The Holbrook news., 1921-01-14
AN tPITOME OF
 LATE LIVE NEWS CONDENSED REC ORD OF THE PROGRESS OF EVENTS AT
 HOME AND ABROAD.
FROM ALL SOURCES
SAYINGS, DoINes, ACHIEVE MENTs, sUFFERINGs, HOPES
 AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
WESTERN

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
 WESTERN
 The fifty-fifth annual encampment of the G. A. R. will be held in Port land, Me, according to advices re- ceived from Sioux Falls, s. D.
 While skating on the Milwaukee river in Wisconsin, the three sons of Mir and Mrs John Hecker of West Bend, Clarence, 12; Leo, 10, and Law renee, 6, were drowned.
 The minimum charge for an auto mobile license in Texas is $7.50, which includes any motor from one horse power up to twenty-One horsepower. From twenty-twO horsepower on up, there is a charge of 8 cents per horse power.
 Travelling at a rate faster than sev- enty-two miles an hour, seaplanes Nos. 2 and of the NC division in the San Diego to Panama flight, reached Ban deras bay on the Mexican mainland, ending successful dash from Mazda lena bay.
 --- a fire which destroyed the Lone Star hotel at DesdemOnda, an oil town in EastIand county, Texas. The victims were Mrs. BanteH and her nineteen year-old daughter, members of a vau- deviIIe company.
 Brick masOns employed by the Utah Fire Clay Company of Salt Lake City,
 hum f1v.aA TaaoT have asked the company to reduce their wages from $1O to $S day, ac- cording to announcement made by Lawrence Greene, manager.
 Yeggmen who blew the safe in the plant of the American Laundry Com pany at Sioux Falls, S. D., used so much nitro-gIycerin that the building was badly damaged. They obtained S335 ill cash and checks, and damage to the building was estimated at S1,OOO.
 Fire losses in Nebraska since Dec. 1, 1919, up to Nov. 1, 1920, tOtaled 3D. 320,151.71, according to statistics giv- en out by c. E. Hartford, state fire marshal During this eleven-mOnth period seven persons lost their lives as results of fires. Almost half the loss was sustained in Omaha, where there were 442 fires causing damage estimated at $650,521.26.
 WASHINGTON
 All proposals advanced by the "big five" meat packers for divesting them selves of their stOckyard interests were rejected by Justice Stafford in the District Supreme Court. The com panies were given thirty days to sub init new plans.
 Wholesale charges of wilful discrim- inatiOn against negroes at the polls in the southern states were made by rep resentatives of the National AssOcia- ton for the Advancement of COlOred People before the House census com mittee, and brought forth vigorous objections from committee members from the South.
 A decrease of S192, ,932,O ,O75 in the public debt during the last month of 1920 has been announced by the treas ury. On Dec 31 the total gross debt was $23, ,9S2, ,224,16S as compared with SPA, ,175, ,156,244 on Nov. 30. The de crease during the last quarter of the year amounted to S1O5, ,131, ,196 from the Sept 30 total of $24,OS7, ,356, ,128.
 A total of 2,325.OOO workers are out of employment in the country, accord ing to a survey of the industrial situ alton made by Clint C. Houston for the current issue of Labor, official organ ~,R T,a Tna ton asserts that his inquiry disclosed the greatest industrial slump since the money panic of 1907.
 Parents of minor children of the sage Indian tribe won their suit in the District of Columbia Court of Appeals for a-mandamus to compel the secre- tary of the interior to pay them moneys due their children as accumu- lated bonuses on the sale of Osage oil lands The decision affects withheld bonuses of more than $33,OO0,0OO.
 A S5O,OOO,OOO item for army post permanent construction, submitted by the War Department and refused by the House appropriations committee in reporting out the sundry civil sup ply bill, was the initial step in a new army housing project contemplating expenditures of more than $3OO,OOO,- 900 over a period of ten or twelve years.
 The federal government is planning an increase of 50 cents a horsepower on motor vehicles, cents a gallon on gasoline and extra sales taxes to raise $290, 100000 more from motor car own CTS, which would make the total taxa ton from the industry practically $5OO,- 100000.
 The Peoples Bank of De Soto, Mo-, iias been closed pending completion of an examination of the institutions books A number of Overdrafts were put through the bank, it was said. Ros- COG B. Jones, cashier, committed sui eide by shooting in St. Louis.
 More than 10000 ex-service men are receiving medical care, 12,OOO in gov ernment hospitals and S,4O0 in private 1 hospitals at government expense, it | was stated at the war risk bureau These figures show the disposition of Che men up to Dec. 16.
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