Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1919-06-26
NEWS OF WORLD I'M TABLOIDS


Hamburg.
Governor Lowden of Illinois signed
the search and seizure dry bill.
News that the German national as
sembly had voted to accept the peace
treaty was hailed with JOY in official
circles at Washington.
Fuchow reports 5000 students ar
rested and heeld by the Chinese and
japanese military authorities, accord
ing to dispatch from Annoy.
The SmOot bill establishing Zion Ma
tional park, comprising 10000 acres,
in Utah, passed the senate and was
sent to the house at Washington.
President Wilson cabled Secretary
Tumulty at Washington that he expect
ed to leave Brest on his homeward
Journey Wednesday or Thursday.
The miners strike has been settled
to the satisfaction of both sides and
work was resumed in the coal mines
of northern France, according to Paris
newspapers.
On the initiative of the government
there will be monster demonstrations
in Paris July in honor of the ami
versary Of the independence of the
United States.
Governor Cox, in a statement an
swering opponents Of boxing in Ohio
who had requested him to prohibit the
Willard-Dempsey bout July at To
ledo, scored foes of the sport as "hyp-
ocrites."
The senate at Otta "a, Ontario,
adopted an amendment to the prohibit
ton bill, which makes the prohibition
order in council effective only until
peace is signed instead of for one year
after that date.
The forces of General Denikine, the
anttbolshevik leader in souther Russia,
are advancing rapidly toward the
Volga in pursuit of the demOralized
soviet troops, according to an Ekater-
inedor dispatch.
1t is reliably reported at Rome that
the peace conference has given Italy
concessions to coal mines in Asia Mi
nor which produce millions Of tons
every year and which are capable of
considerable expansion.
FOrty-seven persons are known to be
dead, 100 are injured and in emergency
hospitals and property valued at &c.
100000 has been destroyed as a result
of the tornado which swept through
Fergus Falls, MINI.
A cablegram wasforwarded to Pres
ident Wilson by the California state
viticultural commission appealing to
him to proclaim rehabilitation imme-
diately on signing the peace treaty in
order to remove wartime prohibition.
In defending the United States en-
plOyment service before the house and
senate labor committees at Washing
ton, Secretary Wilson denied that the
labor department was being operated
solely in the interest of organized la
Dor.
The German warships which were
not surrendered to the allies and which
have been anchored off Kiel, WilhelmS.
haven and other points, have been
sunk by German sailors manning
them, according to a report received at
Weimar from a reliable authority.
Four reports of the coal commission,
which has been considering the ques-
ton of naturalization of British
mines at London, have been published.
The main report recommends immedi'
ate legislation for acquisition OF
mines, royalties for the state and for
owners to receive just compensation.
A London dispatch says most of the
great German fleet lies at the bottom
of Scapa Flow, scuttled by the men
who surrendered last November with
out firing a shot. The German crews
opened the Seacocks of their vessels
after hosting the imperial ensign to
the mastheads and attempted to es.
cape to shore in small boats. Some of
the boats were caught by guntire from
the British guardships, and number
of their occupants killed.