Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1918-12-05


It is estimated that there are
GO,OO0 cases of influenza in rorto
RIGA. The schools in Is towns Of the
island are being used as hospitals.
Officials of the railroad administra-
ton have agreed upon the restoration
of numerous trains and through sleep
ing car equipment withdrawn early
in the war.
Sick and wounded American SOL
diers held prisoners in Germany who
are not strong enough to be moved
at the present time will be cared for
by the American Red Cross.
A lone bandit held up and robbed
the express messenger on a Union Pa
;cific passenger train, near North
Platte, Neb., Of several thousand dol
lars and over $500 in currency.
In air raids in sixty-six municipal
districts in England, 1856 persons were
killed and 1,147 injured. The prop
erty damage was $4,5OO,OOO. These
figures are not assumed as complete
for all England.
The American second corps which
served with the British Fourth army
during the closing days of the war
has been rewarded for it's work by u
glowing letter of praise from Field
Marshal Haig, the British commander
in-chief.
Paris reports state that a league
of nations is likely to figure before
the peace conference at an early
stage of the proceedings, instead OF
being laid over to the close, after the
territorial aspirations of the various
powers are settled.
Recause 1t was the. first city of its
size to report ans oversubscription to
its quota in the fourth Liberty loan
und more than 20 per cent of it's pop
i,sation subscribing, Lincoln, Neb.. is
TO have the honor of naming one OF
the big ships now being built for the
emergency fleet corporation.
'Fhe first woman to be appointed an
ambassador has been nominated by
the Hungarian government for the
post in Switzerland She is the Hun
garian writer and pacifist, Rosika
Schwimmer, who has been credited
with being the originator of the Ford
peace ship idea.
The problem of increasing potash
production in the United States SO
that the American farmer. may be per-
inaRently freed "from the grip Of
Germany's monopoly has been turned
over to the Interior department by
the War Industries board.
A number Of labor unions ON the
Pacific coast are planning to strike ON
Dec. 8 as protest against the execu-
ton of Thomas ]. Mooney, sentenced
to hang December 13 as the result of
his conviction of murder in connec-
ton with the Preparedness day bomb
outraged at San francisco, July %,
1916.
Thomas J. Mooney, labor leader,
sentenced to be executed on Friday,
Dec. IS, for murder growing out Of
the Preparedness day bomb explosion
in San Francisco on July 2, 1916.
when ten persons were killed and
forty others injured, has had his SEN
tence committed to life Imprisonment
by Governor Stephens Of California.
A socialist meeting. called to pro-
test against the execution OF Thomas
j. Mooney at New York, but which de-
veiOped into meeting at which boil
sheviki doctrines were expounded,
ended in riot when soldiers and
sailors attacked the men and women
leaving the hall. Red flags and other
red decorations were torn from those
who participated in the meeting by
the troops.
Half dead from starvation and dis
ease 1921 survivors out Of the orig
inal total of 200 bolshevik prisoners
and refugees in train sent across
Siberia by the Czecho-Slovak troops
fighting in SAHARA, European Russia.
have arrived at Vladivostok. OF the
eight hundred persons missing from
the original total, most Of them died
from starvation and exposure.
= General March, chief OF stan, an
nounced at Washington that the fol-
lowing army divisions will be first to
return from overseas just as soon as
the sick and wounded have been
moved to the United States: National
Guard-34th (Nebraska. Iowa. South