Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1919-05-08
WORLDS NEWS IN TABLOIDSI

A Vienna dispatch says Bella Kun,l
Hungarian premier, has accepted the
allied demands for the surrender OF
Budapest.
General Griffin, military commander,
has withdrawn his proclamation con-
stituting Limerick, Ireland, a speciall
military area.
Two masked men robbed the Clark
County bank at Washougal, Wash, OF
$1,000 in currency and silver and es-i
capped in an automobile.
The entire Chinese peace delegation
has cabled 70 the Picking gOvernment
rendering its resignation in body, IT
was semi-officially announced at Paris.
Herr Klingelhofer, a member of the
Munich communist government, has
been executed after trial by court
martial, q telegram from Augsburg
says.
Defeated along the entire eastern
front by the Siberian forces, the boil
shevik forces are retiring in disorder,
the Russian newspaper Russkaqa Pills
nj says.
Roger G. Treadwell, the American
consul who was captured by the boil
sheviki, has reached Stockholm, the
state department at Washington an
nOunced.
German miltarism has been brOk-
en- forever is a statement attributed
at Field Marshal Won Hindenburg, re-
ports of whose resignation have been
received at Coblenz.
In the last 80 years 1924 persons
were put to death by mobs, according
to report made public at New York
by the National Association for Adj
vancement of ColOred People.
A Panama dispatch says Maj. r. NJ
Clark of California and Lieut.. r. G.
Tonkin Atlanta, Ga, were killed in an
airplane accident at Miraflores Locks
Lieut.. j. r. Hit was slightly injured.
Lieut. L. E. Lankey, twenty-two-
yearold aviator from Carlstrom field,
Arcadia, Fla, was burned to death
when his machine burst into flames
and fell. His home was at Bay City,
Mich
A New York dispatch says petitions
are being circulated throughout the
country inviting patrons of ice cream
'parlOrS and soda fountains to protest
against the new luxury tax on soft
drinks.
Admiral Kolchaks troops have adj
al hn hror Of
the Trans-Siberian railroad in eastern
European Russia to Kenel, Only 40
miles east Of Samara, according to
dispatches received by the Russian
commissioners in Paris.
Restrictions on the export of sill
yer and standardization of the price
at $1.01h per fine ounce were re-
moved by the federal reserve board at
Washington, thus in effect establish
ing a free market for silver in the
United States and throughout the
world.
An Archangel dispatch says forces
of the allies succeeded in repulsing the
first attack by bOlshevik gunboats on
the Dvina. The enemy's fleet attempt
ed to approach the positions held by
American, British and Russian forces
on the right bank of the river, but
failed.
President POincare said to the ca
diets of the Paris Polytechnic school
who have just returned to Paris from
the front: '"The enemy laid down his
arms only to escape disaster. If he at
tempts TO forget what the generosity
of the allies spared him we have the
right and the means to recall that fact
to him."
Rechecking Of army records resulted
during the past week in addition Of
476 names to the list of major casual
ties, the war department at Washing.
ton announces, bringing the total TO
1890 killed in action, died Of wounds
and disease and died from other
causes The number of prisoners was
reduced to 4,786 as a result Of cOrrec-
tions, and the missing in action re-
duced to 1923.