The Holbrook news., 1921-04-08
FOREIGN

] WHO were DIlllSl VI ser and unceremoniously dumped on the shores of Japan, is the latest step in Australia's battle against the en- croachments on undesirable aliens.
 A case. believed to be the first of it's kind in England, was decided at Glas- gow, when a fine of $20 was imposed on an airman, William Reeve, for a violation of the air navigation regula- tiOns by dropping leaflets from an aer- oplane during the local prohibition veto poll.
 A new volcano known as Pico de Or izaba has broken out in the valley of Mexico on the border of the states of Mexico and Puebla, and according to advices received the inhabitants of the surrounding country have been thrown into panic. The volcano POpocatapetl also is becoming more active.
 Former Emperor Charles of Austria Hungary was in Vienna and met a group of mOnarchists, according to in formation from most reliable quarters. The eX-emperor, it is stated, went from Vienna to Budapest, but left that
 
 of the Hungarian government.
 AIinsk, an important city in western Russia, has been captured by revolu- tionaries, says a Copenhagen dispatch The Eighth Bolshevist army is de clared to have joined the revolution ists, who have formed a democratic White Russian republic. Kiev is said 4 l.. T ants, and the Communists there are adopting terrorist measures.
 The Sim Feiners' "fire-raising" cam paign in England reached a climax in simultaneous outbreaks in places as far apart as the rivers Tyne and Tees, or as Chester and the suburbs of Lon don. Great precautions are being talk en to protect the Bank of England and other public and private buildings which are thought likely to be subjects for the attention of the firebrands.
 GENERAL
 Officials of the United States ship ping board reported $1O.OO0 had been stolen from the safe of the bureau of investigation at Hog island, and that they are of the opinion it was an '.in- side job" The safe showed no signs of having been tempered with.
 Helen Burdick of Colchester, 20 years old, six feet tall weighing 375 pounds and married to man forty years her senior, is in the county jail at Hartford, Conn.,, having been in- dicted by a federal grand jury on charge of theft of a package of clothes and dainties from the mails
 Final settlement of the S400,OO0 es- tate of Henry Field, grandson of Mar shall Field and brother of Marshall Field III, was made in Probate Court in Chicago. The final accounting showed the S1OO,O00 claim of Peggy Marsh, an actress, by whom Henry Field had q son, Henry Anthony Field, had been paid.
 Three persons are reported dead and fifteen were said to have been injured more or less seriously when an explo- sion of sewer gas occurred in YOungs. town, Ohio. Police and firemen worked feverishIy in an effort to extric9te the wounded from the wreckage Of the building, which was occupied by two families.
 A $5,OOO,OOO clubhouse for women to be used as a meeting place for New York's 365 feminine organizations and to be known as the WOman's National Club, will be built near Fifth avenue, it was announced at a luncheon in New York attended by members of the board of directors. It will be fifteen to twenty-two-story building
 The New York Central railroad has announced a 10 per cent reduction for round trip tickets with time limit eff fective between May 15 and June l up to Sept. 30, to all points in its terri tory. Restoration of the "homeseeker" rates for cOlOnists bound west of Chi cago also was announced. These rates were abolished during the war
 Based on reports from Missouri, Kan sas, Arkansas, Oklahoma and Texas, officials of farm and horticultural as sociations said much damage had been caused by freezing temperatures Lit tie hope for early fruit crops in Mis- souri and Kansas was indicated, all though it was said the latter crops probably had not suffered materially.
 A huge ape which was shot while at tempting to break through window in the bedroom o0 Fred Grossman in De troit and which later terrOrized East Side residents, was claimed at the po- lice station by J. K. Seaman who said the animal was an escaped pet. Police, believing the Simian may have been trained to rob houses, have begun an Investigation.
 Warning that any person found on Mexican soil with firearms would he "shot on sight by federal troops, who are seeking guerillas,S and an order closing the border to American hunt CTS, was issued in Matamoras, opposite Brownsville. The order and warning was signed by General Lopez, com mander of the Matamoras garrison, fol lowing conference with Gen. ArnuIfo R. Gomez.
 Conspiracy to interfere with public trade by fixing prices of coal is the charge that forms the basis for indict- ments voted by the grand jury in Chi cago against four officials of the Chi cago Retail Coal Merchants Associa- tion and the Retail Coal Bureau. Four