The Holbrook news., 1921-04-01
FOREIGN

Oldnd JneaLeT dL NIlldn, lldiy, twenty persons being killed, according to the
 London Times. Many were injured, at least twenty of whom are not expect
 ed to live.
 The council of ministers of Bel
 gium have decided to send BurgOmas- ter Max of Brussels to the United
 States to tender congratulations of the
 Belgian government to President Hard
 ing on his election.
 There are 3,OOOOOO war orphans in
 Germany, according to official fig
 ures. They are being given state and local care, but it is said they form large percentage of more than l. 100000 children in Germany being aid
 ed by foreign relief workers.
 Estimates that 25,OOO United States landseekers will visit western Canada
 during 1921 have been made by Walter
 Johnson of Winnipeg, secretary of the
 Farm Lands Settlement Association of
 Manitoba. A very large. number of in quiries about lands have been received from the states.
 The million-dollar plant of the Howe Sound Mining and Smelling Company at Brittania Beach, B. C., twenty miles north of Vancouver, is reported to have been destroyed by fire. Communica- ton by telegraph has been broken and no details are available as to the ex- tent of the damage done. The plant is owned in New York.
 Sam Lowe of Holland Landing, near Toronto, Can, was the hero of his townsfolk all because he had the pres ence of mind to pull off boot and sock and flag an onrushing passenger train before it reached a washOut on the Grand Trunk railway. The sock was red, and the train stopped. Pas sengers made up a purse.
 Customs sofficialshave found what they believe to be part of the Russian i'm. perial treasures, including a fragment of the late Cars crown, in the baggage of the Russian commercial delegation to Italy, held in the railway station at Rome, pending examination. Brilliants as large as nuts were discovered. A collection of 1.29O ancient coins, is de clared to be worth several millions.
 By the new treaty between Russia and Turkey, which defined the bonn daries of Turkey, both parties under take to recognize no international act relating to one party which is not rec Ognized by the other, says q Moscow wireless. The old treaties between Russia and Turkey, Turkeys debts to Russia and the system of capitulatiOns gre abolished. Batum is ceded to Georgia
 GENERAL
 Indictment of scores of Chicago landlords for making false income tax returns is threatened by Harry w. Mager, collector of internal revenue. Information furnished by tenants whose rents have been increased, will be used as the basis of the investiga- ton Mager is now making.
 The wearing of scant attire in pub lie has been prohibited in LeavenwOrth, Ind, by an ordinance adopted by the town board. Any person more than 14 years old who apears on the street in a garment which exposes the arms, shoulders or legs is to be fined under the terms of the ordinance from $5 to $25.
 The railroad labor board, in a de- cision at Chicago, held that the pres ent rates of pay and working condi- tions of Pullman sleeping car conduc- tors are just and reasonable and re- fused a request for an increase in pay and change in working conditions. The are paid from $155 to $19O a month.
 The Ford Motor Company, it is now believed in New York, has escaped the crisis which was expected to force the concern to undertake financing in the open market. Unless the affairs of this company undergo another rapid and startling change, bankers are doubtful if there will be any public of fering of Ford securities, at least for a long time to come.
 The Interborough Rapid Transit | operating the elevated and | subway lines in Manhattan, had a net | deficit of $2, 2,6S2, ,76O for the six months ended Dec. 31, it's annual report | showed, which has just tbeen issued.
 Although court decisions have gen. orally been to the effect that whisky | Is not property and cannot be stolen, Judge P. K. Humphries, in the crimi nal division of the Superior Court at | Ga, ruled that taking the con- tainer, which in this instance was a constituted a theft and sen +enced three Negroes to serve four to six years in the chain gang.
 A marked increase since 1910 in the number of insane in institutions in | Ill parts of the United States is a fea- -ure of a census of patients in insane just completed by HoratiOn M. Pollock, statistician of the New York Hospital Commission, Edith NJ. Turbish, statistician of the National Committee for Mental Hygiene. The ate of insane persons in institutions from 1910 to 1920 by 16 to he hundred thousand. In 1910 the ate was 2O4 and in 1920 22O per 100000 of the general population.
 Because big trucks are tearing up he highways and making the repair If bridges a costly item, legislative eaders in New York state are to tax notor trucks weighing five tons and ,ver $1O0 a ton every year. It is estl- hated that this will yield S35O. 900 a