Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1919-06-26
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All American soldiers now have
left Archangel except the engineers,
who will sail before June 80.
The Ohio legislature has refused te
interfere with the Willard Dempsey
prize fight at Toledo July 4.
Full success in all its detectives has
crowned Boy Scout week, June s to
IA. according to statements issued at
New York.
BY vote Of 10 to 8 the judiciary
committee of the lowe. house of con
gress refused to adopt motion to re
peal wartime prohibition.
The New York legislature, without
dissenting vote, ratified the federal
woman's suffrage amendment. New
York is the sixth state to ratify.
The Italian government met with de-
feat In the chamber of deputies when
the chamber rejected vote OF con-
fdence in the government by 259 to 70.
Americas military contribution to-
wards maintenance Of the league Of
nations will be approximately 10000
men in the opinion Of Gen. Peyton C.
March, chief of staff of the army.
e.
Provisions In the army appropria-
ton bill for the maintenance OF an
army Of 100000 officers and men dur
ing the next fiscal year was tentative
~ agreed on by the senate military
subcommittee.
The senate by vote Of IS to IL re-
fused to sanction modification Of the
law permitting the manufacture and
sale of beer and wine from July / un-
til constitutional prohibition goes into
effect in January, 1920.
in an effort to end labor troubles
which haye paralyzed business in
Winnipeg for several weeks, govern
ment and city officials have instituted
a campaign of wholesale arrests of
leaders in the strike movement.
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Count Brockdorff- Rantzau, with
seventy-three German peace delegates,
We're hooted and insulted By more
than 1900 persons when they left
Versailles, after receiving the allies
final reply on the conditions Of peace.
Three persons were instantly killed
and two others injured, probably fa-
tally, near Elm Creek, Neb., when a
crowded automobile and fast Union
Pacific passenger train collided. The
remarkable fact Of the accident is
that the train did not hit the car, but
the car hit the side of the train after
the engine had passed a crossing. i
Thirteen sons killed in action, three
discharged with grave injuries, one
wounded four different times, the faith
er and one daughter shot by the Ger
mans for going to Lille to celebrate
the centennial anniversary of rela-
tive, and another daughter killed by q
German shell, is the record of the
family of Vanhee, a French farmer Of
Reminghe, near Ypres.
Villa rebels felt the force Of Uncle
Nonsc fOhtinU man xv,l,r,. n lo,~o b,a-
OF American cavalry crossed the Dor
der during the revolutionists' attack
on Juarez, completely routing the villa
followers. 1t is estimated that at least
so rebels were killed in the clash with
the Yanks and many wounded. A
number were taken prisoners. Amer
lean casualties were one soldier
wounded.
Postmaster General Burleson was
charged with being the nations cham-
pion blunderer; worst autocrat ever in
official life, and directly responsible
for the nationwide telegraphers strike
in scathing denunciation of his adj
ministration on the floor of the lower
house OF congress by Representative
Gallivan Of Massachusetts The whole
country, he said, has suffered from de-
terioration of the postal service, which,
he declared, was filed with embitter-
ed, underpaid and overworked men.
The first nonstop flight across the
sea In D heavier-than-air machine in
all history was accomplished when
Capt. John Alcock and Lieutenant
Arthur Brown landed at Clifden, Ire.
land, after completing straight
away voyage from St Johns, New
Foundland, Z distance Of 1900 miles
The trip across the Atlantic ocean
was made in sixteen hours and
twelve minutes, and, according to the
flyers, was accompanied by exceed
ingly dangerous experiences.
Harvesting Of the. biggest wheat
crop Kansas ever had will begin ID
the southern part OF that state in a
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