The Holbrook news., 1921-03-25
FOREIGN

| privy seal, has resigned from the Brit
 ish cabinet. III health was given as the reason for his resignation.
 Germany has protested to the allies against the massing of Polish troops on the German frontier The protest was contained in note which was re ceived in London from Berlin.
 Suspension of all commercial trea-
 ties in force was decided on by the Spanish Cabinet, and they will con- tinue imperative until the new cus- toms tariffs have been promulgated, it is said.
 Prince 'DanielO, heir to the throne of Montehegro, has abdicated in favor of Prince Michael, son of the late
 Prince MirkO. Queen AIilena, widow of King Nicholas, who died March l, has assumed the regency.
 Four American sailors from the Tampico bay by band of masked men who attacked them as they were re- turning to their ship, according to in- formation received from TampicO. The United States consul has started an in vestigatiOn.
 Anti-Jewish disorders which broke out in Vienna threatened for a time to develop into serious situation, but the police succeeded in dispensing street crowds and in preventing possi- ble loss of life. Shops owned by Jews were damaged by stones thrown by riOtous crowds, and in a few cases Jews were beaten.
 second underground passage connect ing the Swiss and German borders and used for smuggling. Illicit traffic in German and Austrian gold and silver coins and in narcotics was said to have made large profits for the band that invested large capital in con- structing the passage, which runs through frontier forest.
 Discovery of the details of a con- spiracy which caused disorders in Tus- cania has been announced by the po- lice, who declared the ring leader was an anarchist named Chelli, editor of the revolutionary pamphlet, "The Cry of Revolt" Chelli had q supply of bombs, the police assert, which he dis tributed for anarchistic attempts Chelli and five others have been ar rested.
 GENERAL
 One life was lost and considerable property damage done by storm which deluged southern California for three days.
 Johnny Wilson, worlds middle weight champion, retained his title in q fifteen-round bout with Mix O'Dowd, former champion, at Madison Square gardens in New York. The judges dis agreed and Referee Johnny McAvOy of Brooklyn gave his decision in favor of Wilson.
 Saved by his finger prints, Miner F. Crawford of Hutchinson, Kan, held by federal officials of Boston, Mass, for a train robbery and murder in Minne- sota, has been released. Finger prints of the train robber was sent from Min nesota, and were found to differ from those of Crawford
 Gov. Edwin P. Morrow of Kentucky has offered a reward of $500 each for the arrest and conviction of each member of the mob that took from the Woodford county jail and lynched Richard James, negro. He also issued a proclamation relieving from office John H. Edger, jailer of WoodfOrd county
 The government will be required to return $1,655,000 tax to the estate of Mrs. Potter Palmer, under a ruling by Judge George T. Page in the United States District Court at Chicago. Judge Page ruled that Potter Palmer had died before the federal estate tax became a law, and that Mrs. Palmer never had received any benefit from the $7,OOO,OO0 trust, her half of the | Palmer estate.
 Harry S. Black, New York multi | was placed under arrest | at the Royal Palm, following a raid in Miami, Fla, on his private railroad | car, Bay Side, by police officers, who | declare they found fifty-three cases of whisky aboard
 Little Italy section of Chicago was deeply stirred by the arrest of Samuel proprietor of the Blue Bird cabaret, and Frank CompinO, saloon keeper, as suspects in the staying of Paul A. Labriola, recent victim of an alleged political feud in the Nineteenth ward. Police say that three witnesses to the shooting of Labriola have iden- -ified Amatuna and COmpinO as two of the five men who participated in the staying.
 Representative of the National Wheat Growers Association and of the agricultural Committee of Seventeen It a meeting in Kansas City, agreed he advisability of the pooling of grain lnder a national sales agency was ad- 'isable, but they disagreed as to the method of carrying out the plan. The conference was adjourned to meet in March 2S The main point of Ascension was whether or not the pool mould be voluntary or compulsory.
 Effective fire fighting in New York Jity thwarted a repetition of the dis