The Holbrook news., 1921-06-17
THE WORLD IN
 PARAGRAPHS
A BRIEF RECORD OF PASSING EVENTS IN THIS AND FOR
 EIGN COUNTRIES
IN LATE DISPATCHES
DOTNGS AND HAPPENINGS THAT MARK THE PROGRESS
 OF THE AGE.
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 WESTERN
 Mrs. c. NJ. HyIand of Palmer, Neb.,
 died at Omaha from a bullet wound inflicted by one of three highwaymen who attempted to rob her, her brother mer member of the Omaha Western League baseball club, and Kane's wife. The robbers escaped.
 Approximately 10,O0O,000 acres of wheat will be harvested in Kansas this year, J. c. Mohler, secretary of the State Board of Agriculture, estimated. This is 100000 acres more than esti- mated in the boards report of May 20, which was based on incomplete asses sors' returns of March l.
 Placing of an order for 1O,OO0,O00 pounds of copper wire by the Pacific Gas and Electric Company of San Francisco has been announced. It was said to be the largest single order for copper wire ever made. The wire will be shipped from Black Eagle, Mont, it was said, and will require 270 rail- road cars for transit.
 A steam shovel got tangled with high power wires while at work at Portland, Ore, causing the scoop to fall and crush to death Edward Peter son, workman, and seriously injured two others. F. A. Harmon, engineer released from control, fell and pin toned the three men who were wield- ing picks.
 Hordes of ants, driving upward from the earth through mud tubes, are threatening destruction to the $100,000 Exchange building at the stockyards at Wichita, Kan. Oak lumber stored under the building has been practical ly consumed and the ants have driveH their way up along pipe lines to the woodwork of the west end of the struc- ture, which they have tunnelled as far as the second floor.
 The stain of illegitimacy was re Eugene Sorini of San Francisco through blood test performed by Dr. Albert Abrams, noted scientist, who developed the electronic method of de termining race and percentage by blood vibration tests. Eugenes mother, now Mrs. Marie Delsecco, had sworn that the child although born during the period of her married life. with Julius Sorini, was not son of Sorini's.
 WASHINGTON
 Contentious of the Western Union Telegraph Company that it cannot be errors in transmitting messages while it's lines were under government con- trol were upheld by the Supreme Court A decision of South Carolina courts, awarding damages to S. B. Pos ton, a cotton dealer, on this ground, was reversed.
 The United States Steel Corporation answered the citation of the federal trade commission with a categorical denial of alleged unfair practices charged by independent steel produc- CTS. The corporation admits In it's an swer, however, that 1t controls 125 steel plants, 45 per cent of the output of semi-finished rolled steel and 47 per cent of the crude steel.
 The Supreme Court in Washington has ordered the United Shoe Machin- cry case, the original suit between Wyoming and Colorado, and a number of others 'restored to the docket for reargumeAt before a full court.''
 Two thousand railroad workers and fhni hnld ton at Raton, N. Mex, in protest against the recent nationwide reduc- tion in wages. After parade, a mass meeting was held, at which the open shop movement was attacked.
 Inauguration of the administration policy for refunding most of the ST. 300, O,OO0,000 short-dated debt has been announced by Secretary Mellon, with a combined offering of $5OO,OOO,OOO of three-year 5A per cent treasury notes and one-year 51z per cent treasury cer- both dated June 15.
 Everybody's spending money shrank | by $199 during the past year, accord | ing to the monthly circulation state ment issued by the treasury. On June l, 1920, per capita circulation in the was. $57.42. compared with s55.43 on June 1, 1921. In the same period the total money in circulation dropped from $6,1O2,162, PA to $5,9S3,- 25S,293.
 A joint resolution designed to pre- vent wholesale importation of foreign goods preliminary to the enactment of a tariff law by congress, has been in- troduced by Chairman Little of the House committee on revision of laws. It would authorize the President to limit importations for ninety days.
 Hugh R. Robertson, United States district attorney for the western dis trict of Texas, has been removed from office by President Harding, it was an at the Department of Justice, No reason was assigned for the remov- al, it was said.
 Tom Vedder, rancher of Lower Bridge, Ore, believes the golden rule should apply to animals as well as men. Tom, while in the army, was to take his regulation nine shots in the arm before being al- lowed to take shot at the enemy. But Tom rafuSaS to allow his cherished