Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1921-08-04
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Domestic
Rev. Charles T. Walker, commonly
said to be the greatest negro preacher
of his time, died at his home at Au-
gusta, Ga.
Leaving his affairs in the hands Of
cabinet" of five attorneys, Gov. Len
Small, under Indictment for alleged
transportation of state interest
funds, departed from Chicago on
tour of inspection of Illinois roads.
Commander Evangeline Booth, head
Of the Salvation Army in the United
States, says in a statement at New
York that the country is facing the
worst winter industrially it has known
in Is years.
One thousand barrels of beer were
seized at the Port Washington brewery
ut Port Washington, Wis, under a
libel order issued by Federal court at
Milwaukee. A hearing will be held on
August 20.
T. L. Beiseker Of Fesscnden, N. D.,
head of a string Of banks and heavily
interested in other business activities,
submitted to arrest In Fargo on
charge of violating the federal bank
ing laws.
Musicians in every leading vaude-
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New York have received two weeks
notice of discharge.
The Tennessee pension board at
Nashville has granted pensions of $40
a month to Al negroes, who gave serv-
fees as cooks or body servants in the
Confederate armies.
In response to the recent appeal by
4 Mrs Warren G. Harding for funds, a
Y check for 1000 francs was received by
the Near East relief committee at
New York from the queen Of Greece.
The state senate at Atlanta, Ga,
adopted resolution denouncing as
untrue recent reports from Washing
ton that the Southeast is suffering
from pellagra epidemic.
Gov. Len Small of Illinois has been
ordered arrested at Springfield ON
charges involving misuse Of state in
terest funds.
Dyac hoc
scented pair Of bear cubs by w. e.
Southland of Ephrata, Wash, who
has telegraphed the President he is
preparing to ship the bears for Lad
die Boy to practice on.
Foreign
Forty persons are reported to have
been killed at Callao, Peru, in riot
of Spanish, Italian and French sail
ors.
A Smyrna dispatch says the retreat
Of the Turkish nationalist operating
on the Ismid peninsula is reported to
have been cut off by Greek columns
which have appeared 80 miles north of
Eski-Shehr.
Rumors are in circulation in Reval
that, as an extreme measure in an eff
fort to secure help in the present
crisis in Russia, Nicolai Lenin has
proposed to the soviet the acknowledge
ment of the national debt which the
Bolsheyiki Cancelled after the reyolu-
ton.
Gen. Peyton c. March, former chief
OF. staff of the United States army, has
arrived in Berlin.
Twenty thousand Spanish troops
and rebellious Moorish tribesmen have
been killed, wounded OF captured In
the violent battles that have been
raging in Morocco, said Tangier dis
patch to the London Times.
The Far-Russian central executive
committee of communists has appoint
ed Leon Trotzky dictator with the full
est power to fight the famine in Rus.
STA, says dispatch from Reval
1t was stated In official circles al
London that meeting preliminary tc
the Washington conference on dis
armament is to be held within six
weeks at some city other than Wash
ington.
Fourteen casualties resulted when
soldiers in park at Stettin, Germany
refused to obey the police order tc
dispense. When the police arrested
several ringleaders the soldiers began
firing.
Sixty persons were killed or injured
in train wreck 100 miles from Ran
COON. A Rangoon-Mandalay train col
lided with freight.
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