Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1918-10-24
THE NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD

aground SOuIn Oh bergen anu sank, dc
cording to advices received at Stock
holm.
The Fraenkische Tagespost created
sensation throughout Germany by
printing direct appeal to the kaiser
tc resign, says Copenhagen dispatch.
Leon Morane, the French aviator and
airplane builder, is dead at Paris. In
1910 Leon Morane earned the reputa-
ton of being the leading French avia-
tor.
Employees at the general headquar-
tiers Of the Monon railroad at Lafay-
cite, Ind, subscribed S125,OOO to the
fourth loan The entire system sub
scribed 100000.
All Of Hollands communications by
land and sea have been reopeneG as
a result of the successful allied adj
vance lin northern Belgium, j. is
learned at London.
President Wilson was unanimously
proclaimed a citizen of Barcelona,
Spain. The honor was accorded him
in recognition of his great efforts
made in favor of world justice"
The Spanish infuenza-pneumonia
epidemic at Camp Custer, Mich, seems
under control. A notable decrease in
pneumonia cases and an almost COM
plete eradication of influenza is evil
dent.
R0lShnyilr
Yakaterinburg have been severely de-
feated by Czech-Slovak and Siberian
forces. The bolsheviki lost 1000 men
killed, as we'll as three armOred trains,
according to Shanghai dispatch.
New credits of S2OO,000,O00 for Italy
and $100,OO0,000 for France were es-
tablished by the treasury at Washing
ton, making the total loans to Italy ST.
GOO,OOOOOO and to France $2,1G5,OOO,-
600. For all the allies American loans
now amount to $7,520,476,666
The 81 counties in Illinois and the
states of Wisconsin, Iowa, Indiana and
Michigan, which comprise the Seventh
federal reserve district, report an
OversubscriptiOn Of many millions, ac-
cOrding to Heman Clifford, federal re-
serve director Of sales for Illinois.
While examining an auto in their
garage at Springfield, O., Warren H.
Edwards and his son, Floyd, were
electrOcuted by an extension line at
tached to high voltage wire. The
Of he c,11 4ho
son was killed when he tried to help
his father.
What is said to have been the larg-
est airplane exhibition ever given in
this country was witnessed at San Di-
ego, Cal, when 115 airplanes, piloted
by army aviatOrS from North Island to
mark the success Of the Liberty loan
campaign, swept in massed formations
over the city.
Senator Martin Of Virginia, Demo
cratic leader, inserted in the senate
record at Washington a statement
showing the achievements of the sec
0nd session of the Sixty-fifth congress.
1t cites % specific acts Of Importance
to the prosecution Of the war, and says
appropriations totaling $50, POS, 405, 1923
have been authorized.
The Lee county Qll.) Liberty loan
committee closed up business at noon
Saturday, and out of $500 people list
ed for subscriptions two weeks ago
only eight failed to take their allot-
nHent The committee had erected a
large Stacker board on the public
square at Dixon, Ill, and the eight
names were placed upon the board.
The city of Lille, it is now estab-
lished, was plundered by the Germans
prior to their evacuation. Though the
town was not destroyed like Cambria,
Lens and other cities, Lille represents
another count in the deadly French
determination to wreak vengeance
upGl the individual German command
ers after the war, says a Paris dis
patch. d.
Senator POindexter of Washington
read to the senate at Washington city
a letter from DR.. T. 81. Howard of st.
Louis, stating that a brother of Sergt.
A. B. Cole of East Liverpool, O., who
served with the Canadian forces in
France, had affidavits to prove the
widely circulated story that the ser
geant was crucified upon a door with
German bayonets.