Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1919-03-27
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Airplane mail service between New
York, Cleveland and Chicago is sched-
uled to start April 10. #
-Four deaths occurred in Michigan as
the result of the overflow of rivers
and streams throughout the state.
1t is estimated that 5000 persons
attended the Omaha automobile show.
Sales were far in excess of $5O00,0OO.
The Iowa state senate has voted
unanimously to include skunks and
racoons in the law-protecting, fur
bearing animals.
The Rumpler airplane factory in
Germany has under construction a
giant airplane intended for trans
Atlantic fight.
1t has been intimated in Paris Of
fetal circles that Italy will Withdraw
from the peace conference unless she
is given Fieume.
The government is making hasty
preparation for the transatlantic
flight to be undertaken by big navy
seaplane in the spring.
The lower house of the Nebraska
legislature by a vote of 60 to 20, in
definitely postponed the bill to create
a state motion picture censorship.
board.
General Won Arnim, former COM
mander Of the German armies in
Flanders, was dubbed to death by a
mob of Infatuated peasants in Asch,
Bohemia.
Thousands of acres of land in south
ern Kansas were inundated by the
overflow Of the Big and Little Arkan-
sas rivers. Damage to crops will be
enormous.
Twenty-eight dead, several score in
jured and property loss estimated at
was the result Of tornadoes
which swept portions Of Mississippi
and Louisiana.
Several persons were killed, scores
injured and vast amount Of property
damaged by tornadoes and cloudbursts
which struck towns in Kansas, Mis-
souri, and Oklahoma last Saturday.
Hundreds of homes, factories, mills
and lumber yards were flooded and
thousands Of dollars worth of property
destroyed at Oconto, Wis.,, by the
Oconto river overlooking it's banks.
The State department has requested
the Mexican government to take every
possible step to insure the protection
of American citizens in the territory of
northern Mexico, where Villa has again
become active.
Although no final decision has vet
been reached, it is said that the. pres
ent plan of majority of the five big
nations contemplates attaching the
league of nations compact to the
peace treaty as an appendix.
General Pershing in bidding goodby
to the boys of the Rainbow, division.
presented one congressional medal of
honor, two distinguished service med
ais and 46 distinguished service
crosses to officers and men of the
unit. The division will start for the
q. S. the first week in April.
Twenty-one deaths from sleeping
sickness and over 100 cases have been
reported from seventeen cities Of the
United States. The disease is battling
medical science. The patients lapse
into state Of coma. After a sleep.
varying from a few days to four
weeks, many patients suddenly awake,
completely recovered. Others die with
out regaining consciousness. The
medical name for the disease is leth-
argic encephalitis.
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Mrs. George Greenwood, wife of the
vice president of the Savings Union
Bank and Trust Co., of San francisco.
was killed by a bomb explosion, fol.
lowing the receipt of letter by her
husband threatening to destroy their
home unless ransom of $1,000 was
paid the sender, who signed the epistle
&c. @. of c." The initials were sim
liar to those affixed to threatening let
tiers sent to Governor Stephens before
his residence in Sacramento was dyna-
mited last year.
Both houses of the Nebraska legisla.
ture approved bill that requires all
tobacco dealers in the state to procure
licenses; forbids the smoking of Gig
aretS In public eating houses and 10.