Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1919-03-06
WORLDS NEWS IN TABLOlDS

Charles E. Van Loan, the novelist,
died at Philadelphia after a long i'll
ness.
Premier Clemenceau has accepted
the presidency of the boy scouts of
France.
The bolshevik food dictator, STRIFE
ysky, at Petrograd, has been dis
missed because of forgery involving
100000 rubles, according to a Hels-
ingfors dispatch.
The suicide Of Henrique de Paiva
CouceirO, leader of the recent mon
archist revolt in Portugal, is report
ed by travellers arriving, at Lisbon
from Tuy, Spain.
Forty-one senators who will be
members of the next senate have
signed a resolution pledging them
selves to vote against a league Of ma.
tons, says Washington dispatch.
Maj. John c. Ostrup, who served on
the staff of General Pershing in
France during the war and an author
ror'~-'',~~',:-, - = h~+o' IN No--, vorl-
The Ukrainians have resumed the
attack on Lemberg, Premier Paderew-
ski at Warsaw has been officially adj
vised, being engaged in firing upon
it with their artillery with some in
tenSity.
urSt sign of the naturalization
OF the threatened general strike at
Berlin came when the printers of
three leading newspapers walked out:
The Tageblatt, Vossische Zeitung and
Lokal -inZieger.
Bulgaria is facing a financial crisis,
it is asserted at Sofia. The war cost
the country over $1,5OO,O0O,0O0, while
it's estimated wealth is only $2,200,OOO,-
OOO., The national lebt before the war
was $16O,OOO,COO
The peace conference committee on
reparatiOns at Paris has estimated
that $4,000, 100000 is the amount
which the enemy countries ought to
pay the allied and associated powers,
says Havas agt%y statement.
A Washington dispatch says Fran.
els z. Caravan Of New York has been
appointed alien property custodian,
vice A. Mitchell Palmer, appointed at
tOrney general. Caravan is now alien
property custodian in New York.
A 40 per cent diminution in the cost
OF living in France within month is
expected by the food ministry at
Paris, as result Of measures recently
taken with regard to the purchase, i'm
portation and distribution of food,
Stuffs
Berlin dispatch says Dusseldorf,
the big industrial city on the Rhine,
has been captured by a small detach-
ment Of government troops. Strikes
and fighting continue in other centers,
with the Spartacans suffering general
heavy defeats.
President Wilson, upon his return to
Paris, will be prepared to stay three
months. This was learned in connec-
ton with the negotiations for the Ho-
tel Bischoffseim, the new mansion
which the French government will
place at the disposal of the president.
An invitation to King Albert of Bel
GUM to attend the annual dinner of
the Rocky Moutain club at New York.
April 8, anniversary of the kings birth
day, was cabled to Herbert Hoover in
Paris, with the request that Mr.
Hoover deliver the invitation in per-
son.
After Senator Sherman had at
tackled the league of nations and Pres
ident Wilson in the senate at Wash
ingtOn, Senator McCumber, a Repub-
lican member of the foreign relations
committee, urged that the United
States become party to league for
preserving peace.
A Basel dispatch says seventeen per-
sons, including Maj. Gen. Alexander
Won Szurmay. former minister of ma
tiOnal defense; Joseph Szyerenyi, for
mer minister of commerce., and Herr
Methien and Herr Somich, former
members of the Hungarian cabinet. are
under arrest at Budapest charged with
counter-revolutionary propaganda.