Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1919-03-20
NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD.
INTELLIGENCE GATHERED HERE
COVERS WIDE AREA.
GREATER OR LESSER IMPORT
Includes What Is Going on at WASH
ington and in Other Sections
of the Country.

ington and In Other Sections
of the Country.
Brewers of Boston, Mass, are plan
ming to become candy makers after
July 1.
Australia appropriated $2,5O0,O00 for
construction Of public works to pro-
vide work for returned soldiers.
The victory liberty loan campaign
will open Monday, April p, and close
three weeks later-Saturday, May 10.
All Nebraska and Iowa troops will
henceforth be discharged at Camp
Grant, ILL.,, according to,a war depart,
ment order.
For the first time in fifty years ~
democrat, John n. Wilson, mas been
elected to congress from Butler couD.
ty, Pennsylvania.
The strike OF 10000 shipyard work
ers in effect since January 81, in
Seattle, Tacoma and Aberdeen, has
been declared off.
If plans now in progress are carried
out Wyoming will be the first state in
the union to hold referendum on the
proposal for a league of nations.
The bolsheviki have created new
cabinet for the purpose of "concentrat-
ing for worldwide revolution" ac-
cording to dispatch from Moscow.
Captains Griffith A. Denay, Indian
ola, Neb., and Oscar II. Peterson,
Lamont, Ia, have received the British
military cross for bravery in action.
Three persons were burned to death,
and two others We're severely burned
when Philip Deering of Bayard, Neb.,
attempted to start fire with can Of
kerosene.
The aerial terms Of the German dis
armament as adopted by the supreme
war council, provides that airplanes
and dirigibles shall no longer be used
for military purposes.
Germany must deliver all airplanes
to the allies and must prohibit the con-
struction Of other airplanes until the
conclusion of peace, the supreme war
council has decided.
President Wilson is now back in
Paris, having arrived last Friday,
after an uneventful voyage. The pres
tdent has entirely recovered from the
cold from which he has been suffering.
The Spanish cabinet has granted an
eight-hour working day to the build
ing trades throughout Spain, wages to
be fixed by committees of employers
and workmen in each district.
Aerial passenger service between
New York and Los Angeles will be
started in August, according to an an
nouncement at the aeronautical expo
sition at New York by Wesley A. Hill
of Phoenix, Ariz., former army
aviator and head of recently organ
lied aerial transportation company.
The British and French govern
ments have agreed to construct a, tun-
mel under the English channel which
will contain railway, telephone and
telegraph lines and pneumatic postal
tubes, according to the London Daily
Mail. Its cost is estimated at $780,
100000 to $125, 100000. Work, ac-
cording to the Mail, will be started
as soon as the plans are completed.
Five years would be required to com
plete the proposed tunnel.
Mail matter seized since the sign
ing OF the armistice has disclosed that
the i. WV, anarchists. radical social
lists and others are "perfecting an
amalgamation" which has for it's OBJ.
feet the overthrow of the American
government through a 'bloody revo-
luton" and the establishment of
bolshevik republic according to
memorandum sent to the senate prop
uganda committee by Solicitor Lamar.
Of the postoffice department.
The bolshevist government of Rus.
sia has put itself outside the pale of
civilization and should be completely
ostracised by the rest Of the world,
David r. Francis, American ambas-
sador to Russia told the senate investi-
eating committee. They're killing ev-
eryb0dy who wears a white collar or
is educated. They hold women as
hostages, to compel the men to serve
In the bolsheviki army They bought
starvation to the country" lie asserted.
Battle casualties of the American
army in France. as shown by revised
divisional records announced by Cen
eral N1arch tOtal1al OdO lot Thoca