The Holbrook news., 1921-06-17
GENERAL

Denzel Chester has been acquitted
 by a jury in Kansas City, Mo, of the
 murder of Miss Florence Barton. The
 jury was out only twenty minutes.
 The former German passenger liner
 Kaiser Wilhelm II, has been renamed
 President Harding. it was announced at New York by officials of the United
 States Mail Steamship Company.
 Mrs Ethel Hutchins Mott, on trial at Bridgeport, Conn, charged with the murder of her husband, George B. Mott, pleaded guilty to murder in the second degree. Judge Maltbie sen A great meeting of the represents tives of all the railway unions affected by the wage cut decision of the rail- way labor board to be held in Chicago June ? and 2S 1t has been announced. At that meeting the unions will give their answer to the $4O0,O0O,0O0 wage cut and in all probability the question of strike or work will be decided there.
 Resumption of building activities in Chicago, which have been halted for many weeks by wage disputes between the building contractors and the unions, is believed imminent as the re- suit of an agreement to arbitrate the dispute. Building contracts represent ing expenditures of approximately $10O,000,000 hinge on successful ad justment of the dispute.
 finders Gustaf Nelson, son-in-law of Senator Knute Nelson, charged with shooting to death Joseph Middleton, farm hand, in March, 1920, was found guilty of manslaughter In the first de- gree by jury at Fergus Falls, Minn-
 Between 1000 and 10000 workmen will be re-employed in the Northern Pacific and Great Northern railroad shops, officials announced at St. Paul, Minn. The men will be called back to work July l. The decision is a di- rect result of the wage reduction, said a Northern Pacific official.
 Two Mexicans and three negroes have been arrested in Des Moines by Sheriff Robb as suspects in the inur- der of Miss Sara Barbara ThOrsdale One of these was Tom Willis, 40-year- old negro, who had been camping on the Raccoon river near where the teachers body had been found
 Recent passage of the congressional deficiency appropriation measure by the Senate will provide for the early return to duty of all federal dry agents and inspectors. According to | the present status of affairs, all gov ernment agents temporarily relieved | from duty because of lack of funds will | be placed back on duty soon.
 With thousands gathered along the | beach, Jack Murphy of Haverhill, | known as Daredevil Jack" Jumped | with parachute from his airplane at Beach, Mass, landed in the ocean a considerable distance from shore and was drowned in the view of | 3 big crowd.
 Caribou and native reindeer are re- ported ranging the hills like droves of sheep in full view of Dawson, Y. T. As it is calving time, the herds are not allowed to be molested, and instead of with a gun the citizens of Dawson are shooting" with a camera.
 F. S. Tyler of Washington has been appointed by the Supreme Court as to take testimony on the question of ''what constitutes the south ,ank of the Red river and as to where lIong that bank is the true boundary inc as between the states of Oklahoma md Texas"
 Governor Stephens of California signed a bill which provides that all nale alien residents of California over T years of age shall be registered and shall pay an annual poll tax of $10 into he school fund of the county in which