Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1921-06-09

Will pIO UuTIGl OnS year ago. New
tomatoes are selling st cents pound
wholesale.
Joseph LudviceE, living near Traer.
Ia, was killed by lightning while work.
ing in his garden.
During the past year southern Bap-
fist churches Increased from 25,3O3 to
27,444, with membership Of 3,199OO5,
a gain for the year of 237,567, says a
Nashville (Tenn.) report.
While R. 81. Neil, twenty-nine years
old. was returning from trip to see
sick relative, he was killed when his
car turned over on the Spirit Lake
road, about one mile east Of Superior,
la.
William Jennings Bryan has decided
to transfer his home permanently to
Miami, Fla, he announced at New
York. The decision, he said, was
prompted by consideration for Mrs.
Bryan's health.
Ethel Hutchinson Mott, on trial at
bridgeport Conn.,. charged with the
murder Of her husband, George B.
Mott, pleaded guilty to murder in the
second degree. Judge Maltbie sen
fenced her to life Imprisonment.
John Tozer, aged sixty, was killed
by lightning while working in his gar
den at Petersburg. III.
Lloyd Delaney, twenty-one, Of Usage,
Ia, and Carl Thomson, thirty, Of Mitch
ell, Ia, were drowned in the Big Ce-
dar river. The canoe in which they
were riding tipped over.
After stabbing his wife to death
and also seriously wounding her moth
er and stepfather, o. A. Stull of Gales
burg, ILL.,, stabbed himself over tho
heart, dying almost instantly.
The deadlock which has existed in
the building trades industry at Cleve-
land o., since May 1. when between
10000 and~25,00O mechanics went on
strike, was broken with an agreement
to arbitrate.
Two thousand mechanics in the
Bloomington shops of the Chicago &
Alton who were laid off April %, re-
turned to work. Freight traffic has
shown steady increase during May.
The Matheson prohibition enforce
ment bill was vetoed by Governor
Blaine at Madison, Wis, on the ground
that it is Indefinite and uncertain"
and in conflict with the federal Vol
stead act.
Two soldiers were killed and IL in
Guiding three officers, were injured
two perhaps fatally, by the explosion
of bomb at the army proving grounds
at Aberdeen, Md.
Foreign
District Inspector Stevenson, q DO
lice agent and four constables were
killed and four officers were seriously
wounded when police patrol was
ambushed by 100 armed men rear
Westport, County Mayo, Ireland.
At Ballybofey, County Donegal, Ire
land, a party believed to comprise n
half-dozen armed men, fired upon a
police motorcar. The crown forces re-
piled, killing two of the ambushers.
The high court in session at Leipzig,
trying Germans charged with offenses
committed during the war; sentenced
Sergeant Neumann, accused of Ill.
treating British prisoners. to six
months in prison.
-Four members of the police force
were shot dead and three Others
wounded in an ambush at Clenmore,
County Kerry, it was announced at
headquarters at Dublin.
Emmett Bohahnan, an American
was killed by bandits at his home near
Tampico, Mex. on the night of Nav
30, the American consul at Tampico
reported to the State department at
Washington.
The cabinet of DR.. Michael Mayr
chancellor and prime minister, at vi.
emma. resigned. The cabinet was
formed on November 20 last.
Minister of Customs Wigmore at OF
tawa denied report emnnating from
Windsor, Ont, that tariff correspond.
ing to the United States emergency
measure had been put into effect in
Canada.
Six soldiers We're killed instantly,
three mortally wounded and twenty
others badly injured when mines were