Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1919-05-08
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Includes What Is Going on at Wash
ington and in Other Sections
of the Country.
1t is officially reported that the
soviet government in Munich has been
overthrown.
Mothers Day will be observed in all
churches throughout the country next
Sunday, May IL.
The state of Oklahoma is leading
in Liberty loan subscriptions in the
Tenth reserve district.
Decentralization of the army is more
than half completed, the War depart
ment has announced.
The granting of Kiao Chau to Japan
by the peace congress will deprive
China of one of her richest provinces.
The luxury tax, which went into eff
feet May first, will hit every man,
woman and child in the United
States.
An aerial express service between
New York and Chicago will be inaug-
urated by the American Railway Ex-
press Co., at an early date.
Soldiers discharged since the armis-
tice now total 1882, 523 SO, 295 Off
GERS and 1,733,22S enlisted men-the
war department announced.
The British We're reported to have
agreed that the first meeting of the
league OF nations shall be held in
with President Wilson
presiding.
Fruit and vegetation throughout
southern Indiana and Kentucky, ac-
cording to reports from farmers, have
been seriously damaged by the recent
cold weather.
The credentials of the German del
eagtes to, the peace conference were
handed over to an allied commission
headed by Jules Cambon, at Yer
sailles May first.
All organizations of the Eighty
ninth division (Kansas, Missouri,
South Dakota, Nebraska Colorado,
New Mexico and Arizona), have ben
assigned to early convoy to the United
States.
Paris circles regard the granting of
Kiao Chau to Japan by the council of
three as a decisive defeat of President
Wilson's fourteen points and a piece
of the cleverest diplomatic maneuver-
ing since the opening of the peace
congress.
Brigadier General Harries, of
Omaha, Neb. who is connected with
the work of the repatriation of pris-
oners in Germany, has been made q
commander of the French Legion of
Honor in recognition of his work in
the war.
Comparatively little bloodshed
marked radical celebrations of inter-
national labor day in the United
States. The most serious rioting oc-
Cured in Cleveland where one man
was killed and more than 100 persons
We're injured.
A new loan of $5O,OOO,OOO has been
advanced to Italy by the treasury to
cover a number of obligations incurred
by the Italian government in this
country. This makes Italy indebted to
the United States in the sum of
1871 500, 200.
Fred w. Upham, Chicago business
man, agreed to compromise for $25, DOC
the claims of lad of Is, for the loss
of an eve while in his employ. The
sum is believed to be the largest ever
paid in settlement Of a personal in
jury claim without trial.
Terrorists' plans for the assasina.
ton of several cabinet and other high
government officials MAY Day" mis-
carried because of the discovery of the
bombs in the New York postoffice. Elk
plosive experts contend that the
bombs were powerful enough to blow
man to pieces.
Petition for the recall of Mayor
Wallace M. Short of Sioux City has
been filed. It bears the signatures OF
double the number of voters required
to secure recall Of election which
was invoked as result of the ad.
dress of welcome delivered by the
mayor to the I. w. W., in national
convention in the city.