Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1919-02-06
COMPENDIUM Of THE NEWS

Word from Berlin says that the
total unemployed is now 100000, and
the number is increasing daily.
I Shirley Gambia, sixteen, died from
drinking a quart of poisoned whisky
he bought ut half-saloons at Johnson
| City, Ill.
The war department at Washington
| repeated its denial that it is auction
ing off passenger cars. No cars are
| available for sale, it was said.
General Pershing has cabed to Sec
rotary Baker at Washington charac-
terizing as gross eXaggerations" the
! reports of American soldiers crimes
in Paris.
a mass meeting of unemployed was
held in Vienna on Friday and the mob
attempted to storm the parliament
building. The rioters were beaten off
by troops ana police.
A Brussels dispatch says Charles
Magnetic grand master of the Bel
gian MaSOns, has expressed his oppO-
| Sition to the renewal of relations with
| the German Free Masons.
Robert Lansing, the American Secre-
| tary of state, was unanimously elected
| president OF the committee on respOn-
| Sibility for the war, which held its first
meeting at the foreign office in Paris.
| \ Marinette (WiS.) dispatch says
an upper Michigan undertaken beats
| the dry law by running funeral pro-
| cesSion across the state line from
| Wisconsin with every machine loaded
with whisky.
Warsaw hears that Kiev has been
| taken Hy the bOlSheviSt troops, Gen
eral Petluras troops partially going
over to the enemy. The Ukraine gov
| eminent has been moved from Kiev to
! WinnitZa, to the southwest.
The Lowell (Alass.) Cotton Manu-
! facturcrS association voted to grant
| the demand of the operatives for 49,
hour week. to Become effective imme-
diately. Cotton mills here employ APP
proXimately $4,000 persons.
| Newspaper headlines at Berlin read
like war reports. The Independent
socialist papers have lines such -:
Huns March Against Bremen" Wilde
the Ebert press heads it's war news"
by saying: Government Troops
| Marching on Bremen"
Director General Hines, teStifying
before the senate interstate commerce
committee at Washington, declared he
did not believe in government owner
| ship, but i'll organization Of Il few big
railway companies subject to close
| government supervision.
An Archangel dispatch says bolshe-
vik patrols were i'll touch with Ameri-
can patrols about Is miles south of
| Sredmakrenga. With the exception of
widespread patrol activity and heavy
Smelling on the VOlOgda railway line,
there was comparative quiet on all sec
tors.
An amendment to the war revenues
bill providing for the payment of a boz
nus of $50 to enlisted men and nurses
and 5000 to officers of the army, navy
and marine corps upon their discharge
from service has been agreed upon by
the senate and house conferees at
| Washington.
A Holland dispatch says that, speak
ing to his tenants near PotSdam on
the birthday of the former German
emperor, Prince Eitel Friedrich, the
second son of Herr HOhenzollern,
said: "YOu will never see the kaiser
again. Circumstances have wiped
him out of the worlds history. Legal
ly speaking, my father is dead"
A Berlin dispatch says advices from
the West Prussian border, where Ger
man troops have been dispatched
against the Poles, report that the Ger
man force that had been assigned to-
occupy the town of Kulmsee, which is
the railway junction between Thorn
and Graudenz, vas forced to take the
place by storm after Polish irregulars
had refused to negotiate.