Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1918-06-06
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includes What Is Going On at Wash.
tnuten and In Other Sections
q the Country.
The second Red Cross war fund was
eversubscribed by nearly $50,OOO,O00
according to unofficial reports.
Fire destroyed ward at the South
Carolina state hospital for the insane
At Columbus, resulting In the burning
to death Of sixteen patients.
One hundred and one persons lost
their lives when, the British transport
Leasowe Castle was sunk by an enc
my submarine in the Mediterranean.
Secretary Of the Navy Daniels de-
rlared In an address at Wilkes Barre,
Pa, that the United States will send
ten million men to France, If neces-
uary to win the war.
Three lives were lost and much
property damage done in portions Of
the Panhandle region Of Texas as a
result Of heavy rain and windstorms
which swept the district.
sauerkraut Is Of Dutch origin and
not German and may be eaten without
hisloyalty, according to officials Of the
food administration, who have investi-
gated the source Of the dish,
President Wilson in a long address
before a joint session of congress
asked the nation's lawmakers to fore
60 a vacation, remain in session and
pass a revenue bill to carry on the
war.
California's excess over its Red
Cross quota is reported as $1,513,927.
Arizona is reported more than $780,
BOO above its 100000 quota and Ne
ada $4,000 over the $4,000 assign
ed 1t.
Nineteen bombs have been dropped
on Landau, Germany, by ten allied
airmen, the Tageblatt Of Berlin re-
ports. The garrison headquarters and
damaged.
Declaring that "this is the supreme
crisis Of the war;" British and Cana
dian recruiting missions in this coun-
try have sent out an appeal to all SUBJ
jects Of the realm to join the colors
Immediately.
+ Major General Leonard Wood will
not accompany his division at Camp
Funston, Kans., when it finally moves
overseas, but it was understood will
90 to command Of the department Of
the west with headquarters at San
Francisco.
One union express company for the
United States has been created by
agreement between Director General
McAdoo and the Adams, American,
Wells Fargo and Southern express
companies, to be known as the Fed
eral Express company.
Thomas j. Mooney, convicted of
murder in connection with the San
Francisco preparedness parade bomb
explosion July %, 1915. was again
sentenced to death. He is to be
hanged at st. Quentin prison. some
time between May IS and Aug. %,
the exact date not being announced.
Senator James Hamilton Lewis said
In an address at Chicago, that the
United States now has 100000 sol
diers In foreign lands and that by De
cember i It will be numerically equal
W Il&aS VI AIuSAdAus AC k1uSllCGA
navy" he declared, has climbed from
fourth to second position among the
worlds fleets"
The food administration has agair
warned the nation that there must be
no relaxing in the conservation Of
wheat. The food administration es
Inmates a supply until the new
harvest Of about 100000 bushels
I OF this 100000 bushels must be ex
ported before new wheat is available
No trace has been found of the fifty
three American troopers who persisted
when the British steamer Moldavis
was torpedoed and sunk in the Eng
ush channel. The Moldavia carried
40 officers and men Of the Fifty
eighth United States inafntry. All o.
those missing were members of Com
pany B. Mono fthe crew or officer!