Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1918-05-30


We're forty-four killed and 179 injured.
President Wilson has signed the
Overman bill giving the president
broad powers to coordinate govern
ment departments.
There is under way marked ex-
odus of entente allied subjects from
Russia because of famine, according
to reports.
South Dakota claims the distinction
of being the first state to fill its
quota in the Red Cross, $100,000,OO0
war fund campaign.
President Wilson has signed the Sc
dition bill giving the government wide
powers to punish disloyal acts and
utterances.
Five persons We're killed and 80 in
jured, when the village of Lone
Rock, Wis, was partly wiped out by
a tornado.
Mrs. Rose Pastor Stokes, charged
with violation Of the espionage act,
was convicted by jury in federal
court at Kansas City.
A twelve-mile advance mas been
made by the French army on the
Macedonian line near Lake Ochrida,
the Paris war Office announced.
Reports from Switzerland say that
all Bohemia has been put under mar
tial law because of the peoples SYM
pathy with America and the allies.
Prospects for the coming harvest in
France are better than any year since
ISIS, according to a statement made
at Paris by Victor Boret, food min
lister.
More than 100 women nurses, pa
tients and attendants We're killed or
wounded in raid on large number
of British hospitals in France by Ger
man airmen.
Captain Hall, noted American
aviator, previously reported killed in
action in France, is now known to be
d prisoner in Germany. His home is
ut Colfax, Ia.
Secretary Baker has sent to con-
gress the draft of a bill proposing to
raise the maximum age limit for vol
untary enlistment in the army from
40 to 55 years.
Soldiers and sailors on furlough
and travelling at their own expense
soon will be given special passenger
rates of about cent a mile, under an
order issued by Director General Nc
Adoo.
More than s16.oo0Ooo,ooo insurance
OH 'ie lives of more than 100000
sol':iers and sailors already has been
written by the bureau of war risk in
surance.
Mexico has severed diplomatic re-
lations with Cuba. The Mexican
charge at Havana and the Cuban min
lister at Mexico City have been re-
called.
Three members of the old Third
Iowa, now the One Hundred and
Sixty-eighth infantry, were reported
as having been killed and two severe
ly injured in France.
Investigation by the state depart
ment has failed to verify reports that
Alexander Kerensky, the former pre-
mier II Russia, arrived here or is on
his way 10 .he United States.
On recommendation of General
Pershing, tobacco, which heretofore
has been purchased by the soldiers or
issued by the Red Cross and other
agencies, will be made a part of the
regular rations.
Louisiana is the first state to refuse
to ratify the federal prohibition con-
stitutionala mendment The state
senate defeated resolution of rati-
fication after it had been passed by
the house.
Germany's reported importation and
storage in this country of large num-
bers of Mauser rifles and quantities
of ammunition was declared a myth
by Deputy State Attorney General
Becker Of New York at the conclusion
of his inquiry into the matter.
Fifty-siX men are known to be
dead; ninety-four injured and in hos
pitfalls, and thirty-one missing rs a re-
suit of the nine explosions that
wrecked the Aetna Chemical COM