Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1921-06-30


nue. at Chicago, when the boulevard
was crowded with motors, and held
up Charles Lobell, the proprietor. taxi
ing furs valued at $4,000.
A division of American destroyers
sank the former German submarines
U-4o and U-4s OFF Cape Charles near
Old Point Comfort, Va, firing total
of 70 shells and scoring a total Of
80 hits.
The convention of the American
Federation of Labor at Denver, Colo,
voted down proposal calling for an
amendment to the Constitution Of the
United States taking the power Of de-
claring war from congress.
P. Ri. Green, twenty-five, an aviator
Instructor, was killed, and Edward Ri
bick, twenty-four, student, was bad
ly injured at Portland, Ore, when an
airplane fell with them from height
Of Is feet.
The Manhattan opera house at New
York, built by the late Oscar Hammer
stein, was sold at public auction to
Stella 81. r. Heating and Rose 81.
Tostevin, daughters of the impresario,
for $145,OOO.
After stormy debate, the American
Federation of Labor convention at
Denver, Colo, disposed Of the Irish
question by adopting resolution,
stripped of It's most drastic boycott
provision, expressing sympathy for the
Irish cause.
Two miners, both foreigners, are
dead, and three others are not expect
ed to live as a result Of burns re-
ceived during terrific explosion at
Shenandoah, Pa.
Capt. Howard Douglas and Lieut..
Maril ]. Plumb, both of the army air
service, were drowned in Hampton
Roads, following a collision between
their machines.
DR.. P. f. Trowbridge, head Of the
Agricultural college at Fargo, an
nounced that wheat rust has been dis
covered in North Dakota in two in
stances.
Charles Nicholson and AL White,
lumberjacks, who obtained $1S4 when
they held up ten men and women in
a summer resort near Amigo, Wis.,,
were sentenced to 15-year terms In the
state penitentiary.
Naval seaplane NC17 caught fire $50
feet in the air and fell into Hampton
roads with its crew Of three officers
and seven men, but none of those
aboard was injured.
Sporting
The navy won the big race at
Poughkeepsie, N. T., by five lengths.
Harry Ertle was officially appointed
by the New Jersey boxing commission
at Trenton to referee the Dempsey
Carpenter championship bout July 2.
America regained possession of the
international polo trophy at London.
defeating Great Britain in the second
match, 10 to 6, and winning the series.
two matches fn mono
Foreign
Gladys Marie Deacon of Boston
became the duchess Of Marlborough
at Paris, the second American girl to
marry the present holder Of the
Marlborough dukedom.
A troop train, conveying soldiers
from Belfast to Dublin. was wrecked
at Dabervoyle, near Dundalk, by the
explosion of Sim Fein land mine.
Three soldiers and one guard were
killed.
Canadian railway employees at
fected by the proposed II per cent
wage cut will withhold action at Win
nipeg until after the meeting of the
railway brotherhoods in Chicago
July l.
A Constantinople dispatch says the
Greeks are shortening the Ismid front.
AS result of the withdrawal of the
Eleventh Greek division, the nation
alists have captured Adalbazar and
Sabanja.
The theft of jewelry valued at $50
600 from woman passenger, de-
scribed as Mrs. o. A. Mann of New
York, is reported to Cherbourg by
wireless as having taken place on
board the Cunard steamer Aquitania.
Herr Schoher, police president a.
| Vienna, has been requested to form a
new ministry by the Christian Social
| ist Marty. which voted unanimously in