Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1919-10-16
WORL DIS NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD


Four hundred members OF the Irish
constabulary broke up Sim Fem
meeting attended by 10000 persons at
Ballinstoy.
Passport difficulties between Mexico
and England have been adjusted, ac-
| cording to statement issued by the
Mexico City foreign office.
Newspaper dispatches from Rome
state that about 80 persons have been
killed in encounters between armed
peasants and troops in Sicily.
Louis Boismenue of East st. Louis
was elected president of the Illinois
Elks at Decatur, ILL., Ottawa was Sc
lected as the 1920 convention city.
Greater Berlin faces a shortage Of
! million pounds of meat this week,
less than one-tenth of the amount con-
tracted for having been delivered.
A Rio de Janeiro dispatch says that
although Brazil has not as yet ratified
the Versailles treaty, its ports nave
been reopened to German shipping.
Industrial and social unrest will be
discussed at the five-day congress Of
the Salvation Army of the United
States, which will open at New York.
King George completed Great Brit
aims ratification Of the German peace
treaty The document ratified by him
has been dispatched from London to
Paris.
Five young gunner from Chicago
lined up 40 men in Kenosha (Wis.)
gambling house, robbed them of $12,-
900 in cash and $4,000 in jewelry, and
escaped
More than 5000 veterans assembled
at Atlanta, Ga, for the grand parade
of the United Confederate Veterans,
the browning feature of their annual
reunion.
Premier Georges Clemenceau has de-
clared to a number of deputies at
Paris that he has made up his mind
to leave the cabinet after the coming
elections.
Assignment to Warsaw of Louis e.
Van Norman, as the first American
trade commissioner to Poland, was an
nounced by the department Of COM
merce at Washington.
First Lieut. Belvin W. Maynard,
plotting a De Haviand 4 airplane, won
the air derby, arriving safely in San
Francisco. His flying time was 70
hours from MinaO1a NJ V
Mrs. Clemenceau-Jacqu daugh-
ter of the French premier, will sail On
the steamer France October % for a
lecture tour of the United States, ac-
cording to New York dispatch.
The British admiralty, answering a
request from the German government
at Berlin asking the. whereabouts of
the submarine Bremen, stated that it
knew nothing of the Bremen's fate.
Four steel mills in the Chicago dis
trict were reopened and almost every
other mill that has been operating on
a reduced scale reported that hundreds
of striking steel workers returned for
work.
Marjorie Lands, eighteen; Hazel
Lands, fifteen, sisters, and Edwin
Howard, seventeen, all Of Elgin H.,
were drowned in the Fox river when
their canoe was upset by a high wind
and rough water.
Six robbers held up the paymaster
Of the Samuel Emerson company, in
the lobby of a Euclid avenue building
at Cleveland, o., and, after throwing
pepper into his face, escaped in an
automobile with $1,000.
Fifty dollars a month should be the
minimum pay for naval enlisted men,
the house naval committee at Wash
ington was told by Admiral Wilson,
commander of the Atlantic feet, and
Rear Admiral Washington, chief Of
navigation.
Firebells rang, whistles blew and JOY
reigned supreme when Pat Moran and
his victorious world champion Reds
reached Cincinnati All business was
at a standstill from 8 a. m. until noon
in their honor, a half-holiday having
been proclaimed by Acting Mayor ia
cobs
Col e. M. House, who has been
representing the president in Paris
since Mr.. Wilson returned, came back
to America a gravely sick man. He
was so i'll that he did not leave the
transport Northern Pacific for several
hours after the ship arrived in New
York.