The Holbrook news., 1921-01-07
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GENERAL

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 Four men are seeking to recover iI court at Milwaukee $2,725 lost in an African domino game In which it is al legged loaded" dice were used.
 Damage estimated at $40O,000 was done by a fire that swept the down town business district of Terre Haute Ind. The origin of the fire is unknown
 Three children and a woman were burned to death and two other chil- dren and their father narrowly escaped the same fate near Mount Morris, N Y, when the home of William Barrett was destroyed.
 John Doyle, an A. E. F. veteran, was killed in the subway when he leaped in front of an express train at the Sev- enty-second street station in New York Doyle served in France with a machine gun battalion and was suffer ing from shell shock when he returned. Up to two weeks ago he worked in a ship yard, but because of the state of his nerves, due to shell shock, went to base hospital.
 Plans have been completed for a new six-story $4,OOO,OOO postoffice building at Chicago to handle parcel post exclu- sively. Work will start about March l. The new building which is to be To- cated in the heart of the railroad ter minal district, will have underground loading platforms 800 feet long, capa- ble of accommodating forty-two rail- way mail cars at a time. With three shifts a day, 126 cars can be handled.
 Retail prices of practically all cloth ing reached their lowest levels since 1914 in Chicago when merchants ad- vertised gigantic clearance sales, throwing millions of dollars worth of goods on the market this week.
 Police of New Orleans have launched an anti-hobo campaign, fearing that crime wave activities by the authori- ties in the North might start pilgrim age of undesirable winter tourists. The jail is crowded with wayfarers accept ing this enforced hospitality.
 The messroom and several state rooms in the officers quarters on the presidential yacht Mayflower were burned out while the yacht was tied up at the navy yard at Washington. The loss is estimated at $1OO,OOO. A board of inquiry was convened to de- termine the origin of the fire.
 The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Com pany of Akron, Ohio, announced def icit for the fiscal year ending Oct. 31, of $15, ,647, ,653, not including anticipat- ed losses on cOntractural obligations for rubber and fabrics which are ex- pected to be approximately $19000,00O, notwithstanding that sales exceeded $20O,000,000, the largest in the history of the company.
 Fire which broke out in the plant of the Wilmington Leather Company, Will mington, Del, caused damage estimat- ed by James I. Ford, treasurer of the company, at $2,5OO,OOO, and upset plans for employing 800 men and women to relieve the unemployment situation in this city.
 Boston is, said to have become the greatest fishing port in the world with the announcement that 122, ,226,060 pounds of ground fish had been brought there during 1920, shattering all records for the last thirty-twO years.
 A woman with S16,OOO in bank notes bound to her thigh by a handkerchief was found dead of gas poisoning in room on East Twelfth street in New York. A note with the money read: "If anything happens to me, this money belongs to NJ. Bolaton & Son, Sharon, Pa"
 Capt. Ernest Yarrow, director gen. eral of American Near East relief in Transcaucasia, has addressed a mes sage to the Turkish military command CT on the Eastern front, appealing for protection against the Bolsheyists for the Near East relief workers.