Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1921-12-29

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Five armed bandits held up the
Steelton branch of the Citizens Trust
and Savings bank at Columbus, o.,
and escaped with $4,000.
Attacked suddenly by bull in his
pasture west of GAINESVILLE, Wis, Otto
Westendorff, farmer, was tossed high
in the air and received injuries from
which he died.
Approximately $50 men employed in
the car shops and allied departments
Of the Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul
railroad were laid OFF at Green Bay,
Wis.
Nearly $2,5OO,OOO went to 1920
Usage Indians at Ponca City, Okla, in
Christmas checks Of $1,1O0 each, a
quarterly division Of oil royalties from
Usage lands.
Temperatures ranging from 5 to Is
degrees below zero in Montana and
zero to 10 degrees In northern
Wyoming and western Dakota, were
reported to the weather bureau at
Denver, Colo.
DR.. T. J. T. Smith was killed at Dali
las, Tex, by a bullet fred into his
back while he slept by his wife, Mrs.
Bertha Smith, who sought to justify
her act by charging the physician was
cruel to her.
For the $4,000 robbery of the Bank
Of Panama, Benjamin Battleson was
summoned from Sunday evening serv-
ices at the Free Methodist church and
arrested at Greenville, Ill.
A great Gordon of police and fed
eral agents were thrown about the
financial district in New York to guard
the stock exchange and Wall street
banking houses against a possible
bomb disaster.
Mrs. Freida Zimmerman is In the
county Jail at Waukesha, Wis.,, charged
with murder as the result Of finding
of the bodies of her two stepchildren
in cistern back Of their home in
Oconomowoc.
A 95-mile-an-hour gale swept the city
of Buffalo, N. Y, uprooting trees,
tearing down chimneys, smashing
plate-glass windows and piling up the
water in the harbor to an unprece-
dented stage. One man was killed in
the storm.
Foreign
The Russian relief bill, appropriat-
Ing $2O,OOO,OOO for the relief Of starv-
ing Russians, passed the house at
Washington.
The death of Cardinal Francis Mary
Roverie de "Cabrieres, bishop of Mont
pelier, France, was announced ut
Paris.
The United States radio station at
Eagle City, Alaska, 100 miles north of
Dawson, Y. T., was burned, only the
1OOfoot steel tower escaping destruc-
ton. The station cost more than $780,
600.
Twenty United States destroyers of
the Asiatic fleet anchored in the har-
Dor at Manila, P. l., permitting 1000
sailors to pass the holidays in Manila.
The destroyers are to engage in ma
neuvers.
The village of Ayalia has been cap
tured by the Spanish forces operating
in the region inhabited by the Benz
Arros tribe of Moors The operation
proved difficult, says Tetuan (Moroc-
coy dispatch.
Lloyd George, in letter read by
Arthur Griffith before Dali Eireann at
Dublin, promised Ireland equality with
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ish empire and a seat in the League
of Nations.
British authorities In India have i'm
prisoned 5000 nationalist leaders with
in week, according to Taraknath
Das, directing head of the Indian In
dependence movement in this country
at Washington.
Coincident with an official announce
ment at Madrid of solution Of the
coal crisis and Of an increase In en-
ployment in Spanish mines, $4,000
miners went on strike In the Asturian
coal field.
A Tokyo dispatch says that more
than twenty socialists, spreading rad
ical doctrines among soldiers, were
arrested at Otsuka, an army camp for
military maneuyers. A food Of rad
ical literature has deluged Japan.
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