Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1916-02-10
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A privy council was held at Bucking.
ham palace In London at which King
George signed proclamation fixing
February 10 as the date on which the
military service bill goes into effect.
This is the CONSUMPTION bill
Thirty-five more deaths in British
waters, resulting from the Zeppelin
raid, are reported al London. Twenty
two of the victims are Germans. mem.
bers of the crew of a dirigible, believed
to have been the Liz. which fell into
the North sea. Thirteen men of the
crew of the collier Franz Fischer we're
drowned when the collier was sunk by
bomb dropped by Zeppelin.
The Russians are surrounding Ere
rum from which city the Turkish au.
thorities have fed. according to re-
ports reaching Athens.
The conscription law recently passed
in parliament will become effective
March 2. the London Evening Star an
nounced.
Field Marshal Won Der Goltz Is now
In command of the Turkish tore es at
Erzerum. says a dispatch from Petro.
grad There are $4,000 men locked
up in the city with provisions fer only
fortnight.
A German airship has bombarded
the allies ships and stores at Saloliki
with great success. the war office at
Berlin announced
Fifty-four persons were killed and
81 injured in the latest Zeppelin raid
on England The figures in regard to
the casualties we're outlined in an Of
fetal statement issued at London. The
statement avs 220 bombs were
dropped on many towns and in rural
districts in Derbyshire. Leicester
shire. l.incoln-hire and S-affordhire.
The Zeppelin raids upon Paris were
in reprisal for a French air raid upon
the open German town OF Freiburg.
The results were satisfactory" to the
war office. says Berlin dispatch.
Domestic
The anthracite coal operators meet.
ing at New York rejected the demands
of their miners for a 20 per cent IN.
crease in wages. complete recognition
of the United Mine Workers of Amer.
lea, a two-year working agreement. an
eight-hour day and changes in the
methods OF fixing wages.
An explosion OF $4,000 pounds OF
powder at the DUPONT company plant
near Ferndale. Pa. wrecked a one
story mixing house and the plant s
wire service. No one was killed.
A book containing the secret code OF
the United States navy has been lost
from the torpedo-boat destroyer Hull.
and according to messages received
at San francisco from Washington.
the navy department has ordered the
courtmartial at the Mare island navy
yard of two naval officers.
j. p. Morgan sailed from New York
for England aboard the steamship Rot
terdam limitations that Mr.. Nor
gans trip might not be unrelated to
another external loan by the allies met
with denial
Two hundred and forty-five persons
held prisoners by German prize crew
on the captured British passenger
liner Appam at Old Point Comfort,
were informed that they were at lib
erty 70 land on American soil More
than 200 other persons. including the
German captors, will be held on board
until the United States government de-
termines their status and that of the
ship itself.
President, Wilson, speaking before
a large audience at Milwaukee, Wis.
declared the men who say Americans
will not stand together in time of
trouble have shot their bolt" He
appealed to all Americans to support
the government In its national de-
tense plans.
The 1.222 delegates to the conven.
ton of the United Mine Workers Of
America adjourned at Indianapolis
Ind. Almost everyone voted to return
to indianapolis in 1918.
United States Senator Jones of Ken
lucky appealed to the war department
at Washington for clothing. food and
tents to shelter homeless victims of
the flood along the Mississippi river
between Cairo. ILL.,. and a point north
Of Hickman. Ky.
The crew of the Takata Maru has
been saved, but the ship has been
abandoned In sinking condition, &C.
cording to a wireless message from
Captain Moses received by Anchor line
officials at New York.
Eight lives lost and property dam.
age to the extent perhaps OF $4,000.
900 is the result of the foods that are
sweeping sections Of Arkansas. Mis-
sissippi and Kentucky. Hundreds OF
head of live stock have been drowned
The governments litigation against
John H. Patterson and the other TWEEN.
ty-six officials or former officials of
the National Cash Register comnanu