The Holbrook news., 1921-04-22
FOREIGN

inc revolt or natives III belRldn
 Congo last month during which fifty
 trading posts were burned, was fo-
 mented by native pretending to have
 discovered a charm making its posses
 sor invisible and invulnerable, accord
 ing to Congo advices received in Brus-
 sells.
 Fire, which broke out in Hakodate, Japan, destroyed some 1000 houses be fore it was brought under control. The buildings destroyed included three Christian missions, the British con- Isulate, several banks, hospitals, school houses, theaters and government buildings.
 Four rebels, including the leader of the band, Augustin Michel, were killed in sharp battle between revolution ists and federal troops at Autlan, in the state of Jalisco, Mexico. Two more rebel officers were sentenced to death by a courtmartial for their connection with revolt on March 24.
 In western Konia Turks have ere ated a special corps of men aged from 60 to 100 years. Its commander is so years old. A Greek destroyer in the Black sea has captured the pirate leader, Hassan, aged 95, who has been burning Greek sailboats and villages on the POntius coast.
 Russian Bolshevist authorities have closed the frontier of that country against immigration from America, ac- cording to a cablegram received by a London shipping company from its agent in Libau. Immigrants will be ac- cepted, however, from steamers al- ready on their way to Russia from America.
 The non-union crew of the steamer Huttaita, operated by the Paraguay an government between Paran riv- CT ports, stole off with the vessel and headed north toward Brazil, according to advices from Asuncion. A Para guayan gunboat was sent in pursuit. dispatches received at BuenOs Aires re- ported that the Huttaita was sunk near Conception.
 Former Empress Augusta Victoria of Germany died in Doorn, Holland. Born Oct. 9, 1858, at Dolzig, Augusta Vic toria was the oldest daughter of Grand Duke Frederick of Schleswig-H -Holstein- burg-Augustenburg, and ranked as a princess of Schleswig- -Holstein. Her early childhood was spent at Kiel. She married to the then Prince Will liam of Prussia on Feb. 27, 1881. They had six sons and one daughter.
 Skirmishing is going on between Turks and Greeks in the Bardizag re- zion of Asia Minor, where it is re- ported neither of the combatants is the American flag hoisted over the Near East relief stations, shots having been fired at the Amer ican Women's hospital unit of Mrs. Mabel Nickerson, Miss Bernice Ever cit of the Wellesley College unit has been cut off in Brusa, although the or phans in her care have been trans ferred from that place to Bardizag. GENERAL
 Love for his dog nearly cost the life of Harold O'Grady, z, in Chicago. Har- old and his brother, Ray, 6, live next door to the Livingston warehouse, which was burned at loss of $100,O00. The father of the boys rushed into his home and rescued them. Harold re- membered his dog and rushed back in- to the house after it. As walls were caving in, firemen rescued him. He had the dog.
 The United States battleship Con- necticut and the tank steamer s. c. Folger, from Port Arthur, Texas, col lided off Point Breeze, four miles south of Camden, N. J. The Connecti- cut was steaming up the Delaware river when the tide caused the moor ings of the s. c. Folger to break. The Connecticut was not badly damaged. s. O. S. calls from the Connecticut said the Folger was in danger of sink ing and aid was rushed at once.
 After holding John West, alias Ed ward Roberts, in jail as a suspect, Lin coin, Neb., police released him, only to receive notice from Joliet, Ill.,, that he was wanted for violating a parole granted by the Illinois penitentiary au- thorities. Advices from Joliet said ' Quentin prison.
 Federal authorities in Jacksonville, Fla, have taken steps to seize the Japanese steamship Erie Maru, aboard which twelve cases of liquor were con- fiscated after officers had arrested seven Japanese sailors. One sailor was slightly wounded during a struggle with the officers. Officials said the ships manifest showed only thirteen Iuarts of liquor aboard.
 Doubt that the Cherokee Indian na ton can properly lay claim to 14,O00,- poo acres of land in Oklahoma and Texas, as was done in a petition filed n the United States Supreme Court be- cause it has no official or legal status IS a nation, was expressed by S. P. Freeling, attorney general of OklahO- ma. He said, however, it might be pos sible for individual descendants of members of the nation to support the petition.
 Convicted of murder at CovingtOn, Ga, in connection with the Jasper county peonage cases and sentenced to fife Imprisonment, John S. Williams, owner, has been taken to to await in jail action April 90 on his motion for new trial.
 Thirty-six of the forty-five men tried turing the last four weeks in Federal Court at Macon, Ga., on charges of