The Holbrook news., 1921-01-28
FOREIGN

tLallaQ forces along me AurlaIlc, nds
 ordered the raising of the naval block
 ade of Plume, and also the land block
 ade.
 The German treasury department
 has announced that foreign govern
 ments hold 10000, ,OOO German marks in
 OOOOOOOOO marks in German secur-
 ities.
 Canada's wheat yield for 1920 to-
 tailed 263, ,1S9, 300 bushels from 1S,232,-
 374 acres, an average gain of four
 and One-half bushels an acre over
 1919, the Dominion Bureau of Statis-
 tics announced at Ottawa.
 The Russian wife of Naval Lienten- ant Warren H. LangdOn, American of
 ficer killed by Japanese sentry at VladivostOk recently, ended her life upon learning of her husbands death, according to a Reuter- dispatch from
 Vladivostok.
 Twenty-two Japanese sailors, sur vivors of the Japanese steamer Sakura Maru, wrecked off the northern coast of Luzon island, landed at Aparri, Luzon, in two lifeboats It is believed the entire crew was saved. The Sa- kura Maru was a coasting freighter of 239 tons.
 A communication isued at Doorn by Dr. Haehner, the physician attending the former Empress Augusta Victoria of Germany, who is i'll with heart dis ease, said, "The former kaiserins heart attacks are less frequent but her general state of weakness and of wear ing away is increasing"
 A call for a special session of the Mexican. Congress, beginning Feb. z, has been issued by President Obregon. Among the projects to be considered are the new banking law, article 27 of the constitution, which governs petro- leum deposits, a new labor law, army reconstruction and international con- merce.
 Fifty persons were arrested in To kio, Japan, charged with disturbing a court in which thirteen Socialists, ar rested when the Japanese Socialist leader was inaugurated, were being tried. Employees of an engineering works have smashed the fixtures in the plant following the dismissal of seventy-five strike agitators. Ten men were arrested. GENERAL
 Rent reductions averaging about 20 per cent were ordered made by seven Milwaukee landlords, by a ruling of the local rent bureau. Among the land lords affected was the owner of twelve flats.
 A reduction of 20 per cent in the price of farm implements has been an- nounced by A. " Burch, vice presi- dent and general manager of the BIount Flow Company at Evansville, Ind N
 The Singer Manufacturing Company, makers of sewing machines, employ announced an immediate reduction in wages of 20 per cent. It will not affect salariad- -empIoyes.
 Three men posing as policemen in Chicago stopped an automobile driven by Mrs. Sigmund G. Livingston and robbed her of jewelry which she valued at $30,OOO. Included was pearl neck lace which she said was worth $20OOO.
 Mrs. Susan Kirby celebrated her 109th birthday anniversary at a dinner given in her honor and attended by thirty guests at Union, S. C.. She is active and is deeply interested in the Methodist church of which she has been a member for ninety-five years. She is the mother of eleven children.
 The 5-cent loaf of bread is back in New York. It appeared in a bakery shop there and almost immediately sales jumped from 80 to 1000 loaves a day. In nearly all other New York | stores the price is 10 cents, but the | baker who reduced the price says he is | making more money now.
 George Franklin, a former attache ] of the United States Shipping Board, and later auditor of the Southern Ce- iar Company, slipped on the bathroom floor at his home at Jacksonville, Fla, broke his neck and died almost in- stantly.
 Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, who u4eTlleu IIle Dulk OI hrS. EdIk Les ie's $2,OO0OOO estate, made settle nents with two heirs to avoid a con est of the will, it was disclosed when he referees report was submitted in Surrogate's Court. Mrs. Leslie's niece, who was bequeathed the income from a $50,000 trust fund, was given and another prospective con- iestant was paid $1OO,OOO by Mrs. Jatt.
 Ole Hansen, former mayor of Seat le, disrupted a Socialist meeting at Racine, Wis, when, under auspices of he Racine Constitutional Defense League, he invaded the meeting, at which Irwin St. John Tucker, indicted lnder the espionage act, was the prin- .ipal speaker, and challenged him to a Iebate Mir Tucker declined at first, ut submitted the question to the audi ,nce, which voted against the debate mid shouting and misses.
 Monday lunches would be elimin- ted every other day by 1,4OO high chool students at Evansville, Ind, un- Il $500 is raised for the starving hiIdren of Europe, it has been an- ounced. The $500 will feed fifty