Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1921-09-01

IN attempt to escape when an Inn
provised rope on which he was lower
Ing himself from one Of the jail win
dows, parted.
What was described as the most
sensational shooting ever seen on an
American rifle range marked the per.
formatlce Of Machine Gunner @. A.
Lloyd, United States marine corps,
when he hung up new worlds record
of lOl consecutive bull's-eyes at 600
yards In the all-comers expert match
of the annual rife tournament held at
Seagirt, N. J.
Coal miners, rebelling against union
officials captured a Chesapeake & Ohio
passenger train at Danville, w. Va,
and started it with several hundred
armed men to Blair. Logan county.
Several persons were shot.
Two masked men held up north
bound Missouri Kansas & Texas train
No. 4 about fifteen miles south Of
Denison, Tex. The bandits rifled sew
eral pouches.
Shifting of the wind saved the en-
tire Hoboken waterfront from what
might have been the most serious
confagration in its history. AS 1t
was, damage estimated at $1,000,OOO
was caused by fire which broke out
on army pier No. and rapidly spread
In all directions, at one time setting
the forward portion Of the giant U. s.
3. Leviathan, the largest ship afloat,
In flames.
In McKeesport. Pa, owners have
instructed agents to cut rents 20 per
cent and some Of them have stipu-
lated that the reduction go into effect
September 1, though leases extend
to May 1.
Sylvester Lukarnek, sought for the
Staying Of his wife and the probable
fatal shooting Of John Lanzie, room
er in the Lukarnek home, at Cleve-
land, o., shot and killed himself in a
farmhouse.
The Ku Klux Khan of Texas faces
the first legal offensive to expose its
workings. A special grand Jury at
San Antonio, Tex, took up an inves-
tigation and subpoenas were issued for
five newspaper men on one newspaper
(which has been printing Inside in.
formation" Of Klan activities.
Personal
Peter Cooper Hewitt, American
scientist and electrical inventor, died
in the American hospital at Paris,
France. Mrs. Hewitt and his two sis.
tiers were at the bedside.
Foreign
Hundreds of villages have been de-
stroyed and thousands of persons left
homeless by an overflow of the
Hoang-Ho or Yellow river, which,
after mouth Of heavy rainfall, has
flooded large areas in the province OF
Shantung, China.
Soviet government officials at Mos
COW are preparing to receive the first
installment of the American relief ad-
ministratiop workers., who are due
soon to relieve the suffering from the
famine.
In rejecting the British settlement
terms Ireland turned down wider
range of rights than enjoyed by the
states of the American Union, Pre-
mier Lloyd George declared in his an
swer to the Irish parliament's refusal
to the British peace conditions. The
premier's reply, made public in Lon
don, while firm in tone, leaves the
door wide open for continuation Of
the negotiations.
Matthias Erzberger, former vice
premier and minister Of finance of
Germany, was assassinated by two
youths near Offenburg, Baden, where
he was sojourning with his family.
Twelve bullets entered his body.
Sixteen officers and men of the
United States navy and q officers and
men of the British navy met death Ill
the collapse of the dirigible zR-2, the
Titanic of the air at Hull, England.
All but one of the Americans died,
as far as could be ascertained. Three
British civilians who were aboard also
persisted, making total Of AZ dead.
Only five of the 81 men who were
making the trial trip in the dirigible,
prior to the vessel being turned over
to the United States navy, are known
to have been saved.
Maj. Gen. Milton Foreman Of Illi-
nois dedicated on behalf of the Amer
lean Legion, a tablet at st. Mihiel,
france, to the memory of American
soldiers who fell in the battle of st.
Mihiel in September, 1918.