Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1918-10-03

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bishop OF st. Paul, died in st. Paul.
A score OF prominent Catholic clergy
men were at the bedside of the eighty
year-old prelate.
Wasl,ingt0ss
According to announcement made by
ordnance department lac, 1922 machine
guns, 2.437,29 rifles and 221, SO1 pis-
tolls have been produced since the en-
trance OF the United States into the
war.
The sixth biweekly issue Of certifiy
cate Indebtedness in anticipation Of the
fourth Liberty loan was oversubscribed
by $25,216, 900, making total subscrip.
tons 1925, 216OOO.
A new credit Of $2,77O,OOO was
granted to Belgium by the treasury de-
partment. This makes the total credit
to Belgium $1,517 100000 and the to-
tai credit to all the allies 81, 200, 49,
600.
Curtailment of the manufacture Of
bicycles and accessories was AM
nounced by the war industries board.
Six billion dollars is the minimum
amount which the people Of the United
States are asked to subscribe for the
fourth Liberty loan, according to an
announcement by William G. McAdoo,
secretary Of the treasury, in an adj
dress in New York outlining the gov
ernment's plan for the campaign. The
share allotted to the Seventh district
is 141h per cent. or $87O,OO0,OO0. The
loan will bear Az per cent interest.
Bakers, restaurateurs and house
wives are requested in an order issued
by the food administration to make no
more icing or frosttng for cakes. Icing
is sugar waste, according to Herbert
Hoover. Frosting made of sweet ma
terial other than white sugar, however,
will be approved.
Forei9s,
Vice Admiral Elder Won Mann has
been designated to succeed Vice Adj
miral Won Capelle as secretary Of
the navy, according to the Cologne
Volks Zeitung. Won Mann is now Mt
the head Of the U-bOat section OF the
navy department.
German newspapers at Porto Allegro,
in the state of Rio Grande do Sui, so
aroused the popuIace by criticizing
Brazilian affairs that attacks were
made on the three newspapers.
Details OF Russian atrocities de-
scribing scenes of horror almost be-.
yond belief were received by the state
department. The massacre Of thou,
sands In Petrograd and Moscow by the
bolshevik mobs was reported The,
massacre of Russian citizens was re-
ported continuing in an appalling mani
ner. In Moscow there We're about $50
executions nightly.
Count Won Hertling, the German i'm
perial chancellor, in addressing the
reichstag main committee, complained
Of the lack of attention his acquies-
cence in the four points laid down by
President Wilson as peace essentials
had met from the American executive
A number of French and British off,
GERS have taken refuge in the Ameri-
can consulate at Moscow, which is UNI
der the protection of Norway, accord
ing to a dispatch from Copenhagen to
London. The bolshevik government
has placed guard around the build
ing.
United States Consul General Poole
has arrived at Helsingfors from Mos
COW and Is due in Stockholm, says a
dispatch received at the state depart
ment.
Lieutenant General Stein,, the Prus-
sian war minister, is reported to have
resigned, according to advice to the
Exchange Telegraph company at Lon
don from Copenhagen.
Riding a white horse, Francisco VII
la attacked Jiminez, Mex, for the sec
ond time since Saturday, according to
information received in Juarez. villa
occupied the old town OF Jiminez, but
was being stubbornly resisted by Gen
Joaquin .Amarro's cavalry force, which
drove Villa from Jiminez after the first
attack and occupation.