Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1918-05-02

the Missouri Senatorship to succeed
the late Senator William j. Stone.
| The British government announced
that shipping losses will be made pub
| lie monthly hereafter instead of each
| week.
Establishment of a. model town for
shipworkers near Camden, N. j., has
been started by the emergency fleet
corporation.
Vice Admiral Schroeder, the COM
mander at Zeebrugge, according to re-
ports will be deprived of his command
for being taken by surprise by the
British.
Mayor Davis, Of Cleveland, and
Mayor I. S. Myers, of Akron, Ohio,
have issued orders barring aliens from
obtaining licenses enabling them to
do business in the two cities.
Seven persons were killed and five
injured in a wreck on the Burlington
near Bayard, Neb., when fast
freight train rammed into work
train during binding snow storm.
Indictments were returned at Ed
wardsville, ILL.,, against sixteen per-
sons by the grand jury which investi-
gated the lynching on April 5, of Rob.
ert Paul Prayer at Collinsville.
Mrs. Rose Pastor Stokes, lecturer
and wife of the wealthy socialist, j..
G. Phelps Stokes of New York, viii
be tried at Kansas City May 20 on a
charge of violating the espionage act.
Sharp curtailment in the pleasure
auto production is looked forward to
shortly, as the result of conference
between leading auto manufacturers
of the country and the war Industries
board at Washington.
The Great Western Sugar company
has subscribed for 100000 of Lib
erty bonds, apportioned on basis Of
the sugar beet acreage in Colorado,
Nebraska, Montana, Wyoming and So.
Dakota.
A rush of German women to the
New York port enemy alien bureau
seeking permission to return to Ger
many has followed the publication Of
the regulation requiring enemy alien
women to register
Unless convinced that the brewers
who manufacture the beverage are
loyal American citizens he will vote
to deny licenses to all saloons which
sell Milwaukee-made beer, John r.
Ransom, police commissioner of Kan
sas City announced.
Concentration of Mexican troops on
the American border opposite the Big
Bend district of Texas was held by
government officials to be due to the
work of German propagandists. Neith-
er state nor war department officials
regard the situation as menace.
The number of American casual
ties in the German attack of April
20, near Seicheprey was about 35.
Since it has been admitted that Amer
lean losses We're 200, these figures
support the German claim that 1873
were captured.
John NJ. Birkner, formerly major of
the United States army, held by fed
eral authorities on a disloyal charge,
was released from the state peniten-
tiary at Santa Fe, N. NJ, on $4,000
bail, furnished by friends in Lincoln,
Neb.
The total losses Of the brigade OF
marines with the American expedi.
tionary force in France so far re-
ported, is 27S, as follows: Killed in
action, %. died from wounds, 10;
died from accidents, Q; wounded in
action, 244.
Both houses Of congress have
adopted the bill for the registration
for military service of young men who
have reached the age Of q years
Since June 5, last. 1t is estimated
that between 100000 and 10000 addi-
tional men will be available for mill
tary service under the law.
Rationing of confectioners and man
ufacturers using sugar, will follow
sugar cards for housewives to provide
sugar for the canning season, the food
administration announced. The sugar
card pledges householders buying SUI
gar on the card to use it only for
canning and preserving. Surplus SUI
gar must be saved.
Germany has demanded Of Holland
the right of transit not only for civil