Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1918-12-19
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The postoffice department has asked
congress for $s,OO0OO0 for The rural
parcel post service for the year be-
ginning July L next.
Representative Carter Glass of Vir-
GINA will succeed VIM. McAdoo as
secretary of the treasury. The APP
nointment has been approved by the
senate.
Veteran divisions of the American
army, including the Rainbow division,
will remain in France until peace is
declared, in the opinion of Secretary
of War Baker.
Coblenz, one Of the strongest forti-
fed cities in the German empire, is
under the complete military control Of
troops of the American Army of Oc-
cupation.
Thomas Nelson Page, American
ambassador to Italy, announced that
President Wilson would pay an offic-
ial visit to Pope Benedict at Rome
on December %.
The British authorities in charge of
the occupation in the German zone
assigned to the British army, have
ordered all German men to raise their
hats to British officers.
The controversy between Chile and
Peru is approaching a peaceful solu-
ton as result of the efforts of the
United States government to mediate
the difference between the two South
American nations.
Thirty-seven deaths from influenza
and pneumonia occurred at Denver in
single day last week, the largest
days mortality since the epidemic be-
came prevalent in the city.
The q. s. s. Cyclops, modern
19.0OO-ton collier, missing since last
March, has been given up as lost by
the Navy department. No trace of the
crew of 213 and fifty-seven passengers
has ever been found.
Rumors circulated at Omaha that
the street car strike in that city was
the forerunner of nationwide strike
to secure recognition Of unions, was
denied by President Mahon Of the Ma
tional Garments union.
report states that, twenty-eight
persons were killed and forty-eight
wounded in street fighting in Berlin
between government troops and forces
of the Spartacus group. in which the
latter We're completely defeated.
Karl Liebknecht, leader of the Ger
man bolsheviki, is reported to have is
sued proclamation in Berlin declar-
ing that. ''We refuse peace with the
entente and intend to overthrow the
present government within fort
night"
On instructions from President Will
son while he was aboard the George
Washington bound for France, Vice
President Marshall presided over a
cabinet meeting, it being the first time
vice president performed such a
function during the life of presi-
dent.
Chairman Sims Of the interstate
commerce commission, at the request
of the administration, introduced a
bill in congress designed to carry into
effect recommendations of the federal
trade commission that the government
regulate the meat and packing indus
| try of the United States.
The United States transport Sierra,
the American hospital ship Comfort
and the French liner Chicago arrived
at New York with more than 1000
wounded American soldiers from
] overseas. Many of whom were mem
bers of the Rainbow division and ma
rines who had been wounded at
Chateau Thierry.
A. Bruce Bieaaski, chief of the bu-
reau of investigation of the Depart
ment Of Justice in completing his tes-
timony before the senate committee
Investigating brewers and German
4 propaganda, revealed that $7,5O0,OOO
was the cost to Germany of the pro-
paganda campaign in the United
States, the sum, he said, coming from
the total fund of $27,S5O,OOO held by
the embassy in Washington.
Indictments against twenty-four
prominent Arizona men charged with
: conspiracy as an outgrowth of the de-
portations Of 1,1s6 alleged !. w. w
from Bisbee, Ariz., July 10, 1917, have