Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1919-02-20
COMPENDIUM OF THE NEWS

daughters have arrived in Paris.
Sir Wilfrid Laurier, former premier
Of Canada, who was stricken with
paralysis, died at Ottawa, Ont, Mon
day afternoon.
An Archangel dispatch says four Of
fcers and ten noncOmmisisoned Officers
and men have been given British acc
orations for gallantry and efficiency n
An appropriation of S750,0O0,000 for
the operation Of railroads under gov
eminent control was approved by the
house appropriations committee at
Washington.
writ Of habeas corpus, sworn out
in an attempt to prevent deportation OF
50 aliens brought to New York from
Western cities, was dismissed by FED
eral Judge Knox.
A Vienna dispatch says close adj
herence to law and order marked Sun
days election in German-Austria. The
socialists, from early indications, have
scored a decisive victory.
Street car service at Butte, Mont,
suspended because Of threats Of vio-
ience growing out Of the miners
strike, was resumed. The street car
men voted to return to work.
The casualty list of the American
coal mining army for 1918, reported to
Secretary Lane Of the department OF
the interior at Washington by the bu-
reau of mines, includes 2,575 men
killed.
Twenty-Five members of the national
wcman's party were released from
prison at Washington after they had
served four or five days sentence for
burning President Wilson in effigy.
The women conducted hunger
strike.'
Germany is described as a land Of
by Lieut.. Col. Searle Harris of the
United States medical reserve corps,
who has just arrived in Paris after
a close personal study of conditions
in Germany.
It is announced at Berne that nego-
tiations between Lithuania and Poland
have resulted in an agreement by
which the Tenth German army will
withdraw from Lithuania and the
British army will occupy the territory
thus evacuated.
LAS lovers Of your country, and rs
lovers OF mankind, / ask you to use all
your influence with our senators md
have the treaties embodying the leagu-
of nations idea ratified" declared Viii
liam Howard Taft, former president
Of the United States at Helena, Mont.
An agreement just reached at Wash
ingtOn between the United States and
British governments on the amount to
be paid for the transportation of Amer
lean troops to France during the war
in british ships is based on cost of
transportation, with no margin for
profit.
The United States shipping board
wants 1900 husky young Americans
at once to learn the business of firing
boilers on the new ships of the mer-
chant marine, Chairman Edward N.
Hurley of the board announced at
Washington, and will have places for
1900 month in this rating until fur
Their notice.
President Wilson left Paris Friday
night. President Poincare was at the
station to bid him good-by. President
Wilson was accompanied to Brest by
Georges Leagues, French minister Of
marine; Capt Audre Tardieu, French
high commissioner to the United
States, and M. Jusserand, French am
bassador to the United States.
Aliens advocating destruction of
property or overthrow of the govern
ment by force will be deported under
the provisions of the immigration act
of February 5, 1917. This announce
ment was made by Secretary of Labor
Wilson at Washington, in a letter
sharply rebuking Micrometer lodge
Eo 400, International Association Of
Machinists Of Brooklyn, for protesting
against the deportation of So fallen
radicalS.'