Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1918-07-04
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includes What 10 Going On at Wash.
lnston and In Other Sections
Of the Country.
The entire Austrian cabinet has re-
dgned, according to reports reaching
Paris.
Several neutral European countries,
It is reported, are planning to offer
mediation to all warning nations.
Texas became a "bone dry" state
June %. when approximately $50 sa-
looms closed under q statewide prohi-
bition act.
Allied and neutral shipping sunk by
German U-boats during the first twen-
ty-eight days in May totalled 233,639
gross tons.
The Georgia legislature has ratified
the federal prohibition constitutional
amendment. Georgia is the twelfth
state to ratify the amendment.
Recent floods and storms in Wy
oming have resulted in the death of
ten persons and damaged property
to the extent of more than 81, 100000.
Fifteen hundred people were rem
dered homeless when fire destroyed
more than thirty residences and busi-
ness blocks at Cleelum, Wash. The
loss is placed at $1,5O0,O00.
A Canadian hospital on site be-
hind the British front in Flanders
was bombed by German aviators and
several persons, including doctors,
officers and patients, were killed or
seriously wounded.
.
Secretary of War Baker has dis
closed that within three months an
enlarged army project, now being
worked out, will be presented to con-
gress to represent the maximum fight
ing effort of the country.
Gov. Lynn j. Frazier, Nonpartisan
league candidate, defeated John Steen
of Ruby, Endorsed by the Independent
Voters association, for the republican
nomination for governor Of North
Dakota in the recent primaries.
If the highest hopes Of the govern
ment are realized, Secretary Baker
said at Washington, 1,450OOO men
will have reached France some time in
August and that there will be total
force under arms of approximately 81
100000 by that time.
Germany's latest declaration Of
war aims, as enunciated recently in
the Berlin reichstag by DIR. Won Kuehl-
mann, minister for foreign affairs,
was regarded by Washington officials
as merely another phase in Germany's
old cycle of military drives and peace
offensives.
Drawing Of draft numbers for
Americas "Class of 1918" was COM
pleted in two hours at Washing
ton, when 1900 numbered pellets were
drawn from bowl, giving every man
who has become q since the first reg
istration his place in the selective
service.
War correspondents on the italian
front declared that from the Monticello
uplands to San Dona, the whole coun-
tryside is one vast cemetery, and that
thousands Of dead Austrians litter the
ground. Throughout the district there
are no Austrians other than dead,
wounded or prisoners.
w. W. Cadle superintendent of Non
partisan league organizers of South
Dakota, has filed suit in federal dis
trict court at Sioux Falls against Capt
G. G. Brown of the Bellefourche home
guards and others, asking for $4,000
damages on the ground that he was
forcibly kidnapped in Bellefourche and
taken to Sturgis.
The new sugar restrictions, which
became effective July /, will appor.
ton the 100000 tons Of sugar in
sight for the six months ending Jan.
nary 1, on the basis of three pounds
per capita monthly. The apportion.
ment is about double the compulsory
sugar ration of England, France and
Italy.
American forces showed the Hun
what they are made of last Tuesday
night when they cleared the Belleau
Wood, on the Marine front, of the
enemy, captured 264 prisoners and In
flicted heavy losses on the Germans
In killed and wounded. A number OF
machine guns and other booty was