Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1920-07-29
Happenings
Of the World
ersely Told
Politics

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Politics
Democratic National Chairman
George White officially announced al
Columbus, o., that Saturday, August
I, has been definitely set as the date
for the notification of Governor Cox
of his nomination as presidential can
didate
Ohio got its third presidential can
didate for the 1920 campaign when
the Prohibition national convention at
Lincoln, Neb., nominated Rev. Aaron
5. Watkins of Germantown, O., after
learning from William 7 Bryan that
ne would not accept the nomination
voted him.
Senator Robert M. La Toilette at
Madison, Wis. repudiated the Republic
can party-the party which thrice
elected him governor of Wisconsin
and twice senator from that state
- - 'isaiSd Sl4lOi ldl.
The Anti-Saloon League of Ameri-
ca, through lis executive committee at
Washington, refused to indorse or
condemn either the Democratic or Re-
publican candidate fol. president.
Christensen, t'armer-Labor party
candidate for president teiegraphed an
appeal from Denver, Colo, to Senator
Harding and Governor Cox to join him
In demanding that President Wilson
elease Debs.
Col. Gilbert e. Seaman was in
dorSed for the Republican euberna-
Forial nomination at conference held
t Milwaukee by members of the Re
nnhlican party Ct the state.
Domestic
A tornado that swept through the
southern part OF McIIenrv county.
North Dakota. took toll of between
eight and ten lives and caused heavy
property damage, according to a dis
patch from Devil's Lake The village
OF Dral-e was in the path of the storm
and many buildings were wrecked.
With one exception all of the is rail
brotherhoods have accepted, under pro
fest. the awards at Chicago granting
wage increases The Order of Rail-
way photographers will refer the mat
-er to its members With an order for
a strike vote.
The body of nude woman, damned
n trunk, was found by EMPLOYEES
of the American Railway Express COM
ANY among the unclaimed baggage in
the company's East Forty-fourth
street warehouse, New York. The
runk had been received from Detroit
June II.
Rev. j. Fl. Herndon, negro evangelist,
was struck dead by lightning while
reading his text at revival meeting
at Holly Springs, Miss No one else
in the church was injured
Federal agents Friday made the big
gest whisky seizure in the history of
that section of the state when they
confscated liquor valued at $267.56O
on railroad siding at Lang. o.
Following three days of fruitless
argument over the question Of unani-
nous action of the railway labor
boards wage award, the grand coun-
Gil of the sixteen heads of rail unions
decided at Chicago to leave action on
the matter up to the individual unions.
7 Illinois railroads presented to the
public utilities commission at Chicago,
a request for an increase in intrastate
freight rates, following the increased
wages awarded their employees by the
labor board.
The wage increase announced by the
federal labor board at Chicago adds
approximafely 5000 100000 to the an
nual paw roll of ! .so2.2S7 employees.
Bodies of SS1 American soldiers who
died overseas arrived at New York
from Danzig and Antwerp. Twenty
five war brides of French and Ger
man nativity were among the first
cabin passengers
Mrs. John Roosch and seven chill
dren were burned to death when their
home at Copeland, 20 miles north of
BonneHs Ferry. Idaho, was destroyed
by fire. Her husband is being held
pending investigation.
Hog Island, near Philadelphia, es-
tsblished new worlds ship-launch-
ing record. Seven 7s25-ton steel car
go carriers, the last on the ways at
the big plant, were sent overheard
within fifty minutes
Approximately 700 employees of the
Middle Fork mine at Benton, ILL.,,