Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1921-12-22
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NEWS OF WORLD.
BIG HAPPENINGS OF THE WEEK
GUT TO LAST ANALYSIS.
DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN ITEMS
Kernels cuIIed From Events OF Mo-
ment In All Parts Of the World
OF Interest to All the
People Everywhere.
Washington

Washington
The new quadruple treaty to pre-
serve peace in the Pacific was formal
ly signed at Washington by the pleni-
potentiaries of the United States,
Great Britain, France and Japan.
Unless the Washington conference
provides for genuine disarmament the
United States has entered gigantic
military alliance, Senator Borah said,
in launching an attack on the new
Pacific treaty In the senate at Wash
ington.
Purchase by the federal government
of Cape Cod canal was recommended
l,y Secretaries Weeks, DENLY and
Hoover, who informed congress that
$l1, 100000 would be reasonable
price, says Washington dispatch.
American exports have decreased al
most to the pre-war level, Secretary
Hoover said at Washington. Exports
during November were $29o, 500, 600
less than one-hah the exports Of No
vember, 1920.
1t was officially admitted at Wash
ington that there will be nine power
treaty drafted to deal with questions
relating to China and the Far East.
Domestic
The first serious act of violence In
the packing house workers strike at
East st. Louis, Ill.,, occurred when
armed men boarded street car and
shot Solomon Tart, negro.
Sale of the shipping boards project
at Fairview, near Camden, N. j., will
probably realize more than $4,000 900,
the auctioneer in charge Of the opera
ton reported.
Miss Jennie Lamoore, twenty-stx, OF
Chicago, shot and instantly killed Ras
Cooksy, negro, forty, in the Federal
building at Dallas, Tex, when he an
noyed her in the women's rest room
Of the building.
A Huntington CIV. Va.) dispatch
says Chesapeake & Ohio railroad shops
will close Saturday, throwing $500
men out of employment.
Seven prisoners in the city Jail at
Des Moines, Ia, escaped. They made
their escape by saving the bars of
their cell on the first floor.
Fire destroyed the plant Of the Ken
lucky Military institute at Lyndon,
Ky. ALI Of the students escaped unin-
jured.
A mutiny Of 80 prisoners at the
Newark IN. J) penitentiary was
quelled after ID hours of disorder.
There are 260 prisoners at that instl-
tuition.
Wrapped in an American flag, gift
to him from the city of New York.
Marshal Foch was wished "bon voy-
age" by that city and the nation as he
started on his return voyage to
Tiance.
Dominic Benigno, alleged slayer Of
Wilfred c. Ely and George x. Fenner
in pay roll robbery on December 81
last, was found guilty Of murder In the
FIRST degree and sentenced to death at
Cleveland, o.
Earl Throst, twenty-six years old,
confessed that he killed Miss Inga
Magnusen, pretty twenty-year-old
schoolteacher, near Dorchester, Ia, be-
cause she had turned him down fiat
ly."
Joseph C. Wilson, arrested at New
Orleans as draft evader, asked per,
mission to telephone and walked GU,
of the police station, leaving $700 ant
a diamond pin taken from his pockets
The eight-hour day was abolished IL
effect for more than 100000 main
tenance of way employees of the coun
try's railroads in decision Of thu
United States railroad labor board a
Chicago.
Eighteen amateur wireless station
in the eastern part of the United
States have succeeded in sending mes
sages across the Atlantic ocean, &c
cording to the American Radio Rela,
league at Hartford, Conn.
A riot among prisoners at the brancl
of the Michigan state reformatory a
Marquette. Mich, during moving pic
ture exhil It'll y was queiled after War
den L. Il. c tlin and Deputy WardeI
Mehennit had received several knit
Ne...nGs. Iehennit died of his In
'uries.