Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1918-07-11
NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD
INTELLIGENCE GATHERED HERR
COVERS WIDE AREA.
GREATER OR LESSER IMPORT.
includes What is Going On at Wash.
Inoton and in Other Sections
Of the Country.

One hundred thousand cases OF
Spanish influenza" are reported in
Germany.
Mohammed v, sultan Of Turkey,
died July 4th, says Constantinople
dispatch.
Two persons were killed and three
injured, one seriously, when an auto
mobile crashed into telephone pole
at Omaha.
Information is in the hands Of
Washington officials that Holland in
tends to export to Germany $4,000
tons Of potatoes.
Without a dissenting vote and with
virtually no debate, the house passed
the bill authorizing an additional bond
issue of $4,000, 100000.
The price Of copper has been fixed
at 20 cents per pound, an advance OF
27z cents over the former price, the
war industries board announced.
Without word Of discussion or a
record vote, the senate adopted q re-
solution annulling the federal charter
of the National German-American al
lance. 1875 /.
The total number of Germans killed
and wounded by American troops in
the recent battle in Belleau wood is
between HOO and 1900, according to
official reports.
President Wilson, by proclamation.
formally took over the wharves and
docks Of the North German Lloyd and
Hamburg American steamship COM
panies at Hoboken.
Eugene Y. Debs, four-time candidate
FOR president of the United States on
the Socialist ticket, was arrested at
Cleveland, Ohio, charged with VIC
lating the espionage act.
|
Two explosions of trinitrotuluol at
the munition plant Of the Semet- Sol
way company near Syracuse, N. !,
resulted in the death Of 65 persons
and the injury to more than 100
others.
| A Canadian hospital on site be-
hind the British front in Flanders
was bombed by German aviators and
several persons, including doctors,
officers and patients, were killed or
seriously wounded.
The German government is unani.
mously opposed to a general election
during the war, and has submitted a
bill prolonging the life of the present
! reichstag until 1920, according to an
Amsterdam report.
1t has been officially reported that
an entire German regiment was vir-
| tually annihilated when American and
! French forces made brilliant attack
/ against the enemy on the Marine front
last Wednesday night.
A final count of the number Of per
sons killed when the Ruff building at
Sioux City, Ia, collapsed, gives the
number of dead as thirty-nine. It is
thought that all the bodies Of the vic.
tins have been recovered.
Germany has seized Russia's Blacl
sea fleet, which consists of two dread
thoughts, seven batsleships, seven pro
tected cruisers and great number OF
destroyers, submarines, transports
gunboats and miscellaneous craft.
German peace terms, as published
In a Prussian newspaper, demand thai
Great Britain turn over it's navy tic
4 Germany, return Gibraltar to Spain
and return Egypt and the Suez cana
to Turkey. That England, Franc,
and the United States pay German.
an indemnity of S45,O00,O0O, 900, ant
that Belgium and French territory b'
surrendered.
! New wheat prices, announced by TIL,
food administration grain corporation
are. as follows at markets of the mid
die west: Duluth and Minneapolis
s2.211k; Kansas City and Omaha
$2.1s. Prices range from S2.341s II
1920 at other principal markets. TIT
above prices are for No. / hard wheat
4 The price basis for No. 2 wheat vii
be three cents below No. /, and TO
4 No. 8 four cents below No. 2. Grade
4 below No. 8 vii be dealt in on cample
II tss*
The Navy department announce.
that a British transport, chartered b
the American government and boun,
4 to this country, was torpedoed an
sunk June 10, and that CT member
Z, of the crew are missing. No troop
were aboard the vessel.