The Holbrook news., 1921-08-05
GENERAL

For four days, Roy McNIillen, % years old, struggled at the bottom of an abandoned cistern just outside of the business district of Kansas City in an attempt to release himself He was rescued in a dazed, starved, de- liriOus condition, following his discov- cry by two negro boys.
 Hot, dry weather during the month of August is necessary to save the sensus of opinion among the agricul- ture extension forces of the cotton belt. The boil weevil is damaging thousands of acres. Agricultural experts of the Mississippi delta predict destruction of the crop in many sections if damp, cool weather should develop in the next two months.
 Thomas D. Randolph, a business man of Sharon, Pa, who was believed to have been kidnapped and held for $50,000 ransom but who returned to his home and was accused of having planned the proceeding himself, pleaded not guilty to four charges. W DGH Ddll Ol pt ,OOO was nOl pIOuuCCu he was returned to his cell. The charges preferred were: Attempt to obtain money under false pretenses, attempted blackmail and eXtOrtion, and a statutory charge against Ran dolph, while postal inspector pre- ferred a charge of using the mails in scheme to defraud.
 John A. Gustafson, suspended chief of police of Tulsa, Okla, was found guilty by a jury of having failed to take proper precautions for public safety on the night and day of the re- cent riots at Tulsa, and also guilty on another count of conspiracy to free automobile thieves and collect rewards
 A. S.. Legg, negro porter on Chicago Great Western passenger train No. 10, Minneapolis to Omaha, jerked the gun from a train robbers hand and kicked him off the train just outside the city limits of St. Paul. A switching crew captured the robber He had boarded the train as a passenger, and as the train neared St. Paul attempted to hold up Pullman passengers.
 Mrs. Emilia Panicc, wanted by 'the Chicago police for the stabbing to death of Mrs. Mary EspOsito, walked into a precinct station and surren- dered. The murder of Mrs. Esposlto, at first thought to have been a part of the nineteenth ward political feud, is now attributed as being due to jeal- ousy aroused over attentions Mrs. Panico's husband is alleged to have paid Mrs. EspOsitO following the mur- der of her husband several months ago.
 The Russian soviet government has served notice on four New York and two Washington banks that it is the owner of more than $179,OOOOO0 de posted in these institutions by Boris Bakhmeteff, who was appointed Rus sian ambassador to the United States before the sOviets acquired control In making this announcement, Charles Recht, attorney for the soviet regime, said the notices sent to the bank warned them that they would be held liable if they should pay the funds to any one but an accredited representa- tive of the soviet government.
 Four negroes were killed and Mon- roe Ferguson, business man, severely wounded in a gun battle between a posse and a number of negroes near Rayville, La. The battle resulted from attempts of deputy sheriffs to arrest two negro women charged with beat ing some white boys who were swim ming in a stream near Rayville.
 Nine thousand carpenters who had been on strike in Philadelphia since May 1 have accepted the terms laid down by their employers, including a material reduction in wages, and re. turned to work.