Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1921-05-05

The severe tornado which swept
through Juneau and adjacent counties
destroyed all buildings on number
Of farms and killed cattle and horses.
No lives were lost, according to re-
ports reaching Elroy, Wis.
Charles Chair, said to be wanted at
Denver In connection with $4,000
express robbery, was shot in the lungs
and Frank Gaczkowski, city detective,
was wounded in the left leg during q
fight at Erie, Pa.
Matthew Lyons. baggage master on
the Jersey Central railroad at
Bayonne, N. j., was shot and serious1
ly wounded by one Of four men who
held up group Of post Office en-
ployees and escaped with mail.
Nearly million dollars In property
value went up in smoke and flame
when the plant Of the keystone Tire
and Rubber company at Erie, Pa, was
destroyed by fire.
Mystery surrounds the death of
Isaac Brooks Of New Windsor, H.,
found dead in the Palmer house at
Chicago with bullet wound through
the chest and another through the
brain.
Laboratory tests are being made at
Fort Worth, Tex, by experts Of the
state veterinary department to deter
mine the cause of the mysterious
deaths of cattle in Llano county.
B. @. Brown, owner of theater at
Viroqua, Wis, arrested on a charge
of violating blue laws by keeping his
movie house open on Sunday, was
found not guilty by jury.
Willie Dalton, sixteen-year-old bank
clerk, was placed on trial at Chicago
for the theft of S772,OOO in Liberty
bonds from the Northern Trust COM
pany bank on February "a.
The bill for referendum to au-
thorize $55,000,OOO bond issue to pro-
vide compensation for Illinois men
who served in the war passed the
senate at Springfield, 49 to o. It al
ready has passed the house.
Wages in the garment Industry at
Cleveland, o., will be reduced on to
131s per cent effective May 1, under
decision handed down by a board
Of referees.
Harry r. Gibbons, late county
treasurer at Chicago. who died last
week in West Baden, Ind, left an es-
tate estimated to be worth almost ST.
100000, all of which goes to his
widow, Mary e. Gibbons.
Foreign
Ten workers were killed and a
dozen others badly burned through an
accidental explosion at Pamplona,
Spain, in the cartridge factory Of Juan
Martulez Conf, in the outskirts Of the
town.
A number of policemen were killed
and magistrate and sub-police in.
spector were wounded in serious riot
ing at Malegaon, near Nassik. 100
miles northeast Of Bombay, India.
Nine hundred Germans, whose pun
ishment has been demanded by the
entente for crimes committed during
the war. will face trial at Leipsig, be-
ginning May %.
| Q. p. Fenton, seventy-one. agent for
the Northwest Mutual Life Insurance
company, was found dead in his auto
mobile in a swamp alongside the
state road near Escanaba, Mich.
A Guatemala City dispatch says en-
ployees of the entire Guatemalan rail-
way systetm have been ordered to
strike as result of the appointment
of nonunion station agent at Puerto
BarriOs.
The miners federation at London
rejected the governments new offer,
looking to settlement of the coal
strike. increasing the temporary sub
sldy to the industry from $37, 100000
to $5O,OOOO00.
President BRAND at Paris reiterated
his declaration that the new German
proposals are not worthy of consider
alton and justify belief that Germany
is not acting in good faith.
Prime Minister Lloyd George told
the house of commons at London that
the new German proposals are thor
oughly bad" and declares that the al
lies unanimously are of this opinion.
Telegraph and postal connections
were effected between Great Britain
and soviet Russia. Great Britain is