Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1919-04-03
WORLDS NEWS IN TABL0lDs


Cleveland have arrived at Rio Janelro.
August Belmont, Jr., died at New
York, following an operation for In
testinal trouble. He was thirty-seven
years old.
The strike of operators and other
employees of the Buen0s Aires Teie-
phone company, called on March IL.
was settled.
The senate Mt Jefferson City, Mo-.
passed the suffrage amendment, Il to
II. The bin now goes to the governor
for signature.
The American steamer West Carni-
fax, carrying 5000 tons of flour ana
1900 tons of other foodstuffs, has ar
rived at Hamburg.
Increased precautions have been tax
en- at Paris to safeguard President WI
son and the premiers with whom he
is in daily conference.
The strikes In the Ruhr industrial
region are extending, according to dis
patches from Essen. Thirty thousand
men are reported out
The Italian ministry at Rome &C
cepted the American offer of 100000
tons Of coal at $25 a ton, to be deliy-
cred in Genoa within six months.
The new Hungarian communist gov
eminent has arrested DR.. Alexander
Wekerle, former premier and finance
minister, dispatch from Budapest
says.
An American feet Of SO warships
from Brest anchored in the Tagus at
Lisbon, Portugal. This makes a total
of "a units of the American navy now
in Tagus.
A special train has arrived at Brus-
sells from Berlin with 2T5.000000
marks In gold to pay in part for the
food which the allies are shipping to
Germany.
A Washington dispatch says Pixies
peak Will be assembled by battle tank
as an advertising feature of the Vic
tory Liberty loan before the loan cam
palgn opens.
Italian troops have occupied the
town of Pressburg, 80 miles southeast
of Vienna, ON the Hungarian side of
the border, according to dispatch
from Budapest.
A Lima dispatch says Charles Glib
son has been appointed first secretary
of the Peruvian embassy at Washing
ton. Victor Pezet has been named Pc
ruvian consul at Baltimore.
There are 100000 gallons of whisky
in the northern Illinois internal reve-
nue. district, 100000 gallons of wine,
125,000.000 cigars and 250,000,000 ciga-
rettes says Chicago dispatch.
England babe good-by ut Liverpool
TO more than 1000 Americans sailing
TO the United States ON the Maureta-
MIA after tours years of service In the
British armies on the west front.
A Paris dispatch says 1t is under
STOOD that the committee having in
charge the selection of the official seat
Of the league of nations has reached
q definite decision in favor of Geneva.
Woman suffrage is recognized in the
covenant of the league of nations
through the adoption at Paris of an
amendment providing that the offices
Of the league shall be open TO women
as well as to men.
Serious disorders throughout Aus
tria, the result of bolshevik agitation.
are reported in Vienna dispatches. A
mob at Deefng demolished the town
hall In demonstration demanding the
overthrow of the government.
Terms of payment In the new Vic
tory Liberty loan, announced at Wash
lngton are the most liberal ever offered
by the government. Deferred pay
ments may be extended over a period
of six months, from May 10 to Novem-
Der II.
japanese corporations have been
granted concessions to exploit agricul-
tural lands in Lower California, ac-
cording to the statement made by
Gen. Amado Agulrre, undersecretary
of development and agriculture Mt
Mexico City
France was given a credit of $780,
100000 by the treasury mt Washing
ton and Greece was given $3,S5S,000
additional. This made total credits
In France S2,617.477000 10 Greece.
S43, 900, and a total for all allies
of S9,036 100000
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