The Holbrook news., 1921-05-13
FOREIGN

one Of the largest of the kind ever operated in Mexico, has closed its doors in compliance with orders from Governor Enriquez of Chihuahua. The place has been in operation since the first of the present year and during that time paid $506O00 gold in license fees to the state government. Physicians of Dublin, regardless of politics, have ignored the order of the government military authorities to re- port at once the arrival in hospitals of persons suffering from gunshot wounds. Thus far no proceedings have been taken against them. The order was intended to aid the military in identifying their attackers, many of whom escape though wounded Reports from Paris from an authOri- tative source say the Council of the League of Nations has decided to award the Aland islands to Finland. Sweden insisted on ownership of the islands, but the decision states that ''Finland's right is incontestable" The sOviets refuse to recognize the alloca- tion of the islands to anyone except Russia, as they control the entrance to Petrograd.
 Rene Viviani, special French envoy, en route home, in a wireless message of congratulations to the American Le- zion, it's national commander, Col. F. w. Galbraith, Jr., and General Persh- ing, invited the legion men to visit France and declared he never would forget the "cOurage soldiers of America. Among the great people who love them, they will find anew the inn age of the great country which they honOr," the message concluded.
 DrI Koudish, Russian Soviet repre- sentative at COnstantinOple, who was given a British passport wise to gos to London to confer with Leonid Krassin, Soviet minister of trade and commerce, was assaulted and beaten by Russian colonel while dining with his wife in a restaurant. The colonel exclaimed {: How dare you drink champagne among the victims of Soviet Russia 70 British police who were called in told
 
 back" He demanded British official protection.
 Riccardo Zanella, leader of the Fi- tune peoples party and head of the -communistic faction in the Italian cleo tions, by a coup d'etat, occupied the city hall at Fiume Count Caccia- DOminiOne, the Italian minister, left Plume aboard a torpedo boat destroyer owing to the rioting. The frontier has been closed by a brigade of infantry. When the AutOnOmists claimed they hay won the election by more than a thousand votes, Zanella and his forces stOrmed the city hall and ejected the old administration.
 GENERAL
 Filling stations in the Middle West have dropped gasoline from 25 to p cents gallon, it was announced by the Standard Oil Company of Indiana. Gasoline at tank wagons is now 20 in- stead of 23 cents.
 Plans for recruiting harvest hands in Kansas this season were discussed at a conference of heads of employment agencies in the various cities and the labor department of the industrial court. It was estimated 10000 to 5O,- 900 men would be required to gather the 1921 crop.
 Reports from districts swept by a violent windstorm shows that the counties of Hamilton, Webster and Adams were visited and the property damage is considerable. Fifty farms within a radius of twenty-five miles of Hastings, Neb., were swept. On a of farms the barns and out buildings were completely destroyed and the houses damaged. On several farms horses and sheep were either killed or injured. In the vicinity of Guide Rock the wind took the form of a tornado, unroOfing several houses destroying them.
 Cutt off from the fortune of George NJ. Oyster, the widow, Mrs. Cecil Ready Oyster of Syracuse, N. Y., will wage a bitter legal battle for large part of the estate, it was predicted here when word came from Atlantic City that Oyster shortly before his death had executed a codicil to his will by which the society girl he married January 15 was disinherited.
 With the definite selection of 'Boyle's thirty acres" adjoining Mont gomery park in Jersey City, as the site of the arena for the Dempsey Carpen- tier heavyweight championship bout July ?, training plans of the contest ants were laid accordingly. It is gen. orally understood that the champion will select Atlantic City, while the Frenchman will train on Long Island.
 Miss Lucia Russell Briggs, daughter 1f Lebaron. Russell Briggs, president of Radcliffe College, and dean of the faculty of arts and sciences at Har- Tard, has been chosen president of Mil Haukee Downer College at Milwaukee, Wis. She succeeds Miss Ellin c. SObin. l Miss Briggs is graduate of Radcliffe, md since 1915 has been connected with he English department at Simmons College.
 Papers filed in the county clerks office at Buffalo, N. Y, state that Ethel J. Mahan, owner of a grocery | ;tore, became so worried over fear that |