Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1918-05-16


the sinking of the Lusitania by Il Ger
man submarine with the loss Of 1875
| lives.
Lieutenant John Rosenvald the
famous football player of the Uni
versity of Minnesota, was killed in ac-
ton on the battletelds of France.
| The German government has an
nounced that her captures during the
past six months, thus far tabulated,
! shows SLY 100000 worth of plumber.
The teaching of German was dis
continued and military training made
compulsory in Council Bluffs Ia, high
schools by unanimous vote of the
school board.
Eleven persons were killed when
the American steamship Tyler, for
merly an Old Dominion freighter,
was torredoed and sunk off the
| French coast.
Men raised under the draft can be
sent anywhere in the world to fight
for the United States, the supreme
court decided in upholding the select
i've draft law.
Senator Hitchcock of Nebraska has
been appointed chairman of the SEN
ate foreign relation committee to sue
coed Senator Stone of Missouri, who
died some time ago.
A three-inch shell, which gunner
was trying to force into trench NOR
tar, exploded at Camp Bowie, near
Fort Worth, Tex, killing nine gum
ners and injuring seven.
Wholesale deportation of the civil
ian population from the invaded dis
trict of northern Italy has started
again, the Italian embassy at Wash
ington has been advised.
Indictments returned by the federal
grand jury at Aberdeen, S. D., includ-
ed one against r. w. Sallett of Aber-
deem, publisher of the Dakota Freie
Presse, a German language ncwspa-
per.
To date, 1,227,OOO Americans have
been called to the colors under the
selective service act. Provost Mar
shall General Crowder gave this figure
as the approximate strength Of the
national army.
Reports have reached Washington
that famine has reached point in
Persia, which has resulted in canni-
balism being practiced. The daily
death toll from starvation is very
heavy the reports say.
An average wage increase Of 20 per
cent for railroad workers has been re-
commended to Director General Nc
Adoo by the railroad wage commits
sion. This increase would aggregate
ABOUT SZoU,UUU,OOO q year.
According to French official dis.
patch 100 young men of Brussels,
born in Belgium Of German parentage,,
but Belgian citizens by adoption, have
been taken to Germany to be enrolled
in the army.
| Legislation raising the draft age to
forty years was discussed as posi-
bility within few months at meet
| ing recently of Provost Marshal
Crowder and the house military COM
mittee.
| Attacked by three German subma-.
| rines an American warship that has,
| just arrived at an Atlantic port, fred;
! three shots at one of the U-boats,.
| blowing it out of the water and
breaking it in two, the officers re-
! ported.
1 Eighteen people were killed and
thousands of dollars damage was done
to property and crops in eastern Iowa
and western Illinois when violent
tornado swept over the district.
Nashua, Coleridge and Colmar, Ia,
and Franklin and Toulon. Ill, suf-
fered severe losses as the result Of
the storm.
The Department of Agriculture's
May crop report, forecasts pro-
/ duction of 72,539,OOO bushels of win
ter wheat this year. Production Of
winter wheat by principal states fol-
low: Ohio, 33.192,OOO bushels; IN
diana, 47,771,OO; Illinois, 44,12o,OOO;
Missouri, 44,12O,OOO; Nebraska, A.
$4,000; Kansas, 96,1O4,OOO; oklaho-
ma, 29.531 900.
Grave charges have been made