Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1919-07-10
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GREATER OR LESSER IMPORT Il.Is 00ElT
includes What Is Going On at Wash
ington and in Other Sections
of the Country.
Army airplanes in commission TOT
immediate service number 3,4OO, 1t
was officially announced at Washing
ton.
The American mission has taken
over all railroads between Austria
and Hungary to insure distribution
of food supplies.
Notwithstanding the enormous
amount of whisky sales before July /,
Kentucky liquor dealers claim to have
surplus of 10000 gallons.
Open bars where beverages of 2.75
per cent alcoholic content can be pur-
chased are operating all over New
York and other eastern states.
A bottle of ginger ale instead of
the traditional champagne, was used
to christen the freighter Waco, which
was launched at Newark, N. ].
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 $500OO0,-
600 from the German indemnities.
Tons Of bolshevist and socialist
literature were seized in raid on, the
foreign quarters of the city of Mon
treal by police authorities recently.
Six were killed and two injured
when fast Burlington passenger
train struck the automobile in which
they were riding at the grade cross
ing near Oxford, Neb.
A concentration camp has been es-
tablished at Jiminez, Chihuahua, Mex
leo, where Americans from Parcal
and the Parral-Jiminez district have
gone for protection from Villa bands.
North Dakota voters, in a refer
endum vote have approved the seven
state ownership laws sponsored by the
Non-partisan league and passed by
the last session Of the legislature.
The state department has been adj
vised that the Mexican government
has committed an overt act of confis-
cation in preventing American well
drillers to work on lands owned by
American individuals or companies.
The world war came to a formal
end June 28 Just five years after the
assassination Of Archduke Francis Fer
dinand, which brought on the conflict,
and two years and two days after the
first American troops landed in France.
Three more credits, totaling $50.
100000 have been granted the allies.
by the U. S.. making a total of
$9,455, 219,1 24.27. OF the latest cred
its $50,000O00 went to France, S1O,-
100000 to Italy and $1,000 to Rou-
mania.
Urgent representations have been
made to the Mexican government by
the State department for the punish
ment of those responsible for the MUIR
der of John w. Corral, an American
citizen, the maltreatment of his wife
and the attempted murder of his son
Mt their ranch near Tampico, Mexico.
Two French civilians were killed
and five American soldiers and sailors
We're injured severely, and more than
100 wounded in riots at Brest, France.
which was brought about according
to available accounts, by an American
naval officer, who is said to have been
drinking heavily, tearing down a
French flag and tramping upon it.
Just before wartime prohibition be
came effective at midnight June 80,
the department of justice announced
that its agents throughout the country
would not attempt to stop the sale of
~ per cent beer, pending decision
of the federal district court of New
York on claims by brewers that beer
containing that much alcohol was not
Intoxicating.
Director General Hines of the rail.
road administration has announced
that definite plans have been male
for controlling shipments of grain to
prevent cailroad congestion and ex-
cess accumulation at primary mar
kets. The program provides for the
appointment of committees in Duluth
Minneapolis, st. Louis and Omaha, to
administer control of grain move