Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1921-08-11


Three bandits held up and slugged
Tommy Felaido, a post Office messen-
ger at Wood River. ILL.,, and escaped
with three mail pouches, one Of which
contained $4,000 in currency. The
money was recovered.
The officers, directors and individ-
ual members Of the Baltimore coal
exchange were indicted on charges Of
making monopoly through combine
to manipulate and fix prices.
The government won it's suit in the
United States District court at New
York to collect S292, 672 from John d.
Rockefeller, alleged to be due In in
come tax on Oil company shares.
-Four men were killed by a terrific
explosion in the press mill at the ORR
entail plant Of the Dupont Powder
company, five miles from Uniontown,
Pa.
Louis Judelovitz Of Brooklyn, the
first man named in the government
Stacker lists to be tried at New York
by court-martial. was sentenced to
serve one year In military prison.
Personal
Enrico Caruso, the world-famous
tenor, died at Naples, Italy.
The death Of Edgar Saltus, sixty
three, publicist and author, at his
home in New York, was announced.
He had been Ill for several years, but
his condition was not considered seri.
GUS until week ago.
Sporting
Official confirmation Of the appoint
ment of Bill Killifer, veteran catcher
and for years battery mate Of Alexan-
der the Great, as manager of the Chi
cago Cubs, succeeding John ]. Evers,
was made at Chicago.
Despite the verdict Of the jury at
Chicago, none Of the seven indicted
former White Sox, acquitted Of con-
spiracy to throw" the 1919 worlds
series, will be permitted to play pro
fessional baseball, according to the
verdict announced by Federal Judge
K. N. Lands, supreme arbiter Of or
ganized baseball.
Foreign
A Prague dispatch says one work
man was killed and ten were wounded
at Aussig when a crowd of Germans
clashed with Czech gendarmes and
legionnaires.
The American relief officials In
London are placing little faith In the
reports that the American prisoners in
Russia have been released and now
are leaving that country.
Premier Lloyd George promised a
Russian deputation at London that
the government will extend It's short
credit scheme to Russia in order to as
sist in the relief of distress in that
country.
Dispatches received at Paris indi-
cate the situation of the Spanish troops
in northeastern Morocco to be very
serious.
A Paris dispatch says France will
send tons of canned goods, part of the
surplus war stock bought from Ameri-
ca, as It's contribution to Russian fam
Inc relief.
Irish peace was advanced another
step by the announcement Of President
De Valera at Dublin that he had sum-
moned the Dali Eirann to meet on
August 16.
"A Riga dispatch says vast plague
of caterpillars has. ruined 10000 acres
Of sugar beets in the Cherigof district
Of Russia and the whole crop Is grave
ly, menaced.
According to Russian reports, bat
ties are occurring between famine
fugitives and neighboring zones, says
Riga dispatch to the London Daily
Express.
A Paris dispatch says the Moscow
government warns foreign residents OF
soviet Russia to leave the country
through Odessa because of the famine
but paralysis Of transport hinders this
movement.
The post Office building at Bari, in
southeastern Italy on the Adriatic
collapsed as result of an earth
tremor, and eight bodies have been re.
covered from the ruins.
Twenty Spanish soldiers, the rem
nant of the Spanish troops to resist
"a nt,1ra of tho town nf Nadnr 1 x mi)oc