Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1919-07-03
: The six weeks sympathetic strike
at Winnipeg has been called of.


The six weeks sympathetic strike
at Winnipeg has been called off.
Congress is to begin hearings on
the general revision of the tariff early
in July.
Two deaths have occurred in the
Kansas wheat fields as a result of
the extreme heat.
Six of the children of Mr.. and Mrs.
Matt Faber of Bode, Iowa, were
burned to death when their home was
destroyed by fire.
Frederick William Hohenzollern.
the former German crown prince, has
escaped from Holland and made his
way into Germany.
Governor Allen Of Kansas tele-
graphed to the rehabilitation bureau
at st. Louis, Mo-, urging that harvest
hands be rushed to the Kansas wheat
fields.
Following the sinking of the in
termed German fleet at Scapa Flow
number of German sailors were Killed
and several wounded in a clash with
British guards.
Mounted police and Canadian sol
diers charged a crowd Of 25,000 strik-
ers engaged in a demonstration at
Winnipeg, killing one man and injur-
ing scores of others.
The transport Porto reached Brest,
France, from Archangel, Russia. with
1850 men of the 339th infantry,
Eighty-fifth (AIichigan and Wisconsin
national army division.
1t has been learned at Washington
that President Wilson will make his
first address in this country, upon his
return, to the senate, and not to both
houses of congress.
Edward De Valera, president of
the Irish republic" stated at New
York that he planned to raise 5,0O0,-
600 in this country for the unrecog-
nized Irish government.
Governor Lowden of Illinois has
signed the search and seizure bill"
passed by the fifty-first general as
sembly and designed to enforce pro-
hibition in "dry' territory.
Two hundred and sixty-seven enemy
aliens have been taken from the war
prison barracks at Douglas, Ariz., to
the Atlantic coast to board a special
ship for embarkation to Germany.
The army appropriation bill, carry
ing $SSS,000,000 and providing for an
average army of 100000 men next
year, was passed by the senate with
out a roll call and sent to conference.
SO
Thousands of dollars damage to
crops, scores of bridges washed out
and other damage by floods has re-
suited from heavy rains every day
since June 1 in central and southern
Minnesota.
The u. S. transport Martha Wash
ington sailed from Charleston, S. c.,
for Rotterdam, Holland, with 1900
German alien enemies aboard, the
first large consignment of aliens to be
<11s
A summary issued by the govern
ment shows that the maximum
strength of Americas forces during
the war, including the army, navy
and marines, totaled 100000, 1885,
COO of whom fought in France.
Representatives of insurance COM
panies, railway police, government
agents and state officials arrived at
decision to patrol the wheat belt of
Kansas with armed guards until after
harvest, at conference at Kansas
City.
Government officials made the dec
laratlon to members of congress at
Washington that bomb throwers and
other anarchists and radicals are
plotting overthrow of the government
and are spending 100000 monthly
to that end.
There is shortage of 10000 900
homes in the United States, accord
ing to statement made by William
ID. Garland of Los Angeles, at the
twenty-fifth annual convention of the
National Association of Real Estate
boards at Atlantic City, N. j.
The apparent weakness of the pres
ent German government is causing
some uneasiness in peace conference
circles at Paris, and the feeling has
been expressed that signing of the
peace treaty may mean little more
than the signing of the bolsheyiki at
Brest-Litovsk did.