The St. Johns herald., 1921-06-23
THE WORLD IN
 PARAGRAPHS 4 BRIEF RECORD OF PASSING EVENTS IN THIS AND FOR
 EIGN COUNTRIES
IN LATE DISPATCHES
DoINGs AND HAPPENINGS THAT MARK THE PROGRESS
 OF THE AGE.
WESTERN
(westsrn Newspaper Union News senioal

Mrs. c. M. Hyland of Palmer, Neb.,
 died at Omaha from a bullet wound
 inflicted by one of three highwaymen
 who attempted to rob her, her brother
 in-law, James Kane of Omaha, a for
 mer member of the Omaha Western
 League baseball club, and Kane'S wife.
 The robbers escaped.
 Approximately 1O,OO0OO0 acres of
 wheat will be harvested in Kansas this
 year, J. c. Mohler, secretary of the
 State Board of Agriculture, estimated
 This is 900,000 acres more than esti-
 mated in the boards report of May 20,
 which was based on incomplete asses
 sors' returns of March l.
 Placing of an order for 10,OO0,O00 pounds of copper wire by the Pacific Gas and Electric Company of San Francisco has been announced. It was said to be the largest single order for copper wire ever made. The wire will be shipped from Black Eagle, Mont, it was said, and will require 270 rail- road cars for transit.
 A steam shovel got tangled with high power wires while at work at Portland, Ore, causing the scoop to fall and crush to death Edward Peter son, workman, and seriously injured two others. F. A. Harmon, engineer, was hurled off his feet and the scoop, released from control, fell and pin toned the three men who were wield- ing picks.
 Hordes of ants, driving upward from the earth through mud tubes, are threatening destruction to the $1O0,0O0 Exchange building at the stockyards at Wichita, Kan. Oak lumber stored under the building has been practical ly consumed and the ants have driven their way up along pipe lines to the woodwork of the west end of the struc- ture, which they have tunnelled as far as the second floor.
 The stain of illegitimacy was re- moved from the name of 6-year-old Eugene Sorinl of San Francisco through blood test performed by Dr. Albert Abrams, noted scientist, who developed the electronic method of de termining race and percentage by blood vibration tests. Eugene'S mother, now Mrs. Marie Delsecco, had sworn that the child, although born during the period of her married life with Julius Sorini, was not son of Sorini's.
 WASHINGTON
 Contentious of the Western Union Telegraph Company that it cannot be | held liable for damages caused through | errors in transmitting messages while its lines were under government con- trol were upheld by the Supreme Court. A decision of South Carolina courts, awarding damages to s. B. Pos ton, cotton dealer, on this ground, was reversed.
 The United States Steel Corporation answered the citation of the federal trade commission with a categorical denial of alleged unfair practices charged by independent steel produc- CTS. The corporation admits in its an- swer, however, that it controls 125 steel plants, 45 per cent of the output of semi-finished rolled steel and 47 per cent of the crude steel.
 The Supreme Court in Washington has ordered the United Shoe Machin- cry case, the original suit between Wyoming and Colorado, and a number ] of others restored to the docket for before a full court"
 Two thousand railroad workers and heir sympathizers held demonstra- ' ion at RatOn, N. Mex, in protest l against the recent nationwide reduc- S ion in wages. After parade, mass ] meeting was held, at which the open t hop movement was attacked. r
 Inauguration of the administration a 'Olicy for refunding most of the ST. 00,000,000 shOr1dated debt has been | by Secretary Mellon, with s
 combined offering of $5O0,OOO,OO0 of q hree-year 5az per cent treasury notes nd one-year -51k per cent treasury cer- 0 ificates, both dated June 15. t Everybody's spending money shrank t y $1.99 during the past year, accord lg to the monthly circulation state d lent issued by the treasury. On June t , 1920, per capita circulation in the r Ountry was $57.42, compared with a 55.4S on June l, 1921. In the same u eriod the total money in circulation e ropped from $6,1O2, ,1e2, PA to $5,983,- fl 5s,29S. b