The Holbrook news., 1921-05-27
FOREIGN

clash with federal troops near Mier, state of Tamaulipas, according to war office reports, and is now recuperating on the American side near Las Vegas.
 Organization of an airplane force to fight forest fires in the province of British Columbia is to be begun soon, following the announcement of the British Columbian government that it had appropriated S2O,OOO for the pur pose.
 King Alfonso and Queen Victoria of Spain escaped injury when their auto mobile overturned while they. were go- ing to the Hippodrome to attend the races, says a dispatch from Madrid. The accident was due to the bursting of tire.
 Canadian police searched the Vel land canal for 1,4OO pounds of dyna- mite, stolen from the government stores near Allanburg. Several years ago an attempt to wreck the canal by explosives was made at YhorOld, few miles from Allanburg.
 The peasants of Russia have illus far failed to respond to the appeal of | lhC DOlSAtCNiSl lO SON grain to enrich this years harvest, ac- cOrding to reports. The soviet au- thorities are beginning to take a gloomy view of the prospects for next winter.
 GeDs. LuciO Blanco, Eduardo Her nandez, Ireneo Villareal and Pablo Gonzales, former Carranza chieftains, who have been reported to be starting revolution against the Mexican gov ernment from the United States side, have made an appeal to President Ob- regcn for leniency if they surrender, according to official advices. | The Argentine government, under an agreement reached with representa- tives of the labor organizations, will not permit nOnunion labor in the port area. Work in the major section of the port which has been at a standstill for some time as a result of the boycott declared by the port workers is ex- pected to begin shortly.
 The British Columbia liquor moder- ation act, providing for the govern ment control and sale of liquor within the province, will become effective sometime after July l, instead of on June 1, as had been originally planned. Inability of the provincial liquor board to prepare for the opening of the gov ernment stores June l was given as the reason for the delay.
 Francisco Villa, former Mexican bandit leader, expects to harvest crop of 50,000 bushels of wheat this year, according to a report from Con- sul J. B. Stewart at Chihuahua, Mex icO. Villa was said to have equipped extensively with modern American farming implements, including tractors and motor trucks, the large tract he is cultivating with the assistance of the Mexican government
 GENERAL
 Six men, comprising the crew of the barge Miztec, are believed to have been lost in the blizzard which tore the Miztec and the barge Peshtigo loose from the steamer Elijah off Whitefish Point, in Lake Superior.
 Every public school teacher in Hat tiesburg, Miss, including Superintend- ent F. B. Woodley, has resigned as a result of an announcement by the board of school trustees that next year salaries would be reduced 10 per cent
 It was because of cyclonic storms on the sun and the resultant disturbance in the earth's magnetic fields that telegraph and telephone services throughout the country were disrupt ed recently, according to Dr. K. Burns of the Allegheny observatory at Pitts burg.
 commission of six mining experts will sail from Seattle, Wash, early in June for China to make geological and engineering examination of iron ore and coal deposits in a section of AIanchuria for the South Manchuria Railway company. it has been an nounced in Duluth, Minn.
 Branches of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan are being organized in Mis- sOuri, Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa, Mime sOta and North and South Dakota
 The superdreadnaught Tennessee, electrically driven and equipped with a main battery of twelve fourteen-inch guns mounted on triple turrets, passed mosts of the tests set down for her in her standardization trial off the port of ROckland, Me.
 An unidentified negro was lynched at McGenee, Ark, for alleged partici- patton in an attempted attack on J. P. Sims, railroad blacksmith and a young white woman while they were riding in an automobile along a coun- try road. Sims reported three negroes stopped his car and demanded he leave the young woman.
 Testimony that he paid S7,5OO to a business agent of plumbers union' to settle a strike called by the wreck CTS when construction of the Woods theater was started was given before the Daley legislative committee at Chicago by George A. Thomas of the Longacre Construction Company of New York Thomas declined to name the man to whom he paid the money.
 Michael Rivics stopped an old-fash- toned duel in Chicago Two men, quar- reling in the street drew guns as Mi chael approached. He stepped between them. Both fired. Both bullets struck