Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1919-04-17
NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD.
INTELLIGENCE GATHERED HERE
COVERS WIDE AREA.

INTELLIGENCE GATHERED HERE
COVERS WIDE AREA
GREATER OR LESSER IMPORT
includes What 10 Going On At Wash
inaton and in Other Sections
Of the Country.
The internal revenue bureau has
begun to comb the country for income
tax dodgers.
Martial law has been proclaimed
throughout Poland. Warsaw dispatch
reported recently.
The German government announced
1t had discovered plans for a,miitary
uprising in Berlin to establish a
soviet republic.
After lying dormant for about q
year, Mount Lassen, in the Sierras
near Residing, Calf. has resumed
volcanic eruptions
Gilbert Budwig, pilot In the aerial
mail service between New York and
Chicago. fell 1000 feet in his plane at
Hollis, N. Y, landing upside down, but
unhurt.
The New Jersey state legislature
passed bin compelling prospective
candidates for matrimony to submit to
a physicians examination before IL
cense is issued.
Farm buildings and crops in three
eastern Nebraska counties were dam
aged to a great extent as the result of
terrific wind and hail storm that
swept the district.
Plans for TUNED thirty-two miles
long under the English channel be-
tween France and England, to cost
81 600 000,0 900 or more, are so far per-
fected that construction can start at
once.
The Nebraska legislature passed a
school districting bill which provides
for the establishment Of consolidated
school districts in rural territory and
In towns with not more than 1,5OO
population.
Use Of wines In church sacraments
was legalized in Iowa through the
passage of a bill making it necessary
for c!ergylnen to file affidavits that the
liquor is for church services before it
can be obtained.
The American peace delegation at
Paris has received advices showing
that Nikolai Lenine, the bolshevik
premier Of Russia. Is taking q promi-
nent part in advising the new Hun
garian government.
President Wilson has entirely recov-
cred from his recent illness and is at
tending the peace conference regu-
larly. His return to the council has
removed much of the tension in con-
ference circles, it is said.
The evacuation Of Odessa by the
allies and its occupation by the boil
sheyiki gives them the most fertile re-
gions in southern Russia, together
with immense resources of grain,
coal and minerals.
The responsibility Of the ex-kaiser
for the war and the means for bring
ing him to trial by one Of the allied
governments. probably Belgium, have
been definitely determined upon by the
council Of four.
Frank w. Woolworth, who started a
five and ten cent store at Utica, N. T.,
forty years ago on capital Of $50,
and eventually became the millionaire
proprietor of great chain Of these
stores in the United States. Canada
and England. died suddenly at Glen
Cove, L. !.
Several persons were injured, hun.
dreds Of houses were unroofed, many
were totally wrecked and other prop
erty damaged when tornado passed
through one Of Omaha's finest resi-.
dence districts. The roar Of the storm
before It struck. enabled many people
to seek safety in cellars and caves
and was responsible for the absence OF
great loss Of life.
The War department ofiicially con
/ firmed press advices from 'Archange
that what amounted to a mutiny oc
CURED among the American troops
there on March 80. The Archangel re
port stated that American troops re
fused TO fight until their commands