The Holbrook news., 1921-02-25
FOREIGN

at VladivoStOk were attacked by par
 ty Of Russians probably for the pur- pose of holding them ID, according to advices received by Admiral Strauss,
 commanding the Asiatic fleet.
 For hundreds of miles throughout south and southwest County Cork ali
 the principal roads have been rendered unfit for use, trenches have been dug,
 barricades erected and bridges de- stroye.l. according to report issued at Dublin Castle.
 Cancellation of the debts Of allied nations by the United States is urged
 by the Tribuna in Rome in an editorial on the economic and financial situation
 in Europe The newspaper says the
 United States may find her very strength peril in future
 The cabinet crisis, which resulted in the resignation of the ministry at Lis bon, was caused by protests over the shortage of oil, due to government re- sardine eanneries and preserve fac tories have closed. throwing 6,0O0 per sons out of work.
 Three checks written originally for small amounts, then certified and raised to total value of s17,0 ,000, were cashed in banks in Montreal by man for whom police were searching. Made with invisible ink, the original figures, an examination disclosed, faded after certifications were made, enabling the forger to write in his own figures.
 Mexican eonsuls in the United States have been ordered by the foreign of flee not 10 wise the passports of labor CTS coming to Mexico and border off cials have been instructed to be ex- tremely vigilant in preventing such Yorkmen from crossing the Rio Grande. This action WIS taken ;n an effort to stop the tide of American Tworkmen flowing into Mexico to ri:e alleged Jetriment of native labor-rS. Evidence that a Bolshevist rcCGlu- ton has been planned for France, Hol- land, Belgium and Germany has been found by the Belgian police, according to an Exchange Telegraph dispatch from Brussels. The dispatch said |: Belgian police, in searching inc homes of Communists, found Gocu- ments in which was contained .ln CT der from Moscow for plans to larrch huge revolutionary movement in few weeks in France, Belgium, Ger many and Holland.','
 GENERAL
 A decrease of about 20 per cent in the wage scale of the building trades in Minnesota was announced there by Morris Schumacher, president of the Minnesota Building Employers Asso- ciatiOn.
 Preparations are under way by tte treasury to launch the proposed $1S,- 100000 Disqualification expansion pro gam for the benefit of disabled war veterans immediately the sums are made available by Congress.
 Sleeping sickness has caused forty seven deaths in New York City since Jan. 1, Health Commissioner Copeland announced. Eleven new cases and one death were reported there, bringing the total since New Year to 179.
 Federal highway inspectors found in a culvert some miles from Guide Rock, Neb., eleven safety deposit boxes stolen from the Guide Rock state bank. Liberty bonds and other securities to the value of nearly $3e.OOO were found in the boxes.
 Five bandits drove up to the post office in Toledo, Ohio and held up the clerks at the point of revOlvers, seized eleven sacks of registered mail and made their escape. The value of tho contents of the sacks was estimated to be between -$300,OO0 and S1,000,OC0. It was reported that several sacks Of the registered mail contained federal reserve bank notes.
 Police Judge L. L. Kent of Atlanta. Ga, found himself guilty of violating traffic law on evidence submitted by the policeman who docketed the case and imposed theu sual fine. He paid.
 Three armed posses are securing the country aroun9. .Blueridge, an oil town near Houston, Texas, for the lone masked bandit who beat to death As sistant Cashier Robert Lee Kirby, robbed the State Bank of Blueridge, and escaped on foot. across the prairie with $6,OO0. The bank had only re- ceived it's charter and opened for bus mess. The robber left only $10 in the bank.
 The murder mystery which has grown up around the death of Richard S. Lawrence, former Denver man, sup posed to have been killed by train March 21, 1918, was exploded in Madi- son, Wis, with the announcement of results of an official examination made of the body. Investigation by Dr. c. H. Bunting, University of, Wis consin, pathologist, and pr. W. F. Lorenz of the MendOta Psychatric in- stitute, proved, according to their statements, that Lawrence came to his death by being struck by a train.
 The anti-alien land ownership bill, restricting aliens ineligible to citizen ship from buying, leasing or control ling land in Texas, was passed finally in the Senate without a dissenting vote. The bill is directly aimed against the acquiring of land in Te1as y Jap anese.
 Low tide in Baltimore's labor situa- tion has been passed Of the 16,O00 workers in the city without employ ment, one-half will be given work with