The Holbrook news., 1921-07-15
GENERAL

Twelve persons were seriously in jured recently in the collapse of a
 three-stOry building in Denison, Texas.
 It is understood that more than twen-
 ty-five persons were in the structure any lives were lost.
 Carl Wanderer, triple murderer, ex- hausted his last trick in his efforts to
 dodge the gallows when the Chicago jury that has been hearing his plea of insanity, decided in less than one hour
 that he was sane and must hang After the decision had been handed in, Judge David set the date of execution for Friday, July %. The sole hope now remaining for Wandcrer is that Governor Small will intervene.
 Mrs Etta $. Heil, the millionaire maid' of Chicago, was placed on pro- bation for one year after she pleaded guilty to four separate charges of lar ceny Mrs. Heil, the wife of wealthy broker, was arrested and confessed that she had footed a dozen North Shore homes while posing as a 'maid." Her loot ran above $100,000, but resti- tuition was made to all her victims by her husband. The probation sentence was decreed by Judge Kerston in Grim inal Court after attorneys for the woman had appealed for clemency.
 Fire destroyed the plant of the Ne braska Potash Company at Antioch, eighteen miles east of Alliance, Neb. It is owned by a Denver concern and was valued at approximately $500,000. The Catholic church and several Oth- CT buildings caught fire from the flames which were famed by wind.
 Approximately 1000 coke workers in the independent plants of the Con- nellsville, Pennsylvania, coke region were affected by a 10 per cent reduc tiOn in wages, the second announced this year. The new rate is about B 1-3 per cent below the rate paid Jan. 1, but, according to coke men, 45 per cent higher than the prevailing rate in 1912 Only about per cent of the independ- ent ovens are in operation.
 An alleged unauthorized strike by 200 pressmen in the printing shop of the CuneO- -Henneberry Company, pub- l fishers, of Chicago, resulted in the fill 1 ing of the praecipe of q S50000 suit | against the Chicago Printing and ! Pressmen's Union No. 8 and eight of !, ficials and agents of the uniOn TrOu- | ble is said to have started over the | printing of the western edition of | weekly magazine, at whose plant | there was a preSSmen'S strike.
 With the vote of the railway shop men overwhelmingly opposed to accep tance of wage reduction from S5 to | v cents an hour, as ordered by the | United States Railway Labor Board, | railway circles are apprehensive that the nation may be confronted with a serious railroad crisis within a fort. night.
 Joseph Lindgren, automobile me chanic, was sentenced to from one year to life imprisonment in Chicago. after pleading guilty to a charge of recklessly driving an automobile which killed Mrs. Eugenia Cooly on April Sd.
 George Deal, negro, under indict- ment for killing preacher, was shot to death in the cOurtroOm at VickSburg, Miss, by Sheriff B. H. Shannon, when Deal tried to wrest a revolver from the hands of a deputy. Court was in session, and the judge had postponed decision on the date of Deals trial, when the negro arose and snatched Deputy Sheriff Martin Hobeler's gun from a table. Hobeler grappled with him, and Sheriff Shannon, seeing that lives of those nearby were in danger, fired three shots into the negro's back, the third killing him.