Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1921-12-29
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Important
News Events
Of the World
Summarized
Washington
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES,

Washington
A congressional recess to January
was voted when the house at Wash
ington adopted the senate resolution
to that effect.
Feasibility of raising funds for a
soldier bonus by tax on beer and
light wine will be considered by the
house ways and means committee,
Chairman Fordney announced at
Washington.
A Washington dispatch says the
government railroad in Alaska will be
opened with elaborate ceremonies
early in February.
France has accepted Secretary
Hughes proposal for capital ship
feet Of 175,OOO tons. She drops her
demand for ten modern battleships and
battle cruisers, says Washington dis
patch.
The Supreme court Of the United
States at Washington adjourned until
Tuesday, January 8, next.
A demand for deportation of Viola
tors Of the Volstead act who are not
citizens Of the United States was made
by the temperance board of the Meth
odist Episcopal church at Washington.
Henry Ford offered to complete the
Muscle Shoals water power develop
ments at Florence, Ala, for the gov
eminent at cost Of $30,OO0,OOO. This
offer, it was announced at Washing
ton, was $15,OOO,OOO under the lowest
estimate made by army engineers.
Prohibition activities by federal
agents in Georgia have resulted in the
seizure of property during the last
month valued at $128,607, State Di-
rector Dismuke reported to Commits
sioner Haynes at Washington.
Woodrow Wilson has feeling of
the deepest sympathy for President
Harding in the present international
situation, it was said by a close per-
sonal friend who had just had long
conference with him at Washington.
The demand of the French govern
ment for a naval rating higher than
Japan's and the right to construct ten
S5,0OO-ton post-Jutland dreadnaughts
by 1885, struck like bombshell at
Washington.
Domestic
Harry Lyde, angered because his
wife refused reconciliation, slashed
their two children to death with
razor, seriously injured the wife and
then killed himself at Mount Clemens,
Mich.
AS result of gas explosion and
fire at the Wright store at Columbus,
O., three women are dead, many others
are lying in hospitals at the point of
death and 80 others were injured.
Mrs. Susie Monteone was killed as
she slept and her husband seriously
wounded by an unidentified "ax man"
who attempted to rob NIonteone's store
and set fire to the building at Bir-
mingham, Ala.
The constitutionality of the Califor-
MIA antialien land law, forbidding
aliens ineligible to citizenship to own
or lease agricultural land, was upheld
by a court of three federal judges at
San Francisco.
N. H., is soon to start on a cruise in
the Mediterranean and the South Sea
islands on the schooner Half Moon,
recently owned by the former Ger
NJ emperor.
Thomas Ball, freight train conduc-
tor, lost both legs when he threw a
boy out of the path of a train at Wich-
tia, Kan. The boy was uninjured.
Both Of Balls legs were severed.
Secret service operatives in charge
of Capt. Thomas I. Porter seized 3d.
100000 worth of counterfeit revenue
stamps in a raid on the third-foor
home of Mr.. and Mrs Emile Carlione
at Chicago.
The Oakland mill of the American
Writing Paper company has been re-
opened ut Manchester, N. H., after
having been closed for year. All the
former employees We're hired.
Fire in the Casino theater at Daven-
port, Ia, completely wrecked that mo-
ton picture house.
Twenty-Five large lake steamers
were ashore on the south shore of
I1lye Eria ot the MORT Of Ruffo1o N Y