advices to the British legation. Dispatches indicate the object is to bring pressure to bear on provincial authorities to abandon oppressive measures.
 Ruins of prehistoric city have been discovered by Prof Carl Blegen of the American Archaeological School at Athens The city was situated between COrinth and Mycenae, in southeastern Greece, and pottery and fragments of statuary unearthed fix the date of it's prosperity at about 200O B. c.
 A mule is not a horse according to an opinion of the Manitoba Court of Appeals, which awarded $100 and costs to Thomas Pople, a mule dealer, against the city of Dauphin, Man. Pc pie sold twenty mules there last sum- mer, and was forced by town officials to pay $5 a head tax, which is levied on horses brought to the town for sale. He sued to recover the amount.
 Maj Gen. Leonard Wood and W. Cameron Forbes, former governor, composing President Harding's special mission to investigate conditions in the Philippine islands, settled down to in- vestigatiOn work immediately upon ar rival at Manila. After popular dem onstratiOn in the shape of parade of all civic organizations, headed by Mayor Fernandez, in honor of the com missiOners, the mission started action.
 Leaders of the radical Omotokyo cult have been placed under arrest, with many of their principal followers, fol- lowing a police raid on the headquar- ters of the organization at Ayabe. near KyotO, Japan. They are charged with distributing alarmist literature calcu- lated to disturb the public. Police of ficials who conducted the raid broke into a secret temple at Ayabe and there found 2,OOO,OOO yen in specie and several hundred swords
 GENERAL
 Miss Idell Roland, 17 years old, of l (N Ds IL L IL ended her life with poison when she knew her sight was fading.
 T. G. Brown and J. w. Creole were burned to death and several persons were injured in fire which destroyed boarding house at Richardson, La.
 Charles Manzell, Ogden, Utah, patrol man. on his first shift after a leave of absence for war work, was shot to death by bandits when he came upon them robbing a clothing store there.
 The board of directors of the Pitts burgh Chamber of Commerce has adopted a resolution under which the organization would form $2O0,OOO corporation for the construction of l. 900 residences of moderate cost to be rented at a reasonable figure.
 Nearly 200 years ago a thoughtful boy printer, named Benjamin Franklin, ran away from Boston to Philadelphia Recently bronze statue of Franklin was acclaimed by thousands in the city of his birth as it was exhibited in parade. The statue, in reaching Bos- ton had reversed the route taken by Franklin to Philadelphia.
 Forcing four clerks in the depart ment store of A. J. Carlan to go into rear room, a lone bandit at Matea- wan, N. Y, robbed the cash drawer of several thousand dollars and escaped. The robber previously had called, seek ing to buy pair of trousers When he returned he wore no mask. Police be- gan hurried search for the bandit
 Short skirts for women were ap- proved at Springfield, H., by the Alta i Via Club, a wOman'S organization. "Short skirts the club held, "are much better looking than long skirts; short skirts are more sanitary, econom- ical and convenient"
 Five thousand people are facing semi-starvation in Cork, Ireland, and 180,000 farmers are impoverished as a result of the wrecking of thirty-five CO., operative creameries, according to ad- vices received in New York by the American committee for relief in Ire | land
 The United Brotherhood of Main tenance of Way Employes and Railway Shop Laborers, with it's membership of about 100000, cannot be reinstated in the American Federation of Labor un- til it has turned over to the building trades union its members now engaged in station construction work. This de- cisiOn was made by the executive council of the building trades depart ment of the federation. The Railroad Shop LabOrers' Union was suspended in December, 1919, because of it's aI- legged disregard for the jurisdictionaI rights of the building trades organiza- tions
 Michael Rivics stopped an old-fash- toned duel in Chicago. Two men, quar- reling in the street drew guns as Mi