Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1919-07-03
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| Samuel Gompers was reelected
| president of the American Federation
of Labor at the Atlantic City conven-
ton.
The postoftice department cleared
| $17O00,000 for the fiscal year 1918,
Postmaster General Burleson an
nounced.
Pennsylvania has ratified the fed
eral woman suffrage amendment, it
being the seventh state to act on the
measure.
Premier Clemcnceau has expressed
| his intention to resign from office as
soon as the peace treaty is ratified by
the various nations.
Hogs broke all existing price rec
ords on the South Omaha market last
week when top of $21.10 per hun
dredweight was reached.
The Preparations committee of the
peace conference has agreed to prior
| ity payment to Belgium of S5O0,O00,-
COO from the German indemnities.
| A number of negroes at Ellisville,
Miss, took part in the lynching of a
member of their race who had con-
fessed to the assault of white
| woman.
Eamonn De Valera, president of the
new Irish republic, is in New York
loan to start the government on a
| financial basis.
Two American soldiers and sailors
of every 100 who took part in the
war We're killed or died of disease,
accdsding to a report issued by the
War department.
Both houses of congress have ap-
| proved a bill to permit the state of
New Jersey and New York to con-
struct a vehicle TUNED under the
i Hudson river at New York.
The Motor Transport corps of the
O.. S. army will despatch motor
train consisting of 60 big trucks
across the continent over the Lincoln
highway. 1t will leave Washington
on July Z.
| =
A proposal for an immediate decla-
ration of peace by congress, intro
duced in the upper house by Senator
Fall, republican, of N. NJ, was
blocked by vote of 10 to 4 by the
| foreign relations committee.
Governor Goodrich announces he
will call special session of the In
diana legislature either the last week
in August or the first week in Septem-
Der, to consider ratification Of the
federal suffrage amendment.
According to summary Of the war
issued by the government, casualties
suffered by the Americans during the
47-day Meuse-Argonne offensive ag.
gregated 10000 men, or 10 per cent
of the total of 1000, GOO engaged.
|
Reports reaching Washington have
convinced government officials that
President Carranza of Mexico is en-
deavoring to align all the Central Am
erican countries except Guatemala,
| with Mexico, against the United
States.
i News that Germany had accepted
| the peace treaty with clause pro-
yiding for the delivery of the former
German emperor to the allies for trial
is said to have caused severe shock
| to the former kaiser and members OF
his party at Amerongon, Holland.
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Captain John Alcock, pilot of the
! VickeTs-Vimy airplane, which made
the first nonstop fight across the At
lantic, announced that he and Lieut.
A. w. Brown, the navigator, intended
to divide equally the $4,000 of the
| $4,000 prize given them by the Lon
4 don Daily Mail. The other $4,000
| will go to the workmen who built the
1 machine.
Information obtained by the War
department at Washington places the
number Of deaths for all belligerents
in the war at 7,45O2OO. Russia led
with 100000 Germany had 1,eOO,OO
France, 1885, 300; Great Britain.