The Holbrook news., 1921-02-18
THE WORLD IN
 PARAGRAPHS A BRIEF RECORD OF PASSING EVENTS IN THIS AND FOR
 EIoN COUNTRIES
IN LATE DISPATCHES
poINes AND HAPPENINGS THAT MARK THE PROGRESS
 foF THE AGE.
WESTERN
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 The bill in the Kansas Legislature
 which provided the right of a house. wife to claim damages for injuries sus- tained in performance of her domestic duties, was killed by the judiciary com mittee.
 Detective G. B. Hamby was shot dead at a Salt Lake City hotel by Tom Burns, who in turn was shot by ChleI of Police Joseph B. Burbidge- Burns died within an hour. Chief Burbidge narrowly escaped death, shot grazing and bruising his shoulder.
 Four thousand two hundred dollars in gold, thought to have been stolen in the robbery of $1O,2OO from the Vest ern Loan and Building Company in January has been found by Chief of Police Joseph E. Burbidge under a pile of rubbish in the basement of the com pany's building.
 The Nebraska House of Representa- lives, by a vote Of A to AS, refused to permit Miss Mary MacSwiney, sister of the late lord mayor of Cork, to speak on the Irish question. In refus- ing Miss MacSwiney the right of the floor, the legislators declared her mis- sion to this country was not of import ance to the people of Nebraska.
 Because it was charged, newspaper men abused privileges accorded them for obtaining news in the Mare Island navy yard at Vallejo, Calif., an execu- tive order has been issued reviving war time provision for news censorship at the island. Correspondents must sub init their news stories to the command ants office for approval before pub ncation.
 A bill requiring that fifteen days elapse between application for a mar riage license and issuance of the li- cense has been passed by the State Senate of Washington and sent to the House. Under the bill persons author ized to solemnize marriage who adver- tise the fact or employ runners or so- licitors to secure the performance of marriages would be guilty of misde- meanor.
 Charles Leslie Bune, a grain sam pier employed by a milling and eleva- tor company in Ogden, Utah, is dead and Ward A. Dunn, an electrician, is in a serious condition from the effects of gas, caused, it is said, by the fermen- tation of moist grain in an elevator. Bune tOppIed over shortly after he went for a sample and Dunn collapsed in trying to drag Bune from the dan ger spot.
 Although tempted by lucious fruits scattered about his cell and by appetiz- ing victuaIs served to his cellmate, Dr. Health Engmark, 45, hunger striking chiropractor, had not weakened as he entered on the third week of his vol untary fast in the Los Angeles jail. Engmark accepted a ninety-day sen tence rather than pay $2O0 fine follow ing his conviction on charge of prac ticiDg medicine without a license. WASHINGTON
 The joint resolutions directing the stopping of enlistments until the regu- lar army is reduced to 175,OOO men was passed by the House over President Wilson's veto. The vote was 271 to 16.
 The sundry civil appropriation bill has been passed by the Senate, carry ing $412, ,350,OOO, of which about S25O,- | 100000 is for war veterans.
 The first move to exempt the salary | of the President from income taxes was made in the House by Represen- tative Pell, Democrat, of New York. His bill would exempt not only the $75,OOO salary of the President, but | also the salary of the vice president from provisions of the income tax law. Beginning March 4, the Presi- dent will have to pay an income tax of about $1s,OOO year.
 Twenty-one American marines, at tached to the legation guard at Man agua, Nicaragua, have been arrested by American military authorities as a result of the wrecking of the plant of the newspaper, La Tribuna, at Man agua, Secretary Daniels has an- nounced. Capt. J. L. Underhill, com manding the guard, reported to the Navy Department that the men at tackled the newspaper establishment as result of the publication of what they considered abusive and libelous'' articles regarding the marines.
 Charges that a combination exists in the coal trade to maintain high prices of coal and to shut off the supply of coal to dealers who cut rates were put before the Senate committee consider ing the Calder coal regulation bill by J. c. l.. Ritter, who said the "combin- ationr put him out of business
 Unless trades unions are "affirma- lively and definitely" excluded from the Calder bill for government regu- lation of the coal industry, organized labor's opposition to it will be unyield- ing, Samuel Gompers told a Senate 
 The House of Representatives has passed bill authorizing the construction of five hospitals for war veterans at an estimated cost of $12,5OO,OOO. An additional S500,0O0 would be available for con- version into hospitals of buildings at Forts Walla Walla, Wash, and Me Kenzie, Wyo.
 After having deliberated for five hours, the jury in the case of Mrs. |