Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1919-07-03
NEWS OF WORLD IN TABLOID

Governor Lowden at Springfield, Ill.
vetoed the boxing bill. He held it is
unconstitutional.
Italian and Serbian troops have
clashed near Dizral, according to an
unofficial report received at Paris
Calls for harvesters aggreating TO-
900 have been received at the United
States employment bureau at Topeka,
Kan.
James K. Hackett, the actor, sus-
tanned a compound fracture Of the lett
leg above the ankle at Brockville, ont,
when he slipped on the wet floor OF a
bathroom.
President Wilson, en- route home
from Europe On board the U. 5. 5.
George Washington, signed the Indian
appropriation bill and the railroad de-
fciency bill.
The independent socialists and COM
munist members of the executive
council of the Greater Berlin soviet
were arrested by order of Minister OF
Defense Noske.
The new constitution adopted by the
diet at Helsingfors, Finland, provides
that the first president shall be elect
ed by the diet. His term of office will
be six years.
Senate and house conferees at
Washington on the army appropria-
ton bill reached an agreement to Tx
the average size Of the 1920 army at
$4,000 officers and men.
Two more measures aimed at anar-
chists, bomb throwers and other enc
mics of law and order were included
by the senate in the sundry civil APP
preparation bill at Washington.
One hundred and twenty persons
are estimated to have been killed in
and near Vicchio, the center Of an
earthquake, Sunday, in the Florence
district, according to the Rome
Tempo.
Washington official reports say Is
American soldiers we're killed, one OF
ficer and eight men severely wounded,
and 16 slightly wounded in an engage
ment with anti-Kolchak troops near
Roumanovka on June 25.
DR.. Edwin G. Dinwiddie, legislative
superintendent of the AntiSalOon
league at Washington, declared that
the dry forces look to the department
of justice to carry out the enforcement
of the war prohibition act. :
Two French civilians were killed
and five American soldiers and sailors
were injured severely and more than a
hundred wounded in riots at Brest
Sunday night. Two of the American
soldiers are expected to die.
A Paris dispatch says assurance OF
good faith in signing the treaty was
| given by Doctor Mueller and Doctor
Bell, the German plenipotentiaries. At
the same time they expressed the hope
| that the terms would be modified later.
1t is officially announced at Berlin
that government troops are in COM
| plete control at Hamburg. No fighting
is reported in the city, and it is said
| that sufficient troops are arriving to
| insure restoration of normal cOndi-
| tons.
The transport Won Steuben arrived
| at New York from Brest with 1920
troops, including a large detachment
of the Three Hundred and Thirty-ninth
infantry, Eighty-ffth division, which
was recently withdrawn from Arch
angel, Russia.
The Wisconsin senate at Madison
| passed unanimously the soldier bonus
bill providing for the raising of $751;
100000 by direct state tax to pay every
man and woman in Wisconsin who
served in the world war $40 for every
month in the service. or d minimum
of $50.
The army appropriation bill, carry
| ing $SS8,00O,OOO and providing for an
average army of 100000 men next
year, an increase over the house bill
of $171 100000 in funds and 100000 in
personnel, was passed by the senate at
Washington without a roll call and
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