Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1919-04-17
WORLDS NEWS in TABLoIDs

The Interallied club will hold a re-
ception at Paris In honor Of Mrs.
Woodrow Wilson.
A Saloniki dispatch says Bulgarian
troops have been sent to Strumnitza to
suppress an uprising Of Irridentlst
Greeks.
Eight men held up the Baden bank.
In the northern section of st. Louis,
and escaped with between $4,000 and
$4,000.
After lying dormant for about
year Mount Lassen. In the SierrNs
near Reddington, CAL, resumed vol
canic eruptlons.
Federal Judge Lands at Chicago
held to the grand jury 20 stock sales
men of the Consumers Packing CON-
pany, fixing their bonds at $4,000
each.
The war labor board at Washington
decided unanimously for the adoption
OF 4S-hour week for nearly 10000
workers in 4S6 silk mills In the New
York district.
The conference of soldiers councils
OF German-Austria which met In Wen
ma, decided against The establishment
Of soviet republic in Austria and In
favor Of a socialist government.
Government troops are reported at
Berlin to have entered Essen and to
have occupied the Krupp plant, which.
according to previous reports. had
been seized by the Essen strikers.
The advance of the bolsheviki is
likely to force the allies to evacuate
Sebastopol, on the Black sea, near the
southern extremity Of the Crimea, ac-
cording to the Paris Instransigeant.
Edward e. Morgan, an American
citizen, was murdered at Chivela, AZ
miles from Salina Cruz, Mex, on the
night Of April 8, according to advices
to the state department at Washing
ton.
The American cruisers Galveston
and Chester, carrying American en-
gineer troops and Brig. Gen. w. p.
Richardson, the new commander Of
the American forces in north Russia,
have arrived at Murmansk. 4
Introduction Of anti-Japanese legis-
lation in the California legislature
would be extremely unfortunate at
this time" said Robert Lansing, sec
rotary Of state, in cablegram to the
state senate. received at Sacramento.
A Paris dispatch says Miss Anne
Morgan's villa at Versailles. which
was transformed into an American
hospital during the war. probably will
be used as the residence Of the Ger
man delegates during the peace con-
ference.
A Washington dispatch says 5.OOO,-
GOO Americans will pay income taxes
this year. This is nearly two million
more than last year. More than TO-
100000 persons will pay federal taxes
of all kinds under the collections now
being made.
A reduction of 10 cents per ton in
the freight rates on sand, gravel,
crushed stone and other bodybuilding
materials, when consigned to states,
COuAlIcS VI municipalities was I'LL
nounced by Railways Director Hines
at Washington.
Forces of the Russian government
at Omsk have defeated two bolsheviki
regiments in Sarapul, on the Kama
river, $50 miles southwest Of Perm,
according to an official announcement
received from Omsk. Nine hundred
bolsheviki were killed.
The national executive Of the labor
party at meeting at London formu-
lated statement of policy, demand
ing that the Paris conference put an
end to the protracted discussions and
make peace in accordance with Presi-
dent Wilson's IA points.
A London dispatch says the British
war Office in statement on the north
Russian campaign estimates the boil
shevik losses in the attack on Sred
Mekhrenga on April at 400 killed and
wounded. The bolshevik attempt to
break through to the Dvina and cut of
the troops farther south on the river
was foiled.
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