Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1921-07-14
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The United States Steel corporation
at New York announced cut In pipe
and tube prices, ranging from 81 to
SIP ton, and reduction Of IS ton
In wire and wire nails.
An inventory of the $3,475OOo es-
tate of the late Mrs. Hattie Sanger
Pullman, widow Of George M. Pull
man. was filed before Harry q. Keats,
assistant to Probate Judge Horner at
Chicago.
Gen. T. Coleman Du Pont was ap-
pointed United Stats senator for
Delaware by Governor Denny at
Dover to succeed Josiah O. Wolcott,
who has resigned to become chancel-
lor of Delaware.
Miss Charl Williams Of Memphis,
Tenn, unanimously was nominated
for the presidency Of the National
Education association for the coming
year ut meeting Of the nominating
committee at Des Moines, Ia.
NJ. E. Oberg and wife and r. R.
Hayes and wife, oil of Ogden, Utah,
were instantly killed when the auto
mobile in which they were riding was
struck by an electric train three miles
south of that city.
Burnell Liston Of Missoula was
killed and james Reynolds Of Boulder
Hot Springs, Mont, was perhaps ia
tally injured in 25-mile free-for-all
automobile race at the fair grounds at
Missoula, Mont.
An Albany IN. W dispatch says APP
proximately 1000 shop employees of
the Delaware & Hudson railroad in
New York and Pennsylvania went back
to work when several shops o. the
company were reopened.
Mr.. and Mrs. Chester Phillips Of
Macomb, ILL.,, were instantly killed and
their four year-old daughter fatally in
jured when the automobile in which
they were riding was struck by q
trnin near Rushville, Ill.
Bert Raymond of Floyd, Ia, Is blind
as result of being struck by light
ming. He was knocked unconscious.
Capt. s. N. Rathbun Of Cedar Rap
ids, H.. for more than fifty years edi-
tor of the Marion Register, is dead at
the age of eighty-one.
The naval blimp CO exploded at the
naval air station at Hampton Roads,
Va, burning and injuring the four per-
sons who were aboard.
Washington
The American gunboats Sacramento
and Cleveland, which were ordered to
Tampico by Secretary of the Navy
DENLY at Washington as precau-
tionary measure, were ordered with
drawn.
The net operating income of the
railroads during May amounted to
$37,246,0OO, a high record for the
present year, according to reports filed
with the Interstate commerce commits
sion at Washington.
Secretary Mellon In a letter to Sem
ator Frelinghuysen at Washington
disapproves the soldier bonus legisla-
ton now, declaring it gravely men
aces financial and economic stability.
increases war debt, piles on cost of
living. depresses Liberty bonds, In
crcases taxation, and embarrasses
the treasury in refunding bond is
sues.
The superdreadnaught Maryland,
the first battleship in the world to be
equipped with 16-inch rifles, will be
delivered to the Navy department
July 20, it was stated by its builders
at Newport News, Va.
With the exception of bumper
corn crop, all crops of fruits and
cereals will be below average this
year, according to the July estimate
of the Department of Agriculture at
Washington.
Favorable report on the Capper-
Tincher bill to regulate future deal
ings on grain exchanges was ordered
by the senate agriculture committee
at Washington by unanimous vote.
Representative Frear of Wisconsin
made public at Washington minority
report from the ways and means COM
mittee assailing the dye embargo and
other provisions of the tariff bill
which he said are designed to aid the
trusts and monopolies.
A Washington dispatch says two
United States gunboats, the Sacra.
mento and the Cleveland, have been
ordered to Tampic0 as precaution.
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